schedule. >> we are in the private suite of lyndon and lady bird johnson, the private quarters for the president and first lady. when i say private, i mean it, it's not offered as a tour for the public. it's never been opened to the public and you're seeing it because of c-span's special access. v.i.p.'s come into this space just as they did in lyndon johnson's day. and the remarkable thing about the space, it's a living, breathing artifact. it hasn't changed at all since president johnson died in january of 1973 and there's a document in the corner of this room signed by, among others, the 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 lump nir luminaries in this room. six first ladies. the queen, prince philip, prince charles, and 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 as i mentioned he died in january of 1973. he had a limited time he was a part of this library's life, but a very important time. lady bird johnson continued to make it an important part of

her life until she died in 2007. and this library is as much about lady bird johnson and her touch as it is her husband's. throughout the room, there are some wonderful artifacts that the johnsons collected while they were in the white house. some comes from heads of state. others come from friends of theirs who gave the johnsons gifts for the presidential library or for the white house that were then brought to this space. one such item is this painting by diego rivera, one of 15 cubist paintings that diego rivera did during the course of his career. it was given to president johnson from the president of mexico during one of the stays there during his 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 johnsons subsequently gave to their library. in this case in between, there are many gifts that were given to the johnsons, again by friends, and in some cases, by heads of state, including there's a wonderful, solid gold representation of the moon 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 and that 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 at his office, the oval office. through that door is our replica of the johnson oval office. but this is his -- this was a small study that he used on occasion, it includes a very long couch, very long because johnson often took naps, ended up being horizontal working sessions more often than his opportunity to slumber, but it's long to accommodate his 6 foot 3 inch 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 this

private office, 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 -- 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 primitive remote control allows him to isolate the sounds on two sets so that he could hear the sound on one of them. this was at a time there were only three broadcast networks, nbc, cbs and abc. easier to monitor and pbs was a

fourth network introduced by lyndon johnson through legislation 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 in what is a bathroom is illustraive of that. the neon green, anyone over 45 years of age would recognize that's the same color of the rug in their dens. it's a very popular color at the time and you can see we haven't changed things in the suite. >> if we could, i just-- that's the one thing i want. i'd like to have a near reproduction as architectural and finances permit.

i don't say it has to be 18 feet high or 14, got to be 38 feet long. well, might have a little card on the door and say this is not an exact reproduction or something, but i'd like for it to be such that say, where they get an impression this is where the president worked because they all want to see that and that's what they come to see. >> here we are in l bj'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 all oval office, this is 7/8 to scale. the reason it's smaller, it's added as an afterthought. president johnson wanted visitors to the library to see where the president worked, but we didn't have enough space to

accommodate so it's slightly smaller. and what makes it unique, this is the actual furniture in lyndon johnson's white house, including his desk. this is not the resolute desk that we all associate with the president, and obama's desk or john popping out from. he wanted to take his desk to the presidential library and opted to use the desk as he used as a senator. he used this as senate majority leader and then used it as vice-president and took it to the oval office when he ascended to the presidency. that's his chair, that's his telephone. this is his suite of furniture, including the rocking chair he sat in on meetings. you'll recognize that as being similar to the rocking chairs that john f. kennedy used when

he was president, that 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. he's very much a product of the new deal and was a protege, in many respects, of franklin roosevelt who saw the potential in young lyndon johnson. when johnson became president it was his hope that he would finish the new deal, that 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 that 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 and 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 principal legacy of lyndon johnson. ♪♪ ♪♪

>> ohio congressman bob latta talks about the newly released republican broad band plan, that's today from the free state foundation's annual conference live at 9:30 on c-span2, on-line at c-span.org or listen free on the c-span radio app. this week in congress, the senate is in session with no votes until mid june. the senate continues today and continues authorizing funding for science and technology research that could help the u.s. compete with china and votes are planned for more of president biden's nominees including the head of medicare and medicaid services and assistant attorney general for civil rights at the justice department. watch live senate coverage today at 3 p.m. eastern