LEWIS L. STRAUSS - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 71469
Price: $100.00
LEWIS STRAUSS. Signature: "Lewis L Strauss/Secretary of
Commerce/1958-9", 3½x2 card. On November 13, 1958, Lewis L. Strauss
(1896-1974), a former investment banker and veteran of WWII, was appointed
Secretary of Commerce by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. On June 27,
1959, by a vote of 49-46, the U.S. Senate refused to confirm Strauss,
making him the first Cabinet nominee to be rejected by the Senate since 1925.
There was opposition to Strauss because of his role as Chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission (1953-1958). Specifically, in June 1954, J. Robert
Oppenheimer, the head of the Los Alamos laboratory for atomic research during
WWII, was denied security clearance by the AEC. There were Senators who voted
against Strauss' nomination for that reason alone. Pencil notes (unknown hand)
on verso. Fine condition.
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