Lady Bird Johnson influenced LBJ's presidency while 'hiding in plain sight,' biographer Julia Sweig says. | jenstayton
Although Sweig describes Lady Bird Johnson as an"astute political animal" who was"engaged with LBJ's ups and downs," Sweig says politics was not Johnson's first love.
Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below to hear why Sweig thinks Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ worked so well together and whether or not Johnson considered herself a feminist as the women's right movement was growing during the LBJ administration.
It's hard to extrapolate from loss and trauma what kind of grit that builds in one. But she did lose her mother when she was five years old and developed very early on a great deal of independence and autonomy. And what she meant by that was you have a duty to participate professionally and in civic activism and politically but also raise your kids and be a good wife. So she kind of had one foot in the 1950s and one foot in the 1960’s [and] early '70s.
The entire thesis of my book has to do with her direct influence in shaping the arc of the LBJ presidency; in getting him into office in that difficult transition of the 14 days between Nov. 22 and Dec.
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