Shamefully, the Eisenhower Foundation didn’t participate. ‘Respectfully declined’Meredith Sleichter, executive director of the Eisenhower Foundation, said in a statement that the organization “respectfully declined to sign,” according to reporting from Kansas Reflector’s Tim Carpenter. Other foundations added their own statements as introductions, and the Abilene-based Eisenhower organization could have done the same. Eisenhower wrote his son in 1943: “I have one earnest conviction in this war. The responsibility that Eisenhower wrote about in his letter to Biggs has fallen to us now.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2023 14:35 UTC