Goldberg to UN - Chosen to Succeed Adlai Stevenson
Goldberg to UN - Chosen to Succeed Adlai Stevenson
President Johnson's choice to succeed Adlai Stevenson, Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the Supreme Court, appears at a White House press conference & comments on his call to the difficult & exacting post as Ambassador to the United Nations. Washington DC MS Justice ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG posing outside White House with wife Dorothy Goldberg and son Robert Goldberg. MS - President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ) speaking at outdoor press conference in Rose Garden, Goldberg s and Secretary of State DEAN RUSK standing in BG. MS Arthur J. Goldberg shaking hands with Lyndon Johnson, assuming podium. Nice MS three 16mm film cameras with obese magazines on tripods, cameramen filming. Justice Goldberg speaking, "Of Adlai Stevenson's departure & my appointment, I can only borrow words once uttered on a similar occasion by Thomas Jefferson, 'I succeed him. No one could replace him.' I am grateful to the President for judging me capable of the effort I now commence. I am grateful to the Secretary of State, my friend and my former colleague in the cabinet for welcoming me so warmly to this post. It is with great humility that I undertake the role of our nation's advocate of peace in the council of nations."