LBJ finally gets a Washington memorial
By Maria Recio | McClatchy Newspapers
* Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007
WASHINGTON — Lyndon Baines Johnson, whose only Washington memorial has been a hard-to-find grove on an island in the Potomac River, finally has a monument suitable to his larger-than-life legacy — the Department of Education building.
The daughters of the nation's 36th president, relatives, associates and friends gathered Monday morning on the steps of the large education headquarters across from the National Air and Space Museum to dedicate former Federal Building 6 in honor of the Texas Democrat — the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, a Texan, presided at the ceremony, which featured Johnson's daughters Lynda Robb and Luci Baines Johnson, their spouses, children, most of their 11 grandchildren and such notables as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, former Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and former Johnson aide Joe Califano.
"More than 60 education laws were part of the vast number of legislative measures that made up the Great Society," Robb said. "But Daddy wasn't as interested in the number of laws he helped enact as he was in the number of lives those laws help enrich."
"It's a thrilling experience for all of us," said her sister, Luci. "It's a wonderful day of achievement." She said the day was "a great love feast."
"Nothing meant more to my father than education."
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