May
Salon
Tom Degan writes in open.salon.com “The time is long overdue for progressives in this country to reassess this great – and greatly flawed – American.”
SalonThe New Yorker
In The New Yorker blog, acclaimed writer George Packer calls President Johnson “the greatest civil-rights President in the twentieth century.”
The New YorkerInc.
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.
Inc.ABC News
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, which was posted online today and will appear on the cover of The Times' Book Review section this Sunday.
ABC NewsThe White House
From the Archives: Meet the Presidential Moms. Behind every President is the mother who raised him. In honor of Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, May 13) our colleagues at the National Archives put together a gallery of Presidents and their moms, selected from the holdings of the 13 Presidential Libraries.
The White HouseAustin360.com
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. Not Oscar winner Sissy Spacek. As she relates in her new memoir, “My Extraordinary Ordinary Life” — and further explained to an Austin audience at the LBJ Library and Museum on Tuesday — Spacek’s idyllic childhood in Quitman formed the basis for her remarkable four-decade acting career.
Austin360.comCNN
In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zacharia, Robert Caro outlines lessons LBJ could teach lawmakers in Washington today.
CNNLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
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. Online or telephone bidding is underway now and the actual auction will occur on Saturday, May 12, at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower CenterAustin 360
For a big party at the LBJ Ranch during the 1960s, the Hahne family served thousands of plates heaped with barbecue and sides. At night. Without full electricity.
Austin360.comPolitico
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.
PoliticoGardensrandalls
First ladies are often overshadowed by their Presidential husbands. And some of these women are forgotten. Lady Bird Johnson will not be overlooked. Her passion for beautifying and appreciating the landscape of America has inspired many of us.
GardensrandallsApril
Houston Chronicle
New poll picks LBJ as Number 1.
Houston ChronicleThe Daily Beast
Emerging from JFK's shadow, Lyndon Johnson wielded power ruthlessly—and delivered big results for liberals. In this week's Newsweek, David Frum on what Obama could learn from Robert Caro's new biography.
The Daily BeastKXAN
In a matter days, the popular animatronic LBJ will be taken apart, moved and re-wardrobed.
KXANTimes Ledger
President Johnson’s speech calling for passage of the Voting Rights Act is still relevant today.
Times LedgerExaminer
A resident of South Carolina and the son of a sharecropper and barber, Preston Bruce walked his way through the history books from 1953 to 1976 as doorman at the White House.
Examiner