A beautification, to my mind, is far more than a matter of cosmetics. To me, it describes the whole effort to bring the Natural World and the manmade world into harmony, to bring youthfulness, delight, to our whole environment and that, of course, only begins with trees and flowers and landscaping. That is it from a film created about the johnson family. Lady bird johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue as first lady. She was a natural campaigner, successful businesswoman and savvy partner to her husband, Lyndon Johnson. Good evening. Theght, we will tell you story of Claudia Taylor johnson known as lady bird, the wife of our 36th president. Here to tell her story are Cokie Roberts, political commentary for abc news and npr, also the author of two books, founding mothers and ladies of liberty. Betty boyle curly is an expert and working on a biography of Lady Bird Johnson. I want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 years ago this week, this is an administrati
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Tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an email. Nonfiction books every weekend on cspan2. And now from the 17th annual texas book festival in austin, texas, a discussion of president Lyndon Johnson and first lady ladybird johnson. This is just over 50 minutes. Hi, and welcome to the texas book festival. D my name is carol dawson, and iw love being a moderator every year at the texas book festival, and i particularly love this task this year. Task this year i have had the privilege of reading two books that interlock so beautifully that it provided one hold 360degree experience in reading them. Before we begin, and i introduce our authors, i want to remind you all that all proceeds of book sales at the texas book festival goats the libraries of this great state. So, please avail yourself of the book tent and after a recession is over the book signing tents where you can get both of the signatures of
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