<--PREV Doc #236  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #238 Document #237; June 9, 1953 To Sherman Adams Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Memorandum 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   I have a friend, Brigadier General Benjamin F. Caffey (Ret'd.).1 (His address [is] 2636 North Westmoreland Drive, Orlando, Florida.) I think he is on the order of 58 years old. While in the army he was an accomplished commander and staff officer, and during the course of his service graduated from an accredited law school and served some little time, I believe, in the Adjutant General's Department. Since his retirement a few years ago, he has been serving as a professor in a school in Orlando, Florida. I believe that he is now giving up this work. I call attention to him because it is possible that he might be available for some type of tough, secondary job--for example, it would strike me that he would be very useful in some subordinate position in the Veterans Administration or in ODM. I have not the slightest idea whether he would be interested in such a position, but it occurs to me that in our search for honorable, able and dedicated men we might put him on the list. My idea is that he would fill some job of the $10,000 to $15,000 class with distinction.2 1 Benjamin Franklin Caffey, Jr. (LL.B. University of Michigan 1916), had been the U.S. military attaché in Switzerland before retiring (for background on Caffey's career see Eisenhower Papers, vols. I-XIII). 2 Eisenhower's aides would be successful in obtaining for Caffey appointments in the Veterans Administration and the Civil Defense Administration, but he would not be able to accept either post due to the dual-compensation laws (see the correspondence in AWF/N). For developments see no. 1463. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum To Sherman Adams, 9 June 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 237. 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/237.cfm <--PREV Doc #236  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #238

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