Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
"THE VOTER IS AROUSED MUCH MORE BY EMOTION THAN BY LOGIC" EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Typed Letter Signed, to John P. Warwick, agreeing that voters are motivated by emotional prompts, expressing enthusiasm for OR Governor Mark Hatfield [who would later give the keynote speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention] and Senator Peter Dominick, and expressing surprise that he is not attracted to any of the prospective nominees. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds. Palm Desert, CA, 15 February 1964
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". . . Your observation that the voter is aroused much more by emotion than by logic is quite accurate, I believe. Moreover, I share your enthusiasm for the two men you name--Governor Mark Hatfield and Senator Peter Dominick. In fact in 1962 I was one of those who urgently recommended the Senator . . . .
"I am a bit astonished that you see nothing attractive in some of the people who have been mentioned prominently in connection with the Republican nomination. I have found some of them to be quite persuasive and certainly very likeable. . . ."