Presidential Papers, Doc#1750 Personal To Earl Marvin Price, 31 December 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #1750; December 31, 1960
To Earl Marvin Price
Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series ; Category: Personal
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XXI - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Part X: Ending an Era; August 1960 to January 1961
Chapter 25: Farewells and Warnings

 

Dear Earl: Thank you for your letter--it was nice to hear from you again.1

Of course I have made mistakes, many of them. But I have tried always to do what I thought at the time was in the national good. And, I might add, I think the middle-of-the-road is still the only constructive policy for dealing with human concerns of vast proportions. Balance in the whole is far more important than pressure in any part.2

Happy New Year. As ever

1 Eisenhower’s West Point classmate owned Earl M. Price and Company, an office supplies firm, in Bakersfield, California (for further background see Chandler, War Years, no. 2059). He had written that he and his family had felt as proud of Eisenhower’s "beautiful sense of modesty" as they had of his many successes (Dec. 27, WHCF/PPF 175).

2 Price had criticized the President for having been "a wee bit too careful not to rock the boat," and added that he thought Eisenhower had taken the middle of the road when an "audacious rightward turn would have been better."

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Earl Marvin Price, 31 December 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1750. 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/1750.cfm

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