PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/25/1962 - HFSID 87612

RICHARD NIXON
Richard Nixon sends a typed letter of sympathy after hearing a friend is in the hospital.
Typed Letter Signed: "Dick", 1p, 7¼x10½. No place, 1962 May 25. To The Honorable Lewis L. Strauss, Mercury Building, Washington, D. C. Salutation: "Dear Lewis". In full: "I was distressed to learn from your letter of May 23 of your recent sojourn in the hospital, but so very pleased that you are back in your usual good form. As you know, we are now in the home stretch of the primary campaign. Your most generous expression of support of my candidacy could not be more welcome or deeply appreciated at this time. We have recently moved into our new home which we had been in the process of building for nearly a year. Nothing would please us more than an opportunity to entertain you and Alice there, and we will be hoping to have the privilege of doing so. We join in sending our very best wishes to both of you. With kindest personal regards, Sincerely," Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) was elected 37th President of the United States in 1968 after representing California in the U.S. House of Representatives (1947-1951) and U.S. Senate (1951-1953) and serving two terms as Dwight D. Eisenhower's Vice President (1953-1961). He lost (1960), then won, extremely close Presidential elections (facing John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, respectively), then won re-election by a landslide against George McGovern in 1972. Nixon's re-election triumph rapidly turned sour, however, as the burgeoning Watergate scandal claimed more and more of his key aides and finally compelled his own resignation in August 1974. A pragmatic conservative who gained an early reputation as an anti-communist but achieved diplomatic triumphs in relations with China and the Soviet Union, Nixon's prolific writing in his retirement years helped repair his reputation and hasten his re-emergence as an elder statesman. Fold crease through signature. File note at upper left corner. Fine condition.