Lady Bird Johnson is the subject of Dawn Porter’s mesmerizing documentary, based on the subject’s own words.
Lady Bird Johnson records the day’s events in this archival photo from the documentary “The Lady Bird Diaries.” “It all began so beautifully.” These are the opening words of “The Lady Bird Diaries,” Dawn Porter’s mesmerizing documentary portrait of former first lady Lady Bird Johnson. The words are Lady Bird’s own, as is most of the narration of this extraordinary contemporaneous account of her husband Lyndon’s presidency.
One of the most delightful surprises in “Diaries” is Lady Bird’s keen power of observation, especially when it came to her husband’s colleagues and rivals. And the tapes evince some lovely writerly flourishes, such as when she describes RFK’s impassivity at President Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His reticent applause, she notes wryly, “would not have disturbed a gnat sleeping calmly in his palm.
Although “Diaries” is told from one person’s point of view, Porter does an excellent job of widening the lens to include other perspectives, especially those of King, activist Fannie Lou Hamer and the actress Eartha Kitt . Most importantly, though, Porter corrects the record about one of the most consequential first ladies of the 20th century. Perhaps because of her lyrical name, or her Southern gentility, Lady Bird has often been misunderstood and underestimated.
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