CD: The ranch is where you can see President Johnson’s life full circle, because part of the property is where he was born, in 1908; there’s the house he acquired from his aunt that became the ...

But Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, did things differently. ... Johnson began hosting people in his ranch 60 miles from Austin before becoming vice president.

To Lyndon, who left the land to seek his fortune elsewhere and came back in style, the hill country now means mostly the 400-acre LBJ Ranch on the banks of the Pedernales.

Then she sent him trudging a mile down a ranch road, ... When his family moved into Johnson City (pop. then 350), Lyndon attended the two-story pink limestone school—biggest building in town.

I visited the Johnson ranch once, when I was around eleven years old, while on spring break from school in 1989. My grandparents loaded me, my aunt, and my cousin into a Winnebago to drive us all ...

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million countrymen, ... He spent two months at the L.B.J. Ranch last year, and even in Washington made himself scarce for long periods. Occasionally, ...