<--PREV Doc #1357  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1359 Document #1358; October 31, 1959 To Emmet John Hughes Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Personal and confidential 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 Emmet: Thank you very much for your letter telling me about your forthcoming book.1 Of course I respect your right to express your own views, no matter how much they differ from my own and even though our sources of information are necessarily far from being the same both as to origin and in detail of content.2 There is only one clause in your letter to which I seriously object, because it shows a misconception on your part. It reads "...the spirit and direction of foreign policy as conceived and executed by the Department of State over these years." The basic conception and direction of foreign policy is my responsibility and not one of any other Department or individual.3 With warm regard, Sincerely 1 Hughes had written on October 22 (AWF/A) about the publication of his critical study of U.S. foreign policy, America the Vincible (New York, 1959). See also New York Times, November 10, 1959. 2 Hughes had explained that the letter had not been an "easy letter to write." He acknowledged that Eisenhower would neither "approve of, nor concur with" much of what he had written. He believed, however, that "open and honest dissent" was vital to healthy government. 3 Hughes had explained that he had written the book to express his "increasing anxieties and fears" with regard to the State Department’s execution of foreign policy. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Emmet John Hughes, 31 October 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1358. 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/1358.cfm <--PREV Doc #1357  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1359

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