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Auction: 315 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 535

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Thirty-fourth President of the United States (1890-1969, served 1953-61); Supreme Commander of the Allied Fources in Europe during World War II; Supreme Commander of NATO. Fine Typewritten Letter Signed "D.E" as President, ¾ p, small 4to, on White House stationery but written in Augusta, GA, 12/7/1956. Writing his friend and strong Republican supporter Russell B. Stearns, president of National Food Products, he warmly explains that "A good friend of the National Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon has made available to me a number of copies of a special medallion. Because of your association with that organization, it occurred to me that you might like to have one...I hope the medallion will serve as a suitable keepsake of the 1956 political campaign..." With original typewritten envelope. Very light offsetting from envelope, otherwise VG/F. Just a month earlier, Eisenhower and VP Richard Nixon were re-elected in an electoral landslide.

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