Lot 4253
Johnson, Lyndon B (1908-1973) 36th President of the United States, 1963-1969. Autograph Note Signed ("L") as President, n.p., n.d., 4 pp, quarto. The President penned a directive, "J / Have him see Bill and Dick G" at the end of a letter from Clyde T. Ellis, General Manager of the Nation Rural Electric Cooperative Association, dated March 30, 1965. Ellis makes a dramatic proposal to the President, advocating the launch of a rural electrification program in South Vietnam. In part: "The Viet Cong strike in the dark. They hide by day in jungle patches; move mostly at night. They are scared of the light; the South Vietnamese are scared of the dark. The South Vietnamese control most of South Viet Nam by day, the Viet Cong much of it by night….Some skeptics will doubtless say that the Cong will cut the wires, shoot out the lights. No doubt they will some. But how mad do you think that will make South Vietnamese? One trouble is that the South Vietnamese are not mad, or not mad enough, at the North Vietnamese…." Two memos are attached: one to Bill Moyers, LBJ's press secretary, and the second from Moyers, designating the letter "For the President's Night Reading." Good content.
Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500.
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