Lyndon B. Johnson: Power

Presidential

The Washington Post

History, Government, Education

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🗓️ 4 September 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The LBJ Presidential Library's director, Mark Updegrove, helps us examine how Johnson worked his will--at times darkly--to get some of the most transformative legislation of the 20th century through Congress.

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0:00.0	Music
0:07.0	Johnson was two things endemic late.
0:11.0	One, he was a Texan, very proud of being a Texan.
0:14.0	And two, he was just a natural politician.
0:18.0	And there's a story that exemplifies both of those things.
0:22.0	When he was a senator, he was about to embark on a re-election campaign tour
0:28.0	back in Texas and convened his speech writers to review a draft speech that they had done.
0:34.0	For him, Johnson reviews this speech in he comes upon a passage from Socrates.
0:41.0	And he looks at this passage and he says, Socrates. Socrates.
0:47.0	Now let me get this straight.
0:49.0	I'm going back home to Texas to talk to just plain folks.
0:54.0	And you have me quoting Socrates? He said, Keep the quote in.
0:59.0	But start it with, My daddy always used to say.
1:05.0	That's Lyndon Johnson.
1:08.0	I'm Lillian Cunningham with The Washington Post.
1:11.0	And this is the 35th episode of Presidential.
1:16.0	I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
1:29.0	Watch your husband and you for you.
1:32.0	He's going to live.
1:34.0	Let's get it to me.
1:36.0	I said at the end of last week's episode that biographer Robert Carro would be our featured guest for discussing Lyndon Johnson.
1:51.0	Well, I was so excited for that. And he was really excited to be on the podcast.
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