<--PREV Doc #1568  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1570 Document #1569; August 31, 1955 To Leonard Wood Hall Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series: Republican Party 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 Len: Recently, in Philadelphia, I had a conversation with two of my brothers. (Mr. Edgar Eisenhower, Puget Sound Bank Building, Tacoma, Washington; and Mr. Earl Eisenhower, 424 Homestead, LaGrange, Illinois).1 Both complained to me that they had seen no evidence of activity on the part of the Republican National Committee to keep party workers informed as to the policies and objectives of the Administration, progress to date, and future programs. I told them at some length about the splendid literature that the National Committee had been preparing and sending out over the country. Nevertheless, one of them claimed that his county chairman seemed to be wholly ignorant concerning these matters.2 Finally, I promised to ask you to send to each of them, at the address given above, a bundle of the literature that you have been sending out, and sample copies of the things you publish for the use of party workers. Also, would you please give some indication of the distribution of the literature?3 With warm regard, Sincerely 1 Eisenhower wrote this letter from Denver, Colorado, where he was vacationing. His brothers had traveled to Philadelphia on August 24 to hear him deliver an address at the annual convention of the American Bar Association (see Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1955, pp. 802-9). 2 This was not the first time that Eisenhower had heard complaints regarding poor communication between members of the Republican National Committee and party workers at the local and state levels; see no. 1447; see also the following document. 3 Hall would meet with the President on September 10 in Denver at the Brown Palace Hotel following a reception and breakfast for forty-eight state Republican chairmen. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Leonard Wood Hall, 31 August 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1569. 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/1569.cfm <--PREV Doc #1568  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1570

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