Arthur J. Goldberg and President Johnson at UN Ambassador Nomination
In this photograph, Arthur J. Goldberg and President Lyndon B. Johnson are seen at an announcement in the Rose Garden nominating Goldberg as United States ambassador to the United Nations. In 1965, President Johnson persuaded Goldberg to step down from his position as an associate justice to the Supreme Court and succeed Adlai Stevenson II as UN ambassador. The nomination occurred on July 20, 1965 and Goldberg was sworn-in on July 26.