Youre so gracious. Carry pop back to the earlier panel real quick . Engaging. You are very accessible in terms of answering questions and how are you doing this and what are people wearing. ,y question for this panel is how many people are in the press corps . Is about 40, im guessing. I wouldve thought twice as many. Peoplee are a number of who wear multiple hats. You could be sent off to boston and all the sorts of things. We are all aware of the strains that journalistic institutions and the media are under and the need to have fewer people covering more things. Technology can help with that. The number of people in the press room who are devoted to the Supreme Court correspondence has gone down materially. The core people you rely on, that you have known like these , those institutions remain committed. There are a lot of regional papers that have completely , some of theerage Television Networks have retrenched considerably. It is a smaller and smaller group. When i read something
Our entire environment. That only begins with flowers and trees and landscaping. That is from a film created by the Johnson Administration with Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue. She was a natural campaigner, a successful businesswoman, and a savvy political partner to her husband, our 36th president , Lyndon Baines johnson. Good evening and welcome to c spans first ladies. We will tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird, wife of the 36th president. Here to tell our story tonight are two guests, Cokie Roberts, political commentator for abc news and npr. Shes also the author of two books about womens political history. Eddie lloyd caroli is a first ladys expert. She is the author of numerous books. She is currently working on a new biography of Lady Bird Johnson. Ladies, i want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 years ago this week. This is an administration birthed in national tragedy. Over the immediate
China has named competitiveness and gained shares. It has innovated efficiency as much as any country will. There are fewer countries there are fewer workers in chinese manufacturing than there were 20 years ago. Comes, if and when it ofl come from various kinds service work and greater customization. They it is a tragedy that are saying and you are right, thats there is not enough work to do. There areer hand, several million kids in this country who profoundly need and theyl attention are not close to getting it. We do not have a way of bringing the people who want to Work Together with those. I do not think it is traditional government that will do it and i do not think it will turn the country into a libertarian paradise. Join me in thanking larry summers. Pat nixon traveled abroad more than any first lady before her. She accompanied Richard Nixon to china, egypt. On, next, on cspans first ladies. William hague talks about the recent nuclear deal that was reached with a ran over th
Republican first lady to address a national convention, miami, 1972. She went from a hardscrabble background to the white house. As first lady, she traveled more widely than anybody before her, volunteering was her issue, and was a chief supporter to the political debts and political a visor to her husband. Good evening. You the we will tell story of pat nixon. Although her time in the white house was really eclipsed by her husbands resignation from office in the wake of watergate. We will tell more of her record and learn more about her life before the white house, what she did while she was there, and her legacy. Here are two guests to tell her story. A president ial historian and the former head of the Nixon Library, and a biographer and history professor of texas state university. Welcome to both of you. A perception with of pat nixon. She is described in your book as an enigma. What should people know . What are a couple of things about pat nixon they would be surprised to learn .
This was an administration that documented itself stand sadly extensively. There was the Lyndon Johnson phone tapes. People who love political history were very aware of. Is this new to the administration . Had this been going on for a while. She did not record every day. But she had a little recording machine. On days that were busy, she would stuff brown envelopes with menus, and she would get an hour one day and record. Those recordings are still being transcribed. They are wonderful. Her white house diary is, i think, 800 pages, but that is think, 800 pages, but that is only 1 8 of what she has on those pages. There were recordings before this. We have some kennedy recordings. We have roosevelt recordings. John quincy adamss wife wrote when she was first lady, the autobiography of a nobody. I think that most first couples have an awareness of the magnitude of the job. Lady bird johnson had such a sense of history that she understood. She said she dared herself to be productive. Thr