Lot 34
Kennedy, John F. -- JFK Handwrites LBJ's Home Address & Telephone Number (1917-63) 35th President of the United States (1961-63). A highly uncommon and choice unsigned item on JFK's United States Senate letterhead on which he pencils "Johnson --/ 4921 30th Place / WO6-7273." A researcher at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library years ago verified the data as LBJ's District of Columbia street address and telephone number. Above it, Kennedy drew a small square with four diagonal lines therein and, below, what appears to be a cabin or boat and tackle shop with seagulls flying overhead. It is too bad that this piece is undated as historians would love to assume that JFK wrote this information in the summer of 1955, immediately upon hearing the news of Johnson's severe heart attack. Nonetheless, Kennedy would select Johnson as his vice presidential running mate in 1960 and the pair would defeat the Nixon-Lodge ticket that November. Three years later, Kennedy's assassination would make Johnson the 36th president of the United States. The 10½x8" stationery has one horizontal fold and a crease which runs along the top left border, nowhere near JFK's writing; otherwise in fine condition. From the papers of Kennedy's friend, the late Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of Ohio (1886-1970), thence from Mrs. Kirwan to future presidential historian John Burke Jovich. Estimated Value $750 - UP
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