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The park protects the birthplace, home, ranch, and grave of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States. [5] 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. [6]
In 1908, future President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson was born in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River. Johnson became the Vice President of the United States in 1961 and subsequently President of the United States. His ranch at Stonewall was known as the Texas White House. Tourism became an important industry. [37]
The Johnson Ranch, or "Texas White House" In 1952, White was hired by Lady Bird Johnson (wife of then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson) to be the primary architect overseeing the redesign and expansion of her Hill Country home near Johnson City, Texas, which would later be known as the "Texas White House" (now part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park).
Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, moved back to his Johnson City, Texas, ranch after leaving the White House. Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch. Cynthia Dorminey/NPS.
The "Summer White House" is typically the name given to the summer vacation residence of the sitting president of the United States aside from Camp David, the mountain-based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland, used as a country retreat and for high-alert protection of presidents and their guests.
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The ranch bought by the state of Texas for President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan is flat, which makes it optimal for construction of detention sites. texas.gov “Texas is truly a ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas. Johnson's family moved from a farm near Stonewall, Texas -- now known as the LBJ Ranch -- to Johnson City (a distance of about fourteen miles) two weeks after his fifth birthday, in September 1913. For most of the next twenty-four years, this was their home.