Johnson, Lyndon Baines, thirty-sixth President

Message to Congress. Address of the President of the United States. Delivered before a Joint Session of the Senate and the House of Representatives.  November 27, 1963. [Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1963]

8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.; 240 x 160 mm). Tipped-in halftone portrait of LBJ.  Blue pebbled leather, upper cover lettered gilt with title and presidential seal, gilt initials of LBJ and McNamara ("R.S.M.") at the bottom, marbled endpapers; spine cracked and dry with some minor losses, fore-edges rubbed.  

8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.; 240 x 160 mm). Tipped-in halftone portrait of LBJ. Blue pebbled leather, upper cover lettered gilt with title and presidential seal, gilt initials of LBJ and McNamara ("R.S.M.") at the bottom, marbled endpapers; spine cracked and dry with some minor losses, fore-edges rubbed.
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Presentation copy from LBJ, inscribed by the President in black felt tip pen: "For Marge & Bob." LBJ's signature below the introduction is stamped in blue ink.