Conversations with experts, tors of historical sites, and questions from cspans audience, we tell the stories of the first ladies. Now, Lady Bird Johnson. This is about two hours. Lady bird johnson 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 order, usefulness, delight to our whole environment. That, of course, only begins with trees, flowers, and landscaping. Susan swain thats from a film created by the Johnson Administration with Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue as first lady. She was a natural campaigner, successful businesswoman, and a savvy political partner to her husband, our 36th president , Lyndon Baines johnson. Good evening, and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird, the wife of our 36th president. Here to te
And flowers and landscaping. Susan swain thats from a film created by the Johnson Administration with Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue as first lady. She was a natural campaigner, successful businesswoman, and a savvy political partner to her husband, our 36th president , Lyndon Baines johnson. Good evening, and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird, the wife of our 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, founding mothers and ladies of liberty. Thanks for being here. Cokie roberts good to be here. Swain Betty Boyd Caroli is a first ladies expert. She is the author of numerous books, including first ladies from Martha Washington to michelle obama, and shes currently working on a new biography of Lady Bir
Know a great deal more about this family than i do at least half of you do who work year. And if you like a cousins come to tell you about your family, uninvited. So we all have our opinions. My utmost since you arrived at even if you dont think im right at all. So i will begin right now. Thank you. The question i am asked most often about this book is simply this, why John Quincy Adams . And my answer is just this. I met it in the course of getting to know his parents, with whom he corresponded faithfully and lengthily combined with enormous affection and [inaudible] thank you. Unlikely as it may seem i came to abigail and john adams, s. Just been said by mademoiselle magazine, the New York Times and was [inaudible] sorry. Its not us. Its the in house system. All right. Maybe thats a sign from on high that i go home. [laughter] anyway vogue Magazine Editor and designer sara lee called to ask if i would be interested in doing a book on 50 historic characters. The author had been made t
A little too much looking down and i think it was a little too fast. You were dropping her voice at the end of the sentences. There was a considerable pickup in drama and interest when the questioning began. Your voice would build up and her facial expressions i thought your answer on vietnam was good. I really didnt like the answer on jobs. [inaudible] and therein lies the reason why we should talk about first ladies. Because what other advisor could be that candid to a president . Stu spencer maybe. Wasnt there a family they owned television stations or something so she of the background and so as an advisor because first ladies in some ways are to their husbands whether its in their official capacity or not. They bring that because she wants him to be as successful as he does. I think that clip show shoot, we talk about this rule of first ladies, the various attributes that as simply as human beings that they bring to the table. Mrs. Johnson, i think like mrs. Obama, things in a ver
In the 2nd piece will be wife of because i have gotten daughter of president and mrs. Johnson, wife of governor and mrs. Rob. And i think that we all your to have our own place no matter how big or small it may be in the world we want to be identified. So i tell my children, if they get to read my obituary i wanted the way i wanted. [laughter] i want the 1st line to be professional volunteer. Now, i am in being a professional volunteer because that is what my parents taught me to do. When i got a job after college and get my 1st paycheck my mother said well, now, who are you going to give it to . I thought, how. And and her belief was that you should give your 1st paycheck away. Of course being a smart girl that i am, i had trees put in johnson city in memory of my grandparents. But that was just a given. We have been very blessed. We are not financially stressed. You cant afford to give that away. In the most valuable thing i have is my time. Twentyfour hours a day. So whereas i can w