[Rarebooks] FS: LBJ Inscribed to Morris Udall

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Wed Oct 7 11:43:15 EDT 2009


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JOHNSON, Lyndon B. NO RETREAT FROM TOMORROW. PRESIDENT LYNDON B. 
JOHNSON'S 1967 MESSAGES TO THE 90TH CONGRESS. n.p., [1967]. First 
Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11"); illustrated with photographs. Fine 
Association Copy SIGNED by the President on a bookplate with a printed 
presentation "To Morris K. Udall with my best wishes Christmas 1967." Mo 
Udall, who played one year of professional basketball with the Denver 
Nuggets, served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from 1961 to 1991. 
His brother Stewart Udall was Kennedy's Secretary of the Interior. A 
Mormon, Mo Udall was known for his championship of environmental causes 
and his devotion to campaign finance reform and the welfare of Native 
Americans. In 1976, he ran for the Democratic nomination for President 
losing to Jimmy Carter by 1% in the Wisconsin Primary and finishing a 
distant second place to Carter at the Democratic National Convention. In 
1996, Udall received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President 
Clinton. He died in 1998 as a result of complications from Parkinson's 
disease. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper.           $1,500.00	
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