<--PREV Doc #908  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #910 Document #909; June 1, 1954 To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Series: EM, AWF, Administration 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 11: The "men in the Kremlin are not to be trusted"   Dear Cabot: I am delighted to have your recommendation on Hinds.1 My only hesitation would involve his lack of engineering experience and training. This might not necessarily be decisive--but I have been looking for an individual who has some experience of that kind in his background.2 With warm regard, As ever 1 Lodge had written on May 29 to recommend retired Brigadier General Sidney Rae Hinds (USMA 1920) for appointment as chairman of the board of the Tennesee Valley Authority (AWF/A). The chairmanship had been vacated in May and the appointment had become a national political issue (for background see nos. 755 and 815). Hinds, who had served in North Africa and in Europe during World War II, was currently Supply Officer and Chief, Procurement Division, U.N. Korean Reconstruction Agency in New York City. He was a registered Republican from North Dakota, and, according to Lodge, his "appointment would be clearly justifiable on the highest considerations of merit." 2 As it turned out Eisenhower would appoint Brigadier General Herbert Davis Vogel (USMA 1924), a civil engineer of the Southwest Division, Army Corps of Engineers, effective August 31. Vogel was chairman of the Arkansas-White-Red river basins interagency committee currently working on development projects (see New York Times, Aug. 3, 8, Sept. 2, 1954; and Parmet, Eisenhower and the American Crusades, pp. 467-68). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1 June 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 909. 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/909.cfm <--PREV Doc #908  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #910

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