georgia matthew hollingworth south sudan country director for the world food program in oxford douglas johnson former member of the boundary commission and author of south sudan in your history for a new nation also enjoy over jeffords you security analyst and director of the south sudan action network on small arms while come to your matthew united nations agencies have been saying for quite some time that areas in south sudan are on the brink of famine how where the response didn't really match with the magnitude of the problem why's that. i think. hello to everybody i sadly i think we've been warning for a number of months now most of this year that the tribulation of national subnational and localized conflict in the country married to a 2nd year of unprecedented flooding has meant that this country is now facing food insecurity of scale but it has not faced before more than 7 and a half or more or less than a half 1000000 people expected to need food assistance by the lean season of 2021 is an unprecedented level and what we have been struggling to do is to reach areas of the country wher

johnson didn't get there and not many people really wanted to be vice president. douglas' choice was alexander stevens who was a prominent politician. stevens might have been fun for the vice president for the union too. so the idea is, okay, douglas is the northern popular sovereignty guy, johnson is a southerner and he's willing to accept it. it balances the ticket. today we don't think much about that in terms of geographic balance n.the 19th century it mattered a lot. so the southern democrats say okay, we're not nominating douglas. they go with the sitting vice president of the united states, john breckinridge. trivia break. he was elected vice president when he was 35, youngest man ever elected to the vice president si or the presidency. he was buchanan's vice president so he explicit with douglas who, in fact, hi was a quasi ally if not an ally. breck kin ridge runs or the platform that scott is fine. we want a slave code for the territory. breck kin ridge is from the upper south, he's from kentucky, where the feelings about slavery are not quite so deep as they ar

herschel johnson didn't get there and not many people really wanted to be vice president. in this case, douglas' choice was actually alexander stephens, who was a far more prominent politician, like johnson, a georgian. and stevens did not want to be vice president. and he proved how much he hated the vice presidency by becoming the vice president of the confederacy and spending four years fighting with jefferson davis. so stephens might have been fun is the vice president for the union, too. whatever it was, he was going to be in a fight about it. the idea is, okay, douglas is the northern popular sovereignty guy, johnson is willing to accept it, he's a southerner, it balances the ticket. today we don't think much about that, in terms of geographic balance. in the 19th century in particular, it has mattered a lot. for the southern democrats say, okay, we are not nominating douglas. they go with the sitting vice president of the united states, john breckenridge. trivia break, john breckenridge was elected vice president when he was 35, youngest man ever elected to the presidency, or vice presid

so the idea is douglas is the northern popular sovereignty guy and johnson will accept it and he is a southerner and it balances the ticket. today we don't think much about that. in terms of geographic balance. in the 19th century it mattered a lot. so the southern democrats say, okay, we are not dominating douglas. they go with the sitting vice president of the united states, john breckenridge . trivia break. john breckenridge was elected vice president when he was 35, the youngest man ever elected to the vice presidency. if he had been elected he would've been the youngest president ever. he was buchanan's vice president and he was once an ally of douglas. and breckenridge runs on the platform of dred scott is fine. we want a slave code for the territory. and the irony is breckenridge is from the upper south, he is from kentucky, where the feelings about slavery are not quite so deep as they are in the lower south. for his running mate, you want to talk about geographic diversity, they chewed you guy name joseph lane. there getting everything in this one. they have the south and the

douglas: yes, i mentioned lyndon johnson requesting the moonshot. she would come and return it was miss reagan who really extended this. there was no love with jimmy carter. ted kennedy ran against carter in 1980, but when reagan came in, nancy reagan did cartwheels cartwheels -- bent over backwards to make jackie kennedy feel at home back in the white house. she was treated almost like royalty by ronald and nancy reagan, so she appreciated that. nancy reagan once told me how angry she was when george w. bush when he was president did not call her on her birthday and yet ted kennedy called her on that day and said happy birthday and sang danny boy to her on the phone. the kennedy and the reagan's had an interesting personal dynamic between them. >> invited mrs. kennedy back to the white house. to see the beautiful portrait of president kennedy. [indiscernible] it was a very powerful point in time, for her to return to the white house on that occasion. here is a question about state dinners and entertaining, how that differed from president -- presid

douglas: yes i mentioned lyndon johnson requesting the moonshot. she would come and return it was miss reagan who really extended this. there was no love with jimmy carter. ted kennedy ran against carter in 1980, but when reagan came in nancy reagan did cartwheels to make jackie kennedy feel at home back in the white house. she was treated almost like royalty by ronald and nancy reagan, so she appreciated that. howy reagan once told me angry she was when george w. bush did not call her on her birthday and get ted kennedy called her on that day and said topy birthday and danny boy her on the phone. reagan's hadnd the an interesting personal dynamic between them. >> invited ms. kennedy back to the white house. a beautiful portrait of john f. kennedy. it was a verye] powerful point in time, returned to the white house. here is a question about state dinners and entertaining, how that differed from president prior to them or even following. i would say that her or tickets were very much sought after because she would bring in the most celebrated artist

next to johnson is allen douglas, the director of central intelligence for many years who would be forced out of that job by the debacle of the bay of pigs. it appears that dulles had a terrible conflict of interest by serving on the warren commission. among other things, it appears dulles knew about the cia plots to kill fidel castro. he may have ordered some of those. apparently he shared none of that information with the warren commission, even though that information might have given, suggested paths of investigation the commission should have followed. next to him is john sherman cooper, a senator tap from kentucky, republican, moderate republican. next to him is congressman hale boggs of louisiana who was prominent in the democratic leadership of the house. and was very close to john kennedy. >> we are 50 years later. how should we mark that day? they were anniversary of the release of the warrant report. >> we should mark it with mixed feelings. unhappily, this report that was hailed at the time as the definitive report of this kennedy sassy ideation and the questions asked about t

that same idea was being promoted by william douglas, supreme court justice, and when john f. kennedy was killed, lady bird johnson, the other first lady, started taking what jackie did for white house renovation, and that part of washington along the mall and extended it to all of d.c. of beautification of federal property and federal buildings even while other neighborhoods in washington were experiencing blight. >> jackie kennedy like i culture and i think she was responsible for inviting pablo purcell to perform. without a famous evening? >> very famous dinner. john f. kennedy and jackie have the greatest dinners of all time . they put music at the forefront. they use to invite the best writers, poets, musicians, artists. it was a high water mark society. john f. kennedy's inaugural he had robert frost read that inaugural poem. we had the pulitzer prize-winning novelist wallace egner writing government tablets. carl sanford, the great poet. he was a regular guest. this became exciting. it is not just the restoration or refurbishing and touring the white house, but it made the white house seem to be the central

they left johnson was reported by a couple of the people at the meeting who said this about frederick douglass. those blank sons of blank thought they had me in a trap! i know that michael douglas. he's just like any -- . pretty explicit. right? maybe it's just a one-off. congress voted to give african americans the right to vote in 1866. johnson vetoes it. he explains, these are entirely his words. entirely disregarding the wishes of the people of the district of columbia. congress has deemed it right and expedient to pass the measure now submitted for my signature. if therefore becomes the duty of the executive standing between the legislation of the one and the will of the other fairly expressed to determine whether he should approve the bill, and thus aid in placing upon the statute books of the nation a law against which the people to whom it is to apply have solemnly and with such unanimity protested, or whether he should return it with the objections in the hope will permit them to regulate the purely local question as to them may seem best suited. good what he's saying here is that local people in washington d.c. don't want african americans voting. you can and that con

they left, johnson is reported by a couple people at the meeting, to have said this about fredericton glass. those blank sons a blank. thought they had me in a trap. i know that blank douglas he's just like any other blank. i would sooner cut a white man's throat than not. >> pretty explicit right. >> maybe it's just a one-off, well congress voted to give african americans the right to vote in 1866. and johnson, vetoes it. and he explains, and this is his words, johnson says entirely disregarding the wishes of the people of the district of columbia, congress has deemed it right and expedient to pass the measure now submitted for my signature. therefore it becomes the duty of executive, standing between legislation of the one and one of the other, fairly expressed to determine whether he should approve the bill, and thus aid in placing upon the statue books of the nation along against which of the people to apply the solemnly and with unanimity protested or whether he should return it with his objection in the hope that upon reconsideration, congress acting as the representative, at the seat of government will petite permit them to regulate the local question, as how they s