Please join us on Thursday, June 3, at 5 p.m. Eastern, for a 2021 History Book Festival virtual event with Julia Sweig, author of Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight (Random House, 2021). Susan Page will be in conversation with Sweig during the event. This event is free but registration is required.

Page is the Washington bureau chief of USA Today, where she writes about the White House and national politics. She is the author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power, a biography of Pelosi published in April 2021, and The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, published in 2019, which was a New York Times bestseller.

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Julia Sweig, award-winning author and nonresident senior research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin, discusses her new book Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, which draws on the largely unknown and overlooked audio diaries that Mrs. Johnson kept during her years in the White House. Ellen Fitzpatrick, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, moderates.

You can register for the free virtual event here.

First Ladies Reconsidered

Introduced and moderated by Anita McBride, Director of American University’s First Ladies Initiative and White House Historical Association Board Member.

Part of a day long event, hosted by the White House Historical Association in partnership with American University’s First Ladies Initiative.

More details about the virtual symposium can be found here.

A Virtual Event with Julia Sweig.

LIVE via Crowdcast.

Join Anthea Hartig, Director of the National Museum of American History, and Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, for a wide-ranging interview with Sweig on the life and legacy of Lady Bird Johnson, and for a closer look at the untold story of Lady Bird’s behind-the-scenes role in the founding of the Hirshhorn Museum.

This event is part of #HirshhornInsideOut, the Museum’s initiative to bring art into your home, and is presented in collaboration with the National Museum of American History.

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4:00PM PT/7:00PM EDT

Julia Sweig will be in conversation about Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.

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Julia Sweig will be in conversation with Mimi Swartz, a senior executive editor of Texas Monthly magazine and a continuing op-ed writer for The New York Times.

You can learn more about this year’s virtual book festival here.

Join Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation,  and award-winning author Julia Sweig for a conversation on Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.

This event will be recorded and posted to the Ford Foundation JustMatters blog and Youtube channel one week after the event.

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Julia Sweig will be in conversation with Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore. She is currently working on a book to be published by Penguin Press entitled Hillaryland.

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Julia Sweig will be in conversation with Betty Sue Flowers, the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and an emerita professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Joining Julia Sweig in conversation will be Claudia Anderson, Archivist at the LBJ Presidential Library and Jeff Shesol, author of Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade.

Presented in Partnership with the LBJ Presidential Library.

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