PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/06/1963 - HFSID 87624
Price: $500.00
RICHARD NIXON
Congratulations to a Republican Senator for voting against the
confirmation of F.D.R., Jr.
Carbon Copy of Typed Letter Signed: "RN" in ink, 1p, 7¼x10½.
Los Angeles, 1963 April 6. Copy of letter Nixon sent to Republican
Senator Winston L. Prouty of Vermont, authentically signed. Nixon sent this
carbon copy to Lewis L. Strauss. In full: "This is just a note to
tell you that I, for one, applauded your courage in voting as you did on the
Franklin Roosevelt confirmation. You particularly hit the mark when you compared
the case of Lewis Strauss with that of Roosevelt. The two men, of course, are
not in the same league but there was all the more reason for Republicans to
search into Roosevelt's qualifications at least as vigorously as Democrats went
after Strauss. Keep up the good work!" FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, JR.,
son of the President, represented New York in Congress from 1949-1955.
President Kennedy appointed him Under Secretary of Commerce in 1963. The Senate
confirmed Roosevelt's appointment. Former Vice President Nixon references the
Senate confirmation hearings of President Eisenhower's appointment of LEWIS L.
STRAUSS as Secretary of Commerce five years earlier. On November 13, 1958,
Strauss was appointed Secretary of Commerce by President Eisenhower. On June 27,
1959, by a vote of 49-46, the U.S. Senate refused to confirm Strauss as
Secretary of Commerce, the first Cabinet nominee to be rejected by the Senate
since 1925. There was opposition to his appointment because of Strauss' 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 World War II, was denied security clearance by the Atomic Energy
Commission. There were Senators who voted against Strauss' nomination for that
reason alone. Some Senators voted against confirmation because of Strauss'
handling of the Dixon-Yates contract. It was discovered that a government
official would benefit financially from the contract involving the Tennessee
Valley Authority. WINSTON L. PROUTY, who had served as Vermont's U.S.
Representative At Large from 1951-1959, was elected the state's U.S. Senator in
1959. He served until 1971, dying in office. Creased at upper left margin.
Staple holes, ink notation and check mark (unknown hand) at upper left
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