<--PREV Doc #31  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #33 Document #32; February 13, 1953 To Robert Ten Broeck Stevens Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series: Army 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   Dear Mr. Secretary: Thank you for your letter regarding cadetships at West Point available under Presidential quota.1 I suggest that you continue to fill these posts by competitive examination among the sons of officers and enlisted men of the Regular services, without consultation with me. However, I would like to have a short yearly report for my information.2 Sincerely 1 On February 6 (AWF/A: Army), Secretary of the Army Stevens had outlined (to Thomas E. Stephens of Eisenhower's staff) procedures for making presidential appointments to the U.S. Military Academy. Traditionally, Stevens noted, these cadetships had been set aside for sons of regular armed forces personnel, according to the applicants' performance on a written examination. He had asked whether Eisenhower wished to make any changes in the selection procedure. 2 In late July Stevens would report the names of twelve young men whom his department had appointed to West Point under the presidential quota. All were sons of lieutenant colonels or men of higher rank. Subsequent annual reports are filed in WHCF/OF 3-A-17. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 13 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 32. 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/32.cfm <--PREV Doc #31  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #33

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