 So what were your impressions of LBJ before you took the role, not knowing that you would eventually play LBJ? You were seven years old when you took office. So you probably have recollections as a child. But what were your impressions of LBJ? You know, it's noted, but perhaps many people don't know this part of it, but Lyndon Johnson had a public persona when he spoke to the press that he put on. He felt it was more presidential if he had a more serious tone to it, but he really wasn't that way at all. He was a storyteller and a jokester, and he was fun to be with, and then you could turn it and be very serious and very intent and in your face and in your personal space. I didn't know any of that. When I was a boy and the assassination happened, it had an impact on me, a tremendous impact on me, not personally because I was only seven. So I didn't quite understand why this happened or what it meant, but I could see it reflected in my parents and all of the neighbors who huddled together as many people did and embraced each other and wept and consoled each other. And so I knew something was very important here, and I needed to pay attention. And so the president then was Lyndon Johnson, and listening to him and watching him, I always thought my impression of him was that he was a very soft-spoken, laconic, measured man, and that's what he wanted me to think and feel. So it was a big surprise to learn little tidbits of it as I grew up, and he really wasn't that way and all the stories about him. And then when I really started the research, I was on a roller coaster ride finding out about everything about Lyndon Johnson. Was there a great revelation in that discovery process? Was there one big revelation in that discovery process? Well the first thing that I thought of after I read Robert's script and fell in love with the mastery of it and just the wonderful construction of the script itself to support the story of this man. And I believe I asked him at the time, I said, do you think that he was such a champion for the civil rights movement because he truly believed it? Or did he think that this was the political move to make and it would set his legacy? And we discussed that and when I found out more, when I started my research, found out that he was in Cthulhu, Texas, teaching at a very, very poor school and these kids who literally dirt poor, my good farm were her kids and didn't speak the English and made the terrible mistake of being born poor. And the treatment that they received from the white people in the town and it resonated with Lyndon so deeply, the injustice of that because he knew them, he knew these kids and they were eager to learn and they obeyed and they wanted to be taught and to have them being derided and ridiculed and demeaned by people who didn't know them, it had a tremendous impact and I think without that experience he might not have been the absolute champion that he was for civil rights across the board.