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Weeks Before Being Elected President, George HW Bush Thanks Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan’s...

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24/10/1988. George H.W. Bush The 1988 Republican National Convention was held in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans from August 15 to August 18, 1988. The convention started out by honoring President Ronald Reagan, who gave a speech on opening night. It ended up nominating George HW Bush, the sitting vice president, as its candidate for president. The event is best known for Bush's “thousand points of light” speech accepting the nomination. Other speakers included Senators Bob Dole and John McCain, former president Gerald Ford, and Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s foreign policy and national security advisor.Kirkpatrick was a lifelong Democrat, working in both state and national campaigns including Hubert Humphrey's 1972 presidential campaign. She grew increasingly dissatisfied, however, with the Democratic Party's liberal faction and in 1972 cofounded the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. Her conservative writings regarding U.S. foreign policy impressed Ronald Reagan, and during his 1980… Read More
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The West Point Diploma of Langdon C. Easton, Who Would Be General William T. Sherman’s...

The West Point Diploma of Langdon C. Easton, Who Would Be General William T. Sherman’s Quartermaster General in the Victorious Georgia Campaign of 1864: The signatories are a veritable who’s who of American military instruction a quarter century before the Civil War

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04/07/1838. West Point This is a very early West Point diplomaLangdon C. Easton graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1838. He served in the Florida and Mexican wars, and during the Civil War. He was Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Cumberland from December 1863, until May 1864, and of the armies commanded by Major General William T. Sherman from May 4, 1864, until the war’s end, being present during the operations of the campaign from Chattanooga to the taking of Atlanta, and subsequently at the capture of Savannah. On the march from the latter city to Goldsborough, NC., and thence to Washington, DC., via Raleigh and Richmond, General Easton acted in the same capacity. During the war he was brevetted major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general, ""for distinguished and important service in the quartermaster's department in the campaign terminating in the capture of Atlanta, Georgia,"" and major general, March 13, 1865, ""for meritorious service during the war."" After the… Read More
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When Night Turned Into Day: The First Underground Wire to Light a Home in the World, Part of...

When Night Turned Into Day: The First Underground Wire to Light a Home in the World, Part of Thomas Edison’s Groundbreaking Test in Menlo Park, and Used to Electrify Edison's Own Home: One of the most important artifacts relating to electricity and light ever to reach the market

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1880. Thomas Edison Acquired by us directly from the descendant of Edison’s chief laboratory machinist John Kruesi, and never before offered for sale; This invention led to the lighting of New York City, the United States, and then globeThe Smithsonian displays an artifact with the same provenance: A lamp used to illuminate Menlo Park on December 31,1879, when Edison introduced his invention to the world. It is currently on in the exhibition Lighting A Revolution at the National Museum of American History.Thomas Edison propelled the world out of the gaslight era and into the electric age. With dreams of lighting up entire cites, Edison lined up financial backing, assembled a group of brilliant scientists and technicians, and applied his genius to the challenge of creating an effective and affordable electric lamp. With unflagging determination, he and his team tried out thousands of possibilities, convinced that every failure brought them one step closer to success. They succeeded where so many… Read More
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“While we were marching through Georgia”: President Abraham Lincoln Awards a General’s Rank...

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23/03/1865. Abraham Lincoln We obtained this directly from the Easton descendants and it has never before been offered for saleLangdon C. Easton graduated at the U. S. Military Academy in 1838. He served in the Florida and Mexican wars, and during the Civil War. He was Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Cumberland from December 1863, until May 1864, and of the armies commanded by Major General William T. Sherman from May 4, 1864, until the war’s end, being present during the operations of the campaign from Chattanooga to the taking of Atlanta, and subsequently at the capture of Savannah. On the march from the latter city to Goldsborough, NC, and thence to Washington, DC, via Raleigh and Richmond, General Easton acted in the same capacity. During the war he was brevetted major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general, ""for distinguished and important service in the quartermaster's department in the campaign terminating in the capture of Atlanta, Georgia,"" and major general, March… Read More
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William McKinley Thanks a Man for His Congratulations on McKinley’s Nomination for Governor of...

William McKinley Thanks a Man for His Congratulations on McKinley’s Nomination for Governor of Ohio, His Stepping Stone to the Presidency

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20/06/1891. William McKinley McKinley served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1877 to 1883, 1883 to 1884, and 1885 to 1891; and was a delegate to the 1884, 1888, and 1892 Republican National Conventions. In 1891 McKinley secured the Republican gubernatorial nomination, and was elected governor of Ohio in the 1891 general election in November. He went on to win reelection to a second term in 1893. During his tenure, the tax system was improved; a railroad safety law was sanctioned; a state board of arbitration was established; and a coal miners’ strike was dealt with.Autograph letter signed “Wm. McKinley Jr.”, Canton, Ohio, June 20, 1891, to Dr. J.E. Shellenberger of Payne, Ohio, who had congratulated him on his gubernatorial nomination. “Please accept my thanks for your kind congratulatory letter of the 18th. What you say is highly appreciated.” Until the death of his father, William McKinley Sr., McKinley signed himself “Jr.”
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William Faulkner Writes His Mother on His Family, Fox Hunting, and His Horse, Powerhouse

William Faulkner Writes His Mother on His Family, Fox Hunting, and His Horse, ""Powerhouse"": A rare ALS: ""I go fox hunting every other day, every day when some friend can spare a horse, since a hunter has to have one day of rest between hunts.""

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30/11/1959. William Faulkner It is dated 1959; we have found no later letter of Faulkner having reached the marketWilliam Faulkner is among the greatest American writers of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize winner. Perhaps his most well known work is ""The Sound and the Fury"".By the time he was a teenager, Faulkner was an accomplished hunter and was already displaying some of the characteristics that would mark him as a hunter for the rest of his life. He was also an avid lover of horses.The “big woods,” as he called them, offered Faulkner an escape from the pressures of his art, a turbid personal life and, at least late in his life, fame. But the hunt and the wilderness were more than just an escape for Faulkner; they were also an inspiration for some of his greatest literary works.In late October, Faulkner and his wife Estelle settled into their recently purchased Georgian brick house on Rugby Road in Charlottesville, VA, where they stayed till New Years. He would hunt, enjoy his time… Read More
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William Henry Harrison Implements the Historic Treaty of Greenville, Which Opened the West to...

William Henry Harrison Implements the Historic Treaty of Greenville, Which Opened the West to American Settlement: At the direction of his superior, General Anthony Wayne, he supplies the Native American coalition - the Six Nations - with subsistence

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11/08/1795. William Henry Harrison A search of public sale records indicates that the last such document came up in 1992In the 1780s Native American leaders in the Northwest Territory developed a pan-Indian alliance similar to that led by Pontiac in the 1760s. This alliance created a military force very much the equal of that available to the United States on the frontier. A series of battles and lesser skirmishes occurred on the western frontier. In these battles the pan-Indian alliance proved itself quite capable of defeating the new Republic's military, which was mainly composed of militia. In the fall of 1790, militia units led by General Josiah Harmar suffered a humiliating defeat in an attack against members of the Miami tribe in present-day Ohio. Harmar encountered not only the Miami led by the chief Little Turtle and aided by his Shawnee counterpart Blue Jacket, but also many warriors from the Potawatomi, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Delaware tribes.A year later a second military force, under the… Read More
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William H. Crawford’s Original Appointment as Secretary of War, Signed by James Madison as...

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01/08/1815. James Monroe|James Madison William H. Crawford was U.S. ambassador to France during the negotiations to end the War of 1812. During those negotiations, he was responsible for superintending the American consuls in Europe and keeping them informed of developments. He was also an important negotiator from a distance. He was called home and appointed Secretary of War by President James Madison on August 1, 1815, succeeding James Monroe. Crawford served in the post about a year, and was then named Secretary of the Treasury. When Monroe entered the White House, he continued Crawford in office, and Crawford remained at Treasury until the end of Monroe’s administration.  Crawford's term as Secretary of War was short but consequential. He presided over the military standing down after years of bitter conflict and also put reform at West Point, a crucial training element in the US arsenal, at the top of his agenda.To date, just 608 people have been named to a presidential cabinet post in the… Read More
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William Howard Taft Wishes Success to a Candidate for Congress from Connecticut, with an Uncommon...

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23/10/1917. William Taft Typed Letter Signed, on his personal letterhead, New Haven, October 23, 1917, to C. Milton Fessenden of Stamford. “I have your letter of October 22nd, and regret I shall be unable to come to Stamford on November 5th, to speak in behalf of Mr. [Schuyler] Merritt, for the reason that I shall be on a speaking trip in the West at that time, from which I will not return until November 10th. Thanking you for the compliment of the invitation, and with best wishes for the success of your campaign, believe me.” There is a long postscript in Taft’s hand reading: “The above was prepared for me by my secretary. I would much like to help elect Mr. Merritt to Congress but what with university work, speaking engagements, Liberty Train, Y.M.C.A. and Red Cross, the short notice prevents my doing so. I sincerely hope Mr. Merritt will be elected.”Charles Milton Fessenden was a noted lawyer and a member of the Connecticut Republican Committee. Schuyler Merritt was indeed elected to the… Read More
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William H. Taft Assembles His Campaign Team for the 1908 Election

William H. Taft Assembles His Campaign Team for the 1908 Election: He calls on Cornelius N. Bliss, former Secretary of the Interior and Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign manager, to advise him

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11/7/08. William Taft Taft thanks Bliss for “expressing a willingness to serve as one of the Advisory Committee at the New York Headquarters…I regard this as a very great favor…it only adds another reason for the warm place that you have in the bosom of every Republican who values patriotism and sense of duty.”The biggest announcement in the run-up to the 1908 presidential election came in 1904 when, on the evening of his election, President Theodore Roosevelt announced that he would not seek another term in office. Roosevelt was extremely popular as president, and many thought he might reconsider and run as 1908 neared. However, after careful consideration of potential successors, Roosevelt threw his support behind William Howard Taft in early 1907. Taft was Roosevelt’s secretary of war and a trusted adviser, and the two seemed to have similar political ideas. Having been handpicked by the president, Taft easily won the Republican nomination on the first ballot when the Republican… Read More
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William H. Taft Promotes Efforts to Prevent a Future War Through an Internation Organization to...

William H. Taft Promotes Efforts to Prevent a Future War Through an Internation Organization to Maintain Peace: .

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13/12/1914. William Taft Many Americans were greatly concerned by the outbreak of World War I in Europe in August 1914. Almost immediately efforts commenced to form an international organization to contain and respond to violence in the future. Hamilton Holt published an editorial in his New York City weekly magazine the Independent called ""The Way to Disarm: A Practical Proposal"" on September 28, 1914, which called for an international group to agree upon the arbitration of disputes and to guarantee the territorial integrity of its members by maintaining military forces sufficient to defeat those of any non-member. Soon calls went out to form local societies as well as a national, umbrella organization.Former President William H. Taft was a primary supporter and leader of this movement. At a convention in Philadelphia's Independence Hall that would occur on June 17, 1915, The League to Enforce Peace would be formed with him as the head. It would work for a league of nations, a world court and… Read More
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Winston Churchill Takes Charge of the War Effort: Two Remarkable Pieces from Just Days Into His...

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1940. Winston Churchill A note from the War Cabinet, May 20, 1940, pre-Dunkirk, written in his presence, trying to respond to the Nazi blitzkrieg in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands Both salvaged and retained for posterity by his private secretary John Colville, and affixed in a form of journal entry, with Colville's handwritten annotations as provenance Truly unique, we have never seen anything like this on the market beforeThe Battle of FranceOn May 10, 1940, the Phony War came to a stunning end as Hitler invaded the Low Countries—Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands—and France. His progress just in the first day was dramatic and altogether unlike the experience of World War I. It was clear that Britain needed a coalition government that would put aside party considerations and turn all attention to actively dealing with the war. The Labor Party refused to serve under Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose appeasement policies were blamed for Britain’s unpreparedness, and… Read More
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Winston Churchill Correctly Predicts That the Job of Setting the Permanent Irish Boundary Will...

Winston Churchill Correctly Predicts That the Job of Setting the Permanent Irish Boundary Will Result in Disturbances or Instability: “The Irish development will, I fear, lead to so many difficulties that I shall have to be back in England early in October.”

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8/8/24. Winston Churchill Churchill was a Liberal member of Parliament and became Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1921. He was a signatory of the epochal Anglo-Irish Treaty of that year, which established the Irish Free State [known as the Republic of Ireland] in Southern Ireland. Churchill was involved in the lengthy negotiations of the treaty. The Irish Civil War broke out after the signing of the Treaty, with the Irish Republican Army dead set against leaving Northern Ireland in British hands. Churchill supported the government of the Free State with arms and ordered the British forces still in Ireland to assist the Irish National Army against the Republican Army.But by 1923 Churchill was disenchanted with the Liberals and had lost his seat in Parliament, and the summer of 1924 saw Churchill finally sever ties with the Liberal Party. He also engaged in talks with the Conservatives, and searched for a constituency he could serve in Parliament. On September 11, 1924, after a summer of… Read More
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Winston Churchill Announces He Is Nearing Completion of His Newspaper Series “Great Events of...

Winston Churchill Announces He Is Nearing Completion of His Newspaper Series “Great Events of Our Time”, One Article of Which Contains One of His Earliest Critiques of Adolf Hitler: He will no longer heed the Foreign Office request to soft-pedal his criticisms of Hitler

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9/10/36. Winston Churchill In this letter Churchill reveals and changes some titles, and asks News of the World Director Percy Davies to Meet Him to Receive the Balance of the articles“These articles have taken me a good deal longer than those of last year as they consist so largely of entirely new matter. I think they make a very varied and readable series and I hope you will be thoroughly pleased with them.”Winston Churchill’s main source of income was not his salary as a Member of Parliament, but as an author. He was a journalist as early as the mid-1890s, and then reported from captivity during the Boer War. As a serving MP he began publishing pamphlets containing his speeches or answers to key parliamentary questions. Beginning with Mr Winston Churchill on the Education Bill (1902), over 135 such tracts were published over his career. He wrote 43 book length works in 72 volumes, including his 6-volume history of the Second World War. His first book was printed in 1898, and the last in… Read More
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Winston Churchill Writes His Publisher About His Science Writing, and His Article on Evolution -...

Winston Churchill Writes His Publisher About His Science Writing, and His Article on Evolution - “The River of Life” : Churchill was a Darwinian, and in the article maintains that humans are simply a natural product of Darwinian evolution

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2/11/38. Winston Churchill Churchill was keenly interested in science, and was the first British prime minister to hire a science advisor; no other prime minister had done more for science, technology and innovation This is our first Churchill letter relating to his science writingWinston Churchill’s main source of income was not his salary as a Member of Parliament, but as an author. He was a journalist as early as the mid-1890s, and then reported from captivity during the Boer War. As a serving MP he began publishing pamphlets containing his speeches or answers to key parliamentary questions. Beginning with Mr Winston Churchill on the Education Bill (1902), over 135 such tracts were published over his career. He wrote 43 book length works in 72 volumes, including his 6-volume history of the Second World War. His first book was printed in 1898, and the last in 1958, a remarkable span of 60 years. Four of the works were fiction, showing the breadth of his writing genius. There were 28 books… Read More
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Winston Churchill's Hand Held Reading Copy of a Great Postwar Speech to Parliament, Advocating a...

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1948. Winston Churchill In the ""Psalm"" format commonly used by Churchill for his reading copies of speeches“And how ill-timed is this new conversion of the government to what I told them three years ago. They could hardly have hit it off worse. In fact, it is the record of misfits. When the world was safe on the morrow of our victory. The government and the admiralty squandered our money on keeping up a vast strength against nothing. Now that danger revives, they are found in the process of casting away the numbers and strength of our forces…” An extraordinary rarity, being just the second time we have seen a Churchill speech to Parliament reach the marketplace. We also carried that previous oneThe ministerial post of First Lord of the Admiralty is the civilian head of the Royal Navy. Winston Churchill was appointed to the coveted post in late 1911 and he took it up with great gusto. Churchill adored Navy life aboard the Admiralty yacht Enchantress and after taking office he set out to… Read More
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With Defense Secretary Robert McNamara Set to Leave Office, President Lyndon B. Johnson Thanks...

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11/10/67. Lyndon B. Johnson Robert McNamara, the young phenom and head of the Ford Motor Company, was named Secretary of Defense by President Kennedy. He came to be considered one of the greatest men to hold that Cabinet office. He grew more and more controversial after 1966 because of his differences with the president and the Joint Chiefs of Staff over Vietnam policy. There were frequent rumors that he would leave office. Yet there was great surprise when President Johnson announced on November 29, 1967 that McNamara would resign to become president of the World Bank. The increasing intensity of the antiwar movement in the United States and the approaching presidential campaign, in which Johnson was expected to seek reelection, figured heavily in explanations of McNamara's departure. So also did McNamara's differences with the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the bombing of North Vietnam, the number of U.S. troops to be assigned to the ground war, and construction along the 17th parallel separating South… Read More
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With War Looming in Europe in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Will Personally Witness U.S....

With War Looming in Europe in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Will Personally Witness U.S. Naval War Readiness Exercises: Defending the east coast of the U.S. against invasion, and developing tactics relating to aircraft carriers, were the prime focuses of the event.

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24/01/1939. Franklin D. Roosevelt “I am off I hope in February for somewhere to the eastward of Barbados - Fleet Problem no. XX. You will not read much about it in the paper, but I will tell you about it on your way north.”President Roosevelt was appalled by the dictators in Europe and Asia, and by the appeasement of them. He saw before most that war was coming, and that the United States would be drawn into it. He wanted the U.S. military to be strong and ready, believing that “We must and will marshal our great potential strength to fend off war from our shores.”“Fleet Problem” was the term used by the U.S. Navy to describe 21 large-scale naval war-readiness exercises conducted between 1923 and 1940. The nation’s leadership used these exercises to understand, exploit and incorporate new technologies and capabilities, while developing tactics, training and procedures to employ should war present itself. Conducted in all the major waters adjacent to the U.S., these Fleet Problems… Read More
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With World War II Just Months Away, Winston Churchill Begins to Prepare the British People for...

With World War II Just Months Away, Winston Churchill Begins to Prepare the British People for the Coming Storm of “Air Raids and the Population”: He calls his upcoming article “important” and “useful”, a very rare self-assessment of his work

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22/04/1939. Winston Churchill In the article, he predicts that Britain could not be beaten by a bombing campaign, a prediction that he helped prove true Soon, as Prime Minister, he would have to lead the nation through the Blitz of German air raids and on to victoryIn 1914, the Germans launched bombing raids on Britain from the sea and sky. Suddenly civilians on the Home Front, as well as soldiers on the Front Line, were at risk. The German military believed that they could use Zeppelin airships to help win the war, but though they caused civilian casualties, the raids contributed little to the war effort. These bombings did set a precedent, however.Among the public men of influence, only Churchill recognized the profound peril to the world that the Nazis represented. He spoke out in Parliament, on the radio, in his newspaper columns, anywhere and everywhere, demanding the government wake up and prepare. As early as 1933, Churchill warned in the House of Commons, “Those Germans are not looking… Read More
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With the 1955 Geneva “Big Four” Summit to Ease Cold War Tensions Over, President Dwight D....

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28/07/1955. Dwight D. Eisenhower This meeting resulted in the short hiatus in Cold War pressures known as the Spirit of GenevaSoviet relations with the United States chilled after World War II as the Soviet Union exerted its influence - or simply imposed its will - on the satellite states of Eastern Europe.  Then came the Communist takeover of China, which the Soviets applauded. The Korean War began in 1950, and the Soviets gave their support to the Communist government in North Korea.  When American nuclear research produced the hydrogen bomb in 1952, the Soviets followed suit in 1953. On May 5, 1955, West Germany joined NATO, making Soviet leaders nervous. On May 14,  the Soviet Union signed agreements with its satellite regimes, creating what was called the Warsaw Pact. According to the agreement, each member nation would be defended against ""imperialist"" interference or military intervention. This heightened anxieties in the West, most particularly in Washington.In May 1955, seeing East-West… Read More
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