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Impressive collection of eight official 'bill signer' pens used by President Lyndon B. Johnson in signing ceremonies dated between 1964 and 1968, which includes five Eversharp felt tip pens, each 5.25˝ long with a navy-blue plastic barrel bearing a gold facsimile signature with the presidential seal and a silver-tone cap section, and three Esterbrook dipping pens, 6.25˝ long with features a black plastic grip and a Lucite handle imprinted with "The President—The White House." Each pen comes with its original typed caption and box, with replacement ink cartridges included with the felt tip pens.
The pens, as indicated by their respective caption sheet, were used for the following pieces of legislation (ordered chronologically):
October 16, 1964 – S. 3060, “An Act to amend and extend the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and to extend Public Laws 815 and 874, Eighty-first Congress (federally affected areas).”
August 4, 1965 – H. R. 2985, “An Act to authorize assistance in meeting the initial cost of professional and technical personnel for comprehensive community mental health centers, and for other purposes.”
August 9, 1965, H. R. 2984, “An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act provisions for construction of health research facilities by extending the expiration date thereof and providing increased support for the program, to authorize additional Assitant Secretaries in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and for other purposes.”
September 29, 1965 – S. 1483, “An Act to provide for the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the United States, and for other purposes.”
September 16, 1966 – H.R. 8989, “An Act to promote health and safety in metal and nonmetallic mineral industries, and for other purposes.”
September 23, 1966 – H.R. 13712, “An Act to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to extend its protection to additional employees, to raise the minimum wage and for other purposes.”
November 3, 1966 – H.R. 13196, Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966; S. 3008, Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Amendments of 1966; H. R. 14644, “An Act to amend the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, the Higher Education Act of 1965, and the National Defense Education Act of 1958; H. R. 13161, An Act to strengthen and improve programs of assistance for elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.”
September 30, 1968 – H. R. 18763, “An Act to authorize preschool and early education programs for handicapped children.”
Also included is an unused Eversharp LBJ ‘bill signer’ felt tip pen, which includes a letter of transmittal from Johnson’s special assistant, Douglass Cater, dated July 7, 1967, which reads: “Even though the ceremony had to be cancelled, the President would like you to have this pen as a memento of the signing of H. R. 6431 — the Mental Health Centers Construction Act. It comes to you with his best wishes, and with our thanks for your continuing efforts in this vital field.” In overall fine condition, with some where to the boxes.
Accompanied by two glass “Connecticut Citizen for Kennedy” ashtrays, bot facsimile signatures of John F. Kennedy, and a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Zippo lighter with engraved presidential seal on one side and the other bearing Kennedy’s famous quote from his 1961 inaugural address: “Ask not what this country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country.”
