Presidential Papers, Doc#321 To Harry Amos Bullis, 15 July 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #321; July 15, 1953
To Harry Amos Bullis
Series: EM, AWF, Name 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 Harry:1 Thank you for your letter of the eleventh.2 As always, you are far too generous in your commendations.

I was especially interested in your newest project and the group you are getting together on the twenty-second.3 As Harold Stassen may have already indicated to you, I am very much interested in the objectives which you are trying to carry out.4 I think if our people are informed of the significance of the great issues pending in this field, they will respond to the need for courageous, forward-looking, independent action. What you and your associates can do in bringing that about will help us here immeasurably.5

With warm regard, As ever

1 Harry Amos Bullis was chairman of the board of General Mills (for background see Galambos, Columbia University, no. 893).

2 Bullis had congratulated Eisenhower on his "smashing victory" in the extension of the excess-profits tax and for the "constructive manner" in which he was "slowly fencing in Senator McCarthy." "Your popularity with the American people is increasing," he wrote. "You should constantly realize the great power that popularity gives you." Bullis's handwritten letter and a typed transcription are in AWF/N.

3 Bullis said that he had invited eight prominent individuals to help establish a "National Citizens Group to develop World Trade" and to assist Eisenhower to "eventually replace foreign aid with foreign trade."

4 Stassen was Director of the Mutual Security Agency.

5 Economic adviser Gabriel Hauge drafted this paragraph. In a memo of July 14 (to Ann Whitman) he cautioned, "This is another case where there should be no trace. I suggest a paragraph something like the following" (AWF/N, Bullis Corr.).

On this same day (July 15) Bullis would write again to suggest a way to balance the nation's wheat stocks with its needs (see no. 398).

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Harry Amos Bullis, 15 July 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 321. 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/321.cfm

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