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EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Typed Letter Signed, with initials, as President, to Brigadier General Robert Cutler, thanking him and the members of the White

EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Typed Letter Signed, with initials, as President, to Brigadier General Robert Cutler, thanking him and the members of the White House staff for planting a boxwood tree at the Gettysburg farm in honor of his birthday. 1 page, single large 8vo sheet, White House stationery; remnants of prior mounting on verso slightly visible in margins recto. Washington, 18 October 1954

  • Notes: "My expensive horticultural tastes have apparently been widely advertised. Though I am consequently more than slightly embarrassed, I assure you that nothing could have pleased me more on my birthday than to hear of the English boxwood tree you and the members of the White House staff have had planted on the Gettysburg farm. I am told it is a beautiful specimen..."

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