Prayers Offered by the Chaplain Rev. Bernard Braskamp, D. D., at the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the House of Representatives of the United States during the Eighty-Third and Eighty-Fourth Congresses, 1953–1956.

EISENHOWER, Dwight D.

Item Number: 111239

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1956.

First edition of the prayers and remarks for the opening of the House of Representatives. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by President Eisenhower, while in office, “For John Castman, from his friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower” and “Best wishes for 1957, Bernard Braskamp.” In near fine condition.

Dwight Eisenhower was an Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO.