<--PREV Doc #1220  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1222 Document #1221; June 30, 1959 To Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part VII: Berlin and the Chance for a Summit; March 1959 to August 1959 Chapter 17: "Sources of division" among allies   Dear Lewis: I am assuming a great deal in venturing to send you one of my so-called "paintings," but I could think of no other way in which to express to you personally my admiration and affection.1 Perhaps you can find an obscure corner for it somewhere. At the same time I am sending you a medallion to officially record my appreciation of your services in this Administration.2 With warm regard, As ever P.S. I send you this painting since I don’t think it is quite as bad as the one I gave you a few years ago--and only if you will promise to hide the first! 1 Secretary of Commerce Strauss had resigned on June 22 (see no. 1215). On June 29 the Eisenhowers had given a dinner party in honor of Admiral and Mrs. Strauss (Ann Whitman memorandum, June 29, 1959, AWF/AWD). The painting was probably the "Mountain Fall Scene" (see Kenneth S. Davis, The Eisenhower College Collection: The Paintings of Dwight D. Eisenhower [Los Angeles, 1972], plate 33). Strauss would thank Eisenhower for the painting on July 10 (AWF/A). 2 Strauss would say that he was "more proud" of the medallion than anything he possessed, other than Eisenhower's "wonderful letters" (July 10, 1959, AWF/A; see also Eisenhower to Strauss, July 8 and 11, 1959, both in AWF/A, and Eisenhower to Hartley, July 11, 1959, AWF/A, Strauss Corr.). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 30 June 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1221. 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/1221.cfm <--PREV Doc #1220  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1222

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