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291. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

rica. The President said he might have done so himself had the Vice President been elected President. However, were he to make a trip to Africa now, it would look as if he were asking one last round of applause. He nurses a private ambition to visit Nigeria, which is the largest of the African States and he also feels it desirable to do something to improve the outlook of Tubman, in Liberia. He admitted, however, that such a trip is now withdrawn from consideration. The Ambassador said he wished the President could make the trip and could drop off in Lisbon again. He observed, however, that he…