In 1962, the director John Frankenheimer released both “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Birdman of Alcatraz.” A theme emerges.
In 1964, two years after “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Birdman of Alcatraz,” John Frankenheimer released “Seven Days in May,” about a military coup d’etat against our democracy:
On June 4, 1968, the day of the California Democratic Presidential primary, Robert Kennedy stayed at the Malibu home of his friend, the director John Frankenheimer, and was driven by Frankenheimer to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles:
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: