<--PREV Doc #500  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #502 Document #501; October 29, 1953 To Edward John Bermingham Series: EM, AWF, Name Series 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"   Dear Ed: Thank you for your note of the twenty-sixth. I am sending one to Bob with a notation to determine when it might be convenient for him to take a look at Enon.1 Even though I am not too hopeful of getting there at an early date, it could certainly hurt nothing for him to be familiar with the layout. As to the other note, I realize that some "talking" is probably necessary.2 However, I still think that the responsibility for the advertising end of politics properly belongs to the National Committee and the entire Party organization. Administrative officials are kept busy providing the plans and programs--and doing the work to get these enacted into the law--that should be talked about. For them to have to do too much of the "talking" will certainly lessen their opportunity to do those things that no one else can do. With warm regard, As ever 1 Bermingham wrote for the second time asking if Eisenhower's aide Robert L. Schulz could visit Enon Farm to plan for a presidential visit. "Sooner or later you may decide that you will want to visit Alabama," he wrote (AWF/N). For background see no. 422. 2 In his second letter of the same date Bermingham wrote that the Administration's opponents had "effectively created bad situations" by stirring up two controversial policy issues, tax reduction and agriculture, with labor soon to follow. "I think you must do some talking--and quick!" he wrote. Reminding Eisenhower that the televised panel discussion with Cabinet members in June had been "spectacular," Bermingham urged the President to consider a second such program. He argued that "a decisive and forthright discussion of the facts with emphasis on the problems inherited by your administration would clear a lot of minds" (Bermingham Papers). On the June program see no. 197; and New York Times, June 4, 1953. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Edward John Bermingham, 29 October 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 501. 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/501.cfm <--PREV Doc #500  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #502

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