<--PREV Doc #95  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #97 Document #96; April 1, 1957 To Arthur Seymour Nevins Series: EM, AWF, Gettysburg 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 2: Foreign Aid   Dear Art: I send you herewith a memorandum from Admiral Strauss giving information on the matter of a school on artificial insemination that Bob Hartley might like to attend.1 If he should like to go to this particular school, you can see from Admiral Strauss' memorandum that he must act promptly in submitting his application. If he does not desire to do so, I should like to have immediate notification so that I can inform the Admiral. Because of the importance of the time factor, I am sending a copy of this part of my letter directly to Bob Hartley. I understand that you are temporarily absent from Gettysburg and my thought is that if Bob Hartley wants to attend, he can notify my office and we will have Admiral Strauss put in the application.2 I have been thinking about the location of the new fitting barn and sales theatre. I talked to Pete about the matter and he is quite clear in his mind that it being a fixed feature on his land, he should be the one to pay for it.3 In this way there can be no possible complication in the event he should want to dispose wholly of his farms. One location I should like to have you consider is one just to the south of the entrance to the Brandon farm. You will recall that there were a number of trees cut out that provide a good view of our house from certain spots on Highway 15. If we should place a good looking structure on that location, I suggest that we might find it would be the best possible shield from the curiosity of people on the highway. You might find, of course, that there are certain objections to using the site for this purpose, or I may be mistaken in my assumption that such a structure would actually serve the additional purpose I suggest. In any event, there is no rush about this particular matter, but you and Hartley could study it over.4 * * * * * Incidentally, I hope you understand that Pete is very anxious that you immediately get the workmen on the job to finish up the top of the old schoolhouse. He seemed to be disappointed that we had not done so in the very beginning, but when I explained that we stopped because of Mamie's feeling in the matter he understood--but again requested that we get at it at once. Since I want to bring Pete there again in a matter of a few weeks, I hope that you can get the men working on it without delay.5 As ever 1 Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Strauss had written on this same day offering to make arrangements for Eisenhower's herdsman to attend the course at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 2 Hartley would enroll in the course, which commenced on April 22 (Strauss to Eisenhower, Apr. 3, and Nevins to Eisenhower, Apr. 8, 1957). See also telephone conversations, Eisenhower and Strauss, April 1, 1957, AWF/D. 3 The show barn and smaller barns, erected at W. Alton ("Pete") Jones's expense, would be located on the Brandon and Redding Farms (see Nevins, Five-Star Farmer, p. 131). For background on Jones's purchase of these farms see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, nos. 1229 and 1297. 4 As it turned out, five large evergreen trees would be planted to shield the farm from curious onlookers (see Nevins, Five-Star Farmer, p. 117). 5 Jones had visited the farm the preceding day. For background on the Pitzer schoolhouse, purchased by Jones in 1955, see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 1576. Apparently Mrs. Eisenhower had stopped progress on the cottage "pending the proposed inspection by John or Barbara or both this weekend" (Nevins to Eisenhower, Apr. 8, 1957). The Eisenhowers and their children and grandchildren would visit the new house on April 13 (President's daily appointments). On April 30 Nevins would report, "The work on the second floor of the school cottage is progressing well. . . ." In July Major John Eisenhower and his wife Barbara would purchase the property and cottage from Jones; see John S. D. Eisenhower, Strictly Personal, (Garden City, N.Y., 1974), pp. 230ff; Nevins, Five-Star Farmer, p. 131; and New York Times, July 8, 9, 21, 1957. All correspondence is in AWF/Gettysburg. According to the President's daily appointments calendar, Jones would not return to Gettysburg until July 5. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Arthur Seymour Nevins, 1 April 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 96. 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/96.cfm <--PREV Doc #95  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #97

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