Letter to Helen Keller on the Occasion of Her 75th Birthday.

[Released June 26, 1955. Dated June 17, 1955]

Dear Miss Keller:

Please accept my warm congratulations on your forthcoming seventy-fifth birthday. The story of your accomplishments is not only a monument to your own great gifts of mind and heart. It is also an enduring inspiration--in many lands--to those who suffer physical handicaps and to those who seek to help the disabled toward richer lives. With all who honor you, I am glad to join in best wishes and in the hope that future years will bring you happiness.

Sincerely,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Miss Helen Keller

American Foundation for the Blind, Inc.

New York, N.Y.