LBJ Birthday Commemoration 2020
Channel: TheLBJLibrary
Date: 27/08/2020

This year, commemorations at the LBJ Ranch in Texas and at the LBJ Memorial Grove in Washington, DC, honored President Lyndon Johnson’s birthday, who was born August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas.

The annual wreath-laying ceremony marking President Johnson's birthday was conducted as a virtual program. The program includes a wreath-laying at the LBJ Memorial Grove on the Potomac by Lynda Johnson Robb, tributes to President Johnson by Liberal Arts Honor students from The University of Texas at Austin, and a wreath-laying on President Johnson's grave at the LBJ Ranch by Luci Baines Johnson. LBJ Library Director, Mark A. Lawrence, is the host.


The video begins with a welcome from LBJ Presidential Library Director Mark A. Lawrence.
 
3:20     Wreath laying ceremony at the LBJ Memorial Grove, Washington, DC
            Welcome: Christopher Bjornson, Texas State Society
            Invocation: Dr. Amy Butler, National City Christian Church
            Remarks & Wreath laying: Lynda Johnson Robb, daughter of Lyndon and Lady Bird
            Johnson
 
9:30     Tribute from Anagha Kikkeri, Liberal Arts Honor student at The University of Texas at
            Austin, current UT Student Government President
 
12:41   Tribute from Ali Zaidi, Liberal Arts Honor student at The University of Texas at Austin,
            a Thomas Jefferson scholar.
 
16:57   Wreath laying ceremony at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park
            Remarks and Wreath laying: Luci Baines Johnson, Daughter of Lyndon and Lady Bird
            Johnson