The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency.

"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance": First Edition of the Memoirs of Lyndon B. Johnson; Inscribed by Him to Lloyd Bentsen

The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency.

JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines .

Item Number: 119567

New York : Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

First edition of President Johnson’s autobiography. Octavo, original red cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson to former four-term United States Senator Lloyd Millard Bentsen on a Presidential bookplate affixed to the half-title page, “To B. A. & Lloyd Bentsen My devoted friend through the years – with much affection Lyndon B. Johnson.” The recipient, Lloyd 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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David November. Jacket photograph by Y. R. Okamoto. An exceptional association linking these two political giants from Texas.

One of the most complex and fascinating men to occupy the Presidency of the United States describes his years in the White House.

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