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Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed as President to Al Capp -- ''…we must wage peace with all th

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Auction Date:2013 Sep 26 @ 17:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
Dwight Eisenhower typed letter signed as President to Al Capp. As creator of wildly popular strip ''Li'l Abner'', Capp was regarded as an influential figure by the President, whose letter dated 1 June 1956 reads in part, ''Dear Mr. Capp: I am writing to ask your help. Our Government, as you know, has relatively modest apparatus for trying to make the United States' objectives and principles better understood throughout the world…if our American ideology is eventually to win out in the great struggle being waged between the two opposing ways of life, it must have the active support of thousands of independent private groups…there is something important which every U.S. citizen…can do to help make the truth of our peaceful goals and of our respect for the rights of others known to more people overseas…I would like to bring together on June 12th at the White House a group of distinguished American leaders to assist…I earnestly hope, therefore, that it will be possible for you to participate as one of these leaders and assume the chairmanship for the activities of cartoonists. In accepting this appointment, you will be undertaking an assignment demanding of some time and effort on your part to make it successful. But it is patriotic work and work which I am convinced is of vital importance to our national interest. I seek your help confident that you will be able to impress this fact upon leading cartoonists throughout the country and convince them that by taking part in creating understanding abroad they will contribute to lessening world tensions and to helping solve our problems…[signed] Dwight D Eisenhower''. 2pp. on two sheets of White House stationery. Measures 8'' x 10.5''. Toning, creasing and light soiling to upper right not affecting text, else near fine.
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