johnson is the greatest vote counter. he counts the votes and -- stays on the telephone making calls to senators and the bill is murdered. johnson writes in his memoirs at that moment the power of the federal government began flowing back to the white house and it did. the passage of power, is about how lyndon johnson back in the white house. what he does with that power once he has it back. the first forty days of the passage of power, passage of power from one president to another to jan. eighth, 1964. by the end of that time those 47 days, the passage is over. he has turned jack kennedy's build the personal the tax-cut bill, started all of them in the road to passage and january 8th is also the date of lyndon johnson's first state of the union speech in which he makes the presidency his own with his announcement that america is going to have a war on poverty. if we don't know them and we don't, not well enough known in history, are wonderful. too many americans live on the outskirts of hope and that is who we have to help. the more detail you learn about how johnson did it, what he did with congress and when he did to

. >> the lead sponsor of the legislative effort is a freshman congressman from ohio, bill johnson. spoke with him on capitol hill the other day. congressman, this bill comes at a time when there's been more bad news for the coal industry. alpha natural resources just announced plans to close eight mines in pennsylvania, west virginia, and virginia. and lay off more than 1,000 people. how would this legislation help save jobs like those? >> well, the legislation is comprised of several different sections. several different pieces of legislation. but -- but three of the big ones are one, it's going to stop the administration from moving forward with what's known as the string buffer zone rule. if you recall, the string buffer zone rule was put in place by the bush administration, took five years to do it. the administration immediately set out after yielding to an environmentalist lawsuit to rewrite that rule and such a way that according to the contractors that did the analysis, would cost tens of thousands of jobs. cut coal production by 50%, cause skyrocketing energy prices, just -

the bill was going nowhere. johnson remembers someone filed a discharge petition to take away from that committee. that was -- a discharge petition ever -- never passed. violation of house rules and no president had ever gotten behind one before. johnson calls the representative who introduces it and representative of missouri has been told by the leaders dropped this thing and listen to johnson in this telephone call to see a genius in human nature because the first half of the call, we can't violate the house pre ♪ >> this is book tv's live coverage of the national books s festival. you've been listening to lbj biographer talk about the fourth installment of the lbj bio. this is the passage of power. now, mr. caro will be working his way over to the set next to the history and biography tent w to take your calls.t numbers will be on the screen, 202 is the area code and if you have a question or reaction, 585-3885 for in -- we'll be heri just as soon as we can wrangle him from the big crowd. it was -- as you can see, a

congressman bill johnson says it is time to bring an end to what he calls the war on coal with his plano stop it. what is the war on coal very specifically. >> i'm really frustrate grad from that last segment. tell me very specifically for what the is war on coal consist of. >> for what it is worth you won the battle. melissa: i will have to watch it back to see what happened. >> i think you won the.but the war on coal started before barack obama became president. he made it very clear in his campaign that he would make it economically unfeasible to start up or to operate coal-fired power plants. that is one promise he kept. melissa: by doing what? part of it has to do with the stream buffer zone rule. what is that and how does that attack coal. >> you bet. the stream buffer zone rule is rewrite of a rule that took the bush administration five years to put in place and talks about and sets parameters about which we do coal mining operations near a stream. the obama administration accepted and rolled over and environmental lawsuit and started immediately to rewrite that rule in such a wa

he is appearing with ohio republican congressman bill johnson who is in a tough reelection race. more on all of this throughout the next hour. but we start -- we start in the buckeye state where paul ryan has the campaign event that we just mentioned scheduled in just under two hours from now. the vice presidential republican nominee has spent a good chunk of the last week campaigning in the crucial swing state, fresh off a three-day bus tour earlier in the week. ron mott travels with paul ryan. joining me on the phone now from columbus, ron, what does the romney/ryan campaign think that paul ryan can do for its message in ohio? >> hey there, craig. good saturday to you. i think he is doing exactly what this ticket believes he can do. we just made a pit stop here at the varsity club on the ohio state university campus. going in to just meet people. and you can see people coming out of surrounding buildings to come see what all the fuss is about. this is the kind of excitement paul ryan generates with his ticket. i think that's why mitt romney ultimately chose him, because he can

there are things wrong with the health care bill, but you know what johnson would have said? said that about the civil rights bill, a flawed bill. he said the important thing is to pass it. once you pass it, it's easy to go back and fix it. >> host: next caller from georgia. good morning to you. >> caller: good morning. thank you for the distinguished work for us all. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: yes. i wonder if you came across things in your research that suggested president johnson experienced moral compunction about the behavior at some point. it's striking he's so on the spot with the angels with civil rights and other important issues, but so unscrupulous in accomplishing those wonderful goalsment thank you. >> guest: well, that's another really terrific question. you are talking about ends and means. the ends is noble. medicare, lyndon johnson said it's the job of government to take care of the bent and the ill. the bent means the old, the aged. his methods are route -- ruth ruthless, cruel, and sometimes hard to write about. the life of johnson, the means he used t

a few blocks down his classmate, bill johnson, sold the special edition of the fulton sun gazette until hands turned black with print, and then he climbed up onto the roof of a local insurance company so he could get a better view of churchill and truman as they drove past. now, after circling through the town, the cars went up onto westminster's hilltop campus with, as we saw with the previous picture if i can get back there -- yes, it's doing it -- it was kind of crescent shaped. there we are. and now churchill and truman were being asked constantly to turn around, winston. let's get another photo of you. turn around, harry. and they obliged as many times as they could, but finally it was time to go into the mcclures' house which would house about 65 people that day including, of course, the guest of honor. and getting up -- going up the front steps and getting onto the porch, churchill asked ida belle mcclure as he walked thereupon, mrs. mcclure, may i bring this old stogie into your home? now, she was luckily well used to her husband's pipe smoking and agreed, and anyway, could she

the house will also consider h.r. 3409, the stop the war on coal act, sponsored by bill johnson of ohio, which is a package of bills to expand domestic energy production and help create american jobs. lastly, mr. speaker, members are advised that with the senate's expected passage of the continuing resolution, we no longer anticipate votes in the house during the week of october 1. this is a change from the original house calendar. i thank the gentleman and yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his information with respect to what we're going to consider next week and also i was going to ask him, but he's already indicated that he doesn't expect the sc meeting of the week in to occur and i thank him for that information. that would indicate essentially then, therefore, that we have approximately a little over a day and a half, a day and 3/4 remaining before the election. i want to ask the gentleman first of all, been a lot of talk about the work that has not been done. we have not done the jobs bill that i've been urging us to consider. we have not addressed the middle class

the house will also consider h.r. 3409, the stop the war on coal act, sponsored by bill johnson of ohio, which is a package of bills to expand domestic energy production and help create american jobs. lastly, mr. speaker, members are advised that with the senate's expected passage of the continuing resolution, we no longer anticipate votes in the house during the week of october 1. this is a change from the original house calendar. i thank the gentleman and yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his information with respect to what we're going to consider next week and also i was going to ask him, but he's already indicated that he doesn't expect the scheduled meeting of the week in october to occur and i thank him for that information. that would indicate essentially then, therefore, that we have approximately a little over a day and a half, a day and 3/4 remaining before the election. i want to ask the gentleman first of all, been a lot of talk about the work that has not been done. we have not done the jobs bill that i've been urging us to consider. we have not addressed th

the last president to balance the budget before bill clinton sf lyndon johnson. only drats have bool lanced the budget in the last 40 years. republicans borrow and spend. that's what they have done. that's what's at stake in this election. >> our standard is not europe. it's disappointing to a lot of americans when you hear them say we're not quite as bad of shape as europe. our standards, what we used to know how to do in this country. bill clinton knew how to create jobs and ronald reagan knew how to create jobs. we were at the point in the reagan presidency where because of his his policies of returning dollars to the american people and unleashing our businesses, we were at the point where we were parading a million jobs a month for seven consecutive months. we don't have to go to europe to find the template. we can look at what president reagan's policies did, and i think most people in your audience know it's going to be romney who comes a lot closer to that strategy than barack obama. >> appreciate the debate very much. we've got to move on. howard dean, t

bill clinton, jack kennedy, and lyndon johnson reached across the aisle and said, meet me in the middleeir party ran through a health care bill that took over one sixth of our our economy -- of our economy without accepting a single republican idea, without winning a single vote in either house from a party whose constituents make up half of this country. the democrats used to have a night when they presented a film of their presidential legends. if they do it in charlotte, the theme song should be "now you're just somebody that i used to know." my fellow americans, when great athletes falter, their coaches sometimes whisper to them, "remember who you are." calling to their greatest at a time when their bodies and spirit are to sapped to remember their strength, this sweet, blessed god-inspired place called america is a champion that has absorbed some blows, but we bend, we do not break. this is no dark hour. this is no dark hour. this is the dawn before we remember who we are. maybe said of this time in our history, 2008, to 2011, lesson learned. 2012, mystics corrected. god bless you.

a few blocks down, his classmate, bill johnson, sold to fulton sun gazette until his hand turn blackrint. in the climb up on the roof of a local insurance company so he could get a better view of churchill and truman as they drove past. after circling through the town, the cars went up onto westminster's hilltop campus with, as we saw with the previous picture, if i can get back there, yes, it is doing it, it's kind of crescent shaped. there we are. and now churchill and truman were being asked constantly to turn around, winston, get another photo the. turnaround, kerry. and they obliged as many times as we couldn't find it it was time to go into mccluer's house which would house about 65 people that they including the guest of honor. going up the front steps and getting onto the porch, churchill asked idabel mccluer as he walked up there, mrs. mccluer, may i bring this old still be into your home? now, she was likely will use to her husband pipe smoking and so agree. anyway, really, could she have turned down the world's most famous cigar smoker? then they shook hands. mrs. mccluer

the house will also consider h.r. 3409, the stop the war on coal act, sponsored by bill johnson of ohiolls to expand domestic energy production and help create american jobs. lastly, mr. speaker, members are advised that with the senate's expected passage of the continuing resolution, we no longer anticipate votes in the house during the week of october 1. this is a change from the original house calendar. i thank the gentleman and yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his information with respect to what we're going to consider next week and also i was going to ask him, but he's already indicated that he doesn't expect the scheduled meeting of the week in october to occur and i thank him for that information. that would indicate essentially then, therefore, that we have approximately a little over a day and a half, a day and 3/4 remaining before the election. i want to ask the gentleman first of all, been a lot of talk about the work that has not been done. we have not done the jobs bill that i've been urging us to consider. we have not addressed the middle class tax cut in

johnson succeeded john kennedy and saved his agenda. >> he takes legislation that wasn't going to pass civil rights, the tax cut bill and in an in tant johnson gets it moving towards passage. >> thank you very, very, very much. >> chris: last week, caro took part in the library of congress book festival on the national mall and made clear he made johnson come alive for many reader. >> chris: do you like him? >> i don't like him or dislike him. you are in awe of him because you are constantly saying look at what he is doing now. >> chris: he got excited talking about johnson's rise to power but as we turn to the final book he is writing now, his demeanor suddenly changed. >> the story is going to turn very dark as soon as vietnam enters the picture. it is sort of a tragic story. a story of his great dreams that are the destroyed by a war. >> chris: you are 76 now. do you ever worry that you are not going to have time to finish this last book? >> well, sure. but, you know, it is not productive to think like that. >> chris: how long do you think it will take you to finish? >> i could say three or four years but why would you believe me?

kennedy, lyndon johnson, bill clinton, harry truman. >> on c-span, a lot of the shows that i like watching our book tv. anything live. things that are court rulings. you want rock and unfiltered. it is unfiltered. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979. brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> and john f. kennedy except in the nomination for the nomination for pretty -- president. he won the nomination on the first ballot. his speech is a box 25 minutes. [applause] it was my great honor at the 1956 democratic convention and i am delighted to have his support and his a vice in the coming months ahead. let me say first that i accept the nomination of the democratic party. i accept it without reservation. and with only one obligation -- to devote every effort of my mind and spirit to lead our party back to victory and our nation to greatness. i am grateful too that you have provided us with such a strong platform to stand on and to run on. [applause] the rights of man, civil and economic rights essential to the human dignity of all men are at our goa

kennedy in 1960 from los angeles, followed by president lyndon johnson in 1964 from atlantic city. then bill clinton in 1992 in new york city. later, harry truman in 1948 from philadelphia. >> now, john f. kennedy accepting the nomination for president at the 1960 democratic convention. the massachusetts senator won the nomination on the first ballot, competing against the senate's majority leader, lyndon johnson, and former nominee, adlai

bill clinton became a second u.s. president to be impeached. who was the first? nixon, polk, martin van burren. >> that is correct. andrew johnson. aped by how many votes? >> one. >> a very good. >> bill: one vote he would have been toast. alien extradition acts is most controversial u.s. laws of their time. >> in 1798 french warships seized american vessels trading with england. frightened by the possibility of invasion they passed the alien and sedition act the power to deport any alien and made citizens who criticized the government liable to arrest. >> bill: that sounds like cuba or china. which president signed the alien acts into laws. madison, jackson, jefferson. adams. >> bill: very good, adams. he should have. that was a huge mistake on his part. he a good president but that besmirched his record. thank you very much. it's a little bit elevated from cool, cool to we smirched. word of the day -- besmirched. >> and controversy erupted when it was discovered that u.s. had traded weapons to iran in exchange for the release of hostages. this upset many as they saw iran as a national threat. >> few months ago i said i did not t

lyndon johnson, bill clinton, then 1948 with harry truman.your calls later this afternoon. president obama speaking at 2:20 eastern time. for now, members of congress and advisers to mitt romney's campaign discuss challenges facing government this fall and the styles of president obama and mitt romney. this is from florida, the same week as the republican convention in tampa. >> while they are getting settled, i am the editorial director of "national journal." i wanted to give you a quick order of business. we're here to talk about iran the agenda and how mitt romney and the republican party will govern if they win in november. we have three panels. we will talk with john kyl. then we will talk to senior adviser to mitt romney. then major and i will talk to others about how these ideas may be received in congress if romney is elected. with no further ado, let me turn it over to major and david for the opening bell. >> senator kyl, it is great to have you with us. i will not go through your bio. we will go to questions about the way the electi

no democrat since lyndon johnson has won the white vote, which means jimmy carter once, bill clintonce, barack obamanc have all won the presidency on the minority vot. it is doable. this maye the last election if romney wins going solely on the white vote. >> you heaeard a lot of people in the convention saying you're trying to dide america, splitting it up, and they're trying toring it together, and a lot of people holding up signs about women. >> one video going broke across the country is what happened to that cnn camerawoman. peanuts were thrown at her by two people participapating in the republican convention, saying, "this is how we feed animals." they were thrown out of the convention, but that story has gone around the country, and it says somethinng. that would never happen at a democratic convention, not because democrats are better t becaususe they would not do that kind of thing. >> what is ahead fo the >> now is the moment whehere w we can stand up and say, "i'm an american. i make my destiny. we deserve better. my children deserve better. my family deserves better. my c

obama had the most accomplished first two years since lyndon johnson, the health care bill, the stimulusl, big education reform. it's not as if nothing has happened in the last two years. and a lot of the changes that do have to happen have to happen in washington with the president and other people convincing members of congress to vote for things that maybe aren't very popular. when the health care passed, it was not supported by the majority of americans. had almost pushed them to pass the bill. >> matt, by now a lot of folks have been talking about this, the alleged gop plan that robert draper wrote about in his book, that on the night of the president's inauguration top leaders and strategists, they huddled, they ate some steak, they drank some red wine and they plotted to block anything that president obama tried to get through. why aren't democrats out there every single day telling voters the republicans are more concerned with this president's failures than their constituents' successes? >> aren't they out there every day? >> every third or fourth day. >> the democratic conventi

no democrat since lyndon johnson has won the white vote, which means jimmy carter once, bill clinton twice, barack obama once have all won the presidency on the minority vote. it is doable. this may be the last election if romney wins, one solely on the white vote. >> you had a lot of people saying you are trying to divide america come split us up, and we are trying to bring it together, and a lot of people holding up signs like women. >> one video going viral across the country is what happened to that cnn camerawoman. peanuts were thrown at her by two people who participated in the republican convention saying, "this is how we feed animals. they were thrown out of the convention, but that story has gone around the country, and it says something about the people on the floor. that would never happen at a democratic convention, not because democrats are better but because they just would not do that kind of thing. it happens that republicans. and it is clear there are people in the republican party who are worried about this. another issue democrats talk about is this photograph iden

. >> and johnson losing the civil rights bill. >> there goes the south. >> there goes the south. >> charlie, there are certain kind of simple but fundamental truths we are dealing with, for most of the postwar years the government has been giving people things in this country, the entitlement programs keep getting expanded under republican and democratic administrations alike, we will have to start reeling those in across-the-board and that is a very, very big proposition, and then it comes down to this simple questio question on both, romney saying about obama, look what he has done to you, obama saying about romney, look what he is going to do to you, and that is the intersection of where this will -- >> rose: that is all negative. >> yes, it is all negative. so here is an idea, throwing one out. what if one of the two of them said, we are going to have a marshall plan for training the workers for the 21st century, we are going have a big job retraining program in this country, we are going rearrange education. >> rose: and i am going to raise your taxes to do it. >> you may have to do so

rio tinto perdio 1-0 ante real salt lake con anotacion de will johnson a los 49 minutos de tiempo corrido, tras una mala salida del portero billexta posicion con 41 puntos de 27 partidos jugados uno mas que columbus crew que es quinto y con 42 unidades. complicada la situacion de dc united que tendra un calendario este septiembre muy dificil, solo jugara de local ante new england revolution y chivas usa, mientras que viajara a filadelfia y portland. ojala no ocurra lo de la temporada pasada que en los ultimos partidos perdieron su clasificacion. vamos con la velocidad porque ryan hunter-reay ganó ayer el gran premio de baltimore, una victoria que mantiene viva su esperanza de ganar el campeonato de la indycar. will power pudo haber conseguido del título del campeonato con una victoria , pero el ganador del lugar de privilegio en la parrilla de salida terminó en la sexta posición en una carrera que tuvo nueve banderas de precaución y fue estropeada por lluvia. la carrera estuvo marcada por la polémica, con power y briscoe cuestionando el tiempo de hunter-reay en una reanudación cerca del final de la prueba. los comisarios dijer

kennedy, under lyndon johnson under jimmy carter, under bill clinton, and under barack obama. main thing is on pure, flat numbers don't lie. obama has created more jobs than -- not only more jobs than george w. bush. he's brought back all of the jobs lost under george w. bush. so when mitt romney and paul ryan say obama's done nothing about job creation, they are lyin' through their teeth. it is a great big fat lie! and they know it! >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." the powerful my steal an election but they cannot steal democracy. sir... excuse me, excuse me... can i get you to sign off on the johnson case... ♪ we built this city! ♪ don't let food hang around. ♪ on rock & roll! ♪ [ orbit trumpet plays ] clean it up with orbit! [ ding! ] fabulous! for a good clean feeling... eat. drink. chew orbit. it's go time. it's go time. it's go time. go time. you know what time it is. go time. it's go time. it's go time. what time is it rob? here comes the young turks go time! it's go time. oh is it? then it's go. go. go. go. go. go. go. go time. anybody? anybody? what time i

i urge my colleagues to support the resolution and the johnson bill. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i'm glad to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for two minutes. ms. delauro: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this political resolution that aims to wrongly characterize the administration's position on temporary assistance to needy family. this is a waste of our time. the purpose of the administration's waiver proposal is to allow states to test alternative and innovative strategies that are designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families. as the department of health and human services have said repeatedly, waivers will only be approved if a state can prove there is an effective transition from welfare to work. in essence, that they are putting more people to work. is the majority now against putting people to work? or are they against states' rights? if so t

. >> president johnson signed the bill make it the law of the land. >> reporter: and now both may lookferent depending on whom you elect november 6th. >> my plans already extended medicare by nearly a decade. their plan ends medicare as we know it. >> we will preserve and protect medicare and social security and keep them there for future generations. >> president obama says he has strengthened medicare and social security over the last four years and says medicare will now be solvent until 2024 because of his reforms. he says he has cut seniors' drug bills, saving officers an average of $600 to $700. he gave seniors with i highest prescription costs a $250 check to fill the so-called donut hole. his signature health reform pays for preventive care for seniors as well. he has squeezed $617 billion out of medicare by cutting waste and fraud and ending some payments to insurers. now, republicans call these cuts to seniors. obama aides say seniors will not feel them and some gop plans, by the way, include the same cuts. now, the president wants to expand the power of a new 15-person indep

johnson. really credited him with passing the civil-rights bill and sort of lead the other democrats and why they needed to pass it. also he drew about desegregation. you have james meredith who was the first african-american to be admitted into the university of mississippi. he was governor at the time, tried to block -- even a retired general tried to block him. uncle sam is shown as protecting him and beating him and gave these misbehaving boys a spank on the bottom for not allowing him to go to the university. political cartoons also depend on a lot of common imagery. the symbols we see every day. this cartoon -- she was a cartoonist at the miami daily news from 1933 to 1956 and during that time was the only female editorial cartoonist in the country and in this one using a couple -- familiar imagery of the donkey as the democratic party and the elephant as the republican party and this was drawn in the 50s where adlai stevenson and truman with their candidacy are pulling the party in two different directions and the republicans again in a laugh at it. important editorial cartoon usually take

johnson brand baby shampoo. this is some of the lipstick products. some of you may have seen we had a bill in california indu,