Presidential Papers, Doc#360 To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 27 September 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #360; September 27, 1957
To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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 5: Little Rock

 

Dear Cabot: Thank you for writing me, in characteristically understanding fashion, regarding the Little Rock situation.1 I realize, with you, the harm that our prestige has suffered, and if you have any ideas as to how we might try to repair the damage, after the situation calms down, I would be most interested.2

I am, of course, gratified by your reaction to the Meany appointment. You can't imagine what a relief it is to hear something pleasant for a change!3

With warm regard, Sincerely

1 For background on the use of federal troops to enforce federal court integration orders in Little Rock, Arkansas, see no. 355. Lodge had praised Eisenhower's "magnificent decision" to intervene and had expressed sympathy for the "anguish" that it had caused the President (Lodge to Eisenhower, Sept. 25, 1957, AWF/A).

2 "More than two-thirds of the world is non-white," Lodge had told Eisenhower, "and the reactions of the representatives of these people is easy to see."

Responding to the President's request, Lodge would suggest that diplomatic representatives in all countries "make a sustained effort to extend hospitality to distinguished colored people." He further recommended that the United States make a loan to India, "a key country with much of the non-white world," and support the concept of multilateral economic aid under the United Nations (Lodge to Eisenhower, Oct. 15, 1957, ibid.).

3 Lodge had told Eisenhower that he had "made a ten strike" by appointing George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, to the United States delegation to the United Nations. "His appointment is not only good politics, but very useful to our foreign relations" (Sept. 25, 1957, ibid.).

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 27 September 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 360. 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/360.cfm

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