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Dwight D.: Papers, Post-Presidential, 1961-1969 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: PAPERS, POST-PRESIDENTIAL, 1961-1969 SPECIAL NAME SERIES Accession: A70-31 Processed by: JWL Date Completed: September 1988 Scope and Content Note Synopsis This series of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Post-Presidential Papers contains documentation of Eisenhower’s role in Republican party politics during his retirement years; his opinions on public policy in both domestic and foreign affairs during the 1960s; retrospective perceptions and accounts of World War II and the Eisenhower Administration by the former president, his friends, governmental associates, and contemporary world figures; and information concerning Eisenhower’s social, business and family activities during the period, 1961-1969. Documentation This series contains correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, speeches, statements, reports, and printed material. When Dwight D. Eisenhower departed Washington for Gettysburg on January 20, 1961, he left as the elder statesman of the Republican Party. His political stature would mean that his counsel on political issues and his assessments of political personalities would by urgently requested by his party and its leadership over the next eight years. Political topics documented by this series include: Eisenhower’s support of Richard Nixon during the former vice president’s 1962 gubernatorial campaign; his views on and involvement in the battle for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination, including his perceptions of Senator Barry Goldwater and Governor William Scranton: his reaction to Ronald Reagan’s emergence in the mid-1960s as a national political figure; his role in the 1968 GOP contest for the party’s presidential nomination; and his and other GOP leaders’ views on such ideological groups within the party as the John Birch Society and the Ripon Society. The user of this series will also find materials pertaining to politics within a number of states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan. One of the series’ more well-documented political issues is the founding in 1962 of the National Republican Citizens Committee, an organization created by Republican centrists in order to weld together the ideologically fragmented party of the early 1960s into a unified organization espousing a centrist ideological position and a pragmatic approach to public policy issues. [1] Especially noteworthy is documentation of the unsuccessful efforts of the National Republican Citizens Committee to draw the Republican Right, represented by Goldwater, into a middle-of- the-road consensus. The Special Name series also contains important evidence concerning the opinions held by Eisenhower and his political associates of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Furthermore, significant documentation exists on such domestic policy issues as fiscal and monetary policy, the 1962 steel strike, urban renewal, civil rights and civil liberties. Even more substantial is the evidence of Eisenhower’s views on such foreign policy or national security issues as trade, tariffs, foreign aid, the balance of payments problem, the defense budget, nuclear testing, the 1963 test ban, the Bay of Pigs, “Tractors for Freedom,” the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1961 Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Wall, and the future of NATO. The foreign policy issue having the most voluminous documentation, however, is Vietnam. Eisenhower’s private views on course and prosecution of the war, as well as his public statements and writings on this critical issue, can be found in correspondence with several individuals. This series’ documentation of the retirement years also contains information on private matters in which Eisenhower had a strong personal interest. These included the People-to-People program, Eisenhower College, the Gettysburg Farm, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, and the ex- president’s numerous television and writing projects including his preparation of The White House Years. The Special Name Series also contains significant retrospective material on the Eisenhower Presidency. For example, a portion of Eisenhower’s correspondence with Clifford Roberts deals with Roberts’ recollections of the 1952 nomination and election. Also, in his correspondence with Richard Nixon, Eisenhower reflected on mistakes made in the 1960 campaign that might have cost the Republicans the White House. Other correspondence provides insights into various foreign policy issues, including Castro’s seizure of power in Cuba, the U-2 Affair, and Indochina. Finally, a researcher can find within this series documentation of Eisenhower’s retrospective views on World War II. Limited, but significant, documentation exists on the plight of North Africa’s Jewish population during the prosecution of Operation TORCH, as well as on his recollections of such notable world figures as Winston Churchill, George C. Marshall, George Patton and Harry S. Truman. [2] ARRANGEMENT AND PROCESSING NOTES 1. The Special Name Series of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s post-presidential papers was created by Eisenhower’s Gettysburg Office staff in 1963. At that time, Eisenhower’s Executive Assistant, Brigadier General Robert Schulz, sent a request to the Eisenhower Library asking that all correspondence between the former president and a select list of individuals be withdrawn from the 1961 and 1962 Principal Files and returned to Gettysburg. The documents returned were filed in the newly-created Special Name File. This file was then held at Gettysburg until after Eisenhower’s death in 1969, when it was sent to the Library. In the course of arranging this series, the processing archivist noted that many “breaks” existed--that is, portions of years, entire years, or blocks of years were missing from a number of individual files. Consequently, the archivist checked the Principal Files in order to identify astrayed documents and interfile them in the Special Names Series. The net effect of interfiling astrayed correspondence was to increase the series’ volume by approximately ten per cent. Especially large quantities of astrayed documents were noted in the files of Lucius Clay, Bryce Harlow, Richard Nixon, Howard Snyder, Lewis Strauss, and John Hay Whitney. 2. Brackets have been utilized to enclose folder-title subject annotations appended by the processing archivist. Such annotations highlight significant documents or subjects covered, but do not provide comprehensive information about the contents of folders. 3. Handwritten documents created by Eisenhower or other highly prominent individuals, as well as documents on which Eisenhower made extensive holographic comments, have been withdrawn from the file and replaced with copies. No audiovisual materials or artifacts were found within this series. 4. Materials closed to research in accordance with stipulations set forth in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s instrument of gift and guidelines interpreting these stipulations developed in cooperation with Eisenhower’s literary heir, John S. D. Eisenhower, are identified on withdrawal sheets placed at the front of each folder from which documents have been removed. White withdrawal sheets marking the place of all sealed documents have been inserted within each folder’s contents. [3] Container List Box No. Contents 1 Allen, George E., 1961-62 [golf, Gettysburg farm] Allen, George E., 1963-66 Allen, George E., 1967-69 Anderson, Robert B., 1961 [balance of payments, taxations, monetary policy, fiscal policy, Anderson’s political future] Anderson, Robert B., [Anderson’s poetry, Anderson notes to Eisenhower for Eisenhower speech on the economy, Republican “Citizens” group, taxes] Anderson, Robert B., 1963-66 [Lyndon B. Johnson budget--1968, Eisenhower College, federal deficit] Anderson, Robert B., 1967-68 [Eisenhower College] Baker, Milton, 1961 Baker, Milton, 1962 [Pennsylvania GOP politics] Baker, Milton, 1963-66 [British Officers’ Club, Barry Goldwater, GOP 1964 presidential nomination, Freedoms Foundation] Baker, Milton, 1967-68 [GOP national politics, Richard Nixon, George Romney] Baruch, Bernard, 1961-64 [ruminations of Baruch on Eisenhower’s career and their contacts over the years, George C. Marshall, Harry Truman, Baruch on disarmament, the Civil War, Eisenhower Library, Baruch on former presidents, Harry Truman’s offer of secretary of state position to Eisenhower in 1946] Black, Douglas, 1961 [Eisenhower’s writing projects] Black, Douglas, 1962 [Eisenhower’s writing projects, Eisenhower’s reading habits] Black, Douglas, 1963-66 [Eisenhower’s writing projects] [4] Black, Douglas, 1967-68 [Ibid.] 2 Bullis, Harry A., 1961-62 [trade, People-to-People, Harry S. Truman, Minnesota politics] Bullis, Harry A., 1963 Burke, Arleigh, 1961-62 Burke, Arleigh, 1963-66 [Cuba, test ban, defense budget] Burke, Arleigh, 1967-68 Clark, Mark, 1961-67 Clay, Lucius, 1961-62 [Berlin, Georgia governorship] Clay, Lucius, 1963-66 [GOP politics, Freedoms Foundation, foreign aid appropriations] Clay, Lucius, 23 April 1966 [Eisenhower telephone message on the occasion of Clay’s birthday] Clay, Lucius, 1967 [Vietnam, GOP] Clay, Lucius, 1968-69 [1968 GOP convention, fund-raising for GOP] Cutler, Robert, 1961 (1) [Inter-American Development Bank] Cutler, Robert, 1961 (2) [Ibid.] Cutler, Robert, 1962 (1) [Ibid.] Cutler, Robert, 1962 (2) [GOP, IADB, Massachusetts politics, India and China] Cutler, Robert, 1963-66 (1) [Johnson Administration, Vietnam, GOP] Cutler, Robert, 1963-66 (2) [Cutler’s book, No Time for Rest] Cutler, Robert, 1963-66 (3) [Ibid.] 3 Cutler, Robert, 1963-66 (4) [Ibid., 1964 presidential campaign, Eisenhower’s [5] writings] Cutler,
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