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LBJ is a 1991 two-part television documentary film about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now American Experience) documentary program, it recounts Johnson's life from his childhood to his presidency up to his death. Written, co-produced and directed by David Grubin and narrated by David McCullough, the film first aired on PBS in two parts on September 30, 1991. Interviewees Robert Baker, Senate aide George Ball, Undersecretary of State Larry Berman, Vietnam historian William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State S. Douglas Cater, Washington, D.C. reporter Clark Clifford, presidential adviser John Connally, campaign aide; advisor Ava Cox, cousin Robert Dallek, biographer Homer Dean, campaign supporter Rebecca Doggert, Newark Head Start Ronnie Dugger, biographer Daniel Ellsberg, Defense Department staff James Farmer, civil rights activist J. William Fulbright, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer Richard Goodwin, presidential speechwriter Lewis Gould, historian Nicholas Katzenbach, Attorney General Eliot Janeway, economist; family friend Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady Donald Malafronte, aide to Mayor of Newark Harry McPherson, Senate staff Rep. James Pickle, campaign worker George Reedy, White House press secretary Dean Rusk, Secretary of State Howard Schuman, Senate aide Sergeant Shriver, Peace Corps director E. Babe Smith, Pedernales Electric Co-op James Thomson Jr., National Security Council staff Jack Valenti, special assistant to the president Elizabeth Wickenden, family friend Roger Wilkins, Johnson administration attorney Lee Williams, aide to Senator Fulbright Andrew Young, civil rights activist Critical response Walter Goodman of The New York Times gave LBJ a positive review, stating that "Mr. Grubin demonstrates the mastery of the television documentary that makes his work an absorbing start to a new season of 'The American Experience.' [...] It is a powerful story, powerfully rendered."

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”
— Private comment, as quoted in Name-Dropping (1999) by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 149.
“Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass.”
— Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in
“Well, I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine.”
— Comment to journalist and special assistant Bill Moyers, as quoted in Charles Kaiser, " 'We May Have Lost the South': What LBJ Really Said About Democrats in 1964", The Guardian, January 23, 2023
“There are no problems which we cannot solve together, and there are very few which any of us can settle by himself.”
— President Johnson's thirty-fourth news conference was held on the front lawn at the LBJ Ranch, Johnson City, Tex., at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, November 28, 1964. Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley from The American Presidency Project.
“I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful.”
— Remarks to the International Platform Association (August 3, 1965); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 2, p. 822
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
— On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

LBJ is a 1991 two-part television documentary film about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now American Experience) documentary program, it recounts Johnson's life from his childhood to his presidency up to his death. Written, co-produced and directed by David Grubin and narrated by David McCullough, the film first aired on PBS in two parts on September 30, 1991. Interviewees Robert Baker, Senate aide George Ball, Undersecretary of State Larry Berman, Vietnam historian William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State S. Douglas Cater, Washington, D.C. reporter Clark Clifford, presidential adviser John Connally, campaign aide; advisor Ava Cox, cousin Robert Dallek, biographer Homer Dean, campaign supporter Rebecca Doggert, Newark Head Start Ronnie Dugger, biographer Daniel Ellsberg, Defense Department staff James Farmer, civil rights activist J. William Fulbright, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer Richard Goodwin, presidential speechwriter Lewis Gould, historian Nicholas Katzenbach, Attorney General Eliot Janeway, economist; family friend Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady Donald Malafronte, aide to Mayor of Newark Harry McPherson, Senate staff Rep. James Pickle, campaign worker George Reedy, White House press secretary Dean Rusk, Secretary of State Howard Schuman, Senate aide Sergeant Shriver, Peace Corps director E. Babe Smith, Pedernales Electric Co-op James Thomson Jr., National Security Council staff Jack Valenti, special assistant to the president Elizabeth Wickenden, family friend Roger Wilkins, Johnson administration attorney Lee Williams, aide to Senator Fulbright Andrew Young, civil rights activist Critical response Walter Goodman of The New York Times gave LBJ a positive review, stating that "Mr. Grubin demonstrates the mastery of the television documentary that makes his work an absorbing start to a new season of 'The American Experience.' [...] It is a powerful story, powerfully rendered."

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

LBJ is a 1991 two-part television documentary film about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now American Experience) documentary program, it recounts Johnson's life from his childhood to his presidency up to his death. Written, co-produced and directed by David Grubin and narrated by David McCullough, the film first aired on PBS in two parts on September 30, 1991.

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Notable quotes

“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”
— Private comment, as quoted in Name-Dropping (1999) by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 149.
“Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass.”
— Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in
“Well, I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine.”
— Comment to journalist and special assistant Bill Moyers, as quoted in Charles Kaiser, " 'We May Have Lost the South': What LBJ Really Said About Democrats in 1964", The Guardian, January 23, 2023
“There are no problems which we cannot solve together, and there are very few which any of us can settle by himself.”
— President Johnson's thirty-fourth news conference was held on the front lawn at the LBJ Ranch, Johnson City, Tex., at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, November 28, 1964. Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley from The American Presidency Project.
“I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful.”
— Remarks to the International Platform Association (August 3, 1965); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 2, p. 822
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
— On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

LBJ across IJR

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