Friends of the LBJ Library | Jun, 4 2026 6:30PM - 8:30PM
We invited guests to join us on Thursday, June 4, for a special evening celebrating our new exhibit, The American Experiment, and hearing stories from presidential descendants about their ancestors and family legacies.
The evening featured Around the Family Table: Stories from Presidential Descendants, a moderated conversation that included:
- Ulysses Grant Dietz, 2nd Great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant
- Richard Gatchell, 5th Great grandson of James Monroe
- Birch Taylor, 2nd Great grandson of Rutherford B. Hayes
- Tom Washington, 5th Great nephew of George Washington
- John Works, 7th generation direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson
- Moderator: Tweed Roosevelt, Great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt
About The American Experiment Exhibit
Through an exceptional partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration and the Briscoe Center for American History, the Library will showcase extraordinary original documents that have shaped the course of American history. Across four rotating exhibitions on display May 30 through January 10, visitors will encounter defining moments—from the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Louisiana Purchase and the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine Patent.
Documents on display on June 4th will include President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy Speech, the treasury warrant for the purchase of Alaska, deed of gift for the Statue of Liberty, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, and President Woodrow Wilson’s April 2, 1917 joint address to Congress leading to a declaration of war against Germany, among others.
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