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
Youll hear the argument case 494 o Evenwel V Abbott simic mr. Chief justice of it may please the court this is a fundamental question whether the oneperson onevote affords eligible voters of any reasonable protection resubmit the answer must be asked and as a consequence under the equal protection clause. The item that is at issue is a deviation from the eligible voters under any metric. No decision is ever sustained to that magnitude with the oneperson onevote case in the many decisions it has always been about. What about the principle is equal representation in now for half a century a population that is the legitimate standard . So the states overwhelmingly for half a century so now you say they cannot do that anymore . With respect to the phrase equal representation thats originated in westbury. There is a dash tat continues therefore for us to hold within the states legislatures may draw the line in such a way to give some voters a greater voice to choose a congressman would be u
Democratic party, that needs near new unanimous support from our community, and we have to climb over obstacle after obstacle to vote. Africanamericans are standing in long lines in the rain to vote. And we elect a party that until recently would not even break its breath to talk about the issue. In fact, was on the wrong side of the issue for way too long. Clearly, for very the Latino Community, immigration is number one. For women, choices number one. The africanamerican humidity has a thousand problems, but for us mass incarceration, where you stand on locking up an entire generation of africanamericans for something we know kids are doing right now, is the number one issue. Anybody i dont care who you are, i dont care what you did in 1963 or 2009 or yesterday if you grab a microphone and you say you are a progressive and you dont speak about this issue with some passion and some heart as ifme concern and care, it were your children under this level of threat, you cannot and should
Framers of the 14th amendment were actually taking about, you cant get to a lot of these decisions. That is not the way the court has determined to construe the 14th amendment. Thank you for another important episode. I wonder if the timing and the nature of tonights case and others related to it, if it really isnt kind of representing the cleaning up of the failed postcivil war reconstruction business. Im wondering how much time was wasted between then and these cases which occurred. Douglas it is a great question. I think certainly we continue to grapple with these issues today. Certainly, it is a neverending process, one we have to continue to keep working at to figure out how to make our democracy real. Ted it is not just our democracy, but the principles of the declaration of independence, the gettysburg address, the 14th amendment, the concept of equality. We have never been a very perfect country with respect to living up to those ideals, and i think a lot of it is that the just