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Document
#18; February 1, 1957
To Sherman Adams
Series:
EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series
; Category:
Memorandum
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XVIII - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Part
I: A New Beginning, Old Problems; January 1957 to May 1957
Chapter
1: The Mideast and the Eisenhower Doctrine
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It occurs to me that we have some new officials in executive positions in government who might not be aware of my strict instructions regarding no favoritism for friends or relatives of mine. Will you please see that everyone is acquainted with the policy that this government hires no one except on their own merits--and not on the basis of any connection with the president's family or friends.1
1 On Eisenhower's actions in this regard see, for example, Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, nos. 237, 819, and 940. See also Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, 1953 - 1956 (Garden City, N.Y., 1963), p. 120. The President's memorandum was undoubtedly prompted by the possibility of personnel changes at the beginning of the Second Administration.
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum To Sherman Adams,
1 February 1957.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 18.
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/18.cfm
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