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CLAUDIA ALTA "LADY BIRD" JOHNSON:
<i>Friday, November 22nd.</i>

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<i>It all began so beautifully.</i>

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<i>After a drizzle in the morning,</i>

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<i>the sun came out bright and beautiful.</i>

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<i>We were going into Dallas.</i>

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REPORTER: <i>We have a brilliant
sun overhead,</i>

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<i>and the President
will be riding in the open.</i>

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<i>Its wheels are down,</i>

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<i>and the President and Mrs. Kennedy</i>

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<i>have arrived at Dallas Love Field.</i>

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<i>To accompany the President
on these flights,</i>

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<i>Vice President and Mrs. Johnson--</i>

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LADY BIRD: <i>In the lead car,</i>

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<i>President and Mrs. Kennedy,</i>

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<i>and then a secret service car,
and then our car.</i>

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<i>The streets were lined with people,</i>

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<i>lots and lots of children, all smiling.</i>

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<i>We were rounding a curve
going down a hill.</i>

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<i>Suddenly there was a sharp, loud report.</i>

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<i>A shot and then two more.</i>

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- (gunshots)
- (people screaming)

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(horn honking)

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LADY BIRD: <i>I heard over the radio system,</i>

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<i>"Let's get out of here."</i>

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<i>And this man who was with us</i>

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<i>vaulted over the front seat
on top of Lyndon,</i>

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<i>threw him to the floor
and said, "Get down."</i>

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<i>The cars accelerated faster and faster.</i>

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<i>I cast one last look
back over my shoulder,</i>

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<i>saw a bundle of pink,</i>

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<i>just like a, a drift blossom
lying in the backseat.</i>

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<i>It was Mrs. Kennedy</i>

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<i>lying over the President's body.</i>

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(siren wailing)

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LADY BIRD: <i>They led us into a quiet room.</i>

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<i>It was from Kenny O'Donnell
that I first heard the words,</i>

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<i>"The President is dead."</i>

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<i>Mr. Kilduff said to Lyndon,
"Mr. President."</i>

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<i>I looked up at a building,</i>

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<i>and there already,
it was a flag at half-mast.</i>

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{\an8}<i>That was when the enormity
first struck me.</i>

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We have this from Washington.

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LADY BIRD: <i>There was a TV set on,</i>

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<i>the commentator was saying,</i>

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<i>"Lyndon Johnson, now President of the
United States."</i>

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NEWSCASTER: <i>There is no longer any doubt</i>

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<i>the President is dead.</i>

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LADY BIRD: <i>By that time,</i>

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<i>Mrs. Kennedy had arrived and the coffin.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Mrs. Kennedy's dress
was stained with blood.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Her husband's blood.</i>

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<i>I asked her if I couldn't get
somebody to help her change,</i>

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<i>and she says, "Oh, no,</i>

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<i>"I want them to see</i>

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<i>what they have done to Jack."</i>

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<i>And there, in the very narrow confines
of the plane,</i>

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<i>with Jackie on his left,</i>

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<i>very composed,
Lyndon took the oath of office.</i>

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<i>I tried to express
something of how we felt.</i>

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<i>I said, "Oh, Mrs. Kennedy, you know,</i>

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<i>"we never even wanted
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<i>and now, dear God, it's come to this."</i>

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<i>I would have given anything to help her.</i>

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This is a sad time for all people.

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<i>I know that the world shares the sorrow</i>

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<i>that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear.</i>

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I will do my best,

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that is all I can do.

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I ask for your help and thoughts.

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{\an8}LADY BIRD: <i>I felt like I was walking
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{\an8}<i>for a part I had never rehearsed.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Incredible as it might seem,</i>

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{\an8}<i>I was going to be in a unique position,</i>

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{\an8}<i>as the wife of the President of
the United States.</i>

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{\an8}<i>And only I would see events unfold,</i>

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{\an8}<i>from that particular vantage point.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Liz Carpenter said,
"You ought to record this."</i>

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{\an8}<i>She brought me her son's little recorder,</i>

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<i>and so, the first fairly quiet moment,</i>

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<i>two or three days after the 22nd,</i>

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<i>I began my diary.</i>

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<i>It really was too important
a thing not to share it.</i>

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<i>And it was incredible.</i>

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NEWSCASTER: <i>At President Johnson's</i>

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<i>Washington home in Spring Valley</i>

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<i>the first family of the nation
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<i>They are photographed in the home</i>

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<i>where they will remain
until Mrs. Kennedy is able</i>

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<i>to move from the White House.</i>

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<i>The First Lady,</i>

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<i>and standing beside the President is</i>

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<i>Lynda Bird, 19,</i>

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<i>and Luci Baines, 16.</i>

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<i>It might be noted that all of the family
have the initials LBJ.</i>

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LADY BIRD: <i>Tuesday, November 26th.</i>

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<i>I went to see Mrs. Kennedy
to discuss the housekeeping details</i>

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<i>that any woman moving out would talk over</i>

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<i>with any woman moving in.</i>

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<i>She told me that she would
like to ask a favor of me.</i>

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<i>What she wanted
was to let Caroline's school</i>

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<i>go on in progress on the third floor.</i>

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<i>And that was the easiest thing
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<i>She went on to say a lot of things, like,</i>

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<i>"Don't be frightened of this house.</i>

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<i>You will be happy here."</i>

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<i>She repeated that over and over as though</i>

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<i>she were trying to reassure me.</i>

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<i>After I moved into the White House,</i>

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<i>for the first three or four weeks,</i>

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<i>I was cold all the time.</i>

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<i>I didn't have any appetite
and I lost about five pounds.</i>

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<i>I find myself walking on tiptoe
and talking in whispers.</i>

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<i>That's about over now,
one can't go on doing that.</i>

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<i>Has there been any sense of elation</i>

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<i>at reaching the job we're now in?</i>

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<i>None at all.</i>

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<i>Just a sense of how hard
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<i>and a determination
to make these 12 months</i>

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<i>as good as I can.</i>

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(bells tolling)

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NEWSCASTER: <i>President Johnson</i>

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<i>attended St. John's Episcopal Church,</i>

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<i>said prayers for John F. Kennedy,</i>

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<i>and asked the minister of St. John's</i>

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<i>to say prayers for him,
for Lyndon Baines Johnson,</i>

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<i>whom an assassin's bullet
had suddenly catapulted into a job</i>

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<i>that is the most important
and demanding on Earth.</i>

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LADY BIRD: <i>Sunday, January the 12th.</i>

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<i>One thing that's gone unmentioned</i>

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<i>but not unnoticed by me,</i>

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<i>Lyndon has been to church every Sunday</i>

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<i>since the 22nd of November</i>

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<i>and occasionally on some days in between.</i>

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<i>It would be the understatement
of a lifetime to say</i>

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<i>that a man of good sense</i>

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<i>doesn't know how much
he needs help and solace.</i>

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<i>He does.</i>

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There was talk that he might be dropped

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from the Kennedy ticket next summer.

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Now he will almost surely head
that election ticket.

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<i>His presidency, however long it lasts,</i>

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<i>will not be a quiet one,</i>

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<i>for his ambitions and determinations</i>

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<i>far outrun his modesty or self-doubts.</i>

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<i>And that, perhaps, is the way it should be</i>

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<i>for the man who wields the ultimate power.</i>

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{\an8}LADY BIRD: <i>Saturday, March the 7th.</i>

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{\an8}I have a brief statement on the economy.

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{\an8}I'm very pleased at the early
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LADY BIRD: <i>The really
high point of the day</i>

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<i>was Lyndon's press conference on TV.</i>

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<i>After it was over I phoned Lyndon</i>

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<i>to tell him how good
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When you were in college you trained

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to become an expert in several fields.

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You trained to be a teacher,
to be a journalist,

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to be a secretary.

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Why did you train for all those things?

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Was it insecurity or just
a wide range of interest?

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I thought being a journalist,
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puts you on the forefront of action

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in places that were exciting.

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<i>A student from a very small town</i>

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<i>in Deep East Texas,</i>

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<i>all the doors of the world
suddenly swung open to me.</i>

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<i>I did all sorts of assignments,</i>

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<i>but I preferred the feature stories</i>

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<i>because I would get to go</i>

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<i>and meet interesting characters.</i>

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<i>I knew I was gonna buckle down</i>

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<i>to some kind of way of making a living,</i>

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<i>although I always eventually
thought I'd get married,</i>

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<i>just assumed I would.</i>

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<i>He came on strong, and he was
very direct and dynamic.</i>

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<i>And I do believe before the day was over</i>

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<i>he did ask me to marry him,</i>

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<i>and I thought he was just</i>

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<i>out of his mind.</i> (laughs)

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<i>I suppose it takes a longer time</i>

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<i>to confirm a judgment</i>

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<i>that's supposed to last a lifetime.</i>

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<i>My sense of excitement mounted.</i>

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<i>What was gonna happen, I didn't know,</i>

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<i>but I knew it was going to be, uh,</i>

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<i>something important.</i>

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Does-- Does the President talk over

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world problems with you?

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Does-- Does he discuss the things

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that are weighing on his mind?

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considerable respect of thinking
I have, I have good judgment

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and he, he likes to hear
what I have to say.

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one person with whom
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well, complete freedom
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<i>Sunday, March 22nd.</i>

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<i>Lyndon got on the phone</i>

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<i>and called up a most delightful
bunch of dinner guests.</i>

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<i>The talk was of Vietnam.</i>

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NEWSCASTER: <i>Two weeks ago
Secretary of Defense McNamara</i>

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<i>toured the country.</i>

237
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{\an8}ROBERT MCNAMARA: <i>The position
of my government is clear,</i>

238
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{\an8}we fully support
the people of South Vietnam.

239
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LADY BIRD: <i>It's pretty
terrifying to hear McNamara</i>

240
00:13:40,569 --> 00:13:45,282
<i>speak of how dedicated
the opposition soldiers are over there.</i>

241
00:13:45,282 --> 00:13:47,284
{\an8}♪

242
00:13:47,284 --> 00:13:49,161
<i>They apparently have an intensive training</i>

243
00:13:49,161 --> 00:13:52,832
<i>and ideas that is lacking on our side.</i>

244
00:13:53,624 --> 00:13:56,627
<i>I saw the irritation and frayed nerves</i>

245
00:13:56,627 --> 00:13:58,671
<i>that I remember from the hardest part</i>

246
00:13:58,671 --> 00:14:00,756
<i>of the majority leader days.</i>

247
00:14:01,757 --> 00:14:03,509
<i>This is my problem.</i>

248
00:14:03,509 --> 00:14:05,719
<i>This is what I must solve.</i>

249
00:14:06,053 --> 00:14:08,722
<i>That I can be tactful enough,</i>

250
00:14:09,223 --> 00:14:11,976
<i>and sometimes even mean enough</i>

251
00:14:12,393 --> 00:14:15,271
<i>to get Lyndon home at a reasonable hour,</i>

252
00:14:15,271 --> 00:14:17,731
<i>bringing with him the components of work</i>

253
00:14:17,731 --> 00:14:22,444
<i>and do it here in a somewhat
more relaxed atmosphere.</i>

254
00:14:22,444 --> 00:14:24,321
♪

255
00:14:24,321 --> 00:14:28,450
<i>I did a little more work,
and then curled up in bed</i>

256
00:14:28,450 --> 00:14:30,828
<i>for the most luxurious of all things,</i>

257
00:14:30,828 --> 00:14:35,374
<i>a glass of wine and</i> Gunsmoke,
<i>my biggest self-indulgence.</i>

258
00:14:35,916 --> 00:14:39,628
<i>All of which, I guess,
just proves that you can live</i>

259
00:14:39,628 --> 00:14:42,172
<i>with disaster hanging over your heads.</i>

260
00:14:46,302 --> 00:14:49,263
(march music playing)

261
00:14:49,263 --> 00:14:51,390
<i>Wednesday, April the 8th.</i>

262
00:14:51,390 --> 00:14:52,933
<i>Washington's goodbye</i>

263
00:14:52,933 --> 00:14:54,977
<i>to one of America's great heroes,</i>

264
00:14:54,977 --> 00:14:56,353
<i>General Douglas MacArthur.</i>

265
00:14:57,396 --> 00:15:01,108
<i>We lined up in a solemn single file.</i>

266
00:15:01,108 --> 00:15:03,193
<i>Lyndon was on my right, and on my left</i>

267
00:15:03,193 --> 00:15:05,613
<i>I found the Attorney General.</i>

268
00:15:05,613 --> 00:15:07,823
<i>He looked tanned, healthier,</i>

269
00:15:07,823 --> 00:15:10,242
<i>more relaxed than I had seen him.</i>

270
00:15:10,868 --> 00:15:14,079
<i>And as the casket came by, flag draped,</i>

271
00:15:14,079 --> 00:15:17,541
<i>I felt an echo of the November days</i>

272
00:15:17,541 --> 00:15:19,835
<i>of President Kennedy's funeral.</i>

273
00:15:19,835 --> 00:15:22,296
<i>He said, "You're doing a wonderful job.</i>

274
00:15:22,296 --> 00:15:23,797
<i>Everybody says so."</i>

275
00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:27,092
<i>And then, after a noticeable pause,</i>

276
00:15:27,092 --> 00:15:29,553
<i>almost as with an effort, he said,</i>

277
00:15:30,137 --> 00:15:31,513
<i>"And so is your husband."</i>

278
00:15:31,513 --> 00:15:35,517
♪

279
00:15:35,517 --> 00:15:38,812
<i>I respect Bobby in many ways,
I admire him.</i>

280
00:15:38,812 --> 00:15:41,440
<i>But I feel a peculiar unease around him</i>

281
00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,442
<i>which I did not feel around his brother.</i>

282
00:15:43,442 --> 00:15:45,277
♪

283
00:15:45,277 --> 00:15:48,822
<i>I haven't the vaguest idea
what is going on in his mind.</i>

284
00:15:48,822 --> 00:15:51,951
♪

285
00:15:56,455 --> 00:15:58,082
NANCY DICKERSON: In his State of the
Union message,

286
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the President called for
an all-out attack on poverty.

287
00:16:01,418 --> 00:16:04,338
Are you going to make it
a major focus of your attention?

288
00:16:05,714 --> 00:16:09,134
I think, Nancy,
the question that looms foremost

289
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in everybody's mind
is the preservation of peace,

290
00:16:14,098 --> 00:16:18,060
and the whole, the-the total
picture of poverty,

291
00:16:18,060 --> 00:16:19,687
the black spot in our country,

292
00:16:19,687 --> 00:16:21,981
that too is very important to me.

293
00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:25,651
NANCY: Do you plan to campaign
with him in the months ahead?

294
00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:31,323
Yes, Nancy, I want to be on hand
in whatever he's doing.

295
00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:34,118
<i>Friday, April 24th.</i>

296
00:16:34,118 --> 00:16:36,870
<i>We helicoptered into eastern Kentucky.</i>

297
00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:41,417
<i>We landed in a meadow
close to the community of Inez.</i>

298
00:16:41,417 --> 00:16:44,128
(crowd cheers and applauds)

299
00:16:44,128 --> 00:16:47,715
<i>This is the area
where mining once was king.</i>

300
00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:49,883
<i>It's become a sick industry.</i>

301
00:16:49,883 --> 00:16:52,886
<i>Nothing has really
come along to replace it.</i>

302
00:16:53,637 --> 00:16:54,888
<i>We arrived at the home</i>

303
00:16:54,888 --> 00:16:57,599
<i>of the Tom Fletcher's and I asked Lyndon</i>

304
00:16:57,599 --> 00:16:59,727
<i>to please keep the photographers</i>

305
00:16:59,727 --> 00:17:01,311
<i>away as much as possible.</i>

306
00:17:01,311 --> 00:17:04,982
<i>This mustn't be a sideshow
for these people.</i>

307
00:17:06,108 --> 00:17:08,986
<i>Lyndon hunkered down on the porch</i>

308
00:17:08,986 --> 00:17:11,238
<i>with Mr. Fletcher for a talk.</i>

309
00:17:11,238 --> 00:17:13,741
<i>They talked about
keeping the children in school</i>

310
00:17:13,741 --> 00:17:15,534
<i>and how he made out to live</i>

311
00:17:15,534 --> 00:17:18,454
<i>on $400 a year with eight children.</i>

312
00:17:18,454 --> 00:17:20,873
<i>I expect it's a very limited diet,</i>

313
00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:23,625
<i>and enough years of that
could be the reason</i>

314
00:17:23,625 --> 00:17:25,836
<i>why Mrs. Fletcher look so faded</i>

315
00:17:25,836 --> 00:17:27,296
<i>and dispirited,</i>

316
00:17:27,296 --> 00:17:29,131
<i>and why there were no steps</i>

317
00:17:29,131 --> 00:17:31,050
<i>up to the front porch of the house.</i>

318
00:17:31,050 --> 00:17:32,384
<i>Hoisting myself up,</i>

319
00:17:32,384 --> 00:17:33,677
<i>I had wondered why somebody</i>

320
00:17:33,677 --> 00:17:34,970
<i>didn't at least go down</i>

321
00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:36,263
<i>and saw off a stump,</i>

322
00:17:36,263 --> 00:17:38,057
<i>and put it down for a step,</i>

323
00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:39,475
<i>and then I realized,</i>

324
00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:41,810
<i>how could I know what it was like</i>

325
00:17:41,810 --> 00:17:46,190
<i>to try to raise eight children
on $400 a year?</i>

326
00:17:48,108 --> 00:17:56,658
♪

327
00:17:56,658 --> 00:17:58,869
{\an8}It seems to me that the Johnson family

328
00:17:59,495 --> 00:18:01,371
{\an8}should follow the Christian admonition,

329
00:18:02,164 --> 00:18:04,958
put your house, or houses, in order

330
00:18:05,584 --> 00:18:08,337
before trying to preach this Gospel

331
00:18:08,337 --> 00:18:10,506
to the tune of a one billion dollar

332
00:18:10,506 --> 00:18:11,757
a year program.

333
00:18:15,219 --> 00:18:17,846
Uh, good-- a good many years, I believe.

334
00:18:17,846 --> 00:18:21,725
Uh, Lady Bird inherited it
on her side of the family.

335
00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:25,062
LADY BIRD: <i>It appears that
two Republican congressmen</i>

336
00:18:25,062 --> 00:18:27,147
<i>have made a trip to Alabama,</i>

337
00:18:27,147 --> 00:18:29,983
<i>have gone out to interview
some of my tenants,</i>

338
00:18:29,983 --> 00:18:32,694
<i>concealed tape recorders
in their briefcases,</i>

339
00:18:32,694 --> 00:18:35,155
<i>have taken pictures of the houses</i>

340
00:18:35,155 --> 00:18:37,533
<i>and quite miserable, indeed they are,</i>

341
00:18:37,533 --> 00:18:39,785
<i>and are all prepared to try to prevent</i>

342
00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:41,829
<i>Lyndon's poverty bill</i>

343
00:18:41,829 --> 00:18:44,998
<i>with a flashy, gossipy, ugly information</i>

344
00:18:44,998 --> 00:18:47,501
<i>that Mrs. Johnson has tenants</i>

345
00:18:47,501 --> 00:18:49,044
<i>who live in squalor.</i>

346
00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:53,799
You pay 25% of your crop
to Mrs. Johnson in the rent

347
00:18:54,508 --> 00:18:55,676
Yes, sir, well, that's right.

348
00:18:56,552 --> 00:18:59,471
Have you ever heard of President Johnson's
poverty program?

349
00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:03,350
No sir I have-- Well, you mean the--

350
00:19:04,643 --> 00:19:06,311
What do you mean the-- Uh--

351
00:19:07,271 --> 00:19:08,897
REPORTER: It's a program
the President is trying

352
00:19:08,897 --> 00:19:11,859
to get passed by Congress,
to increase, he says,

353
00:19:11,859 --> 00:19:14,695
"The standard of living of the
poor people of this country."

354
00:19:15,445 --> 00:19:17,531
Uh, what do you think
this program might do

355
00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:19,575
to increase the standard of living

356
00:19:19,575 --> 00:19:21,660
of the people living in this house?

357
00:19:22,452 --> 00:19:26,957
Well, as far as I know
I think it's going to help us.

358
00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:30,294
LADY BIRD: <i>I told Liz that where
we used to have</i>

359
00:19:30,294 --> 00:19:33,005
<i>about 20 tenants on the whole place,</i>

360
00:19:33,005 --> 00:19:34,882
<i>we now had about four.</i>

361
00:19:35,382 --> 00:19:37,551
<i>One at least, Charlie Cutler,</i>

362
00:19:37,551 --> 00:19:40,345
<i>has lived on the place
since grandfather's time.</i>

363
00:19:41,763 --> 00:19:45,684
<i>Uneducated, unskilled,
and I believe in his 80s,</i>

364
00:19:45,684 --> 00:19:47,477
<i>there's no place for Charlie to go.</i>

365
00:19:47,477 --> 00:19:50,355
<i>However, we'll have to
batten down the hatches</i>

366
00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:51,940
<i>for a nasty storm.</i>

367
00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:54,484
(beeps)

368
00:19:54,484 --> 00:19:56,695
- (indistinct radio chatter)
- (radio static)

369
00:19:56,695 --> 00:19:58,614
{\an8}NEWSCASTER: <i>War in South Vietnam.</i>

370
00:19:59,239 --> 00:20:02,201
{\an8}<i>An ugly war in a far-off place.</i>

371
00:20:02,534 --> 00:20:05,537
We do not enjoy losing wars.

372
00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:08,207
It is the official position
of the United States

373
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:10,209
that this one need not be lost.

374
00:20:10,209 --> 00:20:14,379
<i>In a very real sense,
it is not even ours to win.</i>

375
00:20:14,379 --> 00:20:16,173
<i>It's someone else's war.</i>

376
00:20:16,173 --> 00:20:18,884
But the vital interests
of the United States

377
00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:22,054
and the prestige of this country
as a great nation

378
00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:25,432
would be grievously damaged
if it were to be lost.

379
00:20:32,272 --> 00:20:33,774
LADY BIRD: <i>Thursday, May 14th</i>

380
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:36,401
<i>began with a frontal assault on my desk.</i>

381
00:20:36,401 --> 00:20:39,321
<i>The remnants of
a Puritan conscience drives me</i>

382
00:20:39,321 --> 00:20:40,989
<i>to read a lot of the mail,</i>

383
00:20:40,989 --> 00:20:43,909
<i>even, and sometimes especially,
the bad mail.</i>

384
00:20:44,785 --> 00:20:46,578
<i>And then, when the desk was clearer</i>

385
00:20:46,578 --> 00:20:48,413
<i>than it's been in a long time,</i>

386
00:20:48,413 --> 00:20:50,666
<i>I left for Huntlands.</i>

387
00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:52,876
♪

388
00:20:52,876 --> 00:20:55,087
{\an8}<i>I called in to the White House</i>

389
00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:58,090
{\an8}<i>and asked Dr. Hurst if he and Jim</i>

390
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:01,343
<i>would like to drive out and
talk over Lyndon's problems.</i>

391
00:21:02,219 --> 00:21:06,682
<i>I don't know, though,
that either one really understands</i>

392
00:21:06,682 --> 00:21:07,975
<i>the depth of his pain,</i>

393
00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:09,434
<i>when and if</i>

394
00:21:09,434 --> 00:21:12,562
<i>he faces up to the possibility of sending</i>

395
00:21:12,562 --> 00:21:17,067
<i>many thousands American boys to Vietnam.</i>

396
00:21:17,067 --> 00:21:18,443
♪

397
00:21:18,443 --> 00:21:19,778
<i>Lyndon called me.</i>

398
00:21:19,778 --> 00:21:22,114
<i>He was lonesome,
I could tell from his voice.</i>

399
00:21:22,948 --> 00:21:24,157
<i>It was a sad talk,</i>

400
00:21:24,157 --> 00:21:26,076
<i>largely about the Alabama tenants</i>

401
00:21:26,076 --> 00:21:28,203
<i>and about his restive desire</i>

402
00:21:28,203 --> 00:21:30,664
<i>to seek a way
out of the burdens he carries.</i>

403
00:21:30,664 --> 00:21:32,457
♪

404
00:21:32,457 --> 00:21:35,794
<i>I wrote out about a nine-page analysis</i>

405
00:21:35,794 --> 00:21:38,130
<i>of what I thought his situation was.</i>

406
00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:40,299
♪

407
00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:43,719
<i>First, in case he definitely
decided he wanted to use it,</i>

408
00:21:43,719 --> 00:21:46,013
<i>there was a suggested announcement</i>

409
00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:47,889
<i>that he wasn't going to run again.</i>

410
00:21:48,432 --> 00:21:49,599
<i>If he does not run,</i>

411
00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:51,935
<i>we will probably return to the ranch</i>

412
00:21:51,935 --> 00:21:54,229
<i>and he will enjoy the country he loves,</i>

413
00:21:54,229 --> 00:21:58,483
<i>and me and Lynda and Luci
more than we ever have.</i>

414
00:21:59,234 --> 00:22:02,988
<i>But there would be a wave
of hollow disillusionment,</i>

415
00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:05,198
<i>and, "You let us down, Lyndon,"</i>

416
00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:08,035
<i>among those people
who really looked to him</i>

417
00:22:08,035 --> 00:22:11,330
<i>as the best candidate
of the Democratic Party.</i>

418
00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:12,748
♪

419
00:22:12,748 --> 00:22:14,916
<i>There might well be periods of depression</i>

420
00:22:14,916 --> 00:22:18,295
<i>as he watched Mr. X running the country,</i>

421
00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:20,630
<i>and thought what he
would have done instead.</i>

422
00:22:20,630 --> 00:22:23,133
<i>And he might look around for a scapegoat,</i>

423
00:22:23,133 --> 00:22:25,635
<i>and I would not want to be it, then.</i>

424
00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:27,971
<i>Then I put the alternative.</i>

425
00:22:27,971 --> 00:22:29,181
<i>If he does run,</i>

426
00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:30,932
<i>he will probably be elected President.</i>

427
00:22:31,475 --> 00:22:33,226
<i>During the ensuing four years,</i>

428
00:22:33,226 --> 00:22:35,062
<i>he, I, and the children</i>

429
00:22:35,062 --> 00:22:37,147
<i>will be criticized and slandered</i>

430
00:22:37,147 --> 00:22:38,690
<i>for things we have done,</i>

431
00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:40,692
<i>and things we never did at all.</i>

432
00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,945
<i>There will be times
when he will be frustrated</i>

433
00:22:43,945 --> 00:22:46,031
<i>by the inability to achieve</i>

434
00:22:46,031 --> 00:22:49,034
<i>his vaulting ambitions for this nation.</i>

435
00:22:49,034 --> 00:22:50,535
<i>This will be painful.</i>

436
00:22:51,286 --> 00:22:55,415
<i>My final conclusion was that,
I think he ought to run,</i>

437
00:22:55,415 --> 00:22:58,919
<i>and then, some three years
and nine months from now,</i>

438
00:22:58,919 --> 00:23:01,880
<i>in February or March of 1968,</i>

439
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,591
<i>announce that he won't be
a candidate for reelection.</i>

440
00:23:04,591 --> 00:23:05,926
<i>And by that time,</i>

441
00:23:05,926 --> 00:23:07,719
<i>I think the juices of life</i>

442
00:23:07,719 --> 00:23:09,721
<i>will be stilled enough in him</i>

443
00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:11,932
<i>that he can finish out that term,</i>

444
00:23:11,932 --> 00:23:16,144
<i>return to the ranch to live out
the rest of our days quietly.</i>

445
00:23:16,144 --> 00:23:19,648
♪

446
00:23:19,648 --> 00:23:22,275
{\an8}CAMERA ASSISTANT: Roll 30, sound 19.

447
00:23:23,276 --> 00:23:25,445
{\an8}INTERVIEWER:
Tell me, uh, about your attitude

448
00:23:25,445 --> 00:23:27,030
{\an8}to the Civil Rights Bill

449
00:23:27,030 --> 00:23:30,033
{\an8}that's up in Congress and being considered
by the Senate?

450
00:23:30,033 --> 00:23:33,370
I feel that it's, it's alright.

451
00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:37,165
But I, I feel one thing,
that they should go on and pass it.

452
00:23:37,165 --> 00:23:40,085
(siren wails)

453
00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:44,089
♪

454
00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:46,508
FANNIE LOU HAMER:
<i>I don't see how in America</i>

455
00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:49,594
{\an8}<i>that people can actually say</i>

456
00:23:50,470 --> 00:23:53,181
{\an8}<i>that America is the land of the free</i>

457
00:23:53,181 --> 00:23:56,268
{\an8}<i>and the home of the brave,</i>

458
00:23:56,268 --> 00:24:00,063
<i>when right here in America
Negroes have died</i>

459
00:24:00,814 --> 00:24:02,524
<i>for no reason at all.</i>

460
00:24:03,733 --> 00:24:06,820
<i>And actually, we are not
trying to take anything.</i>

461
00:24:07,612 --> 00:24:09,281
<i>We just want a chance</i>

462
00:24:10,198 --> 00:24:15,704
<i>to be decent human beings and citizens</i>

463
00:24:15,704 --> 00:24:19,207
<i>that we can really say, as the song,</i>

464
00:24:19,207 --> 00:24:21,168
<i>"O Say, can you see,</i>

465
00:24:21,168 --> 00:24:23,420
<i>"by the dawn's early light,</i>

466
00:24:24,337 --> 00:24:27,007
<i>what so proudly we hailed,"</i>

467
00:24:27,841 --> 00:24:30,051
<i>and now I cry, America,</i>

468
00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:33,430
<i>is this actually the land of the free</i>

469
00:24:33,430 --> 00:24:35,390
<i>and the home of the brave?</i>

470
00:24:35,390 --> 00:24:42,314
♪

471
00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:44,191
(indistinct conversations)

472
00:24:46,693 --> 00:24:48,445
LADY BIRD: <i>Thursday, July 2nd.</i>

473
00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:51,865
<i>At 6:30 the big news of the day,</i>

474
00:24:51,865 --> 00:24:54,784
<i>and perhaps of the year, took place.</i>

475
00:24:54,784 --> 00:24:56,411
♪

476
00:24:56,411 --> 00:24:58,580
PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON:
My fellow Americans,

477
00:24:58,580 --> 00:25:01,041
I am about to sign into law

478
00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:04,377
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

479
00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,589
LADY BIRD: <i>As I had slipped
quietly into a seat,</i>

480
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:09,549
<i>I had particularly noticed
the Attorney General</i>

481
00:25:09,549 --> 00:25:10,884
<i>sitting on the front row,</i>

482
00:25:10,884 --> 00:25:13,178
<i>and wondered what was
going on in his mind.</i>

483
00:25:13,178 --> 00:25:16,681
<i>This bill that his brother
had sponsored so ardently,</i>

484
00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:19,017
<i>had pinned so much hope on,</i>

485
00:25:19,017 --> 00:25:21,436
<i>and that had finally come to passage,</i>

486
00:25:21,436 --> 00:25:25,398
<i>I believe, with the earnest,
dogged help of Lyndon.</i>

487
00:25:25,398 --> 00:25:28,610
<i>I watched the Attorney General's
impassive face,</i>

488
00:25:28,610 --> 00:25:31,446
<i>and the very measured
clapping of his hands,</i>

489
00:25:31,446 --> 00:25:33,490
<i>which would not have
disturbed a gnat sleeping</i>

490
00:25:33,490 --> 00:25:35,242
<i>calmly in his palm.</i>

491
00:25:35,242 --> 00:25:37,994
♪

492
00:25:37,994 --> 00:25:40,121
<i>There was a ceremony in the East Room.</i>

493
00:25:40,121 --> 00:25:43,917
<i>A signing of the Civil
Rights Bill, complete with TV,</i>

494
00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:45,961
<i>with all the leaders of the Congress</i>

495
00:25:45,961 --> 00:25:47,295
<i>lined up behind Lyndon</i>

496
00:25:47,295 --> 00:25:48,964
<i>as he signed the bill with some</i>

497
00:25:48,964 --> 00:25:51,841
<i>several scores of pens,</i>

498
00:25:51,841 --> 00:25:55,220
<i>each one could hardly have
gotten to do one single letter.</i>

499
00:25:56,221 --> 00:25:59,015
<i>I left the East Room feeling
that I had really seen</i>

500
00:25:59,015 --> 00:26:02,394
<i>something start in this nation's history,</i>

501
00:26:02,394 --> 00:26:05,564
<i>fraught with much good and much troubles.</i>

502
00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:08,191
♪

503
00:26:08,191 --> 00:26:11,278
- We will not accept the Civil Rights Bill.
- (crowd cheering)

504
00:26:11,278 --> 00:26:13,947
And we will campaign and campaign

505
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:15,574
until it is repealed.

506
00:26:16,449 --> 00:26:18,535
SENATOR STROM THURMOND:
<i>In my opinion, this is not going to stop</i>

507
00:26:18,535 --> 00:26:20,203
<i>Negro demonstrations.</i>

508
00:26:20,203 --> 00:26:22,289
{\an8}It is not going to solve racial problems,

509
00:26:22,289 --> 00:26:24,666
{\an8}but it's going to increase tensions.

510
00:26:24,666 --> 00:26:26,876
{\an8}REPORTER: Are you concerned
perhaps, about the Democrats

511
00:26:26,876 --> 00:26:28,003
{\an8}taking advantage of this?

512
00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:29,963
{\an8}After Lyndon Johnson the biggest faker

513
00:26:29,963 --> 00:26:31,673
{\an8}in the United States,

514
00:26:31,673 --> 00:26:33,967
having opposed the Civil Rights Act

515
00:26:33,967 --> 00:26:35,927
for all the years of his life,

516
00:26:35,927 --> 00:26:39,014
this is the phoniest individual
that ever came around.

517
00:26:39,014 --> 00:26:42,892
♪

518
00:26:42,892 --> 00:26:45,020
{\an8}ZEPHYR WRIGHT: <i>I guess
because he was a southerner,</i>

519
00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:46,062
{\an8}<i>they didn't believe him.</i>

520
00:26:46,062 --> 00:26:47,564
{\an8}♪

521
00:26:47,564 --> 00:26:50,692
{\an8}<i>When I would speak
out for Johnson, they would say</i>

522
00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:52,902
<i>"Well, you are prejudiced
because you work for him."</i>

523
00:26:52,902 --> 00:26:54,571
<i>And I'd said "No,"</i>

524
00:26:54,571 --> 00:26:56,197
<i>I said, "In talking with him</i>

525
00:26:56,197 --> 00:27:00,535
<i>I know it is for all of the Negro people."</i>

526
00:27:00,535 --> 00:27:03,872
<i>And I knew what kind of man he was.</i>

527
00:27:05,123 --> 00:27:07,167
LADY BIRD: There's Zephyr and Lynda Bird.

528
00:27:07,167 --> 00:27:11,212
♪

529
00:27:11,212 --> 00:27:13,548
ZEPHYR: <i>One thing I'm gonna say
about Mrs. Johnson,</i>

530
00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:17,302
<i>she was very nice about finding
nice places to stay.</i>

531
00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:19,554
<i>And if we couldn't stay there,
she didn't stay there.</i>

532
00:27:19,554 --> 00:27:21,765
♪

533
00:27:21,765 --> 00:27:24,851
<i>One time we stopped at a place
and the woman said</i>

534
00:27:24,851 --> 00:27:26,686
<i>"Yes, uh, we have a place for you."</i>

535
00:27:26,686 --> 00:27:29,439
<i>And she said, "Well,
I have these other two people."</i>

536
00:27:29,439 --> 00:27:33,652
<i>She said, "No, we-we work 'em,
but we don't sleep 'em."</i>

537
00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:36,154
♪

538
00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:39,115
<i>And Mrs. Johnson said, "Well,
that's a nasty way to be,"</i>

539
00:27:39,115 --> 00:27:40,408
<i>and she drove away.</i>

540
00:27:46,414 --> 00:27:48,667
NEWSCASTER: <i>At sea,
on land, and in the air,</i>

541
00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:50,794
<i>the awesome United States military machine</i>

542
00:27:50,794 --> 00:27:53,380
<i>is mounting a force
that can face up to any threat.</i>

543
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:54,714
(gunfire)

544
00:27:54,714 --> 00:27:56,216
NEWSCASTER: <i>Reinforcements are being moved</i>

545
00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:57,634
<i>into strategic locations</i>

546
00:27:57,634 --> 00:27:59,219
<i>as part of a new strategy</i>

547
00:27:59,219 --> 00:28:00,845
<i>in this frustrating war.</i>

548
00:28:02,847 --> 00:28:04,432
(phone ringing)

549
00:28:32,335 --> 00:28:35,255
LADY BIRD: <i>Tuesday, August 4th was
a momentous day.</i>

550
00:28:35,797 --> 00:28:38,508
<i>You know great decisions are being shaped,</i>

551
00:28:38,508 --> 00:28:41,720
<i>some completely beyond
the control of any of us,</i>

552
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,931
<i>some that have to be decided
by the man closest to me.</i>

553
00:28:44,931 --> 00:28:47,559
♪

554
00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:49,769
<i>As McGeorge Bundy passed me in the hall,</i>

555
00:28:49,769 --> 00:28:51,855
<i>he was looking extraordinarily grave.</i>

556
00:28:51,855 --> 00:28:55,191
<i>I asked him something which
brought a portentous answer.</i>

557
00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:56,568
<i>It left me thinking,</i>

558
00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:59,279
<i>we might have a small war on our hands.</i>

559
00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:03,366
♪

560
00:29:03,366 --> 00:29:04,743
NEWSCASTER: <i>This is the</i> Maddox,

561
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,745
<i>one of the two destroyers
that were attacked</i>

562
00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:08,747
<i>while patrolling international waters</i>

563
00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,832
<i>in the Gulf of Tonkin near North Vietnam.</i>

564
00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:14,419
{\an8}My fellow Americans,

565
00:29:14,419 --> 00:29:16,671
<i>it is my duty to the American people</i>

566
00:29:18,256 --> 00:29:22,010
to report that renewed hostile actions

567
00:29:23,011 --> 00:29:25,638
<i>against United States ships
on the high seas</i>

568
00:29:25,638 --> 00:29:27,640
<i>in the Gulf of Tonkin</i>

569
00:29:28,349 --> 00:29:30,435
<i>have today required me</i>

570
00:29:30,435 --> 00:29:33,438
to order the military forces
of the United States

571
00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:35,607
to take action and reply.

572
00:29:36,441 --> 00:29:38,526
{\an8}LADY BIRD: <i>Frightening
as the situation is,</i>

573
00:29:38,526 --> 00:29:40,820
<i>I had a certain feeling of pride.</i>

574
00:29:40,820 --> 00:29:42,405
♪

575
00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:45,283
<i>Perhaps for Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,</i>

576
00:29:45,283 --> 00:29:47,911
<i>there were a long series of such days.</i>

577
00:29:47,911 --> 00:29:50,622
<i>Obviously up until now
we've survived them all</i>

578
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:52,665
<i>but it's a perilous path to tread.</i>

579
00:29:52,665 --> 00:30:01,049
♪

580
00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:03,510
INTERVIEWER: Mr. President,
it is widely believed

581
00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:05,386
among the reporters around town

582
00:30:05,386 --> 00:30:08,473
that you object rather strongly
to being criticized

583
00:30:08,473 --> 00:30:11,351
in the papers and on the air. Is there--

584
00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:12,769
Would you give us what your

585
00:30:12,769 --> 00:30:14,729
true feelings on that subject are?

586
00:30:14,729 --> 00:30:19,275
I assume that
almost anyone that is human, uh,

587
00:30:19,275 --> 00:30:21,569
uh, would rather
have approval than disapproval.

588
00:30:22,695 --> 00:30:24,572
INTERVIEWER: Uh, some people have thought

589
00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:28,576
that you put in too long and hard a day,

590
00:30:28,576 --> 00:30:30,829
that you might endanger
your own health that way.

591
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:32,872
How do you protect your health
from day-to-day?

592
00:30:34,415 --> 00:30:35,625
We do have long days,

593
00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:38,294
and, uh, the problems, uh, that, uh,

594
00:30:38,294 --> 00:30:41,297
require attention, uh, require time.

595
00:30:42,006 --> 00:30:45,885
And, uh, you, you never have as
much time as you want to spend

596
00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:48,471
before making these decisions,
but you must make decisions.

597
00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,724
And I work at a rather feverish rate,

598
00:30:51,724 --> 00:30:55,603
and the first hundred days were, uh,

599
00:30:56,813 --> 00:31:00,483
filled, uh, to almost to
the breaking point.

600
00:31:00,483 --> 00:31:03,945
♪

601
00:31:26,092 --> 00:31:27,760
{\an8}WALTER JENKINS: <i>He told me
that he was going to fly</i>

602
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,095
{\an8}<i>up there the next morning and announce</i>

603
00:31:29,095 --> 00:31:30,305
{\an8}<i>that he wasn't gonna be a candidate</i>

604
00:31:30,305 --> 00:31:32,015
{\an8}<i>for reelection in Atlantic City.</i>

605
00:31:32,015 --> 00:31:35,018
{\an8}<i>And I told him he absolutely
could not do that.</i>

606
00:31:35,018 --> 00:31:37,020
<i>I went immediately to Mrs. Johnson.</i>

607
00:31:37,020 --> 00:31:39,522
<i>She has more ability to</i>

608
00:31:39,522 --> 00:31:41,566
<i>reason with him than anyone else.</i>

609
00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:51,534
(static)

610
00:31:51,534 --> 00:31:53,995
NEWSCASTER: Good evening.
This convention city by the sea

611
00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:56,623
bustled with political activity today.

612
00:31:56,623 --> 00:31:58,875
{\an8}<i>A predominantly Negro group</i>

613
00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:02,211
{\an8}<i>is challenging the all-White
delegation from Mississippi.</i>

614
00:32:02,211 --> 00:32:04,005
We want to register

615
00:32:04,005 --> 00:32:06,466
to become first-class citizens.

616
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:10,511
And if the Freedom Democratic
Party is not seated now,

617
00:32:11,512 --> 00:32:13,056
I question America.

618
00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:15,558
{\an8}(cheering)

619
00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:17,143
♪

620
00:32:17,143 --> 00:32:19,103
NEWSCASTER: <i>For 22 long minutes,</i>

621
00:32:19,103 --> 00:32:21,064
<i>while his wife watches,</i>

622
00:32:21,064 --> 00:32:23,566
<i>the delegates pour out
their affection for Bobby,</i>

623
00:32:23,566 --> 00:32:26,110
<i>and for the man who was their President.</i>

624
00:32:26,110 --> 00:32:28,029
(crowd cheering)

625
00:32:28,029 --> 00:32:31,282
NEWSCASTER 1: <i>Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Luci,
and Lynda have just arrived.</i>

626
00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:32,992
NEWSCASTER 2: <i>And there he is.</i>

627
00:32:32,992 --> 00:32:34,619
♪

628
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:36,496
GOV. JOHN CONNALLY: <i>The President of the
United States,</i>

629
00:32:36,496 --> 00:32:41,167
<i>and the next President
of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson.</i>

630
00:32:41,167 --> 00:32:43,795
♪

631
00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:46,005
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: I will begin the march

632
00:32:46,005 --> 00:32:49,342
{\an8}toward an overwhelming victory
for our party

633
00:32:49,342 --> 00:32:50,635
{\an8}and for our nation!

634
00:32:50,635 --> 00:32:52,971
(crowd cheering)

635
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:54,347
{\an8}♪

636
00:32:54,347 --> 00:32:59,227
♪

637
00:32:59,227 --> 00:33:02,730
(upbeat campaign music)

638
00:33:02,730 --> 00:33:05,108
NEWSCASTER: <i>Election year 1964.</i>

639
00:33:05,108 --> 00:33:09,862
<i>The White House is the prize,
and it's invaded by the ladies.</i>

640
00:33:09,862 --> 00:33:13,032
<i>Four million more women voters
in the country than men,</i>

641
00:33:13,032 --> 00:33:16,536
<i>and both parties
are wooing the feminine vote.</i>

642
00:33:17,245 --> 00:33:19,497
<i>It's the year of the woman in Washington.</i>

643
00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:21,207
<i>The ladies are claiming the title,</i>

644
00:33:21,207 --> 00:33:23,543
<i>facing the responsibility.</i>

645
00:33:23,543 --> 00:33:24,752
(inaudible)

646
00:33:24,752 --> 00:33:27,505
♪

647
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:30,216
LADY BIRD: <i>Friday, September the 11th</i>

648
00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:33,219
<i>began my planning for the
whistle-stop trip to the south.</i>

649
00:33:33,219 --> 00:33:35,722
{\an8}<i>I'm tired of everybody's acting</i>

650
00:33:35,722 --> 00:33:37,849
<i>like the South is the step-child.</i>

651
00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:39,976
<i>I belong to it and it to me,</i>

652
00:33:39,976 --> 00:33:44,480
<i>and I intend to say so, even if
I, I get a rebuff for it.</i>

653
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,441
(train whistle blows)

654
00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:48,568
MARLENE SANDERS:
I'm on the rear platform here

655
00:33:48,568 --> 00:33:50,028
of the Lady Bird Special

656
00:33:50,028 --> 00:33:52,155
talking with Elizabeth Carpenter,

657
00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:54,115
Mrs. Johnson's press secretary.

658
00:33:54,115 --> 00:33:57,744
{\an8}Uh, Mrs. Carpenter, what's
the main purpose of this trip

659
00:33:57,744 --> 00:33:59,203
{\an8}as far as Mrs. Johnson is concerned?

660
00:33:59,203 --> 00:34:02,540
{\an8}(chuckles) Well, Marlene,
obviously there's an election on

661
00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:06,210
and she's helping carry
the story of this administration

662
00:34:06,210 --> 00:34:09,380
<i>and of her husband's record
to eight states.</i>

663
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:12,216
<i>No one knows the story
better than Mrs. Johnson</i>

664
00:34:12,216 --> 00:34:15,553
<i>and so I think that we'll find
victory there this fall.</i>

665
00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:19,682
Alexandria has been chosen
as the first stop

666
00:34:20,349 --> 00:34:23,061
by one of the greatest
campaigners in America,

667
00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:24,228
and I'm proud to announce--

668
00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:26,022
(cheering)

669
00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:34,238
And I'm very proud to announce
that I am her husband.

670
00:34:34,238 --> 00:34:35,406
(cheering continues)

671
00:34:39,368 --> 00:34:44,999
(ominous music playing)

672
00:34:44,999 --> 00:34:48,836
♪

673
00:34:50,171 --> 00:34:51,798
MARLENE: <i>You think the state's
gonna go for Goldwater?</i>

674
00:34:51,798 --> 00:34:53,257
{\an8}PERSON 1: <i>I think this whole
state will go for Goldwater.</i>

675
00:34:53,257 --> 00:34:54,467
{\an8}PERSON 2: <i>It will be the first time</i>

676
00:34:54,467 --> 00:34:56,010
{\an8}<i>Georgia has ever gone Republican.</i>

677
00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:57,845
{\an8}<i>But they'll do it this time.</i>

678
00:34:58,262 --> 00:35:00,098
{\an8}Democrats have always controlled Georgia.

679
00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:03,351
So we thought we'd show her
that there are a few Republicans here now.

680
00:35:04,602 --> 00:35:05,978
MARLENE: <i>Can you tell me, Mrs. Johnson,</i>

681
00:35:05,978 --> 00:35:08,106
<i>what were your original
expectations for this trip</i>

682
00:35:08,106 --> 00:35:09,440
<i>and how have things worked out?</i>

683
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,193
There have been mainly friendly
and large audiences

684
00:35:12,193 --> 00:35:14,028
but scattered in there have been some,

685
00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:15,738
uh, hecklers here and there.

686
00:35:15,738 --> 00:35:18,241
Uh, do you feel that you will nevertheless

687
00:35:18,241 --> 00:35:19,867
be able to, uh, help keep the South

688
00:35:19,867 --> 00:35:22,161
in the democratic camp despite this?

689
00:35:23,496 --> 00:35:25,456
That's a large order for a woman.

690
00:35:25,456 --> 00:35:27,166
(laughter)

691
00:35:27,166 --> 00:35:30,169
But I think we have to
look at this in perspective.

692
00:35:30,169 --> 00:35:32,088
There have been a few, certainly,

693
00:35:32,088 --> 00:35:34,090
they're entitled to their opinion,

694
00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:38,177
but you were there,
you saw the thousands of people

695
00:35:38,177 --> 00:35:40,847
who were cheering
and reaching out to shake hands.

696
00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:47,687
{\an8}CROWD (chanting): We want Barry!
We want Barry!

697
00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:53,734
{\an8}My friends, this is
a country of many viewpoints

698
00:35:53,734 --> 00:35:57,613
{\an8}and I respect your right
to express your own.

699
00:35:57,613 --> 00:36:00,408
{\an8}Now, it's my turn to express mine.

700
00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:02,160
{\an8}- Thank you.
- (cheering)

701
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:08,708
♪

702
00:36:12,378 --> 00:36:18,384
(tense music playing)

703
00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:20,887
DEAN BURCH: <i>The Walter Jenkins episode</i>

704
00:36:20,887 --> 00:36:23,514
<i>raises grave questions
of national security</i>

705
00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:27,602
<i>which only the President
can and must answer.</i>

706
00:36:27,602 --> 00:36:29,729
<i>Knowing the vulnerability</i>

707
00:36:29,729 --> 00:36:31,939
<i>of morals offenders to blackmail,</i>

708
00:36:31,939 --> 00:36:34,275
{\an8}the President should tell us

709
00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:36,527
{\an8}whether Mr. Jenkins was permitted

710
00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:39,655
{\an8}to sit in on meetings
of the National Security Council

711
00:36:39,655 --> 00:36:43,618
and otherwise given access
to top military secrets.

712
00:36:43,618 --> 00:36:45,161
{\an8}(phone ringing)

713
00:37:08,309 --> 00:37:10,019
{\an8}♪

714
00:37:10,019 --> 00:37:11,103
LADY BIRD: <i>Walter appeared</i>

715
00:37:11,103 --> 00:37:13,481
<i>rather detached and dissociated.</i>

716
00:37:14,023 --> 00:37:16,734
<i>I cannot measure the suffering
he's gone through,</i>

717
00:37:17,276 --> 00:37:20,488
<i>it's been one of the most
painful things in my life,</i>

718
00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:23,699
<i>more painful than death
of many close to me.</i>

719
00:38:42,486 --> 00:38:48,034
{\an8}♪

720
00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:50,953
NEWSCASTER: <i>The voice of the
people was heard in the land.</i>

721
00:38:50,953 --> 00:38:53,247
<i>Sixty eight million citizens
of the United States</i>

722
00:38:53,247 --> 00:38:56,500
<i>go to the polls to exercise
their cherished franchise</i>

723
00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:57,960
<i>and an overwhelming mandate</i>

724
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,171
<i>is handed to Lyndon Baines Johnson</i>

725
00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:03,716
<i>who becomes 36th president
of the United States.</i>

726
00:39:03,716 --> 00:39:05,259
<i>The man who was thrust into office</i>

727
00:39:05,259 --> 00:39:06,844
<i>through the hand of tragedy</i>

728
00:39:06,844 --> 00:39:09,847
<i>captures an overwhelming
percentage of the popular vote.</i>

729
00:39:09,847 --> 00:39:11,349
<i>More than 61%,</i>

730
00:39:11,349 --> 00:39:14,352
<i>a plurality over Barry Morris Goldwater</i>

731
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:16,020
{\an8}<i>of nearly 16 million ballots.</i>

732
00:39:16,562 --> 00:39:18,731
{\an8}<i>It is an historical sweeping victory.</i>

733
00:39:20,566 --> 00:39:24,904
♪

734
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:28,032
LADY BIRD: <i>New Year's Day began for me</i>

735
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:30,076
<i>with black coffee and orange juice</i>

736
00:39:30,076 --> 00:39:31,911
<i>and good resolutions.</i>

737
00:39:32,995 --> 00:39:36,415
<i>I spent all day in the
never-never land of clothes.</i>

738
00:39:36,415 --> 00:39:37,958
<i>The coat I'm wearing</i>

739
00:39:37,958 --> 00:39:40,920
<i>for the inaugural ceremony is elegant.</i>

740
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,464
<i>The dress? Well, we'll have
to wait and see.</i>

741
00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:44,882
♪

742
00:39:44,882 --> 00:39:49,053
<i>I'm just not the type
for sketches and swatches.</i>

743
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:51,013
<i>I'm a go in and look on the rack,</i>

744
00:39:51,013 --> 00:39:53,724
<i>put 'em on and wear 'em out type.</i>

745
00:39:53,724 --> 00:39:56,268
<i>That too is one of
my New Year resolutions,</i>

746
00:39:56,268 --> 00:39:59,271
<i>to look better at all public appearances</i>

747
00:40:00,022 --> 00:40:02,775
<i>and to remember what is due the job.</i>

748
00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:05,569
<i>I still find it very difficult,</i>

749
00:40:05,569 --> 00:40:08,614
<i>very distasteful to say "First Lady."</i>

750
00:40:12,118 --> 00:40:14,120
<i>Wednesday, January the 20th</i>

751
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,372
<i>dawned beautiful and bright and early.</i>

752
00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:18,499
<i>The day had come.</i>

753
00:40:18,499 --> 00:40:21,544
♪

754
00:40:21,544 --> 00:40:25,464
<i>We rode down the avenue,
Lyndon and I in one car,</i>

755
00:40:25,464 --> 00:40:28,801
<i>the one with the bulletproof
glass top and sides,</i>

756
00:40:28,801 --> 00:40:31,804
<i>crowds already thick along
Pennsylvania Avenue.</i>

757
00:40:31,804 --> 00:40:34,890
♪

758
00:40:34,890 --> 00:40:36,851
<i>Then came the moment toward which</i>

759
00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:40,271
<i>all the days of the last year
had been heading,</i>

760
00:40:40,271 --> 00:40:43,107
<i>the moment when Lyndon
would take the oath of office</i>

761
00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:46,235
<i>as the 36th President
of the United States.</i>

762
00:40:47,319 --> 00:40:49,071
<i>It had been mentioned
to me that I should hold</i>

763
00:40:49,071 --> 00:40:51,073
<i>the Bible for his swearing in.</i>

764
00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:53,951
<i>I stood facing the throng,</i>

765
00:40:53,951 --> 00:40:55,911
<i>between the Chief Justice and Lyndon,</i>

766
00:40:55,911 --> 00:40:57,496
<i>while he took the oath.</i>

767
00:40:58,998 --> 00:41:02,126
I, Lyndon Baines Johnson,
do solemnly swear...

768
00:41:02,126 --> 00:41:04,378
That you will faithfully execute...

769
00:41:04,378 --> 00:41:06,213
{\an8}...that I will faithfully execute...

770
00:41:06,213 --> 00:41:09,550
{\an8}...the office of the presidency
of the United States,

771
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:11,343
so help you God.

772
00:41:11,343 --> 00:41:13,095
...so help me God.

773
00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:16,765
(applause)

774
00:41:23,355 --> 00:41:25,399
LADY BIRD: <i>Monday, February 1st,</i>

775
00:41:25,399 --> 00:41:27,526
<i>begins the busy days again.</i>

776
00:41:27,526 --> 00:41:30,988
<i>I woke about 7:00,
and finding Lyndon was awake</i>

777
00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:33,574
<i>crawled into bed with him for coffee.</i>

778
00:41:33,574 --> 00:41:35,784
<i>And heard Luci, mad as a hornet,</i>

779
00:41:35,784 --> 00:41:38,078
<i>discuss an article in a magazine</i>

780
00:41:38,078 --> 00:41:40,122
<i>called</i> Women's Wear,

781
00:41:40,122 --> 00:41:41,874
<i>which had given the three Johnson women</i>

782
00:41:41,874 --> 00:41:44,043
<i>pretty poor marks as dressers.</i>

783
00:41:44,919 --> 00:41:46,295
<i>Luci was inclined to blame it</i>

784
00:41:46,295 --> 00:41:49,381
<i>on Lynda Bird's bobby socks and loafers,</i>

785
00:41:49,381 --> 00:41:52,134
<i>and was really quite
heatedly annoyed about it.</i>

786
00:41:52,134 --> 00:41:53,344
♪

787
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:55,804
<i>It is an endurance contest, this job.</i>

788
00:41:55,804 --> 00:41:59,433
♪

789
00:42:01,101 --> 00:42:04,688
<i>Sunday, February the 7th
actually began after midnight.</i>

790
00:42:05,981 --> 00:42:08,984
<i>Lyndon had heard of the Viet Cong attack</i>

791
00:42:08,984 --> 00:42:11,612
<i>on American barracks in South Vietnam.</i>

792
00:42:11,612 --> 00:42:13,364
♪

793
00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:15,032
<i>I was rather startled to hear him say</i>

794
00:42:15,032 --> 00:42:17,159
<i>something I have heard so often,</i>

795
00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:18,786
<i>but did not really expect</i>

796
00:42:18,786 --> 00:42:21,080
<i>to come out of his mouth
in front of anyone else.</i>

797
00:42:21,705 --> 00:42:23,624
<i>"I am not temperamentally equipped</i>

798
00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:26,126
<i>to be commander in chief," he said.</i>

799
00:42:26,126 --> 00:42:28,671
<i>They were talking about
the necessity of giving orders,</i>

800
00:42:28,671 --> 00:42:31,757
<i>that would produce God knows
what cataclysmic results.</i>

801
00:42:32,633 --> 00:42:35,094
<i>He said, "I am too sentimental."</i>

802
00:42:35,094 --> 00:42:37,680
<i>It's odd how you can be so anesthetized</i>

803
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,266
<i>by your own pain or your own problem,</i>

804
00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:41,976
<i>that you don't quite fully share</i>

805
00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:44,061
<i>the hell of someone close to you.</i>

806
00:42:44,061 --> 00:42:46,355
♪

807
00:43:31,233 --> 00:43:32,943
♪

808
00:43:32,943 --> 00:43:34,903
LADY BIRD: <i>Sunday, March 7th.</i>

809
00:43:34,903 --> 00:43:37,448
<i>For quite some time
I've been swimming upstream</i>

810
00:43:37,448 --> 00:43:41,285
<i>against a feeling of depression
and relative inertia.</i>

811
00:43:41,285 --> 00:43:43,662
<i>Lyndon, too, lives in a cloud</i>

812
00:43:43,662 --> 00:43:46,332
<i>of troubles with few rays of light.</i>

813
00:43:46,832 --> 00:43:48,542
<i>Now it is the Selma situation.</i>

814
00:43:48,542 --> 00:43:49,918
(clamoring)

815
00:43:49,918 --> 00:43:51,462
NEWSCASTER: <i>Six hundred or so Negroes</i>

816
00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:53,380
<i>who marched made little headway</i>

817
00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:56,508
<i>toward the state capital
some 15 miles to the east.</i>

818
00:43:56,508 --> 00:43:58,552
<i>They barely left Selma.</i>

819
00:43:58,552 --> 00:44:01,221
<i>They marched in through the city of Selma
and were not stopped,</i>

820
00:44:01,221 --> 00:44:05,059
<i>but once they crossed
over the Edmund Pettus Bridge,</i>

821
00:44:05,059 --> 00:44:06,852
<i>it was a different story.</i>

822
00:44:06,852 --> 00:44:09,813
OFFICER (over PA): <i>You've got
two minutes to turn around</i>

823
00:44:09,813 --> 00:44:11,357
<i>and go back to your church.</i>

824
00:44:11,357 --> 00:44:12,816
♪

825
00:44:12,816 --> 00:44:15,778
- (clamoring)
- (screaming)

826
00:44:15,778 --> 00:44:17,529
NEWSCASTER: <i>Scores of
the marchers were treated</i>

827
00:44:17,529 --> 00:44:18,822
<i>for tear gas burns,</i>

828
00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:20,783
<i>open wounds and broken bones.</i>

829
00:44:20,783 --> 00:44:23,035
<i>At nightfall, the sheriff of Dallas County</i>

830
00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:24,286
<i>went on the radio</i>

831
00:44:24,286 --> 00:44:26,330
<i>to urge everyone to stay off the streets.</i>

832
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,125
LADY BIRD: <i>It was a day
of tension and strain.</i>

833
00:44:30,626 --> 00:44:33,087
<i>Out in front of the White House
pickets are marching,</i>

834
00:44:33,087 --> 00:44:35,130
{\an8}<i>a not unusual sight.</i>

835
00:44:35,130 --> 00:44:37,508
<i>But in this context, with more poignancy</i>

836
00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:39,218
<i>than before, I think.</i>

837
00:44:39,218 --> 00:44:41,345
<i>Because Lyndon is a southern President,</i>

838
00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:44,431
<i>because he won with such a great vote
from the Negroes last fall,</i>

839
00:44:44,431 --> 00:44:47,017
<i>because the right to vote has been the key</i>

840
00:44:47,017 --> 00:44:49,520
<i>to the whole civil rights issue</i>

841
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,773
<i>that he has hammered
and hammered since '57.</i>

842
00:44:52,773 --> 00:44:56,527
<i>♪ Oh, freedom ♪</i>

843
00:44:57,444 --> 00:44:59,613
NEWSCASTER: <i>Well, it looks as if
yesterday's battle in Selma</i>

844
00:44:59,613 --> 00:45:01,865
<i>was rather the end of the beginning.</i>

845
00:45:01,865 --> 00:45:05,202
<i>For King's answer to Governor Wallace
is another march.</i>

846
00:45:05,202 --> 00:45:06,787
<i>Same town, Selma.</i>

847
00:45:06,787 --> 00:45:08,414
{\an8}<i>Same destination, Montgomery.</i>

848
00:45:08,414 --> 00:45:10,416
<i>The date, tomorrow, Tuesday.</i>

849
00:45:10,416 --> 00:45:12,793
<i>And says King, "He'll lead it himself."</i>

850
00:45:12,793 --> 00:45:15,671
<i>♪ Oh, freedom ♪</i>

851
00:45:15,671 --> 00:45:19,508
<i>♪ Oh, freedom over me ♪</i>

852
00:45:19,508 --> 00:45:21,427
LADY BIRD: <i>I heard later
that he did not know</i>

853
00:45:21,427 --> 00:45:22,886
<i>when he turned,</i>

854
00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:24,888
<i>whether anyone would be following.</i>

855
00:45:24,888 --> 00:45:27,474
<i>But this was victory, this was sanity.</i>

856
00:45:27,474 --> 00:45:30,310
<i>A temporary restraining lid on the volcano</i>

857
00:45:30,310 --> 00:45:32,062
<i>to grant time for</i>

858
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:34,982
<i>the strong voting rights bill in Congress</i>

859
00:45:34,982 --> 00:45:36,859
<i>to save us from catastrophe.</i>

860
00:45:36,859 --> 00:45:40,028
<i>♪ Oh, freedom over me ♪</i>

861
00:45:40,612 --> 00:45:42,531
(horn honks)

862
00:45:45,325 --> 00:45:47,453
NEWSCASTER: <i>This is the rhythm of a city,</i>

863
00:45:47,453 --> 00:45:50,622
<i>any big city, anywhere.</i>

864
00:45:50,622 --> 00:45:53,625
<i>Today American cities are facing a crisis.</i>

865
00:45:54,543 --> 00:45:57,546
<i>They are running a high fever
of unplanned growth.</i>

866
00:45:57,546 --> 00:45:59,923
<i>They are overcrowded and overwhelmed.</i>

867
00:45:59,923 --> 00:46:01,925
<i>For the first time,</i>

868
00:46:01,925 --> 00:46:05,095
<i>Americans are beginning
to seriously examine</i>

869
00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:07,723
<i>how their cities got that way.</i>

870
00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:10,559
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: <i>Within our cities,</i>

871
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:12,770
imaginative programs are needed,

872
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:17,107
to landscape streets
and to transform open areas

873
00:46:17,107 --> 00:46:19,526
into places of beauty and recreation.

874
00:46:19,526 --> 00:46:21,028
(applause)

875
00:46:21,945 --> 00:46:23,655
LADY BIRD: <i>Lyndon made a speech,</i>

876
00:46:23,655 --> 00:46:27,785
<i>and it was about the environment,
about conservation,</i>

877
00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:31,205
<i>and I-I decided, that's for me.</i>

878
00:46:31,205 --> 00:46:35,209
♪

879
00:46:35,209 --> 00:46:38,378
{\an8}LIZ CARPENTER: <i>From the time
we went into the White House,</i>

880
00:46:38,378 --> 00:46:39,880
{\an8}<i>you had newswomen saying,</i>

881
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,508
<i>"What is your role? What is your role?"</i>

882
00:46:42,508 --> 00:46:45,385
<i>And Mrs. Johnson's reply at the time was,</i>

883
00:46:45,385 --> 00:46:48,388
<i>"My role as First Lady</i>

884
00:46:48,388 --> 00:46:51,809
<i>will emerge in deeds not words."</i>

885
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:53,602
♪

886
00:46:53,602 --> 00:46:58,232
<i>Our object was to convince Mrs. Johnson</i>

887
00:46:58,232 --> 00:47:01,652
<i>to take the bull by the horns
and to form a committee</i>

888
00:47:01,652 --> 00:47:04,613
<i>that would have the podium
of the White House</i>

889
00:47:04,613 --> 00:47:08,283
<i>to air views and efforts</i>

890
00:47:08,283 --> 00:47:11,286
<i>in making the city
of Washington more beautiful.</i>

891
00:47:11,286 --> 00:47:12,955
♪

892
00:47:12,955 --> 00:47:15,415
LADY BIRD: <i>I think the time has come</i>

893
00:47:15,415 --> 00:47:19,169
<i>in our national consciousness
to look at the environment</i>

894
00:47:19,169 --> 00:47:22,923
<i>and question
what man was doing to harm it.</i>

895
00:47:22,923 --> 00:47:25,175
♪

896
00:47:25,175 --> 00:47:26,468
<i>Growing up in the country,</i>

897
00:47:26,468 --> 00:47:29,096
<i>I was pretty much left to my own devices.</i>

898
00:47:29,930 --> 00:47:33,350
<i>And I did not have
many constant companions.</i>

899
00:47:33,350 --> 00:47:36,270
♪

900
00:47:36,270 --> 00:47:42,234
<i>Nature was my friend,
and sustenance, and teacher.</i>

901
00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:47,155
<i>It was a joy to me
and it's, it's never failed me.</i>

902
00:47:47,155 --> 00:47:49,449
♪

903
00:47:49,449 --> 00:47:51,159
<i>Tuesday, March 9th</i>

904
00:47:51,159 --> 00:47:53,662
<i>was the meeting
of my Beautification Committee.</i>

905
00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:56,957
<i>Getting on the subject
of beautification is like</i>

906
00:47:56,957 --> 00:47:59,418
<i>picking up a tangled skein of wool,</i>

907
00:47:59,418 --> 00:48:01,295
<i>all the threads are interwoven...</i>

908
00:48:01,295 --> 00:48:02,379
♪

909
00:48:02,379 --> 00:48:04,840
...<i>recreation and urban renewal,</i>

910
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,468
<i>and rapid transit
and highway beautification,</i>

911
00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:11,388
<i>and mental health and the crime rate.</i>

912
00:48:12,222 --> 00:48:13,390
LADY BIRD: <i>It's awfully hard</i>

913
00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:14,433
<i>to hitch the conversation</i>

914
00:48:14,433 --> 00:48:16,184
<i>into one straight line</i>

915
00:48:16,184 --> 00:48:18,687
<i>'cause everything leads to something else.</i>

916
00:48:19,438 --> 00:48:22,316
<i>At about 11:30 all 30 or so of us</i>

917
00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:24,151
<i>departed on our field trip.</i>

918
00:48:24,151 --> 00:48:25,527
♪

919
00:48:25,527 --> 00:48:27,279
(horn honks)

920
00:48:27,279 --> 00:48:29,698
LADY BIRD: <i>We stopped at
Green Leaf Gardens,</i>

921
00:48:29,698 --> 00:48:32,451
<i>a housing area of modest,
little brick row houses.</i>

922
00:48:32,451 --> 00:48:35,245
<i>This was Walter Washington's bailiwick</i>

923
00:48:35,245 --> 00:48:37,122
<i>and his great enthusiasm.</i>

924
00:48:37,789 --> 00:48:41,919
<i>Together, he and I
have been frequent visitors</i>

925
00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:44,379
<i>at schools, housing projects</i>

926
00:48:44,379 --> 00:48:46,632
<i>and in the neighborhoods of Washington.</i>

927
00:48:47,257 --> 00:48:50,802
<i>He is a wise and able public servant.</i>

928
00:48:51,595 --> 00:48:54,723
{\an8}WALTER E. WASHINGTON:
<i>We have traveled through this city.</i>

929
00:48:54,723 --> 00:48:56,850
{\an8}<i>Both of us determined that</i>

930
00:48:56,850 --> 00:49:00,062
{\an8}<i>a certain part of what she wanted to do</i>

931
00:49:00,062 --> 00:49:02,940
<i>would be regarded as cosmetic,</i>

932
00:49:02,940 --> 00:49:06,234
<i>and that really behind the monuments,</i>

933
00:49:06,818 --> 00:49:08,946
<i>there was a big job to do.</i>

934
00:49:08,946 --> 00:49:11,490
<i>And that there must be equal access</i>

935
00:49:11,490 --> 00:49:14,368
<i>to the greatness and strengths
of our nation</i>

936
00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:16,453
<i>and in our neighborhoods.</i>

937
00:49:16,453 --> 00:49:18,664
<i>They must be available to all.</i>

938
00:49:18,664 --> 00:49:20,749
LADY BIRD: <i>I am no authority,</i>

939
00:49:20,749 --> 00:49:23,210
<i>just an interested, enthusiastic citizen.</i>

940
00:49:23,210 --> 00:49:26,213
<i>I recognize I do have
a sort of a tool in my hands</i>

941
00:49:26,213 --> 00:49:29,424
<i>by this title I carry,
and I want to use it.</i>

942
00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:31,843
<i>Nothing is more important</i>

943
00:49:31,843 --> 00:49:34,554
<i>than my involvement with beautification</i>

944
00:49:34,554 --> 00:49:36,515
<i>but I want a new word for it.</i>

945
00:49:36,515 --> 00:49:40,519
♪

946
00:49:41,937 --> 00:49:43,981
<i>Tuesday, July 13th.</i>

947
00:49:43,981 --> 00:49:46,024
<i>History is my preoccupation,</i>

948
00:49:46,024 --> 00:49:47,985
<i>our niche in it I mean,</i>

949
00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:49,820
<i>for the next year or so.</i>

950
00:49:51,029 --> 00:49:53,532
<i>The most significant part
of the day, of course,</i>

951
00:49:53,532 --> 00:49:56,910
<i>the appointment
of a new US Solicitor General.</i>

952
00:49:56,910 --> 00:49:58,537
<i>And it's Thurgood Marshall,</i>

953
00:49:58,537 --> 00:50:01,206
<i>the first Negro to hold such a post.</i>

954
00:50:01,206 --> 00:50:03,250
<i>A man with a wonderful record.</i>

955
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:05,043
<i>He admired Judge Marshall</i>

956
00:50:05,043 --> 00:50:06,753
<i>and spoke of the possibility,</i>

957
00:50:06,753 --> 00:50:09,047
<i>perhaps when a vacancy opened up</i>

958
00:50:09,047 --> 00:50:11,967
<i>he might make him
a Justice of the Supreme Court.</i>

959
00:50:11,967 --> 00:50:14,094
♪

960
00:50:14,678 --> 00:50:17,681
<i>July 30th, the Medicare Bill passed.</i>

961
00:50:17,681 --> 00:50:19,182
NEWSCASTER: <i>President and Mrs. Johnson</i>

962
00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:20,767
<i>and Vice President Humphrey arrive</i>

963
00:50:20,767 --> 00:50:23,562
<i>for ceremonies that will make
the Medicare bill</i>

964
00:50:23,562 --> 00:50:25,605
<i>a part of social security coverage.</i>

965
00:50:26,148 --> 00:50:28,025
LADY BIRD: <i>That impossible bill.</i>

966
00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:31,486
<i>He has every reason
to feel fulfilled and proud.</i>

967
00:50:31,486 --> 00:50:33,822
♪

968
00:50:34,322 --> 00:50:35,824
<i>Friday, August 6th.</i>

969
00:50:35,824 --> 00:50:38,076
<i>I talked to Lyndon that morning,</i>

970
00:50:38,076 --> 00:50:40,954
<i>He reminded me of the signing
of the voting rights bill.</i>

971
00:50:40,954 --> 00:50:42,372
(indistinct chatter)

972
00:50:42,372 --> 00:50:45,000
LADY BIRD: <i>Completely
inefficient, I forgot to watch,</i>

973
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,046
<i>but later I was proud to see
that Luci had not forgotten.</i>

974
00:50:49,046 --> 00:50:51,173
<i>She was right there by daddy's side,</i>

975
00:50:51,173 --> 00:50:53,633
<i>walking in, her hand in his.</i>

976
00:50:54,593 --> 00:50:57,596
<i>It was a dramatic setting,
a dramatic occasion.</i>

977
00:50:58,263 --> 00:51:02,267
I recognize that from
outside this chamber,

978
00:51:02,726 --> 00:51:06,104
<i>is the outraged conscience of a nation,</i>

979
00:51:06,104 --> 00:51:10,067
<i>but even if we pass this bill
the battle will not be over.</i>

980
00:51:10,525 --> 00:51:12,027
{\an8}<i>What happened in Selma is</i>

981
00:51:12,027 --> 00:51:13,904
{\an8}<i>part of a far larger movement</i>

982
00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:16,239
<i>which reaches into every section</i>

983
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,283
<i>and state of America.</i>

984
00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:20,827
<i>It is the effort of American Negroes</i>

985
00:51:21,286 --> 00:51:23,830
<i>to secure for themselves</i>

986
00:51:23,830 --> 00:51:27,751
<i>the full blessings of American life.</i>

987
00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:31,963
Their cause must be our cause too.

988
00:51:31,963 --> 00:51:34,674
♪

989
00:51:34,674 --> 00:51:36,343
<i>Here in Saigon--</i>

990
00:51:36,343 --> 00:51:38,762
LADY BIRD: <i>The fact that there
had been many pluses</i>

991
00:51:38,762 --> 00:51:40,806
<i>in the legislative achievements
of the week</i>

992
00:51:40,806 --> 00:51:44,267
<i>had not prevented Vietnam
from dominating the news.</i>

993
00:51:44,267 --> 00:51:46,603
♪

994
00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:49,815
I have today ordered to Vietnam
the air mobile division

995
00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:51,900
and certain other forces

996
00:51:51,900 --> 00:51:53,819
which will raise our fighting strength

997
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:58,824
from 75,000 <i>to 125,000 men
almost immediately.</i>

998
00:51:58,824 --> 00:52:01,284
♪

999
00:52:01,284 --> 00:52:04,287
LADY BIRD: <i>He said, "Vietnam is getting
worse day by day.</i>

1000
00:52:04,287 --> 00:52:08,291
<i>"I have the choice to go in
with great casualty lists</i>

1001
00:52:08,291 --> 00:52:10,794
<i>or get out with great disgrace."</i>

1002
00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:12,420
♪

1003
00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:15,132
<i>"It's like being in an airplane,
and I have to choose</i>

1004
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:18,510
<i>"between crashing the plane
or jumping out.</i>

1005
00:52:18,510 --> 00:52:20,387
<i>I do not have a parachute."</i>

1006
00:52:21,471 --> 00:52:23,723
<i>When he is pierced, I bleed.</i>

1007
00:52:23,723 --> 00:52:26,726
♪

1008
00:52:28,395 --> 00:52:30,814
(indistinct chatter)

1009
00:52:32,232 --> 00:52:33,775
What do you think, about 11?

1010
00:52:33,775 --> 00:52:35,360
Eleven will be fine.

1011
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,114
Do you think that's too much
exposure? We could do 16?

1012
00:52:39,114 --> 00:52:40,866
- REPORTER 1: About eight?
- REPORTER 2: I'd go down

1013
00:52:40,866 --> 00:52:41,908
towards eight, Mrs. Johnson.

1014
00:52:41,908 --> 00:52:44,119
LADY BIRD: Alright.
I'll just do another one.

1015
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:46,496
(laughter)

1016
00:52:46,496 --> 00:52:49,332
NEWSCASTER: <i>Mrs. Johnson has
managed to tread the thin line</i>

1017
00:52:49,332 --> 00:52:52,210
<i>between her private role
as wife and mother,</i>

1018
00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:54,880
and her public stance on beautification

1019
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,340
which some special interests
groups in this country

1020
00:52:57,340 --> 00:52:58,550
have found abrasive.

1021
00:53:00,093 --> 00:53:02,220
LADY BIRD: <i>Tuesday, August 17th.</i>

1022
00:53:02,220 --> 00:53:04,973
<i>I woke up early and worked with Liz</i>

1023
00:53:04,973 --> 00:53:07,225
<i>to talk about how the Beautification Bills</i>

1024
00:53:07,225 --> 00:53:09,227
<i>were faring in the House and Senate.</i>

1025
00:53:09,227 --> 00:53:11,313
♪

1026
00:53:11,313 --> 00:53:14,107
<i>There are four of them,
all relating to highways.</i>

1027
00:53:14,107 --> 00:53:17,152
♪

1028
00:53:17,152 --> 00:53:19,946
<i>There had been much talk in the
country and in the papers</i>

1029
00:53:19,946 --> 00:53:22,115
<i>and not much action on the Hill.</i>

1030
00:53:22,115 --> 00:53:23,992
♪

1031
00:53:23,992 --> 00:53:25,911
<i>One of them is a goner.</i>

1032
00:53:25,911 --> 00:53:28,830
<i>The others about billboards and junkyards,</i>

1033
00:53:28,830 --> 00:53:32,083
<i>with three percent of the money
allocated for planting</i>

1034
00:53:32,083 --> 00:53:35,045
<i>along the interstate highways
have a better chance.</i>

1035
00:53:35,795 --> 00:53:37,964
♪

1036
00:53:37,964 --> 00:53:39,007
(inaudible)

1037
00:53:39,007 --> 00:53:41,635
♪

1038
00:53:41,635 --> 00:53:44,763
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: This
administration has no desire

1039
00:53:44,763 --> 00:53:49,059
to punish or to penalize
any private industry

1040
00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:52,020
or any private company in this nation.

1041
00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:55,523
But we are not going to allow them

1042
00:53:55,523 --> 00:54:00,445
to intrude their own
specialized, private objectives

1043
00:54:00,445 --> 00:54:02,822
<i>on the larger public trust.</i>

1044
00:54:02,822 --> 00:54:04,449
♪

1045
00:54:04,449 --> 00:54:05,867
<i>And that is why today</i>

1046
00:54:05,867 --> 00:54:08,954
<i>there's a great deal of real joy</i>

1047
00:54:08,954 --> 00:54:14,376
to sign the Highway
Beautification Act of 1965.

1048
00:54:14,376 --> 00:54:29,849
♪

1049
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:32,477
LADY BIRD: <i>How many times have I driven</i>

1050
00:54:32,477 --> 00:54:34,646
<i>up to the front door of Bethesda?</i>

1051
00:54:34,646 --> 00:54:36,773
<i>Really serious times.</i>

1052
00:54:37,482 --> 00:54:41,361
<i>Very present in my mind,
and I'm sure in Lyndon's mind,</i>

1053
00:54:41,361 --> 00:54:43,989
<i>was of his serious heart attack.</i>

1054
00:54:44,948 --> 00:54:48,576
<i>For the first few years
we passed those milestones</i>

1055
00:54:48,576 --> 00:54:51,288
<i>stepping softly with great trepidation.</i>

1056
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:54,666
<i>Now we act almost as though
it had not been.</i>

1057
00:54:54,666 --> 00:54:57,085
<i>Though Lyndon and I will not forget.</i>

1058
00:54:58,086 --> 00:55:02,299
♪

1059
00:55:02,299 --> 00:55:05,885
<i>There was a high sense of
theater about the whole thing.</i>

1060
00:55:05,885 --> 00:55:08,430
♪

1061
00:55:09,889 --> 00:55:11,516
<i>They wheeled up a long cart,</i>

1062
00:55:11,516 --> 00:55:14,269
<i>and doctors assisted Lyndon on to it,</i>

1063
00:55:14,269 --> 00:55:16,896
<i>and then he said, "Let's go."</i>

1064
00:55:16,896 --> 00:55:18,773
♪

1065
00:55:18,773 --> 00:55:20,942
<i>I felt like he was
putting on a performance,</i>

1066
00:55:20,942 --> 00:55:23,278
<i>to save us from being worried.</i>

1067
00:55:24,612 --> 00:55:28,074
<i>The gall bladder had been just
as they suspected, inflamed,</i>

1068
00:55:28,074 --> 00:55:29,826
<i>with one stone in it.</i>

1069
00:55:30,702 --> 00:55:34,122
<i>This meant a double operation,
more hazard,</i>

1070
00:55:34,122 --> 00:55:35,665
<i>and longer recuperation.</i>

1071
00:55:35,665 --> 00:55:37,459
♪

1072
00:55:38,585 --> 00:55:43,423
(tense music playing)

1073
00:55:43,423 --> 00:55:48,219
♪

1074
00:55:48,928 --> 00:55:50,889
LADY BIRD: <i>I walked into the room to find</i>

1075
00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:53,641
<i>Abe sitting quietly by Lyndon's bedside.</i>

1076
00:55:53,641 --> 00:55:55,185
♪

1077
00:55:55,185 --> 00:55:58,396
<i>He was seeking Abe's advice
on how he could escape</i>

1078
00:55:58,396 --> 00:56:00,273
<i>from the burdens of the presidency</i>

1079
00:56:00,273 --> 00:56:02,609
<i>for the next indefinite period.</i>

1080
00:56:03,651 --> 00:56:05,945
<i>So here is the black beast of depression</i>

1081
00:56:05,945 --> 00:56:07,530
<i>back in our lives.</i>

1082
00:56:08,490 --> 00:56:11,826
<i>He was like a man on whom an avalanche
had suddenly fallen.</i>

1083
00:56:12,535 --> 00:56:14,287
<i>He said he didn't feel like making</i>

1084
00:56:14,287 --> 00:56:16,498
<i>a single decision right now.</i>

1085
00:56:17,248 --> 00:56:19,167
<i>"I want to go to the ranch.</i>

1086
00:56:19,167 --> 00:56:22,212
<i>"I don't want Hubert
to be even able to call me.</i>

1087
00:56:22,212 --> 00:56:24,672
<i>"They may demand that I resign,</i>

1088
00:56:24,672 --> 00:56:27,008
<i>they may even want to impeach me."</i>

1089
00:56:27,008 --> 00:56:30,720
<i>Mostly we sat in an atmosphere
of numbed silence,</i>

1090
00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:33,890
<i>with Abe offering quiet legal observations</i>

1091
00:56:33,890 --> 00:56:35,809
<i>on the alternatives.</i>

1092
00:56:35,809 --> 00:56:39,479
<i>Abe began to write out
what Lyndon asked him to.</i>

1093
00:56:40,188 --> 00:56:41,689
<i>And after Lyndon read it he said,</i>

1094
00:56:41,689 --> 00:56:43,775
<i>"Here, you had better
keep both these copies.</i>

1095
00:56:43,775 --> 00:56:46,444
<i>I don't want anybody to know about them."</i>

1096
00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:50,573
<i>I think it quite essential
that he have days,</i>

1097
00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:52,575
<i>maybe weeks of rest.</i>

1098
00:56:53,243 --> 00:56:56,162
<i>But how to buy a little time of quiet</i>

1099
00:56:56,162 --> 00:56:58,373
<i>when you are President
of the United States?</i>

1100
00:56:58,373 --> 00:57:00,083
♪

1101
00:57:00,917 --> 00:57:02,210
The question now, of course,

1102
00:57:02,210 --> 00:57:05,839
is what happens to
the Johnson style in 1966?

1103
00:57:05,839 --> 00:57:09,050
It will be a year in which
style alone won't solve things.

1104
00:57:09,050 --> 00:57:10,301
He has already learned

1105
00:57:10,301 --> 00:57:12,387
he can't put the arm on the Viet Cong

1106
00:57:12,387 --> 00:57:13,847
and the North Vietnamese

1107
00:57:13,847 --> 00:57:16,307
the way he can
on a recalcitrant congressman.

1108
00:57:16,307 --> 00:57:18,810
And learning this
has frequently seemed to produce

1109
00:57:18,810 --> 00:57:20,812
<i>a kind of sulkiness in the President.</i>

1110
00:57:20,812 --> 00:57:23,148
<i>A resentment at questions he can't answer,</i>

1111
00:57:23,148 --> 00:57:24,774
<i>a petulance with the press,</i>

1112
00:57:24,774 --> 00:57:26,818
<i>a deviousness at times in his statements</i>

1113
00:57:26,818 --> 00:57:29,446
<i>about what has happened
and what is going to happen.</i>

1114
00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:34,242
♪

1115
00:57:34,242 --> 00:57:36,286
LADY BIRD: <i>That inescapable
feeling of drama,</i>

1116
00:57:36,744 --> 00:57:39,706
<i>what will this new year hold for us all?</i>

1117
00:57:39,706 --> 00:57:42,208
♪

1118
00:57:42,208 --> 00:57:43,751
Will you tell us what you're sending

1119
00:57:43,751 --> 00:57:45,211
to Mrs. Johnson in your telegram?

1120
00:57:46,838 --> 00:57:49,007
- Would you like me to read it?
- Yes, please.

1121
00:57:49,007 --> 00:57:53,094
"We know you share our grief
at the loss of life in Vietnam.

1122
00:57:53,094 --> 00:57:56,556
"Please add your voices
to those calling for negotiation

1123
00:57:56,556 --> 00:57:58,016
"instead of bombing.

1124
00:57:58,016 --> 00:58:00,602
"There must be
an honorable diplomatic solution

1125
00:58:00,602 --> 00:58:02,937
to the situation in Vietnam."

1126
00:58:02,937 --> 00:58:04,731
♪

1127
00:58:04,731 --> 00:58:06,566
LADY BIRD: <i>Sunday, February 13th.</i>

1128
00:58:06,566 --> 00:58:09,736
{\an8}<i>At lunch, Lafayette Park
had been full of picketers.</i>

1129
00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:12,489
{\an8}<i>It's such a common thing now.</i>

1130
00:58:13,948 --> 00:58:15,867
<i>Lyndon said, this thing is assuming</i>

1131
00:58:15,867 --> 00:58:17,869
<i>rather dangerous proportions.</i>

1132
00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:19,537
♪

1133
00:58:19,537 --> 00:58:21,414
<i>He talked about the individual</i>

1134
00:58:21,414 --> 00:58:24,751
<i>feelings of every mother
who had a son in Vietnam</i>

1135
00:58:24,751 --> 00:58:27,253
<i>and in comparison about his feelings.</i>

1136
00:58:27,253 --> 00:58:30,131
<i>He said, "There's not
a mother in the world</i>

1137
00:58:30,131 --> 00:58:32,717
<i>"who cares as much about it as I do</i>

1138
00:58:32,717 --> 00:58:37,263
<i>"because I have 200,000 of them over there</i>

1139
00:58:37,263 --> 00:58:39,766
<i>"and they think I am in charge.</i>

1140
00:58:39,766 --> 00:58:43,686
<i>And if I am not, God help them.
Who the hell is?"</i>

1141
00:58:43,686 --> 00:58:46,606
♪

1142
00:58:46,606 --> 00:58:48,650
(bells tolling)

1143
00:58:51,986 --> 00:58:53,988
(indistinct chatter)

1144
00:58:53,988 --> 00:58:55,949
LADY BIRD: <i>Luci's wedding day
began clear and</i>

1145
00:58:55,949 --> 00:58:57,534
<i>bright and beautiful.</i>

1146
00:58:57,534 --> 00:59:00,495
<i>What I remember of the morning
was a montage.</i>

1147
00:59:00,495 --> 00:59:02,205
♪

1148
00:59:02,205 --> 00:59:05,208
<i>One walks up the aisle
as though in a play.</i>

1149
00:59:05,208 --> 00:59:08,628
<i>Thinking not the deep thoughts
that this is the last moment</i>

1150
00:59:08,628 --> 00:59:10,797
<i>she belongs to us alone.</i>

1151
00:59:11,923 --> 00:59:15,426
<i>She was flawless
in her dignity and gentleness.</i>

1152
00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:18,972
<i>To his eternal credit
I do not remember Lyndon</i>

1153
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:21,933
<i>looking at his watch
one time in the service</i>

1154
00:59:21,933 --> 00:59:23,476
<i>that lasted longer than an hour.</i>

1155
00:59:23,476 --> 00:59:25,687
♪

1156
00:59:25,687 --> 00:59:27,605
<i>I myself did not see the pickets.</i>

1157
00:59:27,605 --> 00:59:29,190
♪

1158
00:59:29,190 --> 00:59:31,985
<i>Only when it is extremely
raucous do we notice it.</i>

1159
00:59:33,528 --> 00:59:35,905
<i>I feel protective of Luci and Pat,</i>

1160
00:59:35,905 --> 00:59:39,534
<i>disgusted by the whole thing,
just as a citizen,</i>

1161
00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:41,911
<i>and not wise enough to cope with it.</i>

1162
00:59:46,708 --> 00:59:49,586
(indistinct conversations)

1163
00:59:54,757 --> 00:59:57,260
Would you end all of the
speculation for us and tell us

1164
00:59:57,260 --> 00:59:59,554
A, if you intend to run in 1968

1165
00:59:59,554 --> 01:00:02,015
and B, if Hubert Humphrey
will be your running mate?

1166
01:00:02,724 --> 01:00:04,559
(scattered laughter)

1167
01:00:05,935 --> 01:00:07,562
I didn't know, uh, Ms. Means,

1168
01:00:07,562 --> 01:00:09,731
there had been
that much speculation about it.

1169
01:00:10,815 --> 01:00:15,320
Uh, I'm not ready to make
a decision about my future

1170
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,448
after Jan '69 at this time.

1171
01:00:18,448 --> 01:00:20,575
Down the road several months from now

1172
01:00:20,575 --> 01:00:21,826
would be the appropriate time

1173
01:00:21,826 --> 01:00:23,453
for an announcement

1174
01:00:23,453 --> 01:00:26,414
of what my future plans are.

1175
01:00:26,414 --> 01:00:29,500
♪

1176
01:00:29,500 --> 01:00:31,502
{\an8}LADY BIRD: <i>Saturday, May 13th.</i>

1177
01:00:32,128 --> 01:00:33,713
{\an8}<i>Many, many months ago,</i>

1178
01:00:33,713 --> 01:00:36,716
{\an8}<i>I set March of '68 in my own mind</i>

1179
01:00:36,716 --> 01:00:38,968
<i>as the time when
Lyndon can make a statement</i>

1180
01:00:38,968 --> 01:00:41,971
<i>that he would not be
a candidate for reelection.</i>

1181
01:00:41,971 --> 01:00:43,723
<i>For the first time in my life,</i>

1182
01:00:43,723 --> 01:00:47,935
<i>I have felt that Lyndon
would be a happy man retired.</i>

1183
01:00:47,935 --> 01:00:52,565
<i>I find myself enjoying more and more
every return to the ranch,</i>

1184
01:00:52,565 --> 01:00:55,234
<i>and I do not know whether we can endure</i>

1185
01:00:55,234 --> 01:00:57,570
<i>another four-year term in the presidency.</i>

1186
01:00:57,570 --> 01:01:00,198
♪

1187
01:01:00,198 --> 01:01:02,283
<i>If life can be said to have a pattern,</i>

1188
01:01:02,283 --> 01:01:06,537
<i>as we go into summer,
the crescendo of work mounts.</i>

1189
01:01:06,537 --> 01:01:08,081
♪

1190
01:01:08,081 --> 01:01:09,457
NEWSCASTER: <i>In a Rose Garden ceremony,</i>

1191
01:01:09,457 --> 01:01:12,502
<i>a 58-year-old great grandson of a slave</i>

1192
01:01:12,502 --> 01:01:14,337
<i>is nominated by President Johnson</i>

1193
01:01:14,337 --> 01:01:16,005
<i>to be a Supreme Court Justice.</i>

1194
01:01:16,005 --> 01:01:19,384
<i>He is Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall.</i>

1195
01:01:19,384 --> 01:01:21,844
PRESIDENT JOHNSON:
<i>This morning I have welcomed</i>

1196
01:01:21,844 --> 01:01:25,890
<i>the members of the Commission
on Civil Disorders,</i>

1197
01:01:25,890 --> 01:01:28,559
chaired by Governor Kerner of Illinois.

1198
01:01:28,559 --> 01:01:30,937
<i>The American people
are baffled and dismayed</i>

1199
01:01:30,937 --> 01:01:33,690
<i>by the wholesale looting and violence</i>

1200
01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:35,692
<i>that has occurred both in small towns and</i>

1201
01:01:35,692 --> 01:01:37,527
<i>in great metropolitan centers.</i>

1202
01:01:37,527 --> 01:01:39,404
CROWD: Hey, hey, LBJ,

1203
01:01:39,404 --> 01:01:41,447
how many kids did you kill today?

1204
01:01:41,447 --> 01:01:44,867
MAN (chanting): Hell no, we won't go.

1205
01:01:44,867 --> 01:01:46,911
NEWSCASTER: <i>The pro's heavyweight champion
Cassius Clay</i>

1206
01:01:46,911 --> 01:01:48,913
<i>is found guilty of violating</i>

1207
01:01:48,913 --> 01:01:52,250
<i>the US Selective Service laws
by refusing to be inducted.</i>

1208
01:01:52,250 --> 01:01:55,002
MUHAMMAD ALI: <i>I've said it once,
and I will say it again.</i>

1209
01:01:55,002 --> 01:02:00,383
The real enemies of my people
are right here, not in Vietnam.

1210
01:02:03,469 --> 01:02:05,096
LADY BIRD: <i>Sunday, August 13th.</i>

1211
01:02:05,096 --> 01:02:07,056
<i>A cool front had blown in,</i>

1212
01:02:07,056 --> 01:02:09,559
<i>and there was a promise
of fall in the air.</i>

1213
01:02:10,226 --> 01:02:13,146
<i>It's strange, you feel soothed and happy</i>

1214
01:02:13,146 --> 01:02:17,316
<i>about the companionship of your
daughter and your grandchild</i>

1215
01:02:17,316 --> 01:02:20,737
<i>and exactly simultaneously
you're weighed down</i>

1216
01:02:20,737 --> 01:02:23,364
<i>by the troubles
that you must try to solve.</i>

1217
01:02:24,490 --> 01:02:29,287
<i>The growing virus of the riots,
the rising list of casualties,</i>

1218
01:02:29,287 --> 01:02:31,497
<i>and the voices of your own friends</i>

1219
01:02:31,497 --> 01:02:33,750
<i>or former friends in Congress,</i>

1220
01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:36,753
<i>and most of the bitching
is coming from the Democrats.</i>

1221
01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:40,381
<i>We watched Martin Luther King on TV.</i>

1222
01:02:40,381 --> 01:02:41,841
We are losing both.

1223
01:02:41,841 --> 01:02:44,594
We are losing the war
against poverty here at home.

1224
01:02:44,594 --> 01:02:46,512
We are losing the war in Vietnam,

1225
01:02:46,512 --> 01:02:49,182
morally and politically.
And I think we're losing--

1226
01:02:49,182 --> 01:02:52,727
LADY BIRD: <i>To me, it seemed
the old charisma is fading.</i>

1227
01:02:52,727 --> 01:02:55,688
<i>He was not as exciting
as I had remembered him.</i>

1228
01:02:56,522 --> 01:02:59,275
<i>Today's poll has Lyndon down to 39,</i>

1229
01:02:59,275 --> 01:03:01,068
<i>the lowest he's ever been.</i>

1230
01:03:01,068 --> 01:03:04,280
<i>And my instinct tells me
the only reaction to it</i>

1231
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:09,035
<i>should be to work harder,
be staunch and keep smiling.</i>

1232
01:03:09,035 --> 01:03:10,578
<i>But it is hard.</i>

1233
01:03:11,496 --> 01:03:13,164
(cheering and applause)

1234
01:03:13,164 --> 01:03:15,124
STOKELY CARMICHAEL: We have
grown enough strength to say,

1235
01:03:15,124 --> 01:03:17,043
{\an8}you know, that Vietnam War
is for the Birds.

1236
01:03:17,043 --> 01:03:18,503
{\an8}Lynda Bird, Lady Bird--

1237
01:03:18,503 --> 01:03:20,755
{\an8}(laughter and cheering)

1238
01:03:20,755 --> 01:03:22,215
{\an8}Let the Birds go take care of it,

1239
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:23,674
{\an8}we gonna sit here and watch.

1240
01:03:24,425 --> 01:03:28,304
The new left has at best
perhaps 300,000 members.

1241
01:03:28,304 --> 01:03:30,598
The young radicals scorn communism

1242
01:03:30,598 --> 01:03:33,184
and they see liberals as their enemy.

1243
01:03:33,935 --> 01:03:36,020
{\an8}<i>The discontent of the new left
has been noted</i>

1244
01:03:36,020 --> 01:03:39,232
<i>by the politician most
identified with young people.</i>

1245
01:03:39,232 --> 01:03:42,610
They see us willing to fight a
war for freedom in Vietnam,

1246
01:03:43,194 --> 01:03:46,531
but unwilling to fight with
one-hundredth the money or force

1247
01:03:46,531 --> 01:03:49,659
or effort to secure freedom
in Mississippi,

1248
01:03:49,659 --> 01:03:52,245
or Alabama, or the ghettos of the north.

1249
01:03:52,245 --> 01:03:53,955
(cheering)

1250
01:03:53,955 --> 01:03:56,374
(clamoring)

1251
01:03:56,374 --> 01:03:58,125
♪

1252
01:03:58,125 --> 01:04:00,545
LADY BIRD: <i>I read a very thoughtful editorial.</i>

1253
01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:03,840
<i>It's a frantic effort
of some of today's young</i>

1254
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,133
<i>to find a tangible method of revolt.</i>

1255
01:04:06,133 --> 01:04:09,428
<i>Their revolt happens to be
almost totally negative.</i>

1256
01:04:09,428 --> 01:04:11,931
<i>It is a sterile thing,</i>

1257
01:04:11,931 --> 01:04:14,475
<i>against the velvet prison of affluence,</i>

1258
01:04:14,475 --> 01:04:16,811
{\an8}<i>conformity, and isolation.</i>

1259
01:04:16,811 --> 01:04:20,731
♪

1260
01:04:20,731 --> 01:04:23,818
<i>Merely to be bizarre in strategic spots</i>

1261
01:04:23,818 --> 01:04:26,654
<i>gives people a lot of exposure
in this day of saturation coverage</i>

1262
01:04:26,654 --> 01:04:28,948
<i>of the major events by television.</i>

1263
01:04:29,907 --> 01:04:31,492
<i>They think they are doing something</i>

1264
01:04:31,492 --> 01:04:33,619
<i>when they are noticed by the TV cameras.</i>

1265
01:04:34,287 --> 01:04:37,540
<i>Many of the young confuse it with action.</i>

1266
01:04:38,416 --> 01:04:40,585
♪

1267
01:04:40,585 --> 01:04:44,171
<i>Monday, October 9.
My journey into academia.</i>

1268
01:04:44,171 --> 01:04:48,009
{\an8}<i>At about three o'clock
we arrived at New Haven.</i>

1269
01:04:48,009 --> 01:04:52,054
<i>It was a sizable crowd
of picketers carrying signs</i>

1270
01:04:52,054 --> 01:04:54,515
<i>that said, "Stop beautifying
North Vietnam"</i>

1271
01:04:54,515 --> 01:04:56,392
<i>and displayed pictures of</i>

1272
01:04:56,392 --> 01:04:59,061
<i>people supposedly burned by napalm.</i>

1273
01:04:59,061 --> 01:05:01,606
♪

1274
01:05:01,606 --> 01:05:02,982
<i>I got out of the car.</i>

1275
01:05:02,982 --> 01:05:04,400
<i>The measured slowness,</i>

1276
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,694
<i>and walked to meet Dr. Brewster.</i>

1277
01:05:07,445 --> 01:05:09,196
<i>Quite soon, the feeling got across to me</i>

1278
01:05:09,196 --> 01:05:10,740
<i>that my presence here</i>

1279
01:05:10,740 --> 01:05:13,200
<i>was really an imposition on him.</i>

1280
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:15,870
<i>His manner was absolutely correct.</i>

1281
01:05:15,870 --> 01:05:18,039
<i>But if I have any antenna at all,</i>

1282
01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:21,000
<i>I sense that he wished
he had no part of it.</i>

1283
01:05:22,043 --> 01:05:25,379
{\an8}Can a great democratic society

1284
01:05:25,379 --> 01:05:30,092
generate the energy to build
projects of order and beauty?

1285
01:05:30,092 --> 01:05:33,679
{\an8}That answer will unfold, I think,

1286
01:05:33,679 --> 01:05:36,349
{\an8}in the next two decades.

1287
01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:38,184
Thank you very much.

1288
01:05:38,184 --> 01:05:39,894
(applause)

1289
01:05:39,894 --> 01:05:41,270
LADY BIRD: <i>I was never so glad</i>

1290
01:05:41,270 --> 01:05:43,147
<i>to be finished with a speech in my life.</i>

1291
01:05:43,981 --> 01:05:47,276
<i>On our way out, I shook hands
with everybody I could reach,</i>

1292
01:05:47,276 --> 01:05:49,904
<i>and not even a Secret Service was gladder,</i>

1293
01:05:49,904 --> 01:05:52,823
<i>I'm sure, that an evening was nearly over.</i>

1294
01:05:52,823 --> 01:05:54,992
<i>That was also a lesson to me,</i>

1295
01:05:54,992 --> 01:05:57,203
<i>I must not live in the White House</i>

1296
01:05:57,203 --> 01:05:58,913
<i>insulated myself.</i>

1297
01:05:59,830 --> 01:06:04,168
<i>I want to know what's going on,
even if to know is to suffer.</i>

1298
01:06:04,168 --> 01:06:06,295
{\an8}(clamoring)

1299
01:06:10,049 --> 01:06:11,717
NEWSCASTER: <i>A rather striking
foursome emerged</i>

1300
01:06:11,717 --> 01:06:12,927
<i>from the White House today</i>

1301
01:06:12,927 --> 01:06:15,012
<i>and strolled across the South Lawn.</i>

1302
01:06:15,012 --> 01:06:17,807
<i>Marine Captain Charles Robb,
his bride to be,</i>

1303
01:06:17,807 --> 01:06:19,433
<i>and his prospective in-laws.</i>

1304
01:06:19,934 --> 01:06:21,435
<i>There will be a White House wedding,</i>

1305
01:06:21,435 --> 01:06:23,396
<i>and then the President's son-in-law</i>

1306
01:06:23,396 --> 01:06:25,731
<i>will go off to fight in Vietnam.</i>

1307
01:06:28,859 --> 01:06:30,444
LADY BIRD: <i>Lynda's wedding day,</i>

1308
01:06:30,444 --> 01:06:32,363
<i>Saturday, December the 9th.</i>

1309
01:06:32,363 --> 01:06:33,489
♪

1310
01:06:33,489 --> 01:06:35,992
<i>The ceremony began on time.</i>

1311
01:06:35,992 --> 01:06:38,202
<i>How would one describe the bride?</i>

1312
01:06:38,202 --> 01:06:41,998
<i>Queenly, radiant, stunningly beautiful,</i>

1313
01:06:41,998 --> 01:06:44,625
<i>every heart in the place lifted.</i>

1314
01:06:45,501 --> 01:06:49,130
<i>Beautiful as she was, it was
he I watched all the way,</i>

1315
01:06:49,130 --> 01:06:53,676
<i>such a mixture of quietness
and farewell in his look,</i>

1316
01:06:53,676 --> 01:06:55,636
<i>his hair looked whiter than I'd ever seen,</i>

1317
01:06:55,636 --> 01:06:57,680
<i>and I was full of tenderness for him.</i>

1318
01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,223
♪

1319
01:06:59,223 --> 01:07:02,435
<i>I have never seen a lovelier ceremony.</i>

1320
01:07:02,977 --> 01:07:06,939
<i>Lynda's wedding dress
fulfilled every expectation,</i>

1321
01:07:06,939 --> 01:07:10,067
<i>and I hope I live to see
a granddaughter wear it,</i>

1322
01:07:10,067 --> 01:07:13,320
<i>and I'm sure it will be just as good then.</i>

1323
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:14,822
♪

1324
01:07:14,822 --> 01:07:16,866
(inaudible)

1325
01:07:16,866 --> 01:07:19,744
♪

1326
01:07:19,744 --> 01:07:22,538
LADY BIRD: <i>Saturday, January the 13th.</i>

1327
01:07:22,538 --> 01:07:26,083
<i>And so we returned to what
really seemed like New Year's,</i>

1328
01:07:26,083 --> 01:07:28,210
<i>the beginning of the hardest year</i>

1329
01:07:28,210 --> 01:07:31,255
<i>with our big problem still unresolved.</i>

1330
01:07:32,256 --> 01:07:33,883
<i>We drove to Luci's house</i>

1331
01:07:33,883 --> 01:07:36,469
<i>and there was Lyn, all smiles,</i>

1332
01:07:36,469 --> 01:07:38,679
<i>apparently over his ear infection,</i>

1333
01:07:39,388 --> 01:07:42,933
<i>absolutely enthralled
at seeing his grandfather.</i>

1334
01:07:44,018 --> 01:07:45,895
<i>Lyndon spends more time with him</i>

1335
01:07:45,895 --> 01:07:48,355
<i>than he ever did
with either of our children.</i>

1336
01:07:48,939 --> 01:07:51,025
<i>He said, "There's one job I want,</i>

1337
01:07:51,025 --> 01:07:53,986
<i>and that's to be a full-time grandfather."</i>

1338
01:07:54,487 --> 01:07:56,322
<i>It was both humorous and pathetic.</i>

1339
01:07:59,450 --> 01:08:01,660
<i>Wednesday, January the 17th.</i>

1340
01:08:01,660 --> 01:08:03,829
<i>The day of the State of the Union.</i>

1341
01:08:03,829 --> 01:08:07,249
<i>Lyndon had asked George
to draft him a statement,</i>

1342
01:08:07,249 --> 01:08:09,251
<i>announcing that he would not run.</i>

1343
01:08:09,919 --> 01:08:14,048
<i>My own, which Lyndon had asked
me to produce, was feeble,</i>

1344
01:08:14,048 --> 01:08:16,801
<i>and if there was anything
that we ever ought to say</i>

1345
01:08:16,801 --> 01:08:20,346
<i>with words that have
wings and fire, this is it.</i>

1346
01:08:20,346 --> 01:08:22,348
♪

1347
01:08:22,348 --> 01:08:24,767
<i>I keep the statement I had written in '64,</i>

1348
01:08:24,767 --> 01:08:27,144
<i>when Lyndon was facing
going to Atlantic City</i>

1349
01:08:27,144 --> 01:08:28,604
<i>and did not want to go,</i>

1350
01:08:28,604 --> 01:08:32,525
<i>in the right-hand drawer
of my desk in my bedroom.</i>

1351
01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:36,862
<i>I brought it out and we reread
what I had said then.</i>

1352
01:08:36,862 --> 01:08:38,531
<i>It sounds better now.</i>

1353
01:08:39,365 --> 01:08:42,701
<i>Lyndon put George's statement
in his inside pocket.</i>

1354
01:08:42,701 --> 01:08:44,537
<i>It was not to be included in the text</i>

1355
01:08:44,537 --> 01:08:45,871
<i>of the State of the Union.</i>

1356
01:08:45,871 --> 01:08:48,415
♪

1357
01:08:48,415 --> 01:08:51,043
<i>If he made it, it would come at the end,</i>

1358
01:08:51,043 --> 01:08:53,379
<i>beginning with a line something like this,</i>

1359
01:08:53,379 --> 01:08:57,091
<i>"And now I want to speak to you
about a personal matter."</i>

1360
01:08:57,091 --> 01:09:00,719
<i>He looks from one to another
of those close to him</i>

1361
01:09:00,719 --> 01:09:02,096
<i>for an answer,</i>

1362
01:09:02,096 --> 01:09:03,430
<i>for some wisdom,</i>

1363
01:09:03,430 --> 01:09:06,600
<i>some foresight, beyond any he can have.</i>

1364
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:10,229
<i>And he said, "Well, what shall I do?"</i>

1365
01:09:11,021 --> 01:09:13,274
<i>I looked at him
with that hopeless feeling,</i>

1366
01:09:13,274 --> 01:09:16,485
<i>and said, "Luci hopes you won't run.</i>

1367
01:09:19,780 --> 01:09:21,657
<i>"She wants you for herself,</i>

1368
01:09:21,657 --> 01:09:24,577
<i>and Lyn and all of us being together.</i>

1369
01:09:27,496 --> 01:09:29,915
<i>"Lynda hopes you will run.</i>

1370
01:09:29,915 --> 01:09:32,418
<i>"Because her husband is going to war,</i>

1371
01:09:32,418 --> 01:09:34,336
<i>"and she thinks there will be more chance</i>

1372
01:09:34,336 --> 01:09:36,505
<i>"of getting him back alive</i>

1373
01:09:36,505 --> 01:09:39,717
<i>"and everything settled
if you're President.</i>

1374
01:09:39,717 --> 01:09:43,846
<i>"And me, I don't know,
I've said it all before.</i>

1375
01:09:44,638 --> 01:09:46,640
<i>I can't tell you what to do."</i>

1376
01:09:50,561 --> 01:09:52,730
(indistinct chatter)

1377
01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:54,982
Mr. Speaker,

1378
01:09:55,524 --> 01:09:58,736
the President of the United States.

1379
01:09:58,736 --> 01:10:02,865
♪

1380
01:10:06,660 --> 01:10:08,704
I wish with all of my heart

1381
01:10:08,704 --> 01:10:12,791
that the expenditures
that are necessary to build

1382
01:10:12,791 --> 01:10:14,460
and to protect our power

1383
01:10:14,460 --> 01:10:17,713
could all be devoted
to the programs of peace.

1384
01:10:18,756 --> 01:10:20,549
But until world conditions permit

1385
01:10:20,549 --> 01:10:22,218
and until peace is assured,

1386
01:10:22,968 --> 01:10:26,972
America's bravest sons
who wear our nation's uniform

1387
01:10:27,973 --> 01:10:29,308
must continue.

1388
01:10:31,143 --> 01:10:33,771
LADY BIRD: <i>Somewhere in it
the teleprompter went out.</i>

1389
01:10:33,771 --> 01:10:36,690
<i>I could see him leafing
through three or four pages</i>

1390
01:10:36,690 --> 01:10:40,236
<i>of the text in front of him
while he interpolated.</i>

1391
01:10:41,528 --> 01:10:44,823
<i>As we approached the end
I tightened up in my seat.</i>

1392
01:10:44,823 --> 01:10:48,452
<i>Would he reach in his pocket?
Did I want him to?</i>

1393
01:10:48,452 --> 01:10:52,164
<i>Would I be relieved if he did
or if he didn't?</i>

1394
01:10:52,915 --> 01:10:55,960
♪

1395
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,254
Can we achieve these goals?

1396
01:10:59,713 --> 01:11:01,048
Of course we can.

1397
01:11:01,048 --> 01:11:05,970
♪

1398
01:11:05,970 --> 01:11:07,805
Thank you and good night.

1399
01:11:07,805 --> 01:11:09,390
LADY BIRD: <i>He did not reach in his pocket</i>

1400
01:11:09,390 --> 01:11:11,392
<i>for the draft that I knew was there.</i>

1401
01:11:11,392 --> 01:11:19,984
♪

1402
01:11:19,984 --> 01:11:22,027
<i>Thursday, January 18th.</i>

1403
01:11:22,778 --> 01:11:24,029
<i>I went over my guest list</i>

1404
01:11:24,029 --> 01:11:26,031
<i>for the Women Doers' Luncheon,</i>

1405
01:11:26,573 --> 01:11:29,368
<i>our subject, "Crime on the Streets."</i>

1406
01:11:29,368 --> 01:11:31,203
<i>A few of the guests had been late</i>

1407
01:11:31,203 --> 01:11:33,580
<i>and some of the staff
ushered them up to speak to me,</i>

1408
01:11:33,580 --> 01:11:35,082
<i>Eartha Kitt among them.</i>

1409
01:11:35,582 --> 01:11:38,002
EARTHA KITT: <i>I work with inner city kids,</i>

1410
01:11:38,002 --> 01:11:40,337
<i>so that's why I was invited
to this luncheon.</i>

1411
01:11:40,963 --> 01:11:42,381
{\an8}<i>I didn't want to go,</i>

1412
01:11:42,381 --> 01:11:44,383
{\an8}<i>but the White House kept calling me</i>

1413
01:11:44,383 --> 01:11:47,594
{\an8}<i>and saying, "Yes, Mrs. Johnson
definitely wants you to come."</i>

1414
01:11:48,345 --> 01:11:55,019
♪

1415
01:11:55,019 --> 01:11:57,354
Crime is a grim subject

1416
01:11:57,354 --> 01:11:59,648
for a pleasant meeting like this,

1417
01:12:00,774 --> 01:12:03,027
but I believe that

1418
01:12:03,777 --> 01:12:08,949
everybody is increasingly
determined to face up to it.

1419
01:12:08,949 --> 01:12:10,826
♪

1420
01:12:10,826 --> 01:12:13,996
EARTHA: <i>Then in walks President Johnson.</i>

1421
01:12:13,996 --> 01:12:17,374
♪

1422
01:12:17,374 --> 01:12:21,754
<i>He puts his elbow on the pulpit
that was suddenly out there.</i>

1423
01:12:21,754 --> 01:12:23,255
LADY BIRD: <i>Miss Eartha Kitt,</i>

1424
01:12:23,255 --> 01:12:25,215
<i>who had been seated at the
table close to the podium,</i>

1425
01:12:25,215 --> 01:12:26,675
<i>rose in his path and said--</i>

1426
01:12:45,736 --> 01:12:47,404
LADY BIRD: <i>Lyndon paused a moment,</i>

1427
01:12:47,404 --> 01:12:49,615
<i>but fortunately, he had the answer.</i>

1428
01:12:55,371 --> 01:12:57,581
- (laughter)
- (applause)

1429
01:12:57,581 --> 01:12:59,917
LADY BIRD: <i>She sat down stubbed
out of cigarettes</i>

1430
01:12:59,917 --> 01:13:01,418
<i>tossing her long hair,</i>

1431
01:13:01,418 --> 01:13:04,505
<i>and from then on I watched her
expecting something,</i>

1432
01:13:04,505 --> 01:13:05,839
<i>I didn't know what.</i>

1433
01:13:07,174 --> 01:13:08,884
<i>She smoldered and smoked.</i>

1434
01:13:10,094 --> 01:13:13,472
<i>I asked the guests for their
observations and discussions.</i>

1435
01:13:14,098 --> 01:13:16,058
<i>I noticed Miss Kitt's hand going up</i>

1436
01:13:16,058 --> 01:13:19,103
<i>and I knew that I must,
in turn, get to her.</i>

1437
01:13:19,103 --> 01:13:23,148
<i>I did not know what to expect,
only that it would not be good.</i>

1438
01:13:23,148 --> 01:13:26,360
<i>She rose and began
to talk swiftly, passionately,</i>

1439
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:27,986
<i>beginning with anger that the fact</i>

1440
01:13:27,986 --> 01:13:30,114
<i>of welfare checks were so small.</i>

1441
01:13:31,448 --> 01:13:33,242
<i>And then, mounting to a crescendo,</i>

1442
01:13:33,242 --> 01:13:35,202
<i>she came to her real destination,</i>

1443
01:13:35,202 --> 01:13:37,538
<i>to denounce the war in Vietnam.</i>

1444
01:13:38,247 --> 01:13:40,040
<i>Advancing a step toward me</i>

1445
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,501
<i>and looking with intense directness at me,</i>

1446
01:13:42,501 --> 01:13:44,294
<i>she's a good actress, she said,</i>

1447
01:13:44,294 --> 01:13:46,296
<i>"Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too,</i>

1448
01:13:46,296 --> 01:13:48,507
<i>"although you have had
daughters and not sons.</i>

1449
01:13:48,507 --> 01:13:50,717
<i>"I am a mother and I know
the feeling of having a baby</i>

1450
01:13:50,717 --> 01:13:52,136
<i>"come out of my gut.</i>

1451
01:13:52,136 --> 01:13:54,304
<i>"I have a baby and then
you send him off to war.</i>

1452
01:13:54,304 --> 01:13:56,640
<i>No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."</i>

1453
01:13:57,099 --> 01:13:58,892
<i>Miss Kitt stopped for breath</i>

1454
01:13:58,892 --> 01:14:01,145
<i>to a stunned silence in the room.</i>

1455
01:14:01,145 --> 01:14:03,272
♪

1456
01:14:03,272 --> 01:14:04,982
EARTHA: <i>One woman who was
sitting to my right,</i>

1457
01:14:04,982 --> 01:14:07,526
<i>she said, "Thank you, Eartha,
for saying what you've said,</i>

1458
01:14:08,235 --> 01:14:09,736
<i>"we all feel the same way</i>

1459
01:14:09,736 --> 01:14:13,615
<i>"but unfortunately 75 percent
of the women in this room</i>

1460
01:14:13,615 --> 01:14:16,326
<i>husbands work for President Johnson."</i>

1461
01:14:17,161 --> 01:14:19,746
LADY BIRD: <i>I stood very composed, I think,</i>

1462
01:14:19,746 --> 01:14:22,291
<i>and said goodbye
to everyone who came along.</i>

1463
01:14:22,291 --> 01:14:24,209
♪

1464
01:14:25,002 --> 01:14:27,671
Protest was back outside
the White House today

1465
01:14:27,671 --> 01:14:30,841
after scoring a resounding blow inside.

1466
01:14:30,841 --> 01:14:33,927
These women are marching
in support of Eartha Kitt,

1467
01:14:33,927 --> 01:14:36,346
<i>whose outburst at a White House
luncheon yesterday</i>

1468
01:14:36,346 --> 01:14:39,683
<i>against the war, taxes,
and the alienation of youth</i>

1469
01:14:39,683 --> 01:14:42,227
<i>drew attention rivaling
the standard responses</i>

1470
01:14:42,227 --> 01:14:43,854
<i>to the State of the Union.</i>

1471
01:14:44,646 --> 01:14:46,648
{\an8}<i>Miss Kitt succeeded where picketers</i>

1472
01:14:46,648 --> 01:14:48,817
{\an8}<i>and political opponents have failed,</i>

1473
01:14:48,817 --> 01:14:51,862
and bringing dissent
directly to the first family.

1474
01:14:51,862 --> 01:14:56,950
♪

1475
01:14:56,950 --> 01:14:58,327
NEWSCASTER: <i>The communists had launched</i>

1476
01:14:58,327 --> 01:15:01,121
<i>a massive New Year's
offensive late in January.</i>

1477
01:15:01,705 --> 01:15:03,290
<i>Martial law was declared by</i>

1478
01:15:03,290 --> 01:15:05,083
<i>South Vietnamese President Thieu.</i>

1479
01:15:06,001 --> 01:15:07,336
WALTER CRONKITE: <i>Who won and who lost</i>

1480
01:15:07,336 --> 01:15:10,130
<i>in the great Tet Offensive
against the cities?</i>

1481
01:15:10,130 --> 01:15:11,381
<i>I'm not sure.</i>

1482
01:15:11,381 --> 01:15:13,675
<i>The Viet Cong did not win by a knockout,</i>

1483
01:15:13,675 --> 01:15:15,093
<i>but neither did we.</i>

1484
01:15:15,093 --> 01:15:18,555
<i>The referees of history
may make it a draw.</i>

1485
01:15:18,555 --> 01:15:20,807
It seems now more certain than ever

1486
01:15:20,807 --> 01:15:23,018
that the bloody experience of Vietnam

1487
01:15:23,018 --> 01:15:25,229
is to end in a stalemate.

1488
01:15:25,229 --> 01:15:27,189
<i>And with each escalation,</i>

1489
01:15:27,189 --> 01:15:28,649
<i>the world comes closer</i>

1490
01:15:28,649 --> 01:15:30,400
<i>to the brink of cosmic disaster.</i>

1491
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:32,444
♪

1492
01:15:32,444 --> 01:15:35,405
<i>It is increasingly clear to this reporter</i>

1493
01:15:35,405 --> 01:15:38,367
<i>that the only rational way out then</i>

1494
01:15:38,367 --> 01:15:41,495
will be to negotiate, not as victims,

1495
01:15:41,495 --> 01:15:44,623
but as an honorable people
who lived up to their pledge

1496
01:15:44,623 --> 01:15:48,585
to defend democracy
and did the best they could.

1497
01:15:49,378 --> 01:15:51,338
This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.

1498
01:15:51,338 --> 01:15:52,923
♪

1499
01:15:52,923 --> 01:15:54,424
{\an8}(indistinct chatter)

1500
01:16:01,848 --> 01:16:04,351
I am announcing today my candidacy

1501
01:16:05,185 --> 01:16:07,771
for the presidency of the United States.

1502
01:16:08,939 --> 01:16:12,192
I do not run for the presidency
merely to oppose any man,

1503
01:16:12,734 --> 01:16:14,403
but to propose new policies.

1504
01:16:15,737 --> 01:16:17,823
I run because I am convinced

1505
01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:20,742
that this country is on a perilous course

1506
01:16:21,702 --> 01:16:24,037
and because I have such strong feelings

1507
01:16:24,746 --> 01:16:26,331
about what must be done

1508
01:16:27,541 --> 01:16:29,084
and I feel that I am obliged

1509
01:16:29,876 --> 01:16:31,545
to do all that I can.

1510
01:16:33,213 --> 01:16:36,550
Finally my decision reflects
no personal animosity

1511
01:16:36,550 --> 01:16:40,470
or disrespect towards President Johnson.

1512
01:16:41,305 --> 01:16:44,057
{\an8}I am required now
to permit the entry of my name

1513
01:16:44,057 --> 01:16:46,101
{\an8}into the California primary.

1514
01:16:54,318 --> 01:16:57,070
Mr. President, how does it
affect the commander in chief,

1515
01:16:57,070 --> 01:16:58,989
so to speak, to know
that his new son-in-law

1516
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:00,324
is going off to war?

1517
01:17:05,829 --> 01:17:07,164
Well, I guess that, uh,

1518
01:17:07,831 --> 01:17:10,208
you're glad that you have a son-in-law

1519
01:17:10,208 --> 01:17:13,629
that has had the training several years

1520
01:17:13,629 --> 01:17:16,340
<i>in an elite group like the Marines,</i>

1521
01:17:16,882 --> 01:17:18,925
<i>who is prepared and equipped</i>

1522
01:17:18,925 --> 01:17:21,637
<i>to look after his country's interests.</i>

1523
01:17:22,596 --> 01:17:23,805
(inaudible)

1524
01:17:24,389 --> 01:17:28,644
I, uh, feel that way
about all the Marine Corps

1525
01:17:28,644 --> 01:17:31,772
and the boys in the other services, too.

1526
01:17:32,773 --> 01:17:33,732
♪

1527
01:17:33,732 --> 01:17:35,525
LADY BIRD: <i>Sunday, March the 31st</i>

1528
01:17:35,525 --> 01:17:39,237
<i>Lynda was coming in on the red-eye special
from California,</i>

1529
01:17:39,237 --> 01:17:43,325
<i>after having kissed
Chuck goodbye the night before.</i>

1530
01:17:43,325 --> 01:17:44,868
<i>She looked like a ghost.</i>

1531
01:17:46,620 --> 01:17:48,455
<i>She said "Mother, they were awful.</i>

1532
01:17:48,455 --> 01:17:51,375
<i>They kept on pushing
and shoving to get to us."</i>

1533
01:17:51,375 --> 01:17:52,668
<i>She meant the press.</i>

1534
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:56,713
REPORTER: Captain, how soon do you expect
to be in combat?

1535
01:17:56,713 --> 01:17:58,632
LADY BIRD: <i>And there were lots
of other wives there</i>

1536
01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:00,550
<i>saying goodbye to their husbands.</i>

1537
01:18:00,550 --> 01:18:08,308
♪

1538
01:18:08,308 --> 01:18:11,478
<i>I took her into her room
and she went to bed.</i>

1539
01:18:11,478 --> 01:18:14,231
♪

1540
01:18:14,231 --> 01:18:17,442
<i>And I went into Lyndon's room
he was crying.</i>

1541
01:18:18,068 --> 01:18:20,987
<i>It's the first time
since Mrs. Johnson died</i>

1542
01:18:20,987 --> 01:18:22,948
<i>that I have seen him cry.</i>

1543
01:18:23,949 --> 01:18:26,618
<i>But he didn't have time to cry.</i>

1544
01:18:26,618 --> 01:18:28,286
<i>At nine o'clock in the evening</i>

1545
01:18:28,286 --> 01:18:30,956
<i>he was to make his talk on the war.</i>

1546
01:18:31,665 --> 01:18:34,126
And I can't see where a period is or not.

1547
01:18:35,252 --> 01:18:37,671
Uh, the step for him is
I just have to go on.

1548
01:18:37,671 --> 01:18:39,756
We have to do it.
We can't change it, but it's--

1549
01:18:39,756 --> 01:18:42,592
LADY BIRD: <i>I had spent a good
part of Saturday</i>

1550
01:18:42,592 --> 01:18:44,094
<i>working on it myself.</i>

1551
01:18:44,094 --> 01:18:47,180
<i>I felt quite positive
about my few changes.</i>

1552
01:18:47,180 --> 01:18:50,642
♪

1553
01:18:50,642 --> 01:18:52,561
(indistinct chatter)

1554
01:18:53,270 --> 01:18:54,604
LADY BIRD: <i>Lyndon came in.</i>

1555
01:18:54,604 --> 01:18:56,189
<i>I went to him and said quietly,</i>

1556
01:18:56,189 --> 01:18:58,233
<i>"Pacing and drama."</i>

1557
01:18:58,233 --> 01:19:01,778
<i>And I did not know what the end would be.</i>

1558
01:19:03,613 --> 01:19:05,866
Good evening, my fellow Americans,

1559
01:19:06,658 --> 01:19:09,077
tonight I want to speak to you

1560
01:19:10,162 --> 01:19:13,039
of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

1561
01:19:13,790 --> 01:19:15,667
♪

1562
01:19:15,667 --> 01:19:18,295
LADY BIRD: <i>It was magnificently delivered,</i>

1563
01:19:18,295 --> 01:19:19,921
<i>his best I think.</i>

1564
01:19:20,464 --> 01:19:23,967
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: <i>With American sons in
the fields far away,</i>

1565
01:19:23,967 --> 01:19:26,887
<i>with our hopes and the world's hopes</i>

1566
01:19:26,887 --> 01:19:29,973
for peace in the balance every day,

1567
01:19:31,057 --> 01:19:32,517
I do not believe

1568
01:19:33,685 --> 01:19:36,855
that I should devote an hour
or a day of my time

1569
01:19:37,939 --> 01:19:41,193
to any personal partisan causes

1570
01:19:41,193 --> 01:19:47,282
or to any duties
other than the awesome duties

1571
01:19:48,033 --> 01:19:49,576
of this office,

1572
01:19:49,576 --> 01:19:53,079
the presidency of your country.

1573
01:19:53,705 --> 01:19:54,998
Accordingly,

1574
01:19:56,666 --> 01:19:58,210
I shall not seek,

1575
01:20:00,086 --> 01:20:01,588
and I will not accept,

1576
01:20:02,798 --> 01:20:06,927
the nomination of my party
for another term as your President.

1577
01:20:07,344 --> 01:20:08,887
Thank you for listening.

1578
01:20:09,513 --> 01:20:12,390
Good night and God bless all of you.

1579
01:20:14,684 --> 01:20:18,063
LADY BIRD: <i>At last the decision
had been reached and stated.</i>

1580
01:20:18,063 --> 01:20:21,441
<i>And as well as any human can,
I knew our future.</i>

1581
01:20:21,441 --> 01:20:23,610
<i>I rose to my feet and went to him</i>

1582
01:20:23,610 --> 01:20:26,029
<i>and threw my arms around him
and kissed him.</i>

1583
01:20:27,155 --> 01:20:29,157
<i>It had been nobly done.</i>

1584
01:20:29,157 --> 01:20:30,992
<i>And almost in its way,</i>

1585
01:20:30,992 --> 01:20:34,496
<i>as dramatic as our entrance into this job.</i>

1586
01:20:34,496 --> 01:20:38,583
<i>Although the actual exit
is still nine months away.</i>

1587
01:20:38,583 --> 01:20:41,628
(indistinct chatter)

1588
01:20:41,628 --> 01:20:43,046
♪

1589
01:20:43,046 --> 01:20:45,549
LADY BIRD: <i>Thursday, April 4th.</i>

1590
01:20:45,549 --> 01:20:48,051
<i>I asked Lyndon
about his meeting with Kennedy,</i>

1591
01:20:48,051 --> 01:20:50,762
<i>he said Sorensen had accompanied him</i>

1592
01:20:50,762 --> 01:20:52,305
<i>and that they wanted Lyndon
to support them.</i>

1593
01:20:52,305 --> 01:20:53,390
(inaudible)

1594
01:20:53,974 --> 01:20:56,393
LADY BIRD: <i>Bobby said he wanted
to maintain the position</i>

1595
01:20:56,393 --> 01:20:58,103
<i>of unifying the country,</i>

1596
01:20:58,103 --> 01:20:59,855
<i>but he felt perfectly free</i>

1597
01:20:59,855 --> 01:21:02,524
<i>to express his feelings
in any way he saw fit.</i>

1598
01:21:03,567 --> 01:21:06,778
<i>Lyndon said he had
never seen such arrogance.</i>

1599
01:21:08,321 --> 01:21:09,990
<i>Then I went downstairs with Liz,</i>

1600
01:21:09,990 --> 01:21:11,741
<i>we worked on the Texas trip.</i>

1601
01:21:12,284 --> 01:21:15,412
<i>Seldom has there been a trip
I looked forward more to.</i>

1602
01:21:15,412 --> 01:21:19,249
<i>I have a passion for
showing foreigners our country,</i>

1603
01:21:19,249 --> 01:21:21,543
<i>and showing them our home.</i>

1604
01:21:22,669 --> 01:21:26,006
<i>It was some time while
Mr. Pierre was fixing my hair,</i>

1605
01:21:26,131 --> 01:21:28,341
<i>and Lynda Bird had been
listening to the TV,</i>

1606
01:21:28,341 --> 01:21:30,468
<i>that she came flying into my room.</i>

1607
01:21:30,468 --> 01:21:33,138
<i>"Mama, mama. Dr. King's been shot."</i>

1608
01:21:33,889 --> 01:21:35,140
<i>And from that moment on,</i>

1609
01:21:35,140 --> 01:21:38,143
<i>the evening assumed a nightmare quality.</i>

1610
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:41,438
I have some very sad news for all of you.

1611
01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:43,690
Martin Luther King was shot

1612
01:21:43,690 --> 01:21:45,734
and was killed tonight
in Memphis, Tennessee.

1613
01:21:45,734 --> 01:21:47,569
(screaming)

1614
01:21:47,569 --> 01:21:49,029
♪

1615
01:21:49,029 --> 01:21:51,239
LADY BIRD: <i>If we were silent,
the TV was not,</i>

1616
01:21:51,865 --> 01:21:53,408
<i>it blared constantly.</i>

1617
01:21:53,408 --> 01:21:55,577
The nation has not known such shock

1618
01:21:55,577 --> 01:21:57,245
nor has it been so stunned

1619
01:21:57,245 --> 01:21:59,414
since the assassination
of President Kennedy.

1620
01:21:59,414 --> 01:22:01,917
LADY BIRD: <i>Everybody's mind
began racing off</i>

1621
01:22:01,917 --> 01:22:04,794
<i>in its own direction
as to what this would mean,</i>

1622
01:22:04,794 --> 01:22:07,130
<i>to racial violence in our country,</i>

1623
01:22:07,130 --> 01:22:09,925
<i>to the work of so many
to try to bring us together.</i>

1624
01:22:09,925 --> 01:22:11,051
♪

1625
01:22:11,051 --> 01:22:12,844
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: I ask every citizen

1626
01:22:13,762 --> 01:22:16,264
to reject the blind violence

1627
01:22:17,098 --> 01:22:18,892
that has struck Dr. King,

1628
01:22:19,726 --> 01:22:22,771
who lived by non-violence.

1629
01:22:22,771 --> 01:22:24,272
♪

1630
01:22:24,272 --> 01:22:26,399
I pray that his family

1631
01:22:26,399 --> 01:22:29,319
can find comfort in the memory

1632
01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:33,949
of all he tried to do for
the land he loved so well.

1633
01:22:34,532 --> 01:22:35,825
(siren wailing)

1634
01:22:35,825 --> 01:22:37,911
♪

1635
01:22:37,911 --> 01:22:41,164
LADY BIRD: <i>Friday, April 5th,
I was up early.</i>

1636
01:22:41,164 --> 01:22:42,791
<i>Probably not to anybody in the city</i>

1637
01:22:42,791 --> 01:22:43,875
<i>was it a restful night.</i>

1638
01:22:43,875 --> 01:22:46,628
♪

1639
01:22:47,629 --> 01:22:49,798
<i>I went into Lyndon's room for coffee.</i>

1640
01:22:49,798 --> 01:22:52,676
<i>He was still firm in
his feeling that I should go.</i>

1641
01:22:53,969 --> 01:22:57,305
<i>Liz called and I told her it was on.</i>

1642
01:22:57,305 --> 01:22:59,391
<i>We both recognized we'd have
to make some changes</i>

1643
01:22:59,391 --> 01:23:00,600
<i>in the speeches,</i>

1644
01:23:01,226 --> 01:23:03,436
<i>the world had changed overnight.</i>

1645
01:23:03,436 --> 01:23:05,981
♪

1646
01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:09,442
<i>I put out my hand and met
all the foreign correspondents,</i>

1647
01:23:09,442 --> 01:23:12,696
<i>thirty-eight from
thirteen European countries.</i>

1648
01:23:13,571 --> 01:23:16,074
<i>I sensed the feeling of uncertainty,</i>

1649
01:23:16,074 --> 01:23:17,450
<i>tension in the air.</i>

1650
01:23:17,450 --> 01:23:19,160
♪

1651
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:22,414
<i>As soon as we were aloft
I went to the PA system,</i>

1652
01:23:22,414 --> 01:23:25,000
<i>and in a quiet, serious voice said,</i>

1653
01:23:25,792 --> 01:23:28,211
<i>"We travel with a heavier heart today</i>

1654
01:23:28,211 --> 01:23:30,755
<i>because of the tragedy
of Dr. King's death."</i>

1655
01:23:31,631 --> 01:23:34,968
<i>And then I put it behind me
with a change of tone,</i>

1656
01:23:34,968 --> 01:23:38,138
<i>and welcomed them on a journey
to the part of our country</i>

1657
01:23:38,138 --> 01:23:39,431
<i>that I know best.</i>

1658
01:23:41,099 --> 01:23:43,309
CARMICHAEL: <i>When white America
killed Dr. King last night,</i>

1659
01:23:43,309 --> 01:23:46,730
<i>she opened the eyes of every
Black man in this country.</i>

1660
01:23:46,730 --> 01:23:49,816
<i>When White America killed
Dr. King last night,</i>

1661
01:23:50,734 --> 01:23:52,652
{\an8}she declared war on us.

1662
01:23:52,652 --> 01:23:55,280
♪

1663
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:57,907
LADY BIRD: <i>Talked to Washington, to Lynda.</i>

1664
01:23:57,907 --> 01:24:00,285
<i>She said the White House
was like a fortress,</i>

1665
01:24:00,285 --> 01:24:02,787
<i>nobody gets out, nobody gets in.</i>

1666
01:24:02,787 --> 01:24:04,080
(sirens wailing)

1667
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:06,291
NEWSCASTER: <i>Washington, Chicago, Detroit,</i>

1668
01:24:06,416 --> 01:24:08,835
<i>Boston, New York, these are
just a few `of the cities</i>

1669
01:24:08,835 --> 01:24:12,005
in which the Negro anguish
over Dr. King's murder,

1670
01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:13,840
presumably by a White man,

1671
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:16,134
expressed itself in violent destruction.

1672
01:24:24,309 --> 01:24:26,186
WALTER E. WASHINGTON: <i>This is
a part of the confrontation</i>

1673
01:24:26,186 --> 01:24:27,729
<i>that's unfortunate.</i>

1674
01:24:27,729 --> 01:24:30,774
<i>The most tragic death of
this great humanitarian has</i>

1675
01:24:31,441 --> 01:24:33,902
{\an8}brought, uh, brought disorder to a head.

1676
01:24:33,902 --> 01:24:41,493
♪

1677
01:24:43,161 --> 01:24:45,955
President Johnson has made
some unprecedented strides

1678
01:24:45,955 --> 01:24:47,665
in the direction of human equality

1679
01:24:47,665 --> 01:24:49,959
and he is deeply hurt by what he considers

1680
01:24:49,959 --> 01:24:51,920
unjustified criticism.

1681
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:53,880
In less than four years he has signed

1682
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,633
three landmark
civil rights bills into law.

1683
01:24:56,633 --> 01:24:59,302
He named Negroes to the Supreme Court,
then to the Cabinet

1684
01:24:59,302 --> 01:25:01,012
for the first time in our history.

1685
01:25:01,012 --> 01:25:03,890
And he chose a Negro to be
the first mayor of Washington.

1686
01:25:03,890 --> 01:25:05,391
But for all of his efforts,

1687
01:25:05,391 --> 01:25:07,894
there was something missing
in this total performance

1688
01:25:07,894 --> 01:25:10,855
that failed to prevent
the drifting apart of the races.

1689
01:25:10,855 --> 01:25:14,025
CROWD: (chanting) We want Kennedy!
We want Kennedy!

1690
01:25:14,025 --> 01:25:15,902
Thank you very much.

1691
01:25:15,902 --> 01:25:17,278
CROWD: We want Kennedy!

1692
01:25:17,278 --> 01:25:18,905
ROBERT F. KENNEDY: Thank you very much.

1693
01:25:18,905 --> 01:25:20,740
What I think is quite clear is,

1694
01:25:21,658 --> 01:25:24,452
is that we can work together
in the last analysis.

1695
01:25:24,452 --> 01:25:26,830
And what has been going on
within the United States

1696
01:25:26,830 --> 01:25:28,456
over the period of the last three years,

1697
01:25:28,456 --> 01:25:31,000
the divisions whether
it's between Blacks and Whites,

1698
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:32,877
between the poor and the more affluent,

1699
01:25:32,877 --> 01:25:34,462
or on the war in Vietnam,

1700
01:25:34,462 --> 01:25:35,880
that we can start to work together,

1701
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:38,466
we are a great country
and a selfish country

1702
01:25:38,466 --> 01:25:40,009
and a compassionate country,

1703
01:25:40,009 --> 01:25:42,679
and I intend to make
that my basis for running

1704
01:25:42,679 --> 01:25:44,097
over the period of the next few months.

1705
01:25:44,097 --> 01:25:45,181
(cheering)

1706
01:25:45,181 --> 01:25:46,391
My thanks to all of you,

1707
01:25:46,391 --> 01:25:47,851
and now it is on to Chicago,

1708
01:25:47,851 --> 01:25:49,477
and let's win this. Thank you very much.

1709
01:25:49,477 --> 01:25:52,522
(cheering)

1710
01:25:54,691 --> 01:25:56,484
LADY BIRD: <i>Wednesday, June 5th.</i>

1711
01:25:56,484 --> 01:25:58,278
<i>It had been a short night.</i>

1712
01:25:58,278 --> 01:26:01,531
<i>The phone jarred me awake
from a deep sleep.</i>

1713
01:26:01,531 --> 01:26:05,076
<i>It was Lyndon saying tersely,
"Will you come in here?"</i>

1714
01:26:05,076 --> 01:26:07,537
<i>He was propped up against
the pillows in his room,</i>

1715
01:26:07,537 --> 01:26:09,289
<i>looking as though
he had never been to sleep,</i>

1716
01:26:09,289 --> 01:26:11,332
<i>and all the TV sets were on.</i>

1717
01:26:11,332 --> 01:26:14,043
<i>And I realized at once
something was happening.</i>

1718
01:26:14,043 --> 01:26:17,172
<i>I am not sure whether I heard
it first from the TV set</i>

1719
01:26:17,172 --> 01:26:18,798
<i>or from Lyndon.</i>

1720
01:26:18,798 --> 01:26:20,758
<i>Senator Kennedy had been shot.</i>

1721
01:26:21,593 --> 01:26:24,971
<i>There was an air of unreality
about the whole thing.</i>

1722
01:26:24,971 --> 01:26:26,306
<i>"It couldn't be.</i>

1723
01:26:26,306 --> 01:26:28,766
<i>You dreamed it. It had happened before."</i>

1724
01:26:28,766 --> 01:26:31,186
♪

1725
01:26:31,186 --> 01:26:32,812
<i>He had been celebrating the victory</i>

1726
01:26:32,812 --> 01:26:34,647
<i>in the California primaries.</i>

1727
01:26:35,523 --> 01:26:37,025
<i>The whole thing had taken place</i>

1728
01:26:37,025 --> 01:26:39,485
<i>under the eye of a television camera.</i>

1729
01:26:39,485 --> 01:26:42,697
(overlapping chatter)

1730
01:26:42,697 --> 01:26:44,365
We need a doctor here!

1731
01:26:45,033 --> 01:26:47,744
MAN: What happened? Do you know?
Somebody said he's been shot.

1732
01:26:47,744 --> 01:26:49,287
♪

1733
01:26:49,287 --> 01:26:50,538
LADY BIRD: <i>Faces of the television</i>

1734
01:26:50,538 --> 01:26:52,916
<i>kept repeating their hideous story.</i>

1735
01:26:52,916 --> 01:26:55,668
<i>The senator was going in
for brain surgery.</i>

1736
01:26:55,668 --> 01:26:58,004
<i>It had been determined
that the bullet had lodged</i>

1737
01:26:58,004 --> 01:27:00,423
<i>somewhere behind the ear.</i>

1738
01:27:01,341 --> 01:27:04,177
<i>All day long, I had heard
this cacophony over and over</i>

1739
01:27:04,177 --> 01:27:06,763
<i>of the reactions of people questioned.</i>

1740
01:27:07,222 --> 01:27:08,848
<i>What is our country coming to?</i>

1741
01:27:09,307 --> 01:27:10,683
<i>What is happening to us?</i>

1742
01:27:11,184 --> 01:27:12,977
<i>Are we a sick society?</i>

1743
01:27:12,977 --> 01:27:16,856
♪

1744
01:27:16,856 --> 01:27:19,484
FRANK MANKIEWICZ: I have a
short announcement to read.

1745
01:27:22,362 --> 01:27:24,155
{\an8}Senator Robert Francis Kennedy

1746
01:27:25,573 --> 01:27:30,286
died at 1:44 a.m. today,

1747
01:27:31,955 --> 01:27:35,792
June 6, 1968.

1748
01:27:36,793 --> 01:27:39,254
♪

1749
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:40,797
LADY BIRD: <i>Saturday, June 8th,</i>

1750
01:27:40,797 --> 01:27:42,048
<i>was a day for me,</i>

1751
01:27:42,048 --> 01:27:44,717
<i>completely detached from the normal,</i>

1752
01:27:44,717 --> 01:27:48,638
<i>a capsule of time
suspended in unreality...</i>

1753
01:27:48,638 --> 01:27:50,348
(bells tolling)

1754
01:27:50,348 --> 01:27:52,517
<i>...the burial of Senator Bobby Kennedy.</i>

1755
01:27:52,517 --> 01:27:59,816
♪

1756
01:27:59,816 --> 01:28:02,527
EDWARD M. KENNEDY: To be remembered
simply as a good and decent man,

1757
01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:04,696
who saw wrong and tried to right it,

1758
01:28:06,197 --> 01:28:08,074
saw suffering and tried to heal it,

1759
01:28:09,367 --> 01:28:11,661
saw war and tried to stop it.

1760
01:28:11,661 --> 01:28:13,538
♪

1761
01:28:13,538 --> 01:28:15,415
LADY BIRD: <i>One of the Catholic
dignitaries came</i>

1762
01:28:15,415 --> 01:28:18,918
<i>and leaned over to tell Lyndon
that he should leave first.</i>

1763
01:28:18,918 --> 01:28:21,546
<i>And then we walked to the right
past the front row,</i>

1764
01:28:21,546 --> 01:28:24,090
<i>where all the Kennedy family was seated</i>

1765
01:28:24,090 --> 01:28:26,801
<i>and stopped to speak first to Ethel,</i>

1766
01:28:26,801 --> 01:28:30,138
<i>whose face was beautiful, sad, composed.</i>

1767
01:28:30,138 --> 01:28:33,057
<i>And she said, to Lyndon, very simply,</i>

1768
01:28:33,057 --> 01:28:34,642
<i>"You've been so kind."</i>

1769
01:28:35,768 --> 01:28:39,439
<i>And then I found myself in front of
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.</i>

1770
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:42,066
<i>I called her name and put out my hand.</i>

1771
01:28:43,026 --> 01:28:45,653
<i>She looked at me as though
from a great distance,</i>

1772
01:28:45,653 --> 01:28:47,780
<i>as though I were an apparition.</i>

1773
01:28:48,489 --> 01:28:50,992
<i>I felt extreme hostility.</i>

1774
01:28:50,992 --> 01:28:52,952
<i>Was it because I was alive?</i>

1775
01:28:53,870 --> 01:28:56,372
<i>At last, without a flicker of expression,</i>

1776
01:28:56,372 --> 01:28:58,916
<i>she extended her hand very slightly.</i>

1777
01:28:58,916 --> 01:29:02,587
<i>I took it with
some murmured word of sorrow</i>

1778
01:29:02,587 --> 01:29:04,339
<i>and walked on quickly.</i>

1779
01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:05,923
♪

1780
01:29:05,923 --> 01:29:07,884
<i>It was somehow shocking.</i>

1781
01:29:08,676 --> 01:29:12,764
<i>Never in any contact with her
before had I experienced this.</i>

1782
01:29:12,764 --> 01:29:16,059
♪

1783
01:29:16,059 --> 01:29:18,436
<i>We were back at the White House by 11:00.</i>

1784
01:29:18,436 --> 01:29:20,980
<i>Tomorrow would be a day of mourning,</i>

1785
01:29:20,980 --> 01:29:22,440
<i>as Lyndon had proclaimed.</i>

1786
01:29:22,440 --> 01:29:26,069
<i>And Monday we would all make a new start.</i>

1787
01:29:26,069 --> 01:29:31,699
♪

1788
01:29:31,824 --> 01:29:33,951
<i>Tuesday, August the 27th,</i>

1789
01:29:33,951 --> 01:29:35,870
<i>Lyndon's 60th birthday.</i>

1790
01:29:35,870 --> 01:29:37,705
♪

1791
01:29:37,705 --> 01:29:40,083
<i>There had been talk about
going to the convention</i>

1792
01:29:40,083 --> 01:29:42,335
<i>to make a sort of a Valedictory speech.</i>

1793
01:29:42,335 --> 01:29:43,628
(indistinct chanting)

1794
01:29:43,628 --> 01:29:45,254
LADY BIRD: <i>When the convention virtually</i>

1795
01:29:45,254 --> 01:29:46,672
<i>erupted on Monday,</i>

1796
01:29:46,672 --> 01:29:48,591
<i>the chances of our making the trip</i>

1797
01:29:48,591 --> 01:29:50,259
<i>dwindled to almost nothing.</i>

1798
01:29:50,259 --> 01:29:52,762
♪

1799
01:29:52,762 --> 01:29:54,597
NEWSCASTER: <i>The Youth International Party,</i>

1800
01:29:54,597 --> 01:29:56,099
<i>Yippies they call themselves,</i>

1801
01:29:56,099 --> 01:29:57,809
<i>converged on Chicago</i>

1802
01:29:57,809 --> 01:29:59,060
<i>to protest the war,</i>

1803
01:29:59,060 --> 01:30:01,646
<i>poverty, racism, and other social ills.</i>

1804
01:30:01,646 --> 01:30:03,523
(clamoring)

1805
01:30:03,523 --> 01:30:04,982
COMMENTATOR: <i>This may be the last</i>

1806
01:30:04,982 --> 01:30:07,652
<i>of the old style ritualistic
political convention.</i>

1807
01:30:08,319 --> 01:30:10,071
<i>It may also be the end
of the Democratic Party</i>

1808
01:30:10,071 --> 01:30:12,031
<i>as we have known it since Roosevelt.</i>

1809
01:30:12,657 --> 01:30:15,326
LADY BIRD: <i>The world is
undergoing convulsions</i>

1810
01:30:15,326 --> 01:30:16,411
<i>all around us.</i>

1811
01:30:16,411 --> 01:30:17,787
<i>Our party,</i>

1812
01:30:17,787 --> 01:30:20,748
<i>our country, the whole world.</i>

1813
01:30:21,582 --> 01:30:23,918
♪

1814
01:30:23,918 --> 01:30:27,547
<i>And so, we go on to this strange year,</i>

1815
01:30:27,547 --> 01:30:30,299
<i>and personally, it is a happy year,</i>

1816
01:30:30,299 --> 01:30:32,844
<i>within the close circle of our family</i>

1817
01:30:32,844 --> 01:30:34,679
<i>because I think we are proud</i>

1818
01:30:34,679 --> 01:30:37,014
<i>of what each one of us is doing,</i>

1819
01:30:37,014 --> 01:30:38,433
<i>all of us together.</i>

1820
01:30:38,433 --> 01:30:40,601
<i>How strange that might sound</i>

1821
01:30:40,601 --> 01:30:42,770
<i>from somebody on the outside</i>

1822
01:30:42,770 --> 01:30:44,313
<i>who is looking at us.</i>

1823
01:30:44,897 --> 01:30:48,568
<i>Lynda lets us read her letters from Chuck.</i>

1824
01:30:49,110 --> 01:30:51,946
<i>She holds her personal life close.</i>

1825
01:30:51,946 --> 01:30:54,407
<i>She flinches when her daddy quotes him.</i>

1826
01:30:55,199 --> 01:30:58,119
<i>Lyndon is plowing right along,</i>

1827
01:30:58,119 --> 01:31:00,663
<i>working as hard as he can every day</i>

1828
01:31:00,663 --> 01:31:03,332
<i>on those things he can control.</i>

1829
01:31:04,667 --> 01:31:07,753
<i>Sometimes I think the
greatest courage in the world</i>

1830
01:31:07,753 --> 01:31:12,884
<i>is to get up in the morning
and go about the day's work.</i>

1831
01:31:12,884 --> 01:31:15,344
<i>That is one of the things
I like about him,</i>

1832
01:31:15,344 --> 01:31:18,514
<i>he keeps on and on and on.</i>

1833
01:31:18,514 --> 01:31:20,349
(inaudible)

1834
01:31:20,349 --> 01:31:22,477
(indistinct conversations)

1835
01:31:25,354 --> 01:31:28,232
LADY BIRD: <i>This last of the three
annual beautification luncheons</i>

1836
01:31:28,232 --> 01:31:31,444
<i>means more to me
than nearly any social event.</i>

1837
01:31:31,444 --> 01:31:34,363
<i>It was one of the biggest days
I have ever spent.</i>

1838
01:31:34,989 --> 01:31:36,866
<i>We went out the southwest gate,</i>

1839
01:31:37,700 --> 01:31:40,328
<i>and then one of my prides and joys,</i>

1840
01:31:40,328 --> 01:31:42,163
<i>the great masses of azaleas</i>

1841
01:31:42,163 --> 01:31:46,167
<i>that were planted fall of '65
along Pennsylvania Avenue.</i>

1842
01:31:46,167 --> 01:31:48,044
<i>A major entrance to the city,</i>

1843
01:31:48,044 --> 01:31:51,881
<i>a big shot in the arm
to a decaying business area.</i>

1844
01:31:51,881 --> 01:31:53,257
♪

1845
01:31:53,257 --> 01:31:55,426
Since our committee
for a more beautiful capitol

1846
01:31:55,426 --> 01:31:58,054
was formed a little over three years ago,

1847
01:31:58,054 --> 01:31:59,931
we have devoted particular attention

1848
01:31:59,931 --> 01:32:02,600
<i>to improving the physical surroundings</i>

1849
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:04,977
<i>of public schools in the city.</i>

1850
01:32:07,146 --> 01:32:10,525
<i>Children will respond affirmatively</i>

1851
01:32:10,525 --> 01:32:12,735
<i>to improvements that they can see</i>

1852
01:32:12,735 --> 01:32:15,613
<i>and touch and take part in.</i>

1853
01:32:15,613 --> 01:32:17,865
♪

1854
01:32:17,865 --> 01:32:20,368
{\an8}WALTER E. WASHINGTON:
<i>Her heritage as First Lady</i>

1855
01:32:20,368 --> 01:32:23,246
{\an8}<i>ends not in Beautification, per se,</i>

1856
01:32:23,246 --> 01:32:26,082
{\an8}<i>it's in communication,</i>

1857
01:32:26,082 --> 01:32:29,460
<i>it's in the desire to identify</i>

1858
01:32:29,460 --> 01:32:31,921
<i>a human being with his environment.</i>

1859
01:32:32,421 --> 01:32:34,257
LADY BIRD: <i>As you may know, my concern</i>

1860
01:32:34,257 --> 01:32:38,052
<i>has been expressed in an effort
called Beautification.</i>

1861
01:32:38,052 --> 01:32:41,180
<i>I think you also know what lies beneath</i>

1862
01:32:41,180 --> 01:32:43,724
<i>that rather inadequate word.</i>

1863
01:32:43,724 --> 01:32:45,977
<i>For beautification, to my mind,</i>

1864
01:32:45,977 --> 01:32:49,313
<i>is far more than a matter of cosmetics.</i>

1865
01:32:49,313 --> 01:32:51,607
<i>To me, it describes the whole effort</i>

1866
01:32:51,607 --> 01:32:53,484
<i>to bring the natural world</i>

1867
01:32:53,484 --> 01:32:56,362
<i>and the man-made world into harmony,</i>

1868
01:32:56,362 --> 01:32:58,656
<i>and that of course only begins with trees</i>

1869
01:32:58,656 --> 01:33:01,284
<i>and flowers and landscaping.</i>

1870
01:33:02,076 --> 01:33:04,287
<i>This has been
one of the most lovely springs</i>

1871
01:33:04,287 --> 01:33:06,956
<i>I can remember in Washington's history.</i>

1872
01:33:06,956 --> 01:33:10,543
{\an8}<i>It has also been one of the
most poignant and grave.</i>

1873
01:33:11,711 --> 01:33:14,922
<i>That fact underscores the urgency</i>

1874
01:33:14,922 --> 01:33:18,009
<i>of improving our environment
for all people.</i>

1875
01:33:18,009 --> 01:33:22,221
♪

1876
01:33:24,473 --> 01:33:26,434
<i>Monday, January 20th.</i>

1877
01:33:26,434 --> 01:33:28,227
♪

1878
01:33:28,227 --> 01:33:30,438
<i>I was up early, like when I was a child,</i>

1879
01:33:30,438 --> 01:33:32,023
<i>and it was a day to go to the country fair</i>

1880
01:33:32,023 --> 01:33:33,482
<i>and I didn't wanna miss a thing.</i>

1881
01:33:33,482 --> 01:33:35,318
♪

1882
01:33:35,318 --> 01:33:37,695
<i>The big black car rolled up,</i>

1883
01:33:37,695 --> 01:33:39,739
<i>and out stepped the president-elect,</i>

1884
01:33:39,739 --> 01:33:44,035
<i>and Mrs. Pat in a smashing,
rosy red outfit.</i>

1885
01:33:45,036 --> 01:33:46,829
<i>And then, the funny little business</i>

1886
01:33:46,829 --> 01:33:49,415
<i>about who goes in the door first,</i>

1887
01:33:49,415 --> 01:33:52,918
<i>until I took Pat's arm firmly
and said, "Shall we go in?"</i>

1888
01:33:52,918 --> 01:33:56,797
♪

1889
01:33:56,797 --> 01:33:59,717
<i>Try as I did to soak everything up,</i>

1890
01:33:59,717 --> 01:34:01,844
<i>I cannot remember for sure.</i>

1891
01:34:01,844 --> 01:34:04,055
<i>I think that when Lyndon walked in</i>

1892
01:34:04,055 --> 01:34:06,265
<i>they played</i> Hail to the Chief.

1893
01:34:06,265 --> 01:34:07,933
("Hail to the Chief" playing)

1894
01:34:07,933 --> 01:34:10,353
LADY BIRD: <i>He looked very tall
and handsome `and impressive,</i>

1895
01:34:10,353 --> 01:34:13,064
<i>and very relaxed, too, I thought.</i>

1896
01:34:15,024 --> 01:34:17,485
<i>And finally, the country's new President.</i>

1897
01:34:17,485 --> 01:34:33,834
♪

1898
01:34:33,834 --> 01:34:35,836
<i>The hands of the clock prodded us on.</i>

1899
01:34:36,712 --> 01:34:39,799
<i>We flew over Washington
and landed at Andrews,</i>

1900
01:34:40,633 --> 01:34:42,635
<i>and there was a big crowd,</i>

1901
01:34:42,635 --> 01:34:46,013
<i>lining the fence and drawn up
around Air Force One.</i>

1902
01:34:46,013 --> 01:34:47,640
<i>We mounted the steps,</i>

1903
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:50,434
<i>Lyndon carrying
his faithful companion Lyn.</i>

1904
01:34:50,434 --> 01:34:51,852
♪

1905
01:34:51,852 --> 01:34:55,106
<i>We stopped at the top and turned and waved</i>

1906
01:34:55,106 --> 01:34:58,818
<i>a conscious goodbye tableau.</i>

1907
01:34:58,818 --> 01:35:00,945
♪

1908
01:35:00,945 --> 01:35:03,280
<i>It was a quiet flight down,</i>

1909
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:06,784
<i>and about 5:30 we arrived at Bergstrom.</i>

1910
01:35:06,784 --> 01:35:08,494
♪

1911
01:35:08,494 --> 01:35:10,246
(cheering)

1912
01:35:10,246 --> 01:35:11,956
♪

1913
01:35:11,956 --> 01:35:13,416
LADY BIRD: <i>There was a big sign</i>

1914
01:35:13,416 --> 01:35:15,710
<i>above the base operations that said,</i>

1915
01:35:15,710 --> 01:35:18,629
<i>"Welcome home, Mr. President and family."</i>

1916
01:35:19,505 --> 01:35:25,428
♪

1917
01:35:25,428 --> 01:35:28,389
<i>A little past 9:00, I went to bed,</i>

1918
01:35:28,389 --> 01:35:31,726
<i>with a line of poetry ringing in my mind,</i>

1919
01:35:31,726 --> 01:35:34,478
<i>I think it's from</i> India's Love Lyrics.

1920
01:35:35,646 --> 01:35:37,898
<i>"I celebrate my glad release,</i>

1921
01:35:37,898 --> 01:35:41,193
<i>the tents of silence
and the camp of peace."</i>

1922
01:35:42,319 --> 01:35:45,322
<i>And yet, for me,
it's not quite the exit line,</i>

1923
01:35:45,322 --> 01:35:46,824
<i>because I have loved</i>

1924
01:35:46,824 --> 01:35:50,035
<i>almost every day of these five years.</i>

1925
01:35:50,035 --> 01:35:54,081
♪

1926
01:35:54,081 --> 01:35:55,875
<i>A better go-to-sleep line</i>

1927
01:35:55,875 --> 01:35:59,503
<i>was one of the signs
I had seen today, my favorite,</i>

1928
01:36:00,004 --> 01:36:03,257
<i>"LBJ, You Were Good For The USA."</i>

1929
01:36:03,257 --> 01:36:06,886
♪

1930
01:36:09,138 --> 01:36:11,390
{\an8}(gentle music playing)

1931
01:36:26,572 --> 01:36:28,616
{\an8}I can't keep up with you, that's a fact.

1932
01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:31,619
{\an8}Maybe here comes one I can keep up with.

1933
01:36:32,912 --> 01:36:34,205
{\an8}See these little trees around here,

1934
01:36:34,205 --> 01:36:36,123
{\an8}that one and that one and that one?

1935
01:36:36,123 --> 01:36:37,958
- Uh-huh.
- Those are cypress.

1936
01:36:37,958 --> 01:36:41,420
{\an8}♪

1937
01:36:42,755 --> 01:36:44,590
{\an8}(applause)

1938
01:36:47,927 --> 01:36:49,345
{\an8}(inaudible)

1939
01:36:53,766 --> 01:36:56,310
{\an8}Welcome back, Lady Bird,
it's good to have you home.

1940
01:36:56,310 --> 01:36:57,853
{\an8}Well, thank you, sir.

1941
01:36:57,853 --> 01:36:59,146
{\an8}(applause)

1942
01:37:03,275 --> 01:37:23,087
♪

1943
01:37:23,546 --> 01:37:27,007
Michelle was in particular
interested to a-- of a recording

1944
01:37:27,716 --> 01:37:29,176
in which, uh,

1945
01:37:29,176 --> 01:37:32,763
Lady Bird is critiquing
President Johnson's performance.

1946
01:37:32,763 --> 01:37:34,139
(laughter)

1947
01:37:34,139 --> 01:37:35,683
Some things do not change.

1948
01:37:36,934 --> 01:37:38,394
Even 50 years later.

1949
01:38:05,337 --> 01:38:11,343
♪

1950
01:40:06,083 --> 01:40:09,044
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