Presidential Papers, Doc#999 Personal and confidential To Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, 30 July 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

Document #999; July 30, 1954
To Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield
Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series ; Category: Personal and confidential

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"

 

Memorandum for the Postmaster General: I hear that my old Republican friends of Abilene are perfectly satisfied with their present Postmaster.1 I have no suggestion whatsoever to offer in connection with the matter. I do not know the man who apparently wants the job.

On balance and if it does not violate your policy, I think I would leave the situation absolutely unchanged.2

1 Summerfield, Postmaster General of the United States since January 1953, had been aware since May 1954 of controversy regarding the postmastership in Abilene, Kansas.

2 Correspondence relating to this issue has been withheld in order to protect individual privacy; see letter from Bonita B. Mulanax, October 21, 1992, EP; Whitman to Goodpaster, August 6, 1955, AWF/N, Goodpaster Corr.; and papers in WHCF/OF 7-N.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, 30 July 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 999. 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/999.cfm

 


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