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Cherry Blossom Gallery - Photo 1

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.

Medium
Post Card
Credit
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum /NARA