<--PREV Doc #1302  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1304 Document #1303; September 1, 1959 To Harold Macmillan Series: EM, AWF, International Series: Macmillan The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part VIII: "Friends and Foes"; September 1959 to February 1960 Chapter 19: Khrushchev in America   Dear Harold: You and I have had many memorable meetings but none, as far as I am concerned, has been more fruitful or more enjoyable than this one I am now reluctantly concluding.1 By virtue of your American mother, you can rightfully claim a kind of dual citizenship; but I sometimes feel a right to be an adopted son of Great Britain.2 Certainly I feel completely at home here, and the welcome given to me by you--and by so many of the wonderful people of this Island--has warmed and touched my heart beyond any words at my command.3 It seems inadequate to say "thank you" for the courtesies, the kindnesses, and the attention to details to assure my comfort and pleasure. I know that essentially all of the direction for the trip emanated from you; I can only say that everything has been perfect. Won’t you please convey to the fine members of your staff my warm gratitude for the assistance they gave so willingly and freely to me and to the members of the party travelling with me? With deepest thanks and warm personal regard, As ever 1 For background on the President’s trip to Western Europe see nos. 1276 and 1277. Eisenhower and Macmillan had met in London and at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country estate, on several occasions between August 27 and September 2. On their discussions see nos. 1304, 1309, 1323, and Eisenhower to Adenauer, September 3, 1959, AWF/I: Adenauer. 2 Macmillan’s mother was the former Helen Artie Belles of Spencer, Indiana. Macmillan would reply (Sept. 3, AWF/I: Macmillan) that the British people had "long ago adopted" Eisenhower and the visit had been "just the occasion for them to show this." Macmillan would add that the President’s visit had given "a new reality to the friendship and alliance" of Great Britain and the United States. 3 In his memoir Waging Peace (p. 419) Eisenhower would say he was "happily overwhelmed by the reception" accorded his party by the British (see no. 1301). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Harold Macmillan, 1 September 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1303. 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/1303.cfm <--PREV Doc #1302  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1304

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