Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library

The sixth in a series on presidential libraries focused on Lyndon B. Johnson’s life and career through rarely seen film and sound recordings, as well as letters, documents and artifacts collected from the stacks and vaults of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Library officials guided a tour of the library and responded to telephone calls and electronic mail. Series historian and consultant Richard Norton Smith participated from the studio in Washington, D.C.

Featured film, sound recordings, documents and artifacts included a new batch of Lyndon Johnson’s secretly recorded phone conversations on subjects such as the nomination of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court, and a summit meeting in Glassboro, New Jersey with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. Home movies shot and narrated by Lady Bird Johnson of Johnson’s failed Senate campaign in 1941, as well as their private lives at the Johnson ranch in Texas. Additionally, close