Set of three TLSs from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, each signed “D. E.,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal White House letterhead, dated to the month of December in 1957, 1959, and 1960. Each letter offers thoughtful birthday greetings to Gerald D. Morgan, special counsel to the president. The earliest, in part: "I doubt that I shall be back from Paris by the time your birthday anniversary rolls around, so I send you this premature, but most sincere, note of felicitations and good wishes. I hope the year ahead will be for you—and for all of us—slightly less wearing than 1957." The second, in full: "While I am away traveling you will not only be carrying a bigger load than usual but, I discover, celebrating your birthday anniversary as well. This note brings you, admittedly written a bit previously, my warmest felicitations and good wishes." The third, in part: "Your birthday anniversary comes just at the beginning of the last month of our official association. But it seems a particularly apt time to send to you, in addition to my felicitations, my warm good wishes for your happiness and success in all the years that lie ahead." In overall fine condition. Morgan served in a few capacities as part of the Eisenhower administration—as an administrative assistant from 1952 to 1955, as special counsel to the president from 1955 to 1958, and as Eisenhower's deputy assistant from 1958 to 1961.
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