Presidential Papers, Doc#67 Personal To Norman Cousins, 11 March 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

Document #67; March 11, 1957
To Norman Cousins
Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Personal

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. Cousins: I am distressed that Dr. Schweitzer is upset over the "leak" of his last letter to me.1 Won't you please tell him that I understand only too well how such things occur and that, of course, I appreciate his motives in writing as he did.

My admiration and respect for Dr. Schweitzer and his work are unbounded, and I hope you will be good enough to convey my sentiments to him when next you write to him.2

With warm regard, Sincerely

1 For background see no. 28. Cousins had told Eisenhower that Dr. Schweitzer was "saddened and discouraged" that French officials had not followed his instructions regarding the transmission of his letter and had released its contents in Paris without his permission. Dr. Schweitzer was "especially unhappy," Cousins wrote, "that he may have lost standing in your eyes as a result of a seeming presumption" (Cousins to Eisenhower, Mar. 6, 1957, AWF/N).

2Cousins had asked Eisenhower's permission to tell Dr. Schweitzer that the President's respect for him was "unimpaired, despite the matter of the Algerian letter."

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Norman Cousins, 11 March 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 67. 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/67.cfm

 


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