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Document
#91; March 18, 1953
To William Burton Persons
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
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Memorandum for General Persons: A chap was in to see me this morning who expressed some complimentary ideas about the efforts we are making to establish good relations with Congress.1 He said that in his visits among the House members, he found that some of their Chairmen felt that they were not getting quite the attention that the Senate was getting. This would indicate to me that some of our Cabinet heads and their liaison officers are not on the job as much as you are.2 In any event, he thought that a little extra work with these Committee heads would pay off.
He also told me that Congressman Wolverton, who he thinks is trying to play ball one hundred per cent, has a son who is a graduate lawyer.3 He seems to think that this son ought to be appointed to something in the Federal government. At least Congressman Wolverton would be most highly complimented if the son were offered something. Would you have one of your boys look this one up?4
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To William Burton Persons,
18 March 1953.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 91.
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/91.cfm
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