<--PREV Doc #55  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #57 Document #56; February 24, 1953 To Helen Rogers Reid Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Personal and confidential 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 Helen:1 Of course, I am tremendously sorry that you now feel you made a mistake in declining to accept the invitation to go to London as my representative at the Coronation.2 However, if you are going to be in Europe about that time in any event, I could put in your name for an invitation--which I think you would probably get. If you have any desire in this direction at all, let me know at once. For your information, General Marshall has accepted my invitation, and two other people have been invited to complete the delegation--one man and one woman.3 Please don't feel too disappointed, because there's no telling when I shall have a job I'll be urging you to do. With very best wishes, Sincerely 1 For background on Reid, who was president of the New York Herald Tribune, see Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, nos. 36, 612, 994. 2 After first declining Eisenhower's offer to attend Elizabeth's coronation, Reid had reconsidered, only to learn that all positions in the U.S. delegation had been filled (see Reid to Eisenhower, Feb. 20, AWF/N). 3 On March 6 the Administration would announce the appointment of the former Secretary of State General George C. Marshall as the President's special representative to the coronation ceremony. The U.S. delegation would include California Governor Earl Warren and Fleur Fenton Cowles, the wife of Look magazine publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, as assistants and General Omar N. Bradley as military representative (New York Times, Mar. 3, 1953; see also nos. 300 and 301; on Eisenhower's relationship with Cowles see Galambos, Columbia University, no. 757). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Helen Rogers Reid, 24 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 56. 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/56.cfm <--PREV Doc #55  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #57

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