PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON - CIVIL APPOINTMENT SIGNED 10/05/1972 CO-SIGNED BY: JOHN N. IRWIN II - HFSID 16629
Sale Price $2,495.00
Reg. $3,000.00
RICHARD NIXON and JOHN N. IRWIN II. Partly Printed DS: "Richard
Nixon" as President and "John N. Irwin II" as Acting
Secretary of State, 1p, 22¾x18. On vellum.
Washington, 1972 October 5. Appointment of Chester M. Wiggin, Jr.
of New Hampshire as an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. IRWIN, nephew of
IBM's founder Thomas J. Watson, was Nixon's Special Emissary to Peru (1971),
Under Secretary of State (1972), Deputy Secretary of State (1972-1973) and U.S.
Ambassador to France (1973-1974). The Interstate Commerce Commission, the first
regulatory commission in U.S. history, was established in 1887 as a result of
mounting public indignation in the 1880s against railroad malpractices and
abuses. In 1966, the ICC's safety functions were transferred to the new
Department of Transportation. Its powers over rates and
routes in rails and trucking were curtailed in 1980 by the Staggers Rail Act and
Motor Carriers Act. Most ICC control over interstate trucking was abandoned in
1994 and the agency was terminated at the end of 1995. Lightly stained at lower
blank margin, stray ½-inch smudge at blank right margin. Fine condition.
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