Introducing 'In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson'

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ABC News

Politics, News

4.6 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Today, we wanted to share the first episode of the ABC News podcast series, "In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson," which uncovers the former first lady's surprisingly powerful role in the Johnson presidency and includes history-making revelations about Lyndon B. Johnson’s time in office. The full series is available now on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/2QQw8e9), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3ukYgoq), or wherever you listen by searching "In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson." - In her first-ever diary entry, recorded eight days after President John F. Kennedy is 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Friday, November, to the next segment.
0:04.6	It all began so beautifully.
0:06.9	After a drizzle in the morning, the sun came out right in Kyrgyz.
0:13.2	We were going into Dallas.
0:15.3	Inside a dimly lit exhibit space at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas,
0:20.2	a motion sensor triggers a recording.
0:22.9	A soft, deliberate voice fills the room.
0:26.2	In the lead car, President, Mrs. Kennedy,
0:29.2	and then a secret service car full of air.
0:32.8	And then our car flended at me.
0:37.4	It's the voice of Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of Lyndon Johnson.
0:41.4	Mrs. Kennedy's dress was taken of blood
0:46.1	that immaculate woman.
0:48.2	I was so struck by that voice and the details she managed to capture.
0:53.0	Exquisitely dressed and taken blood.
0:57.2	I asked her if I couldn't get somebody to come in to help her.
1:03.2	She said, oh, no, that's all right, perhaps later.
1:07.4	And then with an element of business, she said,
1:12.2	I want them to see what they have done to Jack.
1:18.1	I'm Julia Swag.
1:19.7	I've lived in Washington, DC for a while,
1:22.1	working in policy and writing about history.
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