[Letter] 1957 November 14, The White House, Washington, D.C. [to] Francis E. Walter, Washington, DC / Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The letter is typed on official White House letterhead. See also Eisenhower's official White House biography (http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html)); see also Walter's biography and a guide to research collections of his papers (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000108).

Eisenhower states that he appreciates Walter's letter about Lieutenant General James M. Gavin "whom I also highly regard." He promises to bear Walter's recommendation "actively in mind." A lifelong military man, Eisenhower made his reputation as the Supreme Commander of troops invading France on D-Day, 1944 at the end of World War II. Postwar, he accepted an appointment as President of Columbia University, and then moved on to assume command over NATO forces assembled in 1951. In 1952 he ran for President, an office which he held for two terms (1953-61). During his Presidency he negotiated the dangers of nuclear proliferation during the Cold War. He retired in 1961 to his farm in Gettysburg. Congressman Walter served in World War II and as a Representative from Pennsylvania in the seventy-third and fifteen succeeding Congresses, serving from 1933 until his death May 31, 1963. Walter also acted as chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities.