John Foster Dulles Papers. 1950 - 1959. White House Memoranda Files

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John Foster Dulles Papers. 1950 - 1959. White House Memoranda Files

1952-1959

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/580993

This series contains John Foster Dulles' working papers, messages, intelligence reports, printed matter, memorandums of conversations with President Dwight D. Eisenhower as well as correspondence exchanged between Secretary Dulles and the President, and communications between Secretary Dulles and other members of the White House staff. This documentation pertains to foreign policy issues; the Taiwan Straits Crisis in 1954-1955; the Suez Crisis in 1956; the Lebanon Intervention in 1958; relations with the Soviet Union, Berlin, and the United Kingdom; intelligence activities; national security policy; Korea; Indochina; France; Yugoslavia; foreign economic policy; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; the United Nations; Milton Eisenhower's trip to Latin America; the activities of Scott McLeod as Security Administrator within the Department of State; comments on Scott McLeod and the policy on employment of socialists within the State Department; the nomination of Charles Bohlen as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union; topics for discussion at National Security Council meetings; psychological warfare; Secretary Dulles' health; and personnel matters. A small file entitled "Very Private Memos of Conversations with the President and Vice President" pertains to President Eisenhower's decision to run for a second term, Secretary Dulles' own future in the Eisenhower Administration and related political matters.

Approximately 6,400 pages

eng, Latn

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6484606

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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