Lyndon B. Johnson Signs A Large Color Picture To A Fellow Texan, Senator John Tower

LYNDON B. JOHNSON (1908-1973). Lyndon Baines Johnson was the Thirty-Sixth President.JOHN TOWER (1925-1991). Tower was a Senator from Texas from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican in that role since Reconstruction.PS. 14 x 17. No date. No place [Washington D. C.] An oversized color photograph inscribed To Senator John G. Tower with best wishes and regards Lyndon B. Johnson on the lower margin. Tower and Johnson had a complicated relationship. In the 1960 Senate election from Texas, Johnson defeated Tower. However, as Johnson was also elected Vice President in that election, Bill Blakely was Johnsons appointed successor. In a special election held in 1961 to fill Johnsons seat, Tower defeated Blakley, and won re-election in 1966, 1972 and 1978. When President Johnson tried to elevate Associate Justice Abe Fortas to Chief Justice, Senator Tower was severely opposed, believing that a lame-duck President should not have the right to change the Supreme Court. Johnsons autograph is on the lower mount and the overall condition is mint. It is professionally framed.