Watching lift-off from the White House
President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others watch the lift-off of the first American in space, Astronaut Alan Shepard. The television is in the Office of the President’s Secretary in White House. 5/5/61
-from the JFK Library
Source: jfklibrary.org
LBJ was impressed with the intellectual Kennedy advisors, even if he was something of an outsider among them. Later, LBJ told of how he had spoken admiringly of them to his mentor Speaker Sam Rayburn, who said:
“Well, Lyndon, you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I’d feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.”
—Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest, New York: Random House, 1972, p. 41.
Top: Richard Goodwin, JFK and Dean Rusk. 2nd row, L-R: Larry O’Brien, McGeorge Bundy, and Ted Sorensen. Bottom: Robert McNamara and Pierre Salinger.
Source: lbjlibrary
April 12, 1945. FDR dies.
LBJ is devastated. Roosevelt would remain a role model for the rest of Johnson’s life.
LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton, 02/10/1965. 43-8-WH65. Public domain.
Source: lbjlibrary.org
Washington D.C. children participate in the 1967 Easter Egg Roll hosted by President and Lady Bird Johnson. 03/27/1967
From the LBJ Library, Image #C4852-5a
Follow-up memo written a few days after LBJ was trapped in an elevator at the Pentagon. 4/3/28
This exists. A retractable toothpick - about the size of a golf pencil - given to Lyndon B. Johnson by his Senate office staff. An attached note read,
“To Sen. Johnson - but please don’t use on Senate Floor! From Your Office Staff”
Add this to your list of gift ideas for the boss.
-from the LBJ Library
I was at a dinner for Democrats some years ago, and I sat next to Liz Carpenter, who was LBJ’s press secretary. Since Lady Bird was so interested in beautification, it seemed that environmental protection was a safe topic, so I mentioned that I had written a book on the subject. Liz seemed interested, but soon after left the room. When she reappeared she called me to the phone and said, “The President wants to talk to you.” I said “Hello,” and there was LBJ thanking me for donating the drawings for The Lorax to his library in Austin, Texas.
Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss
Little known fact – Theodore Geisel, gave the original drawings from his book, The Lorax, to the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum. Ten original drawings are on display at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas through March.
Source: lbjlibrary.org
On Leap Day 1968, 13 men were trapped in an elevator at the Pentagon. One of them was President Lyndon B. Johnson. Here’s what happened next.
This photo is of Catcus Pryor, long time radio and television host of KTBC.
In 1942, Lady Bird and Lyndon purchased Austin radio station KTBC with Lady Bird’s inheritance. By the 1950s the Johnsons expanded the radio station into the television market, and Pryor was one of the first faces Austinites got to know over the air. Always the entertainer, Pryor would emcee at programs for the Johnsons.To learn more about Pryor please see our press release honoring this man after his death in 2011.
Worth reblogging for his name alone.
(via lbjlibrary)
Source: lbjlibrary.org
A President does not shape a new and personal vision of America. He collects it from the scattered hopes of the American past.
President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address
January 4, 1965
Source: lbjlib.utexas.edu
