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LBJ National Park The tour includes the presidential office, living room, dining room, den and kitchen, the Yellow Sitting Room and the Johnsons’ bedroom suites. It was to the LBJ Ranch that President Johnson retired in 1969 following 37 years of public service and it is at the ranch that he and Mrs. Johnson are buried. Johnson City District Fourteen miles east of the LBJ Ranch is the Blanco County seat, Johnson City, named for Johnson’s relative, James Polk Johnson, in 1879. This park district includes a visitor center at 100 East Ladybird Lane, the LBJ Boyhood Home and the Johnson Settlement, his grandparents’ ranch headquarters from 1868-1872. The visitor center is open from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week. There is a permanent exhibit gallery with world events and LBJ history timelines, and a Great Society Wall, as well as an exhibit devoted to Mrs. Johnson. Two videos — “LBJ: The Presi-
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LOVE OF WILDFLOWERS— Mrs. Lyndon (Lady Bird) Johnson’s love of Texas’ native flowers is evidenced by this hat which sits in the Texas White House. Today, visitors can see glimpses of the former First Lady and the 36th President of the United States by taking guided tours of the family residence in Stonewall. The first floor was opened for public viewing in 2008, following her death in 2007. — Standard-Radio Post file photo dent” and “Lady Bird Johnson”, are shown throughout the day. Both are close-captioned and last 30 minutes. The center includes a bookstore and gift items for both children
and adults. The LBJ Boyhood Home is open for guided touring with a ranger from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding the noon hour, seven days a week. The tour lasts approximately 20 minutes and is free of charge. The Johnson Settlement, a short walk from the visitor center, transports visitors back in time to the early days of settlement in Texas. The Johnson Settlement is selfguided. The entire loop through the parcel is about eight-tenths of a mile. A visitor contact station is open in the Withers and Spauldings Building in downtown Johnson City. There, the public will see how a general store looked, circa 1915. An exhibition and event center is also located in Johnson City, available to the public for rent by calling (830) 868-7128, ext. 260. More information is available from the visitor center at (830) 868-7128, ext. 244. The park has extensive information on its website, www.nps.gov/ lyjo.
BELIEVING that “Education is the only passport from poverty,” President Lyndon B. Johnson once returned to his childhood classroom in this one-room “Junction School” building along the Pedernales River to sign the Elementary and Secondary Education Act on April 11, 1965. — Standard-Radio Post file photo
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