In a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the City Co
In a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the City Co
Floor, where more than 600 guests were waiting. Why did you start it that way, and what were you talking about . Betty well, i wanted to draw the reader into the story, because that was a very important day for the johnsons. Remember, their older daughter was getting married, but it was also one of the worst periods in the presidency. You know, lady bird said that the first two years were wine and roses, and the last years were pure hell. And so, this was a happy family occasion, you could say, in the middle of what was really a devastating period for them. And i wanted to get the reader into the story before i began talking about her childhood, which was extremely troubled, as you know. Brian what else was there about the wedding, that you said in the prologue, that was important . Betty well, i guess for me, what stood out was, she says in her unpublished diary, that as lyndon walked down the aisle, because they are in the big east room for the actual ceremony, with linda on his arm,
At the marriage and Political Partnership between lady bird and Lyndon Johnson. Brian betty boyd caroli, your new book about lady bird and lyndon, you started in the prologue this way. At exactly 4 00 p. M. On december 9, 1964, Lady Bird Johnson started a slow, dignified descent down the wide stairway from the residential quarters of the white house to the state floor, where more than 600 guests were waiting. Why did you start it that way, and what were you talking about . Betty well, i wanted to draw the reader into the story, because that was a very important day for the johnsons. Remember, their older daughter was getting married, but it was also one of the worst periods in the presidency. You know, lady bird said that the first two years were wine and roses, and the last years were pure hell. And so, this was a happy family occasion, you could say, in the middle of what was really a devastating period for them. And i wanted to get the reader into the story before i began talking ab
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