<--PREV Doc #221  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #223 Document #222; June 28, 1957 To Winston Spencer Churchill Series: EM, AWF, International Series: Churchill The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVIII - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part II: Civil Rights; June 1957 to September 1957 Chapter 3: "I am astonished and chagrined"   Dear Winston: Thank you so much for your note of the twenty-fourth. I am tremendously pleased that you have agreed to the idea of an exhibition of your paintings in the United States.1 Without question the showing will be a great success, and will help to strengthen the close ties of friendship that exist between the peoples of our two countries. Quite selfishly, I am even more delighted by your offer to give me one of your works.2 I have long cherished a desire to own an original Churchill--and I have never quite found the courage to ask you. I understand that you invited me to write a bit of a foreword to the brochure that will be used in connection with the paintings.3 While I am probably little qualified for the task, it will be a great honor to make an attempt. As ever 1 For background on the project, proposed to the former British prime minister in a hand-delivered letter from Eisenhower, see no. 86. In his note Churchill had agreed to make thirty paintings available for the exhibit (AWF/I: Churchill). 2 Churchill had offered Eisenhower any painting in the selection as "a token of my continuing respect and affection." See also Telephone conversation, June 27, 1957, AWF/I: Churchill; and [Bernau] memorandum, July 1, 1957, Dulles Papers, Telephone Conversations. 3 Eisenhower had learned of Churchill's request in a telephone conversation the preceding day (Ann Whitman memorandum, June 27, 1957, AWF/I: Churchill; see also New York Times, Mar. 7, 1958). For developments see no. 414. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Winston Spencer Churchill, 28 June 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 222. 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/222.cfm <--PREV Doc #221  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #223

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