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Neal Spelce in Texas Coop Power Magazine

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November 2022

November Issue Texas Coop Power

Excerpt of the article, A Mighty Bulwark: LBJ made more prosperity possible by bringing dams to his beloved Hill Country written by Neal Spelce, published in the November 2022 issue of Texas Coop Power. For many years, outsiders had no idea that Austin and the Hill Country were hidden gems deep in the heart of Texas. Wasn’t the Lone Star State all about cowboys, sagebrush, and rattlesnakes—the John Wayne Western movie image? People elsewhere couldn’t imagine bountiful lakes and rolling hills covered in green woodlands anywhere in Texas.

But Lyndon Johnson grew up surrounded by those woods and grassy farmland, and that’s where he felt at home. Soon after winning the seat in the sprawling 10th U.S. Congressional District of Texas in 1937, his first elected office, he made it a priority to support President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs and bring hydroelectricity and power lines to rural Central Texas.


I had met LBJ historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on several occasions, and in her book Leadership: In Turbulent Times, she nailed what I heard LBJ say many times about “how he had brought electric power to the Hill Country, and how electricity had changed the daily lives of thousands of farm families, letting them enjoy such modern conveniences as electric lights, refrigerators, and washing machines for the first time.”

Excerpt by Neal Spelce in Texas Coop Power Magazine

Read the article in its entirety here: https://texascooppower.com/a-mighty-bulwark/

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Neal Spelce at LBJ Fall Festival

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Neal Spelce will join the LBJ Library's Fall Festival November 21, 2022

Noon - 3 PM



About this event

Celebrate fall and do some early holiday shopping at the LBJ Library on Monday, November 21. Our Fall Festival features activities for kids, a drawing for unique prizes, sweet treats, and an opportunity to meet local authors and vendors who sell items in our store. Join us from 12 – 3 p.m.


Museum Admission includes:

  • Local vendors featuring hand-painted clothing and handmade jewelry

  • Tax free purchases in the store

  • Treats from the Johnson’s favorite recipes

  • White House China crafting for the kids

  • New exhibit showcasing artist Porfirio Salinas, LBJ’s favorite artist

  • Give-aways!

  • Local authors who are experts on the Johnsons will sign books and help you find just the right gifts for your list

  • Jean Schuler: At the Table with LBJ and Lady Bird: History, Humor, True Texas Recipes

  • Mark Updegrove: Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency, Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency

  • Louann Temple: Lady Bird Johnson: Deeds Not Words, LBJ: The Can-Do President, A Biography for Beginning Historians

  • Neal Spelce: With the Bark Off: A Journalist’s Memories of LBJ and a Life in the News Media



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