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LBJ’s “King of Barbecue,” Walter Jetton, at work on LBJ Ranch, 1963: #LBJL 
Ad for himself by LBJ’s Barbecue King, Walter Jetton:
Lady Bird Johnson’s recipe for barbecue sauce:
LBJ displays his gall bladder scar to reporters after surgery that occurred this week 1965: #AP
LBJ’s gall-bladder scar depicted as Vietnam in this cartoon by David Levine:
After LBJ displayed his gall-bladder scar for reporters, some wag joked that it was a good thing the President hadn’t been suffering from hemorrhoids.
After service on the LBJ Ranch and in Nixon’s Oval Office, this desk finally found its way to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney in 2008. (Unlike with LBJ, no dog sleeping on its side underneath.)
Nixon mistakenly thought the desk he got from the LBJ Ranch had actually been used by President Wilson, and dramatically referred in White House speeches to decisions he made behind Woodrow’s old desk.
Aside from Cutty Sark, one of LBJ’s favorite beverages was sugar-free Fresca, which he sometimes called “Fresco”:
LBJ having a great time at picnic with friends as LBJ Library opens fifty years ago tomorrow, Austin, Texas:
Harry Middleton, the Joe DiMaggio of Presidential Library directors (he served the Johnson Library from 1970 to 2002), leading Lady Bird, LBJ and friends outside the newly-opened institution, August 1971: #LBJL
Villa Capri Motor Hotel, Austin, Texas, across street from LBJ Library, home away from home to a generation of historians (including myself) and other researchers. Excellent fried chicken and glamorous swimming pool. Demolished 1988:
Trump is planning to give Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom tomorrow, reports @AshleyRParker.
Among recipients of first Presidential Medal of Freedom were Pope John XXIII and JFK.
@AshleyRParker And another Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to Jim Jordan, says @Axios.
