Garden
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Botanical garden and research center devoted to native Texas wildflowers and Hill Country plants.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin opens inside the United States Capitol, on an all-night session in October nineteen sixty-five, when Lady Bird Johnson pushed a bill she had made her own fight through a reluctant House of Representatives. You will hear how her opponents used every procedural trick they had to run out the clock, including a mocking joke from a young Kansas congressman. It traces the line from that Washington fight over roadside billboards to the native Texas landscape she spent her later decades protecting.
This audio guide was created using AI.