"Family Letters", 1951 December-1952 June

File — Box: 2, Folder: 5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This series of letters begin with Bennett having undergone surgery in December 1951; a description of Christmas, the return from army service of Wallace Bennett Jr. and his wife, Theda, to Salt Lake; the return to Washington and resumption of the Bennett's activities. The tone of the letters is newsy and filled as much with happenings in their daily lives as Bennett's senate activities. He made speeches before audiences around the County-Such of Rotary clubs, Insurance correspondes and Chamberss of Commerce. The Bennetts redecorate their apartment, Frances Bennett graduated from Wellesly and makes plans for her marriage to Lawrence Jeppson.

May 28, 1952 - Senator Robert Taft announced as a presidential candidate and Bennett declared his support of Taft in a letter of May 38, 1952.
June 16, 1952 - Alice Roosevelt Longworth had been Bennett's dinner companion and he described the evening's events as "one of the high lights of my Washington experience."

Dates

1951 December-1952 June

Conditions Governing Access

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