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Lot 1359:
Dwight D. Eisenhower]
Other 5.5" H 1952-1957
The White House, Wash. D.C. Oversized Presidents
Thirty-fourth President (1953-1961). Eisenhower was a career soldier and was promoted to five-star general. He Was named by Franklin Roosevelt the Supreme Allied Commander in charge of invading Europe and accepied Germany’s surrender at Rheims. After the war, he was president of Columbia University and Supreme Commander of NATO before defeating Adlai Stevenson for President in 1952 and 1956. During his administration, he concluded the Korean War, built an interstate highway system, and dispatched troops to Little Rock to insure peaceful integration.
Campaign Glass belonging to President Eisenhower.
DESCRIPTION:
Campaign Glass, 5.5" tall, depicting three caricatures of a smiling Eisenhower including one hitting a golf ball off the "GOP Tee, and four Republican elephants parading around the lower circumference. Most probably distributed during the 1952 campaign.
Accompanied by an 8.5" x 11? Certificate of Authenticity signed "David North, " stating: "My mother, Helen Weaver North, was General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s personal secretary at NATO Headquarters in Paris from 1951 and his secretary at the White House from 1953-1957. This is to certify that the Eisenhower campaign glass pictured below was given by President Eisenhower to my mother."
Chief Yeoman Helen E. Weaver was General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s personal secretary at NATO Headquarters in Paris from 1951 and his secretary at the White House from 1953-1957. According to William J. Hopkins, Executive Clerk of the White House Office (1931-1971), in a 1993 interview with Paul K. Carr published in Carr’s philographic study "The Eisenhower Files" (Mattituck, NY: Amereon House, 1997), Helen Weaver was one of two secretaries who signed President Eisenhower’s name to letters (Ann Whitman was the other).
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