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Doc Signed by Gen Groves Director of Manhattan Project Supporting Richard Nixon
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LESLIE GROVES & RICHARD NIXON.At the Republican National Convention in 1952, the Grand Old Party nominated war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower and selected the crusading anti-communist Senator Richard Nixon as its candidate for Vice President. Although Nixon at the time was the freshman senator from California he had become famous for attacking Alger Hiss as a communist spy. In mid-September 1952, the New York Post published a dispatch that a group of wealthy Californians had paid Senator Nixon between ,000 and ,000 since his election as senator. In order to survive the financial scandal, Senator Nixon asked for support from several prominent people. One of those individuals was
General Leslie Groves who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
DOCUMENT SIGNED BY GENERAL LESLIE GROVES, DIRECTOR OF MANHATTAN PROJECT, SUPPORTING SENATOR RICHARD NIXON & ATTACKING ALGER HISS
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In the document signed by General Groves he gives his full support to Senator Nixon by writing, "Nothing I have seen in the papers has altered my belief in your integrity." General Groves also makes the connection between Nixon's prosecution of Hiss and his attackers in the media by saying, "I hope you will not permit yourself to be stampeded into any action detrimental to the welfare of our country. Any such unwise decision, or signs of wavering indecision, delight the anti-Communists. The people who loved Hiss will always be seeking revenge." The document is in fine condition, measuring 11.0'' by 8.5'', and comes with letters of authentication from University Archives.
This is a great document that connects three key figures of the Cold War: Leslie Groves, Richard Nixon & Alger Hiss