<--PREV Doc #235  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #237 Document #236; June 8, 1953 To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part II: Settling into "the long pull"; May 1953 to August 1953 Chapter 4: Striving for Unity   Dear Cabot: Upon receipt of your note I gave Foster Dulles a ring.1 I find that he is not only a warm friend of Senator Cooper, but has recently been in close contact with him. I am sure your suggestions will be followed up. Personally I shall look for an early opportunity to see Senator Cooper myself.2 Cordially 1 Lodge had written on June 5 (AWF/A) that his friend Kentucky Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper sought a more active role in foreign-policy planning. In 1950 Cooper (A.B. Yale 1923) had served as an adviser to the Secretary of State at the London and Brussels meetings of the NATO Council of Ministers. "While some people consider him lackadaisical," Lodge wrote, "I think he has a very thorough understanding of the foreign situation, and that he has the makings of a solid debater if you should feel like encouraging him--as you know so well how to do." Cooper, in point of fact, had only recently received front-page press coverage for his rebuke of Senators McCarthy, Dirksen, and Jenner from the Senate floor for their unprecedented attacks on British leaders Churchill and Attlee (see no. 229; and New York Times, May 15, 1953). 2 A copy of this letter, which was drafted by Ann Whitman, was sent to Thomas E. Stephens, the President's appointments secretary. Eisenhower would see Cooper and his mother on June 23. In 1955 Eisenhower would appoint Cooper U.S. Ambassador to India. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 8 June 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 236. 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/236.cfm <--PREV Doc #235  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #237

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