Presidential Papers, Doc#567 To Robert Cutler, 5 February 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #567; February 5, 1958
To Robert Cutler
Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Part IV: Recession and Reform; February 1958 to May 1958
Chapter 8: "To engender confidence"

 

Dear Bobby: It is difficult for me to think of anything that I would refuse to do that would be helpful to you personally, or that has your enthusiastic support as a public service.

But when you ask me to go on a radio program on behalf of Harvard University, you immediately place problems in my lap with other institutions, especially Columbia and Johns Hopkins.1

I could quite easily make an appearance supporting any project of the AAU or some such organization and would be glad to do it.2 But to go on a program for one institution, no matter what its degree of importance, would really create some embarrassment for me.

The actual physical burden of making a tape for radio is nothing; it is only the individual character of the sponsorship that worries me. As ever

1 Cutler, who had written on February 4 (AWF/A), held degrees from Harvard University and was vice-chairman of the overseers committee of Harvard Medical and Dental Schools. The University, he said, was campaigning nationally to raise $82.5 million from alumni, other private citizens, charitable foundations and corporations, all for the benefit of the college (as distinguished from the graduate schools). Cutler noted that the campaign reflected Eisenhower's "views of how a private educational institution should seek to increase its resources to serve the people." Cutler had attached a petition signed by Harvard University executives asking the President to record five or six sentences to be included in the nationwide broadcast. Eisenhower had been president of Columbia University from 1948 - 1950; his brother Milton had been president of The Johns Hopkins University since July 1956.

2 This was the Association of American Universities. On Eisenhower's views regarding support for higher education see nos. 416 and 485.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Robert Cutler, 5 February 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 567. 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/567.cfm

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