ALS signed “Bob, Robert Stroud #594,” one lined page both sides, 8 x 10, June 25, 1954. Politically charged letter to Mamie. In part, “One trouble is that Ike has forgotten that he was put in there to clean up the mess left by the last administration…he went in as a republican, not as a half baked democrat. By failing to fix the new dealer he has left himself open to the advices of the very people who were responsible for this mess in the first place and he has permitted them to split the party. He is fighting McCarthy, who is a better republican than he ever thought of being. He says he wants to clean the communists from the Government, but he has not even cleaned the type of people who were responsible…If he can’t get them out of the White House, how can he get their influence out of other agencies.” Stroud’s signature appears again in the return address area on the front of the letter. In fine condition, with several mailing folds. R&R COA.
