Historic dipping pen used by President Johnson to sign the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Agreement on January 22, 1964. This official bill signer Esterbrook pen measures 6.25″ long and features a black plastic grip with a Lucite handle imprinted with “The President—The White House.” Includes eight pages from well-known White House secretary Toi Bachelder’s 1964 calendar book for the month of January 1964, noting daily events and happenings. The entry of January 22, in part: “The P & PM Lester Pearson signed the Campobello Roosevelt Memorial Park Treaty in the Treaty Rm…The P personally gave me one of the pens he used signing it said ‘Here Toi—you of all people ought to have one of these’ & gave one to Grace [Tully] too.” Also accompanied by a handwritten letter from Raleigh DeGeer Amyx, describing Toi Bachelder’s relationship with FDR. Roosevelt Campobello International Park, located in New Brunswick off the coast of Maine, preserves the house and surrounding landscape of the Roosevelt family’s summer retreat where FDR was stricken with polio in 1921. The Roosevelt Park was established via this international treaty between the US and Canada as a joint venture funded by both nations. A truly consequential presidential bill signer pen with historic notes from the commander-in-chief’s chosen recipient.
