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  Deposition Bible Used to Swear in President Richard M. Nixon During His Testimony of the Watergate Scandal; Inscribed by Him to Judge Edward J. Schwartz

  [RICHARD M. NIXON],.

  The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared. Commonly Known as the Authorized (King James) Version.

  Nashville, TN: The Gideons International, 1974.

  The 1974 edition of the Gideon Bible used to swear in President Richard M. Nixon before his voluntary deposition to the Watergate Special Prosecution Force on June 23, 1975, the only sworn testimony Nixon provided in connection with the Watergate proceedings. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nixon on the front pastedown to the judge who presided over the deposition and dated June 23, 1975, "To Judge Edward J. Schwartz with best wishes President Richard Nixon." The deposition, totaling approximately eleven hours across two days, took place at a United States Coast Guard facility near Nixon's San Clemente estate in California, and concerned the Watergate break-in and cover-up that had forced his resignation from the presidency on August 9, 1974. The proceedings were conducted in connection with the January 9, 1974 Grand Jury of the District of Columbia. The presiding judge, the Honorable Edward J. Schwartz of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, arrived for the deposition without a Bible, a circumstance that triggered a remarkable episode: Nixon and his staff were unable to produce one, and the Secret Service was dispatched to locate a copy at a nearby hotel, returning with this Gideo...

  Price: $50,000.00     Item Number: 152050

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