| Bess | Abell | Liz Carpenter's aide. Earle Clement's daughter. |
| Ralph | Abernathy | A reverend. |
| Bella | Abzug | A congresswoman. |
| Abigail | Adams | John Adam's wife. |
| Ansel | Adams | California's greatest living photographer and Environmentalist. |
| Edie | Adams | A comedienne. |
| John | Adams | The advisor. The 2nd U.S. President. |
| Apiro | Agnew | Former Vice President of the U.S. |
| Muhammad | Ali | The boxing champion. |
| Jack | Anderson | The columnist. |
| Marian | Anderson | The contralto. |
| Hannah | Arendt | A philosopher. |
| Lyndon | Baines-Johnson | Lady Bird's husband. The current U.S. President. Aka: LBJ. |
| James | Baldwin | An American Novelist. |
| Charles | Bartlett | A columnist. |
| Bill | Baxter | Lady Bird's pastor. |
| Lee | Baygan | LBJ's makeup man. |
| Betty | Beale | A columnist. |
| Saul | Bellow | A novelist. |
| Hale | Boggs | The house majority leader. |
| Lindy | Boggs | The U.S. Ambassador to Holy See. |
| Clare | Boothe-Luce | A catholic author. |
| President | Brewster | The president of Yale University. |
| Bernice | Brown | The governor's wife. |
| Oscar | Brown Jr. | A Jazz vocalist and actor. |
| Audrey Mellon | Bruce | Stephen's wife. |
| Bennetta | Bullock | Walter Washington's wife. |
| Mary | Bundy | McGeorge's wife. |
| McGeorge | Bundy | JFK's national security advisor. |
| Mary | Bunting | The president of Radcliffe College. |
| James Macgregor | Burns | A presidential historian. |
| Horace | Busby | LBJ's aide. |
| Robert | Byrd | A senator. |
| Henry | Cabot-Lodge Jr. | The ambassador in Saigon. |
| Dr. | Cain | One of Johnson's doctors. |
| Joe | Califano | LBJ's Domestic Policy Adviser. |
| Leslie | Carpenter | Liz's husband. The President of the National Women's press club. |
| Liz | Carpenter | A professional journalist. |
| Dallis | Carr | A 22-year-old boy who found a job at a gas station. |
| Douglass | Carter | A New Zealand politician. |
| Nash | Castro | The national park service liaison. |
| Margaret | Chase-Smith | The only female senator at that time. |
| Cesar | Chavez | An activist. |
| George | Christian | LBJ's press secretary. |
| Mario | Ciampi | An architect. |
| Kenneth | Clark | Black educational psychiatrist. |
| Ramsey | Clark | Attorney General. |
| Tom | Clark | The Johnson's personal friend. |
| Earle | Clements | A Kentucky Senator. |
| Van | Cliburn | A concert pianist. |
| Clark | Clifford | JFK's personal lawyer. |
| Hilary | Clinton | The first lady of the United States. |
| Martha | Cole | A recent college graduate and vista worker. |
| John | Conally | A Texas Governor. LBJ's long-time aide. |
| Walter | Cronkite | America's most trusted news anchor. |
| Nathaniel | Currier | A printmaker. Stephen's father. |
| Stephen | Currier | A New York Philanthropist. |
| Richard | Daley | The Chicago Mayor. |
| Robert | Dallek | An Historian. |
| Charles | De Gaulle | The French President. |
| Barbaralee | Diamonstein | Goldman's chief assistant. |
| Nancy | Dickerson | A Journalist. |
| Nancy | Dickerson | An NBC reporter. |
| Everett | Dirksen | A senate minority leader. |
| Mark Van | Doren | A Pulitzer prize winner. |
| Helen | Douglas | An American actress. LBJ's mistress. |
| Francis | Drake | An Explorer. |
| Catherine | Drinker Bowen | The national book award winner. |
| Clifford | Durr | A civil rights lawyer. LBJ's friend. |
| Virginia | Durr | An American activist. |
| James | Eastland | The senator of Mississippi. |
| Wolf Von | Eckardt | The cityscape columnist. |
| Lena | Edwards | One of the American women who became a board-certified obstetrician. |
| Mamie | Eisenhower | Dwight Eisenhower. |
| Duke | Ellington | The son of the white house's butler. |
| Duke | Ellington | A Jazz artist. |
| Ralph | Ellison | One of Johnson's literary stalwarts. |
| Ludwig | Erhard | A German chancellor. |
| Sam | Ervin | A democrat senator. |
| Fred | Farr | A senator. |
| Walter | Fauntroy | A local Baptist minister. |
| Jules | Feiffer | A cartoonist. |
| Doris | Fleeson | One of Lady Bird's reporters. |
| Doris | Fleeson | A devoted feminist. |
| Gerald | Ford | The current president. |
| Abe | Fortas | The associate justice at the supreme court. |
| Carol | Fortas | A prominent Washington attorney. Abe's wife. |
| Sharon | Francis | The young conservation policy expert. |
| Aretha | Franklin | An American singer. |
| Orville | Freeman | The secretary of agriculture. |
| Betty | Friedan | A journalist. |
| Bill | Fulbright | The Vietnam nemesis. |
| John Kenneth | Galbraith | The author of Seminal Critique of American
Inequality. |
| Barbara | Garson | The publisher of the feminist satire called Macbird. |
| Robery | Gillman | Barbara Ward's husband. |
| Ruth Bader | Ginsburg | A Supreme court justice. |
| Eric | Goldman | LBJ's in-house intellectual. |
| Barry | Goldwater | The Arizona Senator. |
| Charles | Goodman | The midcentury architect. |
| Doris Kearns | Goodwin | A historian. |
| Richard | Goodwin | One of LBJ's aides. |
| Billy | Graham | The Johnson's close friend. |
| Katharine | Graham | A journalist at Washington's post. |
| Kay | Graham | Lady Bird's friend. |
| Dick | Gregory | A comedian. |
| Victor | Gruen | One of Lady Bird's leading architects. |
| Anna | Halprin | A dancer. Lawrence's wife. |
| Larry | Halprin | The San Francisco landscape architect. |
| George | Hamilton | Lynda's boyfriend. |
| Averell | Harriman | The New York Governor. |
| Cecille | Harrison | Lady Bird's classmate. |
| Tom | Hayden | One of the founders of Students for Democratic Society (SDS). |
| Lilian | Hellman | A playwright. |
| Richard | Helms | Director of Central Intellegence. |
| Seymour | Hersh | An American journalist. |
| John | Hershey | A novelist and non-fiction essayist. |
| Charlton | Heston | An American actor and political activist. |
| Joseph | Hirshhorn | The art collection owner. |
| Alfred | Hitchcock | A director. |
| Oveta Culp | Hobby | Director of Women Auxiliary Corps. |
| J. Edgar | Hoover | The FBI director. |
| Julia Ward | Howe | The abolitionist. |
| Dolores | Huerta | An activist. |
| Hubert | Humphrey | A former vice president. |
| Hubert | Humphrey | The 38th vice president. |
| Dr. | Hurst | One of Johnson's doctors. |
| Harold | Ickes | One of LBJ's aides. |
| Andrew | Jackson | The 7th U.S. President. |
| Jimmie Lee | Jackson | The church deacon who was shot during a non-violent protest. |
| Rachel | Jackson | Andrew's wife. Prologue. |
| Scoop | Jackson | The DNC Chairman. |
| Jane | Jacobs | A self-taught architect and critic. |
| Babs | Janeway | Lady Bird's artist. |
| Walter | Jenkins | LBJ's closest white house aide. |
| Lady Bird | Johnson | Lyndon Johnson's wife. Aka: Claudia Alta Johnson. |
| Lucy | Johnson | Lady Bird and President Johnson's daughter. |
| Lynda | Johnson | Lady Bird and President Johnson's daughter. |
| Bobby | Kennedy | JFK's brother. |
| Caroline | Kennedy | Jackie and JFK's daughter. |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | President Kennedy's wife. |
| Joe | Kennedy | JFK's father. |
| John Fitzgerald | Kennedy | The 35th U.S. President. Aka: JFK. |
| John-John | Kennedy | Jackie and JFK's son. |
| Patrick | Kennedy | Jackie's deceased son. |
| Rose | Kennedy | Joe's wife. |
| Ted | Kennedy | Bobby and JFK's brother. |
| Joseph Patrick | Kennedy Sr. | The patriarch. |
| Billie Jean | King | Pro Tennis player. |
| Eartha | Kitt | A performer. |
| Richard | Kleberg | A congresswoman. LBJ's boss. |
| Stanley | Kramer | An American film director. |
| Arthur | Krim | DNC's finance chair. |
| Pierre Charles | L' Enfant | The designer of the original plan of Federal City. |
| Marie | Larkin | Recipient of the National Gallery of Art teaching award. |
| Albert | Lasker | Mary's husband. |
| Mary | Lasker | Lady Bird's acquaintance. |
| Richard | Lee | A Mayor. |
| Christopher | Lehmann-Haupt | The book critic. |
| Erich | Leinsdorf | Johnson's stalwart. |
| Frances | Lewine | One of Lady Bird's reporters. |
| John | Lewis | An activist. |
| John | Lindsay | The New York Mayor. |
| Henry | Loeb | The mayor of Memphis. |
| Edward | Logue | An American author. |
| Katie | Louchheim | The White House tenured columnist. |
| Robert | Lowell | A Pulitzer-winning poet. |
| Martin | Luther-King Jr. | The American Baptist Minister and Activist. |
| Patrick | Lyndon | Luci's son. |
| Edward | M.M Warburg | A Vieneese banker. |
| Dwight | Macdonald | A critic. |
| James | MacMillan | A senator. |
| Lester | Maddox | A Gubernatorial candidate. |
| Mike | Mansfield | The senate majority leader. |
| Thurgood | Marshall | Walter Washington's colleague. |
| Bill | Mauldin | An Editorial cartoonist. |
| Eugene | McCarthy | U.S. Senator. |
| Joseph | McCarthy | The American Senator. |
| John | McCone | The CIA director. |
| Frank | McGee | An American Journalist. |
| Phyllis | McGinley | A poet. |
| Mary | McGrory | An American Journalist. |
| Mary | McGrory | The reporter. |
| John | McMillan | South Carolina's long presiding segrationist chair of house district committee. |
| Margy | McNamara | Robert's wife. |
| Robert | McNamara | The Secretary of Defense. |
| Robery | McNamara | The Secretary of Defense. |
| Andrew | Mellon | The American financier. |
| Bunny | Mellon | The aristocrat. |
| James | Meredith | A civil rights activist. |
| James | Monroe | The 5th U.S. President. |
| Margaret | Moore | Founder of an anti-crime women's group from Indianapolis. |
| Robert | Moses | An American Designer. |
| Bill | Moyers | One of LBJ's aides. |
| Bill | Moyers | One of LBJ's aides. |
| Lewis | Mumford | A critic and author. |
| Edmund | Muskie | An American politician. |
| Gerard | Nugent | Pat's father. |
| Pat | Nugent | Luci's new boyfriend. |
| Tillie | Nugent | Pat's mother. |
| Barrack | Obama | The future president. Michelle's husband. |
| Michelle | Obama | Lady Bird's successor. |
| Phil | Ochs | A singer-songwriter. |
| Kandi | Ohno | A Japanese-American designer. |
| Nathaniel | Owings | One of Lady Bird's leading architects. |
| Molly | Parnis | A designer. |
| Effiee | Pattilio | A pianist. Lady Bird's aunt. |
| Minnie Lee | Pattilio | Lady Bird's mother. |
| Drew | Pearson | A journalist. |
| Gregory | Peck | President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. |
| Katherine | Peden | The first woman who was appointed as the commissioner of commerce. |
| Prince | Phillip | The prince of United Kingdom. |
| Jake | Pickle | A congressman. LBJ's mentor. |
| Adam Clayton | Powell Jr. | An American baptist and politician. |
| Ezra | Rachlin | A pianist. The conductor of the Austin Symphony. |
| Jeanette | Rankin | Activist and Pacifist. |
| Sam | Rayburn | A congressman. LBJ's mentor. |
| Ronald | Reagan | A hollywood actor. |
| Ronald | Reagan | The 40th U.S. President. |
| George | Reedy | LBJ's press secretary. |
| James | Reston | An American Journalist. Aka: Scotty. |
| Dillon | Ripley | One of the secretaries of Smithsonian. |
| Chuck | Robb | A marine captain. Lynda's boyfriend. |
| Juanita | Roberts | Lady Bird's secretary. |
| Arhtur | Robertson | The poor man that Lady Bird visits. |
| Judy Ann | Robertson | Arthur's daughter. |
| Nan | Robertson | A woman journalist. |
| Nan | Robertson | A reporter. |
| Willia | Robertson | The Virginia senator. |
| John | Rockefeller | The oil titan. |
| Laurance | Rockefeller | John's 3rd son. The chairman of white house conference on national beauty. |
| Eleanor | Roosevelt | The longest serving first lady of the U.S. |
| Walt | Rostow | Special assistant for NSA. |
| Jimmy Henry | Rowe | Libby's husband. FDR's special assistant. |
| Libby | Rowe | Lady Bird's colleague. |
| Dean | Rusk | The Secretary of State. |
| Dean | Rusk | Secretary of State. |
| Virginia | Rusk | Dean's wife. |
| Richard | Russell | One of Lyndon's mentors. |
| Aline | Saarinen | An architecture critic. |
| Pierre | Salinger | RFK's campaign manager. |
| David | Sarnoff | The RCA founder. |
| Arthur | Schlesinger Jr. | An American historian. |
| Coretta | Scott-King | Activist and Pacifist. |
| Polly | Shackleton | A long-time democratic and D.C. party home rule activist. |
| Isabelle | Shelton | A journalist at Washington's post. |
| Elizabeth | Shoumatoff | The portrait artist. |
| Robert | Silvers | An American editor. |
| Louis | Skidmore | Nathaniel's partner. |
| Margaret Chase | Smith | A republican senator. |
| Frank | Stanton | The president of CBS. |
| Wallace | Stegner | A historian and novelist. |
| John | Steinbeck | One of Johnson's literary stalwarts. |
| Roger | Stevens | One of the secretaries of Smithsonian. |
| Adlai | Stevenson | The governor of Illinois. |
| Paul | Stookey | An American singer. |
| Mary Elizabeth | Sutherland | A successful rancher. |
| William Howard | Taft | The former U.S. President. |
| T.J | Taylor | Lady Bird's father. |
| Antonio | Taylor Jr. | Lady Bird's brother. |
| Thomas | Taylor Jr. | Lady Bird's brother. |
| Helen | Thomas | One of Lady Bird's reporters. |
| Helen | Thomas | An American reporter. |
| Homer | Thornberry | Associate Justice to the supreme court. |
| Bess | Truman | Harry's wife. |
| Lee | Udall | Stewart's wife. |
| Stewart | Udall | JFK's secretary of interior. |
| Jack | Valenti | The White House's aide. |
| Wernher | Von Braun | Former Nazi space engineer. |
| Ester Van | Wagoner Tufty | A woman who ran the Washington News Bureau. |
| Ralph | Waldo-Emerson | An Essayist. |
| George | Wallace | A Johnson adversary. |
| Lurleen | Wallace | George's wife. |
| Barbara | Ward | A fellow friend of JFK and LBJ. |
| Earl | Warren | The Chief Justice. |
| Earl | Warren | A supreme court justice. |
| Walter | Washington | The first African-American mayor of the U.S. |
| Walter | Washington | Executive director of the national capital housing authority. |
| Marvin | Watson | One of LBJ's advisers. |
| Marvin | Watson | LBJ's close adviser. |
| Robert | Weaver | The U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. |
| Charles | Weltner | A democrat from Georgia's 5th district. |
| Josh | White | A folk musician. |
| Charles | Whitman | An American sniper. |
| Gerri | Whittington | LBJ's secretary. |
| Roy | Wilkins | President of NAACP. |
| Gene | Williams | Clement's household staff. |
| Gene | Williams | The Johnson's handyman and gardener. |
| Helen | Williams | Clement's household staff. |
| Helen | Williams | The Johnson's caregiver. |
| Claire | Wilson | One of Charles's victims. |
| Zephyr | Wright | Lady Bird's cook. |
| Ralph | Yarborough | A Senator. LBJ's long-time friend. |
| Peter | Yarrow | An American singer. |
| Sammy | Young JR. | The 1st college student to be murdered for civil disobedience. |
| Whitney | Young Jr. | President of National Urban League. |
| Craig | | McNamara's son. |
| Ho Chi Minh | | The president of Vietnam. |
| Okamoto | | The Photographer. |
| Teddy | | Bobby's younger brother. |
