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Document
#889; May 21, 1954
To George Arthur Sloan
Series:
EM, AWF, Name Series
; Category:
Personal
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"
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Dear George: Thank you for your letter. It is gratifying to know that your mind seems to be running along with the minds of some of us here in the approach to a few of our tough international problems.1
To one comment in your letter I will make the same answer that I have given countless times in the past sixteen months. You say that "I wouldn't worry too much over that element within the Republican Party which has been against you from the beginning." I assure you that never for one moment have I compromised a single principle, purpose or aim of any kind in the effort to win over the reactionary fringe. In fact, my only insistence to my associates has been that we stand up squarely for all of the things we presented during the campaign; those individuals that don't want to do that can stand on the sidelines for all that I care. As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To George Arthur Sloan,
21 May 1954.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 889.
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/889.cfm
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