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 youll see parts of thats beach interspersed with abof that speech interspersed with a id be happy to take questions if anybody has a question they would like to ask. Keto is how you came to write about Lyndon
Tonight we are here, gathered here this evening and i view this really as the intersection of history and the future. What do i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . We are in Lincoln Theater in this theater. This was the only place where black folks could calm and be entertained in the theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. This theater was nearly demolished by a wrecking bull, almost torn down but we saved it renovated it and its now one of the jewels of the city of columbus. History tonight. [applause] and the intersection of our future of arts and culture in the black community, the rehabilitation that rejuvenation, the recreation of this Lincoln District in the process. History in the future, the intersection. Wil haygood who was raised in columbus, went to east high school, played basketball. Everything he learned in life he learned it here in the city of columbus. [applause] his values, his skill, his inspiration and in fact h
But tv is also visiting buffalo, new york this weekend to for its literary sites and talk to its local authors. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org and you can fall was on social media, booktv is r. Twitter handle, you can call was on facebook as well, facebook. Com booktv. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend on booktv, television for serious readers. We are kicking off the weekend with author wil haygood, he examines the life and career of Thurgood Marshall specifically five day Senate Hearing that resulted in his confirmation as the first africanamerican to serve on the Supreme Court. I want to acknowledge and thank cspan for being here tonight. [applause] let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school, African Americans who wanted to go to moscow. I was a part of that generation who looked up to him, who believed in him, who was inspired by him, but i too some
Offered instead to use the desk he had as a senator. He used this when he was Senate Majority leader and use this as fight resident and took it to the oval office when he ascended to the presidency. That is his chair, his telephone, this is his suite of furniture, including the rocking chair that he sat in on meetings. You will recognize that being similar to the rocking chairs john f. Kennedy used when he was president. It was done by the same manufacturer. Every president gets to choose the portraits he wants to grace his oval office. In president johnsons case, he chose george washington, andrew jackson, and his hero, Franklin Roosevelt. He was very much a product of the new zealand was a protege of Franklin Roosevelt saw the Great Potential in young lyndon johnson. When johnson became president , it was his hope he would finish the new deal and finish with his Great Society what president roosevelt started with the new deal. One of the things fdr left unaddressed was civil rights.
Of linden and ladybird johnson. This was private quarters for the president and first lady. When i say private, i mean that you read this is not part of the tour offered to the public. This has never been open to the public. You are seeing it because of cspans special access. The ips the national ip v. I. P. s come into this space just as they did during Lyndon Johnsons today. It has not changed since he died in 1973. There is a document signed by the archivist of the United States and ladybird johnson say nothing in this room can change. This is just as president johnson would have seen it in his day. There have been a number of luminaries in this room seven president s have been through these rooms. Six first ladies, the queen of england, prince philip, prince charles, Princess Diana all have been in this room and it looks exactly as we see it now. There is a famous interview l. B. J. Did with Walter Cronkite in the early 1970s in which l. B. J. Is sitting in that chair and Walter Cr