Presidential Papers, Doc#1949 To Charles Abraham Halleck, 9 August 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #1949; August 9, 1956
To Charles Abraham Halleck
Series: EM, WHCF, Official File 99-V
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 21: "Grave difficulties in the Suez crisis"

 

Dear Charlie: I suppose I need hardly to say any of this to you as you know it already; and yet, I deeply feel that I must express my warmest personal appreciation of your extraordinarily fine work throughout this past session. Time and again I have known of your help and guidance on key measures in which I have had personal interest.1 I know too that on many occasions you have willingly taken the lead in behalf of measures which for various reasons were especially difficult for you to manage.2

This pattern of loyalty to our combined efforts to advance the public good has been unbroken throughout the past four years, and I want to tell you once again, as I have occasion to after each session, how deeply grateful I am. You, no doubt, have some appreciation of how heartening it is to me to have the continuing awareness of your presence in the House and your constant desire to make our program succeed.

It is a matter of great personal satisfaction to me that you will place my name in nomination at the convention.3 From my standpoint, it is only right and proper that this assignment should go to you. I assure you that I will watch and listen with the greatest interest when you present that speech!

With warm personal regard, Sincerely

1 Former Majority Leader Halleck (Rep., Ind.) had strongly supported the Administration's legislative agendas, and Eisenhower had praised Halleck's congressional performance on several occasions (see nos. 627 and 669). Eisenhower had been particularly pleased with Halleck's work on the tax bill in 1954 (see nos. 784 and 799). White House aide Bryce Harlow drafted this letter for the President.

2 Eisenhower may have been referring to Halleck's support in the Eighty-fourth Congress for the Administration's position on agricultural and civil rights legislation (see Scheele, Halleck, pp. 165-71; for background on the 1956 Agricultural Act see Congressional Quarterly Almanac, vol. XII, 1956, pp. 375ff.

3 Eisenhower had selected Halleck to nominate him for a second term (Halleck to Eisenhower, Aug. 16, 1956, WHCF/OF 99-V; Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 13), and Halleck would do so on August 22 at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco (New York Times, Aug. 23, 1956; see also Scheele, Halleck, pp. 171-72).

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Charles Abraham Halleck, 9 August 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1949. 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/1949.cfm

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