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Title
Ike and his newest medal
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Wearing a V.F.W. cap from Kansas, General Dwight D. Eisenhower displays that infectious grin as he holds the V.F.W.'s Bernard M. Baruch award presented to him last night during a rousing welcome for the Republican presidential nominee in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The medal was given him "for making the highest contribution to the security and unity of the nation." Photo dated: August 6, 1952.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00048719
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9535.
CARL0000052570
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17072
Subject
Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Presidential candidates
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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