Letter from Gregory Peck to President Lyndon B. Johnson

On October 27, 1965, actor Gregory Peck wrote to President Lyndon Johnson expressing his thanks for being invited to dinner and his appreciation for what Johnson’s administration had accomplished. A month earlier, Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965, which Peck supported. Peck, best known for his Academy Award–winning role playing attorney Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his “lifetime humanitarian achievements.”