Scarce mimeographed press release, five pages, 8.5 x 14.5, September 24, 1952, signed and inscribed at the top in blue ballpoint, “To Ward McConnell, with best wishes, Dick Nixon.” The official press release of a speech given in Wheeling, West Virginia, during the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign for the presidency, on the day after Nixon’s famous ‘Checkers’ speech. In part: “There are two times in my life when I think that I have been prouder to be an American than any other time. You know, when the chills run up your back, and you realize down deep what a great and good Country this is. Both of those times, the man who is going to be the President of the United States next January was there. The first time, he didn’t know I was there…You recall V-E Day, and you recall after V-E day that General Eisenhower came home. And they had a great parade for him…and I remember looking out a window about thirty stories up as the parade with General Eisenhower went by on the street below…I could see that he was smiling—and I sensed then the magnetism, the warmth, the greatness, that not only makes him a wonderful candidate, but is going to make him a great President of the United States.” In fine condition, with mild scattered creases. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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