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3 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Brave Americans poised to help save the world on D-Day, this week 1944:
Americans about to fight on D-Day, this week 1944. Sgt. Sandy Martin [top left] died on Omaha Beach and is buried there. #NARA
Allies liberate Rome, tomorrow 1944:
U.S. Army Rangers, Weymouth, England, this week 1944, before fighting on D-Day:

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In 1962, the director John Frankenheimer released both “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Birdman of Alcatraz.” A theme emerges.
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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.)
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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:
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