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7. The Lady Bird Special

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Jade Emerson

Host and Producer, "Lady Bird"

Lady Bird and her closest advisers, who are all women, plan a bold whistle stop train tour through Southern states that are hostile toward the administration’s civil rights legislation. She faces bomb threats and heckling in this first-of-its kind tour by a first lady. Is there a limit to her grace? Historians see this as a masterstroke by an underestimated first lady.

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