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| Lot # 76 PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER - INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED - Document 154909 |
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Photograph inscribed and signed: "For
Congressman Samuel K. McConnell, Jr./With best wishes and kind/regard to a
distinguished/American - from his friend/Dwight D. Eisenhower". B/w, 10¼x13½
overall, image 8x10 (one surface). SAMUEL KERNS McCONNELL, JR.
(1901-1985) was a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania from 1944-1957.
He left office nine months after the end of Eisenhower's first term to serve
as Executive Director of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc.,
holding the office until June 1961. WWII hero and former Allied
Supreme Commander DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1890-1969) was as successful in
politics as he was in war. Eisenhower, who was elected the nation's 34th
President (1953-1961) in 1952, was determined to bring order and efficiency
to the Administration in a new era of "dynamic conservatism". His domestic
program, termed "Modern Republicanism", called for greater state government
power, reduced federal intervention in the economy, revamped tax laws, increased
Social Security benefits and improved interstate highways. Fulfilling a campaign
pledge, Eisenhower went to South Korea following his election and subsequently
oversaw the truce that ended the Korean War (1950-1953). He delivered his
"Atoms for Peace" proposal to the United Nations in December 1953 and
led the formation of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization the following
year. Despite having suffered a serious heart attack in September 1955,
Eisenhower won re-election by a landslide in 1956. Ink slightly beaded, smudged
at 2 words. Fine condition. Framed in the Gallery of History style:
18¼x29¼.
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