Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
Cherry Blossom Gallery - Photo 1
- Medium
- Post Card
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- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum /NARA
Cherry Blossom Gallery - Photo 1
In October 1934, a young Lyndon Baines Johnson, working as an aide to Texas Congressman Richard M. Kleberg in Washington, D.C., sent this postcard of the Lincoln Memorial surrounded by cherry blossoms to his soon to be wife Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor in Karnack, Texas.
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