Lloyd Millard Bentsen Autograph Letter Archive.

BENTSEN, Lloyd Millard [Jimmy Carter].

$3,000.00

Item Number: 119532

Rare archive of autograph letters, photographs, and commemorative stamp folios from the collection of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Millard Bentsen. The archive includes a photograph of Bentsen with Jimmy Carter, inscribed by Carter to him, “Thanks & best wishes to my good friend Lloyd Bentsen – Jimmy Carter 2-21-80”, two autograph letters and one typed letter signed by Lady Bird Johnson to Bentsen and his wife Beryl Ann thanking them for recent visits to the LBJ ranch, an autograph note signed by Kitty Dukakis regarding Lloyd Sr.’s passing, two commemorative stamp folios with autograph notes laid in signed by the Postmaster General, a commemorative autograph photograph singed by Bentsen and a U.S. Congressional Coin. In fine condition. A unique and revealing archive.

Former four-term United States Senator Lloyd Millard Bentsen ran as the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket and served as the the 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton. As a primary architect of the Clinton economic plan, Bentsen contributed to a $500 billion reduction in the deficit, launching the longest period of economic growth since World War II. More than 5 million new jobs were created during his tenure as Secretary. Bentsen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.