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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Label
LBJ, a KERA Production in association with David Grubin Productions, Inc. for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written and produced by David Grubin
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA Rating: Not rated; Canadian rating PG
Main title
LBJ
Oclc number
63200563
Responsibility statement
a KERA Production in association with David Grubin Productions, Inc. for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written and produced by David Grubin
Runtime
235
Series statement
American Experience Television series
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
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
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
American Experience, LBJ
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- Documentary television programs
- Johnson, Lyndon B., Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
- Biographical television programs
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Historical television programs
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Legislators -- Texas -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
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- Contributor8
- Genre4
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- Documentary television programs
- Johnson, Lyndon B., Lyndon Baines, 1908-1973
- Biographical television programs
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Historical television programs
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Legislators -- Texas -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
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- Is Derivative Of1
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