Lot 70
Johnson, Lyndon B. Wood cigar box that was owned and used by President Johnson. The hinged case is made of blond mahogany with cherry wood at each end; it measures 10½ x 7 x 2 inches. It was given to Toinette Marya "Toi" Bachelder by LBJ. Bachelder provides a note of provenance, dated May 29, 1987, and handwritten on a white card imprinted with a blue Presidential Seal and "The White House / Washington." Toi worked in the White House from 1933 to 1967, during the administrations of five Presidents. A fellow victim of polio, Bachelder first met Franklin Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Georgia, when she was 14 years old. They struck up a friendship and when FDR became President, she was offered a secretarial position at the White House and became part of his inner circle. She stayed on through the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, mostly in the office of the special counsel to the President. During the Eisenhower administration, she was in charge of correspondence for Mamie Eisenhower. In her note, Toi writes, "When I retired in 1967, President Johnson held a private reception for me in the Cabinet Room and the Oval Office."
Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500.
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