<--PREV Doc #410  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #412 Document #411; September 11, 1953 To Sherman Adams Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Memorandum. Personal and confidential The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part III: The Space Age Begins; October 1957 to January 1958 Chapter 6: Building strength when there is "no perfect answer"   This morning I was called by a couple of Louisiana women who were on our side--fanatically--in the recent campaign. They were interested in two men that they want to see appointed into Federal positions--probably on the basis that they were always "anti-Long" and at the same time are people of the highest competence and character.1 One of the men, named Moss, is being pushed for a position as a Federal judge, and that one I will take up with the Attorney General.2 However, they have a man named Clem White that they want to appoint to the National Labor Relations Board.3 I understand that John Wisdom has also recommended him most highly. I know none of the individuals under discussion, but I do know the women who called me. One of them, Mrs. Emma Michie, has always had a splendid reputation in Lake Charles, Louisiana. While my phone connection was very poor, I think she said that an old friend of mine, ex-Governor Sam Jones, of Louisiana, likewise stands behind the two men that these women are recommending.4 Will you please have thoroughly looked up the qualifications of Mr. White for a position on the National Labor Relations Board. 1 On the Long dynasty in Louisiana see no. 332. 2 Eisenhower sent a copy of this memorandum with a personal and confidential note of this same date telling Brownell that he had been informed that "Moss is a man of the most unimpeachable character and universally admired, respected, and so on." There is no record indicating that the Attorney General named Moss a federal judge. 3 White was not appointed to the National Labor Relations Board. 4 During Army maneuvers in Louisiana in 1941 Eisenhower had met Emma Calvert Michie and Sam Houston Jones (for background see Galambos, Chief of Staff, no. 1420). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum. Personal and confidential To Sherman Adams, 11 September 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 411. 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/411.cfm <--PREV Doc #410  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #412

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