<--PREV Doc #594  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #596 Document #595; March 7, 1958 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter 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 Foster: If we are to continue this Bulganin-Eisenhower squirrel cage exercise, it seems to me that we should attempt, at the very least, such divergencies in pace and running style as may partially prevent the whole thing from becoming completely monotonous.1 I am not ready to suggest any completely new ideas but I am awfully weary of reading, as I do in his latest effusion, exactly the same things that he has put in his last two or three immediately preceding messages.2 Of course I am ready to admit also that our replies are necessarily hammering away on exactly the same keys. Maybe we can merely change the timing of replies, or their tones. Possibly we can ignore some of their arguments or do anything else that may have the appearance of something new. I am struck by the fact that when we establish troops or planes in France or any other country they become immediately "foreign bases." But when the Soviets station troops in Eastern Europe they are simply protecting the "internal rights" of the victim countries.3 But possibly you may have some other ideas.4 As ever 1 For background on the correspondence between Eisenhower and the Soviet leader see no. 574; see also Ann Whitman memorandum, Mar. 7, 1958, AWF/AWD. 2 Bulganin had written Eisenhower again (March 3) about a summit conference (see U.S. Department of State Bulletin 38, no. 982 [April 21, 1958], 648 - 52). His earlier letters had been on December 10, 1957, January 8, and February 1, 1958. 3 Referring to topics for consideration at the summit, Bulganin had said that the Soviet Union was prepared to discuss "the liquidation of alien military bases on foreign territories." 4 We have no record of a response by Dulles. For more on the summit proposals and Eisenhower's reply to Bulganin's letter see nos. 611 and 619. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 7 March 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 595. 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/595.cfm <--PREV Doc #594  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #596

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