On December 1st, we stood outside the White House gates in the same spot where we had been as six and 10-year-old boys in 1953. On the earlier visit, we gave a guard a letter for President Eisenhower that Michael had handwritten, asking the President to send our mommy and daddy home. Eisenhower did not act, and five days later, our parents were executed. Now it’s 63 years later and we’ve sent a new letter to a different president. On December 1st we tried once again to deliver a copy in person. We weren’t able to hand our letter to a guard this time. But later that day, the White House Press Secretary told the media that the copy of the letter we mailed to President Obama had been received. Responding to questions in a media briefing about whether the request would be given consideration, the Press Secretary said: “I’m sure we’ll take a look." Will you help keep up the pressure by calling the White House and asking President Obama to exonerate Ethel, then calling your own members of Congress and asking them to support our effort? Please call the White House at (202) 456-1111 and your own representatives in Congress (visit http://www.whoismyrepresentative.com for contact info). Here’s some suggested language: "A huge body of evidence shows Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and our government knew that but executed her anyway. I'm one of 45,000 people, including Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, who want President Obama to act on the request from Ethel Rosenbergs' sons Michael and Robert Meeropol, and exonerate her." The last two weeks have been remarkable: --- Almost 30,000 news reports on the exoneration campaign – including original reporting by the Associated Press, CNN, all the network news channels, the Washington Post, and other major media - have run in outlets around the U.S. and in other countries including Canada, England, Israel and Japan. --- 5,000 more people have signed the petition asking President Obama to act, bringing the total to nearly 45,000. --- The editorial board of The Boston Globe called on President Obama to act, noting, “Recent Republican evocations of Japanese-American internment camps and talk of reviving the House Un-American Activities Committee to fight terrorism are worrisome reminders that this nation may again turn darkly toward a series of injustices in the name of justice. More than ever, what happened to Ethel Rosenberg, wrongly branded as a traitor and sent to her death because of her political beliefs, should haunt America.” --- Several elected officials from Massachusetts (where my father and I live) have endorsed the campaign, including U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern (2nd District, MA), who sent his own letter to the President asking him to exonerate my grandmother, and former governor Michael Dukakis. --- Thousands of people around the country have tweeted and made phone calls to the White House and to members of Congress in support of the exoneration effort. Please help us keep this momentum building as the President considers our request. Call the White House and your members of Congress and ask them to act. (If the phone lines are busy, please wait a few hours or even a day, and try again.) We are so grateful for your support.