<--PREV Doc #24  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #26 Document #25; February 7, 1953 To Thomas Edwin Stephens Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Memorandum The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953 Chapter 1: Developing a spirit of teamwork   When Wright Bryan and the other members of the Newspaper Editors Society were here this morning, I promised them that I would make a talk at the Editors' meeting which will take place in Washington between April 16th and 18th.1 They prefer that I would come to dinner on the night of the 18th (with Mrs. Eisenhower) but are quite content if I attend a luncheon on the 16th, 17th or 18th. Please tell Emmet Hughes about this right away, and inform him that I would not want to make more than a twenty minute talk at the outset.2 Also make certain that Mrs. Eisenhower's secretary has this information. I promised to give them a firm answer within a week or ten days.3 1 At 9:00 a.m. Eisenhower had met with Wright Bryan of the Atlanta Journal, Walker Stone of the Scripps-Howard chain, Ben McKelway of the Washington Star, Russell Wiggins of the Washington Post, and David Lawrence of U.S. News & World Report, all members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Stone had requested the meeting through James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary (see no. 16); Oveta Culp Hobby (see no. 2), an active member of the society, also attended. 2 For background on Hughes see no. 16. 3 The President would address the society at 1:00 p.m. on April 16 (see no. 132). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum To Thomas Edwin Stephens, 7 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 25. 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/25.cfm <--PREV Doc #24  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #26

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