A southern response to civil rights : Lyndon Baines Johnson and civil rights legislation 1956-1960

Beside the Potomac River in Washington, D. C., a stand of pines will grow as a living memorial to Lyndon B. Johnson. Amid the fifteen-acre spread, a pink granite marker quarried from the Texas Hill Country cites the accomplishments of the man. Being both expansive and reflective, the LBJ Memorial Grove reflects the dichotomy that was Lyndon Johnson. He was as much at home in the lonely, rugged hills country as he was in the dynamic center of the nation’s capital. It was a typical Johnsonian maneuver to attempt to bring the two together.