Presidential Papers, Doc#269 To Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, Sr., 5 August 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #269; August 5, 1957
To Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, Sr.
Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVIII - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Part II: Civil Rights; June 1957 to September 1957
Chapter 4: "Logic and reason must operate gradually"

 

Dear Arthur: Attached is a letter from Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times.1 Would you let me have a memorandum on which I could base a reply?

I like Mr. Sulzberger; he was one of the Columbia Trustees when I was at that University. We have remained friends through the years. I do not mean to be "pressuring" but I note his statement that the Post Office Department did issue a memorial stamp to commemorate Pulitzer's hundredth birthday.2 As ever

1 New York Times publisher Sulzberger had written the President on August 1 (WHCF/OF 7-J) to request a stamp to honor the hundredth anniversary of the birth of his father-in-law, newspaper publisher Adolph Shelby Ochs. Sulzberger called the President's attention to The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, "presently being issued by Princeton University and which will consist when finished of some fifty-six volumes." The publication was dedicated to Mr. Ochs. Eisenhower had previously appealed to Summerfield on Sulzberger's behalf for a commemorative stamp to honor the Bicentennial of Columbia University; he had also interceded on behalf of a series of wildlife stamps (see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, nos. 67 and 1587).

2 The U.S. Postal Service had issued the three-cent Joseph Pulitzer Commemorative Stamp in 1947 (United States Postal Service, Postage Stamps of the United States [Washington, D.C., 1970], pp. 115 - 16).

Eisenhower would respond to Sulzberger on August 6 (WHCF/OF 7-J). Noting that Sulzberger was scheduled to meet with the Postmaster General on the following day, he assured him that the issue of an Adolph Ochs commemorative would be "given the utmost consideration by the Stamp Advisory Committee at its next meeting. I, of course, hope that their action will be favorable." A stamp honoring Ochs would, however, not be issued.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, Sr., 5 August 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 269. 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/269.cfm

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