American History Fridays: Lady Bird Johnson

All Of It with Alison Stewart | 3 hours ago

[REBROADCAST FROM April 26, 2021] Author and podcast host Julia Sweig discusses her book, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, as well as her podcast, ‘In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson,’ which draws on over 123 hours of Johnson’s audio diaries, many of them unheard until now.

Photo by Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images: Portrait Of Lady Bird Johnson Among Wildflowers In Texas Hill Country. 

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