it was so hot in there you could see the sweat through cardinal spellman's black cassock. it was incredible. they worked on it. finally agreed. it was fantastic. got the bill passed. then he said to john mccormick, the speaker of the house, he said, hold the bill up, if you get a bill, don't sign it within 10 days there is pocket veto. hold the bill for a month. and mccormick said why? johnson said, because i want to sign it on hugh carey's birthday. wouldn't have the bill without him. he did sign it on hugh carey's birthday. that kind of thing. >> how did he 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 or might want? how do he, how did he assemble all this? where did he get all this information? >> he aaccumulated it. it just was absolutely stunning. i mean and, it was invaluable to him. i mean he, he loved politicians. he spent time with them. he knew when their wives were sick. he knew when their kids were sick or when they had a pr

cardinal spellman is approaching the holy father. the deputy prime minister and the prime minister of ireland. you see the delegates, the senior officials of the secretary of the organization, the cardinals of the papal party. now is the foreign minister. followed by the french permanent representative to the united nations, ambassador stevens. during the official visit of president de gaulle, he was accompanied by the foreign minister. he exchanges some words with the pontiff. ambassador sedu. the foreign minister of chile. secretary of state dean rusk. the ambassador of the united states. mrs. goldberg, the ambassador's wife. the ex-president of the general u and hisp fro wife. pope john paul ii served from 1978 until his death in 2005, the second longest serving open history. up next, we look back to

in 1966, new york's cardinal spellman made a christmas visit to american troops in vietnam where he reportedlye vietnam war was a war for civilization. in the very next issue of "catholic worker" dorothy day wrote a response to her cardinal. she said, the works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war. feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. but we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages, and to the people in them. we are not performing the works of mercy, but the works of war. >> on august 6, 1976 when dorothy day was nearly 80 years old, she made her final speech. this time at the catholic eucharist congress in philadelphia, which was attended by mother teresa. dorothy day noted that she was speaking that day on the anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped on hiroshima. dorothy died four years later at the age of 84. her grave is on staten island, a short walk from the ocean side cottage where her baby daughter turned her towards catholicism. the current archbishop of new york, timothy dolan has become a forceful advo

dorothy day, when cardinal spellman used the seminarians to break the strike, dorothy day went up the wall in the "catholic worker." >> i want to bring in congressman tim huelskamp, who is a republican member of congress and who was there this morning. congressman, who was your impression of the pope's speech? >> i thought it was very inspiring. i am roman catholic. did you it didn't matter whether you're a catholic or non-catholic, christian or otherwise. i don't think there was an individual in the chamber or outside the building that was not inspired. and you know, it was indicated by the folks that he chose to use as themes of his speech, he had lives complex lives but they rose to the task of the day. he complimented our country, our history, our founding principles but for many of us i think he encouraged us to look deeper at how we can solve some big problems in our time. >> i'm curious, congressman, what you made -- i think there's been a lot of sort of political gotcha around the pope's arrival which sometimes strikes me as misguided because people are going to have the polit

i think for instance cardinal spellman was a power broker. everyone knew that. ardinal hayes was a quiet man. cardinal o'connor was -- he was heroic in his size and heroic in the profile. one of the things each archbishop of new york has understood, because of the way they play the role in the church, they have to have a relationship with the mayor and city council and they work together. i think that's part of what makes part of cardinal dolan so successful. he has worked together with the mayors that have been in office since he's been in office. and, for instance, during our very, very hard summer last summer, after the eric garner case, it was not surprising to any of us that the mayor turned to the cardinal to be the person who would be an ambassador for peace not only on staten island but throughout the city. it was a role the cardinal stepped into with great ease because as you know he's an outsized character himself and people have learned to trust him and to turn to him. so it's just a role that john hughes i guess forged and now we have cardinal dolan p

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 ass