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Yankee Pyramids

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The Lindon Banes Johnson Library

Presidential libraries were becoming increasingly monumental and grandiose. In 19 68, l b j placed a call from the oval office to gordon bunshaft, who was the architet he'd chosen to design his library. At this time, the papers of the president were still considered his personal property. The conversation goes on for seven minutes, forty six seconds. It's a classic presidential monologue.

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