[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Limited Lyndon Johnson INSCRIBED to Cyrus Vance

[Charles Agvent]

JOHNSON, Lyndon B. THE VANTAGE POINT: PERSPECTIVES OF THE PRESIDENCY 
1963-1969 Inscribed to Cyrus Vance. New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 
(1971). First Edition. Bound in publisher's flimsy and impractical 
padded red leather housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box. 
Illustrated with photographs. Copy #47 of 300 SIGNED by the author on 
the limitation page. In addition, LBJ has filled the dedication page 
with an absolutely superb INSCRIPTION to his Deputy Secretary of 
Defense: "To/Cy Vance/Loyal sturdy wise/a good man to have as friend/and 
associate--/from his friend/Lyndon B. Johnson Xmas 71." Vance, whose 
ownership signature is on the front endpaper, is cited about 20 times in 
the index. Typical wear to this terrible choice for a binding with some 
separation of the covers. Most copies of this scarce book that we have 
seen over the years have been heavily repaired or rebound. This copy is 
untouched and still about Very Good and with a great inscription. Very 
Good in a Fine clamshell box.

Cyrus Vance was general counsel of the Defense Department and then the 
Secretary of the Army during the John F. Kennedy administration when 
units were sent to northern Mississippi in 1962 to protect James 
Meredith and ensure that the court-ordered integration of the University 
of Mississippi took place. As Deputy Secretary of Defense under Johnson, 
he first supported the Vietnam War but by the late 1960s changed his 
views and resigned from office advising the president to pull out of 
South Vietnam. In 1968 he served as a delegate to peace talks in Paris 
and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. Serving as 
Secretary of State in the Jimmy Carter administration, Vance was heavily 
instrumental in Carter's decision to return the Canal Zone to Panama and 
in the Camp David Accords agreement between Israel and Egypt. Vance 
resigned in opposition to Carter's plan, which eventually failed, to 
rescue the Iranian hostages. In the movie ARGO, Vance was portrayed by 
actor Bob Gunton. (#016926) $9,500

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