Presidential Papers, Doc#2008 To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 4 October 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #2008; October 4, 1956
To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther
Series: Gruenther Papers
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part XI: The free world's "sad mess"; October 1956 to January 1957
Chapter 22: On Suez "we do not see eye to eye"

 

Dear Al: I have your two notes of the thirtieth. As to the Italian post, I am glad to have the warning about our friend from New York. Actually, the job has been offered to someone from the West Coast, who is still considering the matter.1

Please keep me posted on your personal plans; you know that I have more than a passing interest in your location after you return to this country!2

Between official work, campaign trips, speeches--and my first world series game--I haven't stopped revolving in weeks. However, I am happy to report that Jim Hagerty paid me off as a result of his ill-advised and completely biased support of the Yankees!3

Give my love to Grace and, as always, the best to yourself, As ever

1 U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce had asked Gruenther to report to Eisenhower her reservations regarding Peter Grimm, a New York real estate executive and Luce's Chief of Economic Mission, as a candidate for the ambassadorship upon her resignation. Grimm had "lost his zip," according to Luce, and was not the best choice for the job (Gruenther to Eisenhower, Sept. 30, 1956, AWF/A; on Luce's resignation see Memorandum of Conversation, July 13, 1956, Dulles Papers, White House Memoranda Series). Californian James D. Zellerbach, president of the Crown Zellerbach Paper Manufacturing Corporation and formerly head of the Economic Cooperation Administration in Rome, would be named to succeed Luce on November 23.

2 "The outlook for the Red Cross set up appears to be improving," Gruenther had written. "Meanwhile new business offers have been made, and old ones improved" (Gruenther to Eisenhower, Sept. 30, 1956, AWF/A). Gruenther would become president of the American Red Cross on January 1, 1957.

3 See no. 2030.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 4 October 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2008. 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/2008.cfm

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