Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday is a month from today.

President John F. Kennedy walking by the White House Rose Garden with Secretary of the Navy and future Governor of Texas John Connally with Vice-President Lyndon Johnson in the background. March 24, 1961 #txlege

#OTD in #history, 1901, Pres. McKinley was fatally shot. It led #Congress to reassign the #SecretService to its modern role of protecting the #POTUS. Perhaps its hardest responsibility is doing so while balancing that uniquely American tradition: access to our elected officials.

Very cool thread on Chief Justice Hecht and his #scotx service. #txlege

Can see GWB, Senators Tower and Gramm, former State Senator and Dallas Co Judge Lee Jackson, and Governor Clements. Who else? #txlege

You can own a piece of infamous #txlege history, if you have the urge to move to Temple. texasmonthly.com/style/governor…

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Clements laughingly holds up a newspaper with a headline reminiscent of the Truman-Dewey headline in 1948. With his victory, Clements became the 1st Republican governor since Reconstruction. November 1978. #txlege

Vin Scully gives powerful post 9/11 speech the only way Vin Scully could

April 1995, Governor George W. Bush and former President George H.W. Bush in the Governor’s Mansion of Texas. #txlege

#OTD in #history, 1620, the #Mayflower began its voyage to the “New World.” It was funded by merchants hoping to prosper from #America's resources. Onboard were #Pilgrims, tradesmen, indentured servants, and crew. All hoped for opportunity, many to freely practice their religion.

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It's #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! 🗳️ Check and make sure you're registered to vote in your state! nationalvoterregistrationday.org 📷 Mike Geissinger | 11/08/1966 | #PresidentJohnson casts his vote on #ElectionDay at PEC in #JohnsonCity, #Texas

For #ConstitutionDay, 34 Continental Congress Delegates signed the #Constitution. Find out who they were: loom.ly/tUDVQlI

A Texas Congressman, President and 2 UT Alums. CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite holds up the hands of RNC Chairman George Bush and DNC Chairman Robert Strauss during the Circus Saints & Sinners Club luncheon in Washington, March 8, 1974. #txlege

Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting a young Lyndon Johnson, 1937.

Today is #ConstitutionDay, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution! 📜 On February 4, 1964, #LBJ issued a proclamation certifying the ratification of the 24th Amendment, which abolished & forbade the imposition of poll taxes in federal elections. 📷 Cecil Stoughton

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, #OTD in 1963 lbjlibrary.org/life-and-legac…

Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. July 1958.