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George Bush

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George Bush

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Auction Date:2010 Dec 08 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS as president, two pages, 5.25 x 8.25, United States Senate Memorandum letterhead, September 1, 1989. The president writes “Chick.” In full (with a few words underlined for emphasis): “Thanks for saving my life!! Poor Mrs. Hill had been standing that lonely vigil next to Dr. Crawford Long (he was in bronze) for about 3 hours—a massive screw-up that was ended happily when you showed up! Here’s a tiny souvenir to say ‘Thanks.’” In fine condition.

The presidency runs at a hectic pace—so hectic that visitors to Washington, D.C. like poor Mrs. Hill are sometimes forgotten by the chief executive...forced to stand a ‘lonely vigil’ in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the US Capitol, next to a monument to a 19th century Georgia physician. Correspondence from Bush during his term in office is very scarce, with this a stellar example of a penitent president thanking a colleague for saving him from even greater embarrassment.