Presidential Papers, Doc#1519 Personal To Richard Milhous Nixon, 15 July 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #1519; July 15, 1955
To Richard Milhous Nixon
Series: EM, WHCF, Official File 99-B ; Category: Personal
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

 

Dear Dick: I hope you will have a Cabinet meeting when I am gone. I would likewise hope that you would have the weekly "leaders" meeting so that the White House staff and the leaders can have the necessary opportunity for coordination.1

Of course, if the majority of the individuals concerned would prefer to omit one of these meetings, I do not expect you to embarrass yourself by insisting on it. Perhaps the best way to proceed is that if you agree to notify Governor Adams, who would undertake to contact the others.

Just as I was writing this there came in your note with the article about the Russian Saturnalia.2

With warm regard, As ever

1 Vice-President Nixon would host a Cabinet meeting on July 22, but there would be no legislative leaders meeting while the President was in Geneva (Rabb memorandum, July 13, 1955, and Cabinet meeting minutes, July 22, 1955, AWF/Cabinet).

2 Nixon had written a memorandum concerning an Independence Day party at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Several Soviet leaders, including President Khrushchev, had attended without notice. Their presence at the garden party, mused Nixon, was "part of a concerted effort by the Kremlin leaders to make the world think that they are truly a changed, human, approachable hail-fellow-well-met bunch of characters with whom any reasonable man can argue or bargain. . . ." Nixon speculated that the Soviets expected the Geneva Summit Conference to fail and wanted to lay the blame on the West. "It must be the West's fault if they can't do business with good old Nikita--that is the impression they seek to leave, in advance of the meetings," Nixon told the President (n.d., AWF/A, Nixon Corr.; see also New York Times, June 3, 1955). The article to which Eisenhower referred is not in EM, but several newspaper stories had covered the U.S. Embassy's garden party; see New York Times, July 5, 6, 1955.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Richard Milhous Nixon, 15 July 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1519. 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/1519.cfm

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