PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER - TYPED WHITE HOUSE LETTER SIGNED PSA

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Typed Letter Signed, PSA Encapsulated, to Rev. Ramon N. Redford, August 31, 1956, with envelope.
“Thank you very much for your letter of congratulations on my nomination. I am highly gratified by your thought of me—and I appreciate greatly your confidence and prayers.”
Rev. Ramon N. Redford (1901-1991)
was the minister at Memorial Christian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Typed Letter Initialed, to William D. Simmons, June 3, 1960.
“You see I have managed to arrange things so I won’t be in the office on the sixth, which leads me to hope that you will celebrate your birthday anniversary at home. Please know of my warm felicitations and best wishes always."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
was born in Texas but grew up in Kansas. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1915. He served in the United States during World War I and was promoted to Major soon after the war. At the beginning of World War II, he joined the General Staff in Washington and quickly came to the attention of Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall. In November 1942, Eisenhower became Supreme Commander of Allied forces in North Africa, and in December 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe, and Eisenhower had primary responsibility for planning the D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944. In November 1945, he returned from Europe to replace Marshall as Chief of Staff of the Army. Three years later, he became President of Columbia University, where he served until 1953. In 1952 and again in 1956, he won landslide elections as a Republican candidate for President of the United States. He served as President from 1953 to 1961. He was the only general to serve as President in the twentieth century.