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we are in the private suite of. do you its visit private quarter and first lady and when i say private i do mean that, this is not part of a tour that is offered. this is has never been open to the public. you are seeing it because of c-span's special access. the eye -- vip's come into the space of just as they do and lyndon johnson's day. but it's not open to our visitors on a daily basis.

the remarkable thing about this space is it's a very living, breathing artifact. it hasn't changed at all since president johnson died in january of 1973. and this 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 in his day. there have been a number of luminaries in this room. seven presidents have started through these rooms. six first ladies. the queen of england, prince philip, prince charles, princess diana, whole have 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 and 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 1910 when, as i mentioned he died in january of 1973. so he had a very limited time during which he was part of this libraries life, a very important time. lady bird johnson continue to make it an important part of her life when she died in 2007. and this library this is as much as about lady bird johnson, as is her husband. throughout the room there are 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 them gifts for

the presidential library. or for the white house. that they brought to the space. one such item, is this painting by diego rivera. one of 15 of his paintings, that he did during the course of his career. it was given to president johnson, from the president of mexico during his state visit there. during the course of johnson's presidency. there's another painting, on the right. of charles russell. the famous painter of western scenes. this was a painting that hung at the lbj ranch that the johnson's eventually gave to their library. and there are many gifts that were given to the johnson's, by friends and in some cases by heads of state. including, there's a wonderful

solid gold, representation of the moon. where there is a diamond with the sea of tranquility is located. the sea of tranquility, is where neil armstrong and buzz aldrin first landed on the moon. president johnson of course was very active in the space program. and 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, it set up for president johnson. it was meant to model, the private office that is at the oval office. and through that door i will show you in a moment, is a replica of the johnson oval office. this is a small study that he used on occasion, and it includes a very long couch. very long because johnson often

took naps, and they ended up being horizontal working sessions, but it could accommodate his six foot three inch frame. and recently when we had the civil rights summit here at the lbj presidential library, president carter took a nap on this couch 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. and he spent a great deal of his time there, when he worked as president. 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 carefully. and those three television sets,

were set up so he could see simultaneously, all three major news broadcasts simultaneously. his remote control their, 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 was at the time were when there were only three broadcast networks. cbs, abc, and nbc. it was far easier to monitor the news than is today. pbs was a fourth network that was introduced by johnson, in 1967. trading not only pbs, but national public radio. i mentioned earlier, that this week has not changed since president johnson died 1973. and the rug that i will show you, in what is the bathroom, is an example of that. you will see that neon green,

anyone who is over 45 years of age, will recognize that's probably the same color of the rug that was in their den. it was a popular color at the time. so you would see that we haven't changed things since then. >> if we could, that's the one thing i want, i would like to have a near reproduction, and the architectural requirements would permit. i don't see it has to be 18 feet high, or 14 or 38 feet long, but it might have a little card on the door, and does not mean exactly production. but i would like for it to be such, to get an impression you know because they all want to see that. that's what they've 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 is slightly smaller than the actual oval office. this is seven eighths the scale. the reason that it's smaller, is because it was added as an afterthought. johnson wanted his visitors to the library, they wanted to see where the president worked, but we did have a large enough space to accommodate the oval office, so it's slightly smaller than the oval office. another thing that makes it unique though, is this is the actual furniture that was in lyndon johnson's white house. including his desk. this is not the resolute desk that we all associate with the president. the desk that president obama currently uses, and many of us who recognize the one where john f. kennedy junior's popped out from under the desk. that is used by most presidents. johnson however, because he

wanted to take his furniture back to his library, he often instead to use the desk that he had as a senator. he used this when he was senate majority leader, he then used it as a vice president, and took it over to the oval office when he ascended to the presidency. that is his chair, that's his telephone. this is his suite of furniture. including the rocking chair, but he said in on meetings. you will recognize that as being similar to the rocking ris

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 triumvirate of civil rights legislation. and i think is the principle legacy of lyndon johnson. here to mark patriot's day a

massachusetts state holiday commemorating the battles of lexington conquered and manitomy in april of 1775 monticello hosts a conversation with president thomas jefferson portrayed by bill barker. he recounts the events from the time of the battles to july 1776 events that led to the decision by the 13 colonies to break with great britain. he then explains how he was involved in creating the declaration of independence and what he hopes americans might learn from it. this video is courtesy of thomas jefferson's monticello in charlottesville, virginia.