The staffers at the LBJ Ranch had a front-row seat to history, as well as the personal lives of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird. Executive producer Katey Psencik Outka sits down with David Vela, the former superintendent of the Lyndon B. Johnson...
No one planned on a first lady quite like Lady Bird. With her new power and her disarming charm, she sets her sights on doing something lasting. She becomes the first person in her position to launch her own agenda. She lobbies Congress and inspires...
LBJ spent a quarter of his presidency at his ranch in Texas. The house at the ranch became known as the Texas White House. But to Lady Bird, it would always be her “heart’s home.” In this bonus episode, producer Carly Rose takes us on her first...
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...
When JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Lady Bird’s whole life changed in a single afternoon. The violent end of one presidency meant the unexpected beginning of another. In this bonus episode, producer Carly Rose tells the story of the assassination...
An increasingly confident Lady Bird hits the campaign trail yet again as her husband makes a bid for the U.S. Senate. She’s not just smiling and shaking hands anymore. She’s becoming a political force. Lady Bird meets Jackie Kennedy, a young...
The Johnson inner circle knew Lady Bird as LBJ’s closest adviser. That meant that often Lady Bird would “grade” LBJ’s speeches. Hear a recorded phone call between Lady Bird and LBJ as she critiques one of his presidential speeches.
On the day the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, everything in the United States changed, including for Lady Bird. With Lyndon away for the war, she runs his congressional office at a time in which women didn’t have a seat at the table. She also starts a...
After a life spent in Texas, Lady Bird moves to Washington, D.C., with her new husband. Lady Bird begins her life as a political wife and close confidant of a rising political star. LBJ runs for a U.S. House seat, and Lady Bird tries to keep her...
Lady Bird’s granddaughter Catherine Robb sits down with Jade Emerson to read her grandparents’ love letters from the 1930s. Catherine reflects on their relationship and the sweetness of two people falling in love via the U.S. mail.