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I'm Jane Pauley.

This is Sunday morning. On this morning when many of us lost an hour due to the time change were beginning with a portrait of a woman who has long been living on borrowed time, but difficult as her life has been. She's met each obstacle with determination and defiance qualities she needs now more than ever, as Tracy Smith will report in our cover story.

So the first photos of being a grandmother.

The grandmother the infamous grandmother after surviving a harrowing early life Julie Yep Williams has a happy family a successful career and an Ivy League degree how joint Harvard. I think I was driven by a lot of anger so you took that and said hello yeah screw you ahead this Sunday morning.

She looks back at life's lesson in the face of her toughest challenge yet will be taking a Sunday drive. This morning the first of many with Connor Knighton as our guide this until when Colorado has the largest public-key collection keys in all 50 states, we have peace around 50 or 60 countries.

The key to the success of a century old Mountain Lodge later on Sunday were taking another look at the year 1968 this morning, focusing on the political earthquake that rocked America 50 years ago this month. John Dickerson will bring it all back.

Tell me about the year of 1968 was a nightmare year, 1968 threatened to rip the country apart war in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy riots across the country tomorrow and then there was the announcement by Pres. Lyndon Johnson that no one knew was coming. Everybody. Nobody expected that the story behind the shock ahead on Sunday morning. Sailing shows us some stunning art now on display from a Brazilian artist year bound to be hearing more about RuPaul tells Nancy Giles how and why he gets all dressed up and more coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues the expression borrowed time is anything but a meaningless phrase for the woman you're about to meet the words she says have defined her life, never more so than now.

Our cover story is reported by Tracy Smith when Julie Williams found out she was dying of cancer. She wasn't completely surprised.

I've always felt like I was living on borrowed time. Why think that is my life's crazy life. She's been thinking a lot about this crazy life lately how it began and how would a land it started 42 years ago in postwar Vietnam. Julie was born totally blind immediately.

Her grandmother intervened to set up a meeting between my parents and this herbalist and had my mother and father take me to this man in your grandma's attention was what to have me killed because because I was blind and she just thought there was Apsley no future in the there is no future for me.

Nobody would ever want to marry me. I was an embarrassment to the family, but instead Julie says her life was spared. So when they took care to this herbalist is what the herbalist said I won't participate in this kind of dirty business and he walked away. So the first photos of being a grandmother.

The grandmother the infamous grandmother. She was three when her family fled Vietnam for the United States.

They made it to California where she says an eye surgeon changed her life here. Here's my mother who doesn't speak any English okay and she gets me to this young pediatric ophthalmologist who is never seen a case like mine before he tells her.

I don't know how much vision I can give her. But we can try what he gave her was enough that you're still legally blind. I'm still legally blind, I cannot drive I can't play tennis like my dream is to play tennis. Still, with an unstoppable will to succeed. She turned her newfound site considered a disability to most into a competitive edge and this formerly unwanted Vietnamese refugee earned her way into Harvard Law school and a career as a corporate lawyer how joint Harvard. I think I was driven by a lot of anger.

Anger.

Anger at a lot of anger inside and the anger came from my family not believing in me. So you took that and said hello yeah screw you. In fact, her life is now filled with everything. Her grandmother doubted she'd ever have. Julie did find love with her husband Josh Williams and they have two daughters, but at age 37. She was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. It has an 11% five-year survival rate and true to form for the past five years she's been writing with just about every tool in the oncology arsenal.

So I've had multiple surgeries, multiple radiation treatments multiple chemotherapy regimens multiple clinical trials okay but when all those treatments failed to go with our two weeks now since then the cancer spread.

We talked a little bit last time when I said I have just had some areas of stability, which was a good thing.

There are also some areas of growth.

It's not like I'm going to bounce back know there's no bouncing back anymore retro servers facing death.

Julie says she knew she had to talk about it from the very moment that I had cancer. My kids knew sure they were young one and three that they had an understanding some understanding at that age did you and Josh make a conscious decision we are. Tell them I don't know that it was conscious.

It was sort of intuitive because were both such honest people with our children and we didn't want to go around trying to avoid this, though the C word media is now eight is about six what you think of cancer by having talked to her mom about it that makes that right man was that I do you worry that it's too much of a burden for these little girls to talk about these things. I think that I've heard these so-called mental health professionals say you know that these kids are just there fragile to get a break and I think full you know what I think of kids there like leads you know bendable in the wind and they pop back up.

As long as we love them, didn't have the capacity to get through anything, six-year-old Isabel agrees that what you say to people out there who say all, you're too young to talk about this stuff. Now I actually live.

Julie hopes that through talking her daughters won't fear her death.

Sometimes when you practice your instrument. I close my eyes and I can hear better and she's written a letter to reassure the girls after their mother is gone and when I do I am often overcome this absolute knowing that music special power back in and I will be there what you hope to impart. I want them to find goodness out of their mother dying, so young. I want them to learn how to live with passion, love and I want them to also expect that no life is free of hardship.

Embrace it and know that you will come out on the other side stronger.

Four years ago she started a blog, so her daughters would have her thoughts and words when they're older. I have often dreamed that when I die I will finally know what it would be like to see the world without visual impairment and in one last amazing twist, a major publisher has bought the rights to her blog, the memoir will be released after her death to see the minute details of a bird to drive a car. Oh how I long to have perfect vision. Truth is Julie yet Williams the rest of us might envy the ability to see challenges, and death is opportunity to face them head on and with gratitude.

I have this life somewhat difficult life.

You know where I've had to overcome a lot of things I but I want to convey within every human being is the capacity to overcome those same things we just have to find page from our Sunday morning almond March 11, 1811, 207 years ago today. The day a workers movement famously said no to technology that was the first day of the Luddite protest in England named for a mythical figure named Ned blood. The Luddites were textile workers who feared automated blue machinery would put them out of work and destroy their way of life. They fought back by breaking into textile mills and breaking up the hated machine a violent campaign portrayed in the 1988 British docudrama I'm telling you this much for one.

I'm not going to be a slave to ability machine for the rest of your life.

And though the original Luddites are long gone. The word Luddite survives. It's become a catchall term for everyone from modern-day factory workers concerned about automation to low-tech traditionalists to reject the prevailing notion that absolutely everyone has to carry a smart phone that Vlad may have been a legend, but more than two centuries later the Luddites he inspired like them or not, still carry on now on display the work of a Brazilian artist was finally getting the notice she deserves.

They say late makes the introduction in her native country, Brazil. All you need to say is her first name her Selah represents her recognition of his coat off the charts. She is the Picasso of Brazil, but in the states artist, her Selah Joanne morale is virtually unknown. James Rondeau is the director of the Art Institute of Chicago that with her. Selah's work. The exhibit is now open at the Museum of modern Art in New York. Why hasn't there been an exhibition devoted to her until now. It's a difficult question to answer. In some ways right were facing issues of geography were facing issues of gender. So I think this exhibition aims to be a corrective both in terms of recognition for her. Selah's work, but also in terms of how we understand the story of Modernism. Tarceva is considered the mother of modern Art in Brazil born in 1886 in São Paulo on a coffee plantation.

Her family's wealth allowed her to travel and pursue higher education, which was optional for women at the time in her 30s. She moved to Paris single woman determined to become a modern artist.

She was in Paris and absorbing your credit card avant-garde trends. Picasso breakers USA others she experimented with cubism.

She kind of said now I understand it is not for me and she called it her military service executives almost. It was obligatory right and she was aware of a responsibility and ambition desire to somehow represent Brazil to be a fundamentally Brazilian artist painting her homelands plants and animals with whimsical surrealism and color not just the colors of Brazil's landscape that other native people to the colors are absolutely beautiful, vibrant tropical.

This is not a European power is the pelvic trying to speak about her native persona Brazilian sensibility leaves our hearts. You have a sense of an artist's actually having fun. Work inspired a Brazilian art movement called antral pathology or cannibalism.

The term encouraged artists to digest other cultures in order to create new unique art for Brazil. The suit should be open to everything outside was a seemingly blocked uncontrolled got into a very specific and unique national culture Luis Perez around us is a leading Latin American art historian and generator of the exhibit at MoMA. She accomplished her signature start in the 20s. A prime example of this is Tarceva's painting, Peru, one of her most celebrated works.

The female bather pursue.

It took that on as unknown and established European convention and translated it for her own purposes for own vision, but also related to the Brazilian landscape.example of the bather helps me understand the cannibalism taking something that's a trope in Western European art and turn into something extremely Brazilian but after her most prolific. In the 1920s Tarceva's world changed. She lost her wealth in the Great Depression, and not long after a military dictatorship took over Brazil. Her work became more somber and political to become a comedic social painter while attaining her obstacle to refinement muster. She did not abandon what she cut a simulated from what she transforms out into a new kind of subject matter Tarceva Joanne morale died in 1973 at age 86, decades later, she is remembered for sharing the beauty of Brazil through her paintings for an audience that continues to grow. Tarceva died almost 50 years ago. She still very, very present, very present, but essentially invisible to North American audiences.

Until now, 1968 divided when the president called quits. How 1968 brought a startling development almost every month, the month of March was no exception. CBS this morning's John Dickerson in his debut story for Sunday morning takes us back year was 1960. It was really horrible reaction around October's been costly to me was a hell of a year. Pres. Lyndon Johnson called it a year of continuous nightmare dumped on it is true that a house divided against you. How cannot his 1968 began, Johnson was in his fifth year in office had become president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy then was elected in 19 64 x 1 of the largest margins in history.

Now he was running for reelection could be compassionate and loving and caring about the poor and the crew and 12th roof was Joseph colophon was Johnson's top domesticated site. People are moved by love and fear that to figure out the right mixture. Johnson had passed sweeping civil rights legislation and antipoverty programs, but by 1968, the war in Vietnam. Overwhelmed him while trying to engineer peace talks. He continued to send more troops. Antiwar protests were increasing and increasingly personal really affected former Sen. Fred Harris from Oklahoma was a Johnson advisor began to feel really beleaguered and I think he had. This is the feeling I'm not going to be the president that lost Vietnam our patients and our perseverance will match our power. Johnson had the power of incumbency which kept his chief rival Sen. Robert Kennedy and other Democrats from challenging them but one largely unknown candidate did take a moment Jean McCarthy decides to run for president of the other 1967. How big of a deal was that he was running against president of his own party.

Well, you know, it was thought to be a poodle effort Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy's platform was basically in the war. I was the student quarter of the campaign. Sam Brown was with McCarthy from the start.

The people going bigger later, Johnson and the union leadership are not working for a lot of us liked him because he was intellectually didn't play the game the way most politicians play the game. He was more likely to travel with a poet than he was.

Advance personal matters, not your usual counter. Brown moved to scruffy army of young people into New Hampshire ahead of the primary it was 50 years ago tomorrow if you wanted to come work for McCarthy in New Hampshire. The clean up your that the culture here that the Tribune had the dress respectably respectable so it became kind of famous so-called clean for dream. McCarthy had been expected to get 12% of the primary vote at most, but Johnson's optimistic talk about progress in Vietnam had been shattered by the Tet Offensive campaign became about the credibility of the Johnson presidency. McCarthy got 42% to Johnson's 48% 100 political measure. Pres. Johnson supported majors like a logical New Hampshire expectation it out of the ballpark expectation standards, I am announcing today. My candidacy Bobby Kennedy smelled weakness and decided to take on Johnson. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a parallel course at months.

In the chaos of Vietnam forced Johnson to deliver an address to reassure the nation. Joseph colophon oh and another aide worked on the speech we both said no is no real ending and what about somebody maybe writing then and for him. I do not believe that I wrote an IRR burial.

My personal partner. From: Ann then changed I will not and I will not denominational. My party for another term as your brother Roger questioned about Johnson's shocking decision to quit the race was a desperate gamble born of exhaustion and the belief that without having to worry about politics. He could negotiate a final piece everybody. Nobody expected that Fred Harris was giving a speech during Johnson's address. Somebody wrote me a note. AP is reporting that Johnson has declared is not running again you want to read that to the crowd that I said no I don't believe read. I know I was in tears, but I'm not exactly sure whether it was joy or whether it was kind of history that was overwhelming. Really overwhelming. The agonies of the next few months would almost rip the country apart. Four days later Martin Luther King was assassinated on to Chicago and two months after that Robert Kennedy was assassinated after Bobby was killed. McCarthy essentially became a recluse for the next six weeks.

I think he made the judgment that some of his particular younger ones in the campaign couldn't see which was he was going to get the nomination. McCarthy was right in August.

Democrats gathered in Chicago to nominate VP Hubert Humphrey, the city erected in violence as antiwar protesters were met with a brutal response by police. The Republican nominee was Richard Nixon ran against Humphrey as the law and order candidate with the secret plan to end the war. Nixon, one Johnson left Democrats wondering what might have been able to weld the probably with the nomination and election.

It was an automatic that he would lose would've been a tough role, but there was every chance you could instead the war which would drag on for another six years.

Claim another casualty the presidency of Lyndon Johnson thank you for listening.

Good night and God bless all deeply held views and partisanship of our times doesn't have to tear communities apart. Steve Hartman has proof. Somerville South Carolina is predominantly black and no one cared when you could go moved in seven years ago about at least according to her neighbor would need Edwards. No one cared at first when she came she said until little while later she starved Confederate every morning when I would walk at Gartner newspaper first thing you see is not going to get newspaper in the morning so we did fight with the neighbors protested in front of her house, protesters when the neighbors put up walls on both sides of the property to block the view dollar flagpole. Her brazenness international news when you get my race. I don't back down. I don't make no apologies.

Eventually the war settled into a stalemate of sorts. No more marches walls no taller flagpoles just a quiet bitterness on both sides until just recently when Annie had a change of heart, quite literally, when you have a heart attack in your being told you're not going live very long. You're facing your mortality. I needed to clean up the messes that I made, but being so stubborn and I have asked anyone within earshot to forgive me. She started with one of her peers as critics of the local community resource Center, Lewis Smith insists I decided to take well couldn't believe it was in disbelief. Somehow God not long after she presented with today. South Carolina flag flies in its place and is hopeful the walls will be the next to go is already getting waves from the neighbors and enjoying her new perspective on the world get along. Why can't we get people to be less stubborn without the heart attack part that would be lovely but sometimes it takes a series action to happen to you before you see your actions on others and he says before she only saw the Confederate flag through her eyes as a way to honor relatives who fought for so now she says she cares more about her living neighbors that her dead relatives you don't feel like you're dishonoring them know I'm not. I think I've done will honor for them now than done in my whole life and with that are divided country inches little closer together this morning. I knew now and again series were calling a Sunday drive. Here's Connor nine.

If you have a habit of losing your keys something out of this room down here. You may never find them again. These keys, an estimated 30,000 misplaced. Each one has been broadened.

This place hotel high in the Rocky Mountains purpose. Small metal donations to the largest public key collection in the world. We tell people you know your first visit to the key room is free, but after that you need to bring a 60 Smith is the owner of the bald pate rustic Mountain Lodge perched above Estes Park, Colorado course come to this region to enjoy the breathtaking scenery, but those who stay a night at the bald pate frequently leave a souvenir behind key. The hotel has keys of every shape from every state weighing down the rafters with voice flag since I've been here and you know by the time I'm hundred I'll probably sent to the bald pate just celebrated its 100th anniversary it's named after fictional hotel that's even older seven keys to bald pate is a story about a writer with temps to produce a novel in 24 hours. He holds the bald pate watch that's close for the winter all night long. The door keeps opening opening and turns out there actually seven keys to bald pate figures 1913 comedic mystery novel inspired seven meditations smash Broadway show and inspired the original owners of this mountain hotel that closes in the winter to borrow the catchy name and see legend to each guest, each guest had the only ball pate.

Of course getting out souvenir keys got pretty expensive pretty quickly.

So instead guess what encouraged to leave the key behind and did they ever these are some of our more significant keys Buckingham palace Westminster Abbey on my submarine key there submarine has a key summary key.

Can you imagine losing the key. There's a key to Mozart's wine cellar to Jack Benny's dressing room key. The US capital. Their strange old keys, but this scorpion contraction there more modern computer encryption keys so Mark clearly decorative so are surprisingly functional. The employee bathroom key to the American Museum of Natural History back but of course every version of Peapod you can think of monkey, donkey, Porky pig, but most of the keys in the collection are particularly rare regular old keys significant only to the people who left them behind the baby's first set of keys from Oklahoma families first housekeeping in Minnesota in the original story the writer was told there was only one key to bald pate today. This hotel has tens of thousands of every single one has a story that unlocks a memory is all dressed up and about to launch the 10th season of his TV show. He is RuPaul the master of a performance art with a very long history as Nancy Giles now shows us since the ancient Greeks, men have been dressing in women's clothing on stage. Men portrayed women in the plays of William Shakespeare and many of us grew up watching flip Wilson and Milton world on TV or Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the movie some like it hot. Then there's Australian comic Barry Humphries the irrepressible Dane remember him with Bob Simon on 60 minutes and it wouldn't be in the least 30 minutes. Sounds a little bit of this footage well you giving me extra time as you deserve. Brad wearing clothing of the opposite sex has come a long way yeah yeah just how far. Now remember, you can love yourself you love somebody out there. RuPaul's drag race is a top rated TV game show, beginning its 10th season contestant yes they're all men compete for prizes and the title America's next drag superstar at the center of it all.

RuPaul arguably the most successful drag performer of all time. And the winner of not one but two Emmy award what's going on. No tell me about it's on track to become VH1's most-watched series. I am your family. We are family here.

I think RuPaul's drag race added about tenacity of the human spirit. I love you I love you to watch boy play with feminine things in a society that is so masculine and come through it and find their fire and their own voice is a very powerful thing. It's not just a TV show is pop up store in Los Angeles to buy RuPaul merchandise in my family really and are drag night at gay bars across the country. That's the great Chris McCarthy is president of VH1. It happens every country in many places the smallest. Yeah, I know that there probably people don't really dig what you do save them other people think of me is none of my business but I also know that the show is for the kids out there who are looking for some type of guidance these kids on our show have been through hell literally their families have thrown them out of the house they been abused and beaten up ladies, but they have come through and shine, that is the lesson like there RuPaul Andre Charles was born in San Diego in 1960 almost from the first, let's just say he stood out in the crowd, people, my family, my mother, my father basically ignored it. You know it wasn't something that they knew how to deal with the kids and they would take your system okay but because I am sweetheart. No one ever really came for me in a really negative way. He says his parents marriage was not a good one. At age 15. RuPaul moved to Atlanta to live with his sister and not long afterward, RuPaul, Andre, Charles, became RuPaul. I was always looking for the late on this planet. I was able find I really am. He danced in bars and joined Van drag was never about wanting to be like a woman. It was always about challenging identity values of society say I am whatever I put on. I think Dragon is an escape. It allows them to be somebody that maybe they aren't in real life. Michelle massage is a longtime friend and a female judge on the show and I tell parents that are religious or don't accept their gay child that they don't have to approve it. They just have to accept it. The kids aren't looking for their approval. Just accept them for who they are as RuPaul says he found acceptance when he moved to New York, he appeared in the famous B-52s love shack video then he was the guy girl in the super dance hit supermodel break soon there were radio and TV show thanks to RuPaul's drag has come a long way.

Lying on the he's come a long way to today. He's living his dreams. My latest meat RuPaul collector of vintage autos. What is this I know it's a Mercedes. Yeah it's in 1968 to ADSL that is a bad ass car. I love it so much. Then a few years ago he met George LaBarre, an Australian painter and rancher.

They married last year and consider this in 2017. Time magazine, RuPaul, one of the most influential people in the world set out that I was smart realized this is my call opened up here versus stage direction. I'm Jane Pauley. Thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday morning with Gary this week.

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