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Austin wildflower center to showcase new exhibits for Lady Bird Tribute Day on Sunday
Austin :: TX :: USA | 11 months ago
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Once, Lady Bird Johnson explained to historian Lewis Gould the legislative contortions required to back a particular ecological program. For five minutes, she launched into the land and water conservation fund, the University of Texas professor
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LBJ Library to release Pentagon Papers
Austin :: TX :: USA | 2 years ago
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Johnson Library and Museum is about to unveil a complete set of the Pentagon Papers. The Monday release will be the first official release of the once-top secret, 7,000-page Pentagon study of the Vietnam War. It comes exactly 40 years after The New
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LBJ Library releases Lady Bird's oral histories
Austin :: TX :: USA | 2 years ago
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Texas Lady Bird Johnson's personal insight into the pre-presidential years is revealed in a large collection of oral histories the LBJ Library has released as part of its 40th anniversary celebration this week. The transcripts total more than 1,400
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LBJ Library has Lady Bird Johnson home movies
Austin :: TX :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Johnson in 1939 gave his wife a 16mm movie camera in what turned out to be a gift to history. Over the years Lady Bird Johnson shot home movies of her husband, their family and powerful friends. Her work as an amateur cinematographer resulted in
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500 in Austin celebrate life of feminist, LBJ aide Liz Carpenter
Waco :: TX :: USA | 3 years ago
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Nearly 500 of Liz Carpenter's closest friends joined family members on Friday morning at the LBJ Auditorium in Austin to bid farewell to the woman an old friend described as “the queen of mirth.” Carpenter, an author, activist, humorist and Lady Bird
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Obama's Afghanistan decision evokes LBJ's 1965 order on Vietnam buildup
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | over 3 years ago
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Hovering in the shadows of President Barack Obama's decision last week to ramp up the nation's war effort in Afghanistan, even as he promises to bring it to a swift conclusion, are ghosts of another decision, made 44 years ago by a Texan in the White
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LBJ Library releases last of recordings
Austin :: TX :: USA | over 4 years ago
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Allegations of Nixon's influence in the peace conference have been reported before, but the tapes provide a look at how Johnson handled the issue behind the scenes, said Bruce Buchanan, a government professor and expert on the presidency at the
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