Office of the Historian

U.S. Relations With Ghana; Prime Minister Nkrumah’s Visit to the United States

294. Memorandum of Conversation

July 23, 1958.1

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. Secret. Drafted by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Joseph Palmer 2d.

295. Memorandum of Conversation

July 24, 1958.

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. Secret. Drafted by Palmer.

296. Telegram From the Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State

Accra, August 13, 1958, 4 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 645J.00/8–1358. Confidential.

297. Telegram From the Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State

Accra, July 3, 1960, 2 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 110.13-HA/7-360. Confidential.

298. Letter From President Eisenhower to President Nkrumah

August 7, 1960.

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International File. No classification marking. Attached to an August 10 memorandum for the record by John S.D. Eisenhower. The letter was transmitted in telegram 135 to Accra, August 7. (Ibid.)

299. Telegram From the Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State

Accra, August 25, 1960, 6 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 645J.60/8–2560. Confidential.

300. Telegram From the Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State

Accra, September 5, 1960, 3 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 845J.2614/9–560. Confidential.

301. Memorandum of Conversation

New York, September 22, 1960, 2:40–3:20 p.m.1

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DDE Diaries. Confidential; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Satterthwaite.

302. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (Satterthwaite) and the Ghanaian Representative at the United Nations (Quaison-Sackey)

New York, September 24, 1960, 3:30 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559. Official Use Only. Drafted by Satterthwaite.

303. Telegram From the Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State

Accra, October 7, 1960, 5 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 745J.11/10–760. Confidential; Priority.

304. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Ghana

October 13, 1960, 7:43 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 745J.11/10–560. Confidential. Drafted by Director of the Office of West African Affairs C. Vaughan Ferguson and William D. Toomey of that office, cleared by Hare and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Woodruff Wallner, and approved by Satterthwaite.

305. Telegram From the Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State

Accra, October 25, 1960, 5 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 745J.11/10–2560. Confidential.

  1. The meetings between President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nkrumah were presumably held at the White House.↩
  2. The conversation took place in the President’s suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel; he was in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.↩