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Katie Peter

Katie joined the Association as a public history fellow in August 2022. She is in her second year of American University's Master's in Public History program, and graduated from SUNY Geneseo with a B.A. in American Studies and History in 2021. Her major research interests include women's history and pop-culture history, which she has been able to explore in her previous roles at places like Dumbarton House and the National Comedy Center. Katie is originally from Buffalo, NY.

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    Mapping Lady Bird Johnson's Whistle-Stop Tour

    Less than a month before the 1964 presidential election, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson traveled for four days through the American South by train. In a practice known as whistle-stop campaigning, the first lady set out with her team, invited guests, and members of the press aboard the personalized “Lady Bird Special.” They visited eight states and stopped in forty-seven towns. The

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    Girl Scouts and First Lady Lou Hoover

    Girl Scouts have been connected to the White House for almost as long as they have existed. Juliette Gordon Low founded Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912. Low came from a prominent southern family and lived abroad for many years in England, where she first encountered the scouting movement.1 After befriending Robert Baden-Powell, author of the book Scouting for Boys