Presidential Papers, Doc#1538 To Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 1 August 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #1538; August 1, 1955
To Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss
Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries 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

 

Dear Lewis: I have taken your message and merely eliminated some sentences and phrases in an effort to make it a bit shorter. I feel just a touch of embarrassment in delivering too long a "speech" by means of a trans-Atlantic message.1

I hope everything turns out well with you at Geneva.

With warm personal regard, As ever

P.S. The new bull arrived at the farm. He is the central object of attention and receiving admiration on all sides.2

1 On May 2, Dulles had sent a memo to Eisenhower reporting the request of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld that Eisenhower send a message of greeting to the opening session of the Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Dulles noted that the president of Switzerland was planning a message of welcome, and that greetings by Prime Minister Eden and Premier Bulganin might also be sent (AWF/A: AEC). Eisenhower's message--which would be delivered by Strauss to the conference at Geneva on August 8, 1955--reaffirmed American "determination to help find ways by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death but consecrated to his life" (Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1955, pp. 772-74). Eisenhower had discussed his views on the peaceful uses of atomic energy in his commencement address at Pennsylvania State University on June 11 (ibid., pp. 593-600). See also Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, pp. 251-55 and Hewlett and Holl, Atoms for Peace and War, pp. 232-37.

2 For background see no. 1516.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 1 August 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1538. 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/1538.cfm

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