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Auction: 322 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 517

U.S. Government and Politics lot. Walter Mondale. 42nd Vice President of the United States, under Jimmy Carter. Typed letter signed, dated April 8, 1977 on "The Vice President" letterhead; also 1984 presidential election, 8 ½ x 10" color campaign photo of Mondale with running mate Geraldine Ferraro, signed by both in black marker; Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress, serving from 1973-1978. Typed letter signed, Nov. 28, 1978 on CA Legislature Assembly letterhead with 5 ½ x 8 ½ b&w photo of Ms. Braithwaite Burke signed in blue marker; *Typed Letters Signed by Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State 1977-1980) - Oct.2, 1980, Leonard Woodcock (first US ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China) - 1980 on embassy letterhead, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1979-1981) - 1980 on embassy letterhead, Oklahoma politician Carl Albert (the "Little Giant from Little Dixie") - 1979, Clark M. Clifford (lawyer, political advisor to Truman, JFK, LBJ and Carter) - 1982 with handwritten comment by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, also additional Clifford autograph on white card, Allan Cranston (journalist and CA Senator) - two letters 1982 and 1986, media personality and commentator James Carville; *Autograph Letters Signed by Owen Lattimore (author, educator and influential scholar of China and Central Asia) - good contents mainly on China in 2 pages, on Rutgers University letterhead (where Lattimore was doing a semester as a visiting professor) 5 Feb. 1979, George Kennan (advisor, diplomat and historian) - 1981, Boston politician John W. McCormack - 1979 with addressed envelope in his hand; *Autograph Signatures of commentator, columnist, politician Pat Buchanan, Frank Carlucci (Secretary of Defense 1987-1989), Civil Rights leader Julian Bond; CIA Director (1966-1973) Richard Helms and Samuel Dash (chief counsel during Watergate) on 8 1/3 x 4" white cards; and Typed Letter Signed by Texas Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez, Oct. 20, 1987 with autographed copy of House Resolution 111 (to impeach Ronald Reagan for "high crimes and misdemeanors") - both signatures in blue marker, autograph signature of Earl Butz (Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford) with salutation on Richard M. Nixon cachet envelope, signed b&w photo of Civil Rights leader Barbara Jordan, and large color Nixon family photo postcard signed on verso by Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower -- both in black marker. Generally About Very Fine-VF. [27]

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