Photograph of Lyndon Johnson Inscribed to Arthur Goldberg
1965568571965. U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Supreme Court. Portrait Photograph of Lyndon Johnson Inscribed To Supreme Court Justice and UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg Johnson Lyndon Baines 1908-1973. Goldberg Arthur 1908-1990. Photograph of Johnson Inscribed to Goldberg. N.p. N.d. 1965. 8" x 10" color portrait photograph printed credit in the image at bottom left glazed and framed in tasteful black-and-gold wooden 16" x 19" frame. Bold inscription and full signature below image. A few tiny nicks to frame image fine. $5000. The undated inscription reads "To Arthur Goldberg-/ With the high regard and affection/ of his friend-/ Lyndon B. Johnson." Appointed by President Kennedy Goldberg was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 to 1965 and one of the most significant justices of the twentieth century. In his three terms on the bench he pushed the Court toward a broader construction of personal rights a course it followed over the following two decades. He is best known for his influential 1963 internal Supreme Court memorandum that condemned capital punishment as an example of "cruel and unusual punishment" as defined by the Eighth Amendment and his opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 which argued against a Connecticut law banning the use of contraceptives because it violated an un-enumerated right to privacy guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment. The memo initiated a wave of litigation and legislation that led to the abolition of the death penalty in several states; the Griswold opinion laid the foundation for Roe v. Wade 1973 which established a women's right to have an abortion. When Adlai Stevenson Ambassador to the United Nations died in 1965 President Johnson decided to appoint Goldberg to fill his seat. Johnson's larger plan was to put Abe Fortas on the bench because he knew Fortas would defend his Great Society programs and spy on the Court for him. Probably a recipient of the legendary Johnson "treatment" Goldberg was persuaded to resign while flying to Stevenson's funeral on Air Force One. Goldberg went on to say that he accepted the UN Ambassadorship in order to resolve the Vietnam Conflict. This photograph may be a memento of that 1965 flight or one of the tools Johnson used to persuade Goldberg. unknown books
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