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Sale 121
Lot 22
Nixon, Richard M: 125+ Signed Pieces Charting Nixon's Presidential Career & Watergate Including Nine Signed Pieces by the President. The best archive of Nixon and all the president's men and women impacted by Watergate Goldberg Auctions has offered.
(1913-1994) 37th President of the United States, 36th Vice-President to Eisenhower, who saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with the Soviet Union and China, established the Environmental Protection Agency and became the only president to resign from office. Incredible archive of over 125 signed pieces with several having multiple signatures. The collection boasts nine (9) signed pieces by Nixon, Signed cover by Nixon, Gerald Ford and Bebe Rebozo COA by JSA, Signed 8 x 10 Photo from early 60s Letter of Authenticity by JSA, one a double-weight 8 x 10" photo likely from the late 1950's inscribed and signed in black fountain ink (tiny smearing), the others are post-presidency, include four book plates, one cover and one business card, Pat Nixon has signed and inscribed a beautiful 8 x 10 color portrait photo, mounted and signed along 1½" border of mat. There are three signed pieces by former Vice-President, Spiro Agnew including a color 8 x 10" signed and inscribed, and two TLS, one on letterhead as Governor of Maryland, the other as Vice-President.
There is an abundance of material, signed photos, covers, magazine covers, and letters signed in two packed binders that cataloging limitations call for a simple list. 12 x Sam Ervin, Earl Butz, Alexander Butterfield, David M. Kennedy, 10 x Howard Baker, Mo Udall, Chuck Colson, 4 x Elliott Richardson, Hamilton Jordan, Archibald Cox, John Dean, John Erlichman, G. Gordon Liddy, Thomas J. Dodd, Louis Patrick Gray, Alexander Haig, H.R. Haldeman, Wayne Hayes, Clifford Hardin, Liz Holtzman, E. Howard Hunt, Edward Hutchinson, 6 x Daniel Inouye, 4 x Leon Jaworski, Richard Kleindienst, John McClellan, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Frank Sturgis, 5 x Joseph Montoya, Rogers Morton, Laurence O'Brien, John Mitchell, Kenneth Parkinson, Bebe Rebozo, William Rogers, John Sirica, George Smathers, John Stennis, 5 x Lowell Weicker, Ron Ziegler, John J. Wilson, 4 x Carl Albert, Maurice Stans, 5 x Rosemary Woods, Diane Sawyer (she used to be Nixon's personal assistant!) and finally a superb 8 x 10" color portrait signed by Henry Kissinge
All items in excellent condition. Estimated Value $2,000 - UP
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