<--PREV Doc #2098  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2100 Document #2099; November 17, 1956 To Sherman Adams Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Memorandum. Personal and confidential 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"   When Senator Wylie visited me this morning, he spoke to me again about that man that he was so anxious to have appointed to a Federal job several years ago.1 Herewith a memorandum that tells about all the wonderful characteristics of Mr. .2 Senator Wylie remarked "I am not trying to get rid of the man. It would be like losing my right arm. So while I do not throw him at you, yet I assure you that if you fail to put him in a responsible position in the Executive Department, you are losing the services of one of the most brilliant men in government." I remember the case as it came up two or three years ago. The Secretary of State was anxious to get this particular man out of Senator Wylie's office since he considered him a bad influence there, but we could find no job we felt we could in good conscience give the man and that he would take.3 1 For background see nos. 356 and 1254. 2 This memorandum is not in AWF. 3 For more on Eisenhower's relationship with Wisconsin Senator Alexander Wiley see nos. 114, 806, 1254, and Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, p. 301. The person involved would remain in his position with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until 1958 and would hold a similar post with the Government Operations Subcommittee until 1964. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum. Personal and confidential To Sherman Adams, 17 November 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2099. 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/2099.cfm <--PREV Doc #2098  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2100

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