of the perjuries involved in the government's case against her. This request was accompanied by the documents including grand jury minutes supporting their arguments. On December 1, 2016 Meeropol and his brother Robert stood outside the White House gate to symbolically re-create the effort they engaged in back in 1953 when Michael delivered a handwritten letter to President Eisenhower asking for clemency for his parents to a White House guard. They turned in petitions containing more than 60,000 signatures in support of their request. The request received no response, and it is unclear if President Obama was ever aware of the request. Meeropol published a 2018 article revisiting his uncle David Greenglass' testimony and role in the Rosenberg case. References External links 1943 births Living people American adoptees Economists from New York (state) 20th-century American Jews Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Scientists from New York City People from Toms River, New Jersey Swarthmore College alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Western New England University faculty Educators from New York City Economists from New Jersey 21st-century American economists 21st-century American Jews