<--PREV Doc #50  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #52 Document #51; February 27, 1957 To Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr. Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVIII - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part I: A New Beginning, Old Problems; January 1957 to May 1957 Chapter 1: The Mideast and the Eisenhower Doctrine   Dear Mr. Alcorn: I am delighted to know of the plans you are formulating to conduct a series of regional meetings of Republican Party leaders and workers. It is truly encouraging to know that your basic purpose is to get personally acquainted with local Party leaders and to make certain that the hopes, aspirations and ideals of the Republican Party as expressed by the workers and members in the field will be accurately reflected in all Party plans and programs.1 This direct contact with the individuals who make up the Republican Party throughout the nation will assure that the Voice of the People is truly the voice of the Republican Party. This will be an auspicious start in the all-important task of electing a Republican Senate and a Republican House of Representatives in 1958.2 Your program has my warmhearted endorsement and I wish you and every participant in each conference all possible success. With warm personal regard, Sincerely 1 Recently elected Republican National Committee Chairman Alcorn had addressed the Cabinet on February 8 concerning his hope to use such groups as Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon to strengthen the party organization prior to the 1958 elections (see Cabinet meeting minutes, Feb. 8, 1957, AWF/D). Alcorn had also conferred with Eisenhower for almost an hour on February 27. Plans for six regional fact-finding conferences to launch the 1958 congressional election drive would be announced on March 11 (New York Times, Mar. 12, 1957). 2 In fact, the Democrats would sweep the 1958 congressional elections. For developments see no. 942. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr., 27 February 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 51. 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/51.cfm <--PREV Doc #50  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #52

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