[Rarebooks] FS: Important Civil Rights Association Copy: LBJ to Katzenbach

[Charles Agvent]

JOHNSON, Lyndon B. THE VANTAGE POINT: PERSPECTIVES OF THE PRESIDENCY 
1963-1969 Inscribed to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. 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 backed with a gilt-lettered red morocco leather spine. 
Illustrated with photographs. Copy #99 of 300 SIGNED by the author on 
the limitation page. In addition, LBJ has filled the dedication page 
with a superb INSCRIPTION to Johnson's Attorney General Nicholas 
Katzenbach and his wife Lydia "a pair who gave their all-- to/their 
Country and their President/ably and well-- with appreciation and 
affection/Lyndon B. Johnson." Katzenbach is cited about 20 times in the 
index. Typical wear to this terrible choice for a binding with some 
separation of the covers and cracking of the leather with some splitting 
to the front hinge and light foxing to bulked text edges. 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 Good and stable 
with a great inscription. Good in a Fine clamshell box.

Nicholas Katzenbach was famously sent by President Kennedy to Alabama to 
confront Governor George Wallace in the federal desegregation of the 
University of Alabama when Wallace threatened to block the registration 
of two African American students to the all-white university on 11 June 
1963, an incident known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door." 
Katzenbach and the federalized National Guard confronted Wallace on the 
steps of Foster Auditorium, where the registration was to take place, 
and eventually Wallace backed down. That night Kennedy addressed the 
nation: “If an American, because his skin is dark cannot eat lunch in a 
restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the 
best public school available, if he cannot vote for public officials who 
represent him, if in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which 
all of us want, the who among us would be content to have the color of 
skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content 
with the counsels of patience and delay.” Katzenbach also, as Kennedy's 
Deputy Attorney General, called Johnson after Kennedy's Assassination to 
dictate the wording of the oath of office that Johnson was to take 
shortly after and later provided advice that led to the creation of the 
Warren Commission. Johnson would later direct Katzenbach to draft a 
Civil Rights bill which eventually passed as the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, the most sweeping civil rights legislation in the nation's 
history. (#021608)        $12,500

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