Book i am the youngest child of the family. Guest i said that to him when we were first meeting each other it was that wasnt a student political meeting in ohio in 1962. We were writing notes back and forth to each other and he had something a sort of typical 19yearold boy and i wrote back. My family has a wonderful family. My father and mother are some of the most dedicated Public Servants in the history of the country. My father was elected in congress in 1940 before i was born there yet he was 26yearsold. My mother was 24. They had a baby girl and eight days later a baby boy. They came here and i think about it now in my old age and think about these kids coming to washington in this day and age age they would still be on their Parents Health insurance and there they were the members of congress and his wife so of course they were not scared to leave cocaine. But here it was the world war ii washington. And it was very similar to the period of washington that i write about in my his
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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
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