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5 unusual facts about Lyndon


Charles W. Willard

Willard was born in Lyndon, Vermont, son of Thomas Willard and Abigail (Carpenter) Willard.

David Sutherland Hibbard

After graduating from Princeton in 1896, Hibbard served as a pastor at a local church in Lyndon, Kansas for three years.

Dells Raceway Park

Dells Raceway Park (DRP), formerly known as the Dells Motor Speedway, is a car racing raceway located in the town of Lyndon, in Juneau County, north of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin just off of U.S. Route 12/Wisconsin Highway 16.

Lyndon, Rutland

William Whiston (1667–1752), best known for his translation of Josephus, died at the Hall, the home of his son-in-law, Samuel Barker on 22 August 1752.

Samuel Decius Hubbard

In 1868 he moved to Lyndon, and took up dealing in livestock as well as farming.


Albert Richard Thomas

He witnessed the swearing in of President Lyndon Baines Johnson on Air Force One which included the 'infamous wink' to Lyndon B. Johnson.

Bayard–Condict Building

It was built between 1897 and 1899 in the Chicago School style; the associate architect was Lyndon P. Smith.

Bilingual Education Act

The BEA was introduced in 1967 by Texas senator Ralph Yarborough and was later signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 2, 1968.

Boyd Dunlop Morehead

His sister Margaret Goff née Morehead was the mother of Helen Lyndon Goff, who achieved fame as P. L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins.

Claudia Johnson

Lady Bird Johnson (Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, 1912–2007), First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson

Cornbread

President John F. Kennedy's staffers, who were mostly northeastern ivy league elites and despised Texan Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson's rural speech patterns, used to refer to Johnson behind his back as 'Uncle Cornpone' or 'Rufus Cornpone'.

Cyril Magnin

Magnin himself was a major donor to the presidential candidacies of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and, in the interim, developed a close friendship with Lyndon Johnson.

FN Baby Browning

The halt to exports to the USA in 1968 was dictated by the Gun Control Act of 1968 which was precipitated by Robert Kennedy's assassination involving an Iver Johnson made revolver and signed into law by then President Lyndon Johnson.

Jack Minnis

By 1965, Minnis was producing a weekly mimeographed opposition research-based newsletter, Life in the Great Society with Lyndon, which made public some of the activities of President Lyndon B. Johnson that were not covered by the mainstream media.

James Eastland

Its passage caused many Mississippi Democrats to y support openly Barry Goldwater's presidential bid that year, but Eastland did not publicly oppose the election of Lyndon Johnson.

James U. Cross

On February 23, 1962, Cross flew Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, Chairman of the National Space Council, to Grand Turk Island, where Colonel John Glenn had splashed down after completing the Project Mercury space expedition.

Josias Lyndon

Most of Lyndon's year as governor was spent in correspondence with a representative of the King of England, expressing concerns of the colony over the unjust taxation brought about by the Stamp Act.

Knox City, Texas

Knox City and Lyndon Baty were featured in a 2014 episode of Snap Judgment on Artificial Intelligence.

Lake Lyndon B. Johnson

The dam would be renamed Wirtz Dam in 1952 for Alvin J. Wirtz, the first general counsel of the LCRA, and the lake was renamed to Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 in honor of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Laurence Luckinbill

He has written and performed in several one-man shows including, "Hemingway", "Teddy", "An Evening with Clarence Darrow", as well as, "Lyndon", which he did not write, but has performed numerous times, including a schedule at the LBJ Museum in Austin, Texas, where Lady Bird Johnson was one of those in attendance.

Le Thor

Pierre Salinger (1925-2004), a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, lived in "La Bastide rose" until his death.

Lewis Pinhorn Wood

Others involved in the School at this time included: his contemporary Weedon Grossmith, the writer, painter and actor; Claude Hayes, the watercolorist and landscapist; Herbert Lyndon, the oil painter and landscapist; and watercolorist Frederick Goodall (RA).

Lyndon Burgess

Lyndon Burgess (born November 17, 1980) is a Bermudian soccer player who currently plays for Bermuda Hogges in the USL Second Division.

Lyndon Woodside

Lyndon Woodside (March 23, 1935, Florence, South Carolina-August 23, 2005, Englewood, New Jersey) was the 10th conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York.

Mary Cullinan

Dr. Mary Cullinan (born 1950) grew up in Washington D.C. Her father was Assistant Postmaster-General under President Dwight Eisenhower and later a speech writer for various senators, congressmen and other influential politicians-including Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

Mary Dorothy Lyndon

After earning sufficient credit Lyndon received a Master of Arts degree on June 17, 1914 - four years before women were admitted to UGA as regular students.

National Housing Act

Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" program, which provided a national system of rent subsidies in the United States

NCLC

National Caucus of Labor Committees, a political organization associated with Lyndon LaRouche

Op den Graeff

Mark K. Updegrove (* 1961), american author and historian, director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

Robert B. Meyner

At the 1960 Democratic National Convention Meyner received 43 votes for president, finishing fifth behind John F. Kennedy (806 votes), Lyndon Johnson (409 votes), Stuart Symington (86 votes) and Adlai Stevenson (79.5 votes) and just ahead of Hubert Humphrey who received 41 votes.

Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center

Jack Valenti: former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, special assistant to US President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Samuel Ealy Johnson

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr., grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and honoree of Johnson City, Texas

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Texas politician and father of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson

Sid W. Richardson

Sid Richardson Hall, an academic building at the University of Texas, Austin, which houses the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection, the UT Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection.

The Great Society

Great Society, a program of domestic legislation initiated by U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson

The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Thomas Elmer Braniff

Texas Senator William A. Blakley, who in 1961 was appointed to then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's seat after LBJ was elected Vice President of the United States, created with Tom Braniff, the Blakley Braniff Foundation.

Townsend Hoopes

In a telephone conversation between Richard Nixon and Charles Colson, taped on July 1, 1971, Colson relates the news that Lyndon Johnson privately believed that Hoopes had played a role in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press, and that he would have liked to have seen Hoopes taken to court by the government alongside various newspapermen.

WNNO-FM

Its station is located in the vacation mecca of Wisconsin Dells and Lake Delton, and its signal can be reached out to Portage, Poynette, Baraboo, Lyndon Station, and Adams-Friendship, even as far as the northern Madison Metro area.

WWLR

Licensed to Lyndonville, Vermont, USA, the station serves the Northeast Kingdom and Northern New Hampshire area, and is run by students, faculty and staff of Lyndon State College.


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