<--PREV Doc #994  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #996 Document #995; July 26, 1954 To Benjamin Franklin Caffey, Jr. 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 Frank: I was interested in your "gripe."1 Can you send me any documentation of your idea that the Communist way of life is being extolled at the expense of the American system? I have been unaware of this sort of thing.2 Love to Louise,3 and all the best to yourself. As ever 1 Caffey had written on July 22 (AWF/N) of his frustration regarding media reports on Russia. "These `Prophets of Doom'" are telling Americans that "everything the Commies do or have is better than we do or have. Damn it all," he wrote, "a Russian can wear just one pair of pants like the rest of us. It is serious--in fact, almost treasonable for these monkeys to hammer our people day in and day out with our inferiority." 2 We have been unable to find further correspondence on this subject in EM. 3 Caffey's wife, the former Louise Battle. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Benjamin Franklin Caffey, Jr., 26 July 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 995. 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/995.cfm <--PREV Doc #994  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #996

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