<--PREV Doc #1429  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1431 Document #1430; February 4, 1960 To John Hay Whitney Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Personal The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part VIII: "Friends and Foes"; September 1959 to February 1960 Chapter 20: "No substitute for personal contact"   Dear Jock: Of course I am deeply complimented by your suggestion that, after you and I both shall have laid down the duties incident to our current activities, I might be interested in taking some part in your publishing ventures.1 As you might possibly assume, other publishing firms have suggested something of this kind, but I have not yet turned my mind to the matter in any specific or definite sense.2 It goes without saying that there would be a great personal pleasure in some kind of association with you.3 I think I shall have great difficulty in deciding upon the kind of thing I might be able to do, which I could feel to be both useful to the public and satisfying to myself. Suggestions have been made to me by both weekly magazines and newspaper associates, but I have talked seriously to no one about the subject. I am sure of one thing: for some months,* at least, I shall not want to be tied down rigidly to a "production" task. The next time you come to the States we may have an opportunity to chat about the matter.4 But in the meantime I must tell you again of my gratification that you thought of me in such a connection. Please give my best love to Betsey and, of course, warm regard to yourself. As ever *after next January 1 Ambassador Whitney had written on January 29 (AWF/A) following his meeting with the President earlier in the week in Washington, D.C. He and Eisenhower had discussed the possibility of the President’s publishing his ideas on "subjects of particular importance." Whitney said he had "developed a real enthusiasm" for the project and he hoped that when and if Eisenhower considered the idea he would explore the existing possibilities in the Whitney Communications Corporation (for background see nos. 759 and 799). 2 For background see no. 418. 3 On Eisenhower’s interest in Whitney’s acquisition of the New York Herald Tribune see, for example, nos. 825 and 1026. 4 Eisenhower and Whitney would meet the evening of June 8 at the White House. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To John Hay Whitney, 4 February 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1430. 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/1430.cfm <--PREV Doc #1429  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1431

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