<--PREV Doc #68  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #70 Document #69; March 6, 1953 To Milton Stover Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series 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 2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles   Dear Milton: Immediately upon receipt of your note, I took up the matter of promoting healthy two-way world trade at the Cabinet meeting which was held this morning.1 I reminded those present that I had already appointed an ad hoc committee to study the subject, with the membership of the committee including the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Director of Mutual Security, and, I think, one other.2 I pointed out that this question of agricultural trade was only one part of the whole problem, and that the appointment of a second commission or group would result only in duplication. Your note nevertheless served one good purpose because I am quite certain that most of those present had forgotten, in the press of daily commitments, the collective mission previously given them. Now I think they will move forward on the job.3 As ever 1 Eisenhower's brother, after visiting the White House on March 3, had written the day following (AWF/N) to remind the President of an earlier conversation about the American Farm Bureau Federation's interest in world trade. The Federation had recommended a bipartisan commission to study that issue. "You indicated that you had set up an interdepartmental committee on the matter," Milton wrote, "and therefore that I might give the suggestion to Ezra Taft Benson, who serves as a member of that committee. Perhaps I misunderstood you. Anyway, I gave the suggestion to Ezra Benson, but from my conversation with him, I am certain he is not aware of any responsibility upon him to work with others on the general problem of promoting world trade. He concluded, "If you do not have a group at work on this whole problem, I should think you would want to start the wheels turning." 2 See no. 33. 3 For further developments see no. 179. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 6 March 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 69. 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/69.cfm <--PREV Doc #68  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #70

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