I hope that visitors who come here will achieve a closer understanding of the Presidency and that young people will get a clearer comprehension of what this nation tried to do in an eventful period of its history.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Open Government on the Internet: A New Era of Transparency On May 15, 2009, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin, in co-sponsorship with the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, will co-host this one-day conference with speakers and panelists interacting simultaneously, through videoconferencing, in Austin, Texas and Washington, D.C. [more...]
On April 13, 2009, the Harry Middleton Lecture featured best-selling author and respected journalist Tom Brokaw on Lessons from the Greatest Generation. [view video...]
As is evident from the construction surrounding the LBJ Library and Museum and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, work is well underway to repair the leaky and deteriorating LBJ Plaza. [more...]
LBJ and the "Great Society" - A new video
"It is all here: the story of our time with the bark off.”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library holds more than 45 million pages of manuscripts, an extensive audiovisual collection, and oral history interviews with more than 1,000 individuals. [more...]
Membership contributions from the Friends have helped make the Library a center of intellectual activity and community leadership by providing support for symposia and conferences, special exhibitions in the Museum, research grants-in-aid for scholars, and a series of Evening With programs that bring distinguished and prominent lecturers to the Library each year.