>> the lbj presidential library in austin, texas, is part of the system a privately erected and federally maintained facilities made possible by the presidential libraries act of 1955. while the lbj library preserves and makes accessible the papers, records and historical materials of the 36th president, it was also a place of personal refuge for lbj and lady bird johnson as we will learn from library director mark updegrove. >> we are in the private suite of lincoln and lbj johnson. this was private. this is not part of a tour that is offered to the public. this has never been open to the public and you are seeing it because of c-span's special access.

vips coming to the space just as they did to lyndon johnson's day but is not open to our visitors on a daily basis. the remarkable thing about this space is it truly a living, breathing artifact. it hasn't changed at all since president johnson died in january of 1973. there's a document in the quarter of the shrimp signed by among others that then archivist of the united states and lady bird johnson telling my predecessors, , myself and my successors, that nothing in this room can change. so this is just as president johnson would have seen it in his day. there have been a number of luminaries in this room, seven presidents have striated through these rooms. 61st 61st ladies, the queen f england, prince philip, prince charles, princess diana have all been in this room and it looks exactly as we see it now. there's a famous interview that

lbj did with walter cronkite in the early 1970s in which lbj is sitting in that chair and walter cronkite on that couch, and you see exactly what you see right now. the president was alive for about a year and a half when this library was built. it was inaugurated in may of 1971 and as i mentioned he died in january 1973 so he had a very limited time during which he was a part of this library but a very important time. lady bird johnson continued to make it an important part of her life until she died in 2007. this library is much about lady bird johnson and her touch as it is her husband's. throughout the room there some wonderful artifacts that the johnson's collected while they were in the white house. some come from heads of state.

others come from friends of theirs who gave the johnson's gifts for the presidential library or for the white house that were then brought to the space. one such item is this painting by diego rivera, one of 15 cuba paintings that he did during the course of his career. it was given to president johnson from the president of mexico during a state visit there during the course of johnson's presidency. there's another painting on the right by charles russell, the famous painter of western scenes. and this was a painting that hung at the lbj ranch that the johnson's subsequently gave to their library. in this case in between there are many gifts that were given to the johnson's, , again by

friends, and in some cases by heads of state including there's a wonderful solid gold representation of the mountain where there's a diamond where the sea of tranquility is located. the sea of tranquility is of course where neil armstrong and buzz aldrin first landed on the moon. president johnson of course was very active in the space program, and so that mission occurred after he left the oval office, it was very much part of his efforts that we actually made it to the moon. this is a small private office set up for president johnson, and it was meant to model the private office, the oval office. through that door which are show in the moment is our replicate of the johnson oval office. but this was his small study he used on occasion.

it includes a very long couch, very long because johnson often took naps. actually ended up being horizontal working sessions more than his opportunity to slumber, but it is long to accommodate his 6'3" frame and recently when we had the civil rights summit here at the lbj presidential library, president carter took a nap on this as well, so at least two former presidents have slept on that couch. this is a small desk that president johnson used in the private office off of the oval office. he spent a great deal of his time there when he worked as president. so a lot of the work of his presidency was done on this desk. president johnson was a major consumer of the news. he monitored it very, very

carefully. and those three television sets were set up so he could see simultaneously all three major news broadcasts simultaneously. and there's a remote control there, a very primitive remote control that allowed him to isolate the sounds on two of the sets so he could hear the sound on one of them. this is at a time when there were only three broadcast networks, cbs, abc and nbc. so it was far easier to monitor the news that it is today. pbs actually was a fourth network that was introduced by lyndon johnson through legislation that he signed in 1967, creating not only pbs but also national public radio. i mentioned earlier that this suite has not changed since president johnson died in 1973, and the rug that i will show you

and what is the bathroom is illustrative of that. you can see that that neon green, anyone who is over 45 will recognize that as probably the same color as the rug that were in their dens. this is a very popular color at the time, and so you would see we have changed things in the suite. >> if we could i would just come that's the one thing i want. i would like to have a reproduction, architectural requirements would permit. i do say it's got to be 18 feet high or 14 or got to be 38 feet long. well, might have a look hard on the door to say this is not an exact reproduction or something, but i would like for it to be such, whether they get and oppression because they all want to see that. they all want, that's what they come to see.

>> here we are in lbj's oval office. most of the presidential libraries have oval office replicas. this is distinct for two reasons. number one, it's slightly smaller than the actual oval office. this is 7/8 to scale. the reason that it is small is because it was added really as an afterthought. president johnson wanted visitors to the library to see where the president worked, but we didn't have a large enough space to accommodate the oval office, so it's slightly smaller than the actual. another thing that makes it unique or there is this is te actual furniture that was in lyndon johnson's white house, including his desk. this is not the resolute desk we all associate with the president, the desk that president obama currently uses in many is recognize in photo of john f. kennedy, jr. popping out of his father's desk.

that resolute desk is used by most president. johnson, however, because he wanted to take his furniture back to his presidential library, opted instead use the desk he had at the senator to use this when he was senate majority leader picky then used it as vice president and took it over to the oval office when he ascended to the presidency. that is his chair. that is his telephone. this is his suite of furniture, including the rocking chair that he sat in on meetings. you will recognize that as being similar to the rocking chairs that john f. kennedy used when he was president. it was done by the same manufacturer. every president of course gets to choose the portraits that he wants to grace his oval office. in president johnson's case he chose george washington, andrew jackson, and his hero franklin

roosevelt's. he was very much a product of the new deal and was a protégé in many respects of franklin roosevelt's, who saw the great potential in young lyndon johnson. so when johnson became president it was his hope that he would finish the new deal, he would finish with his great society what president roosevelt started with the new deal. and one of the things that fdr left unaddressed in his presidency was civil rights. i think ultimately president johnson will be remembered as the civil rights president for having signed into law the civil rights act of 1964 which broke the back of jim crow in our separate but equal laws throughout the south. the voting rights act of 1965 which gave all americans unimpeded access to the ballot box and the fair housing act of 1968, which allowed for fair housing for all americans.

that's a triumvirate of civil rights legislation, and i think it's the principal legacy of lyndon johnson. >> here's a look at our live coverage today.

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