Lot 4275
Nixon, Richard M. Typed Letter Signed ("RN") on personal letterhead, no place, February 11, 1981, one page, small quarto. With holograph greeting ("Dear Paul") to Paul Keyes, expressing enjoyment of the material Keyes had prepared for Henry Kissinger's speech at the Alfalfa Club (a group of Washington heavyweights who meet once a year to roast a new group of "sprouts"). Nixon then asks Keyes' opinion of Ronald Reagan, who had been President for less than a month. In part, "…I would be interested in your evaluation of Reagan up to this point. Frank Gannon very shrewdly observes that he has 'taken Washington by storm.' However, some of his new found friends in the media and the Washington social set will desert him the moment he begins to travel some rocky roads which will inevitably happen, almost regardless of what he does on the economy. Then he will have to count on his real friends - those who supported him because they really believe in him rather than those who support him now because they want power and they want to be with the winner…." A few scattered tiny brown specks, else very good.
Estimated Value $700 - 900.
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