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Document 253480

LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The Vice President thanks Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg for birthday wishes.
TLS: "Lyndon" as JFK's Vice President, 1p, 7x9. Washington, 1961 September 1. To Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg. In full: "It was with great pleasure that I received your thoughtful and heart-warming letter on my birthday. Thank you for your good wishes. I am grateful to have good friends as you, upon whom I and our Nation may rely, to represent our best interests in the years ahead. With many thanks, and warm personal regards." LYNDON B. JOHNSON, who had turned 53 on August 27th, was given more responsibility than any of his predecessors in the nation's second highest office. He worked as hard as Vice President as he had in the Senate, regularly sitting in on meetings of JFK's Cabinet and the National Security Council. In addition, he served as Chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities, the National Aeronautics and Space Council and the Peace Corps Advisory Council. Johnson was also Kennedy's goodwill ambassador, traveling the globe on diplomatic missions. ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG served as President Kennedy's Secretary of Labor from 1961-1962, when he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1962-1965). In 1965, President Johnson convinced Goldberg to resign from his Supreme Court post, a lifetime appointment, to succeed Adlai E. Stevenson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Stevenson had collapsed and died in London. Goldberg's frustration at the continuing escalation of the Vietnam War prompted him to resign his U.N. post in 1968. Receipt stamp at upper blank area. Fine condition.

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