EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: POST-PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS, 1961-69 1963 PRINCIPAL FILE SERIES DESCRIPTION The 1963 Principal File served as the main office file for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Gettysburg office. It is divided into two subseries--a subject file and an alphabetical file. The subject subseries contains such categories as appointments, autographs, endorsements, gifts, invitations, memberships, messages, politics, publications, statements, and trips. This subseries is comprised of a little over thirty-one boxes, and it is arranged in alphabetical order by name of subject category. Invitations generated the greatest volume of correspondence, followed by appointments, gifts, and messages. The alphabetical subseries consists of nearly thirty-nine boxes of materials arranged in alphabetical order by names of individuals and organizations. Though primarily a correspondence file, it also contains other types of documents, including speeches, published materials, lists, statements, minutes of meetings, and transcripts of interviews. This series reveals that the volume of Eisenhower’s correspondence continued to grow. It placed an increasing burden on his staff, who answered most inquiries, and on friends such as Bryce Harlow, who often drafted letters for Eisenhower on politically sensitive subjects, and on Dwight Eisenhower himself, who continued to edit correspondence with friends and acquaintances. The increased strain on Eisenhower and his staff is revealed in the many letters which turned down requests for appointments, autographs, speeches, endorsements, and special messages from the former president. The bulk of this series consists of routine correspondence and related materials. However, there are numerous letters and memoranda which discuss national and international events, issues, and personalities. The space program, taxes, the New Frontier, People to People, the Test Ban Treaty, the assassination of President Kennedy, NATO, the U.S. defense budget, World War II, the stockpiling of strategic materials, the upcoming presidential election and prospective Republican candidates, foreign aid, and the missile program are subjects discussed in Eisenhower’s correspondence. Other topics mentioned in this series include the writing of Mandate for Change, Freedoms Foundation, Eisenhower’s future role in political campaigns, Republicanism (definition of), presidential disability, Radio Liberty, Radio Free Europe, American Assembly, Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, Cuba, Barry Goldwater, Henry Cabot Lodge, Emmet John Hughes, the Republican defeat in 1960, and U.S.-Canada relations. In 1963 Dwight Eisenhower continued to correspond with many prominent individuals including Harold Macmillan, President Mateos of Mexico, Winston Churchill, and Anthony Eden. Prominent Americans who corresponded with him included Barry Goldwater, William Scranton, William S. Paley, Charles Percy, George Romney, Walter Cronkite, Leonard Firestone, Fred Waring, Arnold Palmer, Joyce Hall, Leonard Hall, Lucius Clay, Omar Bradley, Fred Friendly, Walt Disney, Lauris Norstad, and Walter Lippmann. Former members of the Eisenhower Administration also kept in touch with their ex-boss--both through correspondence and occasional visits to Gettysburg. Bryce Harlow, Harold Stassen, Jim Hagerty, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, Sherman Adams, Ezra Taft Benson, Herbert Brownell, C. D. Jackson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Bernard Shanley, Clarence Francis, Arthur Burns, Raymond J. Saulnier, John S. Bragdon, and Leonard V. Finder all made some contact with Eisenhower in 1963. This series also contains considerable documentation relating to Eisenhower’s personal views and attitudes on a wide range of subjects. There are comments on his favorite beverage, favorite Bible verse, his policy on honorariums, his policy regarding the use of his name, an old football injury, a late 1940s illness, books he read as a boy, why he stayed in the Army, his policy on writing commendatory letters, his views on the press and interviews, and his conditions for playing in a celebrity golf match. His responses to criticism by Robert Welch, Emmet John Hughes, Barry Goldwater, and others are recorded in this series. In addition, there is information on such mundane matters as personal automobiles, an Angus sale, personal investments, doodling, his membership in various organizations and associations, Eisenhower’s medication, and the fact that he stopped smoking in 1949. These files provide many insights into Eisenhower the man, and they document his very active post-presidential life. CONTAINER LIST Box No. Contents 1 Correspondence Sent to California, 1963-64 [list of documents] Subject File AP Appointments AP DDE’s Appointments (appointment and calendar sheets) (1)(2) AP-1 Appointments--Afghanistan, King and Queen, September 7, 1963 (1)(2) AP-1 Appointments--Anderson, Elmer L., January 19, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Archer Morse G. (Dunlap Elementary School, Xucaipa, California) AP-1 Appointments--Arrowsmith, Marvin; Bell, Jack, October 4, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Background--ter Horst; Brater, Cantera, October l, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Ballin, William C., November 10, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Belair, Felix, October 15, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Bell, G. K. (Lt. Col.), Royal Regiment of Canada, June 20, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Bigger, Robert, September 25, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Bihl, Carl J. (Youth for Christ), September 22, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Bird, John (Saturday Evening Post), August 22-23, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Birthday News; Pix; Vathis; Ball; Cahill; Rochelle; Roy; October 11, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Blair, Clay; Bird, John AP-1 Appointments--Blair, C. Jackson, Republican College Council of Pa., June 18, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Bond, Willemin, April 23, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Boone, Joel T., October 31, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Brodeur, Malabar; Wells, Sam (Jackson, C. D.), September 24, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Brown, Richard, November 20, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Burton, Courtney, October 3, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Burd, Larry; Bassitt, John; Donovan, Bob, November 14, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Cairns, Alan, August 10, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Carpenter, Donald F., December 14, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Catton, Bruce (NBC TV—“Eisenhower on Lincoln as Commander in Chief”), February 11, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Clark, Bob; Lawrence, Bill, November 13, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Collins, Larry (Newsweek) en route to California AP-1 Appointments--Collins, N. Perryman, M.D., June 25, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Cooper, R. Lawlor; Wood, Jordan, August 22, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Craig, George M., October 3, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Cronkite, Walter; Kiernan, Mr., November 7, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Cutler, Robert (weekend guest), August 30, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Daly, Marcus (Shanley, Bernard), September 24, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--deGuingand, Francis, October 9, 1963 [World War II; Southwick House; South Africa] AP-1 Appointments--Diller, Silas S. (Rahauser, Joseph S.), July 25, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Downing, Fulton J., Mayor of Harrington, Delaware, July 23, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Draper, William, December 20, 1963 [national population policy] AP-1 Appointments--Eisenhower, Milton; Eisenhower, Edgar, October 26, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Eisenhower School, Indio, California, April 18, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Essig, J. R., November 15, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Flaherty, Vincent, November 13, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Freedoms Foundation, Executive Committee (Wells, Kenneth), November 19, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Future Farmers of America (Cheatham-Arends), June 18, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Galvin, Robert (Percy, Chuck), August 30, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Gillespie, Robert B.; McFarland, David, October 31, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Goldwater, Barry, September 28, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Greenbaum, Philip, National Jewish Hospital at Denver, June 5, 1963 [Eisenhower policy on letters of endorsement] 2 AP-1 Appointments--Hagerty, James, June 5, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Hall, Leonard, September 5, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Harlow; Miller, August 21, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Harmon, Ruth Ann, August 23, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Harpprecht, Klaus, September 12, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Harris, Jim, November 12, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Hatch, Alden (re book on Mountbatten, Lord), October 31, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Hatfield, Mark O. (Mydland, Harvey), February 10, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Haushalter, Walter M., August 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Heaslip, George C., O. S. Tyson, and Company, Inc. (Mr. Davis), July 23, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Hellerman, Will, Nationwide Ins. Co. (Currier & Ives), June 4, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Hermann, A. B., Heritage Record, April 16, 1963 [Republican recording with statements by Eisenhower, Nixon, Rockefeller, and Goldwater and narrated by Ronald Reagan] AP-1 Appointments--Hibbs, Ben, July 18, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Hockey Team (Privateers, John Rote) Dornes, Pollock, Clausen, Meijer, October 19, 1963 [People to People] AP-1 Appointments--Horne, Neil P., November 19, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Humbert, Max J. (Menconi, Ralph J., Sculptor--Presidential Art Metals, Inc.), June 27, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Humphrey, George, September 21, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Hunt, John H. (Education for International Understanding, report on), June 27, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Johnson, Albert, October 3, 1963 [Republican candidate for Congress] AP-1 Appointments--Johnston, Eric, October 14, 1963 AP-1 Appointments--Laird, Melvin; Miller, William, November 20, 1963 [Republican platform] AP-1 Appointments--Lampert,