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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of

The

iaries of

WIGHT

D.

EISENHOWER

1953-1961

University Publications

of

America


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RESEARCH COLLECTIONS

IN

AMERICAN

POLITICS

Microforms from Major Archival

and

Manuscripts Collections

William Leuchtenburg

General Editor

THE

DIARIES

OF

DWIGHTD.

EISENHOWER,

1953-1961

Microfilmed from the holdings of

the

Dwight

D.

Eisenhower Library

Project

Coordinator

Robert Lester

Guide compiled

by

Douglas

D.

Newman

Introduction by

Louis GalambosandDaunvan Ee

A

microfilm project

of

UNIVERSITY

PUBLICATIONS

OFAMERICA, INC.

44North Market StreetFrederick, Maryland 21701


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Library ofCongress

Cataloging-in-Publication

Data

Eisenhower,DwightD.(DwightDavid) 1890-1969.

The

diaries

of

Dwight

D.

Eisenhower, 1953-1969

[microform].

(Researchcollections in American politics)

"Microfilmed

from

theholdingsof theDwightD.

Eisenhower

Library."

Accompanied by a printed reel guide, compiled

by

DouglasD.Newman.

Includes index.

I.Eisenhower,

DwightD.

(DwightDavid),1890-

-

1969--Diaries.

2.

Presidents-United

States--

Diaries.3.UnitedStates-Politicsandgovernment-

1953-1961. I.Lester Robert.II.Newman, Douglas

D.,

1960- .III. Series.

[E836]

973.921'09Z4

87-10498

ISBN 0-89093-889-X (microfilm)

Copyright

1986 by

John

S. D.

Eisenhower.

All rights reserved.

ISBN 0-89093-889-X.


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TABLE

OFCONTENTS

Introduction

v

Note

on Sources ix

Scope

and

Content Note

ix

Acronyms xi

ReelIndex

1

Subject Index 53


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INTRODUCTION

What did the President know, andwhen did heknow it? Theanswers tothese questions have

been of interest no tonly tothose concerned with Richard Nixon's culpability during Watergateand

RonaldReagan's role

in the

Iran-Contrascandal,

but

also

to

every student

of the

modern presidency.

Th e Dwight D. Eisenhower Diaries series of Eisenhower's presidential papers (the Ann Whitman

File")

is the most complete record available of any President's actions, andthis microfilm edition

presents the

currently available material

in the

Diaries series.

The 28,000 pages of letters,

memoranda, reports,anddiary entries enable researcherstotrace indetail President Eisenhower's

role

in thedecision-making processand tounderstandthe informationand advice thatwasavailableto

him when he acted. While Th e Diaries of Dwight D . Eisenhower, 1953-1961is not the complete

recordof theEisenhower administration, itfocusessosharply on Eisenhower himself that historians

andpoliticalscientistscan for thefirst time properly assess Ike's performanceas leaderof hispolitical

party,thenation,and theFree World.

The Eisenhower Diaries file was createdand maintained by Ann C.Whitman, Eisenhower's

personal secretary

and the

principal

record keeper

for the

Oval Office.

Th e

Diaries were part

of

Eisenhower's

personal

papers, which were kept separately from the White House Official Files

maintained

by the

permanent White House staff.

The

entire

Ann

Whitman File,

now

located

in the

Eisenhower Presidential Library inAbilene, Kansas, contains approximatelyaquarterof a million

pages of documents and records. The Eisenhower Diaries series, which accounts for about 11

percent

of

that

total,

is

basically

a

distillation

of all of

Eisenhower's records. Retrieving information

was

madeeasierby the peculiar arrangementof thefiles-unliketheother major Whitman File series,and

theWhite House Central Files, theEisenhower Diary serieswasarranged chronologically rather than

bynameor subject. Thus, theEisenhower Diaries file servesa s arunning,day-by-day accountof

Eisenhower's actions from 1953

until

1961. It was apparently designed toserve as the basis for

historical accounts

both

during

and

after Eisenhower's presidency,

and in

fact

it

provided

the

frameworkfor Eisenhower'stwovolumeso fmemoirs Mandatefor

Change

and Waging Peace). Since

that

time the Eisenhower Diariesseries ha sbecomearich source forhistorians, biographers,an d

politicalscientists

who are

determined

to

reassess

the man and his

era. Taken

as a

whole,theirwork

has

resulted

in a

majorrehabilitation

of

Eisenhower's reputation.

Th e

Eisenhower Diaries series contains

a

number

of

different kinds

of

records arranged

chronologically by monthand byyear.Thenatureof therecords kept changing overthecourseof the

Eisenhower administration,

and the

titles

of the

file folders

fo r

each month varied considerably over

the eight-year span. There isonly onefolder, however, that isarranged by subject: theBricker

Amendment folder, which is filed with material from March-April 1954, contains memorandaand

communications dating from April 1953 toFebruary 1957.Thedocuments inthis file overlapthose

arranged chronologically throughout

the

rest

of the

collection.

WithintheEisenhower Diaries is asubsection containing documents with which Eisenhowerwas

personally

involved

asdrafteror

dictator.

These

folders

were

given

varioustitles: DDE Diary ; DDE

Personal Diary ;o r DDE Dictation. Other folders containing these categoriesofmaterialarelabeled,

"Diary-Copies

of DDEPersonal. Within these variously titled foldersarediary entries that Eisenhower

dictated to AnnWhitmanon an occasional basis throughout hispresidency. Although Eisenhower

revealedlittle of his innermost self inthese entries,he did use hisdiary toexpresshisviewson the

publiceventsandpersonalitiesof hisday. Inthis he wasfollowingthe practicehe hadestablishedas


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SupremeAllied Commander during WorldWar II,whenhedictated journal entriesinordertoclarifyhis

ownthinkingand tofleshout thehistoricalrecord.TheWorldWar IIdiariesprovedessentialwhenhe

wrotehis

wartime memoir

Crusade in Europe;

doubtless

he

wished

to

have

a

similar personal record

to

relyupon whenitcame timetowritethe historyof hispresidency.

The Diary/Dictation folders contain letters aswell as journal entries. These letters, which

Eisenhower

personally dictated,

are to

friends, family members, public figures,

and

members

of his

administration.

Letterswritten to Eisenhower are,as a

rule,missing;

often such

incoming

documents

maybelocatedinsuch other seriesof theWhitman Fileas theAdministration series,the Dulles-Herter

series,

and the

Name series. Even without incoming letters, however, Eisenhower's

corre-

spondence showshim at hisbest:a writerofclear, concise prosewhocouldput apersonal touch into

a

formal directive

or

acknowledgement.

As

John Kenneth Galbraith

ha s

noted,

his

letters

were

firmly

andunpretentiously literate," and their

publication

here,for thefirst

time,

willdomuchtoerasethe

lingering misconception of Ike as a

fuzzy,

fumbling incompetent.

One

sectionof theEisenhower Diaries that shouldnot beoverlookedis the "Diary-Copiesof DDE

Personal file. This file contains

a

number

of

items from

the

first Eisenhower administration that

are not

available elsewhere. Among these items arehitherto unpublished TopSecret diary entries con-

cerningthe important Bermuda ConferenceofDecember 1953. Alsoofinterest aresome draftsof

other diary entries, with extensive emendations that Eisenhower added

by

hand,

and

some hand-

written diary entries.

Another particularly valuable subseries

in the

Eisenhower Diaries contains records

of

Eisenhower's

telephone conversations.

The

President's phone calls were monitored

by Ann

Whitman,who took notes and subsequently made records of what she heard. These are not

complete transcripts, but thesenseof theconversationisgiven, oftenatsome length.The notesare

particularly rewarding because they

are

informal

an d

immediate, showing Eisenhower receiving

information andopinions, speculating out loudon possible coursesof action, and directing that

certain things be done before an ypaperworkwas generated. Here, too, areEisenhower's candid

assessments ofWashington

personalities

andglimpses ofbehind-the-scenes maneuvers that never

made it into the newspapers. In one March 1954 conversation, for example, Eisenhower told

Secretary

of the

Treasury George Humphrey

to get

Texas oilman

Sid

Richardson

to

press Senate

Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson

to

support administration measures. Eisenhower pointed

out

that

Richardson was really

the

angel

who had

supported Johnson financially,

and

that Richardson could

get

Johnson "into

[the]

right channel"by

threatening

to

support

apoliticalrivalin a

future contest

for

Johnson's Senate seat. Therearealso many conversations concerning foreign policy and national

security affairs.

Eisenhower'sleadership style

was

characterized

by his

skillful

use of

meetings

and

conferences

to

elicit the viewsof hissubordinates andpeers,and toengenderaconsensus onceth edecision had

been made. Historiansare fortunate that Andrew J. Goodpaster (and his

colleague,

John S.D.

Eisenhower)

carefully andthoughtfully recordedthe proceedings in a large number ofthese very

important meetings. These records,

often

termed

"Memcons," are

found

in

files with titles

of

Goodpaster ; Staff Notes ; Memo on Appointments ; Diary

StaffMemos";

and Miscellaneous.

There a re a fewMemcons foundinother filesas well, including the DDEDiary folders.

Therichnessof

these records

is

evident

at

first glance.

A

typical Memorandum

of

Conference with

the

President, dated January

13,

1956, recorded

a

meeting

of

Eisenhower,

th e

chairman

of the

Atomic Energy Commission,

and the

secretaries

of

State, Defense,

and the

Treasury. They discuss

the allocation of uranium for the purpose of developing civilian power plants--a variation on

Eisenhower's Atoms

for

Peace theme. Goodpaster's notes show

the

group considering

the

military,

diplomatic,

and

public relations aspects

of the

President's decision

to

stimulate

the

atomic power

industry.

Th e

memorandum also describes

the

expansion

of the

concept

to

cover shipment

of

both

atomic fuel and nuclear weapons overseastoAmerican

allies.

Another Goodpaster memorandum,

dated two months later, describesEisenhower

pushing

hisJoint Chiefs of

Staff

away fromtheir

customarily parochial military viewpoint

in

their consideration

of

problems involving resource alloca-

tions. Seekingto winJCS,andlater, congressional supportfor hisforeignaidprogram, Eisenhoweris

shown

persuading themilitary leaderstoagree upona formal statement that would enablethe United

States

to take forceful,yetnonmilitary,actionin theMiddle East.


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The StaffNotes/Memos-Miscellaneousfiles also contain awide varietyof

staff

memorandaand

reports,

including

minutes ofcabinet meetings andconferences with legislative leaders (keptby L.

ArthurMinnich); State Department memcons; records of briefings held before presidential press

conferences;

draft messages; summaries of congressional mail addressed to the President;

appointment schedules; andother incoming correspondence and

staff

memoranda.For theperiod

1953-55many

of

these records

may be

found

in

folders bearing

the

title,

DDE Diary.

One of themost difficult jobs that anyPresident has isthat ofkeeping control overthe many

activitiesof theexecutive branch ofgovernment.In thesecond halfof hisadministration, Eisenhower

was

aided by regular, concise summaries ofagency activity prepared by the White House

Staff

ResearchGroup. Each

o f

these summaries, called Toner Notes

after

Albert

P.

Toner, head

of the

group, deals with anumber ofsubjects. Also, each subject bears aseparate security classification,

fromUnclassified an d Administrative Confidential to TopSecret. Fortunately, someofthese notes

havebeen declassified and appear in this edition of theEisenhower Diaries. These staff notes,

including

special, single subject supplements, often bear President Eisenhower's initials and

handwritten comments. They

a re

found

in

files variously labeled Diary

Staff Memos";"Staff

Memos";

and Toner Notes.

A

smaller,buteven moreintriguingset offiles comprises intelligencebriefingscompiled fromState

Department

a nd Central Intelligence Agency notesbyGoodpasterandJohn Eisenhower. Here, too,a

large number

of

items have been withdrawn,

bu t

those remaining deal with topics

of

great importance

and

sensitivity. These memoranda

are

given such titles

as

Synopsis

of

State

and

Intelligence material

reportedto thePresident, and NoteforRecord-ReIntelligenceandState Department Items. They

deal witha wide varietyofsubjects relatingtoforeignaffairsandoverseaspoliticaldevelopments.The

intelligence items provide a fascinating glimpse into the state of mind of White House, State

Department,

and CIA

decision makers

and

advisors.

The

files containing these items

are

entitled

Goodpaster Briefings or,later, Briefings, andbegininJune 1958.

Twoother setsoffiles givea good indicationof thecourseo fPresidentEisenhower'sday and the

daily flowofpaper andpeople through theOval Office. From1956through1958AnnWhitman kept

separate

Signatures folders. These fileslist,

on a

daily basis,

the

various letters, proclamations,

and

otherdocuments that Eisenhowerwas tosignorinitial.On anygivenday thePresident wouldaffixhis

signature to ten orfifteen listed items (aside from legislative enactments), andthese lists providea

good

indication

of thecorrespondence towhich Eisenhower gaveh ispersonal attention. Anotherset

of records, kept

in

separate folders from June 1957

until

January 1961, consists

of

Eisenhower's

schedules

and

appointments books. These very detailed logs, containing both

on- and

off-the-record

appointments, areusefulfordetermining the natureand amountofpresidential activity. They show,in

a

succinct

an d

revealing form,

the

sources

o f

information Eisenhower received,

and the

identity

of

those men with whom Eisenhower felt he had to cultivate good relations. Th e first

reel

of this

collection contains detailed appointment calendars and itineraries covering the 1952 campaign,

Eisenhower's post-electiontriptoKorea,hisschedulesas President-elect,and thefirst weeksof his

presidency.

It

would be hard to overestimate theresearch value of The

Diaries

of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Contained inthese 28,000 pagesa redocuments that reveal,as noother source can,thecomplexity

of the man and his

impact upon

a

pivotal

era in

American history. Indeed,

it

would

not be too

much

to

saythat

the

history

of the

1950scannot

be

written without consulting

the

Eisenhower Diaries.

Th e Eisenhower Diaries collection makes itpossible, for thefirst time, toexplorethecarefully

hidden private sideof avery

public

man. Eisenhower's warmthandgregarious nature come through

clearly

in hismany private letters tosuch friends as Edward Swede Hazlett andGeneral

Alfred

Gruenther. Also revealed is afascinating structure of relationships among the members of the

Eisenhower

family.

No t

only

are the

letters

to his

brothers Milton

and

Edgar filled with thoughtful

comments

on

currentpublicaffairs,

but the

fact that

he was

communicating within

his own

family

enabledIke tovent safelyhis feelingsofangerandfrustration.

Eisenhower's hidden side isalso revealedinmanyof hisletterstopublicfiguresand world leaders.

Hiscorrespondence with (and about) Winston Churchill isexceptionally interesting, especially when

contrasted withthecandid remarks thatthe Presidentwas makingin hisdiaryat thesame time.In one

journal entry,forexample,h edescribedtheBritish prime ministeras "acurious mixtureofbelligerence


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and ofcaution, sometimes amounting almost to hysterical fear (Diary, December10,1953). In an

EyesOnly-Top Secret cable sent tendays later, however, Eisenhower patiently andrespectfully

discussed the issues Churchill hadraised concerning Egypt, the Middle East,and the European

Defense Community, concludingthat it was quite necessary that there be the clearest kind of

understanding between

us if we are at one and the

same time

to

operate together

in

some

of

these

critical situations abroad

and

still

be

able

to

withstand

any

kind

of

political problem

and

criticism that

can

arisein ourrespective countries.

Virtuallyevery topic

of

interest concerning Eisenhower's presidency,

and the

decade

of the

1950s,

iscoveredinthisresearchcollection.Thedocuments

deal

at

length

withthemajor

political

and

diplomatic issues that Eisenhowerhad tocope with; they also provide dataonsocialandeconomic

trends that the executive departmentsandWhite Housestaffmembers felt should be brought to the

President's attention. Researcherswill find muchnewmaterialon

McCarthyism

andEisenhower's

responseto it; theoriginsoffederal

civil

rights-desegregation policy; thedevelopmentof the New

Look defensepolicies;themodification andinstitutionalization ofRoosevelt'sNewDeal programs;

Eisenhower's eight-year battle to balance the budget; and his unceasing

efforts

to remold the

Republican Party in his own, moderate image. There is also awealth of detailed information

concerning such foreign policy topics

as the

ending

of the

Korean War; crises

in Indochina,the

Middle

East,

the

Formosa Straits,

and

Berlin; disarmament;

the

cold

war and

relations with

the

Soviets;

and

repercussions stemming

from

thecollapseof

colonialism.

An

additional

benefit conferred upon researchersis the inclusion of a large number ofrecently

declassified documents, includingdiary entriesnotincluded in RobertFerrell's admirable letterpress

edition of The Eisenhower Diaries.A number ofitems concerning nuclear weapons, the pre- and

post-Sputnik space program,andAmerica's relations withherallies are

published

herefor thefirst

time. Even researchers who have already exploited this collection inAbilene will profit froma

reexamination

of

this microfilm edition.

At the

beginning

of

most folders

are

withdrawal sheets that list

the

classified

and

previously classified items

in

that file. These withdrawal sheets indicate when items

werereleased, declassified, or sanitized (i.e., released with still-classified portions deleted).

Readers

should

be

warned, however;

the

process

can

work

in

reverse,

and

some items previously released

have been

reclassified

and are

thus unavailable

here.

Notwithstanding these few remaining problems of classification and access, the Eisenhower

Diaries have already playedapivotal rolein anongoing reassessmentof theEisenhower presidency.

Scholars like Fred

Greenstein,Robert

Griffith, Blanche Wiesen Cook,and Stephen Ambrose haveall

shown that Eisenhower

was a

much more able

and forceful

President than

a

previous generation

of

scholars

had

supposed.

The

documentary record

now

made widely available

in The

D iaries

ofDwight

D. Eisenhower,

1953-1961 alsoha senabled theseandother writerstocorrectthemisimpression that

the decade of the 1950s was a placid, uneventful period no tworth examination and irrelevant to

present-dayconcerns. Fromthe tortuous peacemaking processin Koreato the U-2 spyplane crisisin

1960, the Eisenhower administration wa sbesetby anumber ofproblems whose repercussions still

affect

present-daylife.This

editionof

documents~an innerhistory

of adecade-shouldbe one of the

mostvaluable research collections published inmodern American history.

Louis Galambos Daunvan Ee

Professor

o fHistory Executive Editor

TheJohns Hopkins University ThePapersofDwight David Eisenhower


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NOTE ON

SOURCES

Thedocuments inthis collection arefromth eDiaries series of the AnnWhitman File

from

The

Papers

of

Dwight

D.

Eisenhower

as

President

of the

United States,Dwight

D.

Eisenhower

Library,

Abilene, Kansas.

SCOPE

AND

CONTENT

NOTE

The Diaries of Dwight D. Eisenhower,

1953-1961 consists

of a

varied body

of

manuscripts that

contains several categoriesofmaterial, arranged chronologically by monthand year.

An

estimated 5,200 pages

of

diary entries

and

dictated correspondence

is

filed

in

folders entitled

DDE Diary, Personal

Diary," or

DDE Dictation.

The

bulk

of the

actual diary entriesfalls into

the

years

1953 to 1956.

Another prominent category ismemosoftelephone conversations with themore detailed con-

versationsdatingpriorto 1959.

Thelargest bodyofmaterialis the

official

White House

staff

memoranda, reports, correspondence,

andsummaries ofcongressional correspondence. These typesofdocuments arefound infolders

labeled

Miscellaneous,

"Goodpaster,"

Staff Memos, and,

after

1957, Staff Notes. Herein

are the

"memcons"preparedbyAndrew GoodpasterandJohn Eisenhower.

From 1956 to the end of the administration, theuser will find the Toner Notes, so named for

AlbertP.Toner who, with fellow White House Research Group member ChristopherH.Russell, daily

preparedtwo-tothree-page summaries of theactivitiesand programsof thevarious executivebranch

agencies.

Beginning

in1958,thePresident also received intelligence briefings prepared byAndrew

Goodpaster

and

John Eisenhower.

These categories of material are

divided

into folders that are arranged chronologically. The

contentsofeach folderarearrangedinreverse chronological order. Each folder containsa document

withdrawal sheet. The document withdrawal sheet itemizes the documents that have been

removed-withdrawn-from

the folder dueeither to national security or privacy restrictionsby the

Eisenhower Library.UPA hasmicrofilmed,in itsentirety,all of thematerial currently

available.


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ACRONYMS

ABMA Army Ballistic Missile Agency

AEC Atomic Energy Commission

AMVETS American Veterans

CAB

Civil Aeronautics Board

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CIO Congressof Industrial Organizations

EDC

European Defense Community

FEPC FairEmploymentPractices Commission

FOA

Foreign Operations Administration

HEW (Department

of)

Health, Education

andWelfare

ICA International Cooperation Administration

NAACP National Associationfor theAdvancementofColored People

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

OASI Old Age and Survivors Insurance

POWs Prisoners

of War

REA

Rural

Electrification

Administration

SEATO Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

UAW

United Auto Workers

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

USAF

United StatesAirForce

USIA

United States Information Agency

VFW

Veterans

of

Foreign Wars


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REEL

INDEX

The

frame number

on the

leftside

of the

page indicates where

a

specific file folder begins. These folde rs

are

typically a chronological grouping of documents. Numbers in parentheses following a file folder title indicate

multiple file folders dealing with the same subject and date, which are numb ered sequentially.

In

the interest of accessing material within folders, this index denotes the major substantive issues, reports,

and key policy matters under the category Major

{Subjects.

Individuals who figured prominently in the filesare

also included

in

this

listing.

References

to the President are noted by his initials, DDE.

Reel1

Box1

0001 Appointments andTrips(1). June5-August 31,1952. 51pp.

Major Subject Meetings with various state delegations.

0052 Appointments andTrips(2).June5-August31, 1952.49pp.

Major Subjects: Campaign trips

to

Colorado,

New

Mexico

and New

Y ork; meetings with various

statedelegations.

0101 Appointments

and

Trips

(1).

Septem ber 1-15, 1952. 69pp.

Major Subjects:Southern tour; Eisenhower Day in Philadelphia.

0170 Appointments

and

Trips (2). September 1-15, 1952. 51pp.

Major Subjects:Campaign trips to Minnesota and

Ohio,

Western tour; Eisenhower D ay in

Indianapolis.

0221 Appointments

and

Trips (3). September 1-15, 1952. 47pp.

Major Subjects:Campaign trips to Indiana,Minnesota, Iowa,Missouri,Kentucky, Ohio, West

Virginia,andVirginia.

0268 Appointments

and

Trips

(1).

September 16-30, 1952.51pp.

Major Subjects: Campaign trips to Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri; Eisenhower Day in

Kansas City, Missouri.

0319 Appointments

and

Trips (2). September 16-30,

1952.

61pp.

Major Subjects:

Campaigntripsto Missouri,

Illinois,

Indiana,Kentucky,Ohio,andWestVirginia;

Eisenhower Day in Wheeling, West Virginia.

0380 Appointments and

Trips

(3). September

16-30,

1952.

63pp.

Major Subjects:

Campaign trips to W est Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Michigan,

Illinois,

Wisconsin,

Montana,Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada,Arizona, NewMexico,

Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Delaware,

New

Jersey,

Connecticut,Rhode

Island,

Massachusetts, and NewYork.

Box 2

0443 Appointmentsand Trips (1). October 1-15, 1952. 51pp.

Major Subjects: Campaigntripsto

Michigan,

Illinois,Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana,

Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma,

Louisiana,Texas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware,

New

Jersey, Connecticut,

Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, South Dakota, and North Dakota.


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Frame

0494 AppointmentsandTrips (2). October1-15,

1952.

62pp.

Major

Subject.

Campaign trip to California.

0556

AppointmentsandTrips (3). October1

-15, 1952.

59pp.

Major Subjects:

CampaigntripstoUtah,Arizona, N ew Mexico,Louisiana,Texas, and Tennessee.

0615 AppointmentsandTrips(1).October 16-November22, 1952. 52pp.

Major Subjects:

Campaign trips to New York,New Jersey, Delaware,New Hampshire,

Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, RhodeIsland,andConnecticut; EisenhowerDay inAlbany-Troy,

New York.

0667 AppointmentsandTrips(2). October 16-November22,1952.49pp.

Major Subjects:Campaign trips to New York, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

0716 AppointmentsandTrips (3). October 16-November22,1952. 43pp.

Major Subjects: Campaign trips to N ew York,

Illinois,

and Georgia.

0759 Schedules. July

6,

1952-January 19,1953.

70pp.

Major

Sub jec t Meetings with various persons and groups.

0829 Appointments andTrips. January

17-February

5,

1953.

18pp.

Major

Subject.

Meetings with various persons and groups.

0847 DDE Diary Index (1). December 29.1952-June14, 1955.40pp.

0887 DDE Diary Index (2). December 29, 1952-June 14, 1955.

52pp.

Box

3

0939 DDE Diary(1).December

1952^July

1953. 54pp.

Major Subjects: Assistance to Korea;DDE comments onnewspaper editorials; DD E comments on

McCarthy; Am erican Assembly; McCa rran and immigrationbills;Everett Dirksen and "middle of the

road"

philosophy;

DDE letter to S wede

Hazlett

regarding problems of president and comments on

McCarthy.

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0001 DDE Diary (2). December1952^July

1953.

50pp.

Major Subjects: Treasury Departmentand finances; DD E philosophicalcomments on government

and Am erican system; individuals suspected of Comm unist leanings; gold standard; Sam Rayburn

and the South West Power Administration; foreign trade; the R osenburg case; miscellaneous

personal correspondence; includes letters addressedtoJohn Foster Dulles, Harry Bullis,and

GeorgeM.Hum phrey.

0051

DDE

Diary (3). December 1952-July 1953.53pp.

Major Subjects:

Defense; Indochina; U.S. economy; U.S. information program;

Bricker

Amendment;soilconservation;civilservice

and

"New Dealers"; atomic energy controls; feeding

of

POWs and Korea.

0104

DDE Diary (4). December 1952-July1953.34pp.

Major Subjects: Numerous appointments; letters

to

Alfred Gruenther, Edgar Eisenhower,

and

others.

0138

DDE

Diary

(1).

August-September 1953.

49pp.

Major

Subjects: Public opinionpollin California regarding DDE performance in office; aid to Korea;

Robert

Taft

and the Taft-HartleyA ct; Emmet Hughes;

MIG

incident; religion and

Al

Sm ith dinners.

0187 DDE Diary (2). August-September

1953.

59pp.

Major Subjects: FEPC; James Byrnes and desegregation; pa rty organization in southern states;

attorney general's responsibility for providing brief to Supreme Court on segregation; President's

Comm ittee on Government Contracts;HarryGuggenheim on South America; miscellaneous

appointment matters; personal correspondence addressed to Richard Nixon,ArthurEisenhower,

James Byrnes, George Humphrey, and others.


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0246

DDE

Diary(1).October

1953.

42pp.

Major Subjects:

Korea; the presidency;SocialSecurity; railroad laborsituation;beef prices;

Norman Thomas meeting with

DDE

discussing

Socialistsin

government, especially

the

State

Department; Uruguay's problems with Argentina.

0288

DDE

Diary (2). October

1953.

43pp.

Major Subjects:

Proposed consultants to the

Joint

Chiefs of Staff; disarmament; George

Humphrey memo on various aspects of the economy; C.D. Jackson speech; food for Germany;

U.S.

v.Aluminum Co. of

America;

Walter

Judd

letter regarding Communist China and the United

Nations; CivilAeronautics Board case; farmers' march

on

Washington; housing; minimum wage;

DepartmentofDefenselobbyingonCapitolHill.

0331

DDE

Diary (3). October

1953.55pp.

Major Subjects:

Comments regarding Greek ambassador and visit of Greek king and queen to

U.S.; praise for Roscoe Drummond; lengthy report on meeting between DDE and Mexican

President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines at Falcon Dam dedication; visit with Winston Churchill; beef prices.

0386 DDEDiary (4). October1953.56pp.

Major

Subjects:

Republican

politics

and comment regarding Harry S Truman; notes for speech to

Future Farmers of America; Lloyd Mashburn resignation

from

Department of Labor; DDE letter to

Arthur

Sulzbergerregarding

political

amnestytoformer Communists disassociating with partyby

time of Berlin Airlift; DDE and Edward J. Bermingham on Barry Goldwater; wooltariff;praise for Earl

Warren.

0442

DDE

Diary

(1).

November

1953.56pp.

Major Subjects:

Information regardingthe excessive number of general

officers

in themilitary

services; racial discrimination

in the

District

of

Columbia; publicrelationsposition

for the

administration;speech drafts; Europeansand theU.S.; medical servicesformilitary dependents

and

retention thereof; Alan

B.

Kline

letter

regarding agriculture price policy; reply

to

criticism

of

businessmen

in the

administration; Congressman Frank

J.

Becker

and the

situation

inItaly.

0498 DDEDiary (2). November1953.48pp.

Major Subjects:DDE suggestions to John Foster Dulles on draft of talk to CIO; Italy; Murray

Chotiner

and thepolitical

situation

in

California;

Philippine

elections;

possibilityof

rapprochement

between U.S. and Juan Peron government in Argentina; policies and programs of various

departments.

0546

DDE

Diary (3). November

1953.44pp.

Major

Subjects:

Resumes of

public opinion

regarding DDE

policies;

Department of Defense and

beef

prices;

other material on farmprices;budget recommendation; DDE on former supporters of

USSR and Communists; DDE on Milton Eisenhower's visit to Latin America; Department of

Defense

press relations and security requirements.

0590

DDEDiary.

October-December

1953.45pp.

Major

Subjects: National Security Training Commission; Howard Cullman on relationship of lung

cancer to cigarette smoking, and also some discussion of possible dock strike; conversation with

Thomas Dewey regarding NiagaraPowerDevelopment and Long Island Railway; conversation with

RoyRoberts regarding

Taft-Hartley

law;

DDE

detailed notes

on Dr.

Robert Oppenheimer case;

conversation with Charles Wilson regarding Spanish and Moroccan military bases of the U.S.;

reports to Congress; military aid to Yugoslavia; Ernest Weir on

politics

in Pennsylvania; the world

situation.

0635

DDE

Diary

(1).

December

1953.57pp.

Major Subjects: DD E

letter

to

Swede

Hazlett

covers Bermuda

Conference,

roles

o f

Britain

a nd

France in the world, DDE's "Atoms for Peace" speech, and idea of donations of nuclear material by

U.S.

and

USSR; DDE's plan

not to run in 1956;

mention

of

other presidential possibilities

in party;

praise

of Milton Eisenhower; memo on national water resources; Bricker Amendment; letters to

CharlesA.

Halleck

andJoseph Martin regarding executive cooperation with legislative branch;

Psychological Warfare Board in Korea; Taft-Hartley Act.

0692

DDE

Diary (2). December

1953.82pp.

Major Subjects:

Use ofagricultural surplus to pay portion of costsof airforce base construction in

Spain;Department of Defense publicity on NIKE; DDE notes on State of the Union message;


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conservation

and

development

of

national water resources; United Nations speech

o f

December

8;

lettertoEmmet Hughes regardingpublicopinionandbuildingofstrong team, contains philosophic

toneof DOE; interview withBela Kornitzerregardingthe Eisenhower family;D DE lettertoJames

Byrnesregarding pending school desegregation cases; outlineo fsuggested programforpeacein

the MiddleEast,signed by A.V. Watkins.

0774

Staff

Meetings

(1).

1953.

52pp.

Major

Subject.

Notes listing andsummarizingtopicsdiscusseda tWhite Housestaffmeetings;

mostlyclassifiedas ofDecember1975.

0826 Staff

Meetings (2).

1953.

63pp.

Major Subject.

Noteslistingandsummarizing

topics

discussedatWhite House staff

meetings;

mostlyclassified

as of

December

1975.

0889

StaffNotes. January-December1953.43pp.

Major Subjects:

Notes

of

legislative leadership

meetings-material

regarding Hawaii,

the St.

Lawrence Seaway, labor legislation, taxes,

rent

controls,

civil

service, submerged lands, drought,

Taft-Hartley, andNiagaraRiverpower.

0932 Phone Calls(1).February-June1953. 31 pp.

Major Subjects:

Information regarding Britain

and

France; Korean peace; droughts; congressional

relations;

the

Rosenberg case;

Bricker

Amendment; Wisconsin

politicsand

Alexander Wiley;

JamesV an Fleet andKorea; excess profits tax; farm programs; Bermuda Conference.

0963 Phone Calls (2). February-June1953.38pp.

Major Subjects:CharlesE.Bohlen appointment; scattered personal itemsandappointments; John

FosterDullesand Herbert Brownell frequent recipientso fphonecalls.

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0032 DDEPersonal Diary(1).January-November1954.47pp.

Major

Subjects: DDE toSwede

Hazlett

regarding Dinosaur

National

Park,foreigntrade;

Indochina

andFrance; Congress,and pay andbenefitsformilitary services;TV

A

and

public

vs.private

power;letter

to

Brigadier General Bradford Chynoweth

n

which

DDE

expounds

on "middleof the

road philosophy, government, Rousseau,

and

intelligentsia; British policy

and

Indochina;

DDE

conversation with Lucius Clay regarding rejuvenating Republican Party; reactionaries,

and his own

political

future.

0079

DDE

Personal Diary (2). January-November1954.34pp.

Major

Subjects:

Indochina

and

France;

David

McDonald

andeconomic

conditions;

remarksby

Arthur

Burns before cabinet; Everett

Dirksen

discussion with DDE; Bricker Amendment; school

construction; wetbacks; Brazilian coffee; notesonrelations with Congress, cabinet, press corps

and

White House Staff; some mention

of

McCarthy.

0113 StaffNotes. January-December

1954.

53pp.

Major

Subjects: Agricultural attaches;AEC-TVA;agriculture; Congress; budget; health insurance;

patronage; Bricker Amendment; employee security; Army-McCarthy.

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0166

Phone Calls (1). July-December 1953. 64pp.

Major Subjects: Berlin Conference; Philippines; Bricker Amendment; JamesVan Fleetand

SyngmanRhee; segregation; cutting military personnel;Dr.RobertOppenheimercase; Joseph

McCarthy; Walter Judd regarding treatmentofPOWs.

0230 Phone

Calls

(2). July-December

1953.51 pp.

Major Subjects: Bermuda Conference;Harry DexterWhite matter; agricultural matters; Senator

ArthurWatkinsand Indian policy; Jordan River project; Winston Churchill; foodforGermany;

Korea, militaryand

political

matters; immigrationbill;mutual securityandEDC.


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0281 Phone Calls

(1).

January-May 1954. 55pp.

Major Subjects:

Indochina; agricultural policy; John Foster Dulles

on

book burning; visit

by

Winston

Churchill;

EDC; tax matters;

Bricker

Amendment; McCarthy and Army-McCarthy hearings;

Republicanpolitics;Dr.

Robert

Oppenheimer case.

0336 Phone Calls (2). January-May 1954. 52pp.

Major Subjects:

George Humphrey

on the

economy;

Echo

Park Dam;

tax

matters; foreign trade

policy;

visit by Winston Churchill; ArthurRadford;Indochina;McCarthy and Army-McCarthy

hearings; Department

of

Defense; shooting

in

House

of

Representatives

by

Puerto Ricans.

0388 Phone Calls (3). January-May 1954. 53pp.

Major Subjects:

Bricker Amendment; Indochina; Ezra

Taft

Benson

on

agriculture; Department

o f

Defense; Syngman Rhee

and

Korea.

0441

DDE Diary

(1). January

1954.

51pp.

Major Subjects:

Bernard Baruchon international affairs;DanThorntononBricker Amendment;o

Charles E. Wilson onarmyreorganization; to William Knowland, Edgar Eisenhower, J. Earl

Schaefer,

Herbert Brownell, and John McCloy on Bricker Amendment; promotion of generals.

0492 DDEDiary (2). January

1954.55pp.

Major Subjects:

Joseph Dodge

on

service

and

resignation; George Humphrey; congressional

expense

allowances;to

Dean

ErwinGriswold and John

Davis

on

Bricker Amendment; Harry

Guggenheim and Latin America; Sigurd Larmon as replacement for C.D.

Jackson;

appointment with

Harley Staggers regarding Communists; Ezra Taft Benson

on

price supports;

to

Milton Eisenhower

regarding economy and

labor;

Lewis Douglas on

Ta ft-Hartley

Act.

0547 DDEDiary(1).February 1954.

61

pp.

Major Subjects:Military

units of escapees from iron curtain countries; to Dean Clarence Manion

regarding resignation from Commission on Intergovernment Relations; economy; Colorado

River

Project;

positionsin

executive departments; executive information

to

Congress.

0608

DDE Diary (2). February 1954. 67pp.

Major Subjects:

Economy; Dillon Anderson, William Knowland,

and

Edgar Eisenhower

on

Bricker

Amendment.

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0675

DDE

Diary

(1).

March

1954.

73pp.

Major Subjects:

Paul Hoffman onJosephMcCarthy; EmmetJohnHughes and the Bureau of the

Budget; Republican Party; Taft-Hartley Act; Joseph McCarthy

and

reactionaries.

0748

DDE

Diary (2). March

1954.

56pp.

Major Subjects:

Governmentpoliciesand railroads; letter to Swede Hazlett regarding Joseph

McCarthy; agricultural price supports; administrativetaxprogramand Indochina.

0804

DDE

Diary (3). March

1954.53pp.

Major Subjects:William

Robinson

on

Senator George,

tax

cuts, Joseph McCarthy

and

John Foster

Dulles;aid to

Ryukyus;

Robert Montgomery on DDE talk and appearance; to William Robinson on

Joseph McCarthy, Bricker Amendment and tax program; to Edgar Eisenhower on Bricker

Amendment.

0857 DDEDiary (4). March 1954. 60pp.

Major Subjects:

John Taber

on

mutual security appropriations;

to

Paul Helms

on

Joseph McCarthy;

treatment

of

government

personnel.

0917 DDEDiary (5). March1954.

37pp.

Major Subject.

Breakfast discussion between

DDE and

Everett Dirksen.

0954 Bricker Amendment (1). April 1953-February 1957. 55pp.

Major

Subject Memoranda

and

other communications between

DDE and

John Foster Dulles, Edgar

Eisenhower, Herbert Brownell, Arthur Dean,andJohn

Bricker.


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0001 Bricker Ame ndment (2). April 1953-February1957.51 pp.

Major

Subject.

Mem oranda and other communications between DDE and John F osterDulles,John

Davis, Edgar Eisenhower,

Franklin

Murphy, Dillon Anderson, Herbert Brownell,

and

John Bricker.

0052 Bricker Amendm ent (3). April1953-February

1957.

55pp.

Major Subject.

Mem oranda

and

other communications between

DDE and

John Foster Dulles, John

Davis, John McCloy,Erwin Griswold, Henry W riston,J. Earl Schaefer, W.B.Smith, andHerbert

Brownell.

0107 Bricker Amendm ent (4). April 1953-February1957.40pp.

Major Sub jec t Memoranda and other communications betwe en DDE and John Foster Dulles,Ezra

TaftBenson,

a nd

John Davis.

0147 DDEDiary(1).

April

1954. 51pp.

Major

Subjects: Stanley High on Eric Johnston and the M iddle East; to Swede H azlett regarding

information between U.S. and the world; Army-McCa rthy hearings; French andIndochina,and

British

policies;

Lewis Strauss regarding Bernard Baruch comm ents on atomic w eapons; Dr. Robert

Oppenheimercase.

0198 DDE Diary

(2). April 1954.

51pp.

Major

Subjects:

Foreign economic

policy;to

R obert Stevens

on

foreign economic policy.

0249 DDEDiary (3). April1954.33pp.

Major Subjects:Nuclear weapons;

to

Robert Stevens regarding R obert McClure

and

psychological

warfare.

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0282 DDE Diary (1). May1954.69pp.

Major Subjects:Letter to George Marshall regarding aid toHolland;B ricker Am endm ent; air policy

review;

independent colleges and athletic conferences; letter to William Donovan; agricultural

foreignrepresentatives; federal expenditures; commandant of W est Point; letter to C harles H.

Percy

regarding foreign economic policy; Tungoiltariff.

0351 DDE Diary (2). May

1954.

64pp.

Major Sub jects: Disclosure of de fense informationtoCongress; comments on Edwin Clark

memorandumonU.S. Pacificpolicy;letterto

Daniel

Reed regarding reciprocal trade.

0415

Phone

Calls

(1).June-December

1954.61 pp.

Major Su bjects: Conversations w ith John FosterDulles,George Humphrey, E zra Taft Benson, and

W. Bedell Smith. Topics include:France and EDC; Indochina; China and the United Nations;

TV

A;

Republican Party; Soviet shooting dow n ofB-29;George H umphrey and foreign policy.

0476 PhoneCalls (2). June-December 1954. 51pp.

Major Su bjects: Conversations with John Foster Dulles, G eorge Hum phrey; Ez ra Taft Benson, and

W. Bedell Smith. Topics include: France

and

EDC; Indochina; Britishpolicies;S outheast Asia;

China and the United Nations; Republican Party; Department of Defense appropriations;

appointments.

0527 Phone Calls

(3).

June-December 1954. 66pp.

Major Subjects:

Conversations with John Foster Dulles, George H umphrey, Ez ra Taft Benson, and

W. Bedell Smith. Topics include: Indochina; British policies;Southeast Asia; Chinaand theUnited

Nations; health program bill;Department of Defense appropriations; agricultural attaches.

0593 DDE Diary(1).June1954.74pp.

Major S ubjects: Personal correspondence; Abilene m useum; Governor Johnston M urray,

Oklahoma, regarding Com munists and Latin Ame rica; meeting with Herbert Hoover and

discussions of investigation of CIA andColorado River project.

0667 DDEDiary (2). June 1954.65pp.

Major Sub jects: Letterto George Whitneyon banking; tariff on watches.


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0732 DDEDiary

(1).

July1954.49pp.

Major Subjects: Personal correspondence; genera l references to policy matters; letters betwe en

DDE and conservative Brigadier General B.G. Chynoweth regarding "middle of the road"

philosophy; information

on

defense savings.

0781

DDE

Diary (2). July

1954.51 pp.

Major Subjects: Personal correspondence; letters between DDE and conservative Brigadier

General B.G. Chynoweth regarding "middle

of the

road" philosophy; China

and the

United Nations.

0832 DDEDiary (3). July1954. 41 pp.

Major Subjects:Personal correspondence; William Knowland on language in mutual secu ritybill;

William Knowlandand foreign policy.

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0873 DD E Diary(1).August1954. 65pp.

Major Subjects:

Politics,

invitations,

greetings,

general

commentsonpolicy;DDEdefenseof

Dulles' diplomacy; letterto Robert M ontgomery discussing

program;

letterto Herbert Brownellon

TVA;lettertoC.D. Jackson on foreign economic policy; various fore ign trade matters.

0938 DD E Diary (2). August 1954. 58pp.

Major Subjects:Personal correspondence; letter

to

William Robinson

on

information distribution,

staffingproblems, and foreign trade.

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0001 DDE Diary (1). September1954.50pp.

Major Subjects:G eneral policy statements; personal comm ents, appointments; letterto J.Earl

Schaefer

on Social Security; Republican

politics;

McCarthy;letterto Gabriel Hauge on right wing

Republicans; program

to

stimulate industrial activity; letter

to

Paul Hoffman

on

General

S ir

Francis

de Guingand's proposal

forU.S.-British

exchanges;

DDE on

Bedell Smith;

DD E on

U.S.

reconnaissance missions.

0051 DDEDiary (2). September1954.38pp.

Major Subjects: Letter to Josip Broz Tito regarding Trieste; Clifford Case for Sena te; W illiam

Knowland; Post Officepaybillveto.

0089 DDEDiary

(1).

October

1954.

39pp.

Major Subjects: Letter to Governor Frank G . Clement regarding TVA ; letter toCliffRoberts on

Citizens for Eisenhower dinner; m emo regarding 1956 budget; letter to Arth ur

Summerf

ield

regarding mail rates; letterto Veterans'Administration regarding Polish veterans in U.S.a nd

veterans' b enefits; letterto Milton Eisenhower regarding George Humphrey a nd world

politics.

0128 DDEDiary (2). October

1954.

47pp.

Major Subjects: Letter to James G. Patton rega rding alleged improper activities in REA ; letter to

Thomas Dewey

on

President

and

politics.

0175 DDEDiary(1).November 1954.

42pp.

Major

Subjects:

Letter to Alfred M. Gruenther regarding France and P ierre

Mendes-France;

W inston Churchill on colonialism; lettertoPrince Bernhard on Committee-Bilderberg meetings

(unofficial private annual ga theringsof prominent U.S.and European citizens to discuss

international affairs); letterto Milton Eisenhoweron George Humphrey; conversation between DDE

and

Merriman Smith

on

politics,budget, President's work,

and

Kenneth Davis's book; comments

on FDR and fou rth term; letterto J.Earl Schaeferoncreation o f jobs; letterto David Bruce regard-

ing

"ambassador-at-large"

duties; signing ofLegions of Merit; William Knowland on foreig n policy;

letter to E zra Taft Benson on purcha se of land.

0217 DDE Diary (2). November 1954. 38pp.

Major Subjects:

Letter to W . Sterling Cole regarding TVA ;letterto Edgar Eisenhower regarding

Supreme Court, H.L. H unt and reactionaries, policies of adm inistration com pared w ith those of


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previous administrations, foreign policy, alleged"bad political advice,"and"controls";excerptof

letter

from

WilliamH . Jackson, and G -2 European Theatre ofOperations.

0255 DDEDiary(1).December 1954. 56pp.

Major Subjects: Letter

to

Oveta Hobby

and

Bureau

of the

Budget

on a id to

states

for the

indigent;

letter to

Amon

Carter regarding Civil Aeronautics Board; letter to Albert Putnam regarding Columbia

Universitytrusteesdinner; bipartisancooperationwithCongress;letter regardingcaptive airmen.

0311 DDE Diary (2). December1954.57pp.

Major

Subjects: LettertoSwede

Hazlett

regarding CIO influence on Democratic Party, Republican

"progressive moderates" and "conservative rightists," cabinet, Robert Anderson, the presidency,

and great men; letter to Cliff Roberts regarding Joseph McCarthy censure; letter to H. Collord on

education; S herman Cooper to the Middle East; letter to Tex McCrary on Jacob Javits a nd

McCarthy

sm; letter to Milton Eisenhower regarding Southeast Asia and Latin America.

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0368 DDEDiary(1).January

1955.

52pp.

Major

Subjects:

Letter

to

Ezra TaftBenson regarding sugar agreements with foreig n countries;

letter

to Joseph Dodge regarding abolition of Foreign Operations Administration; letter to Henry

Luce regarding Formosa crisis; letterto Bureau of the Budget regarding HartwellRe servoir.

0420 DDEDiary (2). January

1955.

35pp.

Major Subjects: LettertoCharles E. Wilson regarding defen se matters; personal correspondence.

0455 Diary-Copiesof DDEPersonal(1).1953-1954.54pp.

Major Subjects:NotesonDavid McDonaldand theeconomy;DDE onCongress, cabinet,and the

press; Robert Taft.

0509 Diary-Copiesof DDEPersonal (2).1953-1954.55pp.

Major Subjects: James Byrnes on segregation; Hoover Comm ission; B ricker Ame ndment; Korea;

Pat

McCarran on immigration; leadership and capitalism; U.S. dependence on raw materials.

0564

Diary-Copies

of DDEPersonal (3).1953-1954.49pp.

Major

Subjects: Joseph McCarthy; foreign trade; DDE meeting with WinstonChurchillin January

1953.

0613

Diary-Copies

of DDEPersonal (1).1955-1956.57pp.

Major S ubjects: Suez crisis; Pa nama conference; Dixon-Yates contract; Packard-Studebaker;

conversation w ith George

M.

Humphrey, James

P.

M itchell,

and

David

J.

McDonald

on

union

matters; conversation with Ov eta Hobby on segregation and politics;successor to

Alfred

M.

GruentheratNATO;politics;Middle East; Harris-FulbrightGasBill.

0670

Diary-Copies

of DDEPersonal (2).1955-1956.51 pp.

Major

Subjects: Disarmament; Civil Aeronautics Board; Board

of

Foreign Intelligence Activities;

economy;ra w m aterials reserve.

0721 DDE PersonalDiary.January 1-November10,1955.39pp.

Major Subjects:Iron and steel in India;miscellaneous appointments; Middle East; numerous

foreign policy items mentioned; Russia; DDE and Ezra Taft Benson regarding agriculture; Russian

nonsalvagable ships (asking Russians

to

sink som enon-salvagableWWII ships); NATO foreign

aid; Joint Chiefs

of Staff;

inflation; floods

in New

England; Milton Eisenhower

and

farm problems;

chronology of DDE heart attack.

0760 Phone Calls

(1). January-July

1955.

56pp.

Major Subjects: Formosa crisis;George M .Humphrey on economic matters; Milton Eisenhower on

economyand

education;

WilliamKnowlandonforeign

policy;

Herbert Brownellon Bricker

Amendment; Supreme Court; segregation; John Foster Dulles on letter to Jawaharlal Nehru.

0816 Phone Calls (2).

January-July 1955.

53pp.

Major S ubjects: Formosa crisis;Middle East; disarmament; Alaska.

0869 Phone Calls (3).January-July 1955. 59pp.

Major Subjects: George M.Humphreyon economic m atters; Formosa crisis; A laska.

0928 DDE Diary (1). February 1955. 51pp.

Major Subjects: Miscellaneous socialand personal am enities and invitations; letterto Dean Rusk


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regarding Rockefeller Foundation and nuclear energy; letter to Edward J. Bermingham regarding

loan to Mexico.

0979 DDEDiary (2). February

1955.51

pp.

Major Subjects: Letterto George Allen regarding Democrats' proposal for cutting taxes;DDE to

HenryCabot Lodge regarding

Ta ft-Hartley

and union shop; ArthurBurns and housing; letter to

Lewis Strauss regarding Middle Eastandenergy needs; Clark

Hill

Dam and HartwellDam;DDE to

Benson regarding sugar program; some mention of Cuba.

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0001 DDE Diary(1). March1955.51 pp.

Major Subjects:Letter to Lew

Douglas

regarding Formosa Straits; appointments to federal

judgeships.

0052

DDE

Diary (2). March 1955.

53pp.

Major Subjects:Formosa; Winston Churchill on Yalta; discussion with [Maryland] Governor

[Theodore R.]McKeldin on mental retardation.

0105 DDE

Diary (3). March

1955. 31 pp.

Major Subjects: Employee Secu rity Program; defense contracts.

0136 DDE

Diary

(1).April 1955.58pp.

Major Subjects: DDE comments onpartisanshipand foreign policy;military training; William Bullitt

letter

to D DE

regarding Formosa, Quemoy,

and

Matsu;

DD E to

Ezra

Taft

Benson regarding acreage

controls; D DE to George M . Humphrey regarding gold; DDE toPhilipReed regarding reciprocal

trade and Chief Joseph Dam; DDE to Charles E. Wilson regarding automotive and related

procurement.

0194

DDEDiary (2).

April

1955.

55pp.

Major Subjects: DDE toWilliam D. Pawley regarding DDE's views on Russian intervention inPacific

War,1945; DDE to Ernest T. Weir regarding Formosa; dispersal of Foreign Operations

Administration.

0249

DDE

Diary

(1).

May 1955. 51 pp.

Major Subjects:

DDE

to Edgar Eisenhower regarding Pacific Northern Airlines;Salkpoliomyelitis

vaccinetoMexico; miscellaneous personal greetings, amenities and routine correspondence.

0300 DDEDiary (2).May1955.53pp.

Major Subjects: Disarmament; miscellaneous personal greetings; amenities and routine

correspondence.

0353 DDEDiary

(1).June

1955.57pp.

Major Subjects:Personal invitations, routine correspondence; DDE comments on chaplains in the

army.

0410 DDEDiary (2). June 1955.

64pp.

Major Subjects:

Personal

invitations,

routine correspondence;

Arthur

Burns

on

General Motors

settlement.

Box 11

0474 DDEDiary

(1).

July 1955.

62pp.

Major Subjects: DDE to Alfred M. Gruenther regarding USSR attitudes toward disarmament; DDE

to H erbert B rownell regarding Bricker Am endme nt; Geneva sum mit; DDE to Leonard Finder

regarding Dixon-Ya tes.

0536 DDEDiary (2).

July

1955.58pp.

Major Subjects: Geneva summit; Oveta Hobby resignation.

0594 PhoneCalls.August-December1955. 61 pp.

Major Subjects:DDE to Arthur Burns regarding legislation for creditand Federal ReserveBoard;

DD E

to

John Foster Dulles regarding British unilateral trade agreement with China; recognition

of

Argentine government;

John

Foster

Dulles to DDE

regarding Charles

E.Wilson's Middle

Easttrip,


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Frame

Cyprus, and disarmament;DDE to Herbert Brownell regarding Blue River Project; DDE to James P.

Mitchell regarding labor

billand

minimum wage; John Foster Dulles

on

Josip Broz Tito visit

and

offshore procurement.

0655

DDE

Diary

(1).

August

1955.52pp.

Major

Subjects:

DDE to Leonard Hall regarding the Republican National Committee; DDE to Swede

Hazlett

regarding runningfor P resident, Geneva, changeof ChiefofN aval Operations, and

disagreementbetween Robert Carney andNavy Secretary Thomas;DDE to Nelson Rockefeller

regarding psychological wa rfare and coordination of governm ent operations; DDE to Harold

Stassen regarding disarmament.

0707 DDE Diary

(2). August1955.57pp.

Major

Subjects:

DDE to Charles Halleck regarding C ongress; DDE to B ureau of the Budget

regarding Sena tor EugeneMillikinand Fort Logan, Colorado;DDE to Edgar Eisenhower regarding

Bricker Amendment.

0764 DDE Diary. September 1955. 52pp.

Major

Subjects:

DDE to James Byrnes regarding Fort JacksonHospital;DDE to Milton Eisenhower

regarding running for President; DDE regarding Everett Dirksen; DDE to Benjamin Javitts on

inflation; routine correspondence.

0816

DDE Diary.

October1955.66pp.

Major Subjects: DDE conversation with Sherman Adam s regarding promotion ma tter; Otto

Suhr,

meeting with Ezra Taft Benson; DD E to Swede Ha zlett regarding successor, M ilton Eisenhowe r,

health; information regarding health; Lyndon B . Johnson letter regarding recom mend ation for

Franklin Delano R oosevelt Memorial Comm ission; information on handling of p residential mail,

routine personal correspondence.

0882 DDE Diary (1). November 1955. 51 pp.

Major Subjects:

DD E

regarding

the

Republican National Committee; information

on

Health,

Education and W elfare, and United States Information Agency budgets; DDE on Jawaha rlal

Nehru's invitation to visitIndia;DDE viewson Civil War and Robert E. Lee's stra tegy; Radio Free

Europe; DDE to Edgar Eisenhower regarding musicians in propaganda abroad and Fred W aring.

0933

DDE

Diary (2). November 1955. 47pp.

Major Subjects:DDE on loan to Indian firm of Tata, CIA Investigation of; DDE and Herbert Hoover,

Jr.; DDE and S herman Adams; James

Hagerty

regarding Geneva; DDE schedules; DDE to Maxwell

Taylor regarding ArmyN urse Corps; international peac eful uses

of

atomic energy.

0980

DDE Diary (1). December 1955. 53pp.

Major Subjects: DDE to Edgar Eisenhower regarding philosophy of government; numerous

Christmas greetings; gam e m anag ement and acreage retirem ent; DDE to Sw ede Hazlett regarding

health.

Reel?

Box

11cont.

0001 DDE Diary (2). December 1955. 39pp.

Major Subjects: DDE comm ents on British and the Baghdad Pact; letterfrom John Cowles

regardingforeignpolicy,colonialism;rates charged bygovernmentfor services.

Box 12

0040 Diary. January

1956.23pp.

Major Subjects: School desegregation; P resident's Board for Intelligence Activities; presentation

on

possible damage fro m nuclear war; m eetings with Republican National C omm ittee Chairman

Robert Woodruff, Ambassador JamesB.ConantandHowardCullman;meeting regarding foreign

economic policy.

0063 Phone Calls. January

1956.32pp.

Major Subjects: DDE conversa tion with John F oster Dulles regarding Brazil and P resident-elect; to

Charles E. W ilson regarding news report on missiles; DDE on K ubitschek; to George M . Humphrey

10


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Frame

on

economy;JohnFoster

Dulleson

Bill

Jackson;toJohn

Foster Dulles regarding defense

policy;

Arthur

Burnson monetarypolicy;Russiaand weather balloons; Arthur Burnsand GeorgeM.

Humphrey

on auto industry.

0095 Goodpaster(Andrew J.).January

1956.13pp.

Major Subjects:

Memorandum

of

conference,

DDE, Meyer Kestnbaum,

and

Philip Young regarding

implementation

of

civil

service recommendations

of

Hoover Commission; DDE's meeting with

Sir

AnthonyEden;

China;

Indochina;atomic power.

0108 Signatures. January

1956.24pp.

Major

SubjectList

of

individuals

to

whom

DDE

sent signed letters, pictures, etc.

0132 Miscellaneous(1).January 1956.50pp.

Major Subjects:

Lists

of

presidential appointments; notes

on

legislative conference regarding

highwayprogram, school constructionbill,Upper Colorado Project; naturalgasbill;

1946

material

on

Philippine bases;

Philippine

scouts; emergency ship program

for

China, General Douglas

McArthur

and selective service.

0182

Miscellaneous (2). January

1956.

37pp.

Major Subjects: DDE to

Edgar Eisenhower regarding Bricker Amendment; Clare Booth Luce

appointment with DDE; summariesofcongressional mail.

0219

Miscellaneous (3). January 1956. 57pp.

Major Subjects:

Notes

on

legislative conference regarding

farm

legislation;

D DE to

Swede Hazlett

regarding health;

DDE to Tex M cCrary

regarding Republican dinners;

DDE to

Donald

R.

Richberg

on

running for president.

0276


1956.

66pp.

Major Subjects: DDE to Lew

Douglas regarding Middle East; lists

of

presidential appointments.

0342


1956.

49pp.

Major Subjects:

DDE

diary entry regarding

raw

material reserve; egislative leader meeting notes

regarding agriculture legislation, International Corporation Administration legislation, judiciary

nominations.

0391

Miscellaneous (6). January 1956. 57pp.

Major

SubjectListsof presidential appointments.

0448 Diary. February 1956. 9pp.

Major Subjects:

Items regarding Harris-Fulbright Natural

Gas

Bill;

General Services Administration;

farm program; home ruleforDistrictof

Columbia;

talks withSirAnthony Eden; disarmament.

0457 Goodpaster (AndrewJ.).February

1956.13pp.

Major Subjects:

Memorandum

of

conference, DDE, Eric Johnston,

and

Andrew

J.

Goodpaster

regarding Jordan River Project; memorandum

of

conference regarding enlistment

of

leaders

in

American

life into World Information Program concerning U.S.objectives-sevenprinciples.

0470 Signatures. February 1956. 26pp.

Major

SubjectList

ofindividualsto

whom

DDE

sent signed letters,

pictures,

etc.

0496 Phone Calls. February

1956.

21 pp.

Major Subjects:

Republican politics

and

obstructionist senators;

U.S.-Brftish

relations.

Box 13

0517 Miscellaneous

(1).

February 1956. 59pp.

Major Subjects:

Pre-press conference briefings regarding Upper Colorado Farm

Bill,

road program,

segregation, visits

of

Canadian

and

Mexican heads

of

government

to

U.S., Jawaharlal Nehru visit,

missiles, and gas

bill;

DDE on gas

bill;

notes on legislative leaders conference regarding Upper

Colorado Farm

Bill,

foreign intelligence activities,

and

highway program;

DDE to

Edgar Eisenhower

on

neutrality.

0576 Miscellaneous (2). February

1956.

75pp.

Major Subjects:

Naturalgasbill;listsof presidential appointments.

0651

Miscellaneous (3). February

1956.

48pp.

Major Subjects:

Notes

on

Legislative Leaders Conference regarding missiles, natural

gas bill,

Bricker Amendment;

DDE

comments

on

health; synopsis

of

report

by

chairman

of

Federal

Power

Commissiononnaturalgas

bill.


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Frame

0699 Miscellaneous (4). February 1956.25pp.

Major Subjects: Memorandum regarding cattle situation; lists of presidential appointments.

0724 Miscellaneous (5). February1956.52pp.

Major Subjects:

DDE to

William Donovan regarding

Ngo

Dinh Diem

and

Vietnam;

DDE to

Victor

Emm anuel regardingDDE's

ability

tohandle presidency; proposed armed services m emorial

museum;

legislative

meeting notes regarding sugar legislation, flood control, school construction,

tax legislation, postal legislation, military housing,

and

agriculture legislation.

0776 Miscellaneous(6).

February

1956.

38pp.

Major

Subject.

Lists of presidential appointments.

0814 Diary. March 1956. 24pp.

Major Subjects: Mutual security; race relations; Bricker Am endm ent; conversation between DDE,

George

M.

Humphrey, James

P.

Mitchell,

and

David

J.

McDonald

on

labor unions, racial problems,

Jimmy Hoffa, sound dollar,

and New

York wa terfront; Middle East.

0838 Goodpaster (Andrew J.).March 1956.

23pp.

Major Subjects: Memoranda

of

conversation regardingcivildefense

and

Operation A lert;

conference between DDE, Herbert Hoover, Jr., LewisStrauss,W.H.Jackson,

and

Andrew

J.

Goodpaster regarding press invitations

to

U.S. atomic tests; Hoover Comm ission

recommenda tions; Joint C hiefs

of

Staff

and

U.S. military diplomatic posture; Middle East;

disarmament; nuclear weapons.

0861 PhoneCalls.March 1956.31 pp.

Major Subjects:Retirement of

Alfred

M. Gruenth er; Brazil and oil; Bricker Ame ndm ent; DDE to

George

M.

Humph rey regarding U.S. credits abroad; George

M.

Humphrey

on gas

bill

and

steel

situation;FranceandAlgeria.

0892 Signatures.March 1956.52pp.

Major

Sub jec t

List

of

individuals

to

whom

DD E


Box14

0944 Miscellaneous (1). March 1956.52pp.

Major Subjects: Conversation between

DDE and

Senator George

W .

Malone; con versation with

Senator John Bricker regarding Bricker Am endm ent; DDE to Billy Graham regarding race relations.

Reel8

Box14cont.

0001 Miscellaneous (2). March 1956. 53pp.

Major

Subjects: ArthurDean on Bricker Amendme nt; Howard

Pyle

on political

speechmaking;

Howard Pyle's candidacy for governor of Arizona; E. Frederic M orrow memorandum to Gabriel

Hauge regarding Republicans andracial situation.

0054 Miscellaneous(3).March1956.48pp.

Major Subjects: Notes

on

legislative con ferenc e regarding civil rights, fa rm legislation,

and

electoral college changes; letter

from

William Donovan

to DDE

regarding France

and

Algeria.

0102 Miscellaneous (4). March 1956.45pp.

Major Subjects:

Memorandum regarding Robert Donovan's book on the Eisenhower administration;

notes on legislative conferen ce regarding Social Security, information program, Dirksen

Amendment,

and

executive pay; conversation with E zra Taft Benson

on

farm bill,politics,

and

cabinet; military housing.

0147

Miscellaneous

(5). March 1956.

51pp.

Major

Subjects:

DD E

conversation with

Da n

Thornton

on

Middle East,

ga sbill,and

politics; pre-

press conference notes regardingpolitics,Middle East,and letterto Nicolai Bulganin; notes on

legislativeleaders co nference regarding Ea st-West trade

legislation;

civil service retirements.

0198 Miscellaneous (6). March 1956.

37pp.

Major Subjects: DDE to Swed e Hazlett regarding

politics,

running for President, adm inistration,

health

and

future.


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Frame

0235 Miscellaneous

(1).

April1956.

51pp.

Major Subjects:DDE toJohn

Foster

DullesonInternational Labor Organizationand

forced

labor;

studentpolitics;DDE on disarmament problems; DDE to John Foster Dulles regarding Commission

on Foreign

Aid;

Paul Hoffman on programs of economic aid to auto industry.

0286 Miscellaneous (2).April 1956.47pp.

Major Subjects:

Legislative conference notes regarding fiscal program, highway programs, soil

bank,and

housing.

0333 Miscellaneous

(3).

April 1956. 58pp.

Major Sub jects:Agricultural researchbill;conversation between

DDE and

American Legion

commander; legislative conference notes regarding

farm

legislation, public housing, Social

Security, atomic-poweredship,andcivil rights legislation.

0391 Miscellaneous

(4).

April1956.59pp.

Major Sub jects:

Functions

of

William Jackson

in

White House; legislative conference notes

on

Indianclaims, and Supreme Court decision on federal and state courts' powers.

0450 Miscellaneous

(5).

April 1956.

61pp.

Major Subjects:

DDE to

Joel Carlson regarding agriculture programs;

DDE

views

on war and

defense;

DDE toEdgar

Eisenhower

regarding

Bricker Amendment;

DDE

greetings

to

Advertising

Council.

Box 15

0511 Goodpaster (AndrewJ.).April 1956. 25pp.

Major Subjects:

Memo of conference

regarding budgeting

and accounting recommendations of

Hoover Commission; proposed establishment

of

Enrico Fermi awards; Carter Burgess presentation

on White Housestafforganization and procedure; Robert Anderson on American Council on NATO;

Omar

Bradley

on

Veterans' Administration matters; military matters

and

defense policy; Middle

East; interservice rivalry.

0536

Signatures.April

1956.

37pp.

Major Subject.

List of individuals to whom DDE sent signed letters, pictures,

etc.

0573 PhoneCalls.April1956.48pp.

Major Subjects:DDE to

George

M.

Humphrey

on tax

reduction, Federal Reserve Board,

and

foreign

trade; DDE to Herbert Hoover,

Jr.,

regarding atomic bomb tests and Middle East; DDE to John

FosterDulles

regarding

Committee

onForeignAid and

foreign

policiesspeech;DDE to

Herbert

Brownell regarding Bricker Amendment; DDE to Leonard Hall regarding Republican conference;

EzraTaft Benson on soil bank.

0621 Diary. April 1956.

2pp.

Major Subject.Packard-Studebaker combine.

0623

Diary. May1956. 7pp.

Major

Subject.

Diary entryandbackground memorandum regarding OrganizationforTrade

Cooperation.

0630 Goodpaster (AndrewJ.).

May

1956. 25pp.

Major Subjects: Presidential conference memoranda regarding Freedoms Foundation; Department

of

Interior

water resources

andcivil

works programs;

coordinationofscientific

research; atomic

energymatters; USSR and military policy; Joint Chiefs ofStaffstrategic planning; Indonesia; India

and Asia.

0655 Phone Calls. May

1956.39pp.

Major

Subjects:

DDE toGeneral Maxwell Taylor regardingarmymatters;DDE toJohnFosterDulles

on

Baylor speech

and

disarmament;Lyndon

B.

Johnson

on

cuts;George

M.

Humphrey

on

economy, taxes, and Organization for Trade Cooperation; John Foster Dulles regarding John

Bricker; DDE to Herbert Brownell on Bricker Amendment; Ezra Taft Benson on soil bank; George

Aiken

on

farm

bill.

0694

Signatures. May 1956. 35pp.

Major Subject. ListofindividualstowhomDDEsent

signed

letters,

pictures,

etc.


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Frame

0729

Miscellaneous

(1).

May

1956.

50pp.

Major Subjects:Miscellaneous appointments, congratulations, greetings, condolences, and

personal amenities.

0779 Miscellaneous (2). May 1956. 45pp.

Major Subjects: DD E lettersto PhilipS. Hitchcock andDouglas McKay regarding Oregon senatorial

campaign; legislative

conference notes regarding highway program,

civil

service retirement,

and

water

resources; memorandumor the recordon acceleration planningon publicworks.

0824

Miscellaneous (3). May

1956.

40pp.

Major Subjects:Legislative conference notes regarding minimum wages, water pollution,andfarm

legislation; DD E conversation with JohnVorysregarding mutual security.

0864 Miscellaneous (4).

May

1956. 46pp.

Major Subjects:

DD E

statement regarding Bricker Amendment; notes

on

legislative conference

regarding legislative program, Organization for Trade Cooperation, executive pay, and flood

insurance.

0910 Miscellaneous (5). May 1956. 43pp.

Major Subjects:

Statementby advisorsto U.S. delegation negotiating tariff agreementsinGeneva;

reportson McKay-Hitchcock primary; DDE toEdgar Eisenhower regarding"driftinto socialism,"

publicpower,

and

TVA;

DDE

appointment with Cola Parker regarding trip

to

Europe; egislative

conference notes regarding mutual security, farm legislation,andjurisdiction

over

federalareas.

0953

Goodpaster (Andrew J.). June 1956. 8pp.

Major Subjects:

Presidential conference memorandum; meeting between

DDE and the

Comm ander-

in-Chief andother officersof the VFW regarding Bradley Commission Report.

Box 16

0961 Signatures. June1956.52pp.

Major Subject. Listo findividuals to whom DD E sentsigned letters, pictures, etc.

Reel9

Box16cont .

0001 Phone Calls. June1956.8pp.

Major Subjects:Herbert Brownellon automobile producersand dealers ruling,waterresources.

0009 Miscellaneous (1). June 1956. 25pp.

Major S ubjects:Miscellaneous appointments,etc.;

legislative

notes regarding Senate and House

calendars, postal rates, civil rights legislation, housing, and school construction.

0034 Miscellaneous (2). June 1956. 29pp.

Major Subjects: Miscellaneous appointments, etc.; budget; mutual security.

0063 Miscellaneous (3). June

1956.18pp.

Major Subjects: Miscellaneous appointments, etc.; memorandum regarding presidential

conference memoranda.

0081 Miscellaneous (4). June 1956.43pp.

Major Subjects: Miscellaneous appointments, etc.; legislative conference notes regarding mutual

security, highway legislation, Senate report, immigration, Niagara River Development,

and

automobile legislation; information regarding DouglasMcKaysenatorial candidacy.

0124 Miscellaneous(5). June1956.30pp.

Major Subjects: Miscellaneous appointments, etc.; economic matters.

0154 DiaryStaff Memos.July 1956.21pp.

Major Subjects:Memorandumon conversation betweenDDE andSenator Arthur Watkins regarding

partnership

policy on power and reclamation; Suez; reconnaissance projects;Philippinebases.

0175 Miscellaneous

(1).

July1956.49pp.

Major Subjects: PhilipYoung

on

fund raising; legislative conference notes regarding mutual

security, Soviet disarmament proposal,civilrights,

and

housing; memorandum

on

U.S.-Panama

problems in

Canal Zone.


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Frame

0224 Miscellaneous (2). July

1956.

49pp.

Major Sub jects:Meeting between DDE, Leonard Hall

and

others regarding campaign

and

Republicanproblems;

DDE to

Eugene Holman

on

Radio Free Europe;

DDE to

Chester Bowles

regarding

book.

0273 Miscellaneous (3).July1956.

53pp.

Major Subjects:

Notesonlegislative conference regarding mutual security, school construction,

Frying Pan and Hells Canyon, customs simplification; code names of White House personnel.

0326 Signatures. July1956.35pp.

Major SubjectList

of

individuals

to

whom

DDE


0361 Diary. July 1956. 3pp.

MajorSubjectDDE comments on Panama meeting of Latin American presidents.

0364 PhoneCalls.July

1956.

19pp.

Major Subjects:DDE to John Foster Dulles regarding note for Anthony Eden; DDE to George M.

Humphrey regarding remarks

on

small business;

DDE to

Herbert Hoover, Jr., regarding American

contact with Game AbdelNasser; DDE to Richard Nixon on Mediterranean; DDE to Joe Martin, Les

Arends,andCharles

Halleck

regardingFryingPan andHellsCanyon; John Foster

Dulles

onHarold

Caccia.

0383 Signatures. August

1956. 41 pp.

MajorSubjectList

of

individuals

to

whom

DDE


0424

PhoneCalls.August

1956.

34pp.

Major Subjects:DDE to John Foster Dulles regarding Suez; Dulles on

British

criticism of Charles

Wilson's reference to Suezcrisisas "relatively small incident"; John Foster Dulles on East-West

exchanges; DDE to HerbertBrownedon states' three-mile [fishing water] boundaries; William

Robinson onpoliticsand GOPconvention;Howard

Pyle

onconvention;DDE to

John

J.McCloy

regarding foreignaidcommittee.

Box 17

0458 Miscellaneous

(1).

August 1956. 47pp.

Major

Subjects: DDE

regardingcampaign;

Ann

Whitman memorandum

to

Milton Eisenhower

analyzing how President's time is spent.

0505 Miscellaneous (2). August

1956.

28pp.

Major

Subjects:

DDE toSwede

Hazlett regarding

coordinationandroleof

military

services,

American strength.

0533 Miscellaneous (3). August1956.49pp.

Major Subjects:DDE advice on conduct of nominating convention; some mentions of Suez.

0582 Miscellaneous (4). August

1956.54pp.

Major Subjects:DDE to Norman Cousins regarding disarmament; miscellaneous appointments and

personal correspondence.

0636 Diary-Staff Memoranda. August 1956.

32pp.

Major Subjects:

Memorandum ofconference

regarding People-to-People

Conference; conference

on Commission on Increased Industrial Use of Agricultural Products; Senator Prescott Bush

regarding platform discussingcivilrights

and

liberation

of

people behind iron curtain;political

situationin

California;

nuclear weapons; Burma;intelligence;Philippines;military programs;

European defense; Suez.

0668

Diary. August 1956. 5pp.

Major Subjects:

DDE summary of background to Suez crisis; brief note on Lewis Strauss and

fissionable material.

0673 Diary-StaffMemoranda.September 1956.43pp.

Major Subjects:

Me

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