Lyndon Johnson

More than half a century after the report was published, white America still struggles to acknowledge the Kerner Commission’s conclusion: racism is the root cause of inequality in the United States.

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.

The journalist and biographer discusses his famous subjects and their use of power, his reporting methods, and the time he got called out by one of his professors at Princeton.

The biographer and the actress talk about the challenges of portraying difficult and powerful people.