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
A new look at the LBJ Library!
Welcome to the LBJ Library and Museum Plaza and the Lady Bird Johnson Center which were officially dedicated on November 13th. [more...]
On Monday, November 30 at 6:00 p.m., the Harry Middleton Lecture Series will present American Conservation Movement: Theodore Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson featuring presidential historian and author Dr. Douglas Brinkley. Dr. Brinkley will be signing copies of his most recent book, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, purchased through the LBJ Museum Store, for approximately one-half hour beforehand.
Books may be purchased from the Museum Store in advance and the evening of the lecture. Doors will open at 5:00 p.m. Tickets are free and available to the public beginning November 9. [more...]
Mark Updegrove Assumes Duties as New Director of LBJ Library
Presidential historian and award-winning author, Mark Updegrove, is now working at the LBJ Library and Museum as the New Director, the fourth Director in the Library's 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 welcomes Spanish-speaking visitors to our website.
(La Biblioteca de LBJ da la bienvenida a visitantes de habla Hispana a nuestrositio web).
Recently, Lyndon Nugent, grandson of President Lyndon Johnson, and George P. Bush, grandson of President George H. W. Bush, were featured in a segment on Voz y Voto, produced by the Univision Television Group. The two presidential grandsons talked about the two presidential libraries in Texas and much more.
Closed captioning in English is available. Please enjoy! !por favor disfrute!
Courtesy of Univision Television Group
The exhibit, School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents, is now open. [more...]
President Johnson backed more than 60 bills and programs to benefit education, from pre-school through higher education. Among those: Head Start, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Act, Vocational Education Act, the Library Services Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To learn more about our “Teacher President”, click here...
"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 1,500 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.
To commemorate the dedication of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Plaza and the Lady Bird Johnson Center on November 13, 2009, we have designed a new ornament which is now available in the Museum Store. [more...]
We invite you to browse through the LBJ Museum Store frequently because we add new items on a regular basis. [more...] 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.
Cen-Tex History Fair will be held Saturday, February 20, 2010. [more...]
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The LBJ Library welcomes Spanish-speaking visitors to our website.
