U.S. INTEREST IN THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STABILITY OF FRANCE; FRENCH EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH TRIPARTITE CONSULTATIVE TALKS; NEGOTIATIONS CONCERNING ATOMIC COOPERATION AND NUCLEAR SHARING; SECRETARY OF STATE DULLES’ VISIT TO PARIS JULY 5, 1958; PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S VISITS TO PARIS SEPTEMBER 2–4 AND DECEMBER 19–21, 1959; PRESIDENT DE GAULLE’S VISIT TO WASHINGTON APRIL 22–26, 1960
122. Memorandum From Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. Secret.
123. Memorandum of Conversation Between the Counselor for Political Affairs in the Embassy in France (Kidder) and a French Air Force Officer, Retired (Gallois), July 29, 1959
Source: Department of State, WE Files: Lot 61 D 30, Memoranda of Conversation—1959. Confidential. Drafted by Kidder.
124. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1342. Confidential. Drafted by Stoessel. The meeting was held at the Restaurant Bearn.
125. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in France
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. Top Secret; Niact; Presidential Handling; No Distribution. Repeated niact to Geneva. Another copy of the letter is in Department of State, Central Files, 711.11–EI/8–159.
126. Letter From President de Gaulle to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. Secret. The source text is a Department of State translation. The French text of this letter was handed to Herter by Couve de Murville on August 5 at Geneva. Attached to the source text was the French text of this letter.
127. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751.5611/8–2459. Secret. Drafted by McBride.
128. Memorandum of Discussion at the 417th Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Robert H. Johnson, Director of the Planning Board Secretariat, on August 26.
130. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Meetings. Top Secret. Presumably drafted by Lieutenant Colonel Walters. The conversation was held in de Gaulle’s office.
131. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Meetings. Top Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by McBride and cleared by White. The conversation was held at the Elysée Palace. A summary of the conversation is published in Declassified Documents, 1987, 741.
132. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Meetings. Top Secret. Presumably drafted by Lieutenant Colonel Walters. This conversation was held in de Gaulle’s office at the Elysée Palace.
133. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Meetings. Top Secret. Presumably drafted by Lieutenant Colonel Walters. The conversation was held at the Chateau de Rambouillet.
134. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Meetings. Top Secret. Presumably drafted by Lieutenant Colonel Walters. The conversation was held at the Chateau de Rambouillet.
135. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1458. Secret. Drafted by Kidder, cleared by White, and approved by the Office of the Secretary of State on September 20. The conversation was held at the U.S. Embassy Residence.
136. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 711.11–EI/9–1159. Secret; Priority; Presidential Handling. Drafted by President Eisenhower.
137. Telegram From the Embassy in France to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 711.11–EI/7–1559. Confidential. Repeated to London, Bonn, and Rome. A copy in the Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Meetings, bears Eisenhower’s initials.
138. Letter From Prime Minister Macmillan to President Eisenhower
Source: Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204. Secret.
139. Letter from President Eisenhower to President de Gaulle
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Secret. Sent to Paris in telegram 1289, September 21 (Department of State, Central Files, 396.1/9–2159), and delivered to de Gaulle by Houghton on September 23. (Ibid., 711.11–E1/9–2359)
In response to the President’s request, Dillon sent Eisenhower a draft letter to de Gaulle under cover of a memorandum of September 9. After revising the draft, Goodpaster asked Herter and Department of Defense officials to review it. In a memorandum of September 21 to Goodpaster, Calhoun explained that the Secretary of State and appropriate Defense officials as well as Ambassadors Burgess and Houghton and General Norstad had reviewed the revised draft, and he outlined their suggestions as well as his own. At the suggestion of the three U.S. officials in Paris, the first sentence of the second paragraph was revised in the final draft to avoid the possible implication that the points of common interest were limited to two. The White House did not follow Calhoun’s suggestion about rewording the last paragraph about Eisenhower’s response to de Gaulle’s September 16 declaration on Algeria. Copies of the drafts of this letter and of the memoranda concerning it are in the Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File.
140. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.51/9–2459. Secret; Priority; Presidential Handling. Drafted in the White House, cleared by Goodpaster, and approved by Calhoun.
141. Letter From President de Gaulle to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Secret. The source text is a Department of State translation. The signed original of this letter in French was delivered to Goodpaster’s office on the afternoon of October 7. The French text was attached to the source text.
144. Memorandum of Discussion at the 422d Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Robert H. Johnson.
145. National Security Council Report
Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, France. Secret. A cover sheet, table of contents, financial appendix, and a memorandum of transmittal from the Executive Secretary are not printed. NSC 5910 was amended, as discussed in Documents 128 and 144, and circulated as NSC 5910/1.
146. Letter From President Eisenhower to President de Gaulle
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Secret.
147. Letter From President de Gaulle to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. Secret. The source text is a Department of State translation. Under cover of a November 27 memorandum to Goodpaster, Calhoun transmitted the signed French original of this letter, which had been delivered to the Department of State by the French Embassy that day, and this translation. Calhoun’s memorandum bears Eisenhower’s initials. (Ibid.)
148. Memorandum From Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Dulles-Herter Series. No classification marking. A handwritten notation on the source text indicates the President saw it.
149. Memorandum From Secretary of Defense Gates to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Secret. A handwritten notation on the source text by Goodpaster reads: “Reported to President.”
150. Telegram From Secretary of State Herter to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 711.11–EI/12–2159. Secret. Herter was in Paris to attend the Ministerial Meeting of the NAC held December 15–17 and 22.