The Presidency: All Around the Park

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But this was not to be. Last week the Texas parks and wildlife commission, whose most influential member, A. W. Moursund, is an old, close Johnson friend and the principal trustee, during Lyndon's presidency, of the Johnson business interests, announced that it was taking over a total of 245 acres across the river to make them the Lyndon Baines Johnson State Park.