texas. mr. caro is the author of a four volume biography of the 36th president. here is the 2003 tour of the lbj library. . first time i came here, i was looking for the papers and came around the corner like this. this is what i saw. the only moment in my life, the moment in my life when i felt my quitting. i was really overwhelmed. what you are looking at here the papers of lyndon baines johnson, the 36th president of the united states. pulitzer prize winning author robert caro has been sifting through the millions of papers of lyndon johnson for 26 years. recently booktv joined mr. caro to learn how he conducts research for his multivolume biography, the years of lyndon johnson. during our visit robert caro also spoke at the lbj library for the first time. over the next two hours you ll see parts of that s beach interspersed with ãbof that speech interspersed with ã i d be happy to take questions if anybody has a question they would like to ask. keto is how you
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at first i was very guilty. and then i realized that all of the things that are taught you not only by society but by psychiatrist to fit you in a mold and i rejected the mold and when i did reject the mold, i was happier. mostly independent organizations all across the country, there are somewhere between 60 and 75 independent groups across the united states, maybe more because they grow up overnight. and this is a unified effort on the part of somewhere between 20 and 30 organizations on the east coast. the differences of approach and tactics. certain groups tend to emphasize fill tant confrontation tactics and other groups emphasize educational approach, going into areas that people don t know much about homosexuality. most groups provide social services to our own people, help for people in need. but this is a minor part of the effort. the major effort today is to change the social institutions that make life difficult for us. [ crowd chanting ] a portion film doc
would like to welcome you to the special panel echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues. it s quite wonderful to be here with everyone since he has been with us for years and years at the university of south carolina. for the next 75 minutes we will share with you secret white house tips we will look to explore the dynamics there and but also to relate them to contemporary development to see what kind of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics about the history they contain, about parallels to today s events, about the practice of democracy itself just a word about the recordings. we were established in 1998. our goal there were the only institution is to analyze and transcribed the secret presidential tapes that presidents made from 1943 1973 that s from franklin roosevelt to richard nixon we do it outside as well because so much of our work these days but we publish our work through the university of the virginia press. it is electronic imprint the
the recordings program. it is quite wonderful actually to be here with everybody. it is something of a reunion in fact since kent was with us for years and years and spending his time at university of south carolina. for the next 75 minutes, we ll share with you insights from the secret white house tapes. and we ll look to explore the dynamics therein and to relate them to see what kind of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics about the history they contain, about parallels to today s events, about the practice of democracy itself. just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998. and our goal, we are the only institution of its kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret presidential tapes that presidents made from 1940 through 1973. that is from franklin roosevelt through richard nixon. we do this work at the miller center. we actually do it off site as well because so much of the work these days is browser-based. but we