President Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library & Museum.Johnson was our 36th president, from 1963-1969. He became president upon the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas TX on November 22, 1963. He won his own term in a landslide in 1964.Bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.Pretty cool hologram of LBJ.Perhaps the most beautiful display in the museum. This is the collection of LBJ’s presidential records.Also a cool series of sculptures depicting LBJ with the different presidents he met with during his career. First was FDR.LBJ with President Harry S Truman.LBJ with President Dwight Eisenhower.LBJ with President John F. Kennedy.President Lyndon B. Johnson.1960 presidential campaign.Newspapers announce JFK’s assassination in 1963.LBJ was sworn into office as president aboard Air Force One returning to Washington DC with the slain president’s body on board. JFK’s wife Jacqueline Kennedy attended the swearing in.American pop culture in the 1960s. I still have that exact version of Battleship!Legos from the 1960s.LBJ was a very energetic president, working on quite a few programs. He greatly enlarged the federal government with many of these programs. The Vietnam War was the number one foreign policy issue of the 1960s. This was a complicated time, as for the first time, a war was shown on TVs in near live time. The war became very unpopular, especially as leftist media such as Walter Cronkite lied about our military successes. I will be happy to discuss in more detail for anyone who wants to.LBJ was stuck with bad options in Vietnam.The Six Day War was a devastating victory for Israel against Egypt, Syria and Jordan in June 1967.Thsi is a rock from the moon.After a close primary early in the 1968 campaign season, LBJ chose not to run for reelection in 1968.LBJ was a big man (about 6’3″), and he used his size to intimidate people, up close and personal. He had a long career in Congress, and with all the relationships he had built over the years he was able to get quite a few laws passed.LBJ’s Oval Office. This is about an 80% size replica.LBJ’s presidential limo.LBJ presidential china.There was a special section for First Lady “Lady Bird” Johnson.Some of the dresses Lady Bird wore as First Lady.Lady Bird Johnson’s office.This is a picture of President and First Lady Johnson bidding farewell to many of his supporters as he left office in 1969. An interesting note about this picture is that future president George H. W. Bush is also there to wish LBJ well. Bush is at about 2 o’clock in the picture, not far from the right edge. Can you see him?
