Presidential Papers, Doc#309 To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 9 July 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #309; July 9, 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 5: "So much to do in the world"

 

Dear Cabot: In answer to your nice note of the seventh,1 may I--in the midst of a difficult day--quote from a statement made by George Washington in March of 1789, ". . . my movements to the chair of the government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution."2 That is how I should have felt on July 7, 1952.

Anyway, thanks! Sincerely

1 Lodge had written to thank Eisenhower for his birthday message (AWF/A), suggesting to the President that July 7 was a "far more important anniversary" than Lodge's birthday on the fifth of July. The seventh, he wrote, was the day in 1952 on which Eisenhower's forces won adoption of the Fair Play Amendment, assuring the General's nomination as the Republican candidate for the presidency (on the amendment and Eisenhower's nomination see Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, nos. 852, 856, 858, and 899).

2 This is a passage from Washington's April 1, 1789, letter to Secretary of War Henry Knox on learning of his unanimous election as President of the United States (The Papers of George Washington, ed. W. W. Abbot, Presidential Series, vol. 2, April-June 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig [Charlottesville, Va., 1987], p. 2).

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 9 July 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 309. 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/309.cfm

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