first lady was defined by images, a young family enter ing the white house, international fame and the tragedy of a grieving widow all within three years. watch our program tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern and sunday at noon on c-span and live monday our series continues. >> mrs. johnson, first lady loved to show off the texas gulf country and the home. the guests at the ranch would gather ninformally in the den. we have a few things that speak to her connection here. one thing she wanted to highlight is the american native herrage in the hill country. she had an eye for copper and collected various items through the years and had gifts from various friends. mrs. johnson gave a tour of the house in 1968 that was filmed where she featured the china you see here purchased in mexico, very colorful. first lady mrs. johnson spent a lot of time here at the ranch. it was important because it pride respite for from the turmoil of washington, particularly later in the presidency when the johnsons could come home, recharge their batteries and make that connection back to the land and this place they valued so much. >> first lady, lady bird johnson live monday, 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation. conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now, we are engaged in a great civil war. testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. we are met on a great battlefield of that war. we've come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here who gave their lives that the nation might live. it is all together fitting and proper that we should do this, but in a larger sense. we cannot dedicate. we cannot consecrate. we cannot hallow this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. the world will nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they, who fought here, have thus far so nobo nobly advanced. it is for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. let me hear high resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth. ♪ glory glory hallelujah >> american history tv will be at the soldiers' national cemetery at gettysburg national military park in pennsylvania this coming tuesday to cover the commemorative ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of abraham lincoln's gettysburg address. 1350ekers include james mcpherson and sally jewel, interior secretary. you can watch the ceremony on thanksgiving day, november 28th at 4:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time. here on american history tv on c-span 3.

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