Vantage Point, The Johnson, Lyndon Baines Americana,Biography,Film,Presidents,Signed Copies

Signed in black marker by Lyndon Baines Johnson on a front blank leaf JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point. Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First edition. Octavo (9 3/16 x 6 1/8 inches; 234 x 155 mm.). [2, signature leaf, verso blank, [xii], 636 pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photogravures and maps. Publisher's red cloth over boards, front cover and spine blocked in blue and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. A near fine copy in the original printed dust jacket, a little worn at extremities and glassine starting to peel at lower edge. Signed in black marker "Lyndon Baines Johnson" on a front blank leaf. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator. Johnson is one of only three, along with Richard Nixon and Andrew Johnson, to have served in all four federally elected positions of the U.S. government.