Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : 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
TLS as president, one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, July 25, 1951. Letter to Winton K. Sexton, a former POW. In full: “I certainly appreciated your good letter of the twenty-first and I was more than happy to have the letter from Monsignor Joseph McGeough. I am returning it to you because I am sure you will want to keep it. Margaret had a wonderful visit in Rome and nearly everywhere else she went, except she was too much in the limelight. I appreciate what you have to say about the big General from the Far East. Sometime or other I hope to accept that invitation but you know it is almost impossible for the President of the United States to go anywhere without causing a disturbance and I don’t like that sort of thing.” In fine condition, with a bit of light soiling and a few creases. Following Pearl Harbor, Winton K. Sexton joined the Army Air Force as a B-25 Bomber pilot and was shot down over Italy. He was held prisoner for 41 days by the Germans. 2nd Lieutenant Sexton escaped and for nine months was behind enemy lines in Italy. In 1948, he published We Fought for Freedom, recounting his experiences. Accompanied by a TLS to Sexton from Joseph McGeough regarding his book. Truman had removed MacArthur from command in April of 1951. Letters from Truman relating to MacArthur’s firing are quite scarce. In the last dozen years at major auctions only five have appeared.
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