<--PREV Doc #1365  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1367 Document #1366; November 7, 1959 To Aksel Nielsen Series: EM, AWF, Name 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   Dear Aks: Don’t you realize that in this new moral era into which television has plunged us that there is no, repeat no, effort to conceal the facts?1 In other words, what were all the scores as a result of your Pebble Beach game?2 A fairly formal letter is going off to you today to express my official thanks for your participation in the recommendation for the World’s Fair. I need only add that I am grateful, as always, for your willingness to undertake any chore on which I need help.3 With warm regard, As ever P.S. I’ll keep in mind that Reverend Miller will deliver the sermon at the National Presbyterian Church on January tenth.4 1 The reference is to the quiz-show scandals (see no. 1368). 2 Nielsen had written on November 3 that he was becoming "a full-fledged-golfer." He had played golf with three friends, and while he did not do as well as one of them, he did better than the other two. He did not wish to "embarrass" the losers, he said, because his score had been 121. 3 The official letter is not in AWF. In early October the President had appointed Nielsen to serve on a three-man committee to select the site for the 1964 World’s Fair. On October 28 the commission took testimony from the three major aspirants--New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles--and chose New York. Eisenhower approved the report the following day (New York Times, Aug. 10, 12, 13, Oct. 30, 1959). For developments see no. 1708. 4 Arthur Lemoine Miller (A.B. Indiana University 1922; B.D. McCormick Theological Seminary 1925) had been pastor of Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church in Denver since 1947. As the current moderator of the United Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, Miller was scheduled to preach in Washington, D.C. The Eisenhowers would, however, spend the weekend of January 8 - 10 at their Gettysburg farm. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Aksel Nielsen, 7 November 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1366. 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/1366.cfm <--PREV Doc #1365  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1367

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