Johnson Library

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Johnson Library

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum is one of 13 Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Library houses 45 million pages of historical documents, including the papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson and those of his close associates and others. The Library was dedicated on May 22, 1971, with Johnson and then-President Richard Nixon in attendance. The current director is Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove. President Johnson is buried at his ranch, near Johnson City, Texas, at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park.
President Nixon and former President Johnson at the museum's dedication in 1971

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson


The Library, adjacent to the LBJ School of Public Affairs, occupies a 14-acre (57,000 mē) campus that is federally run and independent from The University of Texas at Austin. The top floor of the Library has a 7/8ths scale replica of the Oval Office decorated as it was during Johnson's presidency. The museum provides year-round public viewing of its permanent historical and cultural exhibits and its many traveling exhibits. The Library has the highest visitation of any Presidential Library (with the exception of the first two or three years of any new Presidential Library, which in some cases sees more visitors).

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson

After her death in July, 2007, the body of Lady Bird Johnson lay in repose in the Library and Museum, just as her husband's had after his death, 34 years earlier.

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7/8ths scale replica of the Oval Office

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson Oval Office Desk

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson

 

 

atrium

 

Presidential Papers

 

research desk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Latin American Studies

School of Public Affairs

 

School of Public Affairs

 

Olmec statue
Latin American Studies

 

Father of Public Education
Argentina

 

library


Latin Notables

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Archives from 1500's Spanish Colonial Period

 

at the Latin American historical archive of the University of Texas

 

Conquering Spanish in Aztec country

 

Spanish Colonials

 

Wedding Sacrament

 

unfinished drawing of Aztec Chiefs

 

sketch of the town

 

the accompanying description of the town sent to Spain

 

map detail

 

larger view

 

 

 


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