Secret Service and the Presidents
Historian William Seale has described presidential protection as a learning process, with presidents and their families and the Secret Service...
Mexican State Dinners: President and Mrs. Johnson
- Date of Work
- October 26, 1967
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
Mexican State Dinners: President and Mrs. Johnson
Gathering in the Yellow Oval Room before the State Dinner, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Lady Bird Johnson, Muriel Humphrey, Mrs. Diaz Ordaz, and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz admire a machete given to President Johnson by the Diaz Ordaz sons. October 26, 1967.
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