Goodpaster

Goodpaster recalled that, in the Eisenhower system, if you were delegated a task, you had to know what the bounds of policy were. . .

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Most of the meetings were with key White House staff—Sherman Adams, appointments secretary Bernard Shanley, special counsel Gerald Morgan, Andrew Goodpaster, and Persons.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Ike told Dulles that the secretary could reach him through Colonel Goodpaster anytime during the day.38

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Shortly after 10:00 A.M., Eisenhower presided over a tense, hectic meeting with Foster Dulles, Hoover, Herman Phleger, Adams, Hagerty, and Colonel Goodpaster.58 Ike read aloud a message he had drafted to send to Prime Minister Eden.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Although he was, in so many respects, a “Cold Warrior,” Eisenhower was, as General Andrew Goodpaster remembered, “slow to pick up the sword.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

As a result, Colonel Goodpaster arranged for the president to be flown back to Washington.45

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Eisenhower hastily convened a meeting with Adams and Goodpaster, soon joined by Acting Secretary of State Hoover and Treasury Secretary Humphrey.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Coulson greeted a visibly irate President Eisenhower and then had to wait with Goodpaster until the president and the secretary of state returned about 8:15.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Goodpaster recalled that Eisenhower divided long-range planning and policy development from day-to-day operations because, he said, paraphrasing Ike, “If you try to combine the two, operations will eat up the long-range planning.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

The following day, Eisenhower ordered Arthur Flemming, the director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, to convene an interdepartmental task force to study the long-term implications of oil supplies, given the Suez crisis, including development of supertankers and additional pipelines from the Middle East oilfields to the Mediterranean; Goodpaster to Flemming, Sept. 12, 1956, Dwight D.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011