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The National Archives Continues its Celebration of First Ladies’ Centennial

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Lady Bird Johnson Head Start

September 28, 2012. The National Archives continues its 2012 commemoration of the 100th birthdays of First Ladies Pat Nixon (March 16), and Lady Bird Johnson (December 22), with the concluding installment of a display of rarely seen documents, photographs, and objects that pertain to the initiatives they pursued while in the White House. In addition, DocsTeach, the Archives’ online teaching tool, features new teaching activities on both First Ladies. (At left: Lady Bird Johnson visits a classroom for Project Head Start, Kemper School, Washington, DC, March 19, 1968. Library of Congress.)  More >