But Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, did things differently. ... Johnson began hosting people in his ranch 60 miles from Austin before becoming vice president.

CD: The ranch is where you can see President Johnson’s life full circle, because part of the property is where he was born, in 1908; there’s the house he acquired from his aunt that became the ...

To Lyndon, who left the land to seek his fortune elsewhere and came back in style, the hill country now means mostly the 400-acre LBJ Ranch on the banks of the Pedernales.