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Podcast: The Preamble
Episode: The Many Roles of Lady Bird Johnson with Julia Sweig
Description: In today’s episode, Sharon talks with author Julia Sweig about her newest book,
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
. The research and writing took Julia over six years, as she meticulously poured over the details of not only Lady Bird’s life, but also the 1960s era and the state of the nation at the time. Lady Bird, a whip-smart Southern woman, met Lyndon Johnson in Austin, Texas where he proposed to her at the end of their first date (she said no!). Eventually, the pair married and moved to Washington DC. As LBJ’...