<--PREV Doc #1082  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1084 Document #1083; February 28, 1959 To Bernard Mannes Baruch Series: EM, WHCF, Official File 101-J The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part VI: Setbacks; November 1958 to February 1959 Chapter 15: "Debate is the breath of life"   Dear Bernie: I remember the statement to which you refer.1 Arthur Krock was in the group and spoke to me later. He approved very heartily of what I had said.2 Later my remarks were taken out of context and distorted to imply that I was at heart a socialist; that I wanted to destroy free enterprise. Actually the statement was brought up again in its distorted form five years later, in the political campaign of ’52. I merely laughed at people who were trying to make something of the matter, although I did time and again repeat what I had actually said. I particularly like the last thing in your letter where you say that "When the politicians get through with any of us and they have tried to please everybody, we generally find ourselves in a mess."3 With warm personal regard, As ever 1 Baruch had reminded Eisenhower of his remarks at a dinner on December 5, 1947, at the 1925 F Street Club in Washington. After dinner informal conversation had turned to the problem of inflation, and Eisenhower had said that industrialists should make some personal sacrifices in order to help keep costs down and stop inflation. 2 On December 6, 1947, General Eisenhower had written to Krock, who was head of the New York Times Washington bureau (see Galambos, Chief of Staff, no. 1926). 3 Baruch had been one of the President's informal political advisers for many years. In January 1946 he had warned Eisenhower to "Beware of the Politicos" (ibid., no. 630). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Bernard Mannes Baruch, 28 February 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1083. 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/second-term/documents/1083.cfm <--PREV Doc #1082  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1084

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