LBJ State Park & Historic Site - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official]
Lyndon B. Johnson State Park & Historic Site
The Lyndon Baines Johnson State Park and Historic Site is all about history, from the visitor center honoring our country’s thirty-sixth president … to a living-history farm depicting life on the farmstead as it was back in 1918, when President Johnson was a young boy.
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Discover Austin: The Lyndon B Johnson Ranch - Episode 33
In this episode of Discover Austin, we're headed to the Lyndon B Johnson National Park. Located west of Austin, in Stonewall Texas, you can visit the Texas White House, Air Force 1/2, LBJ's boyhood home, and learn so much more about our 36th President.
Over the course of the series, we'll cover everything from landmarks and events to restaurants and icons.
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Greetings, I’m Craig Smyser. It’s time for another Discover Austin road trip. This time we’re at the LBJ Ranch which is about 60 miles west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States. He was born, lived, died, and was buried at the LBJ Ranch.
President Johnson was born on August 27, 1908. Though the house in which he was born was demolished before he started his political rise, it was reconstructed in the 1960s to its original size and appearance. The ranch that LBJ would one day amass was not owned by his parents when they owned this house. In fact, the house and various parcels of land changed hands among several family members before LBJ started to buy it up in 1951.
This is the one-room school house in which LBJ first attended school. It was a very short walk from his home and was a typical school house of that era. His time at this school was short, though, as his family moved to Johnson City after he had attended this school for just a few months.
This is the main structure at the ranch and is known as the Texas White House. Johnson spent much time here during his time as senator, vice president, and president. We are not allowed to record video inside the house, but the tour shows you his office, the living room, family room, dining room, kitchen, and bedroom suites (yes, suites plural because the Johnsons had separate bedrooms). Most of the rooms are restored to their appearance from the presidential years, while the bedrooms retain the appearance from the time of LBJ and Lady Bird’s deaths. There is a great big oak tree estimated to be 300 years old in the front yard. It is known as the Cabinet Oak because the president loved to sit under the tree while conducting the country’s business. There is a swimming pool as well. All of it offers a great view of the Pedernales River. Out behind the house is the collection of Friendship Stones. Instead of a simply signing a guest book, Johnson had friends and dignitaries sign their autographs in wet concrete.
An airplane informally known as Air Force One Half is also on display. Because the ranch landing strip was too short for Air Force One, Johnson would fly into Austin then take a JetStar from there to the ranch. This particular plane was rescued from a military airplane graveyard and the exterior restored. There were several of this model aircraft that LBJ used while both vice president and president. While he actually flew on this plane when vice president, there are no records confirming that he flew on this one as president. Also nearby are several of LBJs cars, including his beloved convertible.
This building was once the airplane hangar. After he became president, he needed a large area for press and guests to gather so it was converted for that purpose. Now it houses the gift shop and some exhibits.
At Johnson’s request, the ranch is still a working ranch, just as it was when he owned it. While the number of cattle is much lower than during his lifetime, there are still cattle that descended from those LBJ owned. When you take a drive around the property, you get the opportunity to pass by the Show Barn to see the ranch operations.
While at home on January 22, 1973 Lyndon Baines Johnson suffered a heart attack and passed away. He was 64 years old. Three days later he was buried in the Johnson Family Cemetery right here on the ranch. Other family members are buried here, including Lady Bird.
The house and a portion of the ranch was donated to the park service while LBJ was still alive. It came with the stipulation that they retained lifetime rights to occupy the property. Indeed, Lady Bird Johnson lived here part time until her death in 2007. Since I’m a real estate broker, let me interject a real estate tidbit. Most people believe that the ranch was transferred to the government by using what is known as a Lady Bird Deed. That is completely wrong. The reason a Lady Bird Deed is so named is simply that the attorney who created it used the names of the Johnsons in an example he shared to help others understand how it worked. In fact, the Lady Bird Deed had not even been conjured up at the time the Johnsons transferred the ranch ownership.
Even if you aren’t a history buff, every Central Texan should spend at least one afternoon visiting the LBJ Ranch. I’m Craig Smyser, thanks for joining me for this road trip episode of Discover Austin.
Lyndon B. Johnson National Park | 36th President from Texas
The Texas park near Johnson City includes many properties that document the life, ancestry and origins of Lyndon B. Johnson, our 36th President.
LBJ NATL HISTORICAL PARK
In March of 2018 I visited the Lyndon Johnson National Historical Park. The park is split into two branches, the Boyhood Home and Johnson Settlement in Johnson City, Texas and the LBJ Ranch in Stonewwall, Texas, During my visit to the Ranch I was able to tour the Texas White House, however a few week after my visit the National Park Service suspended tours of the inside of the house due to structural issues, As of December 2018 there is not estimate of when interior tours will resume.
Sauer-Beckmann Farm at LBJ State Park, Texas [Official]
Travel back in time with these scenes from the Sauer-Beckmann living history farm at LBJ State Historic Site. The farm demonstrates what life was like for a Texas-German farm family at the turn-of-the-century.
Lyndon B Johnson's Texas ranch on sale for $2 8 million
Texas ranch once owned by Lyndon B. Johnson hits the
market for $2.8million, complete with the late
president's original bathtub and bedroom.The sprawling Texas ranch once owned by the late President Lyndon B. Johnson is now on the market for $2.8 million - complete with his original bathtub and bedroom. Johnson had purchased the ranch in Texas Hill Country, near Johnson City, just one week into his presidency in 1963.Located on 142 acres, the main residence has a hilltop elevation of more than 1,800 feet and provides a 360-degree view of Central Texas.
Exploring Texas Hill Country | RV Road Trip
Texas Hill country is a bucolic, rumpled terrain marked by wooded canyons cut by spring-fed rivers. It's also laced with endless miles of appealing two-lane blacktop—and, best of all, it's quirky. One minute you'll see a vista of bluebonnets and the next a sign advertising Emu Oil, Next Exit or Cowboys for Christ Silent Auction.
The Hill Country begins just north of Austin, continues south to San Antonio, and sweeps west some 200 miles (322 kilometers) before the land begins to flatten out. Follow a route linking state and U.S. secondary highways, which lead to a series of colorful towns fit for dawdling.
These attractions form a loop starting in San Antonio and taking in Bandera, Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Enchanted Rock, Johnson City, and New Braunfels, before returning to San Antonio.
From San Antonio, follow Highway 16 northwest to Bandera, which considers itself the hell-raising Cowboy Capital of the World. Here you can order a chicken-fried steak bigger than your haid and dance to live country music. But nowadays you're apt to see travelers' SUVs parked in front of Arkey Blue's Silver Dollar saloon alongside the usual beat-up pickup trucks. The Frontier Times Museum in Bandera (510 13th St.; tel. 1 830 796 3864; frontiermuseum.org) has a bewildering collection of prehistoric arrowheads, mounted animals, bells, and a shrunken human head no bigger than an orange. Duck into the gift shop, which stocks those must-have rubber tomahawks. Also in Bandera is the Old Spanish Trail Restaurant (305 Main St.; tel. 1 830 796 3836), famous for its home-cooked pot roast, catfish platter, and chicken-fried steak.
Next stop is Kerrville, which you can reach by looping around on Highway 16 or cutting straight to it on 173. Stop for a meal at Billy Gene's Restaurant (1489 Junction Hwy.; tel. 1 830 895 7377; billygenesrestaurant), known for its chicken-fried steak and its views of the Guadalupe River. Then check in at the Inn of the Hills (1001 Junction Hwy.; tel. 1 830 895 5000; innofthehills.com), with such amenities as live country music and an Olympic-size pool. Next door is a family sports center with a 16-lane bowling alley, so pack your finest bowling shirts.
Among the first non-natives to settle the area were German immigrants who'd purchased millions of acres sight unseen. Old-timers still refer to the German Hill Country, where the mother tongue was commonly spoken until the 1970s. One town that clings to its German heritage is Fredericksburg. Besides its more than 300 B&Bs, it has a Main Street lined with galleries, boutiques, bistros, and specialty shops with names like Der Küchen Laden.
Follow the oompah music to the Ausländer Biergarten (323 E. Main St.; tel. 1 830 997 7714) featuring German cuisine and an astounding selection of beers. Order a frosty mug of Paulaner Salvator and feast on kasseler rippchen—smoked pork chops—with hot German potato salad, sauerkraut, and a slice of Black Forest chocolate cake for dessert.
Fredericksburg native son Chester Nimitz served as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Honoring his memory are the Admiral Nimitz Museum and the National Museum of the Pacific War (340 E. Main St.; tel. 1 830 997 4379; nimitz-museum.org), displaying over a thousand artifacts, including a Japanese midget submarine captured during the Pearl Harbor attack.
Detour 18 miles (29 kilometers) north of Fredericksburg to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, whose centerpiece is a 425-foot (130-meter)-tall dome-shaped mountain of pink granite about a billion years old. Hike to the top, then overnight in pleasant campgrounds at the base (tel. 1 830 685 3636; tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/enchanted_rock).
A few miles away in Johnson City, the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park Visitor Center (Ave. G and Ladybird Ln.; 1 830 868 7128; nps.gov/lyjo) offers a self-paced stroll past video monitors with footage of the War on Poverty, Vietnam, and other events of Johnson's life. Most surprising is a retirement photo of him with long hair, looking a little like Timothy Leary without the beads.
Cap off your drive with an inner tube trip down the Comal or Guadalupe Rivers, both of which run through New Braunfels, making it a haven for paddlers and floaters. On either stream, the warm sunshine filtering through the oaks and cypresses overhead creates a soothing strobe effect as you glide downstream. Just kick back, shift your mind into neutral, and go with the flow. That's the best way to see the Texas Hill Country.
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Lyndon B Johnson Grave + Home
36th US Presidents Grave and Homes. Grave, Texas Ranch, and birthplace Home are all located in Stonewall, Texas. Boyhood home is located in Johnson City, Texas about one hour, driving East to Austin, and driving South to San Antonio!
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park
00:00:32 1 Districts and features
00:01:22 1.1 Johnson City
00:02:17 1.2 LBJ Ranch
00:03:03 2 History
00:03:43 3 Gallery
00:03:52 4 See also
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Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in central Texas about 50 miles (80 km) west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country. The park protects the birthplace, home, ranch, and final resting place of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States. During Johnson's administration, the LBJ Ranch was known as the Texas White House because the President spent approximately 20% of his time in office there.
C-SPAN: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville, Tennessee is owned and operated by the National Park Service. It was one of the stops on a 10-day bus tour from Asheville, North Carolina to Austin, Texas led by historian and author Richard Norton Smith in May of 2011.
Andrew Johnson served as President Lincoln's second vice president for just over a month, and succeeded him when Lincoln was assassinated.
Here is park guide Daniel Luther portraying President Johnson and telling the story of how Andrew Johnson met Abraham Lincoln.
Juneteenth Is About to Become an Official State Holiday
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On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Tom Wolf will sign legislation recognizing the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S., joining at least 40 other states that have already done so.
Wednesday marks the 154th anniversary of Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. And this year, Gov. Tom Wolf will to sign legislation to deem Juneteenth an official state holiday. Pennsylvania will join more than 40 other states and Washington, D.C. in recognizing the date.
Some history: You may recall that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect in January 1863, freeing the enslaved within Union lines and in areas of Confederate states liberated by Union troops. Two years later, in January 1865, Congress passed the 13th Amendment, officially abolishing the institution of slavery. But months would continue to pass before all of the states (Texas, in particular) actually got the message. Literally. It wasn’t until June 19th of that year that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas with a proclamation advising citizens that the enslaved were free.
What prompted the delay? Well, some say the first messenger sent to inform Texans of the news was murdered on the way. And other than that, it’s highly feasible that the news was withheld on purpose. After all, the Army of the Trans-Mississippi and other Confederate rebels refused to cede land for some time after General Robert E. Lee surrendered in April. During that time, slave owners in states like Mississippi and Louisiana had migrated to Texas to evade the Union Army, bringing some 150,000 enslaved people with them.
Even after Galveston got wind of the proclamation on June 19th, slavery didn’t come to a full stop. Plantation owners sometimes waited to announce the news until government agents forced them to do so, often forcing the enslaved to continue working. Those who dared leave to seek freedom faced the threat of murder after escape.
Still, Juneteenth lived on. From PBS:
Defying confusion and delay, terror and violence, the newly ‘freed’ black men and women of Texas, with the aid of the Freedmen’s Bureau (itself delayed from arriving until September 1865), now had a date to rally around. In one of the most inspiring grassroots efforts of the post-Civil War period, they transformed June 19 from a day of unheeded military orders into their own annual rite, “Juneteenth,” beginning one year later in 1866.
Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth an official holiday in 1979. This past May, the Pennsylvania House unanimously passed a bill to recognize Juneteenth. The state Senate followed suit last week. A spokesperson for Wolf said the governor is expected to sign the legislation on Wednesday afternoon.
Doing so will commemorate the date of Juneteenth, but it won’t require employers to treat it as an official holiday. Many say the legislation is ultimately just a step in the right direction — and Juneteenth should become a national holiday.
“For African Americans, Juneteenth historically is on the same level as Independence Day,” Ron Brown, a member of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation who has organized Germantown’s Juneteenth celebration for the last two decades, told the Philadelphia Tribune. “It’s our July 4th.”
This past Saturday, Germantown held its celebration, as it has for years, at the Johnson House Historic Site.
Thousands are expected to attend the Philadelphia Juneteenth Parade and Festival in West Philadelphia this coming Saturday. The event will start with a 9 a.m. “Honor Our Ancestors” breakfast, followed by a parade and music festival beginning at noon at 52nd and Jefferson Streets and ending at Malcolm X Park at 52nd and Pine Streets.
Forget Mar-a-Lago, The Real Winter White House is in Key West - March 19, 1949
What started out as military quarters has grown into a pivotal building in our country's history over the last 50+ years. It could be considered the original Winter White House, but we call it the Truman Little White House due to the fact that President Harry S. Truman truly fell in love with Key West while he was here.
He even said the city was his second favorite city in the world - second only to his hometown.
The Little White House has hosted dignitaries from many countries, as well as the President and top military brass of the United States. It's also been the site of several important documents that changed the course of history - The Key West Accord and The Marshall Plan are among them.
Learn more about the role our island city of Key West and the Truman Little White House played in the history of the United States!
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Aquatic Moment of Zen - LBJ Ranch
Old entrance to the ranch of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States.
The ranch is located out in the Texas Hill Country near Stonewall, where LBJ felt the most grounded. As a fan of the Hill Country myself, I can see why he felt that way!
Eisenhower Birthplace, Denison, TX
A tour of the house where President Eisenhower was born in Denison, TX. The President lived here the first 18 months of his life. Recorded 5/19/09.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Recorded May 26, 2019
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park System in West Branch, Iowa. The buildings and grounds commemorate the life of Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States. The park was established in 1965 and encompasses 187 acres.
Hoover spent the first eleven years of his life in West Branch. The son of a blacksmith who practiced close to the town, Hoover was born in a small cottage in 1874. Within the next few years, Hoover was orphaned and left West Branch to live with relatives in Oregon. Hoover would go on to become a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and President of the United States.
In this video I visit the birthplace cottage and grave site along with historic downtown West Branch.
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Lady Bird Johnson's Home Movie #32, HM32: LBJ Ranch, 1965 (1280x720)
We now have 2K (2048x1556) film scans of some of our 16mm films. This is a 1280x720 MP4 copy of our high resolution scan. To order high resolution copies without the timecode and serial number burn-in, please contact Johnson.Library@nara.gov
Lady Bird Johnson's Home Movie #32: LBJ Ranch, 1965
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LBJ and CTJ entertaining friends at the
Boyhood Home, on Lake LBJ, and in the pool.
Aerial view of the Pedernales River and the ranch.
Bill Moyers in boat smoking a cigar.
John Chancellor? and unidentified man on boat with Moyers.
Bill Moyers still smoking a cigar.
Lake LBJ at sunset.
Unidentified lady on the boat.
CTJ with two other ladies on the boat.
CTJ and Liz Carpenter on the boat.
CTJ with a family (mother, daughter, son).
CTJ with older couple on the boat.
Liz Carpenter on the boat.
Unidentified man, woman, and child.
CTJ and older woman.
LBJ sitting in a water chair in the ranch pool.
Jack Valenti in the pool talking with others, including Liz Carpenter.
Cowboys and cattle at the ranch.
Swearing in ceremony of Homer Thornberry as Judge, US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Homer Thornberry and family standing beneath trees.
LBJ and Judge Herman Jones (of Austin) swearing in Homer Thornberry; the Thornberry family on the porch.
Picnic scenes at the ranch.
Unidentified people having a picnic under the trees.
LBJ (sport shirt and plaid cap) eating at a picnic table.
CTJ and others at unidentified location.
LBJ with the Rusks and Gronouskis at the ranch.
Dean Rusk and John A. Gronouski with their wives on the porch.
Dean Rusk at the ranch airport.
LBJ (in sport shirt) and Dean Rusk in golf cart; LBJ saying good bye to the Rusks.
LBJ, Lawrence O'Brien, and Arthur Goldberg on a boat at Lake LBJ.
Lawrence O'Brien and unidentified woman on the boat.
The same two people with unidentified man on the boat.
LBJ (in sport shirt) on the boat.
Arthur J. Goldberg on the boat.
CTJ and Lynda visiting unidentified rock formations, caverns, and early stone drawings.
Swearing-in ceremony of Lawrence F. O'Brien as Postmaster Gen. and John Gronouski as Ambassador to Poland, Nov. 3, 1965.
LBJ (in suit) shaking hands with O'Brien on the porch.
LBJ speaking at the podium.
John A. Gronouski smoking his pipe.
Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent at the ranch.
Luci and Pat Nugent standing in front of a
tree with Helene Lindow.
Luci and Pat Nugent standing in front of a tree.
Pat Nugent, Luci, and Helene joking on the porch.
Several unidentified women on the porch.
The Johnsons and the Dean Rusks visiting and leaving the ranch airport.
LBJ talking to ranch hands and examining the cattle.
LBJ's University of Michigan speech, 5-22-64.
Audio from President Johnson's speech at the University of Michigan May 22, 1964, also called the Great Society speech. Audio is WHCA_83_2, photo is c387-8-wh64. Both are in the public domain.
For more images of this speech, please see which is B Roll of the same speech.
Text is from The American Presidency Project, by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
LBJ Birthday - 100 Years Old
This short educational music video profiles the life of former President, Lyndon Johnson. From the strong Texas roots of his youth, through his stormy political career, and his tragic meeting with his own complexities at the end of his life. No one can argue about the good, and the bad of his life - his biography is as plain - put, as the man himself. The music sounds the tribal beat that must have lived in the heart of LBJ - the man, and his connection with the land that he loved so dearly.
December 20, 1963 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Chamizal Treaty between Mexico and the USA
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Chamizal treaty between Mexico and the U.S. in the White House's Treaty Room in December 1963, as Secrecretary of State Dean Rusk, a group of senators, and Antonio Carillo Flores, Mexico's ambassador look on.
In far west Texas, near El Paso, the Chamizal Convention (Treaty) was actually originally signed by the two countries' Ambassadors on August 29, 1963 in Mexico City not by the Presidents; Thomas Mann for the US and Manuel Tello for Mexico; the Chamizal Treaty was later ratified and signed by then US President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 20, 1963 since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. That treaty peacefully resolved a boundary issue that had been a sore point between the two nations for over 100 years. Because the Rio Grande had changed course, as rivers do, the two countries couldn’t agree on the exact international boundary. The 1963 treaty equitably divided 600 acres between the two countries. Chamizal is one of two national park sites in America that commemorate a peaceful solution to an international boundary dispute.