About this tour
Lyndon Baines Johnson came out of the Texas Hill Country to become the 36th president of the United States, and no city carries his and Lady Bird's imprint like Austin. This drive links the monolithic archive that holds his presidency, the graduate school he founded to teach the next generation of public servants, a campus building named for the First Lady, and finally the wildflower center that carried her lifelong conservation crusade home to the Hill Country. Together they trace a couple who shaped civil-rights law, the Great Society, and the very look of American roadsides — and who chose to root their legacy in the capital of their home state.