LBJ, Season 1

A profile of one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to power, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat.

Witness the events that brought LBJ from Texas to Washington, the White House, and a landslide election in 1964. Follow his triumphs in passing a wave of social legislation then his downward spiral which ends in withdrawal from politics.