<--PREV Doc #1698  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1700 Document #1699; January 19, 1956 Diary Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series ; Category: Secret The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part IX: "Concerning my political intentions"; December 1955 to April 1956 Chapter 18: On "an almost normal schedule"   I saw Howard Cullman for the first time in several months.1 Having retired from active participation in the New York Port Authority, he is anxious to devote some time to public service, especially in the fields in which he is experienced. This includes primarily motor traffic, including parkways, bridges, parking areas and so on.2 He asked me whether he should take his ideas and thoughts to General Bragdon or to the Secretary of Commerce.3 While I told him that I thought it did not make a great deal of difference, I suggested that he go to General Bragdon first, and if the latter found that the subject properly belonged in the Commerce Department, he would arrange to see that it got to the right place. I think I indicated that if he preferred first to see the Secretary of Commerce, it made no great difference. 1 Former New York Port Authority Chairman Cullman met with the President on January 19. 2 In October 1956 Eisenhower would appoint Cullman Commissioner General in charge of U.S. participation in the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (New York Times, Oct. 4, 1956). 3 John Stewart Bragdon (USMA 1915) had been Special Assistant to the President for Public Works Planning since August 15, 1955. A classmate of Eisenhower, Bragdon had during World War II supervised the construction of airfields in South and Central America. After the war he had worked for the Army's Chief of Engineers Office until his retirement from the military in 1951; he then became vice-president of a building construction company in New York City. In June 1960 Eisenhower would nominate Bragdon to the Civil Aeronautics Board, a position he would hold until his death, January 7, 1964. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Secret Diary, 19 January 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1699. 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/1699.cfm <--PREV Doc #1698  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1700

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