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Document
#2128; December 4, 1956
To Margaret Winchester Patterson
Series:
EM, WHCF, Official File 116-LL
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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
23: What is needed is "a calming influence"
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Dear Margaret: I am, as always, glad to have your viewpoint on current international--and domestic--matters.1 (I realize of course that your letter was written before the announcement of our plans for the transport of oil to Europe).2
That step, and others which I cannot discuss, are all planned in an effort to help our friends of the free world. But the entire matter is delicate and difficult. For example, you realize that if we are to give our European friends help that will be of permanent value to them, the first thing that we must assure them is a durable source of oil. That source can be only the Middle East; consequently, you must see the need for proceeding cautiously at this moment in order that the entire Arab world, highly emotional by nature, does not become so incensed as to refuse to sell the needed oil.
As often as seems practical, I shall give what reassurance I can personally to the people of America and of the world.
With warm regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Margaret Winchester Patterson,
4 December 1956.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2128.
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/2128.cfm
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