<--PREV Doc #85  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #87 Document #86; March 25, 1957 To Joyce Clyde Hall Series: EM, AWF, Name Series 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 Joyce:1 When I was in Bermuda I mentioned to Harold Macmillan your suggestion of inviting Sir Winston to bring or send to America an exhibition of his paintings.2 The Prime Minister thinks the exhibition is a splendid idea, as do I. However, he feels that it would be wise not to invite Sir Winston to come with his collection because his strength would probably not permit him to make such a trip without adverse effects and to have to refuse on such grounds might be embarrassing to him. I do not know how far your negotiations have gone with Sir Winston, but I do know that you have a good contact through his daughter Sarah.3 You could either quote me to her saying I believe it would be a very nice idea if the collection could be brought over here for exhibition in some of our good galleries or, of course, if you think it necessary I would write Sir Winston a short note to express this fact.4 With warm regard, Sincerely 1 For background on greeting card manufacturer Hall see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 587. 2 On the Bermuda Conference see no. 78. On February 25 Hall had telephoned Eisenhower to relate a conversation he had had with the "top man in British art." At a meeting with the President on March 6 Hall had repeated the proposal (see Telephone conversation, Eisenhower and Hall, AWF/N; Hall to Whitman, Mar. 14, 1957, AWF/N, and President's daily appointments). 3 Sarah Churchill, Lady Audley, was a British actress and painter. Following a telephone conversation with Churchill's daughter, Hall would report that she wanted her father to accompany his paintings. She said she thought "it would be good for him" because "he feels left out of things" (Telephone conversations, Hall and Eisenhower, July 10, 1957, AWF/N). 4 On April 16 Eisenhower would invite Churchill to provide paintings for a travelling exhibition in the United States. "I am certain it would serve in a very definite way to strengthen the friendship between our two countries," he wrote (AWF/I: Churchill). Hall would deliver the letter to Churchill on June 23. In his June 24 reply Churchill would say that he was "much complimented" by Eisenhower's proposal, and that he would make thirty paintings available for the exhibit (AWF/I: Churchill; see also Telephone conversations, Hall and Eisenhower, July 10, 1957, AWF/N). For developments see no. 222. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Joyce Clyde Hall, 25 March 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 86. 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/86.cfm <--PREV Doc #85  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #87

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