TLS signed “Ike,” two pages, 7 x .25, personal letterhead, January 4, 1965. Letter to his older brother Edgar N. Eisenhower. In part: “I am the active—not the honorary—chairman of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge…It has as its purpose the alerting of the United States citizenry to the dangers of socialistic trends and of ignoring Communist penetration into a number of our institutions, including labor unions, student bodies and faculties, and others…We believe that trends to socialism and communism will be halted better by positive thinking and by an alert citizenry rather than merely hunting out laboriously the offender who is occasionally hauled before the courts.” In fine condition, with filing holes to the top. Much of Eisenhower’s term as president was characterized by America’s fear of communism; the early 1950s saw the second ‘Red Scare’ and rise of McCarthyism, and Eisenhower promoted military intervention in Korea to halt the spread of communism in Asia. An exceptional, historically relevant letter concerning one of Ike’s most closely held political opinions. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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