Future Forum | Sep, 24 2019 5:30PM - 7:30PM
The Driskill (604 Brazos St.)
Register Online *Members Only*
Alongside the Future Forum board and your fellow members, kick off a new programming year with cocktails and conversation on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at The Driskill. Mark Updegrove, president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, and Jason Embry, chair of the Future Forum board, will make brief remarks.
Attend
Members, feel free to bring a friend who would like to learn more about the Future Forum. Please register online if you plan to attend. Appetizers and drinks will be provided.
Location
In honor of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, we'll meet in the Crystal Room at The Driskill. If you enter the hotel from Brazos Street, the Crystal Room is located on your right before you reach the staircase.
The Driskill and the Johnsons
In September 1934, on a trip home to Texas, LBJ had his first date with Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor at The Driskill. LBJ proposed to Lady Bird that very day. Stunned, she did not give him an immediate answer and he returned to Washington, D.C. shortly after.
In the 10 weeks they were apart, they would go on to exchange nearly 90 letters during their whirlwind courtship. They married at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas on Nov. 17, 1934.
The couple revisited the hotel dozens of times during their life together. The Driskill was LBJ's campaign headquarters during his 1948 Senate race, and was a favorite place on return trips to Austin during his presidency. In November 1948, 1960, and 1964, the Johnsons also gathered with friends and supporters at The Driskill to watch the election returns.
