<--PREV Doc #1966  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1968 Document #1967; August 29, 1956 To Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series 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 Nelson: If I am elected and if the acceptance speech should be by any chance "the charter of the future" (and do you mind if I sometimes steal that phrase?), I am content.1 And if the next four years can make our hopes a reality, then any personal sacrifice is forgotten. I shall need your help in the coming months--and I know that, as always, it is there for the asking.2 With warm regard, As ever 1 A former assistant to the President, Rockefeller had written (Aug. 25, 1956, AWF/A) to congratulate Eisenhower on his convention performance. Rockefeller used this phrase to describe the enunciation of beliefs and party goals set forth in Eisenhower's acceptance speech of August 23 (Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1956, pp. 702-15). 2 At this time Rockefeller was chairman of Rockefeller Center, Inc.; on his resignation from the President's staff see no. 1671. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 29 August 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1967. 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/1967.cfm <--PREV Doc #1966  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1968

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