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President and Mrs. Johnson with the Blue Room Christmas Tree

This photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson posing by the Blue Room Christmas tree was taken by Robert L. Knudsen on December 13, 1966. For her third Christmas as first lady, Lady Bird Johnson decorated the tree with thousands of small traditional ornaments, including nuts, fruit, popcorn, dried seedpods, gingerbread cookies, and wood roses from Hawaii.
Photographer
Robert L. Knudsen
Date of Work
December 13, 1966
Type
Photograph
Credit
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
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