<--PREV Doc #592  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #594 Document #593; March 5, 1958 To William Pierce Rogers 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"   Memorandum for the Attorney General: I have always taken a deep personal interest in the appointment of Federal Judges. For this reason I should like that, before you submit a formal nomination for signature, you drop in to confer with me about the matter; if the time element is important, you can call me on the telephone. It has been my habit to look over such nominations very carefully before we have committed ourselves to making them.1 Many thanks. 1 On Eisenhower's ongoing concern with the appointment of federal judges see, for example, nos. 299 and 398; see also Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, nos. 1254 and 1365. According to Presidential Secretary Ann Whitman, Rogers had sent a judicial nomination to the White House without first discussing it with the President. The two men would meet to talk about the issue on March 7 (Ann Whitman memorandum, Mar. 7, 1958, AWF/AWD). For further developments see nos. 1007 and 1052. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To William Pierce Rogers, 5 March 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 593. 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/593.cfm <--PREV Doc #592  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #594

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