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The outside is quite stark, unrelieved in the hot summer Texas sun. It is the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin TX. But I found the inside to be quite moving. Old enough to remember the tumult over Vietnam but not old enough or perhaps politically aware enough to appreciate LBJ's great work. The library is one of 13 Presidential Libraries administered by theNational Archives and Records Administration. It houses 45 million pages of historical documents, including the papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson and those of his close associates and others. The Library was dedicated on May 22, 1971, with Johnson and then-President Richard Nixon in attendance. After her death in July, 2007, the body of Lady Bird Johnson lay in repose in the Library and Museum, just as her husband's had after his death, 34 years earlier. In 2012, the LBJ Library underwent a multi-million dollar redesign, during which most of the exhibits were closed. On Dece...

Protected with PIXSY About Joan Carroll: I am a Fort Worth Texas-based outdoor photographer who feels at home while on the road...in Texas, in the US, around the world. Although travel and photography were dual interests from a young age, the coming of the digital camera provided undreamed of opportunities and unleashed previously untapped creativity. My photographic goal is to travel the world in a curious yet respectful way, taking the time to see and understand the unique story of each place I visit. Wherever I go I want to walk every street, hike every trail, ride the bus or metro, climb every tower, walk around and through every monument, and then do it all over again when the light changes. In every place, light, mood, color, and...