Lyndon B. Johnson

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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“He was fascinating as a character and bigger than life in every way. He was hard to deal with. He didn't like television, or he didn't want to be on it. I don't know whether he thought he didn't look good or didn't do well.” - Betty Cole Dukert, Producer

Interviewees discuss the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969).

Highlights

Betty Cole Dukert on various Presidents and Meet the Press: Lyndon B. Johnson

10:43

Walter Cronkite on his on-air editorial that he felt the country should get out of Vietnam; what this meant to the country and the Johnson administration

05:11

Barbara Walters on informally meeting President Lyndon Johnson

01:04

Dan Rather on covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and Lyndon Johnson

07:44

Tom and Dick Smothers on their relationship with the Johnson administration

02:35

Executive Producer Lewis Bernstein on how executives Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett's approach to Sesame Street was an outgrowth of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"

01:02

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Lewis Bernstein

Executive Producer Lewis Bernstein on how executives Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett's approach to Sesame Street was an outgrowth of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"

01:02

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite on his on-air editorial that he felt the country should get out of Vietnam; what this meant to the country and the Johnson administration

05:11

Sam Donaldson

Sam Donaldson on covering the 1971 Fulbright Hearings on Vietnam

01:48

Betty Cole Dukert

Betty Cole Dukert on various Presidents and Meet the Press: Lyndon B. Johnson

10:43

Reuven Frank

Reuven Frank on the 1964 Democratic presidential convention

02:58

Reuven Frank on the 1964 Democratic political convention, which produced Lyndon B. Johnson as the nominee

02:52

William Froug

William Froug on doing a film with Rod Serling after JFK died introducing Lyndon Johnson to the world

11:23

Leonard H. Goldenson

Leonard Goldenson on his close relationships with several American Presidents - Lyndon B. Johnson

03:24

Lucy Jarvis

Lucy Jarvis on producing the NBC News documentary Who Shall Live?

02:35

Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel on reporting on JFK's assassination for ABC radio

02:21

Brian Lamb

Brian Lamb on the Detroit riots of 1967

05:52

Brian Lamb on his Navy career in the Johnson White House

02:48

Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil on working on The Huntley-Brinkley Report and covering the 1964 campaign

07:13

Robert MacNeil on how Kennedy and Johnson dealt with the press

11:32

Bill Monroe

Bill Monroe on NBC News' coverage of the Vietnam War, and on covering the Lyndon B. Johnson administration

07:40

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers on meeting Senator Lyndon Johnson

07:30

Bill Moyers on becoming White House Press Secretary

01:45

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson not being good on television

03:31

Bill Moyers on the relationship between the Johnson administration and the press during the Vietnam War

06:29

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson and television

06:27

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson's thoughts on public television

06:23

Dan Rather

Dan Rather on covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and Lyndon Johnson

07:44

Dan Rather on reporting on President Johnson

08:44

Marlene Sanders

Marlene Sanders on co-anchoring LBJ's inauguration with Peter Jennings

01:00

Max Schindler

Max Schindler on directing the coverage of the Kennedy assassination for NBC News

08:41

Max Schindler on directing coverage of the Vietnam War for NBC News

07:21

Tom Smothers

Tom and Dick Smothers on their relationship with the Johnson administration

02:35

Dick Smothers

Tom and Dick Smothers on their relationship with the Johnson administration

02:35

Sanford Socolow

Sanford Socolow on the friendship between Frank Stanton and Lyndon Johnson and whether it influenced CBS news coverage of Vietnam

04:17

Frank Stanton

Frank Stanton on his relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson

08:00

Robert Trout

Robert Trout on covering the 1964 Democratic Convention (Lyndon B. Johnson)

07:15

Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters on informally meeting President Lyndon Johnson

01:04

Perry Wolff

Perry Wolff on going to work for CBS making documentaries and his friendship with Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson

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