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...little more than an hour the President was at Dulles' bedside. For 25 minutes they talked. Ike told Dulles that he was counting on him to get back to work. Dulles gave the President the book at his bedside-What We Must Know About Communism-urged him to read it. At conversation's end the President tucked the book under his arm, stopped on his way out of the hospital to make a short statement: "... I express the thoughts and prayers of all of us that the results of his operation and the further course of treatment will...
...Herter worked as a member of a team drafting foreign-policy speeches for U.S. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey. Teammate: Doug Dillon. Team coach: John Foster Dulles. Herter met Dwight Eisenhower in Paris in 1951, instantly joined the ranks of Republicans urging Ike to run for the presidency, helped as a campaign adviser...
Doug Dillon, trim (6 ft. 1 in., 188 Ibs.) but beginning to fringe on top at age 49, last year nailed down a top place in Ike's regard. As Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, hardworking, soft-selling Dillon earned a major share of the credit for steering reciprocal trade and foreign aid through a bullheadedly balky Congress. Perhaps the most popular of all-State Department officials on Capitol Hill, Dillon is especially friendly with Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, new chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Under Secretary for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, by all odds the Capitol Hill favorite, and probably (if agreement in principle is the prevailing factor) the likely choice of Foster Dulles himself. Dillon also rates high with Ike, but to name him would be to move him ostentatiously over Herter's head...
...Secretary of War, served until war's end, later became president of the World Bank, resigned to take over from General Lucius Clay as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany in 1949. In Germany he won the esteem of SHAPE'S Commander Dwight Eisenhower, has remained one of Ike's close friends...