Revisiting LBJ’s Austin one address at a time

May 05, 2013

Though Lyndon Johnson did not live in Austin for much of his life, the city made a mark on him from an early age. read more

Capturing the Presidency

May 01, 2013

News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency is a collaboration between the Briscoe Center and the recently renovated LBJ Library. read more

Mark K. Updegrove on the legacy of President George W. Bush

Apr 30, 2013

On April 25, 2013, The Today Show presented "A Look Back at the Presidency of George W. Bush and included commentary by presidential historians Michael Beschloss and LBJ Library director Mark Updegrove. read more

Stonewall is the place to go for LBJ family, presidential history

Apr 29, 2013

There’s a two-part Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park composed of two separate districts 14 miles apart — one in Stonewall and the other in Johnson City read more

Inside the Presidential Reunion

Apr 26, 2013

LBJ Library director shares his reflections on the opening of the George W. Bush Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas read more

Jeb Bush commends LBJ for leadership

Apr 26, 2013

On the eve of George W. Bush’s presidential library opening, Jeb Bush praised his brother for keeping a low-profile since leaving office and commends LBJ for leadership. read more

Why can’t Barack Obama be more like Lyndon Johnson?

Apr 23, 2013

Partisan dominance helped LBJ pass sweeping legislation in 1965 and 1955 read more

Seeing LBJ the High-Tech Way

Apr 22, 2013

Lady Bird Johnson's office in the LBJ Library is open to visitors read more

Lady Bird’s Blooming Legacy

Apr 22, 2013

Lady Bird Johnson’s environmental legacy lives on as Texans drive down highways adorned with bluebonnets, Indian paintbrushes and colorful wildflowers read more

Bryan Cranston to play LBJ in play by Robert Schenkkan

Apr 22, 2013

Bryan Cranston will play President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. read more

Mark Updegrove’s PARADE interview with President and Mrs. George W. Bush

Apr 20, 2013

LBJ Presidential Library Director Mark Updegrove interviewed former President George W. Bush about the opening of The George W. Bush Presidential Center. read more

Literacy nonprofit brings Curious George to LBJ

Apr 11, 2013

On Thursday April 11, kids will participate in craft time and take home free books at the LBJ Presidential Library. read more

Barnes: Heady talk in a presidential suite

Apr 10, 2013

A dinner was held in the LBJ Library Presidential Suite to honor Julián and Joaquin Castro. read more

Reading Is Fundamental Hits Town

Apr 09, 2013

Sarah Haldeman, Presidential Archivist

Mar 28, 2013

Sarah Haldeman worked at the LBJ Library before becoming an archivist at the George W. Bush Center read more

UT Austin’s LBJ library shares common characteristics with Bush Center

Mar 26, 2013

Lyndon Baines Johnson stepped before a joint session of Congress to a booming round of applause on the eve of Thanksgiving 1963. read more

Groundbreaking set for Vietnam vets monument at Capitol

Mar 20, 2013

In a ceremony at the LBJ Library, more than 110 volunteers will read the names of the 3,417 Texans who died in Vietnam. read more

Step back a few decades to the era of LBJ

Mar 14, 2013

A review of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. read more

A presidential tour of Austin

Mar 08, 2013

An article on BBC.com covers highlights of the LBJ Library and other destinations in Austin, Texas. read more

Luci Baines Johnson participates in commemorative march

Mar 05, 2013

Luci Baines Johnson participates in commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when police officers beat marchers as they crossed the bridge from Selma to Montgomery. read more

Austin leaders comment on Voting Rights Act court case

Feb 28, 2013

Supreme Court case challenges the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965   read more

Remembering Van Cliburn

Feb 27, 2013

World-renowned pianist Van Cliburn, who died today at age 78, was a close friend of LBJ and the Johnson family read more

Jeb Bush wants to be like LBJ

Feb 19, 2013

Former Florida governer Jeb Bush strives to be like LBJ read more

Remembering White House ‘fish bowl’

Feb 19, 2013

Lynda Johnson Robb and other children of American Presidents talked about growing up in the White House read more

Matthew McConaughey Has a Presidents’ Day Gift For You

Feb 18, 2013

Matthew McConaughey encourages people to visit the LBJ Library read more

Travel Curator - LBJ Library

Feb 17, 2013

The University of Texas is home to the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library read more

Obama’s LBJ Moment

Feb 17, 2013

President Barack Obama made proposals to redeuce poverty, reminiscent of LBJ's 1964 State of the Union address about the War on Poverty. read more

LBJ love letters: A quick courtship of Lady Bird

Feb 14, 2013

Lyndon Johnson knew he wanted to marry Lady Bird immediately after meeting her on a September 1934 trip to Texas, but she wasn’t so sure. read more

Get to know LBJ even more as you revisit history

Feb 04, 2013

Located on The University of Texas campus, this super packed scene now sports 17 new galleries filled with  impressive artifacts, including recordings of phone calls between the 36th president and notables like Martin Luther King Jr. read more

The LBJ MLK Crossroads Memorial Project

Jan 24, 2013

Ground has been broken for a new sculpture in San Marcos, Texas commemorating the civil rights legacy of President Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. read more

Face the Nation - Civil Rights and LBJ

Jan 24, 2013

On Face the Nation, moderator Bob Schieffer interviewed former Johnson Aide Joe Califano and former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about Lyndon Johnson's ability to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a segregated society. read more

Notes on LBJ’s Death From His Closest Aide

Jan 23, 2013

When the ex-president suddenly died 40 years ago today, aide Tom Johnson was the one who told the world. read more

LBJ’s initial inauguration was in stark contrast to recent ceremonies

Jan 22, 2013

Pomp and ceremony have become the norm for U.S. presidential inaugurations. Those visiting the LBJ Library and Museum Monday were reminded it was quite a different set of circumstances the first time Lyndon Baines Johnson took office. read more

LBJ visitors say Johnson, King helped pave the way for Obama

Jan 22, 2013

The official presidential inauguration party was at the national mall in Washington D.C. Here in Austin, those visiting the LBJ Library and Museum this MLK day couldn't help but see how our current president is tied to our 36th president, along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. read more

Working with Congress: Lessons from LBJ

Jan 17, 2013

As the country approaches Inauguration Day and welcomes the 113th Congress, it is a time to look ahead. Sometimes the best way to accomplish this is to look back. Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, had to deal with a lot of problems similar to those… read more

Looking back - January 20, 1965

Jan 11, 2013

Information about President Lyndon Johnson's inauguration read more

A First Lady With All the Small Graces and a Lot of Grit

Jan 09, 2013

On 1934, on their first date, Lyndon Baines Johnson asked Claudia Alta Taylor, the woman who would become known as Lady Bird Johnson, to marry him. He was 26. She was 21. read more

Closed for a year, LBJ’s library reborn

Dec 19, 2012

After a year-long renovation, the LBJ Library will open to new exhibits on Saturday, December 22, 2012. read more

Hawaii’s Inouye, Senator and War Hero, Dies at 88

Dec 18, 2012

Senator Inouye, the last remaining member of the Senate to have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, died at the age of 88.   read more

Gun control lessons from Lyndon Johnson

Dec 17, 2012

If ever there were a moment for President Obama to learn from history, it is now, in the wake of Friday’s shootings at the elementary school at Newtown, Conn. The timely lesson for Obama, drawn from the experience of Lyndon B. Johnson — the last President to aggressively… read more

New exhibit takes another look at the President’s legacy

Dec 17, 2012

This week, Austin meets a new museum. Or at least a museum that will seem completely fresh when the LBJ Presidential Library opens its new $11 million permanent exhibition. read more

Presidential Library opens 11 million dollar exhibit that reconsiders LBJ

Dec 16, 2012

This week, a major Austin institution will attempt to reshape American history. The rebranded and updated LBJ Presidential Library will open its $11 million high-tech permanent exhibit — three years in the making — to the public at 10 a.m. Saturday. read more

LBJ Library on Jeopardy

Dec 13, 2012

On the day before the reopening, JEOPARDY! will air a special video category about LBJ featuring video clues from around the LBJ Presidential Library. read more

Joe Allbritton, former Trustee of the LBJ Foundation, dies

Dec 12, 2012

Joe L. Allbritton, former Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Trustee, dies at 87 read more

LBJ Library in Austin to unveil 10 million dollar update December 22

Dec 11, 2012

On what would have been Lady Bird Johnson’s 100th birthday this month, the LBJ Presidential Library is showing off a new design and interactive exhibits geared toward today’s tech-savvy world. read more

Passage of Power Named One of 10 Best Books of 2012 by New York Times

Dec 10, 2012

The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review, includes The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro read more

Texas Twang Fixin’ To Ride Off Into The Sunset

Dec 06, 2012

When most people think of Texas — and what makes a Texan — one of the first things that might come to mind is the way Lyndon Johnson or the late Governor Ann Richards spoke. read more

A Tribute to Jack Brooks

Dec 06, 2012

The LBJ Library and the Johnson family remember Congressman Jack Brooks read more

Lady Bird Johnson, An Oral History

Dec 06, 2012

Lady Bird Johnson chronicled her life in a series of interviews spanning almost 20 years. Oral historian Michael Gillette recounts his interviews with the former first lady, and we hear her firsthand account of life and marriage with President Lyndon Baines Johnson. read more

LBJ Library dinner rings in redesigned main exhibit

Dec 03, 2012

LBJ Library dinner rings in redesigned main exhibit read more

Hunger in Plain Sight

Nov 28, 2012

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs brought the poverty level down to 11 percent from 20 percent in less than 10 years. read more

Lady Bird Johnson in her own voice

Nov 26, 2012

Learn about Lady Bird Johndon – in her own words. read more

Face the Nation: Learn from LBJ

Nov 26, 2012

On CBS' Face the Nation: Lessons from LBJ for President Obama's next term. read more

Johnson Space Center deputy director Ochoa promoted to director

Nov 19, 2012

Johnson Space Center Deputy Director Ellen Ochoa, a veteran astronaut, will take over the director's position at the center in Houston, NASA officials said Friday. read more

A time for Obama to be bold

Nov 09, 2012

There’s a telling moment at the beginning of Robert A. Caro’s new book when Lyndon Johnson’s advisers are gathered, four days after he has become President, to draft his first speech to Congress. Capitol Hill is divided, the country is grieving from the assassination… read more

Lyndon Baines Johnson should be President Barack Obama’s new guiding light

Nov 09, 2012

The margin of victory was small, but the numbers do not tell the real story. This is it: Barack Obama won young Americans; African Americans and Hispanic Americans; white male Americans with postgraduate degrees; Asian Americans. Most important of all, he won American women across the board. Every colour and… read more

The value of beautification

Nov 06, 2012

Lady Bird Johnson has to be considered a rare figure in the political realm of Washington, a long-term thinker who understood the enduring value of beauty. read more

Gingrich Touts Value of Academic Research at LBJ Library

Oct 31, 2012

Former speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich visited the LBJ Presidential Library at UT last Thursday for a talk titled “Leadership Challenges Beyond the Election.” The lecture and Q&A included far-reaching discussion of the policy issues Gingrich believes will most deeply affect… read more

John Glenn has a life full of missions

Oct 31, 2012

He has seen life and the world from a vantage point that few have – floating in the distant heavens in a man-made spacecraft, long before the time of “Star Wars” movies and galactic computer games. In 1962, at age 39, John Glenn became the first man to orbit the… read more

The LBJ Library remembers Senator George McGovern

Oct 22, 2012

Senator George McGovern had a strong and long-lasting relationship with President Johnson. On May 5, 2011, LBJ Library director Mark Updegrove interviewed him at his home in St. Augustine, Florida. This interview is now part of the LBJ Library Oral History collection. Senator McGovern also participated in a conference that spotlighted LBJ'… read more

Washington newspaper interviews Mark Updegrove about LBJ tapes on C-SPAN

Oct 22, 2012

What makes C-SPAN Radio stand out from the crowd is its oral histories and archival programming, in particular the Lyndon Johnson White House tapes. C-SPAN Radio began airing the tapes in January 1998. There are some 643 hours of recordings, and “almost all that were of suitable quality have been aired,… read more

The Clean Water Network Celebrates Clean Water Act 40th Anniversary

Oct 19, 2012

When I was ten years old, I wrote letters to President Lyndon Johnson and New York Mayor John Lindsey. The letters conveyed my ten-year-old sense of outrage about polluted air and water as well as dismay about litter on the streets.  My friends and I even made up… read more

Lady Bird’s Centennial

Oct 17, 2012

Born Claudia Taylor, the future First Lady was deemed “purty as a lady bird” by a nursemaid. The nickname stuck. Today she is remembered chiefly as the steel magnolia  behind LBJ and for her First Lady’s Committee for a More Beautiful Capital. read more

Andrew Brimmer, Who Broke Color Barrier on Fed Board, Dies

Oct 11, 2012

Andrew Brimmer, an economist who became the first black member of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him in 1966, has died. He was 86. read more

Why Diversity Counts in National Security

Oct 10, 2012

The reality of demographics mandates a sharp focus on creating leaders from the burgeoning Hispanic and Asian American communities. The history of Vietnam tells us we need to keep that same focus on the African American community. read more

Retain Affirmative Action—Because It’s the Morally Right Thing to Do

Oct 09, 2012

In his 1965 commencement speech at Howard University, President Lyndon B. Johnson lamented that even during the postwar boom, a period of unprecedented prosperity, black Americans were falling behind.  read more

Animatronic LBJ being reprogrammed

Oct 08, 2012

As you know, the LBJ Library and Museum is closed for a major overhaul, scheduled to reopen in December in conjunction with what would have been Lady Bird Johnson’s 100th birthday. Many of us eagerly await the new exhibits. But I’m a bit apprehensive about one. read more

Newsweek’s 10 Best Presidents

Oct 03, 2012

The list of legislative accomplishments achieved by Johnson—in a Presidency born from tragedy—earns him a spot as one of the best Presidents of the modern era.  read more

What the 2012 Election Is Really All About

Oct 01, 2012

Joe Califano writes that the election of 2012 is really all about the extraordinary legacy of America's most overlooked, complicated, liberal and legislatively productive president, Lyndon B. Johnson and his Great Society. read more

How To Measure for a President

Sep 27, 2012

Johnson had a love of politics that Obama and Romney lack. He approached other politicians like they were prey. He mixed psychoanalysis, cunning, and determination. “He had almost no hobby,” said Larry Temple, special counsel to President Johnson. “His avocation and his vocation were the same: government… read more

Shouldn’t we all be Americans first?

Sep 05, 2012

I was first elected to Congress in 1964. That was the year Lyndon Johnson won a full term as President in a landslide. If ever a President had a popular mandate to pursue his goals, it was LBJ in the few years that followed that election. Yet one of my strongest… read more

What Obama can learn from LBJ

Sep 05, 2012

Without Presidential leadership in the trenches, there is no chance that Congress, particularly a divided Congress, will step on the third-rail politics of raising taxes or cutting popular programs such as Medicare, much less deploy the federal government to reduce the number of Americans living in poverty. These are the… read more

A new look for Austin’s LBJ Museum

Sep 05, 2012

Lyndon Baines Johnson's Presidency was set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War and racial conflict. But laws passed during his term affect the way we live today: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as laws requiring that you wear seat belts, have smoke detectors in your home,… read more

Obama needs LBJ’s style

Sep 03, 2012

by William McKenzie For his first four years, Barack Obama has served largely like John F. Kennedy. The Democrat has been eloquent, graceful and urbane. Like JFK, he has had a few major domestic achievements. And, like Kennedy in the Cold War, Obama largely has not blinked in the war… read more

Listening to Lyndon Johnson

Aug 09, 2012

The president's secret telephone recordings offer the world insight into his private views. read more

Voting Rights Act anniversary celebrated, yet threats rising

Aug 07, 2012

When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on Aug. 6, 1965, and when President George W. Bush renewed it in 2006, they were trying to prevent barriers to voting. read more

Postal Service Features Lady Bird Johnson

Aug 06, 2012

Library Director praises the new postal stamp honoring Lady Bird Johnson. Listen to the story on KUT Radio. read more

Bill Moyers Essay: Everyone Should Be Entitled to Medicare

Aug 03, 2012

Bill recalls his days with Lyndon Johnson as they prepared to sell Medicare to Congress, and makes the case for why everyone should be entitled to it today. read more

Medicare Turns 47

Jul 30, 2012

On this day in 1965, at a ceremony in Independence, Mo., President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed Medicare into law. read more

Lady Bird Johnson honored with U.S. postal stamp

Jul 30, 2012

Lady Bird Johnson is getting her own U.S. postal stamp — only the fifth first lady in history to receive the honor. read more

Lady Bird Johnson urged us to see America

Jul 14, 2012

Fifty years ago, Americans didn’t need jingles (“See the USA in your Chevrolet”), slogans (“America at its best”) or advertising campaigns (“See America first”) to pack up the family station wagon and head into the great outdoors. read more

Fifty Years Ago, Lyndon Johnson Answered the First Satellite Phone Call

Jul 10, 2012

Fifty Years Ago, Lyndon Johnson Answered the First Satellite Phone Call. read more

The Best Medicine I Know

Jun 21, 2012

A visit with Walter Mondale and a trip to some old archives bring to life a vanished age—a time, one hopes, that hasn’t been lost forever. read more

Toward Job Creation, Obama Should Emulate LBJ

Jun 18, 2012

Much of the handwringing over President Barack Obama's disappointing economic performance centers on his failure to emulate FDR, whose muscular public works spending generated millions of jobs and helped lift the country from the Great Depression. But former Senator Bill Bradley, who has been talking up job creation strategies… read more

Sketches of a classic: early ‘Lorax’ art makes rare appearance at the NCCIL

Jun 06, 2012

Sketches of a classic: early 'Lorax' art makes rare appearance at the NCCIL.  read more

5 Everyday Lessons From LBJ

May 15, 2012

5 Everyday Lessons From LBJ. The nation's 36th president, Lyndon Johnson, offers five tips you can use every single day to make your business stronger. read more

LBJ’s Biden Moment

May 15, 2012

It always struck me as unfair that Johnson had been erased from history, not just in those homes in Alabama, but in the judgment of liberal-minded Americans all over the country. read more

Obama: The Black LBJ

May 14, 2012

The black Kennedy has become the black LBJ. In the hyper-political circles I travel in, the release of Robert Caro's latest Lyndon Johnson biography, The Passage of Power, was received with the glee that's usually reserved for an Obama rally. To paraphrase Joe Biden, the fourth… read more

LBJ: The Man We Hate to Love

May 14, 2012

The last, truly liberal president left the White House on January 20, 1969. His name was Lyndon Baines Johnson. read more

Meet the Presidential Moms

May 11, 2012

From the Archives: Meet the Presidential Moms. Behind every President is the mother who raised him.  read more

Obama’s LBJ Moment with His Gay Marriage Endorsement

May 11, 2012

 In an election year nearly 50 years ago President Johnson took a risky stand on a civil rights and triumphed. Historian Robert Dallek on the parallels with Obama’s gay marriage endorsement. Vice President Biden’s surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced… read more

Sissy Spacek speaks at LBJ Library

May 10, 2012

Sissy Spacek speaks at LBJ Library and Museum. One thinks of artists overcoming messy, rotten childhoods. And great artists overcoming the messiest and most rotten. read more

What LBJ could teach Washington

May 07, 2012

In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zacharia, Robert Caro outlines lessons LBJ could teach lawmakers in Washington today. read more

Johnson Family Treasures

May 07, 2012

A treasure house of memorabilia, gifts and personal items that belonged to Lyndon Baines and Lady Bird Johnson are now for sale at public auction with proceeds to benefit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. read more

What Obama doesn’t know about being President

May 07, 2012

Barack Obama has read and been influenced by Robert A. Caro’s classic biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker. From the evidence, it is far from clear, though, that the president has read Caro’s other books, the latest being the fourth installment of his… read more

Robert Caro: Credit LBJ for Obama

May 03, 2012

Biographer Robert Caro said Thursday that Lyndon Johnson made possible Barack Obama’s election – and that of any other potential African-American presidential candidate, for that matter. read more

Wildness and Beauty

May 02, 2012

First ladies are often overshadowed by their Presidential husbands. And some of these women are forgotten. Lady Bird Johnson will not be overlooked. read more

Bill Clinton Reviews LBJ Biography for The Times

May 02, 2012

Bill Clinton Reviews LBJ Biography for The Times. Clinton praises the book, Robert Caro's "The Passage of Power," and the 36th president in his review. read more