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"The Lady Bird Diaries"
An outstanding achievement in historical documentary storytelling, this film captures a thorough time capsule of Lady Bird Johnson's time in the White House.
The legacy of Lady Bird Johnson is explored in detail in director Dawn Porter‘s “The Lady Bird Diaries,” an outstanding achievement in historical documentary storytelling. Porter’s meticulous film captures a time capsule in our nation’s history, with an expert assemblage of archival footage, private recordings, and White House records that paint a thorough picture of one of America’s least…
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Players' Guide to SXSW 2023 - Lady Bird Johnson Documentary Reveals the Legendary First Lady's Wonk Side: SXSW's The Lady Bird Diaries goes beyond beautification - Screens
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The Lady Bird Diaries is a story in three mediums: first, a book on Lady Bird Johnson, written by Julia Sweig; then a podcast produced by ABC News; and now a film directed by director Dawn Porter, of John Lewis: Good Trouble fame. But the source material for all three was a work of gonzo […]
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Are you listening to the podcast about Lady Bird Johnson? What do you think of it?
Yes, I absolutely listened to the recent podcast about Lady Bird Johnson -- "In Plain Sight" -- and I thought it was fantastic! Lady Bird was a brilliant, fascinating, and impressive figure who played a significant role in shaping the position of First Lady into that of a public servant with a unique platform to further important issues that she cared about. And, as the podcast illustrates, she was also one of the shrewdest and most steadfast political consultants that President Johnson relied on for advice, inspiration, and comfort. In many ways, she was a true partner of LBJ, despite his vices and demons. Listening to phone calls, diary entries, and speeches make it clear that Lady Bird was often the pillar of strength that fortified her husband who frequently plunged into the depths of depression, anxiety, and self-doubt even though he was undoubtedly a political and legislative genius.
The "In Plain Sight" podcast reinforces something I wrote in a 2013 essay about the relationship between LBJ and Lady Bird:
Lyndon Johnson was not easy to live with. His larger-than-life personality and overflowing ego was constantly engaged in a see-saw battle with insecurity, a lack of confidence, and an overpowering fear of failure. In every election that Johnson ever contested, there came a point where he was dominated by the thought that he would lose and all but decide to quit the race before Election Day. In almost every one of those elections (and he only lost one election in his long political career), LBJ fell seriously ill shortly before Election Day. Whether it was due to Johnson’s tendency to work himself to exhaustion or partly due to a psychosomatic condition is not completely clear, but Doris Kearns Goodwin would later write that "Personal rejection was so unbearable to Johnson, so mortally threatening, that withdrawal was necessary…Episodes of rejection, actual or apprehended, seem[ed] to cripple Johnson’s faculties and even, at times, interrupt his normal state of physical health and vitality.”
It was Lady Bird who could calm him in troubled times. While Lyndon Johnson is remembered as a political maestro, particularly in legislative politics, Lady Bird had great political intuition and knew how to handle Lyndon himself. LBJ could be cruel and coarse – not just to his colleagues and staff, but to Lady Bird. In a 1994 interview with The Washington Post, Lady Bird admitted as much. “Our was a compelling love,” she said. “Lyndon bullied me, coaxed me, at times even ridiculed me, but he made me more than I would have been. I offered him some peace and quiet, maybe a little judgment.”
That humility was not false humility; it was Lady Bird’s characteristically earnest belief. Yet, she arguably offered him more than he offered her. When he was sick, she helped care for him. When he was depressed, she helped make his life as easy as possible. She motivated him in a way that nothing else could – not even his intense drive to prove himself or ceaseless ambition for the power to help change things. If Lyndon Johnson was a hurricane – a force to be reckoned with, Lady Bird Johnson was the quiet breeze and warm sunshine which helped settle everything in the storm’s wake. I’m not sure Lyndon Johnson made Lady Bird more than she could have been, but I’m positive that Lady Bird helped LBJ become who he was.
I definitely recommend checking out the "In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson" podcast, but I'd also suggest picking up the book written by the podcast's host Julia Sweig, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight (BOOK | KINDLE), which goes even deeper into the remarkable life of one of our most accomplished First Ladies.
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ABC NEWS KICKS OFF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH WITH NEW PODCAST REVEALING LADY BIRD JOHNSON AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MEMBERS OF THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION, TOLD IN HER OWN WORDS FROM MOSTLY UNHEARD AUDIO DIARIES
Eight-Part Series, In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson, Debuts Monday, March 1
ABC News will kick off Women’s History Month with its new podcast In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson, co-produced with Best Case Studios and hosted by author Julia Sweig. Drawn from over 123 hours of the former first lady’s mostly unheard daily audio diaries, the podcast presents a surprising and original portrait of Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, told in her own words. The series provides stunning new revelations about Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency and reveals Lady Bird as Johnson’s closest advisor and most indispensable political partner. The series documents her front-row seat to some of the most notable events in U.S. history and decisions that shaped the nation forever, as well as her history-making encounters with John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Eartha Kitt, Peter, Paul and Mary, politicians, civil rights activists, environmentalists and her surprising partnership with Washington's first Mayor, Walter Washington. Using a rich trove of rare footage from the era, In Plain Sight creates an immersive audio experience of a tumultuous moment in America and tells the story of how one vastly underestimated woman navigated the power, politics and polarization of her time to become arguably one of the most influential first ladies in history. The first two episodes of the eight-part series will debut on Monday, March 1. Sweig is also author of the new book Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight on the same topic, to be published by Random House on March 16.
In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson is available for free on major listening platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and the ABC News app, with new episodes posting Mondays.
EPISODE 1: “14 Days”
In her first-ever diary entry, recorded eight days after President John F. Kennedy Jr. was assassinated, Lady Bird presents a dramatic, cinematically detailed moment-by-moment account of those terrible hours in Dallas, and the days that follow. The episode tracks the 14 days from the murder of the president to when the Johnsons move into the White House, days filled with tragic ceremony and heartfelt moments of solidarity between Jackie Kennedy and Lady Bird. We hear about the decade-long relationship between the two of them, one that dates back to the Kennedy’s arrival in Washington in the mid-50s, and hear fascinating observations these women make about each other.
EPISODE 2: “Thank You, Mrs. Vice President”
There are moments in Lady Bird’s audio diaries that truly re-write the known history of LBJ's presidency. This episode includes one of the most consequential. In a memo to Lyndon just five months into his presidency, Lady Bird predicts how the Vietnam war will derail his administration, and proposes a clear end-date for his time in office -- fully four years before he shocked the nation with his announcement in March of 1968 that he wouldn't run for reelection. We hear Lady Bird’s growing sense that Bobby Kennedy will become LBJ's political rival, and RFK’s bring-down-the-house performance at the Democratic Convention in the summer of 1964. In the run up to the ’64 election, Lady Bird makes a Whistle Stop tour of the South — her home turf — to try to keep Southern Democrats from defecting over Civil Rights. But she’s met with open hostility, and worse. And on her return to Washington, a sex scandal involving Lyndon’s closest aide presents an October surprise that could easily upend the election.
In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson is written and executive produced by Julia Sweig and Adam Pincus and produced by Anne Carkeet of Best Case Studios. Executive Producers for ABC News are Victoria Thompson and Eric Johnson.
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hunched over in a cubicle in my undergraduate library in my fur coat like some sort of grandmotherly hermit..... i’m totally alone too because everybody’s done exams and the semester is over for the holidays. but here i am, pouring over julia sweig’s footnotes and trying to make sense of her research for my project. i’ll probably be here for another four hours too until they close... just me and the occasional library staffer
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig
Notable Quote: “I’ll never forgive Lyndon’s boys for turning my environmental agenda into a beautification project,” she later recalled. “But I went ahead and talked about wildflowers so as not to scare anybody, because I knew if the people came to love wildflowers they’d have to eventually care about the land that grew ‘em.”
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Bailey talks about his new biography, and Julia Sweig discusses “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.”
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Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know
Julia E. Sweig
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Cuba’s political relationship with the United States is changing, and with it, potentially it’s biodiversity. In this podcast, conservation biologist and co-curator of the exhibition ¡Cuba! , Ana Luz Porzecanski, moderates a panel on contemporary Cuba, its people, identity, and biodiversity. You will hear from historian and policy expert Julia Sweig, anthropologist Ruth Behar, environmental lawyer Dan Whittle, and Museum herpetologist and co-curator of ¡Cuba! Chris Raxworthy.
This event took place at the Museum on March 9, 2017.
¡Cuba! was developed in collaboration with the Cuban National Museum of Natural History.
Major funding for ¡Cuba! has been provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund.
Significant support for ¡Cuba! has been provided by the Ford Foundation.
Generous support for ¡Cuba! has been provided by the Dalio Ocean Initiative.
¡Cuba! is proudly supported by JetBlue.
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A magisterial portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, and a major reevaluation of the profound yet underappreciated impact the First Lady's political instincts had on LBJ's presidency.In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances--following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--he had to decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned to his most reliable, trusted political strategist: his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. The strategy memo she produced for him, emblematic of her own political acumen and largely overlooked by biographers, is just one revealing example of how their marriage was truly a decades-long political partnership.Perhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most accomplished and often her husband's secret weapon. Managing the White House in years of national upheaval, through the civil rights movement and the escalation of the Vietnam War, Lady Bird projected a sense of calm and, following the glamorous and modern Jackie Kennedy, an old-fashioned image of a First Lady. In truth, she was anything but. As the first First Lady to run the East Wing like a professional office, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Teddy Roosevelt. Occupying the White House during the beginning of the women's liberation movement, she hosted professional women from all walks of life in the White House, including urban planning and environmental pioneers like Jane Jacobs and Barbara Ward, encouraging women everywhere to pursue their own careers, even if her own style of leadership and official role was to lead by supporting others.Where no presidential biographer has understood the full impact of Lady Bird Johnson's work in the White House, Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on Lady Bird's own voice in her White House diaries to place Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Johnson center stage and to reveal a woman ahead of her time--and an accomplished politician in her own right.
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**Mundane question warning** What are your academic and personal goals for the new year? 😊
not mundane at all! i was just thinking about this actually. my academic goals are definitely to catch up on the literature of my field, successfully present at my first conference, meet with and pick the brains of lars schoultz and julia sweig, find a fucking interesting angle to be able to sell my dissertation to my committee, complete my committee, go to cuba and live there for a month without incident, become definitively fluent in spanish, figure out the ins and outs of the havana archive system, do my comprehensive exams, defend my dissertation prospectus, prepare to finagle money to live in cuba in 2021-2022, it sounds lofty but sadly i have no choice but to knock all these out by this time next year to progress in the timetable i want.
as for personal goals... i want to keep better connections with my friends in toronto. i do this now, but sometimes when i’m really busy i slip a little. be kinder to myself and slow down, meditate more, learn how to date in a healthier way that serves me better, figure out a healthy work-life balance
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EL veredicto final de Fidel Castro
El dictador Fidel Castro con Adela Dworin, y el periodista Jeffrey Mark Goldberg, atrás a la derecha con camisa blanca y una grabadora en la mano. Foto The Times of Israel
LA HABANA, Cuba.- Por mucho que se cuidaba Fidel Castro de tener enfrentamientos riesgosos con la prensa extranjera, varios fueron los periodistas que lo pusieron entre la espada y la pared, esos que no se dejaron impresionar por sus atributos teatrales: ropa verde olivo militar, barba, habano caro, expresiones que iban de angelicales a feroces…
No eran los oficialistas de la prensa castrista a quienes subestimaba el Comandante, por mediocres, siempre temerosos de cometer algún desliz que lo incomodara; eran, por lo general, norteamericanos de renombre que le hacían dura la tarea.
Herbert L. Matthews, del periódico The New York Times, fue la excepción de la regla. Fidel usó sus triquiñuelas para hacerle ver una numerosa guerrilla que no poseía y más tarde, en Estados Unidos, Matthews confesó que lo había engañado.
Sin embargo, muchos otros, como Andrew St. George y Ann Louse Bardach, luego de sus entrevistas con el líder caribeño, y a pesar de sus manifestaciones sobre democracia, justicia social, elecciones generales y restauración de la Constitución de 1940, detectaron su demagogia y un afán de poder que no podía ocultar.
Hasta el célebre futbolista Diego Armando Maradona, obsesionado con el viejo dictador, se encaprichó en hacerle una entrevista, desaparecida de nuestros medios, y criticada por sus expresiones vulgares, que al parecer fue el detonante para que terminara ingresado en una famosa clínica argentina por trastornos mentales.
Por último, como remate, fue el periodista y editor jefe de la revista The Atlantic, Jeffrey Mark Goldberg, norteamericano de 53 años, quien le escuchó a Fidel el veredicto final de su trabajo como jefe de estado.
Sorprendido e intrigado, escuchó a un Castro de 84 años decir con toda su calma y seriedad que “el modelo cubano ya no funciona ni siquiera para nosotros”.
Para estar seguro, preguntó a su compañera Julia Sweig, experta en relaciones exteriores de Estados Unidos, si había escuchado bien.
Julia dijo que Fidel “no estaba rechazando las ideas de la Revolución, sino que reconocía que el modelo cubano no era posible en la vida económica del país, y mucho menos exportable”.
Era evidente que Fidel enviaba su veredicto final a Raúl, al frente en esos momentos del gobierno. También, una semana antes a la citada entrevista, se sintió con deseos de decir las verdades que se le atragantaban y reconoció su culpa, cuando a partir de los años sesenta se persiguieron y encarcelaron en Cuba a los hombres homosexuales, muchos de ellos afamados artistas y escritores, y no así a las mujeres.
Aquellas diez horas de conversaciones con Goldberg y Sweig, a quienes Fidel había invitado a Cuba días antes de manera muy especial, hoy son memorables, sobre todo después de que se han cumplido ya dos años de su muerte.
Cabe entonces preguntarse: ¿Tanto el nuevo presidente Díaz-Canel, como su jefe máximo Raúl Castro recuerdan en algún momento el veredicto final del Comandante en Jefe, dicho por aquellos primeros días de septiembre, hace ocho años?
¿Se ha hecho lo suficiente para cambiar el modelo cubano para su posible validez en otros países, como por ejemplo, en Venezuela? ¿Acaso Raúl y sus generales han hecho algo por liberar el pesado fardo económico que no soporta el Estado cubano, como está explícito en las palabras de Fidel?
Y una última pregunta: ¿Qué dirá Fidel, allá en lo alto del cielo, al ver que no ha sido escuchado por los ortodoxos burócratas que dentro del partido comunista dirigen el país, y mucho menos por el joven presidente?
Seguramente dirá: Cuidado, el tiempo del castrismo se está terminando. “Y cuando el final está cerca —dice Maquiavelo—, la lucidez y las resoluciones fallan. Nuestro José Martí dice algo más: “La larga posesión del poder quita el sentido”.
Fuente:
Entrevista de Jefferey Goldberg a Fidel Castro, Revista The Atlantic. 2 de septiembre, 2010
EL veredicto final de Fidel Castro
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