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Document
#2120; November 27, 1956
To George P. Skouras
Series:
EM, WHCF, Official File 116
; Category:
Personal
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"
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Dear Mr. Skouras: Thank you for your note of the twenty-third.1 While I deplore, along with you, the fact that at times our foreign policy does seem to become a "political football," yet I am afraid that the suggestion in your letter would not serve to prevent such a thing. I am heartily in favor of a bipartisan foreign policy, but I do not believe that a Secretary of State of the opposition party would automatically assure that fact, nor, in my opinion, would such an appointment obviate an attack by a political candidate seeking political expediency. Nonetheless I shall pass along your interesting thought to others in the Administration for their consideration.
With my thanks to you and Mrs. Skouras for your prayers, and best wishes, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To George P. Skouras,
27 November 1956.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2120.
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/2120.cfm
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