[Letter] 1959 July 16, White House, Washington, D.C. [to] Francis E. Walter, Washington, D.C. / Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The letter is typed on official White House letterhead. See also Eisenhower's official White House biography (http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html); see also Walter's biography and a guide to research collections of his papers (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000108).

Eisenhower states, regarding Walter's letter urging the removal of works of art at the American National Exhibition opening in Moscow, that to "remove works of art in this case would be inappropriate and detrimental." He upholds the choices made by the American art jury, and maintains that "to substitute other judgments in this matter would invite consequences more likely to impair the effectiveness of the Exhibition." A lifelong military man, Eisenhower made his reputation as the Supreme Commander of troops invading France on D-Day, 1944 at the end of World War II. Postwar, he accepted an appointment as President of Columbia University, and then moved on to assume command over NATO forces assembled in 1951. In 1952 he ran for President, an office which he held for two terms (1953-61). During his Presidency he negotiated the dangers of nuclear proliferation during the Cold War. He retired in 1961 to his farm in Gettysburg. Congressman Walter served in World War II and as a Representative from Pennsylvania in the seventy-third and fifteen succeeding Congresses, serving from 1933 until his death May 31, 1963. Walter also acted as chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities.