Presidential Papers, Doc#238 Personal To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 9 June 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #238; June 9, 1953
To Edgar Newton Eisenhower
Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Personal
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 Ed: I received the cartoon. My only comment is that while I may allow my eye to stray from the ball, I am never so careless as to let it stray far enough as to read the Chicago Tribune.1 As ever

1 In a letter of June 5 Edgar had apparently enclosed a cartoon published in the Chicago Daily Tribune (AWF/N). The cartoon is not in EM. On June 12 Edgar would reply that he shared Eisenhower's "respect for the Chicago Tribune, but nevertheless, it has a big circulation!" (ibid.). In a handwritten note at the bottom of Edgar's letter, Eisenhower penned, "My Lord--Ed is on my side for once." For background on Eisenhower's dislike of the Chicago Daily Tribune see Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, no. 285.

Edgar's letter had concerned a request from a friend that the President make a short statement to be published in the seventy-fifth-anniversary issue of the American Bar Association Journal. "I hate to bother you with matters of this kind, but I really do think that a short statement from you relative to the historical position of lawyers within the development of this country might be very appropriate," he wrote. "Couldn't one of your secretaries dash off a fifty-to-a-hundred-word statement for you?" On this same day (June 9) Eisenhower wrote his brother that the letter had been received and action would be taken (AWF/N).

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 9 June 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 238. 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/238.cfm

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