<--PREV Doc #280  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #282 Document #281; August 9, 1957 To Henry Robinson Luce Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries 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 Harry:1 This morning I was talking to Dr. Elson, the pastor of my church.2 He gave me the news about the loss of the tract near American University, but expressed the hope that you would soon find a better one. He remarked that you feel that the time had come for you to have a preliminary talk with Sid Richardson. I am sure that this can easily be arranged, and I shall ask George Allen to handle this part of it because it is just possible that later on you might want a word from me as an additional reinforcement.3 I shall try to get in touch with George this afternoon and ask him to telephone Sid in the next day or two--and then to call you to see whether a definite date cannot be set up between you. With warm regard, As ever P.S. I just talked to George and he says that Sid seems to be in a particularly difficult mood these days. But George will follow through and will let you know in the early part of next week.4 1 Luce was leading the fund-raising campaign to provide facilities for the National Presbyterian Church (see no. 12). 2 The Eisenhowers had joined the National Presbyterian Church in 1953. On Eisenhower's conversation with Elson see Memorandum for Files, August 9, 1957, AWF/D. 3 Eisenhower had expressed interest in this project to Richardson earlier this year (see no. 12). 4 The President would talk to Allen again on August 11. For developments see no. 1247. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Henry Robinson Luce, 9 August 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 281. 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/281.cfm <--PREV Doc #280  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #282

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