This 40’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is car #23 of a 44-car series representing each of the presidents of the United States. It bears the portrait of Lyndon Johnson, our 36th president. The car comes with a commemorative pin replicated from this era. Johnson was responsible for designing the Great Society legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his War on Poverty.
Simultaneously, he greatly escalated direct involvment in the Vietnam War.