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Association Copy. Signed by Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson inscribed to Paul Nitze. To Paul Nitze with the deepest affection and admiration from Dean Acheson Washington November 1955Text clean. Unclipped ($3,00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. From Wikipedia...Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As the 51st U.S. Secretary of State, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was Truman's main foreign policy advisor from 1945 to 1947, especially regarding the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was in private law practice from July 1947 to December 1948.[2] After 1949 Acheson came under partisan political attack from Republicans led by Senator Joseph McCarthy over Truman's policy toward the People's Republic of China.As a private citizen in 1968 he counseled President Lyndon B.… Read More

Signed on first page: Sherman Adams Clean text. Unclipped price ($5.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.Book in good condition with discoloration on some pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with some chips in top and bottom of jacket on and around spine. Sherman Adams was an American businessman and politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of an 18-year political career that also included a stint as the 67th governor of New Hampshire. He lost his White House position in a scandal.
Eisenhower adopted the military model, which emphasizes the importance of the Chief of Staff in handling all of the paperwork and preliminary decisions. With rare exceptions, anyone who spoke with Eisenhower had to have Adams' prior approval. Adams took his role as Chief of Staff very seriously; with the exception of Cabinet members and certain NSC advisors, all requests for access to Eisenhower had to go through his office. This alienated… Read More

Signed on page with forward: Feb. 18, 1964 With best wishes, Fred Schwengel(Schwengel was the President of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. This book was nearly completed by the printer when President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The first bound copy was to be presented to him on December 4th. One of the last few pages of the book are a moving tribute to JFK. It states, "Thus he warmly approved of the objectives of the United States Capitol Historical Society. He served as a member of its Honorary Board of Trustees." The Capitol Historical Society was chartered under the laws of the District of Columbia on August 8, 1962. It is my belief that this is the first edition of We, The People ever produced. I have not found any evidence of anything earlier. It has been published every year since.

Beautifully signed in red: J. Anthony Lukas on first page (see picture). Clean text. Unclipped price ($15.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Small folds and shelf wear in top of jacket on spine.
Book in very good condition and dust jacket in very good condition J. Anothony Lukas was an extraordinary talented writer and researcher twice winning the Pulitzer Prize. Lukas suffered from depression ultimately committing suicide by hanging. Lukas began his professional journalism career at the Baltimore Sun, then moved to The New York Times. He stayed at the Times for nine years, working as a roving reporter, and serving at the Washington, D.C., New York City, and United Nations bureaus, and overseas in Ceylon, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa and Zaire. After working at the New York Times Magazine as a staff writer and freelancer for a short time in the 1970s (where he notably covered the Watergate scandal in two issue-length articles that served as the basis for a 1976 book,… Read More