- Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
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location = Austin,Texas ,USA
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dedication_date =May 22 ,1971
named_for =Lyndon B. Johnson
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size =14 acres (57,000 m²)
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manager =National Archives The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum is one of 12 presidential libraries administered by theNational Archives and Records Administration . Thelibrary houses 40 million pages of historical documents, including the papers ofLyndon Baines Johnson and those of his close associates and others. The library was dedicated onMay 22 ,1971 , with Johnson and then-PresidentRichard Nixon in attendance. The current director is Dr.Betty Sue Flowers .The library, adjacent to the LBJ School of Public Affairs, occupies 14 acres (57,000 m²) on the
campus of The University of Texas at Austin. The top floor of the library has a 7/8ths scale replica of theOval Office decorated as it was during Johnson's presidency. The museum provides year-round public viewing of its permanent historical and cultural exhibits and its many traveling exhibits. The library is the only presidential library not to charge admission, and has the highest visitation of any presidential library (with the exception of the first two or three years of any new presidential library, which in some cases sees more visitors).cite news | url=http://www.baylor.edu/bushproposal/index.php?id=40665 | title=Baylor University Proposal for Bush Presidential Library | publisher=Baylor University | date=2007 | accessdate = 2007-11-04]Upon her death in July 2007
Lady Bird Johnson lay in repose in the Library and Museum, just as her husband had 34 years earlier.External links
* [http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/ The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum]
* [http://www.lbjfoundation.org/ The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation]
* [http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/ The LBJ School of Public Affairs]References
Further reading
Benjamin Hufbauer, "Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory" (University Press of Kansas, 2005). See ch.3: "Symbolic Power, Democratic Access, and the Imperial Presidency: The Johnson Library."
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