<--PREV Doc #972  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #974 Document #973; July 10, 1954 To William Edward Robinson 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 11: The "men in the Kremlin are not to be trusted"   Dear Bill: My super secret sources inform me that Al Gruenther is hurrying back to this country, ostensibly to testify before a Congressional Committee.1 Actually, of course, he became so unnerved upon receipt of your letter of the seventh that it was impossible to keep him in Paris.2 At any rate, it is a masterpiece and rates a prize of some sort--just what will take time and thought. With warm regard, As ever 1 On July 11 Gruenther would warn Congress of the increasing striking power of the Soviet Union's armed forces. The warning was a follow-up to his June 11 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see New York Times, July 12, 15, 1954; on the Mutual Security Act of 1954 see no. 1189). 2 Robinson's letter to Gruenther had described in comedic detail Robinson's victories in bridge games played during the July 4 weekend at Camp David (see no. 960). Robinson said that he wanted Gruenther, his "mentor," to "share in a minor way" in those victories. Robinson's tongue-in-cheek cover letter to the President read, "You will observe in this report the use of certain poetic license. . . . The rest of my report you will realize is completely factual" (July 7, 1954, AWF/N). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To William Edward Robinson, 10 July 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 973. 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/973.cfm <--PREV Doc #972  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #974

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