Autographs
President “Richard Nixon” Mammoth Size Photograph Inscribed & Personalized to Chief Justice Warren Burger!
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON. 37th President of the United States, and the Only President to Resign from Office.
c. 1971 Important and Historic Huge Official Presidential White House Photograph Signed, “Richard Nixon” as President, Inscribed & Personalized to Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Choice Near Mint. This black and white Gelatin Silver Glossy Photograph floats borderless, measuring a huge 10” x 13” upon a 14” x 18” presentation style mount board. It is nicely inscribed in deep black vivid ink along the lower mount by Nixon. It reads, in full:

“To Chief Justice Warren Burger, with appreciation for his service to the country and best wishes from his friend Richard Nixon.”

This truly exceptional, superb quality Photograph was taken by Byron Schumacher on January 5, 1971 and shows President Nixon seated at his desk in the Oval Office, and signing the Circuit Court Executives Bill. Looking on are (left to right): Judge Alfred P. Murrah, Chief Justice Warren Burger and Rowland S. Kirks, Director, Admin., Office of the U.S. Courts. Stamped on the verso 5JA71 along with official White House Photo Office number 5434-07. Extremely Rare and obviously Unique as such. A truly superb and lovely huge example as one could ever acquire.

In 1971 Congress authorized each circuit judicial council to appoint a circuit executive to “exercise such administrative powers and perform such duties as may be delegated” by the council. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in 1938 had recommended the appointment of administrative officers to serve the proposed judicial councils, but legislation establishing the councils in 1939 made no provision for such officers. The authorizing legislation of 1971 (84 Stat. 1907) was part of an effort to address what was perceived to be a caseload crisis in the federal courts. The statute stated that the duties of the circuit executive might include the exercise of administrative control of all non-judicial activities of the court of appeals in the respective circuits; the administration of the budget and personnel systems of that court of appeals; and the preparation of appropriate recommendations and reports to the chief judge of the circuit, the circuit council, and the Judicial Conference, based on studies of the judicial business in all the courts of the circuit. The statute also provided that each of the duties delegated to the circuit executives “be subject to the general supervision of the chief judge of the circuit.”

A few light scuffs; otherwise, Fine condition.