LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Texas

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36^th president of the USA, built his presidential library at the University of Texas, in the state capitol, Austin, an hour east of the LBJ Ranch, his legacy location, maintained by the federal government and his family. The library opened in 1971, and he was on hand at its dedication, along with his successor, Richard Nixon. Inside the impressive atrium is the library, which houses 45 million pages of documents, administered by the National Archives. Also inside is a museum, which, like other official presidential libraries, includes a model of the Oval Office as it looked at the time he occupied it. Many other exhibits and displays tell the official story about him and his presidency, and the cultural and political context around it.