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The Lady Bird Diaries Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: A groundbreaking documentary film that uses Lady Bird's audio diaries to tell the story of one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies in history.
Director : Dawn Porter
Writer: Julia Sweig
Stars: Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson
Transcript
00:00 It all began so beautifully.
00:02 Lyndon Johnson and Mrs. Johnson have just arrived.
00:06 Lyndon and I rode down the avenue in one car.
00:09 Suddenly, there was a shot.
00:11 I heard the words, "The President is dead."
00:15 Mrs. Kennedy's dress was stained with her husband's blood.
00:20 I asked her if I couldn't get somebody to help her change.
00:24 She said, "Oh no, I want them to see what they have done to Jack."
00:28 We have this from Washington.
00:29 Commendator was saying, "Lyndon Johnson, now President of the United States."
00:34 That was when the enormity first struck me.
00:36 I was walking onto a stage for a part I had never rehearsed.
00:42 As the wife of the President, only I would see events unfold from that particular vantage point.
00:48 I thought to record this.
00:53 And it was incredible.
00:57 I walked to the oven, hands, whatever he's doing.
01:00 You want to listen to my critique?
01:02 Yes, ma'am.
01:03 You are a little reckless. You need to read it with a little more conviction.
01:07 In general, it was a good B-plus.
01:09 Lindbergh came flying into my room.
01:12 "Mama, Mama, Dr. King's been shot."
01:14 Evening assumed a nightmare quality.
01:17 The White House was like a fortress. Nobody gets out, nobody gets in.
01:21 The phone jarred me awake.
01:24 It was Lyndon saying, "Senator Kennedy had been shot."
01:27 What is our country coming to? What is happening to us?
01:30 Are we a sick society?
01:32 The world had changed overnight.
01:35 But Vietnam dominated the news.
01:37 Down with the law!
01:39 He, I, and the children, Linda and Lucy, will be criticized and slandered for things we have done, things we never did at all.
01:47 That Vietnam War is for the birds. Linda Bird, Lady Bird, Doody Bird.
01:51 This will be painful. It's a perilous path to tread.
01:55 The burial of Bobby Kennedy.
01:57 I found myself in front of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.
02:00 I felt extreme hostility. Was it because I was alive?
02:04 The greatest courage in the world is to get up in the morning and go about the day's work.
02:10 It is an endurance contest, this job.
02:13 That's a large order for a woman.
02:18 [Music]
02:23 (upbeat music)