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1964 HARRY TRUMAN SIGNATURES ON
THREE-DOCUMENT SET .................................... PH $200-300

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D 1974 RICHARD NIXON TICKET TO IMPEACHMENT
PROCEEDINGS ................................................ PH $1000-1500

Inscribed B&W photo (3"x5") and matching post-presidency
TLS on personal letterhead dated Nov 24, 1964. Also signed
boldly by Truman. Complete with original envelope with
stamped franking signature.
815

Rare card stock Senate ticket (5"x2½”) to impeachment trial
of President Richard M Nixon. Reads: ‘United States Senate,
Impeachment of the President, Admit Bearer to Galleries,
October 7, 1974.’ With facsimile signature of the U.S. Senate’s
Sergeant at Arms. Ticket stub, still intact, reads: ‘United States
Senate Galleries, October 7, 1974.’ Nixon’s resignation on Aug
9 nullified these tickets, which had already been printed, likely
between Aug 1-8. Very scarce memento of trying time in
American history. Very fine. (University Archives LOA)

/D 1968 LYNDON B. JOHNSON SIGNED LETTER
DISCUSSING ECONOMY, VIETNAM .............. PH $1500-2000

Typed letter (6½”x8½”) signed ‘Lyndon B. Johnson’ as
president, one page, on White House letterhead, Jan 15, 1968.
Addressed to Kingsbury Smith, 22 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris,
France. Brief form-like letter in full, ‘Dick Berlin has sent me
some of your recent dispatches on our efforts to strengthen the
dollar and win peace in Asia. Your insights and confidence are
a great encouragement and all here who share the burden of
America’s large responsibilities are grateful for the strength of
your partnership.’ Uniformly tanned. Fine. Joseph KingsburySmith (1908-1999) won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Reporting of International Affairs as a member of a
three-man team that included William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
and Frank Conniff. (Accompanied by University Archives LOA)

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/D 1990 RONALD REAGAN, INFORMAL ‘DUTCH’
SIGNATURE ON NOTE TO FRIEND ................ PH $1500-2000

Signing ‘Dutch,’ Reagan writes July 11, 1990, note to 97-yearold widow of Iowa radio station program director who gave
him his first job 58 years earlier: ‘We’re off to the ranch again
tomorrow and looking forward to it.’ Card is 6¼”x4¼” ivory
colored with presidential seal and ‘Ronald Reagan’. Note reads:
‘Dear Hup Rcvd. Your letter and happy to hear the result of
your exam. Sorry though about Dottie and Myrtle. I’m happy
to report my finger has healed and I didn’t lose the nail. We’re
off to the ranch again tomorrow and looking forward to it. We
try to get there for a few days each month. Weather here is
unusually hot right now. Well lots of love and you are in our
prayers too. All the Best – Dutch’. Touching note in a series
that began in the 1940s and ended only with her death in 1995.
Lightly smudged at right. Fine. (University Archives LOA)

816 /D 1971 HARRY TRUMAN SIGNED LETTER,
MENTIONS ‘ATOMIC AGE’ ............................. PH $7500-10,000

Rare mention of ‘nuclear weapons’ by the only leader to authorize
their use. Typed letter on Truman’s personal stationery from
Independence, MO, dated June 9, 1971. Letter thanks the Los
Alamos Veterans Reunion Committee for their gift of commemorative coins and ‘mounted sample of fused sand of the New Mexico
desert’. Signed in black ink, just a year and a half before his death.
Very fine. Few recorded documents have Truman mentioning the
atomic bomb. Rare. (University Archives LOA).

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