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Document
#394; August 24, 1953
To Charles Erwin Wilson
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"
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Dear Charlie: This morning I had a long talk with Fred Seaton.1 He told me about his recent conversation with you. I am of the personal opinion that he could and would do you a very fine job as a policy man in the field of cultivating good relations for the Defense Department.2 In this connection, I thought I should tell you about one tentative intention on my own that may or may not develop into a firm fact during the coming months.
Fred Seaton was a member of the group that traveled with me all over the United States during the political campaign last year. Not only does he have many good and useful qualities, but he is, of course, well acquainted with most of the individuals now serving intimately on my staff. Because of these facts, I have always felt that, in an emergency in the White House staff, I might have to call upon him to come in and help out; I have always looked upon him as a "reserve division," ready to go into action. I thought you should know of this so that, if in the future I should have to snag him away from you quickly, you would at least know that I was trying to play square.3
I do hope that you are now on vacation and having a good time. As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Charles Erwin Wilson,
24 August 1953.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 394.
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/394.cfm
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