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As been told on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations!Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady, written, produced, directed, and narrated by Joe Bevilacqua. Probably one of the most accredited audiobooks on The Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady is veteran NPR developer Joe Bevilacqua's award-winning audio documentary analyzing the issues and achievements of the extraordinary female. The hour combines never-before-released archive audio, gleaned from hundreds of hours of recordings housed at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Collection and Museum, period information broadcasts, private conversations with Lyndon Baines Johnson, and the words of Lady Bird Johnson from an interview that hasn't before been released to the public. Bevilacqua spent almost five months listening to the unusual tapes and traveled to Washington, D.C., to interview Mrs. Johnson's co-workers and friends. The program features Lyndon Johnson Administration staffers Liz Carpenter, Bess Abell, and Nash Castro, Washington Post owner Katherine Graham, Lyndon Baines Johnson Collection and Museum Director Harry Middleton, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Middle Director Robert Cup Breunig; Lady Bird biographer Jan Jarboe Russell, and First Women Betty Ford and Barbara Bush. Other voices been told on this program include Kirk Douglas and Helen Hayes reading from LBJ's and Lady Bird's love words. The creation was stated in connection with KUT Radio in Austin, Texas, and overseen by a -panel of scholars and experts, including Lewis Gould, retired University or college of Texas (UT) at Austin Professor of Record; Walt Rostow, UT Professor Emeritus, Elspeth Rostow, ex - dean of the UT LBJ School of Community Affairs; Carl Anthony, Washington, D.C., historian; and Don Carleton, director, The Center for American Record at UT.