Presidential Papers, Doc#87 To Charles Douglas Jackson, 25 March 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #87; March 25, 1957
To Charles Douglas Jackson
Series: EM, AWF, Administration 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 C. D.:1 When I returned from Bermuda, I found awaiting me the beautifully bound volume of LIFE's series on the World's Great Religions that you so kindly sent me. Incidentally, have you made any plans for shifting recently?2

This 1957 Conference was profitable and pleasant, but we missed you and the excitement of the return trip from the 1953 affair.3

With warm regard, As ever

1 Jackson, publisher of Fortune magazine, had been a special assistant to the President from January 1953 until April 1954. For background see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 8.

2 In a letter accompanying the specially bound copy of the book Jackson had written: "If, as the months go by, the Christians seem to be too impossible, you will find in this book the basic information on which to base a shift at any time" (Mar. 21, 1957, AWF/A). Eisenhower may have been referring to the possibility of Jackson's return to a job in the White House (see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 881).

3 On the recently completed Bermuda Conference with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan see no. 78. In early December 1953 Eisenhower had met in Bermuda with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel at his first Western summit conference (see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, nos. 589 and 597). He had taken with him the draft of the "Atoms for Peace" speech he was to deliver before the United Nations on December 8, the day of his departure from Bermuda. After conferring with Churchill, Eisenhower and Dulles agreed to modify two phrases in the speech that the Prime Minister thought would weaken its constructive purposes. With the help of Jackson and AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, Eisenhower and Dulles made the changes during the flight to New York. According to the President, the plane circled New York for half an hour, enough time for his personal secretary Ann Whitman to type the final draft. "It was amusing," Eisenhower wrote, "to see the Secretary of State, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and my principal adviser on 'propaganda' help run the mimeograph machine and do the stapling" (Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, pp. 251 - 52; see also Robert J. Donovan, Confidential Secretary: Ann Whitman's 20 Years with Eisenhower and Rockefeller [New York, 1988], p. 51; for background on the speech see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 598).

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Charles Douglas Jackson, 25 March 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 87. 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/87.cfm

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