<--PREV Doc #666  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #668 Document #667; January 16, 1954 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series 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 Foster: A member of the Columbia Board of Trustees has written me a letter about Jack McCloy.1 The writer understands that Jack has been asked to head up an important study and negotiation group.2 The purpose of the letter was to describe to me the very serious effect on his own personal family and fortunes and on a very large number of important individuals and interests, that would come about if Jack were to be very long absent from his present duties.3 The writer feels that Jack McCloy has made more than his full share of sacrifice through his long period of government service and that we should not "pressure" him if anyone else can possibly do the job. I suppose all these things are known to you.4 I merely pass them on. No answer is necessary. As ever 1 We have been unable to locate this letter. 2 Eisenhower is probably referring to the establishment of an international agency for the development of atomic energy, a proposal made by the President in his Atoms for Peace speech before the United Nations on December 8, 1953. For background see no. 598. 3 After serving as High Commissioner for Germany from June 1949 until July 1952, McCloy had become chairman of Chase National Bank. 4 Dulles had spoken to McCloy on at least one occasion about the position. He was "seriously considering taking on the atomic energy job," McCloy would tell Dulles, but wanted more information about it before making a decision. Dulles had assured him that it "would not be a full-time job" (Memorandum, Dulles to Smith, Jan. 19, 1954, AWF/D; McCloy to Dulles, Jan. 19, 1954, Dulles Papers, Telephone Conversations; see also McCloy to Eisenhower, Jan. 21, 1954, AWF/A). McCloy would not accept the position, and in November Eisenhower would appoint Morehead Patterson, New York business executive and Deputy U.S. Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Commission, to head negotiations regarding U.S. participation in the International Atomic Energy Agency (Eisenhower to Patterson, Nov. 4, 1954, WHCF/OF 291; State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. II, National Security Affairs, pt. 2, pp. 1523-24). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 16 January 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 667. 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/667.cfm <--PREV Doc #666  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #668

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