Greetings from Austin, pt III
I visited the Lyndon B. Johnson Library a couple of times this week.
The library is on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, and one day I couldn't park because there was a Longhorns game. Every student at UT wears a UT t-shirt; I have never seen anything like that. It is a combination of school pride and perhaps the ability of orange to conceal sweat rings (it's very hot there - I'm not saying people in Austin are unhygienic).
THE LBJ library is one of two presidential libraries on college campuses. The other belongs to Bush the First up north at Texas A&M College Station. Bush the Younger, says word on the street, will probably have his library at Southern Methodist University, though I think a nice Presidential Library concession at Arlington Stadium where the Rangers play or perhaps a floor of some oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico might be appropriate. The first exhibit could be called something like Let's Foget this All Happened.
The staff of the Johnson Library, some of whom are feds and some of whom are University employees, were all very helpful. On site are LBJ's Lincoln limo, a scale model of his Oval Office, breakdowns of the thousand or so pieces of Great Society legislation, and an animatronic joke-telling LBJ robot.
The three people I asked were unaware of this recording of LBJ asking to get more room in the crotch.
One day I'll have an animatronic version of myself, and then you'll be sorry.
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by Marty Barrett at Sunday, September 03, 2006
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Correction - The second presidential library (Bush's) is on the campus of Texas A&M-College Station. As you might know there is a long standing rivalry amonst the Texas A&M "Aggies" and the University of Texas "Longhorns". I hope that your words here have not torn asunder the long fragile tolerance that has existed between the two for many years.
Navin, you're right. I have made the correction. I have no right teaching ACI to say "Hook 'em 'horns."
That area is my favorte part of campus. I love the immense, windowless concrete monoliths along the paved pavilion with the little square fountains. My favorite place for a picnic, bar none.
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