The Presidency / In-Depth Exhibits

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LBJ meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr.

LBJtapes.org

Delve into even more "secret tapes" from President Lyndon Johnson's time in the White House.
Nixon and premier choi en lai shake hands in peking china

Nixon on China

President Nixon would play China against the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union against China, and both against North Vietnam.
Ken Hughes
Half-tone image of Elizabeth Jennings Graham

Race and Racism

‘I did not get off the car’

Elizabeth Jennings’s first-person account appeared in the anti-slavery newspaper The New York Daily Tribune on June 19, 1854. Three days before, this 24-year-old schoolteacher on her way to church had boarded the Third Avenue Railroad at the corner of Pearl and Chatham streets in New York City. The conductor told her to wait for the next car, because it would be accepting Black riders.
Lyndon Johnson and Adam Clayton Powell with profiles merged

Education

‘Don't get sucked into it’

Frustrated by Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.’s attempt to gain funding for other priorities as a price for reporting the education bill, President Lyndon Johnson dismisses Powell’s concern about an education clause in the administration’s Appalachia bill.
painting of george washington

The Presidency

American regicide

On December 20, just after arriving in the nation’s capital at Annapolis, Washington sent a note to the president of the Confederation Congress saying that he was there to resign his commission as commander-in- chief and wondering whether he should do so “in writing or at an audience.”