<--PREV Doc #1559  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1561 Document #1560; June 11, 1960 To Richard Milhous Nixon Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part IX: Shattered Dreams; March 1960 to July 1960 Chapter 22: Disaster in Paris   Dear Dick: This morning I had a telephone talk with Oveta Hobby. We discussed a number of things, but she wanted to pass along to you this one urgent recommendation.1 She believes that your forthcoming speech in North Dakota is going to be one of your most important. It will undoubtedly have national coverage and national significance, and cannot be interpreted as a mere effort to elect Governor Davis.2 Her recommendation is that you say nothing to drive away from you the Independents and the switch-voting Democrats. Apparently she has Texas very much in mind when she makes this suggestion; personally I concur in it. Of course I don’t know of anything you have ever said that could be considered calculated to drive these people away from you, but I suppose it comes about through some misapprehension that has been raised for a long time in certain quarters.3 In any event, if I do not get to talk to you on the phone, this note gives me a chance to say Adios.4 With warm regard, As ever 1 For background see no. 1530. On that morning Eisenhower had called the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Hobby (see Ann Whitman memorandum, June 11, 1960, AWF/AWD). 2 On June 20 the Vice-President would deliver a speech in North Dakota. He would support the creation of a United Nations surplus-food pool to feed the world’s hungry, as part of a program to reduce domestic surplus agricultural production. John Edward Davis (B.S. University of North Dakota 1935), governor of North Dakota since 1957, was a senatorial candidate in a special election. On June 28 Davis would lose the election to his Democratic opponent. 3 Nixon had alienated some Texas Republicans by supporting the Administration’s civil rights bill (see Ambrose, Nixon, vol. I, The Education of a Politician, 1913 - 1963, pp. 536 - 37). 4 The President would leave the following day for a two-week trip to the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan (see no. 1529). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Richard Milhous Nixon, 11 June 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1560. 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/1560.cfm <--PREV Doc #1559  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1561

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