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LBJ, a KERA Production in association with David Grubin Productions, Inc. for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written and produced by David Grubin

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LBJ

videorecording

a KERA Production in association with David Grubin Productions, Inc. for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written and produced by David Grubin

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LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage -- 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done, the size of the problems he faces. Before Lyndon Johnson, we were essentially a segregated society. Inequality among black Americans in the South was set in law. Before Lyndon Johnson, there was no Head Start program, no Medicare -- so much that we take for granted -- and before Lyndon Johnson, very few Americans had even heard of Vietnam. He is a story, a very American story and, in all, a tragedy in the real sense. He is the central character in a struggle of moral importance ending in ruin

Beautiful Texas: To Washington ; Defeat ; Senate ; Return to Washington -- My fellow Americans: Historic bill ; Leaving the shadow -- We shall overcome: President of all America ; Offensive ; Times of stress -- The last believer: Tet offensive ; Unstable ; Last speech

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