Auction Date:2011 Jun 15 @ 18:00 (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 signed “RN,” one page, 7.5 x 10.5, personal letterhead, February 20, 1984. Nixon contacts a journalist identified as “Dick” regarding a recently published article. In full: “Just a note to tell you how impressed I was by your N.Y. Times magazine piece. Your in depth analysis had profound historical perspective & was on the mark as far as current trends are concerned. Reagan—because he represents the wave of the present should win handily. But I sense that by November we will see a cliff hanger in the making.” Nixon has written “Personal” at the lower left corner. In fine condition, with a few spots of toning and light handling wear.
Nixon was a keen observer of politics, but he severely underestimated fellow Republican Ronald Reagan, who had tested the presidential waters in 1968 as part of a ‘Stop Nixon’ movement. His dislike carried over into 1971, when Nixon met with National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office, and referred to the California governor as ‘a man of limited mental capacity [who] simply doesn't know what the Christ is going on in the foreign area.’ Nixon not only underestimated Reagan’s foreign policy ability but also his popularity. The 1984 presidential election was far from a “cliff hanger in the making” as President Reagan was re-elected in the November election in an electoral and popular vote landslide, winning 49 states, a record 525 electoral votes total (of 538 possible), and 58.8 percent of the popular vote. Historically significant insight regarding two GOP icons.
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