Letter to President Kennedy from the first U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, A.S.J Carnahan (named after the Confederate General) praising segregationists Mrs. and Mr. Brooks Hays' response to the Little Rock Crisis, arguing they had made a valuable contribution to U.S.-Sierra Leone relations and that the response from the African elite of this country (the U.S. or Sierra Leone?) was "generally uninformed".

His granddaughter Robin Carnahan served as the administrator of Biden's General Services Administration.