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EISENHOWER, Dwight and Herbert HOOVER. A collection of eight letters and statements from President Dwight Eisenhower and former President Herbert Hoover to Lewis Strauss and others, 27 June 1959 - 2 May 1961. Comprising: 4 TLS from Eisenhower to Strauss (2 signed in full and 1 signed "D. E." as President; 1 signed "Ike" as former president); 1 autograph draft statement from President Eisenhower to the press; 1 autograph draft letter (unsigned) from Eisenhower to 46 Senators; 1 ALS ("H. H.") from Hoover to Strauss; 1 draft autograph letter (unsigned) from Hoover to Strauss. [ Also with: :] an ALS from Eisenhower's press secretary, James Hagerty to Strauss, n.d.; and a 20 May 1959 TLS from James F. Byrnes to Strauss. A few of the pieces bear penciled notes by Strauss. "I THINK THERE IS ONLY ONE MAN TOWARD WHOM I FEEL SUCH RANCOR AND RESENTMENT THAT I SHALL PROBABLY SOME DAY EXPRESS IT PUBLICLY..." A series of letters and statements from two presidents, reacting to a rough case of political hardball, INCLUDING AN AUTOGRAPH DRAFT PRESS STATEMENT BY EISENHOWER AS PRESIDENT. President Eisenhower and former President Hoover rally to Lewis Strauss after the Senate rejected his nomination for Secretary of Commerce. Eisenhower angrily comments on what he calls this "sad episode" in his draft press statement. In his 27 June 1959 letter, he tells Strauss "I have frequently expressed my conviction that the charges leveled against you were totally unjustified..." Strauss's harshest opponents, Senators Clinton Anderson and Estes Kefauver, alleged conflict of interest violations during Strauss's tenure as AEC commissioner. Two years later, a still angry Ike tells Strauss (2 May 1961): "I find it is impossible for me ever completely to accept this matter. As I look back over the years, I think there is only one man toward whom I feel such rancor and resentment that I shall probably some day express it publicly: of course you know I mean Senator Anderson." Hoover sends a warm, consoling note (2 July 1959): "You have no right to be chagrined about anything nor apologize to anybody..." Strauss made a lot of enemies in a public career that began with his stint as a young assistant to Hoover in food relief work in 1919. He served as Hoover's assistant at the Commerce Department in the 1920s, then after a successful career in investment banking, joined the Navy Department in World War II. Truman made him an Atomic Energy Commissioner in 1947 and Eisenhower made him head of the agency in 1953. Strauss became infamous in Washington for exacting vicious revenge on opponents or anyone he perceived as an enemy. Many legislators resented what they perceived as his arrogance and deviousness. So the knives came out when the Democrats regained control of the Senate in 1958 and had a chance to vote Strauss's recess appointment. The nomination squeaked out of committee by a 9-8 vote, but went down in flames on the Senate floor. Together 10 items .