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Document
#1361; November 3, 1959
To Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
Series:
EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series
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
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Dear Mr. Sam: It is indeed difficult for me to decline to go along with a personal suggestion of yours affecting an individual in government. Indeed, I cannot recall any case of doing so during the past seven years.1
Respecting your note about Judge Witt, I have consistently abided by the laws and regulations governing the retirement of members of the Executive Department and related agencies. I am informed that Judge Witt is over eighty years of age and has more than fifteen years of service. According to the statute, anyone who has achieved the age of seventy, with fifteen years of service, must be retired. Frankly, I have very great misgivings about keeping anyone in appointive office who has attained this number of years. I am sorry that in this instance I must differ with your suggestion.
With warm personal regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn,
3 November 1959.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1361.
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/1361.cfm
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