<--PREV Doc #311  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #313 Document #312; August 30, 1957 To Percival Flack Brundage 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"   Memorandum for the Director of the Bureau of the Budget: Although I have approved the general policy of holding expenditures to the 1957 level, it is necessary to make an exception in the case of mutual aid.1 Plans in that area should push ahead as required by the world situation.2 1 For background on Eisenhower's concerns regarding the tensions between balancing the budget and maintaining his foreign aid program see nos. 27, 94, and 137. Eisenhower's note followed weeks of congressional fighting over funding for the mutual security bill. On August 27 the Senate had voted to restore $500,900,000 of the funds cut from the bill by the House of Representatives. See no. 273; for developments see no. 319. 2 On aid as an instrument of American foreign policy with Greece see no. 280; with Yugoslavia, see no. 294; and in the Middle East, see no. 301. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Percival Flack Brundage, 30 August 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 312. 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/312.cfm <--PREV Doc #311  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #313

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