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Our entire environment. That only begins with flowers and trees and landscaping. That is from a film created by the Johnson Administration with Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue. She was a natural campaigner, a successful businesswoman, and a savvy political partner to her husband, our 36th president , Lyndon Baines johnson. Good evening and welcome to c spans first ladies. We will tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird, wif...

This was an administration that documented itself stand sadly extensively. There was the Lyndon Johnson phone tapes. People who love political history were very aware of. Is this new to the administration . Had this been going on for a while. She did not record every day. But she had a little recording machine. On days that were busy, she would stuff brown envelopes with menus, and she would get an hour one day and record. Those recordings are still being transcribed. They are wonderful. Her whi...

David nasaw recounts the life of joseph p. Kennedy patriarch of the political family that included president john f. Kennedy and senators robert f. Kennedy and edward kennedy. The author examines Joseph Kennedys career in business and politics, which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you, all. Delighted to be here. As i tell my history students at the City University of...

The author examines Joseph Kennedys career in business and politics which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you all. Delighted to be here. As i tell my history students, i teach at the City University of new york in the ph. D. Program [applause] thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they wallet to choke me, the they want to choke me, the past is a foreig...

As far as this goes. That being said. [applause] next some booktv, encore booknotes. In 1994 or Liz Carpenter discussed her books unplanned parenthood the confessions of a seventysomething surrogate mother. The book focuses on ms. Carpenters experiences raising rates three teenage nieces and nephews at age 79. She also discusses her years in the white house working as press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson. This is about an hour. Cspan Liz Carpenter, you say early in your book that, by heritage a...

November president ial election. This is an hour and half. One of the best things about sitting across from you is that, for all of us who have been part of the institutes staff, we are wondering what you been thinking, with this experience has been like for you over the last yearandahalf, two years. So tonight, we get to hear for the first time your reaction to the campaign. Thank you very much. I want to thank the in boyer for the support the university has given the institute politics, includ...

President ial candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. She may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. But i will give her three weeks. Three weeks, well know if this is real. Three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. I thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who ha...

Signature issue as first lady. Campaigner,tural successful businesswoman and husband,tner to her Lyndon Johnson. You the storytell of Claudia Taylor johnson known ourady bird, the wife of 36th president. Here to tell her story are Cokie Roberts, political commentary for abc news and npr, also the books, founding mothers and ladies of liberty. Curly is an expert of working on a biography Lady Bird Johnson. I want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 week, this is an administration birthe...

Congress be doing about immigration . As always, you can join in on the conversation to social media, send us a tweet at http twitter. Com cspanwj, send us an email, journal cspan. Org , or join us on facebook. We will focus on immigration this morning. Profiles in caution is a cover story on cq weekly. What does it mean into the future of any bipartisan deal this year in congress . Insight on the issue of immigration. There is this jane te last year, john boehner addressed the , talking about t...

Husband, former president jimmy carter. And then steve ford, the son of former president ford and betty ford. He talked about his mothers struggles with substance abuse. You can watch Rosalynn Carter at 9 00 eastern time and steve ford at 955 eastern monday night on cspan. Our first ladys series returns this month with five episodes on the most recent first ladies from nancy reagan to Michelle Obama monday night starting january 13 live at 9 00 eastern on cspan. Houseong with a low white is orac...