TLS as president, one page, 7 x 10.25, White House letterhead, March 25, 1959. Letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in part: "I wish to join with all of our people in inviting you to celebrate the XVIII Olympiad at Detroit in 1964. I am informed that the United States Olympic association has selected Detroit as its recommended site for the Olympic Games, and I am sure you would find that city at once a splendid host and ideal location for the Games. I have always been an ardent devotee of amateur sports and have followed...the splendid work of the International and National Olympic Committees. Indeed, the Olympic movement has become a powerful international force in the most constructive sense, since the resurgence of the modern Olympic Games in 1896 as directed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin. It has been a good many years since an Olympiad has been celebrated in the United States. I assure you that the American people are vitally interested in the Olympic movement and would welcome to this country with warmth and cordiality the XVIII Olympiad in 1964." Stapled to the upper left are unsigned translations of into Spanish and French, on the same White House letterhead. In very fine condition. Detroit was the officially supported U.S bid of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, but was never selected to host the Olympics. Despite Ike's personal entreaty, Motown lost its bid for the 1964 Summer Games, which would be held in Tokyo instead.
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