Presidential Papers, Doc#639 To Philip Dunham Reed, 24 December 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #639; December 24, 1953
To Philip Dunham Reed
Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series: Taft-Hartley
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part IV: "Pushing ahead along the broad center"; December 1953 to March 1954
Chapter 8: A world "racing toward catastrophe"

 

Dear Phil: Many thanks for your thoughts on the Taft-Hartley Act.1 I haven't a moment today to try to reply to your letter in an intelligent fashion, but I shall take it along with me to Augusta and I promise to consider your points carefully.2

Is there any chance that we will see you there?3

At any rate I know that Mamie joins me in warm Christmas greetings to the Reed family. As ever

1 Writing on December 23 (AWF/A: Taft-Hartley), Reed said that he had been "sufficiently shaken" by reports that Eisenhower might invite "weakening amendments" to Taft-Hartley that he wished to submit the following points: (1) that Americans would feel "let down" if Eisenhower increased the "power of union leaders at the expense of the individual worker's freedom of choice and action," (2) that Taft-Hartley was fair to labor, and (3) that a "wise course" would be to test the act thoroughly before amending it. For background see nos. 397, 613, and 620.

2 On the President's trip to Augusta, Georgia, see the preceding document.

3 Reed, a member of the Augusta National Golf Club, would not visit with Eisenhower at this time.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Philip Dunham Reed, 24 December 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 639. 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/639.cfm

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