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Inscribed copy of a press release of President Eisenhower's speech before the UN General Assembly on December 8, 1953. In this speech Eisenhower sought to slow the atomic weapons race by focusing attention on the development of peaceful uses for the atom. Inscribed to Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in Eisenhower's own handwriting, the message across the top of the first page reads: "For Lewis Strauss -- with admiration for his accomplishment in the field with which this talk feebly deals -- all the best from his friend. Dwight D. Eisenhower." Four days earlier Eisenhower had flown to Bermuda to confer with Winston Churchill and his advisers concerning this bold new proposal. The speech was re-written by Eisenhower on the return flight on December 8. Presidential adviser C.D. Jackson, Lewis Strauss and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles collated and stapled copies of the speech as they emerged from the Mimeograph machine.