26. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the President and the Secretary of State, White House, Washington, January 17, 1957,10:55 a.m.1
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I discussed with the President the Suez situation and the difficulty of bringing about a satisfactory result in view of the fact that most of the pressures and “carrots” were in our hands whereas Hammarskjold was doing the negotiation. The President wondered whether the time might not be right to ask Bob Anderson to go back again to Cairo. I said we were thinking that Hammarskjold should go and we did not want to cut across his negotiations or seem to be working behind his back. We then briefly considered the possibility that Anderson might be in Cairo on a covert basis while Hammarskjold was there and that their two efforts might be coordinated.
I said that Lodge would be here tomorrow at Cabinet meeting and that we were planning to talk with him about the Hammarskjold plans.
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- Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Meetings with the President. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles.↩