<--PREV Doc #719  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #721 Document #720; May 30, 1958 To Christian Archibald Herter 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 10: Restructuring for National Security   Dear Chris: I would be grateful if you would have some staff officer develop either a draft or an outline for my talk in Ottawa--particularly one that will bring out in the open the major problems that are common to both our countries.1 I feel that it would be useless to make one of the regular "hands across the border" talks. It would be better to identify problems of imports and quotas and foreign markets and so on and so on, and to suggest (a) that we certainly hope to be reasonable and tolerant of their views in discussions and (b) the belief that answers can be found that will not be unacceptable to either country. The talk should not be long--20 to 25 minutes is ample. A half hour should be the extreme limit. If you can find someone that could do this, I should like for him to get at it fairly promptly. I like to have a lot of time to ponder over these things, and to correct and edit.2 Thanks. As ever 1 For background on Eisenhower's upcoming visit to the Canadian capital see no. 695. 2 Herter would thank Eisenhower for his guidance and would tell the President that the speech he contemplated was exactly the kind that should be made. Presidential Assistant Gabriel Hauge would also assist in preparing the talk (Herter to Eisenhower, May 31, 1958, AWF/A; and Ann Whitman memorandum, June 26, 1958, AWF/AWD). In his address to the Canadian Parliament on July 9 Eisenhower would discuss the U.S. wheat disposal policies (see no. 24), the imbalance in mutual trade, private U.S. investments in Canada, and Canadian fears regarding future U.S. trade policies (Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1958, pp. 529 - 37). For more on the Canadian visit see State, Foreign Relations, 1958 - 1960, vol. VII, pt. 1, Western European Integration and Security; Canada, pp. 686 - 721. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Christian Archibald Herter, 30 May 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 720. 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/720.cfm <--PREV Doc #719  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #721

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