Correspondence Between Dean Acheson and William Kaufman

Princeton material Kaufmann, William Acheson Biographers, etc. (Articles, inquiries) S. TRUMIN INATIONAL December 24, 1959 US ARCHIVES SERVICE" RECORDS AND Dear Bill: Thank you for all the trouble you have taken about my concerns in your recent three letters. What you say about Senator Symington's article in The Reporter seems to me wholly sound, and I shall talk with him about it when he gets back from his trip to Africa. I appreciate the interest that you have taken in the Princeton material. I am still baffled as to what to do about this and am far from convinced that Sidney Hyman has got the right answer. Turning then to Professor Bemis's editing of a ser- les on the American Secretaries of State and their diplomacy, you tell me that his candidate to write about my service is Mr. Richard Leopold, Professor of History at Northwestern University, and you wonder how I would react to the choice of Mr. Leopold and to what extent, if any, he might call on me for assistance in the course of his research. This is a hard question to answer with any degree of specific honesty. In the first place, I have not met Mr. Leopold and to what extent one can give one's confidence to a man one does not know is almost impossible to say. In the second place there are a good many people who are working with the same idea; and if I give all of them nyfull confi- dence and help, there is very little else I could be doing. Perhaps they could all get together and work out a common program. First there is Mr. David s. McClellan. He is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California. He is eager and he is intelligent. How much judgment he has I de not know. He wants to write my politi- cal biography. Mr. William W. Kaufmann, 777 Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.