<--PREV Doc #358  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #360 Document #359; July 31, 1953 To Arthur Bradford Eisenhower 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 Arthur: I think you learned your lesson very cheaply.1 Of course, a number of reporters tried to reach me to find out whether you were my "spokesman." After reading your letter, I find that I had a rather accurate picture of what actually happened to you. I figured that you had been trapped into a conversation which later turned out to be an interview. I should merely say--don't worry about it--and don't repeat!2 Give my love to Louise. Devotedly 1 At a July 23 luncheon given by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Arthur talked with a reporter from the Las Vegas Sun, who quoted him as saying that McCarthy was the "most dangerous menace to America" (Las Vegas Sun, July 24, 25, 1953; New York Times, July 26, 1953). On July 27 McCarthy wrote Arthur asking if he had been quoted correctly in the Sun (AWF/N). Arthur then drafted a reply and sent it to Presidential Aide Thomas E. Stephens, explaining that he had been unaware of the reporter's anti-McCarthy sentiments when he had spoken so freely with him (A. Eisenhower to Stephens, AWF/N). Arthur also wrote to his brother on the same day assuring him that he was "giving no interviews of any kind," since he "did not realize what it meant to talk frankly with what [he] thought was a friendly reporter" (ibid.). 2 For background on Eisenhower's feelings toward the press see no. 347. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Arthur Bradford Eisenhower, 31 July 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 359. 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/359.cfm <--PREV Doc #358  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #360

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