JOHN F. KENNEDY APPOINTS ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG TO A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION

JOHN F. KENNEDY APPOINTS ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG TO A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION

Very rare partly-printed D.S., 1p. 23 x 19 in., Washington, March 15, 1961, the appointment of Secretary of Labor ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG to serve as a member of the "Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations" for a term of two years. This document is signed at the conclusion by President JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917-1963) who signs as "John F. Kennedy", and is co-signed by Secretary of State DEAN RUSK (1909 - 1994). The paper Seal of the United States has been affixed to the bottom-left. SOLD WITH: two 11 x 14 in. original b/w portraits of Kennedy from the archives of Life magazine. JSA COA also present. ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG (1908 - 1990) was then serving as Kennedy's Secretary of Labor, and would remain in that position until Kennedy appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1962. Later in life, Goldberg left the bench to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under Lyndon Johnson, where he attempted to limit American involvement in Vietnam and helped draft Resolution 242, which followed the 1967 Six-Day. The U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, operational from 1959 to 1996, was an independent agency in the U.S. federal government formed to study the federal government's intergovernmental relationships, including legislative issues that strained the relationships between federal, state, and local governments.