Over five weeks, we look at iconic presidential sites from Mount Vernon to LBJ's ranch. Johnson's Central Texas ranch was his refuge. He flew to Hill Country outside Johnson City 74 times -- and ...
In Mark Updegrove’s Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency, Jack Valenti recounts how, the evening of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Johnson sat at home with his team and spent five hours ...
After entering politics in the early 1930s, Johnson, or LBJ as he’s more popularly known, would represent Texas as a member of both houses of Congress (as a Democrat!), serve as vice president ...
“Oh, poor Walt,” Johnson said. “Why didn’t he say something? He coulda had a drink with me.” Harry Middleton, one of LBJ’s ...
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During a visit to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, I was struck by just how many parallels there are between Lyndon Johnson and Trump. Liberals knew all about Johnson’s faults in the 1960s.
Farris asserts that Johnson passed the act to shut down a Texas nonprofit advocating against LBJ's senatorial campaign. Most of us have heard that story. But Farris also says that within two ...
In November 1934, Johnson married Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor after meeting in September of that year, according to the LBJ Library website. They had two daughters, Lynda and Luci, who both ...
(KGNS) - LBJ High School is continuing to honor Lance ... Below is the original story: Lyndon B. Johnson High School paid tribute to fallen hero Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza with a heartfelt ...
Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier exhibits like LBJ's limousine. Visitors wander from a display ...