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Document
#1884; May 30, 1956
To George Fielding Eliot
Series:
EM, WHCF, Official File 133
; Category:
Personal
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
X: Cracks in the Alliance; May 1956 to September 1956
Chapter
20: Confronting "great risks"
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Dear Major Eliot: From your letter of the twenty-fourth, it is evident that for some time you and I have been preoccupied with the same concern--and as you will recall, I have touched on the subject recently at several press conferences. Moreover, I agree that due both to the complexities of the subject and to the constantly changing factors in it, we should have a better method for keeping the fundamentals before the public.1
One difficulty with the method you suggest is that, regardless of the sincerity of my personal effort to keep this subject on a non-partisan basis, election year tensions and ambitions make any purely educational effort almost an impossibility. Since this particular subject is so delicate, with the slightest mishandling apt to create complacency on one side or incipient hysteria on the other, the basic problem is truly a difficult one to solve.
Nevertheless, I am grateful to you for writing and more than glad to have your thoughts in the matter. Moreover, I have not dismissed from my mind the possibility that you suggest.
With warm regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To George Fielding Eliot,
30 May 1956.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1884.
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/1884.cfm
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