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
Mark Updegrove Named New Director of LBJ Library
Presidential historian and award-winning author, Mark Updegrove, has been named Director of the LBJ Library and Museum, effective October 11, 2009. Updegrove will serve as the Library's fourth Director in its thirty-eight year history. [more...]
The Health Care Debate & LBJ
In 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare bill, providing health care for senior citizens and the poor. Medicare is one part of the current robust debate in this country about health care. To read news articles, commentaries, and see a video about the health care discussion by President and Mrs. Johnson's daughter, Lynda Johnson Robb, click here...
The LBJ Library Honors National Hispanic Heritage Month
(La Biblioteca de LBJ Honora Herencia hispana Nacional Mes)
In September 1968, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed National Hispanic Heritage Week, which is now a month-long celebration. In recognition of this country's Hispanic heritage and population, Lyndon Nugent, grandson of President Johnson, and George P. Bush, grandson of President George H. W. Bush, were recently featured in a segment on Voz y Voto, produced by the Univision Television Group. The topics: the LBJ Library & Museum and the George Bush Museum.
Please enjoy!
¡por favor disfrute!
Courtesy of Univision Television Group
New exhibit opening October 10, 2009 - School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents. [more...]
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...]
"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.
The store is a division of the LBJ Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that supports the mission of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. We invite you to browse through the products featured here which represent a cross section of merchandise available in the LBJ Museum Store. Check with us frequently because we add new items on a regular basis. [more...]
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The LBJ Library Honors National Hispanic Heritage Month
