[Rarebooks] FS: Black Man in the White House

[Charles Agvent]

One of 150 interesting items included in our HOLIDAY 2008 Catalogue now 
posted on our web site.  Included are beautifully bound classics, signed 
books, fine press titles, poetry, illustrated books, and the unusual.

MORROW, E. Frederic. [EISENHOWER, Dwight; NIXON, Richard; JOHNSON,
Lyndon;  KENNEDY,  Robert;  ROCKEFELLER,  Nelson]. BLACK  MAN  IN  THE
WHITE  HOUSE  with  Letters  to the  Author  from  Eisenhower,  Nixon,
Johnson,  Kennedy,  Rockefeller, and Lindsay.

New York:  Coward-McCann (1963).  First  Edition.
Superb archive of material  related  to  the first  African American to 
serve as a policy-making aide in the  White House.   Morrow  served  as 
  Officer   for  Special  Projects  in  the Eisenhower  administration 
from 1955-1961. Includes a Review Copy  of Morrow's  book BLACK MAN IN 
THE WHITE HOUSE which details his  actions and  thoughts  while serving 
during the turbulent birth of  the  Civil Rights  Movement  as well as a 
copy of the official WHITE HOUSE  STAFF BOOK  1953-61  (copy #68 of a 
small unstated limited  edition),  and a group of letters: one TYPED 
LETTER SIGNED (TLS) from Mamie Eisenhower; five  TLSs  from  Dwight 
Eisenhower on White House  stationery,  three SIGNED  with  initials, 
and two post-Presidential TLSs; two TLSs  from Robert Kennedy, one 
framed and the other a possible autopen signature; two  TLSs from 
Richard Nixon, one dated August 1968 and stating  "This year  we  are 
going to win" and the other on White  House  stationery SIGNED  with 
initials; and two fine framed TLSs from Lyndon Johnson on White  House 
stationery,  each with references to  the  Civil  Rights movement:    24 
   March  1965  (three   days  after   the   Montgomery march)--"Your 
own service here in this House meant much to the  cause for  which we 
work now ... and I assure you our efforts will  continue without 
ceasing,  until justice prevails"--and 11 June 1965--"At  the core of 
the American creed is the sense of fairness and a passion for justice." 
  There are also  letters  from  Rose  Mary  Woods,  Nelson Rockefeller, 
  and  John  Lindsay.  Wonderful  archive.  Book  in  Good condition; 
letters Near Fine.                                 $7500.00

See the AP article today in the New York Times and other papers: "Blacks 
and the White House: Slavery and Service": "Not only did blacks work in 
the White House, they also started working at the White House. E. 
Frederick Morrow was the first African-American appointed a White House 
aide by Eisenhower in 1955."
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