Busy documentarian Dawn Porter will debut her latest project, “The Lady Bird Diaries,” March 10 at SXSW. The all-archival doc, which will bow on Hulu later this year, relies on 123 hours of persona…
,” March 10 at SXSW. The all-archival doc, which will bow on Hulu later this year, relies on 123 hours of personal and revealing audio diaries that Lady Bird recorded during her the presidency of her husband, Lyndon Baines Johnson. The tapes, which were not publicly released until 2017, reveal the critical role the former First Lady played in LBJ’s White House as a close advisor and trusted political partner.
“I found a document that’s a strategy memo that Lady Bird wrote to LBJ in May of 1964,” Sweig, an executive producer on the project, told. “He was worried that he might not be able to carry off actually being the President on his own. And Lady Bird says, ‘Yes you can, and you will win. And then in February or March of 1968, you can tell the country that you won’t be running for a second term.’ So, her influence was directly there.
In “Bobby Kennedy for President” you explored RFK’s transformation from a law-and-order leader to progressive social justice and civil rights crusader. In this documentary we get to hear Lady Bird’s assessment of RFK, and it isn’t always complimentary. Were you surprised by that? I also found it surprising that Lady Bird critiqued Johnson’s speeches and was so involved in his decision making during his time in the Oval Office. She even created the East Wing, correct?
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