<--PREV Doc #861  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #863 Document #862; May 6, 1954 To Harry Amos Bullis Series: EM, AWF, Name Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part V: Maintaining "a united defense"; April 1954 to August 1954 Chapter 10: Losing the war "they could not win"   Dear Harry: As I have stated time and again, most recently yesterday in my press conference, I agree completely with your hope that the McCarthy-Army hearings be brought speedily and effectively to an end.1 The Senate has sought means to bring this about; so far, unhappily, they have been unsuccessful.2 With warm regard, As ever 1 General Mills board chairman Bullis had written on May 4 that at recent business meetings nationwide he had "found no one who was not utterly disgusted with the McCarthy-Army hearings" (AWF/N). It was the "unanimous opinion and hope" of the business community, he said, that the hearings be "brought speedily to an end." Bullis had sent his letter to the President by way of presidential appointments secretary Thomas E. Stephens. Calling the investigation "disgraceful," Bullis told Stephens that businessmen were "mobilizing against McCarthy," although many did not have the "courage to express their opinions publicly" (ibid., May 4, 1954). At news conferences in the last two weeks, Eisenhower had repeatedly said that he hoped the Army-McCarthy inquiry would conclude quickly. See Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1954, pp. 452-53, 438; and New York Times, April 30, May 6, 1954. 2 On Eisenhower's efforts to persuade legislative leaders to help bring the hearings to an end see no. 758; Ewald, Who Killed Joe McCarthy?, pp. 332-33; and Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency, pp. 187-201. For developments see no. 869. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Harry Amos Bullis, 6 May 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 862. 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/862.cfm <--PREV Doc #861  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #863

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