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

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

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<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
to be Vice President,</i>

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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}<i>I felt like I was walking
onto a stage</i>

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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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<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
posed for their portrait.</i>

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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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<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
to say yes to.</i>

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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
this is going to be</i>

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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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<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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<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}<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
reaction to the tax cut.

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<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
I thought he had done.</i>

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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,
from those I knew,

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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>

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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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I think he a-accords me the very, uh,

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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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And, uh, it's good to have

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one person with whom
you can have a, a total, uh,

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well, complete freedom
in what you talk about.

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

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<i>toured the country.</i>

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

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

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<i>It's pretty
terrifying to hear McNamara</i>

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<i>speak of how dedicated
the opposition soldiers are over there.</i>

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<i>They apparently have an intensive training</i>

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<i>and ideas that is lacking on our side.</i>

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<i>I saw the irritation and frayed nerves</i>

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<i>that I remember from the hardest part</i>

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<i>of the majority leader days.</i>

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<i>This is my problem.</i>

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<i>This is what I must solve.</i>

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<i>That I can be tactful enough,</i>

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<i>and sometimes even mean enough</i>

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<i>to get Lyndon home at a reasonable hour,</i>

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<i>bringing with him the components of work</i>

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<i>and do it here in a somewhat
more relaxed atmosphere.</i>

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<i>I did a little more work,
and then curled up in bed</i>

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<i>for the most luxurious of all things,</i>

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<i>a glass of wine and</i> Gunsmoke,
<i>my biggest self-indulgence.</i>

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<i>All of which, I guess,
just proves that you can live</i>

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<i>with disaster hanging over your heads.</i>

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<i>Wednesday, April the 8th.</i>

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<i>Washington's goodbye</i>

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<i>to one of America's great heroes,</i>

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<i>General Douglas MacArthur.</i>

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<i>We lined up in a solemn single file.</i>

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<i>Lyndon was on my right, and on my left</i>

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<i>I found the Attorney General.</i>

226
00:15:05,656 --> 00:15:07,866
<i>He looked tanned, healthier,</i>

227
00:15:07,866 --> 00:15:10,285
<i>more relaxed than I had seen him.</i>

228
00:15:10,911 --> 00:15:14,122
<i>And as the casket came by, flag draped,</i>

229
00:15:14,122 --> 00:15:17,584
<i>I felt an echo of the November days</i>

230
00:15:17,584 --> 00:15:19,878
<i>of President Kennedy's funeral.</i>

231
00:15:19,878 --> 00:15:22,339
<i>He said, "You're doing a wonderful job.</i>

232
00:15:22,339 --> 00:15:23,840
<i>Everybody says so."</i>

233
00:15:24,383 --> 00:15:27,135
<i>And then, after a noticeable pause,</i>

234
00:15:27,135 --> 00:15:29,596
<i>almost as with an effort, he said,</i>

235
00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:31,556
<i>"And so is your husband."</i>

236
00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,855
<i>I respect Bobby in many ways,
I admire him.</i>

237
00:15:38,855 --> 00:15:41,483
<i>But I feel a peculiar unease around him</i>

238
00:15:41,483 --> 00:15:43,485
<i>which I did not feel around his brother.</i>

239
00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,865
<i>I haven't the vaguest idea
what is going on in his mind.</i>

240
00:15:56,498 --> 00:15:58,125
In his State of the
Union message,

241
00:15:58,125 --> 00:16:01,461
the President called for
an all-out attack on poverty.

242
00:16:01,461 --> 00:16:04,381
Are you going to make it
a major focus of your attention?

243
00:16:05,757 --> 00:16:09,177
I think, Nancy,
the question that looms foremost

244
00:16:09,177 --> 00:16:13,515
in everybody's mind
is the preservation of peace,

245
00:16:14,141 --> 00:16:18,103
and the whole, the-the total
picture of poverty,

246
00:16:18,103 --> 00:16:19,730
the black spot in our country,

247
00:16:19,730 --> 00:16:22,024
that too is very important to me.

248
00:16:22,983 --> 00:16:25,694
Do you plan to campaign
with him in the months ahead?

249
00:16:27,029 --> 00:16:31,366
Yes, Nancy, I want to be on hand
in whatever he's doing.

250
00:16:32,034 --> 00:16:34,161
<i>Friday, April 24th.</i>

251
00:16:34,161 --> 00:16:36,913
<i>We helicoptered into eastern Kentucky.</i>

252
00:16:36,913 --> 00:16:41,460
<i>We landed in a meadow
close to the community of Inez.</i>

253
00:16:44,171 --> 00:16:47,758
<i>This is the area
where mining once was king.</i>

254
00:16:47,758 --> 00:16:49,926
<i>It's become a sick industry.</i>

255
00:16:49,926 --> 00:16:52,929
<i>Nothing has really
come along to replace it.</i>

256
00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:54,931
<i>We arrived at the home</i>

257
00:16:54,931 --> 00:16:57,642
<i>of the Tom Fletcher's and I asked Lyndon</i>

258
00:16:57,642 --> 00:16:59,770
<i>to please keep the photographers</i>

259
00:16:59,770 --> 00:17:01,354
<i>away as much as possible.</i>

260
00:17:01,354 --> 00:17:05,025
<i>This mustn't be a sideshow
for these people.</i>

261
00:17:06,151 --> 00:17:09,029
<i>Lyndon hunkered down on the porch</i>

262
00:17:09,029 --> 00:17:11,281
<i>with Mr. Fletcher for a talk.</i>

263
00:17:11,281 --> 00:17:13,784
<i>They talked about
keeping the children in school</i>

264
00:17:13,784 --> 00:17:15,577
<i>and how he made out to live</i>

265
00:17:15,577 --> 00:17:18,497
<i>on $400 a year with eight children.</i>

266
00:17:18,497 --> 00:17:20,916
<i>I expect it's a very limited diet,</i>

267
00:17:20,916 --> 00:17:23,668
<i>and enough years of that
could be the reason</i>

268
00:17:23,668 --> 00:17:25,879
<i>why Mrs. Fletcher look so faded</i>

269
00:17:25,879 --> 00:17:27,339
<i>and dispirited,</i>

270
00:17:27,339 --> 00:17:29,174
<i>and why there were no steps</i>

271
00:17:29,174 --> 00:17:31,093
<i>up to the front porch of the house.</i>

272
00:17:31,093 --> 00:17:32,427
<i>Hoisting myself up,</i>

273
00:17:32,427 --> 00:17:33,720
<i>I had wondered why somebody</i>

274
00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,013
<i>didn't at least go down</i>

275
00:17:35,013 --> 00:17:36,306
<i>and saw off a stump,</i>

276
00:17:36,306 --> 00:17:38,100
<i>and put it down for a step,</i>

277
00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:39,518
<i>and then I realized,</i>

278
00:17:40,102 --> 00:17:41,853
<i>how could I know what it was like</i>

279
00:17:41,853 --> 00:17:46,233
<i>to try to raise eight children
on $400 a year?</i>

280
00:17:56,701 --> 00:17:58,912
{\an8}It seems to me that the Johnson family

281
00:17:59,538 --> 00:18:01,414
{\an8}should follow the Christian admonition,

282
00:18:02,207 --> 00:18:05,001
put your house, or houses, in order

283
00:18:05,627 --> 00:18:08,380
before trying to preach this Gospel

284
00:18:08,380 --> 00:18:10,549
to the tune of a one billion dollar

285
00:18:10,549 --> 00:18:11,800
a year program.

286
00:18:15,262 --> 00:18:17,889
Uh, good-- a good many years, I believe.

287
00:18:17,889 --> 00:18:21,768
Uh, Lady Bird inherited it
on her side of the family.

288
00:18:22,602 --> 00:18:25,105
<i>It appears that
two Republican congressmen</i>

289
00:18:25,105 --> 00:18:27,190
<i>have made a trip to Alabama,</i>

290
00:18:27,190 --> 00:18:30,026
<i>have gone out to interview
some of my tenants,</i>

291
00:18:30,026 --> 00:18:32,737
<i>concealed tape recorders
in their briefcases,</i>

292
00:18:32,737 --> 00:18:35,198
<i>have taken pictures of the houses</i>

293
00:18:35,198 --> 00:18:37,576
<i>and quite miserable, indeed they are,</i>

294
00:18:37,576 --> 00:18:39,828
<i>and are all prepared to try to prevent</i>

295
00:18:39,828 --> 00:18:41,872
<i>Lyndon's poverty bill</i>

296
00:18:41,872 --> 00:18:45,041
<i>with a flashy, gossipy, ugly information</i>

297
00:18:45,041 --> 00:18:47,544
<i>that Mrs. Johnson has tenants</i>

298
00:18:47,544 --> 00:18:49,087
<i>who live in squalor.</i>

299
00:18:49,713 --> 00:18:53,842
You pay 25% of your crop
to Mrs. Johnson in the rent

300
00:18:54,551 --> 00:18:55,719
Yes, sir, well, that's right.

301
00:18:56,595 --> 00:18:59,514
Have you ever heard of President Johnson's
poverty program?

302
00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:03,393
No sir I have-- Well, you mean the--

303
00:19:04,686 --> 00:19:06,354
What do you mean the-- Uh--

304
00:19:07,314 --> 00:19:08,940
It's a program
the President is trying

305
00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:11,902
to get passed by Congress,
to increase, he says,

306
00:19:11,902 --> 00:19:14,738
"The standard of living of the
poor people of this country."

307
00:19:15,488 --> 00:19:17,574
Uh, what do you think
this program might do

308
00:19:17,574 --> 00:19:19,618
to increase the standard of living

309
00:19:19,618 --> 00:19:21,703
of the people living in this house?

310
00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:27,000
Well, as far as I know
I think it's going to help us.

311
00:19:27,876 --> 00:19:30,337
<i>I told Liz that where
we used to have</i>

312
00:19:30,337 --> 00:19:33,048
<i>about 20 tenants on the whole place,</i>

313
00:19:33,048 --> 00:19:34,925
<i>we now had about four.</i>

314
00:19:35,425 --> 00:19:37,594
<i>One at least, Charlie Cutler,</i>

315
00:19:37,594 --> 00:19:40,388
<i>has lived on the place
since grandfather's time.</i>

316
00:19:41,806 --> 00:19:45,727
<i>Uneducated, unskilled,
and I believe in his 80s,</i>

317
00:19:45,727 --> 00:19:47,520
<i>there's no place for Charlie to go.</i>

318
00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,398
<i>However, we'll have to
batten down the hatches</i>

319
00:19:50,398 --> 00:19:51,983
<i>for a nasty storm.</i>

320
00:19:56,738 --> 00:19:58,657
{\an8}<i>War in South Vietnam.</i>

321
00:19:59,282 --> 00:20:02,244
{\an8}<i>An ugly war in a far-off place.</i>

322
00:20:02,577 --> 00:20:05,580
We do not enjoy losing wars.

323
00:20:05,580 --> 00:20:08,250
It is the official position
of the United States

324
00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:10,252
that this one need not be lost.

325
00:20:10,252 --> 00:20:14,422
<i>In a very real sense,
it is not even ours to win.</i>

326
00:20:14,422 --> 00:20:16,216
<i>It's someone else's war.</i>

327
00:20:16,216 --> 00:20:18,927
But the vital interests
of the United States

328
00:20:18,927 --> 00:20:22,097
and the prestige of this country
as a great nation

329
00:20:22,097 --> 00:20:25,475
would be grievously damaged
if it were to be lost.

330
00:20:32,315 --> 00:20:33,817
<i>Thursday, May 14th</i>

331
00:20:33,817 --> 00:20:36,444
<i>began with a frontal assault on my desk.</i>

332
00:20:36,444 --> 00:20:39,364
<i>The remnants of
a Puritan conscience drives me</i>

333
00:20:39,364 --> 00:20:41,032
<i>to read a lot of the mail,</i>

334
00:20:41,032 --> 00:20:43,952
<i>even, and sometimes especially,
the bad mail.</i>

335
00:20:44,828 --> 00:20:46,621
<i>And then, when the desk was clearer</i>

336
00:20:46,621 --> 00:20:48,456
<i>than it's been in a long time,</i>

337
00:20:48,456 --> 00:20:50,709
<i>I left for Huntlands.</i>

338
00:20:52,919 --> 00:20:55,130
{\an8}<i>I called in to the White House</i>

339
00:20:55,130 --> 00:20:58,133
{\an8}<i>and asked Dr. Hurst if he and Jim</i>

340
00:20:58,133 --> 00:21:01,386
<i>would like to drive out and
talk over Lyndon's problems.</i>

341
00:21:02,262 --> 00:21:06,725
<i>I don't know, though,
that either one really understands</i>

342
00:21:06,725 --> 00:21:08,018
<i>the depth of his pain,</i>

343
00:21:08,018 --> 00:21:09,477
<i>when and if</i>

344
00:21:09,477 --> 00:21:12,605
<i>he faces up to the possibility of sending</i>

345
00:21:12,605 --> 00:21:17,110
<i>many thousands American boys to Vietnam.</i>

346
00:21:18,486 --> 00:21:19,821
<i>Lyndon called me.</i>

347
00:21:19,821 --> 00:21:22,157
<i>He was lonesome,
I could tell from his voice.</i>

348
00:21:22,991 --> 00:21:24,200
<i>It was a sad talk,</i>

349
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,119
<i>largely about the Alabama tenants</i>

350
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,246
<i>and about his restive desire</i>

351
00:21:28,246 --> 00:21:30,707
<i>to seek a way
out of the burdens he carries.</i>

352
00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:35,837
<i>I wrote out about a nine-page analysis</i>

353
00:21:35,837 --> 00:21:38,173
<i>of what I thought his situation was.</i>

354
00:21:40,342 --> 00:21:43,762
<i>First, in case he definitely
decided he wanted to use it,</i>

355
00:21:43,762 --> 00:21:46,056
<i>there was a suggested announcement</i>

356
00:21:46,056 --> 00:21:47,932
<i>that he wasn't going to run again.</i>

357
00:21:48,475 --> 00:21:49,642
<i>If he does not run,</i>

358
00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:51,978
<i>we will probably return to the ranch</i>

359
00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:54,272
<i>and he will enjoy the country he loves,</i>

360
00:21:54,272 --> 00:21:58,526
<i>and me and Lynda and Luci
more than we ever have.</i>

361
00:21:59,277 --> 00:22:03,031
<i>But there would be a wave
of hollow disillusionment,</i>

362
00:22:03,031 --> 00:22:05,241
<i>and, "You let us down, Lyndon,"</i>

363
00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:08,078
<i>among those people
who really looked to him</i>

364
00:22:08,078 --> 00:22:11,373
<i>as the best candidate
of the Democratic Party.</i>

365
00:22:12,791 --> 00:22:14,959
<i>There might well be periods of depression</i>

366
00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:18,338
<i>as he watched Mr. X running the country,</i>

367
00:22:18,338 --> 00:22:20,673
<i>and thought what he
would have done instead.</i>

368
00:22:20,673 --> 00:22:23,176
<i>And he might look around for a scapegoat,</i>

369
00:22:23,176 --> 00:22:25,678
<i>and I would not want to be it, then.</i>

370
00:22:26,554 --> 00:22:28,014
<i>Then I put the alternative.</i>

371
00:22:28,014 --> 00:22:29,224
<i>If he does run,</i>

372
00:22:29,224 --> 00:22:30,975
<i>he will probably be elected President.</i>

373
00:22:31,518 --> 00:22:33,269
<i>During the ensuing four years,</i>

374
00:22:33,269 --> 00:22:35,105
<i>he, I, and the children</i>

375
00:22:35,105 --> 00:22:37,190
<i>will be criticized and slandered</i>

376
00:22:37,190 --> 00:22:38,733
<i>for things we have done,</i>

377
00:22:38,733 --> 00:22:40,735
<i>and things we never did at all.</i>

378
00:22:41,403 --> 00:22:43,988
<i>There will be times
when he will be frustrated</i>

379
00:22:43,988 --> 00:22:46,074
<i>by the inability to achieve</i>

380
00:22:46,074 --> 00:22:49,077
<i>his vaulting ambitions for this nation.</i>

381
00:22:49,077 --> 00:22:50,578
<i>This will be painful.</i>

382
00:22:51,329 --> 00:22:55,458
<i>My final conclusion was that,
I think he ought to run,</i>

383
00:22:55,458 --> 00:22:58,962
<i>and then, some three years
and nine months from now,</i>

384
00:22:58,962 --> 00:23:01,923
<i>in February or March of 1968,</i>

385
00:23:01,923 --> 00:23:04,634
<i>announce that he won't be
a candidate for reelection.</i>

386
00:23:04,634 --> 00:23:05,969
<i>And by that time,</i>

387
00:23:05,969 --> 00:23:07,762
<i>I think the juices of life</i>

388
00:23:07,762 --> 00:23:09,764
<i>will be stilled enough in him</i>

389
00:23:09,764 --> 00:23:11,975
<i>that he can finish out that term,</i>

390
00:23:11,975 --> 00:23:16,187
<i>return to the ranch to live out
the rest of our days quietly.</i>

391
00:23:19,691 --> 00:23:22,318
{\an8}Roll 30, sound 19.

392
00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:25,488
{\an8}
Tell me, uh, about your attitude

393
00:23:25,488 --> 00:23:27,073
{\an8}to the Civil Rights Bill

394
00:23:27,073 --> 00:23:30,076
{\an8}that's up in Congress and being considered
by the Senate?

395
00:23:30,076 --> 00:23:33,413
I feel that it's, it's alright.

396
00:23:33,413 --> 00:23:37,208
But I, I feel one thing,
that they should go on and pass it.

397
00:23:44,132 --> 00:23:46,551
<i>I don't see how in America</i>

398
00:23:47,302 --> 00:23:49,637
{\an8}<i>that people can actually say</i>

399
00:23:50,513 --> 00:23:53,224
{\an8}<i>that America is the land of the free</i>

400
00:23:53,224 --> 00:23:56,311
{\an8}<i>and the home of the brave,</i>

401
00:23:56,311 --> 00:24:00,106
<i>when right here in America
Negroes have died</i>

402
00:24:00,857 --> 00:24:02,567
<i>for no reason at all.</i>

403
00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:06,863
<i>And actually, we are not
trying to take anything.</i>

404
00:24:07,655 --> 00:24:09,324
<i>We just want a chance</i>

405
00:24:10,241 --> 00:24:15,747
<i>to be decent human beings and citizens</i>

406
00:24:15,747 --> 00:24:19,250
<i>that we can really say, as the song,</i>

407
00:24:19,250 --> 00:24:21,211
<i>"O Say, can you see,</i>

408
00:24:21,211 --> 00:24:23,463
<i>"by the dawn's early light,</i>

409
00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:27,050
<i>what so proudly we hailed,"</i>

410
00:24:27,884 --> 00:24:30,094
<i>and now I cry, America,</i>

411
00:24:30,762 --> 00:24:33,473
<i>is this actually the land of the free</i>

412
00:24:33,473 --> 00:24:35,433
<i>and the home of the brave?</i>

413
00:24:46,736 --> 00:24:48,488
<i>Thursday, July 2nd.</i>

414
00:24:48,488 --> 00:24:51,908
<i>At 6:30 the big news of the day,</i>

415
00:24:51,908 --> 00:24:54,827
<i>and perhaps of the year, took place.</i>

416
00:24:56,454 --> 00:24:58,623
My fellow Americans,

417
00:24:58,623 --> 00:25:01,084
I am about to sign into law

418
00:25:01,918 --> 00:25:04,420
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

419
00:25:05,463 --> 00:25:07,632
<i>As I had slipped
quietly into a seat,</i>

420
00:25:07,632 --> 00:25:09,592
<i>I had particularly noticed
the Attorney General</i>

421
00:25:09,592 --> 00:25:10,927
<i>sitting on the front row,</i>

422
00:25:10,927 --> 00:25:13,221
<i>and wondered what was
going on in his mind.</i>

423
00:25:13,221 --> 00:25:16,724
<i>This bill that his brother
had sponsored so ardently,</i>

424
00:25:16,724 --> 00:25:19,060
<i>had pinned so much hope on,</i>

425
00:25:19,060 --> 00:25:21,479
<i>and that had finally come to passage,</i>

426
00:25:21,479 --> 00:25:25,441
<i>I believe, with the earnest,
dogged help of Lyndon.</i>

427
00:25:25,441 --> 00:25:28,653
<i>I watched the Attorney General's
impassive face,</i>

428
00:25:28,653 --> 00:25:31,489
<i>and the very measured
clapping of his hands,</i>

429
00:25:31,489 --> 00:25:33,533
<i>which would not have
disturbed a gnat sleeping</i>

430
00:25:33,533 --> 00:25:35,285
<i>calmly in his palm.</i>

431
00:25:38,037 --> 00:25:40,164
<i>There was a ceremony in the East Room.</i>

432
00:25:40,164 --> 00:25:43,960
<i>A signing of the Civil
Rights Bill, complete with TV,</i>

433
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,004
<i>with all the leaders of the Congress</i>

434
00:25:46,004 --> 00:25:47,338
<i>lined up behind Lyndon</i>

435
00:25:47,338 --> 00:25:49,007
<i>as he signed the bill with some</i>

436
00:25:49,007 --> 00:25:51,884
<i>several scores of pens,</i>

437
00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:55,263
<i>each one could hardly have
gotten to do one single letter.</i>

438
00:25:56,264 --> 00:25:59,058
<i>I left the East Room feeling
that I had really seen</i>

439
00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:02,437
<i>something start in this nation's history,</i>

440
00:26:02,437 --> 00:26:05,607
<i>fraught with much good and much troubles.</i>

441
00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:11,321
- We will not accept the Civil Rights Bill.

442
00:26:11,321 --> 00:26:13,990
And we will campaign and campaign

443
00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:15,617
until it is repealed.

444
00:26:16,492 --> 00:26:18,578
<i>In my opinion, this is not going to stop</i>

445
00:26:18,578 --> 00:26:20,246
<i>Negro demonstrations.</i>

446
00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:22,332
{\an8}It is not going to solve racial problems,

447
00:26:22,332 --> 00:26:24,709
{\an8}but it's going to increase tensions.

448
00:26:24,709 --> 00:26:26,919
{\an8}Are you concerned
perhaps, about the Democrats

449
00:26:26,919 --> 00:26:28,046
{\an8}taking advantage of this?

450
00:26:28,046 --> 00:26:30,006
{\an8}After Lyndon Johnson the biggest faker

451
00:26:30,006 --> 00:26:31,716
{\an8}in the United States,

452
00:26:31,716 --> 00:26:34,010
having opposed the Civil Rights Act

453
00:26:34,010 --> 00:26:35,970
for all the years of his life,

454
00:26:35,970 --> 00:26:39,057
this is the phoniest individual
that ever came around.

455
00:26:42,935 --> 00:26:45,063
{\an8}<i>I guess
because he was a southerner,</i>

456
00:26:45,063 --> 00:26:46,105
{\an8}<i>they didn't believe him.</i>

457
00:26:47,607 --> 00:26:50,735
{\an8}<i>When I would speak
out for Johnson, they would say</i>

458
00:26:50,735 --> 00:26:52,945
<i>"Well, you are prejudiced
because you work for him."</i>

459
00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:54,614
<i>And I'd said "No,"</i>

460
00:26:54,614 --> 00:26:56,240
<i>I said, "In talking with him</i>

461
00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,578
<i>I know it is for all of the Negro people."</i>

462
00:27:00,578 --> 00:27:03,915
<i>And I knew what kind of man he was.</i>

463
00:27:05,166 --> 00:27:07,210
There's Zephyr and Lynda Bird.

464
00:27:11,255 --> 00:27:13,591
<i>One thing I'm gonna say
about Mrs. Johnson,</i>

465
00:27:13,591 --> 00:27:17,345
<i>she was very nice about finding
nice places to stay.</i>

466
00:27:17,345 --> 00:27:19,597
<i>And if we couldn't stay there,
she didn't stay there.</i>

467
00:27:21,808 --> 00:27:24,894
<i>One time we stopped at a place
and the woman said</i>

468
00:27:24,894 --> 00:27:26,729
<i>"Yes, uh, we have a place for you."</i>

469
00:27:26,729 --> 00:27:29,482
<i>And she said, "Well,
I have these other two people."</i>

470
00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:33,695
<i>She said, "No, we-we work 'em,
but we don't sleep 'em."</i>

471
00:27:36,197 --> 00:27:39,158
<i>And Mrs. Johnson said, "Well,
that's a nasty way to be,"</i>

472
00:27:39,158 --> 00:27:40,451
<i>and she drove away.</i>

473
00:27:46,457 --> 00:27:48,710
<i>At sea,
on land, and in the air,</i>

474
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:50,837
<i>the awesome United States military machine</i>

475
00:27:50,837 --> 00:27:53,423
<i>is mounting a force
that can face up to any threat.</i>

476
00:27:54,757 --> 00:27:56,259
<i>Reinforcements are being moved</i>

477
00:27:56,259 --> 00:27:57,677
<i>into strategic locations</i>

478
00:27:57,677 --> 00:27:59,262
<i>as part of a new strategy</i>

479
00:27:59,262 --> 00:28:00,888
<i>in this frustrating war.</i>

480
00:28:32,378 --> 00:28:35,298
<i>Tuesday, August 4th was
a momentous day.</i>

481
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,551
<i>You know great decisions are being shaped,</i>

482
00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:41,763
<i>some completely beyond
the control of any of us,</i>

483
00:28:41,763 --> 00:28:44,974
<i>some that have to be decided
by the man closest to me.</i>

484
00:28:47,602 --> 00:28:49,812
<i>As McGeorge Bundy passed me in the hall,</i>

485
00:28:49,812 --> 00:28:51,898
<i>he was looking extraordinarily grave.</i>

486
00:28:51,898 --> 00:28:55,234
<i>I asked him something which
brought a portentous answer.</i>

487
00:28:55,234 --> 00:28:56,611
<i>It left me thinking,</i>

488
00:28:56,611 --> 00:28:59,322
<i>we might have a small war on our hands.</i>

489
00:29:03,409 --> 00:29:04,786
<i>This is the</i> Maddox,

490
00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:06,788
<i>one of the two destroyers
that were attacked</i>

491
00:29:06,788 --> 00:29:08,790
<i>while patrolling international waters</i>

492
00:29:08,790 --> 00:29:10,875
<i>in the Gulf of Tonkin near North Vietnam.</i>

493
00:29:12,668 --> 00:29:14,462
{\an8}My fellow Americans,

494
00:29:14,462 --> 00:29:16,714
<i>it is my duty to the American people</i>

495
00:29:18,299 --> 00:29:22,053
to report that renewed hostile actions

496
00:29:23,054 --> 00:29:25,681
<i>against United States ships
on the high seas</i>

497
00:29:25,681 --> 00:29:27,683
<i>in the Gulf of Tonkin</i>

498
00:29:28,392 --> 00:29:30,478
<i>have today required me</i>

499
00:29:30,478 --> 00:29:33,481
to order the military forces
of the United States

500
00:29:33,481 --> 00:29:35,650
to take action and reply.

501
00:29:36,484 --> 00:29:38,569
{\an8}<i>Frightening
as the situation is,</i>

502
00:29:38,569 --> 00:29:40,863
<i>I had a certain feeling of pride.</i>

503
00:29:42,448 --> 00:29:45,326
<i>Perhaps for Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,</i>

504
00:29:45,326 --> 00:29:47,954
<i>there were a long series of such days.</i>

505
00:29:47,954 --> 00:29:50,665
<i>Obviously up until now
we've survived them all</i>

506
00:29:50,665 --> 00:29:52,708
<i>but it's a perilous path to tread.</i>

507
00:30:01,676 --> 00:30:03,553
Mr. President,
it is widely believed

508
00:30:03,553 --> 00:30:05,429
among the reporters around town

509
00:30:05,429 --> 00:30:08,516
that you object rather strongly
to being criticized

510
00:30:08,516 --> 00:30:11,394
in the papers and on the air. Is there--

511
00:30:11,394 --> 00:30:12,812
Would you give us what your

512
00:30:12,812 --> 00:30:14,772
true feelings on that subject are?

513
00:30:14,772 --> 00:30:19,318
I assume that
almost anyone that is human, uh,

514
00:30:19,318 --> 00:30:21,612
uh, would rather
have approval than disapproval.

515
00:30:22,738 --> 00:30:24,615
Uh, some people have thought

516
00:30:24,615 --> 00:30:28,619
that you put in too long and hard a day,

517
00:30:28,619 --> 00:30:30,872
that you might endanger
your own health that way.

518
00:30:30,872 --> 00:30:32,915
How do you protect your health
from day-to-day?

519
00:30:34,458 --> 00:30:35,668
We do have long days,

520
00:30:36,294 --> 00:30:38,337
and, uh, the problems, uh, that, uh,

521
00:30:38,337 --> 00:30:41,340
require attention, uh, require time.

522
00:30:42,049 --> 00:30:45,928
And, uh, you, you never have as
much time as you want to spend

523
00:30:45,928 --> 00:30:48,514
before making these decisions,
but you must make decisions.

524
00:30:49,140 --> 00:30:51,767
And I work at a rather feverish rate,

525
00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:55,646
and the first hundred days were, uh,

526
00:30:56,856 --> 00:31:00,526
filled, uh, to almost to
the breaking point.

527
00:31:26,135 --> 00:31:27,803
{\an8}<i>He told me
that he was going to fly</i>

528
00:31:27,803 --> 00:31:29,138
{\an8}<i>up there the next morning and announce</i>

529
00:31:29,138 --> 00:31:30,348
{\an8}<i>that he wasn't gonna be a candidate</i>

530
00:31:30,348 --> 00:31:32,058
{\an8}<i>for reelection in Atlantic City.</i>

531
00:31:32,058 --> 00:31:35,061
{\an8}<i>And I told him he absolutely
could not do that.</i>

532
00:31:35,061 --> 00:31:37,063
<i>I went immediately to Mrs. Johnson.</i>

533
00:31:37,063 --> 00:31:39,565
<i>She has more ability to</i>

534
00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:41,609
<i>reason with him than anyone else.</i>

535
00:31:51,577 --> 00:31:54,038
Good evening.
This convention city by the sea

536
00:31:54,038 --> 00:31:56,666
bustled with political activity today.

537
00:31:56,666 --> 00:31:58,918
{\an8}<i>A predominantly Negro group</i>

538
00:31:58,918 --> 00:32:02,254
{\an8}<i>is challenging the all-White
delegation from Mississippi.</i>

539
00:32:02,254 --> 00:32:04,048
We want to register

540
00:32:04,048 --> 00:32:06,509
to become first-class citizens.

541
00:32:06,509 --> 00:32:10,554
And if the Freedom Democratic
Party is not seated now,

542
00:32:11,555 --> 00:32:13,099
I question America.

543
00:32:17,186 --> 00:32:19,146
<i>For 22 long minutes,</i>

544
00:32:19,146 --> 00:32:21,107
<i>while his wife watches,</i>

545
00:32:21,107 --> 00:32:23,609
<i>the delegates pour out
their affection for Bobby,</i>

546
00:32:23,609 --> 00:32:26,153
<i>and for the man who was their President.</i>

547
00:32:28,072 --> 00:32:31,325
<i>Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Luci,
and Lynda have just arrived.</i>

548
00:32:31,784 --> 00:32:33,035
<i>And there he is.</i>

549
00:32:34,662 --> 00:32:36,539
<i>The President of the
United States,</i>

550
00:32:36,539 --> 00:32:41,210
<i>and the next President
of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson.</i>

551
00:32:43,838 --> 00:32:46,048
I will begin the march

552
00:32:46,048 --> 00:32:49,385
{\an8}toward an overwhelming victory
for our party

553
00:32:49,385 --> 00:32:50,678
{\an8}and for our nation!

554
00:33:02,773 --> 00:33:05,151
<i>Election year 1964.</i>

555
00:33:05,151 --> 00:33:09,905
<i>The White House is the prize,
and it's invaded by the ladies.</i>

556
00:33:09,905 --> 00:33:13,075
<i>Four million more women voters
in the country than men,</i>

557
00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:16,579
<i>and both parties
are wooing the feminine vote.</i>

558
00:33:17,288 --> 00:33:19,540
<i>It's the year of the woman in Washington.</i>

559
00:33:19,540 --> 00:33:21,250
<i>The ladies are claiming the title,</i>

560
00:33:21,250 --> 00:33:23,586
<i>facing the responsibility.</i>

561
00:33:28,466 --> 00:33:30,259
<i>Friday, September the 11th</i>

562
00:33:30,259 --> 00:33:33,262
<i>began my planning for the
whistle-stop trip to the south.</i>

563
00:33:33,262 --> 00:33:35,765
{\an8}<i>I'm tired of everybody's acting</i>

564
00:33:35,765 --> 00:33:37,892
<i>like the South is the step-child.</i>

565
00:33:37,892 --> 00:33:40,019
<i>I belong to it and it to me,</i>

566
00:33:40,019 --> 00:33:44,523
<i>and I intend to say so, even if
I, I get a rebuff for it.</i>

567
00:33:46,484 --> 00:33:48,611
I'm on the rear platform here

568
00:33:48,611 --> 00:33:50,071
of the Lady Bird Special

569
00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:52,198
talking with Elizabeth Carpenter,

570
00:33:52,198 --> 00:33:54,158
Mrs. Johnson's press secretary.

571
00:33:54,158 --> 00:33:57,787
{\an8}Uh, Mrs. Carpenter, what's
the main purpose of this trip

572
00:33:57,787 --> 00:33:59,246
{\an8}as far as Mrs. Johnson is concerned?

573
00:33:59,246 --> 00:34:02,583
{\an8} Well, Marlene,
obviously there's an election on

574
00:34:02,583 --> 00:34:06,253
and she's helping carry
the story of this administration

575
00:34:06,253 --> 00:34:09,423
<i>and of her husband's record
to eight states.</i>

576
00:34:09,423 --> 00:34:12,259
<i>No one knows the story
better than Mrs. Johnson</i>

577
00:34:12,259 --> 00:34:15,596
<i>and so I think that we'll find
victory there this fall.</i>

578
00:34:16,472 --> 00:34:19,725
Alexandria has been chosen
as the first stop

579
00:34:20,392 --> 00:34:23,104
by one of the greatest
campaigners in America,

580
00:34:23,104 --> 00:34:24,271
and I'm proud to announce--

581
00:34:30,945 --> 00:34:34,281
And I'm very proud to announce
that I am her husband.

582
00:34:50,214 --> 00:34:51,841
<i>You think the state's
gonna go for Goldwater?</i>

583
00:34:51,841 --> 00:34:53,300
{\an8}<i>I think this whole
state will go for Goldwater.</i>

584
00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:54,510
{\an8}<i>It will be the first time</i>

585
00:34:54,510 --> 00:34:56,053
{\an8}<i>Georgia has ever gone Republican.</i>

586
00:34:56,053 --> 00:34:57,888
{\an8}<i>But they'll do it this time.</i>

587
00:34:58,305 --> 00:35:00,141
{\an8}Democrats have always controlled Georgia.

588
00:35:00,141 --> 00:35:03,394
So we thought we'd show her
that there are a few Republicans here now.

589
00:35:04,645 --> 00:35:06,021
<i>Can you tell me, Mrs. Johnson,</i>

590
00:35:06,021 --> 00:35:08,149
<i>what were your original
expectations for this trip</i>

591
00:35:08,149 --> 00:35:09,483
<i>and how have things worked out?</i>

592
00:35:09,483 --> 00:35:12,236
There have been mainly friendly
and large audiences

593
00:35:12,236 --> 00:35:14,071
but scattered in there have been some,

594
00:35:14,071 --> 00:35:15,781
uh, hecklers here and there.

595
00:35:15,781 --> 00:35:18,284
Uh, do you feel that you will nevertheless

596
00:35:18,284 --> 00:35:19,910
be able to, uh, help keep the South

597
00:35:19,910 --> 00:35:22,204
in the democratic camp despite this?

598
00:35:23,539 --> 00:35:25,499
That's a large order for a woman.

599
00:35:27,209 --> 00:35:30,212
But I think we have to
look at this in perspective.

600
00:35:30,212 --> 00:35:32,131
There have been a few, certainly,

601
00:35:32,131 --> 00:35:34,133
they're entitled to their opinion,

602
00:35:34,133 --> 00:35:38,220
but you were there,
you saw the thousands of people

603
00:35:38,220 --> 00:35:40,890
who were cheering
and reaching out to shake hands.

604
00:35:44,518 --> 00:35:47,730
{\an8}We want Barry!
We want Barry!

605
00:35:49,857 --> 00:35:53,777
{\an8}My friends, this is
a country of many viewpoints

606
00:35:53,777 --> 00:35:57,656
{\an8}and I respect your right
to express your own.

607
00:35:57,656 --> 00:36:00,451
{\an8}Now, it's my turn to express mine.

608
00:36:00,451 --> 00:36:02,203
{\an8}- Thank you.

609
00:36:19,053 --> 00:36:20,930
<i>The Walter Jenkins episode</i>

610
00:36:20,930 --> 00:36:23,557
<i>raises grave questions
of national security</i>

611
00:36:24,350 --> 00:36:27,645
<i>which only the President
can and must answer.</i>

612
00:36:27,645 --> 00:36:29,772
<i>Knowing the vulnerability</i>

613
00:36:29,772 --> 00:36:31,982
<i>of morals offenders to blackmail,</i>

614
00:36:31,982 --> 00:36:34,318
{\an8}the President should tell us

615
00:36:34,318 --> 00:36:36,570
{\an8}whether Mr. Jenkins was permitted

616
00:36:36,570 --> 00:36:39,698
{\an8}to sit in on meetings
of the National Security Council

617
00:36:39,698 --> 00:36:43,661
and otherwise given access
to top military secrets.

618
00:37:10,062 --> 00:37:11,146
<i>Walter appeared</i>

619
00:37:11,146 --> 00:37:13,524
<i>rather detached and dissociated.</i>

620
00:37:14,066 --> 00:37:16,777
<i>I cannot measure the suffering
he's gone through,</i>

621
00:37:17,319 --> 00:37:20,531
<i>it's been one of the most
painful things in my life,</i>

622
00:37:20,531 --> 00:37:23,742
<i>more painful than death
of many close to me.</i>

623
00:38:48,077 --> 00:38:50,996
<i>The voice of the
people was heard in the land.</i>

624
00:38:50,996 --> 00:38:53,290
<i>Sixty eight million citizens
of the United States</i>

625
00:38:53,290 --> 00:38:56,543
<i>go to the polls to exercise
their cherished franchise</i>

626
00:38:56,543 --> 00:38:58,003
<i>and an overwhelming mandate</i>

627
00:38:58,003 --> 00:39:00,214
<i>is handed to Lyndon Baines Johnson</i>

628
00:39:00,214 --> 00:39:03,759
<i>who becomes 36th president
of the United States.</i>

629
00:39:03,759 --> 00:39:05,302
<i>The man who was thrust into office</i>

630
00:39:05,302 --> 00:39:06,887
<i>through the hand of tragedy</i>

631
00:39:06,887 --> 00:39:09,890
<i>captures an overwhelming
percentage of the popular vote.</i>

632
00:39:09,890 --> 00:39:11,392
<i>More than 61%,</i>

633
00:39:11,392 --> 00:39:14,395
<i>a plurality over Barry Morris Goldwater</i>

634
00:39:14,395 --> 00:39:16,063
{\an8}<i>of nearly 16 million ballots.</i>

635
00:39:16,605 --> 00:39:18,774
{\an8}<i>It is an historical sweeping victory.</i>

636
00:39:25,823 --> 00:39:28,075
<i>New Year's Day began for me</i>

637
00:39:28,075 --> 00:39:30,119
<i>with black coffee and orange juice</i>

638
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:31,954
<i>and good resolutions.</i>

639
00:39:33,038 --> 00:39:36,458
<i>I spent all day in the
never-never land of clothes.</i>

640
00:39:36,458 --> 00:39:38,001
<i>The coat I'm wearing</i>

641
00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:40,963
<i>for the inaugural ceremony is elegant.</i>

642
00:39:40,963 --> 00:39:43,507
<i>The dress? Well, we'll have
to wait and see.</i>

643
00:39:44,925 --> 00:39:49,096
<i>I'm just not the type
for sketches and swatches.</i>

644
00:39:49,096 --> 00:39:51,056
<i>I'm a go in and look on the rack,</i>

645
00:39:51,056 --> 00:39:53,767
<i>put 'em on and wear 'em out type.</i>

646
00:39:53,767 --> 00:39:56,311
<i>That too is one of
my New Year resolutions,</i>

647
00:39:56,311 --> 00:39:59,314
<i>to look better at all public appearances</i>

648
00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:02,818
<i>and to remember what is due the job.</i>

649
00:40:02,818 --> 00:40:05,612
<i>I still find it very difficult,</i>

650
00:40:05,612 --> 00:40:08,657
<i>very distasteful to say "First Lady."</i>

651
00:40:12,161 --> 00:40:14,163
<i>Wednesday, January the 20th</i>

652
00:40:14,163 --> 00:40:16,415
<i>dawned beautiful and bright and early.</i>

653
00:40:16,415 --> 00:40:18,542
<i>The day had come.</i>

654
00:40:21,587 --> 00:40:25,507
<i>We rode down the avenue,
Lyndon and I in one car,</i>

655
00:40:25,507 --> 00:40:28,844
<i>the one with the bulletproof
glass top and sides,</i>

656
00:40:28,844 --> 00:40:31,847
<i>crowds already thick along
Pennsylvania Avenue.</i>

657
00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:36,894
<i>Then came the moment toward which</i>

658
00:40:36,894 --> 00:40:40,314
<i>all the days of the last year
had been heading,</i>

659
00:40:40,314 --> 00:40:43,150
<i>the moment when Lyndon
would take the oath of office</i>

660
00:40:43,150 --> 00:40:46,278
<i>as the 36th President
of the United States.</i>

661
00:40:47,362 --> 00:40:49,114
<i>It had been mentioned
to me that I should hold</i>

662
00:40:49,114 --> 00:40:51,116
<i>the Bible for his swearing in.</i>

663
00:40:52,326 --> 00:40:53,994
<i>I stood facing the throng,</i>

664
00:40:53,994 --> 00:40:55,954
<i>between the Chief Justice and Lyndon,</i>

665
00:40:55,954 --> 00:40:57,539
<i>while he took the oath.</i>

666
00:40:59,041 --> 00:41:02,169
I, Lyndon Baines Johnson,
do solemnly swear...

667
00:41:02,169 --> 00:41:04,421
That you will faithfully execute...

668
00:41:04,421 --> 00:41:06,256
{\an8}...that I will faithfully execute...

669
00:41:06,256 --> 00:41:09,593
{\an8}...the office of the presidency
of the United States,

670
00:41:09,593 --> 00:41:11,386
so help you God.

671
00:41:11,386 --> 00:41:13,138
...so help me God.

672
00:41:23,398 --> 00:41:25,442
<i>Monday, February 1st,</i>

673
00:41:25,442 --> 00:41:27,569
<i>begins the busy days again.</i>

674
00:41:27,569 --> 00:41:31,031
<i>I woke about 7:00,
and finding Lyndon was awake</i>

675
00:41:31,031 --> 00:41:33,617
<i>crawled into bed with him for coffee.</i>

676
00:41:33,617 --> 00:41:35,827
<i>And heard Luci, mad as a hornet,</i>

677
00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:38,121
<i>discuss an article in a magazine</i>

678
00:41:38,121 --> 00:41:40,165
<i>called</i> Women's Wear,

679
00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:41,917
<i>which had given the three Johnson women</i>

680
00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:44,086
<i>pretty poor marks as dressers.</i>

681
00:41:44,962 --> 00:41:46,338
<i>Luci was inclined to blame it</i>

682
00:41:46,338 --> 00:41:49,424
<i>on Lynda Bird's bobby socks and loafers,</i>

683
00:41:49,424 --> 00:41:52,177
<i>and was really quite
heatedly annoyed about it.</i>

684
00:41:53,387 --> 00:41:55,847
<i>It is an endurance contest, this job.</i>

685
00:42:01,144 --> 00:42:04,731
<i>Sunday, February the 7th
actually began after midnight.</i>

686
00:42:06,024 --> 00:42:09,027
<i>Lyndon had heard of the Viet Cong attack</i>

687
00:42:09,027 --> 00:42:11,655
<i>on American barracks in South Vietnam.</i>

688
00:42:13,407 --> 00:42:15,075
<i>I was rather startled to hear him say</i>

689
00:42:15,075 --> 00:42:17,202
<i>something I have heard so often,</i>

690
00:42:17,202 --> 00:42:18,829
<i>but did not really expect</i>

691
00:42:18,829 --> 00:42:21,123
<i>to come out of his mouth
in front of anyone else.</i>

692
00:42:21,748 --> 00:42:23,667
<i>"I am not temperamentally equipped</i>

693
00:42:23,667 --> 00:42:26,169
<i>to be commander in chief," he said.</i>

694
00:42:26,169 --> 00:42:28,714
<i>They were talking about
the necessity of giving orders,</i>

695
00:42:28,714 --> 00:42:31,800
<i>that would produce God knows
what cataclysmic results.</i>

696
00:42:32,676 --> 00:42:35,137
<i>He said, "I am too sentimental."</i>

697
00:42:35,137 --> 00:42:37,723
<i>It's odd how you can be so anesthetized</i>

698
00:42:37,723 --> 00:42:40,309
<i>by your own pain or your own problem,</i>

699
00:42:40,309 --> 00:42:42,019
<i>that you don't quite fully share</i>

700
00:42:42,019 --> 00:42:44,104
<i>the hell of someone close to you.</i>

701
00:43:32,986 --> 00:43:34,946
<i>Sunday, March 7th.</i>

702
00:43:34,946 --> 00:43:37,491
<i>For quite some time
I've been swimming upstream</i>

703
00:43:37,491 --> 00:43:41,328
<i>against a feeling of depression
and relative inertia.</i>

704
00:43:41,328 --> 00:43:43,705
<i>Lyndon, too, lives in a cloud</i>

705
00:43:43,705 --> 00:43:46,375
<i>of troubles with few rays of light.</i>

706
00:43:46,875 --> 00:43:48,585
<i>Now it is the Selma situation.</i>

707
00:43:49,961 --> 00:43:51,505
<i>Six hundred or so Negroes</i>

708
00:43:51,505 --> 00:43:53,423
<i>who marched made little headway</i>

709
00:43:53,423 --> 00:43:56,551
<i>toward the state capital
some 15 miles to the east.</i>

710
00:43:56,551 --> 00:43:58,595
<i>They barely left Selma.</i>

711
00:43:58,595 --> 00:44:01,264
<i>They marched in through the city of Selma
and were not stopped,</i>

712
00:44:01,264 --> 00:44:05,102
<i>but once they crossed
over the Edmund Pettus Bridge,</i>

713
00:44:05,102 --> 00:44:06,895
<i>it was a different story.</i>

714
00:44:06,895 --> 00:44:09,856
<i>You've got
two minutes to turn around</i>

715
00:44:09,856 --> 00:44:11,400
<i>and go back to your church.</i>

716
00:44:15,821 --> 00:44:17,572
<i>Scores of
the marchers were treated</i>

717
00:44:17,572 --> 00:44:18,865
<i>for tear gas burns,</i>

718
00:44:18,865 --> 00:44:20,826
<i>open wounds and broken bones.</i>

719
00:44:20,826 --> 00:44:23,078
<i>At nightfall, the sheriff of Dallas County</i>

720
00:44:23,078 --> 00:44:24,329
<i>went on the radio</i>

721
00:44:24,329 --> 00:44:26,373
<i>to urge everyone to stay off the streets.</i>

722
00:44:28,083 --> 00:44:30,168
<i>It was a day
of tension and strain.</i>

723
00:44:30,669 --> 00:44:33,130
<i>Out in front of the White House
pickets are marching,</i>

724
00:44:33,130 --> 00:44:35,173
{\an8}<i>a not unusual sight.</i>

725
00:44:35,173 --> 00:44:37,551
<i>But in this context, with more poignancy</i>

726
00:44:37,551 --> 00:44:39,261
<i>than before, I think.</i>

727
00:44:39,261 --> 00:44:41,388
<i>Because Lyndon is a southern President,</i>

728
00:44:41,388 --> 00:44:44,474
<i>because he won with such a great vote
from the Negroes last fall,</i>

729
00:44:44,474 --> 00:44:47,060
<i>because the right to vote has been the key</i>

730
00:44:47,060 --> 00:44:49,563
<i>to the whole civil rights issue</i>

731
00:44:49,563 --> 00:44:52,816
<i>that he has hammered
and hammered since '57.</i>

732
00:44:52,816 --> 00:44:56,570
<i>♪ Oh, freedom ♪</i>

733
00:44:57,487 --> 00:44:59,656
<i>Well, it looks as if
yesterday's battle in Selma</i>

734
00:44:59,656 --> 00:45:01,908
<i>was rather the end of the beginning.</i>

735
00:45:01,908 --> 00:45:05,245
<i>For King's answer to Governor Wallace
is another march.</i>

736
00:45:05,245 --> 00:45:06,830
<i>Same town, Selma.</i>

737
00:45:06,830 --> 00:45:08,457
{\an8}<i>Same destination, Montgomery.</i>

738
00:45:08,457 --> 00:45:10,459
<i>The date, tomorrow, Tuesday.</i>

739
00:45:10,459 --> 00:45:12,836
<i>And says King, "He'll lead it himself."</i>

740
00:45:12,836 --> 00:45:15,714
<i>♪ Oh, freedom ♪</i>

741
00:45:15,714 --> 00:45:19,551
<i>♪ Oh, freedom over me ♪</i>

742
00:45:19,551 --> 00:45:21,470
<i>I heard later
that he did not know</i>

743
00:45:21,470 --> 00:45:22,929
<i>when he turned,</i>

744
00:45:22,929 --> 00:45:24,931
<i>whether anyone would be following.</i>

745
00:45:24,931 --> 00:45:27,517
<i>But this was victory, this was sanity.</i>

746
00:45:27,517 --> 00:45:30,353
<i>A temporary restraining lid on the volcano</i>

747
00:45:30,353 --> 00:45:32,105
<i>to grant time for</i>

748
00:45:32,105 --> 00:45:35,025
<i>the strong voting rights bill in Congress</i>

749
00:45:35,025 --> 00:45:36,902
<i>to save us from catastrophe.</i>

750
00:45:36,902 --> 00:45:40,071
<i>♪ Oh, freedom over me ♪</i>

751
00:45:45,368 --> 00:45:47,496
<i>This is the rhythm of a city,</i>

752
00:45:47,496 --> 00:45:50,665
<i>any big city, anywhere.</i>

753
00:45:50,665 --> 00:45:53,668
<i>Today American cities are facing a crisis.</i>

754
00:45:54,586 --> 00:45:57,589
<i>They are running a high fever
of unplanned growth.</i>

755
00:45:57,589 --> 00:45:59,966
<i>They are overcrowded and overwhelmed.</i>

756
00:45:59,966 --> 00:46:01,968
<i>For the first time,</i>

757
00:46:01,968 --> 00:46:05,138
<i>Americans are beginning
to seriously examine</i>

758
00:46:05,138 --> 00:46:07,766
<i>how their cities got that way.</i>

759
00:46:09,142 --> 00:46:10,602
<i>Within our cities,</i>

760
00:46:10,602 --> 00:46:12,813
imaginative programs are needed,

761
00:46:12,813 --> 00:46:17,150
to landscape streets
and to transform open areas

762
00:46:17,150 --> 00:46:19,569
into places of beauty and recreation.

763
00:46:21,988 --> 00:46:23,698
<i>Lyndon made a speech,</i>

764
00:46:23,698 --> 00:46:27,828
<i>and it was about the environment,
about conservation,</i>

765
00:46:27,828 --> 00:46:31,248
<i>and I-I decided, that's for me.</i>

766
00:46:35,252 --> 00:46:38,421
{\an8}<i>From the time
we went into the White House,</i>

767
00:46:38,421 --> 00:46:39,923
{\an8}<i>you had newswomen saying,</i>

768
00:46:39,923 --> 00:46:42,551
<i>"What is your role? What is your role?"</i>

769
00:46:42,551 --> 00:46:45,428
<i>And Mrs. Johnson's reply at the time was,</i>

770
00:46:45,428 --> 00:46:48,431
<i>"My role as First Lady</i>

771
00:46:48,431 --> 00:46:51,852
<i>will emerge in deeds not words."</i>

772
00:46:53,645 --> 00:46:58,275
<i>Our object was to convince Mrs. Johnson</i>

773
00:46:58,275 --> 00:47:01,695
<i>to take the bull by the horns
and to form a committee</i>

774
00:47:01,695 --> 00:47:04,656
<i>that would have the podium
of the White House</i>

775
00:47:04,656 --> 00:47:08,326
<i>to air views and efforts</i>

776
00:47:08,326 --> 00:47:11,329
<i>in making the city
of Washington more beautiful.</i>

777
00:47:12,998 --> 00:47:15,458
<i>I think the time has come</i>

778
00:47:15,458 --> 00:47:19,212
<i>in our national consciousness
to look at the environment</i>

779
00:47:19,212 --> 00:47:22,966
<i>and question
what man was doing to harm it.</i>

780
00:47:25,218 --> 00:47:26,511
<i>Growing up in the country,</i>

781
00:47:26,511 --> 00:47:29,139
<i>I was pretty much left to my own devices.</i>

782
00:47:29,973 --> 00:47:33,393
<i>And I did not have
many constant companions.</i>

783
00:47:36,313 --> 00:47:42,277
<i>Nature was my friend,
and sustenance, and teacher.</i>

784
00:47:43,069 --> 00:47:47,198
<i>It was a joy to me
and it's, it's never failed me.</i>

785
00:47:49,492 --> 00:47:51,202
<i>Tuesday, March 9th</i>

786
00:47:51,202 --> 00:47:53,705
<i>was the meeting
of my Beautification Committee.</i>

787
00:47:54,623 --> 00:47:57,000
<i>Getting on the subject
of beautification is like</i>

788
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,461
<i>picking up a tangled skein of wool,</i>

789
00:47:59,461 --> 00:48:01,338
<i>all the threads are interwoven...</i>

790
00:48:02,422 --> 00:48:04,883
...<i>recreation and urban renewal,</i>

791
00:48:04,883 --> 00:48:08,511
<i>and rapid transit
and highway beautification,</i>

792
00:48:09,262 --> 00:48:11,431
<i>and mental health and the crime rate.</i>

793
00:48:12,265 --> 00:48:13,433
<i>It's awfully hard</i>

794
00:48:13,433 --> 00:48:14,476
<i>to hitch the conversation</i>

795
00:48:14,476 --> 00:48:16,227
<i>into one straight line</i>

796
00:48:16,227 --> 00:48:18,730
<i>'cause everything leads to something else.</i>

797
00:48:19,481 --> 00:48:22,359
<i>At about 11:30 all 30 or so of us</i>

798
00:48:22,359 --> 00:48:24,194
<i>departed on our field trip.</i>

799
00:48:27,322 --> 00:48:29,741
<i>We stopped at
Green Leaf Gardens,</i>

800
00:48:29,741 --> 00:48:32,494
<i>a housing area of modest,
little brick row houses.</i>

801
00:48:32,494 --> 00:48:35,288
<i>This was Walter Washington's bailiwick</i>

802
00:48:35,288 --> 00:48:37,165
<i>and his great enthusiasm.</i>

803
00:48:37,832 --> 00:48:41,962
<i>Together, he and I
have been frequent visitors</i>

804
00:48:41,962 --> 00:48:44,422
<i>at schools, housing projects</i>

805
00:48:44,422 --> 00:48:46,675
<i>and in the neighborhoods of Washington.</i>

806
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:50,845
<i>He is a wise and able public servant.</i>

807
00:48:51,638 --> 00:48:54,766
{\an8}
<i>We have traveled through this city.</i>

808
00:48:54,766 --> 00:48:56,893
{\an8}<i>Both of us determined that</i>

809
00:48:56,893 --> 00:49:00,105
{\an8}<i>a certain part of what she wanted to do</i>

810
00:49:00,105 --> 00:49:02,983
<i>would be regarded as cosmetic,</i>

811
00:49:02,983 --> 00:49:06,277
<i>and that really behind the monuments,</i>

812
00:49:06,861 --> 00:49:08,989
<i>there was a big job to do.</i>

813
00:49:08,989 --> 00:49:11,533
<i>And that there must be equal access</i>

814
00:49:11,533 --> 00:49:14,411
<i>to the greatness and strengths
of our nation</i>

815
00:49:14,411 --> 00:49:16,496
<i>and in our neighborhoods.</i>

816
00:49:16,496 --> 00:49:18,707
<i>They must be available to all.</i>

817
00:49:18,707 --> 00:49:20,792
<i>I am no authority,</i>

818
00:49:20,792 --> 00:49:23,253
<i>just an interested, enthusiastic citizen.</i>

819
00:49:23,253 --> 00:49:26,256
<i>I recognize I do have
a sort of a tool in my hands</i>

820
00:49:26,256 --> 00:49:29,467
<i>by this title I carry,
and I want to use it.</i>

821
00:49:30,260 --> 00:49:31,886
<i>Nothing is more important</i>

822
00:49:31,886 --> 00:49:34,597
<i>than my involvement with beautification</i>

823
00:49:34,597 --> 00:49:36,558
<i>but I want a new word for it.</i>

824
00:49:41,980 --> 00:49:44,024
<i>Tuesday, July 13th.</i>

825
00:49:44,024 --> 00:49:46,067
<i>History is my preoccupation,</i>

826
00:49:46,067 --> 00:49:48,028
<i>our niche in it I mean,</i>

827
00:49:48,028 --> 00:49:49,863
<i>for the next year or so.</i>

828
00:49:51,072 --> 00:49:53,575
<i>The most significant part
of the day, of course,</i>

829
00:49:53,575 --> 00:49:56,953
<i>the appointment
of a new US Solicitor General.</i>

830
00:49:56,953 --> 00:49:58,580
<i>And it's Thurgood Marshall,</i>

831
00:49:58,580 --> 00:50:01,249
<i>the first Negro to hold such a post.</i>

832
00:50:01,249 --> 00:50:03,293
<i>A man with a wonderful record.</i>

833
00:50:03,293 --> 00:50:05,086
<i>He admired Judge Marshall</i>

834
00:50:05,086 --> 00:50:06,796
<i>and spoke of the possibility,</i>

835
00:50:06,796 --> 00:50:09,090
<i>perhaps when a vacancy opened up</i>

836
00:50:09,090 --> 00:50:12,010
<i>he might make him
a Justice of the Supreme Court.</i>

837
00:50:14,721 --> 00:50:17,724
<i>July 30th, the Medicare Bill passed.</i>

838
00:50:17,724 --> 00:50:19,225
<i>President and Mrs. Johnson</i>

839
00:50:19,225 --> 00:50:20,810
<i>and Vice President Humphrey arrive</i>

840
00:50:20,810 --> 00:50:23,605
<i>for ceremonies that will make
the Medicare bill</i>

841
00:50:23,605 --> 00:50:25,648
<i>a part of social security coverage.</i>

842
00:50:26,191 --> 00:50:28,068
<i>That impossible bill.</i>

843
00:50:28,068 --> 00:50:31,529
<i>He has every reason
to feel fulfilled and proud.</i>

844
00:50:34,365 --> 00:50:35,867
<i>Friday, August 6th.</i>

845
00:50:35,867 --> 00:50:38,119
<i>I talked to Lyndon that morning,</i>

846
00:50:38,119 --> 00:50:40,997
<i>He reminded me of the signing
of the voting rights bill.</i>

847
00:50:42,415 --> 00:50:45,043
<i>Completely
inefficient, I forgot to watch,</i>

848
00:50:45,043 --> 00:50:49,089
<i>but later I was proud to see
that Luci had not forgotten.</i>

849
00:50:49,089 --> 00:50:51,216
<i>She was right there by daddy's side,</i>

850
00:50:51,216 --> 00:50:53,676
<i>walking in, her hand in his.</i>

851
00:50:54,636 --> 00:50:57,639
<i>It was a dramatic setting,
a dramatic occasion.</i>

852
00:50:58,306 --> 00:51:02,310
I recognize that from
outside this chamber,

853
00:51:02,769 --> 00:51:06,147
<i>is the outraged conscience of a nation,</i>

854
00:51:06,147 --> 00:51:10,110
<i>but even if we pass this bill
the battle will not be over.</i>

855
00:51:10,568 --> 00:51:12,070
{\an8}<i>What happened in Selma is</i>

856
00:51:12,070 --> 00:51:13,947
{\an8}<i>part of a far larger movement</i>

857
00:51:13,947 --> 00:51:16,282
<i>which reaches into every section</i>

858
00:51:16,282 --> 00:51:18,326
<i>and state of America.</i>

859
00:51:18,326 --> 00:51:20,870
<i>It is the effort of American Negroes</i>

860
00:51:21,329 --> 00:51:23,873
<i>to secure for themselves</i>

861
00:51:23,873 --> 00:51:27,794
<i>the full blessings of American life.</i>

862
00:51:27,794 --> 00:51:32,006
Their cause must be our cause too.

863
00:51:34,717 --> 00:51:36,386
<i>Here in Saigon--</i>

864
00:51:36,386 --> 00:51:38,805
<i>The fact that there
had been many pluses</i>

865
00:51:38,805 --> 00:51:40,849
<i>in the legislative achievements
of the week</i>

866
00:51:40,849 --> 00:51:44,310
<i>had not prevented Vietnam
from dominating the news.</i>

867
00:51:46,646 --> 00:51:49,858
I have today ordered to Vietnam
the air mobile division

868
00:51:50,692 --> 00:51:51,943
and certain other forces

869
00:51:51,943 --> 00:51:53,862
which will raise our fighting strength

870
00:51:53,862 --> 00:51:58,867
from 75,000 <i>to 125,000 men
almost immediately.</i>

871
00:52:01,327 --> 00:52:04,330
<i>He said, "Vietnam is getting
worse day by day.</i>

872
00:52:04,330 --> 00:52:08,334
<i>"I have the choice to go in
with great casualty lists</i>

873
00:52:08,334 --> 00:52:10,837
<i>or get out with great disgrace."</i>

874
00:52:12,463 --> 00:52:15,175
<i>"It's like being in an airplane,
and I have to choose</i>

875
00:52:15,175 --> 00:52:18,553
<i>"between crashing the plane
or jumping out.</i>

876
00:52:18,553 --> 00:52:20,430
<i>I do not have a parachute."</i>

877
00:52:21,514 --> 00:52:23,766
<i>When he is pierced, I bleed.</i>

878
00:52:32,275 --> 00:52:33,818
What do you think, about 11?

879
00:52:33,818 --> 00:52:35,403
Eleven will be fine.

880
00:52:35,403 --> 00:52:39,157
Do you think that's too much
exposure? We could do 16?

881
00:52:39,157 --> 00:52:40,909
About eight?
I'd go down

882
00:52:40,909 --> 00:52:41,951
towards eight, Mrs. Johnson.

883
00:52:41,951 --> 00:52:44,162
Alright.
I'll just do another one.

884
00:52:46,539 --> 00:52:49,375
<i>Mrs. Johnson has
managed to tread the thin line</i>

885
00:52:49,375 --> 00:52:52,253
<i>between her private role
as wife and mother,</i>

886
00:52:52,253 --> 00:52:54,923
and her public stance on beautification

887
00:52:54,923 --> 00:52:57,383
which some special interests
groups in this country

888
00:52:57,383 --> 00:52:58,593
have found abrasive.

889
00:53:00,136 --> 00:53:02,263
<i>Tuesday, August 17th.</i>

890
00:53:02,263 --> 00:53:05,016
<i>I woke up early and worked with Liz</i>

891
00:53:05,016 --> 00:53:07,268
<i>to talk about how the Beautification Bills</i>

892
00:53:07,268 --> 00:53:09,270
<i>were faring in the House and Senate.</i>

893
00:53:11,356 --> 00:53:14,150
<i>There are four of them,
all relating to highways.</i>

894
00:53:17,195 --> 00:53:19,989
<i>There had been much talk in the
country and in the papers</i>

895
00:53:19,989 --> 00:53:22,158
<i>and not much action on the Hill.</i>

896
00:53:24,035 --> 00:53:25,954
<i>One of them is a goner.</i>

897
00:53:25,954 --> 00:53:28,873
<i>The others about billboards and junkyards,</i>

898
00:53:28,873 --> 00:53:32,126
<i>with three percent of the money
allocated for planting</i>

899
00:53:32,126 --> 00:53:35,088
<i>along the interstate highways
have a better chance.</i>

900
00:53:41,678 --> 00:53:44,806
This
administration has no desire

901
00:53:44,806 --> 00:53:49,102
to punish or to penalize
any private industry

902
00:53:49,102 --> 00:53:52,063
or any private company in this nation.

903
00:53:52,772 --> 00:53:55,566
But we are not going to allow them

904
00:53:55,566 --> 00:54:00,488
to intrude their own
specialized, private objectives

905
00:54:00,488 --> 00:54:02,865
<i>on the larger public trust.</i>

906
00:54:04,492 --> 00:54:05,910
<i>And that is why today</i>

907
00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:08,997
<i>there's a great deal of real joy</i>

908
00:54:08,997 --> 00:54:14,419
to sign the Highway
Beautification Act of 1965.

909
00:54:31,144 --> 00:54:32,520
<i>How many times have I driven</i>

910
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,689
<i>up to the front door of Bethesda?</i>

911
00:54:34,689 --> 00:54:36,816
<i>Really serious times.</i>

912
00:54:37,525 --> 00:54:41,404
<i>Very present in my mind,
and I'm sure in Lyndon's mind,</i>

913
00:54:41,404 --> 00:54:44,032
<i>was of his serious heart attack.</i>

914
00:54:44,991 --> 00:54:48,619
<i>For the first few years
we passed those milestones</i>

915
00:54:48,619 --> 00:54:51,331
<i>stepping softly with great trepidation.</i>

916
00:54:51,331 --> 00:54:54,709
<i>Now we act almost as though
it had not been.</i>

917
00:54:54,709 --> 00:54:57,128
<i>Though Lyndon and I will not forget.</i>

918
00:55:02,342 --> 00:55:05,928
<i>There was a high sense of
theater about the whole thing.</i>

919
00:55:09,932 --> 00:55:11,559
<i>They wheeled up a long cart,</i>

920
00:55:11,559 --> 00:55:14,312
<i>and doctors assisted Lyndon on to it,</i>

921
00:55:14,312 --> 00:55:16,939
<i>and then he said, "Let's go."</i>

922
00:55:18,816 --> 00:55:20,985
<i>I felt like he was
putting on a performance,</i>

923
00:55:20,985 --> 00:55:23,321
<i>to save us from being worried.</i>

924
00:55:24,655 --> 00:55:28,117
<i>The gall bladder had been just
as they suspected, inflamed,</i>

925
00:55:28,117 --> 00:55:29,869
<i>with one stone in it.</i>

926
00:55:30,745 --> 00:55:34,165
<i>This meant a double operation,
more hazard,</i>

927
00:55:34,165 --> 00:55:35,708
<i>and longer recuperation.</i>

928
00:55:48,971 --> 00:55:50,932
<i>I walked into the room to find</i>

929
00:55:50,932 --> 00:55:53,684
<i>Abe sitting quietly by Lyndon's bedside.</i>

930
00:55:55,228 --> 00:55:58,439
<i>He was seeking Abe's advice
on how he could escape</i>

931
00:55:58,439 --> 00:56:00,316
<i>from the burdens of the presidency</i>

932
00:56:00,316 --> 00:56:02,652
<i>for the next indefinite period.</i>

933
00:56:03,694 --> 00:56:05,988
<i>So here is the black beast of depression</i>

934
00:56:05,988 --> 00:56:07,573
<i>back in our lives.</i>

935
00:56:08,533 --> 00:56:11,869
<i>He was like a man on whom an avalanche
had suddenly fallen.</i>

936
00:56:12,578 --> 00:56:14,330
<i>He said he didn't feel like making</i>

937
00:56:14,330 --> 00:56:16,541
<i>a single decision right now.</i>

938
00:56:17,291 --> 00:56:19,210
<i>"I want to go to the ranch.</i>

939
00:56:19,210 --> 00:56:22,255
<i>"I don't want Hubert
to be even able to call me.</i>

940
00:56:22,255 --> 00:56:24,715
<i>"They may demand that I resign,</i>

941
00:56:24,715 --> 00:56:27,051
<i>they may even want to impeach me."</i>

942
00:56:27,051 --> 00:56:30,763
<i>Mostly we sat in an atmosphere
of numbed silence,</i>

943
00:56:30,763 --> 00:56:33,933
<i>with Abe offering quiet legal observations</i>

944
00:56:33,933 --> 00:56:35,852
<i>on the alternatives.</i>

945
00:56:35,852 --> 00:56:39,522
<i>Abe began to write out
what Lyndon asked him to.</i>

946
00:56:40,231 --> 00:56:41,732
<i>And after Lyndon read it he said,</i>

947
00:56:41,732 --> 00:56:43,818
<i>"Here, you had better
keep both these copies.</i>

948
00:56:43,818 --> 00:56:46,487
<i>I don't want anybody to know about them."</i>

949
00:56:47,572 --> 00:56:50,616
<i>I think it quite essential
that he have days,</i>

950
00:56:50,616 --> 00:56:52,618
<i>maybe weeks of rest.</i>

951
00:56:53,286 --> 00:56:56,205
<i>But how to buy a little time of quiet</i>

952
00:56:56,205 --> 00:56:58,416
<i>when you are President
of the United States?</i>

953
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:02,253
The question now, of course,

954
00:57:02,253 --> 00:57:05,882
is what happens to
the Johnson style in 1966?

955
00:57:05,882 --> 00:57:09,093
It will be a year in which
style alone won't solve things.

956
00:57:09,093 --> 00:57:10,344
He has already learned

957
00:57:10,344 --> 00:57:12,430
he can't put the arm on the Viet Cong

958
00:57:12,430 --> 00:57:13,890
and the North Vietnamese

959
00:57:13,890 --> 00:57:16,350
the way he can
on a recalcitrant congressman.

960
00:57:16,350 --> 00:57:18,853
And learning this
has frequently seemed to produce

961
00:57:18,853 --> 00:57:20,855
<i>a kind of sulkiness in the President.</i>

962
00:57:20,855 --> 00:57:23,191
<i>A resentment at questions he can't answer,</i>

963
00:57:23,191 --> 00:57:24,817
<i>a petulance with the press,</i>

964
00:57:24,817 --> 00:57:26,861
<i>a deviousness at times in his statements</i>

965
00:57:26,861 --> 00:57:29,489
<i>about what has happened
and what is going to happen.</i>

966
00:57:34,285 --> 00:57:36,329
<i>That inescapable
feeling of drama,</i>

967
00:57:36,787 --> 00:57:39,749
<i>what will this new year hold for us all?</i>

968
00:57:42,251 --> 00:57:43,794
Will you tell us what you're sending

969
00:57:43,794 --> 00:57:45,254
to Mrs. Johnson in your telegram?

970
00:57:46,881 --> 00:57:49,050
- Would you like me to read it?
- Yes, please.

971
00:57:49,050 --> 00:57:53,137
"We know you share our grief
at the loss of life in Vietnam.

972
00:57:53,137 --> 00:57:56,599
"Please add your voices
to those calling for negotiation

973
00:57:56,599 --> 00:57:58,059
"instead of bombing.

974
00:57:58,059 --> 00:58:00,645
"There must be
an honorable diplomatic solution

975
00:58:00,645 --> 00:58:02,980
to the situation in Vietnam."

976
00:58:04,774 --> 00:58:06,609
<i>Sunday, February 13th.</i>

977
00:58:06,609 --> 00:58:09,779
{\an8}<i>At lunch, Lafayette Park
had been full of picketers.</i>

978
00:58:10,530 --> 00:58:12,532
{\an8}<i>It's such a common thing now.</i>

979
00:58:13,991 --> 00:58:15,910
<i>Lyndon said, this thing is assuming</i>

980
00:58:15,910 --> 00:58:17,912
<i>rather dangerous proportions.</i>

981
00:58:19,580 --> 00:58:21,457
<i>He talked about the individual</i>

982
00:58:21,457 --> 00:58:24,794
<i>feelings of every mother
who had a son in Vietnam</i>

983
00:58:24,794 --> 00:58:27,296
<i>and in comparison about his feelings.</i>

984
00:58:27,296 --> 00:58:30,174
<i>He said, "There's not
a mother in the world</i>

985
00:58:30,174 --> 00:58:32,760
<i>"who cares as much about it as I do</i>

986
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:37,306
<i>"because I have 200,000 of them over there</i>

987
00:58:37,306 --> 00:58:39,809
<i>"and they think I am in charge.</i>

988
00:58:39,809 --> 00:58:43,729
<i>And if I am not, God help them.
Who the hell is?"</i>

989
00:58:54,031 --> 00:58:55,992
<i>Luci's wedding day
began clear and</i>

990
00:58:55,992 --> 00:58:57,577
<i>bright and beautiful.</i>

991
00:58:57,577 --> 00:59:00,538
<i>What I remember of the morning
was a montage.</i>

992
00:59:02,248 --> 00:59:05,251
<i>One walks up the aisle
as though in a play.</i>

993
00:59:05,251 --> 00:59:08,671
<i>Thinking not the deep thoughts
that this is the last moment</i>

994
00:59:08,671 --> 00:59:10,840
<i>she belongs to us alone.</i>

995
00:59:11,966 --> 00:59:15,469
<i>She was flawless
in her dignity and gentleness.</i>

996
00:59:16,596 --> 00:59:19,015
<i>To his eternal credit
I do not remember Lyndon</i>

997
00:59:19,015 --> 00:59:21,976
<i>looking at his watch
one time in the service</i>

998
00:59:21,976 --> 00:59:23,519
<i>that lasted longer than an hour.</i>

999
00:59:25,730 --> 00:59:27,648
<i>I myself did not see the pickets.</i>

1000
00:59:29,233 --> 00:59:32,028
<i>Only when it is extremely
raucous do we notice it.</i>

1001
00:59:33,571 --> 00:59:35,948
<i>I feel protective of Luci and Pat,</i>

1002
00:59:35,948 --> 00:59:39,577
<i>disgusted by the whole thing,
just as a citizen,</i>

1003
00:59:39,577 --> 00:59:41,954
<i>and not wise enough to cope with it.</i>

1004
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,303
Would you end all of the
speculation for us and tell us

1005
00:59:57,303 --> 00:59:59,597
A, if you intend to run in 1968

1006
00:59:59,597 --> 01:00:02,058
and B, if Hubert Humphrey
will be your running mate?

1007
01:00:05,978 --> 01:00:07,605
I didn't know, uh, Ms. Means,

1008
01:00:07,605 --> 01:00:09,774
there had been
that much speculation about it.

1009
01:00:10,858 --> 01:00:15,363
Uh, I'm not ready to make
a decision about my future

1010
01:00:15,363 --> 01:00:18,491
after Jan '69 at this time.

1011
01:00:18,491 --> 01:00:20,618
Down the road several months from now

1012
01:00:20,618 --> 01:00:21,869
would be the appropriate time

1013
01:00:21,869 --> 01:00:23,496
for an announcement

1014
01:00:23,496 --> 01:00:26,457
of what my future plans are.

1015
01:00:29,543 --> 01:00:31,545
{\an8}<i>Saturday, May 13th.</i>

1016
01:00:32,171 --> 01:00:33,756
{\an8}<i>Many, many months ago,</i>

1017
01:00:33,756 --> 01:00:36,759
{\an8}<i>I set March of '68 in my own mind</i>

1018
01:00:36,759 --> 01:00:39,011
<i>as the time when
Lyndon can make a statement</i>

1019
01:00:39,011 --> 01:00:42,014
<i>that he would not be
a candidate for reelection.</i>

1020
01:00:42,014 --> 01:00:43,766
<i>For the first time in my life,</i>

1021
01:00:43,766 --> 01:00:47,978
<i>I have felt that Lyndon
would be a happy man retired.</i>

1022
01:00:47,978 --> 01:00:52,608
<i>I find myself enjoying more and more
every return to the ranch,</i>

1023
01:00:52,608 --> 01:00:55,277
<i>and I do not know whether we can endure</i>

1024
01:00:55,277 --> 01:00:57,613
<i>another four-year term in the presidency.</i>

1025
01:01:00,241 --> 01:01:02,326
<i>If life can be said to have a pattern,</i>

1026
01:01:02,326 --> 01:01:06,580
<i>as we go into summer,
the crescendo of work mounts.</i>

1027
01:01:08,124 --> 01:01:09,500
<i>In a Rose Garden ceremony,</i>

1028
01:01:09,500 --> 01:01:12,545
<i>a 58-year-old great grandson of a slave</i>

1029
01:01:12,545 --> 01:01:14,380
<i>is nominated by President Johnson</i>

1030
01:01:14,380 --> 01:01:16,048
<i>to be a Supreme Court Justice.</i>

1031
01:01:16,048 --> 01:01:19,427
<i>He is Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall.</i>

1032
01:01:19,427 --> 01:01:21,887
<i>This morning I have welcomed</i>

1033
01:01:21,887 --> 01:01:25,933
<i>the members of the Commission
on Civil Disorders,</i>

1034
01:01:25,933 --> 01:01:28,602
chaired by Governor Kerner of Illinois.

1035
01:01:28,602 --> 01:01:30,980
<i>The American people
are baffled and dismayed</i>

1036
01:01:30,980 --> 01:01:33,733
<i>by the wholesale looting and violence</i>

1037
01:01:33,733 --> 01:01:35,735
<i>that has occurred both in small towns and</i>

1038
01:01:35,735 --> 01:01:37,570
<i>in great metropolitan centers.</i>

1039
01:01:37,570 --> 01:01:39,447
Hey, hey, LBJ,

1040
01:01:39,447 --> 01:01:41,490
how many kids did you kill today?

1041
01:01:41,490 --> 01:01:44,910
Hell no, we won't go.

1042
01:01:44,910 --> 01:01:46,954
<i>The pro's heavyweight champion
Cassius Clay</i>

1043
01:01:46,954 --> 01:01:48,956
<i>is found guilty of violating</i>

1044
01:01:48,956 --> 01:01:52,293
<i>the US Selective Service laws
by refusing to be inducted.</i>

1045
01:01:52,293 --> 01:01:55,045
<i>I've said it once,
and I will say it again.</i>

1046
01:01:55,045 --> 01:02:00,426
The real enemies of my people
are right here, not in Vietnam.

1047
01:02:03,512 --> 01:02:05,139
<i>Sunday, August 13th.</i>

1048
01:02:05,139 --> 01:02:07,099
<i>A cool front had blown in,</i>

1049
01:02:07,099 --> 01:02:09,602
<i>and there was a promise
of fall in the air.</i>

1050
01:02:10,269 --> 01:02:13,189
<i>It's strange, you feel soothed and happy</i>

1051
01:02:13,189 --> 01:02:17,359
<i>about the companionship of your
daughter and your grandchild</i>

1052
01:02:17,359 --> 01:02:20,780
<i>and exactly simultaneously
you're weighed down</i>

1053
01:02:20,780 --> 01:02:23,407
<i>by the troubles
that you must try to solve.</i>

1054
01:02:24,533 --> 01:02:29,330
<i>The growing virus of the riots,
the rising list of casualties,</i>

1055
01:02:29,330 --> 01:02:31,540
<i>and the voices of your own friends</i>

1056
01:02:31,540 --> 01:02:33,793
<i>or former friends in Congress,</i>

1057
01:02:33,793 --> 01:02:36,796
<i>and most of the bitching
is coming from the Democrats.</i>

1058
01:02:36,796 --> 01:02:40,424
<i>We watched Martin Luther King on TV.</i>

1059
01:02:40,424 --> 01:02:41,884
We are losing both.

1060
01:02:41,884 --> 01:02:44,637
We are losing the war
against poverty here at home.

1061
01:02:44,637 --> 01:02:46,555
We are losing the war in Vietnam,

1062
01:02:46,555 --> 01:02:49,225
morally and politically.
And I think we're losing--

1063
01:02:49,225 --> 01:02:52,770
<i>To me, it seemed
the old charisma is fading.</i>

1064
01:02:52,770 --> 01:02:55,731
<i>He was not as exciting
as I had remembered him.</i>

1065
01:02:56,565 --> 01:02:59,318
<i>Today's poll has Lyndon down to 39,</i>

1066
01:02:59,318 --> 01:03:01,111
<i>the lowest he's ever been.</i>

1067
01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:04,323
<i>And my instinct tells me
the only reaction to it</i>

1068
01:03:04,323 --> 01:03:09,078
<i>should be to work harder,
be staunch and keep smiling.</i>

1069
01:03:09,078 --> 01:03:10,621
<i>But it is hard.</i>

1070
01:03:13,207 --> 01:03:15,167
We have
grown enough strength to say,

1071
01:03:15,167 --> 01:03:17,086
{\an8}you know, that Vietnam War
is for the Birds.

1072
01:03:17,086 --> 01:03:18,546
{\an8}Lynda Bird, Lady Bird--

1073
01:03:20,798 --> 01:03:22,258
{\an8}Let the Birds go take care of it,

1074
01:03:22,258 --> 01:03:23,717
{\an8}we gonna sit here and watch.

1075
01:03:24,468 --> 01:03:28,347
The new left has at best
perhaps 300,000 members.

1076
01:03:28,347 --> 01:03:30,641
The young radicals scorn communism

1077
01:03:30,641 --> 01:03:33,227
and they see liberals as their enemy.

1078
01:03:33,978 --> 01:03:36,063
{\an8}<i>The discontent of the new left
has been noted</i>

1079
01:03:36,063 --> 01:03:39,275
<i>by the politician most
identified with young people.</i>

1080
01:03:39,275 --> 01:03:42,653
They see us willing to fight a
war for freedom in Vietnam,

1081
01:03:43,237 --> 01:03:46,574
but unwilling to fight with
one-hundredth the money or force

1082
01:03:46,574 --> 01:03:49,702
or effort to secure freedom
in Mississippi,

1083
01:03:49,702 --> 01:03:52,288
or Alabama, or the ghettos of the north.

1084
01:03:58,168 --> 01:04:00,588
<i>I read a very thoughtful editorial.</i>

1085
01:04:01,589 --> 01:04:03,883
<i>It's a frantic effort
of some of today's young</i>

1086
01:04:03,883 --> 01:04:06,176
<i>to find a tangible method of revolt.</i>

1087
01:04:06,176 --> 01:04:09,471
<i>Their revolt happens to be
almost totally negative.</i>

1088
01:04:09,471 --> 01:04:11,974
<i>It is a sterile thing,</i>

1089
01:04:11,974 --> 01:04:14,518
<i>against the velvet prison of affluence,</i>

1090
01:04:14,518 --> 01:04:16,854
{\an8}<i>conformity, and isolation.</i>

1091
01:04:20,774 --> 01:04:23,861
<i>Merely to be bizarre in strategic spots</i>

1092
01:04:23,861 --> 01:04:26,697
<i>gives people a lot of exposure
in this day of saturation coverage</i>

1093
01:04:26,697 --> 01:04:28,991
<i>of the major events by television.</i>

1094
01:04:29,950 --> 01:04:31,535
<i>They think they are doing something</i>

1095
01:04:31,535 --> 01:04:33,662
<i>when they are noticed by the TV cameras.</i>

1096
01:04:34,330 --> 01:04:37,583
<i>Many of the young confuse it with action.</i>

1097
01:04:40,628 --> 01:04:44,214
<i>Monday, October 9.
My journey into academia.</i>

1098
01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:48,052
{\an8}<i>At about three o'clock
we arrived at New Haven.</i>

1099
01:04:48,052 --> 01:04:52,097
<i>It was a sizable crowd
of picketers carrying signs</i>

1100
01:04:52,097 --> 01:04:54,558
<i>that said, "Stop beautifying
North Vietnam"</i>

1101
01:04:54,558 --> 01:04:56,435
<i>and displayed pictures of</i>

1102
01:04:56,435 --> 01:04:59,104
<i>people supposedly burned by napalm.</i>

1103
01:05:01,649 --> 01:05:03,025
<i>I got out of the car.</i>

1104
01:05:03,025 --> 01:05:04,443
<i>The measured slowness,</i>

1105
01:05:04,443 --> 01:05:06,737
<i>and walked to meet Dr. Brewster.</i>

1106
01:05:07,488 --> 01:05:09,239
<i>Quite soon, the feeling got across to me</i>

1107
01:05:09,239 --> 01:05:10,783
<i>that my presence here</i>

1108
01:05:10,783 --> 01:05:13,243
<i>was really an imposition on him.</i>

1109
01:05:13,243 --> 01:05:15,913
<i>His manner was absolutely correct.</i>

1110
01:05:15,913 --> 01:05:18,082
<i>But if I have any antenna at all,</i>

1111
01:05:18,082 --> 01:05:21,043
<i>I sense that he wished
he had no part of it.</i>

1112
01:05:22,086 --> 01:05:25,422
{\an8}Can a great democratic society

1113
01:05:25,422 --> 01:05:30,135
generate the energy to build
projects of order and beauty?

1114
01:05:30,135 --> 01:05:33,722
{\an8}That answer will unfold, I think,

1115
01:05:33,722 --> 01:05:36,392
{\an8}in the next two decades.

1116
01:05:36,392 --> 01:05:38,227
Thank you very much.

1117
01:05:39,937 --> 01:05:41,313
<i>I was never so glad</i>

1118
01:05:41,313 --> 01:05:43,190
<i>to be finished with a speech in my life.</i>

1119
01:05:44,024 --> 01:05:47,319
<i>On our way out, I shook hands
with everybody I could reach,</i>

1120
01:05:47,319 --> 01:05:49,947
<i>and not even a Secret Service was gladder,</i>

1121
01:05:49,947 --> 01:05:52,866
<i>I'm sure, that an evening was nearly over.</i>

1122
01:05:52,866 --> 01:05:55,035
<i>That was also a lesson to me,</i>

1123
01:05:55,035 --> 01:05:57,246
<i>I must not live in the White House</i>

1124
01:05:57,246 --> 01:05:58,956
<i>insulated myself.</i>

1125
01:05:59,873 --> 01:06:04,211
<i>I want to know what's going on,
even if to know is to suffer.</i>

1126
01:06:10,092 --> 01:06:11,760
<i>A rather striking
foursome emerged</i>

1127
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:12,970
<i>from the White House today</i>

1128
01:06:12,970 --> 01:06:15,055
<i>and strolled across the South Lawn.</i>

1129
01:06:15,055 --> 01:06:17,850
<i>Marine Captain Charles Robb,
his bride to be,</i>

1130
01:06:17,850 --> 01:06:19,476
<i>and his prospective in-laws.</i>

1131
01:06:19,977 --> 01:06:21,478
<i>There will be a White House wedding,</i>

1132
01:06:21,478 --> 01:06:23,439
<i>and then the President's son-in-law</i>

1133
01:06:23,439 --> 01:06:25,774
<i>will go off to fight in Vietnam.</i>

1134
01:06:28,902 --> 01:06:30,487
<i>Lynda's wedding day,</i>

1135
01:06:30,487 --> 01:06:32,406
<i>Saturday, December the 9th.</i>

1136
01:06:33,532 --> 01:06:36,035
<i>The ceremony began on time.</i>

1137
01:06:36,035 --> 01:06:38,245
<i>How would one describe the bride?</i>

1138
01:06:38,245 --> 01:06:42,041
<i>Queenly, radiant, stunningly beautiful,</i>

1139
01:06:42,041 --> 01:06:44,668
<i>every heart in the place lifted.</i>

1140
01:06:45,544 --> 01:06:49,173
<i>Beautiful as she was, it was
he I watched all the way,</i>

1141
01:06:49,173 --> 01:06:53,719
<i>such a mixture of quietness
and farewell in his look,</i>

1142
01:06:53,719 --> 01:06:55,679
<i>his hair looked whiter than I'd ever seen,</i>

1143
01:06:55,679 --> 01:06:57,723
<i>and I was full of tenderness for him.</i>

1144
01:06:59,266 --> 01:07:02,478
<i>I have never seen a lovelier ceremony.</i>

1145
01:07:03,020 --> 01:07:06,982
<i>Lynda's wedding dress
fulfilled every expectation,</i>

1146
01:07:06,982 --> 01:07:10,110
<i>and I hope I live to see
a granddaughter wear it,</i>

1147
01:07:10,110 --> 01:07:13,363
<i>and I'm sure it will be just as good then.</i>

1148
01:07:19,787 --> 01:07:22,581
<i>Saturday, January the 13th.</i>

1149
01:07:22,581 --> 01:07:26,126
<i>And so we returned to what
really seemed like New Year's,</i>

1150
01:07:26,126 --> 01:07:28,253
<i>the beginning of the hardest year</i>

1151
01:07:28,253 --> 01:07:31,298
<i>with our big problem still unresolved.</i>

1152
01:07:32,299 --> 01:07:33,926
<i>We drove to Luci's house</i>

1153
01:07:33,926 --> 01:07:36,512
<i>and there was Lyn, all smiles,</i>

1154
01:07:36,512 --> 01:07:38,722
<i>apparently over his ear infection,</i>

1155
01:07:39,431 --> 01:07:42,976
<i>absolutely enthralled
at seeing his grandfather.</i>

1156
01:07:44,061 --> 01:07:45,938
<i>Lyndon spends more time with him</i>

1157
01:07:45,938 --> 01:07:48,398
<i>than he ever did
with either of our children.</i>

1158
01:07:48,982 --> 01:07:51,068
<i>He said, "There's one job I want,</i>

1159
01:07:51,068 --> 01:07:54,029
<i>and that's to be a full-time grandfather."</i>

1160
01:07:54,530 --> 01:07:56,365
<i>It was both humorous and pathetic.</i>

1161
01:07:59,493 --> 01:08:01,703
<i>Wednesday, January the 17th.</i>

1162
01:08:01,703 --> 01:08:03,872
<i>The day of the State of the Union.</i>

1163
01:08:03,872 --> 01:08:07,292
<i>Lyndon had asked George
to draft him a statement,</i>

1164
01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:09,294
<i>announcing that he would not run.</i>

1165
01:08:09,962 --> 01:08:14,091
<i>My own, which Lyndon had asked
me to produce, was feeble,</i>

1166
01:08:14,091 --> 01:08:16,844
<i>and if there was anything
that we ever ought to say</i>

1167
01:08:16,844 --> 01:08:20,389
<i>with words that have
wings and fire, this is it.</i>

1168
01:08:22,391 --> 01:08:24,810
<i>I keep the statement I had written in '64,</i>

1169
01:08:24,810 --> 01:08:27,187
<i>when Lyndon was facing
going to Atlantic City</i>

1170
01:08:27,187 --> 01:08:28,647
<i>and did not want to go,</i>

1171
01:08:28,647 --> 01:08:32,568
<i>in the right-hand drawer
of my desk in my bedroom.</i>

1172
01:08:33,152 --> 01:08:36,905
<i>I brought it out and we reread
what I had said then.</i>

1173
01:08:36,905 --> 01:08:38,574
<i>It sounds better now.</i>

1174
01:08:39,408 --> 01:08:42,744
<i>Lyndon put George's statement
in his inside pocket.</i>

1175
01:08:42,744 --> 01:08:44,580
<i>It was not to be included in the text</i>

1176
01:08:44,580 --> 01:08:45,914
<i>of the State of the Union.</i>

1177
01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:51,086
<i>If he made it, it would come at the end,</i>

1178
01:08:51,086 --> 01:08:53,422
<i>beginning with a line something like this,</i>

1179
01:08:53,422 --> 01:08:57,134
<i>"And now I want to speak to you
about a personal matter."</i>

1180
01:08:57,134 --> 01:09:00,762
<i>He looks from one to another
of those close to him</i>

1181
01:09:00,762 --> 01:09:02,139
<i>for an answer,</i>

1182
01:09:02,139 --> 01:09:03,473
<i>for some wisdom,</i>

1183
01:09:03,473 --> 01:09:06,643
<i>some foresight, beyond any he can have.</i>

1184
01:09:07,603 --> 01:09:10,272
<i>And he said, "Well, what shall I do?"</i>

1185
01:09:11,064 --> 01:09:13,317
<i>I looked at him
with that hopeless feeling,</i>

1186
01:09:13,317 --> 01:09:16,528
<i>and said, "Luci hopes you won't run.</i>

1187
01:09:19,823 --> 01:09:21,700
<i>"She wants you for herself,</i>

1188
01:09:21,700 --> 01:09:24,620
<i>and Lyn and all of us being together.</i>

1189
01:09:27,539 --> 01:09:29,958
<i>"Lynda hopes you will run.</i>

1190
01:09:29,958 --> 01:09:32,461
<i>"Because her husband is going to war,</i>

1191
01:09:32,461 --> 01:09:34,379
<i>"and she thinks there will be more chance</i>

1192
01:09:34,379 --> 01:09:36,548
<i>"of getting him back alive</i>

1193
01:09:36,548 --> 01:09:39,760
<i>"and everything settled
if you're President.</i>

1194
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:43,889
<i>"And me, I don't know,
I've said it all before.</i>

1195
01:09:44,681 --> 01:09:46,683
<i>I can't tell you what to do."</i>

1196
01:09:52,773 --> 01:09:55,025
Mr. Speaker,

1197
01:09:55,567 --> 01:09:58,779
the President of the United States.

1198
01:10:06,703 --> 01:10:08,747
I wish with all of my heart

1199
01:10:08,747 --> 01:10:12,834
that the expenditures
that are necessary to build

1200
01:10:12,834 --> 01:10:14,503
and to protect our power

1201
01:10:14,503 --> 01:10:17,756
could all be devoted
to the programs of peace.

1202
01:10:18,799 --> 01:10:20,592
But until world conditions permit

1203
01:10:20,592 --> 01:10:22,261
and until peace is assured,

1204
01:10:23,011 --> 01:10:27,015
America's bravest sons
who wear our nation's uniform

1205
01:10:28,016 --> 01:10:29,351
must continue.

1206
01:10:31,186 --> 01:10:33,814
<i>Somewhere in it
the teleprompter went out.</i>

1207
01:10:33,814 --> 01:10:36,733
<i>I could see him leafing
through three or four pages</i>

1208
01:10:36,733 --> 01:10:40,279
<i>of the text in front of him
while he interpolated.</i>

1209
01:10:41,571 --> 01:10:44,866
<i>As we approached the end
I tightened up in my seat.</i>

1210
01:10:44,866 --> 01:10:48,495
<i>Would he reach in his pocket?
Did I want him to?</i>

1211
01:10:48,495 --> 01:10:52,207
<i>Would I be relieved if he did
or if he didn't?</i>

1212
01:10:56,003 --> 01:10:58,297
Can we achieve these goals?

1213
01:10:59,756 --> 01:11:01,091
Of course we can.

1214
01:11:06,013 --> 01:11:07,848
Thank you and good night.

1215
01:11:07,848 --> 01:11:09,433
<i>He did not reach in his pocket</i>

1216
01:11:09,433 --> 01:11:11,435
<i>for the draft that I knew was there.</i>

1217
01:11:20,027 --> 01:11:22,070
<i>Thursday, January 18th.</i>

1218
01:11:22,821 --> 01:11:24,072
<i>I went over my guest list</i>

1219
01:11:24,072 --> 01:11:26,074
<i>for the Women Doers' Luncheon,</i>

1220
01:11:26,616 --> 01:11:29,411
<i>our subject, "Crime on the Streets."</i>

1221
01:11:29,411 --> 01:11:31,246
<i>A few of the guests had been late</i>

1222
01:11:31,246 --> 01:11:33,623
<i>and some of the staff
ushered them up to speak to me,</i>

1223
01:11:33,623 --> 01:11:35,125
<i>Eartha Kitt among them.</i>

1224
01:11:35,625 --> 01:11:38,045
<i>I work with inner city kids,</i>

1225
01:11:38,045 --> 01:11:40,380
<i>so that's why I was invited
to this luncheon.</i>

1226
01:11:41,006 --> 01:11:42,424
{\an8}<i>I didn't want to go,</i>

1227
01:11:42,424 --> 01:11:44,426
{\an8}<i>but the White House kept calling me</i>

1228
01:11:44,426 --> 01:11:47,637
{\an8}<i>and saying, "Yes, Mrs. Johnson
definitely wants you to come."</i>

1229
01:11:55,062 --> 01:11:57,397
Crime is a grim subject

1230
01:11:57,397 --> 01:11:59,691
for a pleasant meeting like this,

1231
01:12:00,817 --> 01:12:03,070
but I believe that

1232
01:12:03,820 --> 01:12:08,992
everybody is increasingly
determined to face up to it.

1233
01:12:10,869 --> 01:12:14,039
<i>Then in walks President Johnson.</i>

1234
01:12:17,417 --> 01:12:21,797
<i>He puts his elbow on the pulpit
that was suddenly out there.</i>

1235
01:12:21,797 --> 01:12:23,298
<i>Miss Eartha Kitt,</i>

1236
01:12:23,298 --> 01:12:25,258
<i>who had been seated at the
table close to the podium,</i>

1237
01:12:25,258 --> 01:12:26,718
<i>rose in his path and said--</i>

1238
01:12:45,779 --> 01:12:47,447
<i>Lyndon paused a moment,</i>

1239
01:12:47,447 --> 01:12:49,658
<i>but fortunately, he had the answer.</i>

1240
01:12:57,624 --> 01:12:59,960
<i>She sat down stubbed
out of cigarettes</i>

1241
01:12:59,960 --> 01:13:01,461
<i>tossing her long hair,</i>

1242
01:13:01,461 --> 01:13:04,548
<i>and from then on I watched her
expecting something,</i>

1243
01:13:04,548 --> 01:13:05,882
<i>I didn't know what.</i>

1244
01:13:07,217 --> 01:13:08,927
<i>She smoldered and smoked.</i>

1245
01:13:10,137 --> 01:13:13,515
<i>I asked the guests for their
observations and discussions.</i>

1246
01:13:14,141 --> 01:13:16,101
<i>I noticed Miss Kitt's hand going up</i>

1247
01:13:16,101 --> 01:13:19,146
<i>and I knew that I must,
in turn, get to her.</i>

1248
01:13:19,146 --> 01:13:23,191
<i>I did not know what to expect,
only that it would not be good.</i>

1249
01:13:23,191 --> 01:13:26,403
<i>She rose and began
to talk swiftly, passionately,</i>

1250
01:13:26,403 --> 01:13:28,029
<i>beginning with anger that the fact</i>

1251
01:13:28,029 --> 01:13:30,157
<i>of welfare checks were so small.</i>

1252
01:13:31,491 --> 01:13:33,285
<i>And then, mounting to a crescendo,</i>

1253
01:13:33,285 --> 01:13:35,245
<i>she came to her real destination,</i>

1254
01:13:35,245 --> 01:13:37,581
<i>to denounce the war in Vietnam.</i>

1255
01:13:38,290 --> 01:13:40,083
<i>Advancing a step toward me</i>

1256
01:13:40,083 --> 01:13:42,544
<i>and looking with intense directness at me,</i>

1257
01:13:42,544 --> 01:13:44,337
<i>she's a good actress, she said,</i>

1258
01:13:44,337 --> 01:13:46,339
<i>"Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too,</i>

1259
01:13:46,339 --> 01:13:48,550
<i>"although you have had
daughters and not sons.</i>

1260
01:13:48,550 --> 01:13:50,760
<i>"I am a mother and I know
the feeling of having a baby</i>

1261
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:52,179
<i>"come out of my gut.</i>

1262
01:13:52,179 --> 01:13:54,347
<i>"I have a baby and then
you send him off to war.</i>

1263
01:13:54,347 --> 01:13:56,683
<i>No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."</i>

1264
01:13:57,142 --> 01:13:58,935
<i>Miss Kitt stopped for breath</i>

1265
01:13:58,935 --> 01:14:01,188
<i>to a stunned silence in the room.</i>

1266
01:14:03,315 --> 01:14:05,025
<i>One woman who was
sitting to my right,</i>

1267
01:14:05,025 --> 01:14:07,569
<i>she said, "Thank you, Eartha,
for saying what you've said,</i>

1268
01:14:08,278 --> 01:14:09,779
<i>"we all feel the same way</i>

1269
01:14:09,779 --> 01:14:13,658
<i>"but unfortunately 75 percent
of the women in this room</i>

1270
01:14:13,658 --> 01:14:16,369
<i>husbands work for President Johnson."</i>

1271
01:14:17,204 --> 01:14:19,789
<i>I stood very composed, I think,</i>

1272
01:14:19,789 --> 01:14:22,334
<i>and said goodbye
to everyone who came along.</i>

1273
01:14:25,045 --> 01:14:27,714
Protest was back outside
the White House today

1274
01:14:27,714 --> 01:14:30,884
after scoring a resounding blow inside.

1275
01:14:30,884 --> 01:14:33,970
These women are marching
in support of Eartha Kitt,

1276
01:14:33,970 --> 01:14:36,389
<i>whose outburst at a White House
luncheon yesterday</i>

1277
01:14:36,389 --> 01:14:39,726
<i>against the war, taxes,
and the alienation of youth</i>

1278
01:14:39,726 --> 01:14:42,270
<i>drew attention rivaling
the standard responses</i>

1279
01:14:42,270 --> 01:14:43,897
<i>to the State of the Union.</i>

1280
01:14:44,689 --> 01:14:46,691
{\an8}<i>Miss Kitt succeeded where picketers</i>

1281
01:14:46,691 --> 01:14:48,860
{\an8}<i>and political opponents have failed,</i>

1282
01:14:48,860 --> 01:14:51,905
and bringing dissent
directly to the first family.

1283
01:14:56,993 --> 01:14:58,370
<i>The communists had launched</i>

1284
01:14:58,370 --> 01:15:01,164
<i>a massive New Year's
offensive late in January.</i>

1285
01:15:01,748 --> 01:15:03,333
<i>Martial law was declared by</i>

1286
01:15:03,333 --> 01:15:05,126
<i>South Vietnamese President Thieu.</i>

1287
01:15:06,044 --> 01:15:07,379
<i>Who won and who lost</i>

1288
01:15:07,379 --> 01:15:10,173
<i>in the great Tet Offensive
against the cities?</i>

1289
01:15:10,173 --> 01:15:11,424
<i>I'm not sure.</i>

1290
01:15:11,424 --> 01:15:13,718
<i>The Viet Cong did not win by a knockout,</i>

1291
01:15:13,718 --> 01:15:15,136
<i>but neither did we.</i>

1292
01:15:15,136 --> 01:15:18,598
<i>The referees of history
may make it a draw.</i>

1293
01:15:18,598 --> 01:15:20,850
It seems now more certain than ever

1294
01:15:20,850 --> 01:15:23,061
that the bloody experience of Vietnam

1295
01:15:23,061 --> 01:15:25,272
is to end in a stalemate.

1296
01:15:25,272 --> 01:15:27,232
<i>And with each escalation,</i>

1297
01:15:27,232 --> 01:15:28,692
<i>the world comes closer</i>

1298
01:15:28,692 --> 01:15:30,443
<i>to the brink of cosmic disaster.</i>

1299
01:15:32,487 --> 01:15:35,448
<i>It is increasingly clear to this reporter</i>

1300
01:15:35,448 --> 01:15:38,410
<i>that the only rational way out then</i>

1301
01:15:38,410 --> 01:15:41,538
will be to negotiate, not as victims,

1302
01:15:41,538 --> 01:15:44,666
but as an honorable people
who lived up to their pledge

1303
01:15:44,666 --> 01:15:48,628
to defend democracy
and did the best they could.

1304
01:15:49,421 --> 01:15:51,381
This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.

1305
01:16:01,891 --> 01:16:04,394
I am announcing today my candidacy

1306
01:16:05,228 --> 01:16:07,814
for the presidency of the United States.

1307
01:16:08,982 --> 01:16:12,235
I do not run for the presidency
merely to oppose any man,

1308
01:16:12,777 --> 01:16:14,446
but to propose new policies.

1309
01:16:15,780 --> 01:16:17,866
I run because I am convinced

1310
01:16:17,866 --> 01:16:20,785
that this country is on a perilous course

1311
01:16:21,745 --> 01:16:24,080
and because I have such strong feelings

1312
01:16:24,789 --> 01:16:26,374
about what must be done

1313
01:16:27,584 --> 01:16:29,127
and I feel that I am obliged

1314
01:16:29,919 --> 01:16:31,588
to do all that I can.

1315
01:16:33,256 --> 01:16:36,593
Finally my decision reflects
no personal animosity

1316
01:16:36,593 --> 01:16:40,513
or disrespect towards President Johnson.

1317
01:16:41,348 --> 01:16:44,100
{\an8}I am required now
to permit the entry of my name

1318
01:16:44,100 --> 01:16:46,144
{\an8}into the California primary.

1319
01:16:54,361 --> 01:16:57,113
Mr. President, how does it
affect the commander in chief,

1320
01:16:57,113 --> 01:16:59,032
so to speak, to know
that his new son-in-law

1321
01:16:59,032 --> 01:17:00,367
is going off to war?

1322
01:17:05,872 --> 01:17:07,207
Well, I guess that, uh,

1323
01:17:07,874 --> 01:17:10,251
you're glad that you have a son-in-law

1324
01:17:10,251 --> 01:17:13,672
that has had the training several years

1325
01:17:13,672 --> 01:17:16,383
<i>in an elite group like the Marines,</i>

1326
01:17:16,925 --> 01:17:18,968
<i>who is prepared and equipped</i>

1327
01:17:18,968 --> 01:17:21,680
<i>to look after his country's interests.</i>

1328
01:17:24,432 --> 01:17:28,687
I, uh, feel that way
about all the Marine Corps

1329
01:17:28,687 --> 01:17:31,815
and the boys in the other services, too.

1330
01:17:33,775 --> 01:17:35,568
<i>Sunday, March the 31st</i>

1331
01:17:35,568 --> 01:17:39,280
<i>Lynda was coming in on the red-eye special
from California,</i>

1332
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:43,368
<i>after having kissed
Chuck goodbye the night before.</i>

1333
01:17:43,368 --> 01:17:44,911
<i>She looked like a ghost.</i>

1334
01:17:46,663 --> 01:17:48,498
<i>She said "Mother, they were awful.</i>

1335
01:17:48,498 --> 01:17:51,418
<i>They kept on pushing
and shoving to get to us."</i>

1336
01:17:51,418 --> 01:17:52,711
<i>She meant the press.</i>

1337
01:17:52,711 --> 01:17:56,756
Captain, how soon do you expect
to be in combat?

1338
01:17:56,756 --> 01:17:58,675
<i>And there were lots
of other wives there</i>

1339
01:17:58,675 --> 01:18:00,593
<i>saying goodbye to their husbands.</i>

1340
01:18:08,351 --> 01:18:11,521
<i>I took her into her room
and she went to bed.</i>

1341
01:18:14,274 --> 01:18:17,485
<i>And I went into Lyndon's room
he was crying.</i>

1342
01:18:18,111 --> 01:18:21,030
<i>It's the first time
since Mrs. Johnson died</i>

1343
01:18:21,030 --> 01:18:22,991
<i>that I have seen him cry.</i>

1344
01:18:23,992 --> 01:18:26,661
<i>But he didn't have time to cry.</i>

1345
01:18:26,661 --> 01:18:28,329
<i>At nine o'clock in the evening</i>

1346
01:18:28,329 --> 01:18:30,999
<i>he was to make his talk on the war.</i>

1347
01:18:31,708 --> 01:18:34,169
And I can't see where a period is or not.

1348
01:18:35,295 --> 01:18:37,714
Uh, the step for him is
I just have to go on.

1349
01:18:37,714 --> 01:18:39,799
We have to do it.
We can't change it, but it's--

1350
01:18:39,799 --> 01:18:42,635
<i>I had spent a good
part of Saturday</i>

1351
01:18:42,635 --> 01:18:44,137
<i>working on it myself.</i>

1352
01:18:44,137 --> 01:18:47,223
<i>I felt quite positive
about my few changes.</i>

1353
01:18:53,313 --> 01:18:54,647
<i>Lyndon came in.</i>

1354
01:18:54,647 --> 01:18:56,232
<i>I went to him and said quietly,</i>

1355
01:18:56,232 --> 01:18:58,276
<i>"Pacing and drama."</i>

1356
01:18:58,276 --> 01:19:01,821
<i>And I did not know what the end would be.</i>

1357
01:19:03,656 --> 01:19:05,909
Good evening, my fellow Americans,

1358
01:19:06,701 --> 01:19:09,120
tonight I want to speak to you

1359
01:19:10,205 --> 01:19:13,082
of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

1360
01:19:15,710 --> 01:19:18,338
<i>It was magnificently delivered,</i>

1361
01:19:18,338 --> 01:19:19,964
<i>his best I think.</i>

1362
01:19:20,507 --> 01:19:24,010
<i>With American sons in
the fields far away,</i>

1363
01:19:24,010 --> 01:19:26,930
<i>with our hopes and the world's hopes</i>

1364
01:19:26,930 --> 01:19:30,016
for peace in the balance every day,

1365
01:19:31,100 --> 01:19:32,560
I do not believe

1366
01:19:33,728 --> 01:19:36,898
that I should devote an hour
or a day of my time

1367
01:19:37,982 --> 01:19:41,236
to any personal partisan causes

1368
01:19:41,236 --> 01:19:47,325
or to any duties
other than the awesome duties

1369
01:19:48,076 --> 01:19:49,619
of this office,

1370
01:19:49,619 --> 01:19:53,122
the presidency of your country.

1371
01:19:53,748 --> 01:19:55,041
Accordingly,

1372
01:19:56,709 --> 01:19:58,253
I shall not seek,

1373
01:20:00,129 --> 01:20:01,631
and I will not accept,

1374
01:20:02,841 --> 01:20:06,970
the nomination of my party
for another term as your President.

1375
01:20:07,387 --> 01:20:08,930
Thank you for listening.

1376
01:20:09,556 --> 01:20:12,433
Good night and God bless all of you.

1377
01:20:14,727 --> 01:20:18,106
<i>At last the decision
had been reached and stated.</i>

1378
01:20:18,106 --> 01:20:21,484
<i>And as well as any human can,
I knew our future.</i>

1379
01:20:21,484 --> 01:20:23,653
<i>I rose to my feet and went to him</i>

1380
01:20:23,653 --> 01:20:26,072
<i>and threw my arms around him
and kissed him.</i>

1381
01:20:27,198 --> 01:20:29,200
<i>It had been nobly done.</i>

1382
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:31,035
<i>And almost in its way,</i>

1383
01:20:31,035 --> 01:20:34,539
<i>as dramatic as our entrance into this job.</i>

1384
01:20:34,539 --> 01:20:38,626
<i>Although the actual exit
is still nine months away.</i>

1385
01:20:43,089 --> 01:20:45,592
<i>Thursday, April 4th.</i>

1386
01:20:45,592 --> 01:20:48,094
<i>I asked Lyndon
about his meeting with Kennedy,</i>

1387
01:20:48,094 --> 01:20:50,805
<i>he said Sorensen had accompanied him</i>

1388
01:20:50,805 --> 01:20:52,348
<i>and that they wanted Lyndon
to support them.</i>

1389
01:20:54,017 --> 01:20:56,436
<i>Bobby said he wanted
to maintain the position</i>

1390
01:20:56,436 --> 01:20:58,146
<i>of unifying the country,</i>

1391
01:20:58,146 --> 01:20:59,898
<i>but he felt perfectly free</i>

1392
01:20:59,898 --> 01:21:02,567
<i>to express his feelings
in any way he saw fit.</i>

1393
01:21:03,610 --> 01:21:06,821
<i>Lyndon said he had
never seen such arrogance.</i>

1394
01:21:08,364 --> 01:21:10,033
<i>Then I went downstairs with Liz,</i>

1395
01:21:10,033 --> 01:21:11,784
<i>we worked on the Texas trip.</i>

1396
01:21:12,327 --> 01:21:15,455
<i>Seldom has there been a trip
I looked forward more to.</i>

1397
01:21:15,455 --> 01:21:19,292
<i>I have a passion for
showing foreigners our country,</i>

1398
01:21:19,292 --> 01:21:21,586
<i>and showing them our home.</i>

1399
01:21:22,712 --> 01:21:26,049
<i>It was some time while
Mr. Pierre was fixing my hair,</i>

1400
01:21:26,174 --> 01:21:28,384
<i>and Lynda Bird had been
listening to the TV,</i>

1401
01:21:28,384 --> 01:21:30,511
<i>that she came flying into my room.</i>

1402
01:21:30,511 --> 01:21:33,181
<i>"Mama, mama. Dr. King's been shot."</i>

1403
01:21:33,932 --> 01:21:35,183
<i>And from that moment on,</i>

1404
01:21:35,183 --> 01:21:38,186
<i>the evening assumed a nightmare quality.</i>

1405
01:21:38,603 --> 01:21:41,481
I have some very sad news for all of you.

1406
01:21:42,023 --> 01:21:43,733
Martin Luther King was shot

1407
01:21:43,733 --> 01:21:45,777
and was killed tonight
in Memphis, Tennessee.

1408
01:21:49,072 --> 01:21:51,282
<i>If we were silent,
the TV was not,</i>

1409
01:21:51,908 --> 01:21:53,451
<i>it blared constantly.</i>

1410
01:21:53,451 --> 01:21:55,620
The nation has not known such shock

1411
01:21:55,620 --> 01:21:57,288
nor has it been so stunned

1412
01:21:57,288 --> 01:21:59,457
since the assassination
of President Kennedy.

1413
01:21:59,457 --> 01:22:01,960
<i>Everybody's mind
began racing off</i>

1414
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:04,837
<i>in its own direction
as to what this would mean,</i>

1415
01:22:04,837 --> 01:22:07,173
<i>to racial violence in our country,</i>

1416
01:22:07,173 --> 01:22:09,968
<i>to the work of so many
to try to bring us together.</i>

1417
01:22:11,094 --> 01:22:12,887
I ask every citizen

1418
01:22:13,805 --> 01:22:16,307
to reject the blind violence

1419
01:22:17,141 --> 01:22:18,935
that has struck Dr. King,

1420
01:22:19,769 --> 01:22:22,814
who lived by non-violence.

1421
01:22:24,315 --> 01:22:26,442
I pray that his family

1422
01:22:26,442 --> 01:22:29,362
can find comfort in the memory

1423
01:22:29,362 --> 01:22:33,992
of all he tried to do for
the land he loved so well.

1424
01:22:37,954 --> 01:22:41,207
<i>Friday, April 5th,
I was up early.</i>

1425
01:22:41,207 --> 01:22:42,834
<i>Probably not to anybody in the city</i>

1426
01:22:42,834 --> 01:22:43,918
<i>was it a restful night.</i>

1427
01:22:47,672 --> 01:22:49,841
<i>I went into Lyndon's room for coffee.</i>

1428
01:22:49,841 --> 01:22:52,719
<i>He was still firm in
his feeling that I should go.</i>

1429
01:22:54,012 --> 01:22:57,348
<i>Liz called and I told her it was on.</i>

1430
01:22:57,348 --> 01:22:59,434
<i>We both recognized we'd have
to make some changes</i>

1431
01:22:59,434 --> 01:23:00,643
<i>in the speeches,</i>

1432
01:23:01,269 --> 01:23:03,479
<i>the world had changed overnight.</i>

1433
01:23:06,024 --> 01:23:09,485
<i>I put out my hand and met
all the foreign correspondents,</i>

1434
01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:12,739
<i>thirty-eight from
thirteen European countries.</i>

1435
01:23:13,614 --> 01:23:16,117
<i>I sensed the feeling of uncertainty,</i>

1436
01:23:16,117 --> 01:23:17,493
<i>tension in the air.</i>

1437
01:23:19,203 --> 01:23:22,457
<i>As soon as we were aloft
I went to the PA system,</i>

1438
01:23:22,457 --> 01:23:25,043
<i>and in a quiet, serious voice said,</i>

1439
01:23:25,835 --> 01:23:28,254
<i>"We travel with a heavier heart today</i>

1440
01:23:28,254 --> 01:23:30,798
<i>because of the tragedy
of Dr. King's death."</i>

1441
01:23:31,674 --> 01:23:35,011
<i>And then I put it behind me
with a change of tone,</i>

1442
01:23:35,011 --> 01:23:38,181
<i>and welcomed them on a journey
to the part of our country</i>

1443
01:23:38,181 --> 01:23:39,474
<i>that I know best.</i>

1444
01:23:41,142 --> 01:23:43,352
<i>When white America
killed Dr. King last night,</i>

1445
01:23:43,352 --> 01:23:46,773
<i>she opened the eyes of every
Black man in this country.</i>

1446
01:23:46,773 --> 01:23:49,859
<i>When White America killed
Dr. King last night,</i>

1447
01:23:50,777 --> 01:23:52,695
{\an8}she declared war on us.

1448
01:23:55,323 --> 01:23:57,950
<i>Talked to Washington, to Lynda.</i>

1449
01:23:57,950 --> 01:24:00,328
<i>She said the White House
was like a fortress,</i>

1450
01:24:00,328 --> 01:24:02,830
<i>nobody gets out, nobody gets in.</i>

1451
01:24:04,123 --> 01:24:06,334
<i>Washington, Chicago, Detroit,</i>

1452
01:24:06,459 --> 01:24:08,878
<i>Boston, New York, these are
just a few `of the cities</i>

1453
01:24:08,878 --> 01:24:12,048
in which the Negro anguish
over Dr. King's murder,

1454
01:24:12,048 --> 01:24:13,883
presumably by a White man,

1455
01:24:13,883 --> 01:24:16,177
expressed itself in violent destruction.

1456
01:24:24,352 --> 01:24:26,229
<i>This is
a part of the confrontation</i>

1457
01:24:26,229 --> 01:24:27,772
<i>that's unfortunate.</i>

1458
01:24:27,772 --> 01:24:30,817
<i>The most tragic death of
this great humanitarian has</i>

1459
01:24:31,484 --> 01:24:33,945
{\an8}brought, uh, brought disorder to a head.

1460
01:24:43,204 --> 01:24:45,998
President Johnson has made
some unprecedented strides

1461
01:24:45,998 --> 01:24:47,708
in the direction of human equality

1462
01:24:47,708 --> 01:24:50,002
and he is deeply hurt by what he considers

1463
01:24:50,002 --> 01:24:51,963
unjustified criticism.

1464
01:24:51,963 --> 01:24:53,923
In less than four years he has signed

1465
01:24:53,923 --> 01:24:56,676
three landmark
civil rights bills into law.

1466
01:24:56,676 --> 01:24:59,345
He named Negroes to the Supreme Court,
then to the Cabinet

1467
01:24:59,345 --> 01:25:01,055
for the first time in our history.

1468
01:25:01,055 --> 01:25:03,933
And he chose a Negro to be
the first mayor of Washington.

1469
01:25:03,933 --> 01:25:05,434
But for all of his efforts,

1470
01:25:05,434 --> 01:25:07,937
there was something missing
in this total performance

1471
01:25:07,937 --> 01:25:10,898
that failed to prevent
the drifting apart of the races.

1472
01:25:10,898 --> 01:25:14,068
We want Kennedy!
We want Kennedy!

1473
01:25:14,068 --> 01:25:15,945
Thank you very much.

1474
01:25:15,945 --> 01:25:17,321
We want Kennedy!

1475
01:25:17,321 --> 01:25:18,948
Thank you very much.

1476
01:25:18,948 --> 01:25:20,783
What I think is quite clear is,

1477
01:25:21,701 --> 01:25:24,495
is that we can work together
in the last analysis.

1478
01:25:24,495 --> 01:25:26,873
And what has been going on
within the United States

1479
01:25:26,873 --> 01:25:28,499
over the period of the last three years,

1480
01:25:28,499 --> 01:25:31,043
the divisions whether
it's between Blacks and Whites,

1481
01:25:31,043 --> 01:25:32,920
between the poor and the more affluent,

1482
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:34,505
or on the war in Vietnam,

1483
01:25:34,505 --> 01:25:35,923
that we can start to work together,

1484
01:25:35,923 --> 01:25:38,509
we are a great country
and a selfish country

1485
01:25:38,509 --> 01:25:40,052
and a compassionate country,

1486
01:25:40,052 --> 01:25:42,722
and I intend to make
that my basis for running

1487
01:25:42,722 --> 01:25:44,140
over the period of the next few months.

1488
01:25:45,224 --> 01:25:46,434
My thanks to all of you,

1489
01:25:46,434 --> 01:25:47,894
and now it is on to Chicago,

1490
01:25:47,894 --> 01:25:49,520
and let's win this. Thank you very much.

1491
01:25:54,734 --> 01:25:56,527
<i>Wednesday, June 5th.</i>

1492
01:25:56,527 --> 01:25:58,321
<i>It had been a short night.</i>

1493
01:25:58,321 --> 01:26:01,574
<i>The phone jarred me awake
from a deep sleep.</i>

1494
01:26:01,574 --> 01:26:05,119
<i>It was Lyndon saying tersely,
"Will you come in here?"</i>

1495
01:26:05,119 --> 01:26:07,580
<i>He was propped up against
the pillows in his room,</i>

1496
01:26:07,580 --> 01:26:09,332
<i>looking as though
he had never been to sleep,</i>

1497
01:26:09,332 --> 01:26:11,375
<i>and all the TV sets were on.</i>

1498
01:26:11,375 --> 01:26:14,086
<i>And I realized at once
something was happening.</i>

1499
01:26:14,086 --> 01:26:17,215
<i>I am not sure whether I heard
it first from the TV set</i>

1500
01:26:17,215 --> 01:26:18,841
<i>or from Lyndon.</i>

1501
01:26:18,841 --> 01:26:20,801
<i>Senator Kennedy had been shot.</i>

1502
01:26:21,636 --> 01:26:25,014
<i>There was an air of unreality
about the whole thing.</i>

1503
01:26:25,014 --> 01:26:26,349
<i>"It couldn't be.</i>

1504
01:26:26,349 --> 01:26:28,809
<i>You dreamed it. It had happened before."</i>

1505
01:26:31,229 --> 01:26:32,855
<i>He had been celebrating the victory</i>

1506
01:26:32,855 --> 01:26:34,690
<i>in the California primaries.</i>

1507
01:26:35,566 --> 01:26:37,068
<i>The whole thing had taken place</i>

1508
01:26:37,068 --> 01:26:39,528
<i>under the eye of a television camera.</i>

1509
01:26:42,740 --> 01:26:44,408
We need a doctor here!

1510
01:26:45,076 --> 01:26:47,787
What happened? Do you know?
Somebody said he's been shot.

1511
01:26:49,330 --> 01:26:50,581
<i>Faces of the television</i>

1512
01:26:50,581 --> 01:26:52,959
<i>kept repeating their hideous story.</i>

1513
01:26:52,959 --> 01:26:55,711
<i>The senator was going in
for brain surgery.</i>

1514
01:26:55,711 --> 01:26:58,047
<i>It had been determined
that the bullet had lodged</i>

1515
01:26:58,047 --> 01:27:00,466
<i>somewhere behind the ear.</i>

1516
01:27:01,384 --> 01:27:04,220
<i>All day long, I had heard
this cacophony over and over</i>

1517
01:27:04,220 --> 01:27:06,806
<i>of the reactions of people questioned.</i>

1518
01:27:07,265 --> 01:27:08,891
<i>What is our country coming to?</i>

1519
01:27:09,350 --> 01:27:10,726
<i>What is happening to us?</i>

1520
01:27:11,227 --> 01:27:13,020
<i>Are we a sick society?</i>

1521
01:27:16,899 --> 01:27:19,527
I have a
short announcement to read.

1522
01:27:22,405 --> 01:27:24,198
{\an8}Senator Robert Francis Kennedy

1523
01:27:25,616 --> 01:27:30,329
died at 1:44 a.m. today,

1524
01:27:31,998 --> 01:27:35,835
June 6, 1968.

1525
01:27:39,297 --> 01:27:40,840
<i>Saturday, June 8th,</i>

1526
01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:42,091
<i>was a day for me,</i>

1527
01:27:42,091 --> 01:27:44,760
<i>completely detached from the normal,</i>

1528
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:48,681
<i>a capsule of time
suspended in unreality...</i>

1529
01:27:50,391 --> 01:27:52,560
<i>...the burial of Senator Bobby Kennedy.</i>

1530
01:27:59,859 --> 01:28:02,570
To be remembered
simply as a good and decent man,

1531
01:28:02,570 --> 01:28:04,739
who saw wrong and tried to right it,

1532
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:08,117
saw suffering and tried to heal it,

1533
01:28:09,410 --> 01:28:11,704
saw war and tried to stop it.

1534
01:28:13,581 --> 01:28:15,458
<i>One of the Catholic
dignitaries came</i>

1535
01:28:15,458 --> 01:28:18,961
<i>and leaned over to tell Lyndon
that he should leave first.</i>

1536
01:28:18,961 --> 01:28:21,589
<i>And then we walked to the right
past the front row,</i>

1537
01:28:21,589 --> 01:28:24,133
<i>where all the Kennedy family was seated</i>

1538
01:28:24,133 --> 01:28:26,844
<i>and stopped to speak first to Ethel,</i>

1539
01:28:26,844 --> 01:28:30,181
<i>whose face was beautiful, sad, composed.</i>

1540
01:28:30,181 --> 01:28:33,100
<i>And she said, to Lyndon, very simply,</i>

1541
01:28:33,100 --> 01:28:34,685
<i>"You've been so kind."</i>

1542
01:28:35,811 --> 01:28:39,482
<i>And then I found myself in front of
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.</i>

1543
01:28:39,482 --> 01:28:42,109
<i>I called her name and put out my hand.</i>

1544
01:28:43,069 --> 01:28:45,696
<i>She looked at me as though
from a great distance,</i>

1545
01:28:45,696 --> 01:28:47,823
<i>as though I were an apparition.</i>

1546
01:28:48,532 --> 01:28:51,035
<i>I felt extreme hostility.</i>

1547
01:28:51,035 --> 01:28:52,995
<i>Was it because I was alive?</i>

1548
01:28:53,913 --> 01:28:56,415
<i>At last, without a flicker of expression,</i>

1549
01:28:56,415 --> 01:28:58,959
<i>she extended her hand very slightly.</i>

1550
01:28:58,959 --> 01:29:02,630
<i>I took it with
some murmured word of sorrow</i>

1551
01:29:02,630 --> 01:29:04,382
<i>and walked on quickly.</i>

1552
01:29:05,966 --> 01:29:07,927
<i>It was somehow shocking.</i>

1553
01:29:08,719 --> 01:29:12,807
<i>Never in any contact with her
before had I experienced this.</i>

1554
01:29:16,102 --> 01:29:18,479
<i>We were back at the White House by 11:00.</i>

1555
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:21,023
<i>Tomorrow would be a day of mourning,</i>

1556
01:29:21,023 --> 01:29:22,483
<i>as Lyndon had proclaimed.</i>

1557
01:29:22,483 --> 01:29:26,112
<i>And Monday we would all make a new start.</i>

1558
01:29:31,867 --> 01:29:33,994
<i>Tuesday, August the 27th,</i>

1559
01:29:33,994 --> 01:29:35,913
<i>Lyndon's 60th birthday.</i>

1560
01:29:37,748 --> 01:29:40,126
<i>There had been talk about
going to the convention</i>

1561
01:29:40,126 --> 01:29:42,378
<i>to make a sort of a Valedictory speech.</i>

1562
01:29:43,671 --> 01:29:45,297
<i>When the convention virtually</i>

1563
01:29:45,297 --> 01:29:46,715
<i>erupted on Monday,</i>

1564
01:29:46,715 --> 01:29:48,634
<i>the chances of our making the trip</i>

1565
01:29:48,634 --> 01:29:50,302
<i>dwindled to almost nothing.</i>

1566
01:29:52,805 --> 01:29:54,640
<i>The Youth International Party,</i>

1567
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:56,142
<i>Yippies they call themselves,</i>

1568
01:29:56,142 --> 01:29:57,852
<i>converged on Chicago</i>

1569
01:29:57,852 --> 01:29:59,103
<i>to protest the war,</i>

1570
01:29:59,103 --> 01:30:01,689
<i>poverty, racism, and other social ills.</i>

1571
01:30:03,566 --> 01:30:05,025
<i>This may be the last</i>

1572
01:30:05,025 --> 01:30:07,695
<i>of the old style ritualistic
political convention.</i>

1573
01:30:08,362 --> 01:30:10,114
<i>It may also be the end
of the Democratic Party</i>

1574
01:30:10,114 --> 01:30:12,074
<i>as we have known it since Roosevelt.</i>

1575
01:30:12,700 --> 01:30:15,369
<i>The world is
undergoing convulsions</i>

1576
01:30:15,369 --> 01:30:16,454
<i>all around us.</i>

1577
01:30:16,454 --> 01:30:17,830
<i>Our party,</i>

1578
01:30:17,830 --> 01:30:20,791
<i>our country, the whole world.</i>

1579
01:30:23,961 --> 01:30:27,590
<i>And so, we go on to this strange year,</i>

1580
01:30:27,590 --> 01:30:30,342
<i>and personally, it is a happy year,</i>

1581
01:30:30,342 --> 01:30:32,887
<i>within the close circle of our family</i>

1582
01:30:32,887 --> 01:30:34,722
<i>because I think we are proud</i>

1583
01:30:34,722 --> 01:30:37,057
<i>of what each one of us is doing,</i>

1584
01:30:37,057 --> 01:30:38,476
<i>all of us together.</i>

1585
01:30:38,476 --> 01:30:40,644
<i>How strange that might sound</i>

1586
01:30:40,644 --> 01:30:42,813
<i>from somebody on the outside</i>

1587
01:30:42,813 --> 01:30:44,356
<i>who is looking at us.</i>

1588
01:30:44,940 --> 01:30:48,611
<i>Lynda lets us read her letters from Chuck.</i>

1589
01:30:49,153 --> 01:30:51,989
<i>She holds her personal life close.</i>

1590
01:30:51,989 --> 01:30:54,450
<i>She flinches when her daddy quotes him.</i>

1591
01:30:55,242 --> 01:30:58,162
<i>Lyndon is plowing right along,</i>

1592
01:30:58,162 --> 01:31:00,706
<i>working as hard as he can every day</i>

1593
01:31:00,706 --> 01:31:03,375
<i>on those things he can control.</i>

1594
01:31:04,710 --> 01:31:07,796
<i>Sometimes I think the
greatest courage in the world</i>

1595
01:31:07,796 --> 01:31:12,927
<i>is to get up in the morning
and go about the day's work.</i>

1596
01:31:12,927 --> 01:31:15,387
<i>That is one of the things
I like about him,</i>

1597
01:31:15,387 --> 01:31:18,557
<i>he keeps on and on and on.</i>

1598
01:31:25,397 --> 01:31:28,275
<i>This last of the three
annual beautification luncheons</i>

1599
01:31:28,275 --> 01:31:31,487
<i>means more to me
than nearly any social event.</i>

1600
01:31:31,487 --> 01:31:34,406
<i>It was one of the biggest days
I have ever spent.</i>

1601
01:31:35,032 --> 01:31:36,909
<i>We went out the southwest gate,</i>

1602
01:31:37,743 --> 01:31:40,371
<i>and then one of my prides and joys,</i>

1603
01:31:40,371 --> 01:31:42,206
<i>the great masses of azaleas</i>

1604
01:31:42,206 --> 01:31:46,210
<i>that were planted fall of '65
along Pennsylvania Avenue.</i>

1605
01:31:46,210 --> 01:31:48,087
<i>A major entrance to the city,</i>

1606
01:31:48,087 --> 01:31:51,924
<i>a big shot in the arm
to a decaying business area.</i>

1607
01:31:53,300 --> 01:31:55,469
Since our committee
for a more beautiful capitol

1608
01:31:55,469 --> 01:31:58,097
was formed a little over three years ago,

1609
01:31:58,097 --> 01:31:59,974
we have devoted particular attention

1610
01:31:59,974 --> 01:32:02,643
<i>to improving the physical surroundings</i>

1611
01:32:02,643 --> 01:32:05,020
<i>of public schools in the city.</i>

1612
01:32:07,189 --> 01:32:10,568
<i>Children will respond affirmatively</i>

1613
01:32:10,568 --> 01:32:12,778
<i>to improvements that they can see</i>

1614
01:32:12,778 --> 01:32:15,656
<i>and touch and take part in.</i>

1615
01:32:17,908 --> 01:32:20,411
{\an8}
<i>Her heritage as First Lady</i>

1616
01:32:20,411 --> 01:32:23,289
{\an8}<i>ends not in Beautification, per se,</i>

1617
01:32:23,289 --> 01:32:26,125
{\an8}<i>it's in communication,</i>

1618
01:32:26,125 --> 01:32:29,503
<i>it's in the desire to identify</i>

1619
01:32:29,503 --> 01:32:31,964
<i>a human being with his environment.</i>

1620
01:32:32,464 --> 01:32:34,300
<i>As you may know, my concern</i>

1621
01:32:34,300 --> 01:32:38,095
<i>has been expressed in an effort
called Beautification.</i>

1622
01:32:38,095 --> 01:32:41,223
<i>I think you also know what lies beneath</i>

1623
01:32:41,223 --> 01:32:43,767
<i>that rather inadequate word.</i>

1624
01:32:43,767 --> 01:32:46,020
<i>For beautification, to my mind,</i>

1625
01:32:46,020 --> 01:32:49,356
<i>is far more than a matter of cosmetics.</i>

1626
01:32:49,356 --> 01:32:51,650
<i>To me, it describes the whole effort</i>

1627
01:32:51,650 --> 01:32:53,527
<i>to bring the natural world</i>

1628
01:32:53,527 --> 01:32:56,405
<i>and the man-made world into harmony,</i>

1629
01:32:56,405 --> 01:32:58,699
<i>and that of course only begins with trees</i>

1630
01:32:58,699 --> 01:33:01,327
<i>and flowers and landscaping.</i>

1631
01:33:02,119 --> 01:33:04,330
<i>This has been
one of the most lovely springs</i>

1632
01:33:04,330 --> 01:33:06,999
<i>I can remember in Washington's history.</i>

1633
01:33:06,999 --> 01:33:10,586
{\an8}<i>It has also been one of the
most poignant and grave.</i>

1634
01:33:11,754 --> 01:33:14,965
<i>That fact underscores the urgency</i>

1635
01:33:14,965 --> 01:33:18,052
<i>of improving our environment
for all people.</i>

1636
01:33:24,516 --> 01:33:26,477
<i>Monday, January 20th.</i>

1637
01:33:28,270 --> 01:33:30,481
<i>I was up early, like when I was a child,</i>

1638
01:33:30,481 --> 01:33:32,066
<i>and it was a day to go to the country fair</i>

1639
01:33:32,066 --> 01:33:33,525
<i>and I didn't wanna miss a thing.</i>

1640
01:33:35,361 --> 01:33:37,738
<i>The big black car rolled up,</i>

1641
01:33:37,738 --> 01:33:39,782
<i>and out stepped the president-elect,</i>

1642
01:33:39,782 --> 01:33:44,078
<i>and Mrs. Pat in a smashing,
rosy red outfit.</i>

1643
01:33:45,079 --> 01:33:46,872
<i>And then, the funny little business</i>

1644
01:33:46,872 --> 01:33:49,458
<i>about who goes in the door first,</i>

1645
01:33:49,458 --> 01:33:52,961
<i>until I took Pat's arm firmly
and said, "Shall we go in?"</i>

1646
01:33:56,840 --> 01:33:59,760
<i>Try as I did to soak everything up,</i>

1647
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:01,887
<i>I cannot remember for sure.</i>

1648
01:34:01,887 --> 01:34:04,098
<i>I think that when Lyndon walked in</i>

1649
01:34:04,098 --> 01:34:06,308
<i>they played</i> Hail to the Chief.

1650
01:34:07,976 --> 01:34:10,396
<i>He looked very tall
and handsome `and impressive,</i>

1651
01:34:10,396 --> 01:34:13,107
<i>and very relaxed, too, I thought.</i>

1652
01:34:15,067 --> 01:34:17,528
<i>And finally, the country's new President.</i>

1653
01:34:33,877 --> 01:34:35,879
<i>The hands of the clock prodded us on.</i>

1654
01:34:36,755 --> 01:34:39,842
<i>We flew over Washington
and landed at Andrews,</i>

1655
01:34:40,676 --> 01:34:42,678
<i>and there was a big crowd,</i>

1656
01:34:42,678 --> 01:34:46,056
<i>lining the fence and drawn up
around Air Force One.</i>

1657
01:34:46,056 --> 01:34:47,683
<i>We mounted the steps,</i>

1658
01:34:47,683 --> 01:34:50,477
<i>Lyndon carrying
his faithful companion Lyn.</i>

1659
01:34:51,895 --> 01:34:55,149
<i>We stopped at the top and turned and waved</i>

1660
01:34:55,149 --> 01:34:58,861
<i>a conscious goodbye tableau.</i>

1661
01:35:00,988 --> 01:35:03,323
<i>It was a quiet flight down,</i>

1662
01:35:03,323 --> 01:35:06,827
<i>and about 5:30 we arrived at Bergstrom.</i>

1663
01:35:11,999 --> 01:35:13,459
<i>There was a big sign</i>

1664
01:35:13,459 --> 01:35:15,753
<i>above the base operations that said,</i>

1665
01:35:15,753 --> 01:35:18,672
<i>"Welcome home, Mr. President and family."</i>

1666
01:35:25,471 --> 01:35:28,432
<i>A little past 9:00, I went to bed,</i>

1667
01:35:28,432 --> 01:35:31,769
<i>with a line of poetry ringing in my mind,</i>

1668
01:35:31,769 --> 01:35:34,521
<i>I think it's from</i> India's Love Lyrics.

1669
01:35:35,689 --> 01:35:37,941
<i>"I celebrate my glad release,</i>

1670
01:35:37,941 --> 01:35:41,236
<i>the tents of silence
and the camp of peace."</i>

1671
01:35:42,362 --> 01:35:45,365
<i>And yet, for me,
it's not quite the exit line,</i>

1672
01:35:45,365 --> 01:35:46,867
<i>because I have loved</i>

1673
01:35:46,867 --> 01:35:50,078
<i>almost every day of these five years.</i>

1674
01:35:54,124 --> 01:35:55,918
<i>A better go-to-sleep line</i>

1675
01:35:55,918 --> 01:35:59,546
<i>was one of the signs
I had seen today, my favorite,</i>

1676
01:36:00,047 --> 01:36:03,300
<i>"LBJ, You Were Good For The USA."</i>

1677
01:36:26,615 --> 01:36:28,659
{\an8}I can't keep up with you, that's a fact.

1678
01:36:29,243 --> 01:36:31,662
{\an8}Maybe here comes one I can keep up with.

1679
01:36:32,955 --> 01:36:34,248
{\an8}See these little trees around here,

1680
01:36:34,248 --> 01:36:36,166
{\an8}that one and that one and that one?

1681
01:36:36,166 --> 01:36:38,001
- Uh-huh.
- Those are cypress.

1682
01:36:53,809 --> 01:36:56,353
{\an8}Welcome back, Lady Bird,
it's good to have you home.

1683
01:36:56,353 --> 01:36:57,896
{\an8}Well, thank you, sir.

1684
01:37:23,589 --> 01:37:27,050
Michelle was in particular
interested to a-- of a recording

1685
01:37:27,759 --> 01:37:29,219
in which, uh,

1686
01:37:29,219 --> 01:37:32,806
Lady Bird is critiquing
President Johnson's performance.

1687
01:37:34,182 --> 01:37:35,726
Some things do not change.

1688
01:37:36,977 --> 01:37:38,437
Even 50 years later.

1689
01:40:06,126 --> 01:40:09,087
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