<--PREV Doc #1221  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1223 Document #1222; July 1, 1959 To Deane Emmett Ackers Series: EM, WHCF, President’s Personal File 264 ; Category: Personal 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 18: "These extremist approaches"   Dear Deane: Thank you for your note of the twenty-ninth. I, too, am gratified by the support the people of the country are evidencing in the fight to promote an expanding economy on the basis of fiscal integrity and a sound dollar.1 As to your comments about one of the two men believed to be prominent as candidates for the Republican nomination in 1960, I can only say that Nelson Rockefeller is not only my friend; he is also a dedicated, hard-working and conscientious public official.2 I can say, with equal truthfulness, exactly the same thing about the Vice President. With best wishes, Sincerely 1 See nos. 1042 and 1119 for background. Ackers, president of the Kansas Power and Light Company, had written that he and other Kansans were encouraged by the progress Eisenhower was making in the struggle with the "spendthrift" Congress. "The people," he had stated, were now willing to do something about "the destruction and loss of their savings," and the Republicans could win the 1960 election if they continued the fight against inflation (June 29, 1959, same file as document). 2 Ackers had criticized Rockefeller, writing that it was "very easy to be liberal with some other party’s money when you are a multi-millionaire." He hoped that Eisenhower could "avoid being pushed into Rockefeller’s corner" (ibid.). Richard M. Nixon was the other potential candidate. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Deane Emmett Ackers, 1 July 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1222. 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/1222.cfm <--PREV Doc #1221  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1223

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