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Document
#1499; July 7, 1955
To Edgar Newton Eisenhower
Series:
EM, AWF, Name Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
VIII: Toward "statesmanship of a high order"; June 1955 to November 1955
Chapter
16: Summitry at Geneva
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Dear Ed: Please tell Justice Warren and your other associates on the John Marshall Commission that I will appear at either one or the other of the two ceremonies. I cannot possibly appear both August twenty-fourth and September twenty-third.1 I have no idea when I shall get out west this summer, and I certainly cannot come back twice for this particular project.2
It is perfectly true that I stated to the Commission when we were all at luncheon that I would rather do something that would help to bring the story to school children, but they apparently unanimously urged my coming to Philadelphia to meet with the American Bar Association. I think you had better determine by cable to Justice Warren just what one he prefers me to undertake. Actually, I think I would prefer to do the one in front of the school children, but I did promise to go to Philadelphia on August twenty-fourth, so if that is the one they want me to do, that is the engagement I will try to fulfill.3
As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Edgar Newton Eisenhower,
7 July 1955.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1499.
World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1499.cfm
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