like this to get publishing news, schedule updates come behind the scenes pictures and videos, author information at a doctorate with arthur street on live programs. facebook.com/booktv. >> for one he wanted the staff there at the moment. he always wanted at the other end of the line, and i was only there a week or so. i think it was the second we. hired office down the hall, large office because it all these the stupidest programs and have my own bat phone. he called one morning about 8:00 in my secretary, there's a call from lyndon johnson to i was a we had a line call the potus line prodigious rate. didn't win intimately. it rang until it was answered last night and you could never pick it up as a meticulous made you feel like -- and he said, answer the phone, what is the? she said he's in the bathroom,

mr. president he said isn't there a phone in there? [laughter] and she said that. he said put a phone in there. so i came out, and peggy, and she said the president wanted for and about. i said forget about it. we forgot about it. the next morning same time i'm in the same place, the same call come and he shouts at peggy. he said, i told you to put a phone in there. and she said, yes, mr. president by the time i got out of the bathroom they were to army signal corps guys standing in my office, and the phone was installed. that was whe what he wanted youl the time. i mean, i just come and secondly, he saw, he saw things always a way to do something we did a lot of needed some help.

one of my kids, i was in hospital in virginia and washington, my son joe had swallowed a bottle of aspirin and the president called and, of course, you, i just ran. i didn't leave a phone number. and, finally, he gives me at the hospital and he said what are you doing of what the hell are you doing there? i said, well, my son swallowed a bottle of aspirin. he's two years old. he said, that's terrible. table. you know, we shouldn't have, we should make these people have these bottles so the little kids can't open them. and that's why most of us in this room have trouble opening our medicine. [laughter] spirit it's called the child safety act. backing you had to take care of you. elementary and secondary

education. for use with and trying, have been on the democratic platform to a federal a telemetry and secondary education. before schools couldn't get it. the problem was the catholics were able to block it unless you provided aid to parochial schools, and evangelicals and the urban secular jews were able to block it if it did provide a to of schools. and it could make any progress and johnson started working on and working on a. it got more complicated with the civil rights act in 1964 because now then we've got discharged that it was going to be more money for blacks. and adam clayton powell, harlem congressman, was chairman of the house education committee, and president johnson finally says, adam, you've got to leave town. you've got to turn this over to somebody else. some of you may remember that's what adam clayton powell left if

you never quite got back. [laughter] and he said, he wanted a congressman from brooklyn to try to put the deal together. kerry was in a district in brooklyn that orthodox jews, roman catholics, this over if -- an incredible clinton area. the fact that johnson is that was incredible. kerry came up with the idea of leasing books to parochial schools. johnson started selling it. there's a wonderful meeting with cardinal spellman from new york, billy graham, and arthur goldberg stand astride the white house pool. they were in their clothes. that is the hottest room on god's earth, the hottest new.

and johnson, and is working on it. in the background i think is do more in me i have in my office because he was so hot into a you could see the sweat through the cardinals -- he worked on and work on any font agreed, contested the he got the bill passed and then he said to john mccormick of the speaker of the house, he said hold the bill. is a good ability to and you don't sign it within 10 days, it's a pocket veto. hold the bill for a month. and mccormack said why? and johnson said, because i want to signed it on kerry's birthday. we wouldn't have this bill without them, and he decided on kerry's birthday. that kind of thing. >> how did you know so much about so many people? i'm told that he had the phone number and the name of every member of congress on his desk in the oval office with little

notes about what they might need might want. how did he come how did he assemble all this? with tv get all this information speak with key accumulated a. it was just absolutely stunning. and it was invaluable to him. i think, he loved politicians. he spent time with them. he knew when they were sick. he knew in their kids were sick or when they had a problem our didn't. and he knew what would move them. it wasn't always hugs and kisses incidentally. we need to raise the debt limit one's, and in the course of hearing if we lost the vote, we lost six liberal democrats voted against reagan and the debt limit and with this meeting and johnson used a these long sheets, probably remember, of

everybody's name into account those go for or against, and decided. we have the six congressmen and we're ing through, and one of them from westchester county, a very lovely county in new york, said simply the war was taking money away from people who need it. people need housing. and, for housing. and johnson says, joe, call him up. you tell him we are going to put the biggest damn public housing project in the history of this country in the middle of his fancy westchester district. [laughter] we will show him is plenty of money for housing. i did and we did get his vote. [laughter] >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org.

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