your men, baines johnson, whose swear i, baines johnson, do solemnly swear, and you will faithfully execute. i will faithfully execute the office of the presidency of the united states. the office of the presidency, the united states, and will to the best of your ability and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and repair. preserve protect and defend the constitu mission of the united states, the constitution of united states. so help you god. so. my fellow countrymen. on this occasion, the oath i have taken before. and before god. is not mine alone. but together. we are one nation and people. our faith as a nation and our future as a people rests not. upon one citizen, but upon all citizens. that is majesty and the meaning of this moment. our every generation there is destiny or some history. who decides for this generation, the choice must be our own own. even now, a rocket moves toward mars. it reminds that the world will not be the same. our children, or even ourselves. and in a short span of years, the next man. stand here will look out on a seam that is different from our

your men, baines johnson, whose swear i, baines johnson, do solemnly swear, and you will faithfully execute. i will faithfully execute the office of the presidency of the united states. the office of the presidency, the united states, and will to the best of your ability and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and repair. preserve protect and defend the constitu mission of the united states, the constitution of united states. so help you god. so. my fellow countrymen. on this occasion, the oath i have taken before. and before god. is not mine alone. but together. we are one nation and people. our faith as a nation and our future as a people rests not. upon one citizen, but upon all citizens. that is majesty and the meaning of this moment. our every generation there is destiny or some history. who decides for this generation, the choice must be our own own. even now, a rocket moves toward mars. it reminds that the world will not be the same. our children, or even ourselves. and in a short span of years, the next man. stand here will look out on a seam that is different from our

[applause] and we are the party of a great leader of compassion, lyndon baines johnson.plause] in the party of a great man who should have been president, who would have been one of the greatest presidents in history, hubert humphrey! [applause] i have appreciated what this convention has set about hubert humphrey, a great man who epitomized the spirit of the democratic party and i would like to say that we are also the party of governor jerry brown and senator edward kennedy. [applause] i would like to say a personal word to senator kennedy. ted, you are a tough competitor and a superb campaigner and i can attest to that. [applause] your speech before this convention was a magnificent statement of what the democratic party is and what it means to the people of this country and why the democratic victory is so important this year. i reach out to you tonight and i reach out to all those who supported you in your valiant and passionate campaign. ted, your party needs and i need you. [applause] [applause] i need your idealism and your dedication working forward. there is no

perhaps unlike his father, and so did lyndon baines johnson after jfk. it's very interesting. certainly john kennedy, whose father was known as a great admirer of winston churchill, was the ambassador to the court. saint james. the somewhat catty remark attributed to randolph churchill never verified was that. he thought daffodils were yellow until he saw the back of joe kennedy. i'll let you all absorb that. but john john f saw a churchill as someone that he he admired for a number of reasons. political? yes. a writer. yes. orator. yes. and shortly after, john was inaugurated, he learned and that churchill was cruising in the in the caribbean on. i can't make this stop. aristotle onassis yacht. fill in the rest of that sentence and. he he learns that the the ship has docked in new york and gets on the phone and says, i will send my plane and i would love to have mr. churchill come to the white. for a few days. and we will just talk. and churchill's assistant made the decision that that would not happen. and the reason that he he was frail. and he did not want all of the atten

have one more question for you before we turn it to stacy, but also during the conference lucy baines johnsonaid the following. i had a chance to be an eyewitness to history even when i didn't want to be. i had a chance to grow in ways i didn't know i could. and so i'd like to hear you reflect back on your time in the white house and since and how big that eyewitness to history being true. >> no, it's very true. when you are an eyewitness to history and lucy and i were similar in age during her dad's administration, she was at national cathedral school, but we were similar in age, and you know, i remember the pardon. i remember all of those things. i remember people being up all night in the family area going over discussions and things like that, and making decisions and you know, not very many people can say they experienced that. did i appreciate it then? no. i have learned to appreciate it now as i have gotten older. you know, just to look at the old pictures of rumi and dick cheney and you were all such babies and those are the things you get to experience, the people you get to meet and

we turn to stacy, but also during the conference, lucy baines johnson said the following i had chance to be an eyewitness to history even when i didn't want to be, i had a chance to grow in ways didn't know i could. and so i'd like to just hear you reflect back on your time in the white house and and since and how how being that eyewitness to history was for you know that's it's very when you are an eyewitness history and lucy and i were similar in age when her dad during her dad's administration she was at national cathedral school but we were similar age and you know i remember the mayaguez i remember the pardon. i remember all of those things. i remember people being up all. in the family area, going over discussions and like that and making decisions and you know, not very many people can say they that did. i appreciate it then. no, i have to appreciate it now. as i have gotten older, you know, just to look the old pictures of rummy and -- cheney and stuff like i'm like you all were such babies. but know those are the things that you get to experience. the people get to meet the h

so as several people have said lyndon baines johnson did not really want to sign the foia law but he did it and he did it over the objection of all the bureaucracies. after all it had a simple proposition. everything is made public unless there is an exception. it does apply to congress, big surprise, does apply to the judiciary and it doesn't apply to the president . unlike many state laws that do apply to the gov.'s and the original foia doesn't apply to the president. presidential records finally became available thanks to richard nixon . when he withheld all his presidential records and d congress stepped in and said you can't do that, we want them all back so you don't destroy them. and at the same time they passed the presidential records act which makes presidential records subject to availability but not until i think it's 12 years after the president leaves office. there are a number of exceptions to it as well. two things about this, one is strangely though one exemption which i find to be the most troublesome undercurrent foia is exemption five which allows internal record