Letter, Robert E. Cole to Ann Whitman

THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, R. 1., CHAIRMAN J. w. FULBRIGHT, ARK. ALEXANDER WILEY, wis. JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA. H. ALEXANDER SMITH, N. J. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, IOWA MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT. WILLIAM LANGER, N. DAK. WAYNE MORSE, OREG. WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, CALIF. RUSSELL B. LONG, LA. GEORGE D. AIKEN, VT. Ulnited States Senate JOHN F. KENNEDY, MASS. HOMER E. CAPEHART, IND. CARL MARCY, CHIEF OF STAFF COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS DARRELL ST. CLAIRE, CLERK September 8, 1959 Miss Ann C. Whitman Personal Secretary to the President The White House Washington 25, D. C. Dear Miss Whitman: Thanks to your kind assistance, together with that of Major Streiff, the current project of the Gardening Committee of the People-to-People Program is enjoying tre- mendous success in promoting German-American friendship over the garden fence" You will recall that we were able to secure some squash from the President's farm which James Macfarland took along with him and is now exhibiting at the Interna- tional Kleingarten Congress, and various garden shows, in Germany. I am taking the liberty of enclosing, for your in- formation, a re-print of a Congressional Record Statement which Senator Wiley made shortly before Mr. Macfarland's trip and which will give a resume of the project. I'm sure you will be interested in an excerpt from a letter received from James Macfarland today as follows: "My 'mission is having a success 100 times greater than I had anticipated. It is Ike's squash that is doing it. The Germans are giving me a squash to take back to Eisen- hower to show him their appreciation; and also to show him that, although squash is only two years old in Germany, they know how to grow it." Would you have a suggestion as to how these German squash might be presented to the President? I should ap- preciate hearing from you in this connection. With best wishes, I am the Robert E. yours Cole ble REC/c Office of Senator Wiley