<--PREV Doc #1694  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1696 Document #1695; November 8, 1960 To Richard Milhous Nixon Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XXI - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part X: Ending an Era; August 1960 to January 1961 Chapter 24: "We missed by such a narrow margin"   Dear Dick: The first four ballots cast at 7:00 A.M. this morning in my precinct in Gettysburgh were for Nixon and Lodge.1 If this marks a trend, you will win in a walk. Good luck.2 As ever 1 The President had been the first voter to appear at the Barley Firehouse in Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania, the polling place near his Gettysburg farm. He and Lieutenant Colonel John S. D. Eisenhower, who was registered in the same precinct (see no. 1238), had traveled by helicopter from Washington (New York Times, Nov. 9, 1960). 2 For developments see no. 1699. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Richard Milhous Nixon, 8 November 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1695. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/second-term/documents/1695.cfm <--PREV Doc #1694  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1696

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