Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines delivered keynote remarks on classified information and democracy at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. She covered…
937 viewsThe University of Texas at Austin’s Briscoe Center for American History acquired the papers of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and her late husband Richard Goodwin. Ms. Goodwin…
583 viewsLBJ Foundation president and CEO Mark Updegrove offered a reassessment of John Kennedy’s presidency - with a focus on how JFK grew in office as he confronted domestic and foreign…
333 viewsHistorian Mark Updegrove, president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, joined Book TV live from the Texas Book Festival in Austin to talk and take calls about U.S. presidential history. He is…
480 viewsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talked about voting rights, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and public service at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Speaker Pelosi also answered…
136 viewsLibrary director Mark Updegrove showed the Presidential Suite exhibit at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum. It is a reconstruction of the living space where President and Ladybird Johnson spent their…
1,637 viewsDon Carleton presented the work of 23 photographers who captured the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was a virtual event hosted by the 2021 Virtual San Antonio Book Festival.
319 viewsFour eyewitnesses recalled the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Sid Davis was the Westinghouse radio pool reporter on Air Force One when Lyndon Baines…
1,181 viewsAll in Together, the National Constitution Center, the National Archives, amd several other foundations hosted a series of conversations on the history, legacy, and future of the 19th…
141 viewsAt the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, descendants of Presidents Ford, Truman, McKinley, Johnson, and Theodore Roosevelt gathered to share their family…
2,477 viewsAnn Gerhart and Mark Updegrove talked about the life and influence of first lady Laura Bush and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. They talked about her childhood in Texas, career as a teacher and…
5,492 viewsBook TV looked at books about American Presidents.
991 viewsPulitzer Prize winning conservative columnist George Will discussed his new book The Conservative Sensibility at the Texas Tribune Festival. He talked about the state of the Republican Party and…
1,404 viewsThe White House Historical Association convened a meeting in Washington, D.C., of those who work at presidential sites around the country -- and of descendants of presidents from James…
1,356 viewsMark Updegrove talked about his book, The Last Republicans, about the relationship between former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
904 viewsHistorian Michael Beschloss discussed his book, Presidents of War.
910 viewsLBJ Foundation president Mark Updegrove, former Chief of Staff to Laura Bush Anita McBride, and White House Historical Association president Stewart McLaurin discussed presidential legacies.
372 viewsCNN’s chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper discussed his political novel about Congress and Washington politics set in the 1950s.
1,155 viewsMeghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) , accepted the Liberty and Justice For All Award on behalf of her father. The ceremony at the Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas,…
1,211 viewsMark Updegrove, former director of the LBJ Presidential Library, looked at the relationship between former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
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