<--PREV Doc #892  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #894 Document #893; October 14, 1958 To Helen Rogers Reid Series: EM, WHCF, Official File 102-I-2 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 Helen: While I appreciate your courtesy in offering your resignation as a member of the President’s Committee on Government Contracts, I hope very much you will reconsider and stay on the Committee. I know that you are devoted to the furtherance of the Committee’s objectives and I am told that you are one of its most effective and interested members. It would be difficult to find someone else of your knowledge and reputation, and I trust that you will agree to withdraw your suggestion.1 I am sure you are pleased that the negotiations with Jock were finally concluded; I know he will do everything possible to retain the Herald Tribune’s fine standing in the newspaper world.2 With warm personal regard, Sincerely 1 Mrs. Reid had written on October 8. She explained that Eisenhower had appointed her to the Committee on Government Contracts in 1953, when she was chairman of the board of the New York Herald Tribune. As she no longer held the post (see n. 2 below), she felt she should offer to resign. For background on the President's Committee on Government Contracts, established in August 1953 to supervise federal fair employment-policy practices in the performance of government contracts, see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, nos. 382 and 385. On October 13 Rocco C. Siciliano, Assistant to the President for Personnel Management since September 1957 (for background see ibid., no. 360), had reported that Mrs. Reid contributed substantially to the committee and her activities were highly regarded (Siciliano to Whitman; see also memorandum, Whitman to Ferne, n.d.). On October 21 Mrs. Reid would thank Eisenhower for his letter and would agree to continue as a member of the committee. 2 On British Ambassador Whitney's recent acquisition of the New York Herald Tribune see no. 825. Mrs. Reid said she was pleased with the new association with Whitney. The editorial philosophy of the paper, as well as its standards, remained unchanged, Mrs. Reid wrote, and this would encourage a "healthy competition" in New York City. All correspondence is in the same file as the document. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Helen Rogers Reid, 14 October 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 893. 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/893.cfm <--PREV Doc #892  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #894

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