It all began so beautifully, we were going into Dallas.

Inside a dimly lit room at the LBJ library in Austin, Texas, a motion sensor triggers

a recording and a soft deliberate voice fills the room.

It's the voice of Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of Lyndon Johnson.

Suddenly, there was a sharp loud report.

I was so struck by that voice and the detail she managed to capture, I needed to know more

about what I was hearing.

I cast one last look back over my shoulder, so Mrs. Kennedy lying over the president's

body.

So I decided to dig deeper.

I'm Julius Wyg.

I've lived in Washington DC for a while, working in policy and writing about history.

DC is a town that's focused mostly on power and influence.

Now there have certainly been some powerful influential women in the White House, Eleanor

and Jackie, Hillary, Michelle.

But Lady Bird Johnson, his history has it she's just a president's wife, best known for

a program called beautification.

But turns out, Lady Bird recorded her entire experience in the White House, hours and

hours of tape that almost no one has ever heard.

In those tapes, they end up rewriting history.

Of course, the 1960s have been poured over and dissected.

But what I found in these diaries is surprising, it's new.

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