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LBJ Library dedicated in Austin
On this day in 1971, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was
dedicated on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. It was the
nation's fifth presidential library and the first to be located on a
university campus. It serves as a center for scholarly research and as a
historical museum. Scholarly interest in the LBJ Library centers on its
unusually rich archives of manuscripts and audiovisual records. More
than 30 million pages of manuscripts, mostly papers of President
Johnson, form the core of the research collection. As the most
comprehensive single collection of materials on a president of the
United States, the library's holdings span Lyndon Johnson's entire
political career. Added to the Johnson papers are those of Lady Bird
Johnson and many of Johnson's contemporaries and associates. Operated by
the National Archives and Records Administration, the LBJ Library is
part of a system of presidential libraries devoted to research through
preservation of materials related to those who have held the job of
president of the United States.
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- LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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