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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4534708, member: 101855"][ATTACH=full]1122818[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1122819[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p>Designer Walker Hancock</p><p><br /></p><p>Diameter 70 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Mintages 3 in gold, 1,033 in silver, 21,705 in bronze</p><p><br /></p><p>Notes: President Eisenhower requested that Richard Nixon’s portrait appear on his second inaugural medal and once more asked Walker Hancock to design it. Hancock had moved to Rome to serve as the Sculptor in Residence at the American Academy, where he had been a fellow 30 years earlier. He was not prepared for the request but felt obligated to accept it. He was forced to work from photos and had many problems with the obverse lettering. Those difficulties accounted for the simplicity of the reverse design.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Many Republicans were concerned that Dwight Eisenhower would not run for re-election in 1956 after a heart attack and an attack of ileitis. Some of them issued this “draft Eisenhower” before the 1956 convention.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1122821[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Dwight Eisenhower ran with a young Richard Nixon in 1952 and 1956.</i></p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1122824[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4534708, member: 101855"][ATTACH=full]1122818[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1122819[/ATTACH] Designer Walker Hancock Diameter 70 mm Mintages 3 in gold, 1,033 in silver, 21,705 in bronze Notes: President Eisenhower requested that Richard Nixon’s portrait appear on his second inaugural medal and once more asked Walker Hancock to design it. Hancock had moved to Rome to serve as the Sculptor in Residence at the American Academy, where he had been a fellow 30 years earlier. He was not prepared for the request but felt obligated to accept it. He was forced to work from photos and had many problems with the obverse lettering. Those difficulties accounted for the simplicity of the reverse design. [I]Many Republicans were concerned that Dwight Eisenhower would not run for re-election in 1956 after a heart attack and an attack of ileitis. Some of them issued this “draft Eisenhower” before the 1956 convention.[/I] [ATTACH=full]1122821[/ATTACH] [I]Dwight Eisenhower ran with a young Richard Nixon in 1952 and 1956.[/I] [ATTACH=full]1122824[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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