TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, September 13, 1952. Letter to Rabbi Samuel Thurman, in part: “Your letter of the sixth is wonderful and what you have been good enough to express regarding my leadership and action I have taken in the post-election days has inspired me tremendously…This knowledge has greatly sustained me through some very decisive and difficult times, and for this I shall always be grateful.” Scattered creasing, heaviest along left edge, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Following his triumphant victory in the presidential election of 1948, Truman invited Samuel Thurman, a longtime friend and fellow freemason, to deliver the invocation at his second term Oath of Office commencement, making him the first rabbi to recite a prayer at a presidential inauguration. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA.
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