Throughout the crisis Eisenhower consistently held to this position, even though some in his cabinet and many in the press disagreed. He went so far as to record his views in a secret “memorandum for the record.” He wrote that Israel should not assume “that winning a domestic election is as important to us as preserving and protecting the interests of the United Nations and other nations of the free world in that region.” Eisenhower did not veer from this belief.
