{"id":489,"date":"2018-08-27T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2020-08-27T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:35:22","slug":"happy-birthday-lbj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-lbj\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, LBJ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-482 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PDYRWY-letters-from-first-families27012018_7LBJ-LBJ-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PDYRWY-letters-from-first-families27012018_7LBJ-LBJ-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PDYRWY-letters-from-first-families27012018_7LBJ-LBJ-768x952.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PDYRWY-letters-from-first-families27012018_7LBJ-LBJ-826x1024.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PDYRWY-letters-from-first-families27012018_7LBJ-LBJ.jpg 1485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LBJ sent my mother this birthday card when he was the vice president, inscribed with his bold, recognizable signature. He also sent a congratulatory letter to her after my birth in which he wrote, \u201cThank heaven for little girls!\u201d\u00a0Today, on\u00a0August 27, this \u201cgirl\u201d remembers the former President of the United States of America who was born on his this day in\u00a01908.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, LBJ~<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-485\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-485 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15-13-2_med-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15-13-2_med-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15-13-2_med-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15-13-2_med-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/15-13-2_med.jpg 1571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>LBJ, Stonewall or Johnson City, Texas, ca. 1915, LBJ Library<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Links:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gdNEOtGRi_w\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">U-tube: LBJ talks about teaching students in Cotulla, Texas.<\/span><\/a>The LBJ Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbjlibrary.org\/lyndon-baines-johnson\/lbj-biography\/\">LBJ:Biography <\/a>, The LBJ Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lbjmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Museum-Visit-Program.pdf\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">LBJ&#8217;s Legacy at the Museum<\/span><\/a>, LBJ Museum of San Marcos, Texas<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbjlibrary.org\/lyndon-baines-johnson\/lbj-biography\/landmark\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">Landmark laws passed during LBJ&#8217;s administration<\/span><\/a>, The LBJ Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/us-presidents\/lyndon-b-johnson\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/a>, History.com<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 LBJ sent my mother this birthday card when he was the vice president, inscribed with his bold, recognizable signature. He also sent a congratulatory letter to her after my birth in which he wrote, \u201cThank heaven for little girls!\u201d\u00a0Today, on\u00a0August 27, this \u201cgirl\u201d remembers the former President of the United States of America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-lbj\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday, LBJ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-president-lyndon-b-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rufusyoungblood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}