VE–7. Editorial Note
On March 24, 1958, in a Supplementary Report to the Report of the President’s Special Committee to Investigate Crude Oil Imports, dated July 29, 1957, the Special Committee recommended additional restrictions on crude oil imports quotas for Districts I–IV, the area east of the Rocky Mountains. The President approved the Special Committee’s report in a memorandum dated March 25, 1958, and in similar memoranda released on June 4, July 1, and December 23, 1958, the President approved the Special Committee’s recommendations relating to 1) importation of petroleum products other than crude, 2) allocations for District V, the Pacific West Coast, and 3) continuance of existing crude oil allocations through February 28, 1959. See Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958 (Washington: 1958), p. 230. Documentation concerning U.S. oil policy is printed in Foreign Relations, 1958–1960, vol. IV, Foreign Economic Policy. Further documentation is located in Department of State decimal files 411.006, 411.316, and 831.2553, and in ARA/EST Files, Lot 61 D 319, “Petroleum Policy” and “Oil U.S. Legislation”, and ARA/EST Files, Lot 62 D 8, “Petroleum Policy” and “Oil Import Program.”