Auction 739 April.

Hardcover 1928 The Pedagog yearbook from the Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas, 314 pages, 9.5 x 12.5, signed and inscribed above his ‘Debate Team’ portrait in ink, “Dear Helen: It has indeed been a pleasure to know such a girl as you. Your charming personality is something that all girls would like to have. You, no doubt, will make a success in whatever field you enter. Happiness should certainly be yours, your friend, Lyndon B. Johnson.” Johnson is pictured three more times throughout the yearbook: his sophomore portrait is pictured on page 77, and he’s shown as a member of The Pegagog (yearbook) and The College Star (school newspaper) staff on pages 148 and 150. Additionally, on page 302 is a printed quote/poem from Johnson, printed next to a drawing of a donkey: “As he looks to us on the campus every day. From far away, and we sincerely trust he is going back. Sophistry Club. Master of the gentle art of spoofing the general public.” In fine condition.

In 1928, after completing his freshman year in college, Lyndon Johnson took a teaching assignment in Cotulla, Texas, instructing 5th, 6th, and 7th graders at the Welhausen School, which largely provided education for the city’s impoverished Mexican-American population. Johnson held deep sympathy for his Hispanic students and the socioeconomic problems they faced, and he brought strict discipline into his classroom, organizing his young students to participate in debate, declamation, spelling bees, and physical education—opportunities they had never had before. His care and efforts were not unnoticed, and soon after arriving in Cotulla, Johnson was appointed school principal. LBJ’s experiences in Cotulla had a significant impact on his understanding of poverty, discrimination, and inequality, and shaped his later policies and efforts as President during the Civil Rights movement.

Official gilt-edged menu from a White House state dinner on Monday, May 4, 1964, 4.25 x 6.5, stamped in gilt with the presidential seal, signed in black felt tip by Lyndon B. Johnson. In very fine condition.

Vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 7.25 photo of Johnson in a suit and tie, affixed to a 9 x 12 mount, signed and inscribed on the mount in fountain pen, "To Benjamin Muse—with appreciation for your work on the Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces, 1963–65. Lyndon B. Johnson.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing, and two small areas of surface loss, to the mount.

A veteran of World War I and World War II, Benjamin Muse was a journalist and head of the Southern Regional Council’s Southern Leadership Project. He served on the President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces, formed in 1962 by John F. Kennedy to investigate 'continuing discrimination against military personnel and their families on the basis of race, color, creed, or national origin' and 'to eliminate this source of hardship and embarrassment for the members of our Armed Forces.'

Vintage matte-finish 10.75 x 14 photo of Johnson shaking hands, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, "To Norblet Engels, with appreciation and high regard from his friend, Lyndon B. Johnson.” Affixed to a same-size mount and in very good to fine condition, with creasing at the top, crossing Johnson's face.