<--PREV Doc #549  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #551 Document #550; November 19, 1953 To D. Rae Boyd Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series, Humphrey Corr. ; Category: Personal 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. Boyd: Thank you very much for bringing to my attention the matters described in your letter of November sixteenth.1 Needless to say, I have never heard of the incident before, and I am quite certain that no member of this Adminstration will be guilty of anything that tends to condone crime or disloyalty, for political or any other kind of advantage. While I am a bit uncertain as to what official of the government should be most watchful in this particular instance (you mention two kinds of offices), I shall take steps to see that all necessary parts of the government are informed.2 Please give my best to Kurt Heilbronn and his bride, and with all good wishes to you.3 Sincerely 1 Boyd, chairman of the Eisenhower-for-President Committee in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, had written about a local scandal involving the owner and publisher of the Norristown Times Herald. The owner-publisher had allegedly fled prosecution for printing and distributing the German White Paper during World War II and for evading income taxes (AWF/A, Humphrey Corr.). According to Boyd, the current business manager of the newspaper and his wife were "conspiring through political channels to have these charges dropped," allowing the accused to "make settlement on the income tax charge." For this favor, Boyd said, the Norristown Times Herald would use its influence to "aid and assist these same politicians in future campaigns." Boyd pointed out that the general public would soon lose confidence in an Administration that allowed politicians to capitalize on such a situation "for their own selfish gain for power." 2 Eisenhower would send this information to the Treasury Department and to the Department of Justice (Carroll to Humphrey, Nov. 20, 1953, ibid.). 3 Boyd's son-in-law and daughter. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To D. Rae Boyd, 19 November 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 550. 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/550.cfm <--PREV Doc #549  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #551

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