<--PREV Doc #536  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #538 Document #537; November 11, 1953 To Fazlollah Zahedi Series: EM, AWF, International 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 7: Beef and Budgets   Dear Mr. Prime Minister:1 I am very much pleased that Vice President Nixon has the opportunity of visiting Iran and of talking with you and your colleagues. He carries with him my personal greeting to you.2 The Vice President's primary purpose in making this visit is to increase our knowledge and understanding of your country and to learn more of the problems, hopes, and aspirations of the Government and people of Iran. His visit will serve, I am confident, to affirm the basic friendship of the American people for your countrymen. It is in reflection of this friendship that the Vice President resolved to become better acquainted with Iran. He will listen with interest to what you may wish to tell him regarding Iran's efforts to achieve that prosperity which people of goodwill everywhere desire for your country. I thank you for the hospitality and courtesies which are being shown to Mr. Nixon and his party, and I send you good wishes for your health and the prosperity of Iran.3 Sincerely 1 For Prime Minister Zahedi's role in the Iranian political upheaval in August see no. 457. 2 Nixon would visit Iran from December 9 to December 12 as part of his two-month trip to the Far and Middle East (Nixon, Memoirs, pp. 146-64; see also State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. X, Iran, 1951-1954 [1989], pp. 850-52). 3 In his reply Zahedi would express deep appreciation for Eisenhower's personal greetings and Nixon's visit (Zahedi to Eisenhower, Dec. 11, 1953, AWF/I). The Vice-President, Zahedi wrote, "was able to obtain a thorough understanding of the difficulties which during recent years have retarded the development and progress of the Iranian people" and to strengthen the belief of Iran "in the sincere and disinterested friendliness of the United States." Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Fazlollah Zahedi, 11 November 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 537. 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/537.cfm <--PREV Doc #536  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #538

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