Rare color satin-finish 11.5 x 8 photo of the Johnson family, including Luci Johnson Nugent and husband Patrick and Lynda Johnson Robb and her husband, with Luci’s son sitting on Lyndon’s lap, affixed to a 13.5 x 11 mount, boldly signed and inscribed in black ink on the mount to 30-year White House maid Viola ‘Big Momma’ Wise, as president, “For Viola Wise—with the appreciation and best wishes of all our family—Lady Bird Johnson, Merry Christmas! 1968,” and “and Lyndon Johnson.” Very nicely framed to an overall size of 14.75 x 12. In fine condition. In Mary Evans Seeley’s book Season’s Greetings from the White House, Lady Bird Johnson was quoted as saying of the 1968 holiday season, “That Christmas, our last at the White House and in Washington, was a glorious chapter in our lives...so many changes had taken place while we lived there.” An unusual format since President Johnson presented these personally signed Christmas gifts on a limited basis to White House staff.
