The Hauenstein leadership fellows checked out the LBJ Library. This is an interior cross-section of the multi-story archives, seen from the Great Hall of the LBJ Library. The library houses 45 million pages of historical documents...

Lyndon in 1913, at the age of five.

This photo-engraved magnesium mural of Lyndon Baines Johnson, by Naomi Savage, is located on the second floor, near the archives.

Robert F. Kennedy bust in the LBJ.

The Hauenstein group got together with presidential historian H. W. Brands (second from right) to talk about their research projects. Brands has been a mainstay of the Hauenstein Center. He teaches at the University of Texas and is...

Melissa and Brian arrived early at the LBJ to spend the day researching in the archives.

The LBJ Reading Room limits access to serious researchers. While there, the leadership fellows got to meet best-selling author Robert Caro, who has produced three masterful books about LBJ and is researching and writing a fourth.

Archivist Allen Fisher briefs Melissa and Brian on the proceedures and finding aids in the LBJ Library.

The director of the LBJ Library and Museum, Betty Sue Flowers, met with Hauenstein Center director Gleaves Whitney.

A reconstruction of the Oval Office as it appeared during LBJ's presidency is on the 8th floor of the Library, around the corner from the Reading Room. Note the portrait of George Washington.

At the other end of the Oval Office is a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who helped Lyndon Johnson become an effective Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Bust of LBJ on the 8th floor of the Library, outside the Reading Room.

Hauenstein fellows Brian Flanagan (right) and Melissa Ware mining boxes and files for good material in the LBJ Reading Room. Robert Caro (in the dark shirt, seated) can be seen working on his book.