LBJ celebrating his last Christmas, with family, LBJ Ranch, yesterday 1972. With ranch now open to public, this dining room looks much the same, except for that Lady Bird had linoleum floor yanked out and replaced by wood parquet after her husband’s death:
For those eager to search for replicas of Presidential furniture, at left is the hide-covered chair with little stirrups that LBJ often sat in while presiding at head of his ranch dining room table:
Note the desk in LBJ’s ranch office during his Presidency—he was using Nixon’s old Vice Presidential desk—after his 1968 election, Nixon went looking for it—learned that LBJ had flown it to Texas—Nixon had it flown back to DC, where he used it for all of his time in Oval Office:
Decades later, the old desk used by Nixon and LBJ turned up in the office of Vice President Cheney:
JFK and Jackie were supposed to be sitting at the Johnsons’ dining table had they flown, as scheduled, to the LBJ Ranch from Austin to stay the night of November 22, 1963.
This is how Lady Bird Johnson transformed her husband’s ranch office after his death (as photographed by Architectural Digest):
LBJ’s private bathroom on his Texas ranch, now restored:
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