LBJ Ranch in Texas
by Joan Carroll
Title
LBJ Ranch in Texas
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
This is part of the ranchland owned by Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States. As a boy, Lyndon Baines Johnson's family was always fighting poverty and the unrelenting Texas landscape. Yet, LBJ had a love of the area around his boyhood home, and even as President loved to 'come home' to the Pedernales. As I drove around the area, I had a hard time understanding that love. It surely has a stark and uncompromising beauty that is wonderful to behold. But I imagined all those rainless summers and bitter cold winters. It is always a tough life for farmers and ranchers. Today this area is preserved as the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park. It is a United States National Historical Park in central Texas about 50 miles west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country. The park protects the birthplace, home, ranch, and final resting place of Lyndon B. Johnson. During Johnson's administration, the LBJ Ranch was known as the "Texas White House" because the President spent approximately twenty percent of his time in office there. It is still a working ranch.
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August 6th, 2014
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