Letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Gabriel Hauge

July 14, 1958 Dear Gabe: Over the past six years there have been many occasions when 1 have addressed a note to you, but never have I begun one so reluctantly as 1 do this. Even though we have discussed several times the prospect of your depar- ture from the White House Office later this year, still I think there remained with me a subconscious hope that your plans might somehow change, enabling you to con- tinue as my Special Assistant and so provide the highly valuable advice and support that I -- and many others in T government -- have been accustomed to receiving from you. 1 recognize the importance of the personal considerations that have led to your decision, one that I realize has been reached with no less difficulty than 1 have in accepting it. Fortunately, several months remain before you will necessarily leave, and a mutually convenient date for your departure can be set later on, as you suggested. You have made a very real contribution to the Administra- tion's work of fostering the economic health of the nation. You know well the complexity of the countless activities and relationships that constitute a highly developed economy such as ours, as well as the critical sensitivity of such an economy to changing trends in any part of it. To the Administration's handling of the many and varied problems that had to be met in this area, you broug ht wisdom, tech- nical knowledge, and especially an understanding of the human considerations that must never be neglected in ful- filling the basic purposes of our democracy. For all of your devoted work 1 am deeply grateful. I have particularly appreciated the clarity and conciseness in which