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

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

Barbara Walters on informally meeting President Lyndon Johnson

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

Tom and Dick Smothers on their relationship with the Johnson administration

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"

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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"

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

Sam Donaldson

Sam Donaldson on covering the 1971 Fulbright Hearings on Vietnam

Betty Cole Dukert

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

Reuven Frank

Reuven Frank on the 1964 Democratic presidential convention

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

William Froug

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

Leonard H. Goldenson

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

Lucy Jarvis

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

Ted Koppel

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

Brian Lamb

Brian Lamb on the Detroit riots of 1967

Brian Lamb on his Navy career in the Johnson White House

Robert MacNeil

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

Robert MacNeil on how Kennedy and Johnson dealt with the press

Bill Monroe

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

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers on meeting Senator Lyndon Johnson

Bill Moyers on becoming White House Press Secretary

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson not being good on television

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

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson and television

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson's thoughts on public television

Dan Rather

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

Dan Rather on reporting on President Johnson

Marlene Sanders

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

Max Schindler

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

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

Tom Smothers

Tom and Dick Smothers on their relationship with the Johnson administration

Dick Smothers

Tom and Dick Smothers on their relationship with the Johnson administration

Sanford Socolow

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

Frank Stanton

Frank Stanton on his relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson

Robert Trout

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

Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters on informally meeting President Lyndon Johnson

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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