Category: Presidential Library

While the Austin area is LBJ country, the first Texas-born president of the United States hailed from the far north. I recently visited Denison, 270 miles north of Austin, to…

California Governor Jerry Brown, during a visit to Austin, issued a dire warning for the near future. “The population is segmenting: we’re going from unum to plurality. It’s a dangerous…

Presidential historians conduct a poll amongst themselves every so often to rank the Presidents. Until now President Buchanan (who preceded Lincoln) has consistently been ranked the worst president in American…

“The most powerful man in the world is trying to undermine us. We need to be purer than pure.” In an appearance at the LBJ Presidential Library, the ‘us’ Jake…

At a One Day University event in Austin, Dr. Joseph Luzzi of Bard College brought his expertise as a professor of literature to bear on the subject of the presidents…

If you have been enthralled, or horrified, by the ongoing movie called The Presidency, you might take some solace in a new book by University of Texas history professor Jeremi…

“There are no free crumbs in politics,” declared Joseph Califano Jr. at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin. Califano, an adviser on domestic policy to President Lyndon Johnson, was here…

President Johnson and his family did not usually celebrate Christmas at the White House, but his wife Lady Bird persuaded him to do so in 1967. The charm of that…