To Heal and to Build: The Programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

BURNS, James MacGregor; [Lyndon B. Johnson].

$1,250.00

Item Number: 147089

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1968.

First edition, second printing of this collection of forty-seven Presidential speeches from the 36th president of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, boldly inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the front free endpaper, “To Dr. George Davis, with best wishes and appreciation Lyndon B. Johnson.” The recipient, Dr. George R. Davis, was President Johnson’s pastor at the National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C. He conducted the state funeral ceremonies for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears to the extremities of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Judie Mills. An exceptional association.

Lyndon Baines Johnson was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. A Democrat from Texas, he previously served as a United States Representative from 1937 to 1949 and then as a United States Senator from 1949 to 1961. He spent six years as Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader, and two more as Senate Majority Whip. "There was no more powerful majority leader in American history" (Robert Dallek).