<--PREV Doc #891  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #893 Document #892; October 13, 1958 To George Magoffin Humphrey Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part V: Forcing the President's Hand; June 1958 to October 1958 Chapter 13: Quemoy and Matsu   Dear George: There are, of course, two fund raising jobs to be done--the short and long-range one. Your report as to the money raised in Ohio is encouraging.1 Of course I understand about your trip to Brazil, and we will see how things look about Cedar Point and Thomasville a little later.2 Meantime, I am concentrating, in what time I can manage away from official duties, on the chores involved in the trip to the coast.3 More and more things that won’t take "but a minute" seem alarmingly to be creeping into the schedule. With warm regard, As ever 1 Humphrey had attended a stag dinner at the White House on October 6. To Humphrey's mind the real problem for Republicans was putting into effect a fund-raising "program of immediate and drastic action" to "produce results right now, not for the long-term future." Humphrey reported that an additional $50,000 had been collected in Ohio and he suggested that if similar donations would be collected in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Oklahoma, and Texas, "we'd be well on our way to solvency," with funding enough for whatever had to be done before the November 4 election. On the 1958 midterm elections and other GOP fund-raising efforts see nos. 880 and 926. 2 Humphrey had invited Eisenhower to a duck hunt at the Cedar Point Club near Toledo, Ohio (see no. 882). The President would join Humphrey on November 7 and 8 (New York Times, Nov. 8, 1958). Humphrey had also invited Eisenhower to spend the early part of December at his Milestone Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia. For several years the Eisenhowers had visited Humphrey in February, but Humphrey said he might be in Brazil in February 1959. As it turned out, the Eisenhowers would visit Humphrey's Milestone Plantation in February (see no. 1069). Meanwhile, they would vacation in Augusta, Georgia, from November 21 to December 2 (see nos. 949 and 953, and New York Times, Nov. 21 - Dec. 3, 1958). 3 On the President's campaign tour of the West see no. 898. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To George Magoffin Humphrey, 13 October 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 892. 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/892.cfm <--PREV Doc #891  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #893

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