<--PREV Doc #41  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #43 Document #42; February 18, 1953 To Adlai Ewing Stevenson Series: EM, AWF, Name Series 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 Governor Stevenson: Permit me to say again that I thoroughly enjoyed our meeting yesterday.1 I hope you find your trip interesting and informative. Whenever you may be visiting any old friend of mine, I would consider it a favor if you would extend to him my warm greetings. Again, I request that you come to see me when you return, to give me, at first hand, your impressions.2 Perhaps, at that time, we can discuss further your offer to help in the promotion of true bipartisanship in our international affairs.3 With best wishes, Sincerely 1 The former Democratic presidential candidate planned to sail from San Francisco on March 2 on a five-month fact-finding tour--sponsored by Look magazine--of Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe. For background see William Attwood, The Twilight Struggle: Tales of the Cold War (New York, 1987), p. 92. Possibly at Stanley High's suggestion (see no. 30), the President had written Stevenson during the week of February 8 (AWF/N) inviting him to lunch at the White House during his upcoming Washington visit. Stevenson met with congressional Democrats on Monday, February 16, and Press Secretary Hagerty announced plans the following day for informal talks between Eisenhower and Stevenson. On the morning of the seventeenth, Secretary of State Dulles briefed Stevenson on the areas he planned to visit. At the White House the President and Stevenson spent half an hour in private conversation and then attended a luncheon with a bipartisan delegation from the House of Representatives. 2 Responding to this note on February 24 (AWF/N), Stevenson wrote that he had "enjoyed and profited" from the White House meeting and would always be grateful for Eisenhower's courtesy and hospitality. For developments see no. 430. 3 This same day the President sent Dulles a memorandum reporting Stevenson's willingness "to do whatever he could, at any time, to promote real bipartisanship in our foreign affairs. You might keep this in mind because, by the time he comes back from his trip abroad, we may want to take advantage of such an offer." A week later Dulles replied that he had spoken to Stevenson on the subject while he was in Washington and later by telephone in Chicago. "He made several concrete suggestions as to how such bipartisanship might be achieved, which I am presently following up" (memoranda in same file as document). Eisenhower and Dulles would later ask Stevenson to serve on the U.N. General Assembly, but Stevenson declined (Dulles to Eisenhower, July 6, 1953, AWF/D-H). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 18 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 42. 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/42.cfm <--PREV Doc #41  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #43

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