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Lady Bird Johnson's I-95 Landscape-Landmark Tour Galleries

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As the Landscape-Landmark Tour reaches Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, Lady Bird Johnson took color films as reporters take notes and photographs films the arrival. According to an account by Nan Robertson in The New York Times, "Mrs. Johnson took color movies of Mrs. Robert F. McNamara while the Defense Secretary's wife snapped the First Lady in black and white." (The reporter wearing a print dress and taking notes may be Ms. Robertson.) Lady Bird Johnson on the walk leading to Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson.
At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson landmark home in Virginia, Lady Bird Johnson (right) posed with Federal Highway Administrator Rex Whitton and his wife Callie Maud. Posing before Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson. Identified participants are Mary Connor (third from left), wife of Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor; Lady Bird Johnson (center), still holding her color camera; Trudye Fowler, wife of Secretary of the Treasury Henry T. Fowler; and Muriel Humphrey (third from right), wife of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
Posing before Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson. Identified participants are Mary Connor (third from left), wife of Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor; Lady Bird Johnson (center), still holding her color camera; Trudye Fowler, wife of Secretary of the Treasury Henry T. Fowler; and Muriel Humphrey (third from right), wife of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.

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