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Calendar of Events
August 18 - September 26
"LBJ and the White House Years" photography exhibit
Art Gallery located in the J.C. Mitte building
August 23 (opening day)
LBJ Oral History Exhibit
LBJ Museum of San Marcos
August 28
LBJ Picnic for Faculty/Staff
President's House
September 9
Nick Kotz
"Let Us Reason Together": LBJ and the Art of Persuasion
7:00 p.m. • LBJ Student Center Teaching Theater
Nick Kotz is the author of five previous books on politics, social justice, and the civil rights movement. A renowned journalist, he has received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Magazine Award. He has written a book on LBJ and MLK and will be speaking about civic responsibility in the context of civil rights.
September 16
Turk Pipkin
7:00 p.m. • LBJ Student Center Teaching Theater
Turk Pipkin is a Texas original who has built a colorful and successful career as a writer and actor. Through his interviews with nine Nobel laureates, Pipkin’s documentary Nobelity focuses on the most pressing problems in our world today and how we can attempt to leave the planet a better place for our children and grandchildren. Austinist interview with Turk Pipkin: click here
October 6
The Rhetorical Power and Legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Department of Communication Studies
October 11
San Marcos River Cleanup
Coordination with the Student Volunteer Connection. Contact Kelly Stone for more information.
October 13
John Bullion
A former Texas State professor, John L. Bullion teaches American colonial history at the University of Missouri. He is the author of this year's Common Experience summer reading book, Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics, part of the distinguished Pearson/Longman series, Library of American Biography. He is the featured speaker for the Taylor Lecture Series. Bullion has also written a memoir titled In the Boat with LBJ, which details some of the strategies his father developed while serving as one of Lyndon Johnson's tax attorneys and describes the time Bullion spent hunting deer on the LBJ ranch in December 1965.
October 14
Texas State Debate Team Presentation
Contact Wayne Kraemer for more information.
October 29
Texas State Debate Team Presentation
Contact Wayne Kraemer for more information.
November 5 - 9
The Dead Presidents' Club
The Dead Presidents' Club, a play by Larry L. King. In a post-existence barracks, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon are detained and scrutinized by a delegation of prissy saints charged with determining their eternal fate. The play's straightforward premise allows for lighthearted exploration of the strengths and foibles of each of these diverse national characters.
November 9 - 15
Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week
Contact Kelly Stone for more information.
