TLS, one page, 6.75 x 8.75, White House letterhead, March 5, 1949. Letter to John W. Ranson, regarding "the Houston, Texas hospital." In part: "It became necessary to eliminate a lot of the proposed hospital beds due to the fact, they would only be an expense and not be used and, after a survey was made, Houston and a lot of other towns came in for a cut. I am sorry that this had to take place but it means about two hundred million dollars a year to the taxpayers and about that much in original fundamental expenditures and I really don't believe that any serious harm will result. Naturally we expect all sorts of pressure from every section of the country, and I am getting it, but I have about come to the conclusion that I am pressure proof." Handsomely mounted, matted, and framed to an overall size of 13.75 x 15.75. In fine condition.
Provenance: from the estate of Senator Carl Levin. A lifelong Democrat, ardent advocate for civil rights, and staple of the United States Senate from 1979 to 2015, Senator Levin was also a longtime client of RR Auction. As a collector, he favored his political heroes—Harry S. Truman, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.—as well as those figures emblematic of the American spirit, like Robert Frost, Joe Louis, and Helen Keller.
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