ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG - TYPED MESSAGE SIGNED CIRCA 1968 - HFSID 166013

ARTHUR GOLDBERG
Typed Message signed: "Arthur J. Goldberg" as US Representative to the United Nations, 1 page, 8x10½. No place, circa 1968. On official letterhead. In full: "My cordial greetings to the citizens of my native State of Illinois, and especially those of Winnebago County, who are gathering on Independence Day, 1968, to celebrate 150 years of Illinois Statehood and 192 years of the independence of the United States of America. As we reaffirm on this day our love for our country, let us also renew our dedication to that universal promise which the Declaration of Independence proclaimed to all mankind on the day our nation was born: the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There was, as Illinois' greatest citizen, Abraham Lincoln, said, 'something in that Declaration giving liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.' It is our historic privilege and duty as Americans to labor unceasingly, both at home and abroad, for the fulfillment of that great promise: liberty and equal opportunity for all men, of every race and nation and creed, in a world at peace." A labor lawyer, Goldberg (1908-1990) served as President Kennedy's Secretary of Labor (1961-1962) before being appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1965, he was convinced by LBJ to give up his lifetime Supreme Court appointment to succeed the late Adlai E. Stevenson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Goldberg's frustration at the continuing escalation of the Vietnam War prompted him to resign his U.N. post in 1968.