<--PREV Doc #1560  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1562 Document #1561; June 11, 1960 To Henry Robinson Luce Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Personal 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 Harry: I am truly grateful for your very fine letter of the tenth. You have not only cleared up a number of misapprehensions that I had begun to develop, but you also reassured me immeasurably.1 If time permitted I would write you a long letter because you have raised several subjects that are most important to me.2 One of them, as you will guess, is my feeling that Nelson is being too much influenced by a man who has no capacity for giving sensible advice.3 When I get back from this Far East trip, maybe we can have a personal meeting.4 I should like it very much. Again my thanks. With warm personal regard, As ever 1 Time-Life publisher Luce’s June 10 letter (AWF/N) had been forwarded to Time’s Washington bureau with instructions that it be delivered to the White House the following morning (see Mohr to Whitman, n.d., AWF/N, Luce Corr.). 2 Luce had written about Eisenhower’s trip to India (see no. 1389), a meeting at the National Presbyterian Center in Buffalo, and "the very involved subject of Emmet Hughes, his book, his Rockefelleritis, etc." 3 Eisenhower was referring to Emmet John Hughes, former presidential assistant and speechwriter. In March Hughes had been appointed senior adviser on public policy and public relations to the Rockefeller family (New York Times, Mar. 11, 1960). America the Vincible (New York, 1959), Hughes’s call for an American international policy based on "realism," had appeared in 1959. According to one critic, the book was a "consistent attack on the chief policies of the late John Foster Dulles," and suggested a "massive disagreement endemic in Administration circles almost from the Presidential inauguration of January, 1953" (New York Times, Nov. 8, 1959). Luce had told Eisenhower that America the Vincible had been written without his approval: "He asked for my criticism of the manuscript and I sent him quite a bag full. But to no effect." 4 On Eisenhower’s Far East trip see no. 1529. On this same day Eisenhower would write to Life publisher C. D. Jackson regarding his correspondence with Luce: "Frankly I had come to feel that the ways of Life and me had diverged quite markedly. His letter has got me back on the rails" (June 11, 1960, AWF/N). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Henry Robinson Luce, 11 June 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1561. 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/1561.cfm <--PREV Doc #1560  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1562

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