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FORD, Gerald Rudolph (1913–2006). Churchill Lecture: An Address by Gerald R. Ford at the English–Speaking Union, presentation copy inscribed and twice signed by the former U.S. president to his personal physician. Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1984. 8vo. Publisher’s linen backed decorative paste paper boards gilt stamped with Ford’s facsimile signature to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies bound thus, this copy being reserved as an even smaller limitation for the President as a “presentation copy” as printed on the limitation. ALSO INSCRIBED BY FORD on the half-title to his “very good friend, Dick Mahler” signed “Gerald R. Ford”. Included with a typed letter (folded) from the recipient Richard (Dick) J. Mahler, Ford’s personal physician, thanking the president for providing him with a rough draft of the lecture and stating that “it should be required reading for today’s political science students” adding that he was “so moved” by Ford’s quotes from Winston Churchill that he was caused to “reread some of his writings and relive some of the greatest moments in history”.