Lifetime of Service

Mrs. Johnson and her Secret Service agents at the Pacific Ocean in 1968.

LBJ Library photo / Robert Knudsen

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Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits

Both President and Mrs. Johnson received lifetime protection from the US Secret Service when Johnson became president in 1963. Mrs. Johnson maintained the LBJ Ranch and Texas White House as a part-time residence until her death in 2007. After she passed away, the US Secret Service departed the ranch but left some of their equipment. Throughout the Texas White House Complex and the LBJ Ranch, remnants of the past protection detail can be seen in surveillance cameras, motion detectors, and guard shacks.

The restoration of the US Secret Service Command Post is an ongoing project. Our goal is to eventually have the interior restored so that visitors can walk inside and see what it would be like to be an agent protecting President Johnson and his family at the LBJ Ranch in the 1960s.