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the governor at the time i enjoyed meeting hubert humphrey but wondered a lot more about george mcgovern and i think that was really the seven all event for me at twelve years old living in orange county california behind the orange curtain not a great progressive thousand other i begin very involved in george mcgovern campaign and in fact on election night my father allowed me to cut school so that i could walk free six and that was a real introduction for me because i could understand why a two o'clock everybody was giving up the george mcgovern had lost so we haven't walked our precincts so that began my fight never to give up until all the ballots are counted and cast and that was said november of one hundred seventy two with george mcgovern's campaign to begin to take the democratic party back for the peace and justice movement so i think quite honestly that's where this road began where i find myself tonight you have been in this for for basically your whole life. yeah i think that's when you look back on it now forty seven years one nine hundred seventy two is quite a memory seven

he worked humphrey and lyndon johnson in 1960. i mean, he was not a natural politician, but when he decided to run a race, he was a fiercely competitive, very tough, from the -- formidable back. >> a question. you mentioned a critique of defense policy in vietnam and the algerian and poland. and obviously what he had said about vietnam in algeria, how was that received in the u.s.? positioning himself for a presidential run? just curious as to how -- >> it was considered very controversial because the cold war was still in its intense phase and there was a sense that kennedy had sort of transcended what was appropriate. that there was -- there were several people is a committee should not come on the floor of the united states senate and criticize an ally. he actually gave his first speech -- i forget the exact date, but he ended up giving a very lengthy 11 week later saying, have gotten a lot of responses last week, and i feel like and the jury spine, first of all, why give that speech and also to respond to a little bit of the b

hubert humphrey was the exact opposite. when kennedy decided to run, the switch went on and this medicine, deferential, quiet person threw himself into a and he was going board to door, he was relentless. the thing about kennedy core of the advantages he hat, wealth and a famous family, he outworked his opponents. he outworked in 1952, he a outworked humphrey and lyndon johnson in 1960, was not a natural politician but when he decided to run a race he was fiercely competitive, tough, formidable guy. >> the critique of the fed policy in algeria, obviously, setting to be ally, how was that in the u.s. position in himself for a presidential pardon? >> the cold war was still in an intense phase. and transcended what was appropriate. you should not count on the floor of the united states senate and criticize and allied. he gave his first speech, i forget the exact date, a very lengthy one, one week later saying i have gotten a lot of responses last weekend i need to explain that speech. and in boston, there was a huge file on al

my students here at the humphrey school will tell you. here ifot govern from you cannot govern from here. you cannot govern from either polarized and. you have to bring people together. we have a path with the his store, i will say it's historic, agreement on the budget. >> that is what we are reporting today from the humphrey school, i want to thank everyone for coming. [applause] >> on the next "washington journal," christine hard bin hanson will talk about the agenda heading to the 2014 general elections. then bloomberg news reporter alex wayne will talk about the latest with the health care law including the enrollment numbers in on-line exchanges. after that, medicare part d with charles ornstein. he'll talk about the program when dispensing name brand drugs. take your calls, e-mail, and tweets beginning on "washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. on thursday, katherine clark was sworn in as the 113th congress. she fills a seat in massachusetts fifth district left vacant by ed markie who's serving in the senate after a special el

my students here at the humphrey school will tell you. you cannot govern from here if you cannot govern from here. you cannot govern from either polarized end. you have to bring people together. we have a path with the historic, i will say it's historic, agreement on the budget. >> that is what we are reporting today from the humphrey school, i want to thank everyone for coming. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] up in a few moments, like "washington journal." then secretary of state john kerry talking about the recent nuclear deal with iran and the u.s. later, how u.s. foreign aid is being used to help syrian refugees. we will be taking your calls, tweets and e-mails life on "washington journal," followed by a roundtable about gun policy following the anniversary of the shooting in newtown, connecticut. our guests are tom manger and richard stanek. then i look at the two-year budget deal. "washington journal" is next. ♪ recent addition to white house

he got to the location of the african queen where my father was directing katherine hepburn and humphrey bogart lauren bacall was there she'd been cooking for the crew and. and dad received a telegram from the barefoot runner and and read it put it in his pocket and katie have said for god's sakes john what does it say and he said it's a girl her name is joshua so that sort of how it all started and the great girl yeah she is very she's a dear friend and. something from a story lately told ok this is the prologue all. there was a shrine in my mother's bedroom when i was growing up the built in wardrobe had a mare on the interior of both doors and a bureau inside higher than i was with a nor a of perfect bottles and small objects on the surface in the war and a wall of burlap stretched above it. pinned to the burlap was a collage of things she'd collected pictures that she'd torn out of magazines poems pomander balls of fox's tail tied with a red ribbon brooch i bought her it from woolworths that spelled mother and malakai a photograph of on mckenna saint joan standing between the glass d

humphrey bogart and katharine hepburn were here while filming "the african queen."xury hotel pourquoi pas hotel. this is the pourquoi pas hotel now. like everything else at that time, inhabited by squatters or simply eaten by the jungle. none of this was ever for the congolese. they weren't allowed in any of these buildings, except as help. not even allowed to walk their own streets after dark. not a lot of dependable electric power left in the city, but what lights do glow around town, much of it comes from places like this -- small kiosks serving the congolese version of barbecue and what passes for cold beer. christian is one of our fixers, tasked with keeping us on track and out of trouble. which, believe me, is a big job around here. you know, it's an amazing-looking city, if you blur your vision a little bit, you can see it the way it used to be. >> beautiful. i think it could be the best place to live. very kind people. people like listening to music, sitting, taking their meals, eating. >> what's the congolese word for barbecue? >> barbecue. >> cheers. >> ch

humphrey bogart and katharine hepburn were here while filming "the african queen."ry hotel pourquoi pas hotel. this is the pourquoi pas hotel now. like everything else at that time, inhabited by squatters or simply eaten by the jungle. none of this was ever for the congolese. they weren't allowed in any of these buildings, except as help. not even allowed to walk their own streets after dark. not a lot of dependable electric power left in the city, but what lights do glow around town, much of it comes from places like this -- small kiosks serving the congolese version of barbecue and what passes for cold beer. christian is one of our fixers, tasked with keeping us on track and out of trouble. which, believe me, is a big job around here. you know, it's an amazing-looking city, if you blur your vision a little bit, you can see it the way it used to be. >> beautiful. i think it could be the best place to live. very kind people. people like listening to music, sitting, taking their meals, eating. >> what's the congolese word for barbecue? >> barbecue. >> cheers. >> chee

a number of lists the not legit one nine hundred seventy two i had a chance meeting with you or humphrey or i asked my father why were most of our friends working for george mcgovern at the time i enjoyed meeting hubert humphrey but wondered a lot more about george mcgovern and i think that was really the seven all event for me at twelve years old living in orange county california behind the orange curtain not a great progressive the house should i begin very involved in george mcgovern's campaign and in fact on election night my father allowed me to cut school so that i could walk free seats and that was a real introduction for me because i could understand why a two o'clock everybody was giving up the george mcgovern had lost so we have you walked our precincts so that began my fight never to give up until all the ballots are counted and cast and that was said november of one hundred seventy two with george mcgovern's campaign to begin to take the democratic party back for the peace and justice movement so i think quite honestly that's where this road began where i find myself tonight

and read letters from the roosevelt, truman, adelaide stevenson, humphrey, a candidate, kissinger, a william f. buckley, jr., the clinton, al gore gorby doll, jacqueline kennedy and naturally with his interest of american history sammy davis, jr., a and mick jagger. [laughter] to a detractor to accused arthur of being a communist sympathizer he said your first letter was a product of misunderstanding for you to really provide if not i can only send you to the nearest psychiatrist. but i should note arthur had a keen appreciation for andrew jackson and jack daniel's. as is also appreciated arthur did not believe white wine was done to the day given the difficulties of the afternoon. he is the author of terror across and teeeighteen that co-editor of his father's struggle. his films won two emmys serving as the world director of the policy is to share am publisher of the journal of a speech writer and foreign policy adviser for'' well also the author of factive creation that received the harry s. truman book award. our friend tom brokaw will play a key role in this discussion in the fu

. >> chris humphrey who was traded by the nets was given a chance off the bench and responded by providing 17 points and 17 rebounds. the nuggets lost two straits. >> sebastien vettel and his red bull team have been honoured at the fai award in paris. there was a blues brothers theme to the evening. fourth consecutive driver. the red bull team picking up the constructor's trophy for the fourth. that's all in sport for now. more later. >> a guitar owned by the american singer/song writer bob dillon sold for a million dollars in new york. it was the first to be played when he swapped his acoustic guitar for an electric one. a new jersey family was the owner 48 years after it was left on a plane. more music to come - news too - on al jazeera. >> i'm glad to be on my way home. i appreciate the help that the dprk government help they've given to me >> an 85-year-old american held captive in north korea comes back to the united states. flowers for the fallen father of south africa - celebrating the life of nelson mandela. >> a mix of snow, sleet and rain crippling parts of the country, causing p

. >> the same sweet spot the senate's been in since hubert humphrey.epublican solution to health care, very gradual rollout. you're smiling. remember dan rather got into his fight with -- who was it? george senior got in this fight with dan rather. jimmy carter had a rose garden strategy that didn't work out too well. you have to have a fight on your side before you go to the general. >> doesn't it make sense that when you have an easy pass, you're more than likely to have an easy pass into the general. >> eisenhower. go back and look at it. he had to fight like hell at the convention. >> look at romney. they beat him up so much throughout that ridiculously long primary. >> santorum. >> they completely wiped him out and used up all his money. >> i'm looking at it with clear eyes -- and i love the glasses. -- clear eyes -- you don't always wear glasses -- clear eyes. isn't there somebody out there that can give hillary a good fight? >> i can't think of any one. >> anybody who can give her a tussle, make it interesting. >> not anybody, and i don't know h

my students here at the humphrey school will tell you. here ifot govern from you cannot govern from here. you cannot govern from either polarized and. you have to bring people together. we have a path with the his store, i will say it's historic, agreement on the budget. >> that is what we are reporting today from the humphrey school, i want to thank everyone for coming. [applause] >> on this weeks newsmakers, we will have more on the budget deal. on spending more and the appropriations process. kentucky is the congressman harold rogers, the chairman of the house appropriations committee. you can see the interview sunday when newsmakers airs at its regular time, and they at 10:00 a.m.. 10:00 a.m.. >> the archduke francis ferdinand and his wife were in sarajevo, the capital of bosnia, on a tour. it was a bad day, it was a big serbian national holiday. serbia was absolutely furious that austria-hungary had taken over bosnia. it was seen as a provocation, and a radeon plotters who were seen to be plotting to assassinate the archduke as a sym

my students here at the humphrey school will tell you. here ifot govern from you cannot govern from here. you cannot govern from either polarized and. you have to bring people together. we have a path with the his store, i will say it's historic, agreement on the budget. >> that is what we are reporting today from the humphrey school, i want to thank everyone for coming. [applause] >> the chairman of the house appropriations committee. you can see the interview sunday when newsmakers airs at its s.gular time >> here's the president speaking to reporters shortly before that meeting began. >> it is a great pleasure to talk with not only the most outstanding mayors in the country, but folks who are representing incredible cities, world-class cities that are going to be central to america's economic growth and progress for years to come. i have always said that mayors don't have time to be ideological and they don't really have time to be partisan are heldhey accountable every day for concretely delivering the services that people count on al

but what did hubert humphrey say?ld have and the should have clubs are the biggest clubs and you don't want to be a member of them? >> a clear line of authority almost like a military chain of command in the white house where nobody gets in the way. there's a clear line. the boss is the boss. there wouldn't be the health care screw ups if you had a clear line of accountability, where months ago, if not years ago he would have known it and fixed it because somebody would be talking with him and he'd be vetting. >> there was nobody in the west wing that owned health care. there was somebody who owned health care politics, but there was nobody in the west wing who owned health care implementation until it was too late. and that, of course in hindsight is the real mistake. yes, there are problems at hhs, medicare, medicaid. there were structural, bureaucratic issues. and they dismantled it when they needed it. they used it as a political -- so i think david, he knows better being on the inside. but that was the initial mi

. >> joining us is stephanie humphrey tech lifestyle writer for" efor eboni.com.lcome. >> thank you for having me. >> so how does this change over time? >> i don't think it's going to happen any time soon, either. i think what you're going to see is more of that technology integration kind of into the overall shopping experience. >> can bricks and mortar stores do anything to turn the trend around? or not? >> they'll have to do a whole lot of price matching. what you're finding is folks going into the stores with their smooth phones, apps. their scanning bar codes and finding out where these retai retailers are doing. and when your customer says, i found this online so dollars cheaper, they'll have to meet that price. >> you know, online growth may be huge today, but there are present of people inside--there are plenty of people inside the stores. are they just not buying? are they just looking? >> they're show rooming. they're scanning those bar codes and checking out prices and looking for coupons that they may have that they can use somewhere else. they're bein

if you come out as a fighter and try to yell above the applause lines like the clintons do and humphrey i'm telling you it's time for a change. nixon used to do that. that climbing above the applause to make a higher point. i don't think people want that. they look at people like cruz and rand paul, they're not big enough to yell about. i think the country wants performance, effectiveness, a more confident look at the future. it doesn't want more political fisticuffs. i don't think, it may be different in two years. >> your thoughts. >> i have to disagree a bit about populous. >> you said we disagree with that. who are you fighting with. >> i think that the idea that a woman -- >> who are you fighting with. wait a minute. nobody said we're not pushing populism. that's one of the memo points. who are you arguing with right now? >> just with the idea that for a woman that it would sound too angry coming out -- >> no, no. i didn't say that. i said i don't think the times -- tell me i'm wrong. are the times right for someone to be that combative, i'm asking you? >> i think that they are. i

carter glass, william martin, dwight eisenhower, george humphrey, douglas dillon, william simon, paul volcker, bill clinton, paul o'neill, and sheila bair. explain that. >> the last 80 years of fiscal monetary financial history, how we got into the mass of bubbles and the fiscal and monetary crisis of today. basically using the standard of threefold items. free-market, fiscal rectitude, which we balanced budgets, we do not make excuses for deficits because you do not think the economy is not performing up to your doctor and expectation, and not using the central bank and ordered to try to centrally manage the economy and, wall street and encourage risk-taking and all of that. these are not bad people and good people. these are good policies and bad policies in well-known careers. not one party or one doctrine. so i took these individuals as examples of fiscal rectitude, and that is why clinton is on there. that is why eisenhower is on there. i have a huge problem with defense spending. this is also why eisenhower is on there. on the other hand, using the government to inflate the econ

arthur began, as we said, began with the eleanor roosevelt, adlai stevenson, more purist hubert humphrey, more social justice, more rapid action on civil rights, and the kennedys represented a l l cooler, more realistic attempt to really run to the right of richard nixon in 1960. he was talking about a missile gap, and he was not approving of it. he>> he was a cold warrior in te truest sense. >> and that's -- talk about that split. i mean, democrat, you know, will rogers i don't believe to an organized party, i'm a democrat. [laughter] it's now shifted like everything else has shifted to the republicans. >> kennedy at that time is not conservative, but certainly centrist in his politics. and he's very concerned that kennedy never took a position on the censure of joe mccarthy. of course, kennedy had been in the hospital, so he didn't vote on it, but he never publicly -- >> profile in courage. >> exactly. [laughter] >> eleanor roosevelt. >> let's profile -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> let's profile -- less profile, more courage, according to eleanor roosevelt. >> whom you wou

humphrey, one vote. kennedy one vote. nixon for votes, blah, blah, blah. i was not happy with that and i asked for a revote. meanwhile, i did some campaigning. here's how it came out now. kennedy, 14, nixon 13, everybody else zero. i then decided that wasn't enough. we should have a runoff between nixon and kennedy. this is how it came out. kennedy 24, nixon 20. i'm making up -- i just want you to know it's a joy to be your campaign manager. [laughter] and kennedy writes back, he just wrote back thanking him saying you have no idea what a comfort iit is for me to have a campaign manager in indiana like you. [laughter] >> while jfk did not live to see the lunar landing, he did send that seemingly impossible goal in motion and he did see john glenn's orbital flight. what letters struck you about the space program? >> there are about three or four that are really incredible. one, i never realized it until i did the research and found letters. it was hard enough for a man who is president knowing he didn't have a rocket that could go as far as falls river to s

this tape of lyndon johnson talking to everett dirksen during the campaign when when vice president humphrey was running against nixon sixty eight saying we know that nixon is cutting a deal with the south the enemy's not to go to the bargaining table in paris because he had already cut a deal with the south it means he's going to end the vietnam war before the election we know that he says he says i'm reading their hand average this is treason and everett dirksen says yes it is and he says you got to tell him our ad and but it and then and then l.b.j. goes on to say we can't let the american people know about this average it will destroy their confidence in america back to use well what it what it does is it destroys the confidence in the republican and democratic party is that what the that's what they're most fearful about in we know that richard nixon cut the deal with the with the with the vietnamese we know the reagan bush administration in one thousand eighty cut the deal with the muslim brotherhood we know who. as in the meeting we know the meetings were in paris we know the meetings

when the warden put them on the 23-hour lockdown and the day that my brother was executed, warden humphreys actually came to mr. benjamin jealous and was bragging. he asked do you know who i am? and ben said, yeah, you're the warden of the prison. and he said, no, do you really know who i am? and he asked, who are you, and he said with a smirk on his face that he was actually a police officer on the streets of savannah in 1989 when the officer had gotten killed. before troy had gotten his last execution date, the warden actually came to troy two weeks before he had gotten his execution date and told him that he had had another execution date scheduled. troy called us in a frantic panic. my sister called his attorneys. the attorneyings said that they didn't have an execution date scheduled, the warden was just trying to get a rise out of you. we were grateful that the supreme court actually gave us an evidentiary hearing. the evidentiary hearing was actually brought back to the 11th circuit which was the same courts that actually convicted troy. we could not have a fair trial in the 11th cir

were known as national security democrats or cold war liberals in the tradition of truman, kennedy, humphrey and scoop jackson who happened to have been my great political hero in my 20s, in my youth. in facting when scoop -- in fact, when scoop ran for the nomination in 1976, he ran in the massachusetts democratic primary. i was a doctor at the time at the mass general, and i handed out leaflets. now, jackson won the massachusetts primary. i handed out a lot of leaflets. [laughter] but as you know, of course, he didn't win the nomination. and that was because despite the fact that he was a wonderful human being, very smart and had the right policies, i hate to say this, but he was exceedingly dull. and it was said of scoop jackson that if he ever gave a fireside chat, the fire would go out. [laughter] i sure knew how to pick winners back then. [laughter] the other -- i go on in the book to talk about the '90s, of course, to write about the '90s, and here's what was the most remarkable thing about the '90s. nothing happened. [laughter] nothing world historical happened. i was aware of the ab

stuart, i know you like to think you are the only steve mcqueen or humphrey bogart movie star of foxess, but you know what, all those movie stars smoke, you don't. but we are at the vaporium. what flavors do you have your? >> banana nut bread, palm beach, we have raspberry lemonade. we have bubblegum. cotton candy, gummy bears. >> stuart would like the gummy bears. he might like swagger as well. we're getting into deep conversations with the e-cigarette far down here. are you loving it? i am. >> these are the chemicals in cigarettes. there are thousands of them. on the 80 of them here. this is everything we have eliminated. 80. >> you can see arsenic up here. ammonium. >> cannot even pronounce most of it. >> there must be a health upside versus putting this stuff in for the government. >> definitely. cigarette smoking cost $200 billion per year. >> i'm going to send it back to you, spending some more time smoking now. see you later. stuart: she is here right now. i will not take up the nicotine habit. you walk into this vaporium and they offer you flavors, is that how you do it? liz:

humphrey hawkins? >> '70s, '77. >> congress told the modern fed your goal is to maximize employment, maintain price stability and there's always in this conversation about whether that's too complicated. a, do you think having a dual mandate like that mattered over the last decade or two? and b, would you recommend changing it or not? >> so i think the dual mandate, i think, has mattered more in rhetoric than in action, but there has been so the fed talks a lot about that, but other central, about the employment side of it. other central banks said i think are acting as if that's very, very important to them, but i think it's probably made a little bit of difference around the edges in some of the actions. i think of the ecb tightening in 2008 and again in the summer of 2008 when prices were going up and again in 2011 because they have only the inflation target. i think in the end, the fed paying attention to both of those things helped the u.s. economy. i think the federal reserve having -- think the

humphrey, now away in the army. and 17-year-old edmund. >> i think i'm more of the loud one.s' daughter matilda is arthur's twin. >> i'm much more younger, mentally, than he is. he's about -- he's got the mental age of, like, a 30-year-old. i've sort of always been a bit more childish than he has. >> we have all got very, very different personalities. >> reporter: to spend time with the fulfords is to know the happy dysfunction of a family made for reality tv. >> [ bleep ]. >> we're a very close family. we might shout at each other, and we might piss each other off, but we're a really close family. >> reporter: at this estate, passing down the family fortune seems to be where the tradition ends. no polite talk of the weather here at this dinner table. >> to be honest, i don't give a [ bleep ] about the environment. >> your answer that you don't give a [ bleep ] is the most selfish and arrogant comment. >> but she doesn't recycle. >> how do you know i don't recycle? >> oh, my god, can't we stop this argument here? >> reporter: arthur will someday inherit 3,000 acres of prime e

were known as national security democrats or cold war liberals in the tradition of truman, kennedy, humphreyand scoop jackson who happened to have been my great political hero in my 20s, in my youth. in facting when scoop -- in fact, when scoop ran for the nomination in 1976, he ran in the massachusetts democratic primary. i was a doctor at the time at the mass general, and i handed out leaflets. now, jackson won the massachusetts primary. i handed out a lot of leaflets. [laughter] but as you know, of course, he didn't win the nomination. and that was because despite the fact that he was a wonderful human being, very smart and had the right policies, i hate to say this, but he was exceedingly dull. and it was said of scoop jackson that if he ever gave a fireside chat, the fire would go out. [laughter] i sure knew how to pick winners back then. [laughter] the other -- i go on in the book to talk about the '90s, of course, to write about the '90s, and here's what was the most remarkable thing about the '90s. nothing happened. [laughter] nothing world historical happened. i was aware of the abs

he was sorter of the republican version of hubert humphrey, by the way, a happy warrior type, a man thatnkly, i don't think you can say that about all republicans these days. you have the party that wants to work on image control. they keep on talking about doing outreach, image as opposed to reality. john case sick was including medicaid because of prin principles about the poor that is the ongoing legacy of jack kemp. >> when we -- >> i was going to say, the idea of jack kemp and the idea of big-city republicans, you talked about before, they go hand in hand, keep in mind, he represented -- represents buffalo. and part of the reason why he had this sorter of affinity in terms of outreach exsaw a similarity between african-americans as part of his blue collar constituency. >> when goldie talks about listening instead of talking, when i hear that rand paul is being deputized to open this office and rand paul who, on his network famous lay couple years ago, talked about he would not endorse the public accommodations clause of 1964, stand buys this guy the southern avenger, sounds like a g

he worked with people like hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, richard russell, scoop jackson. it was a really interesting time with some great senators. >> so what was his relationship with lyndon johnson when they were both in the senate many. >> it was a very wary one. his file is thick with letters to lyndon johnson asking for better committee assignments, because johnson was the senate democratic leader. kennedy was the more junior senator, so he was sending johnson a lot of letters asking for different committee assignments. johnson seemed to put them away. and at one point ted sorenson sent a wonderful note, johnson appointed kennedy to some third or fourth tier, you know, boston harbor dredging commission or something, so sorenson said in the letter we're making great progress, senator johnson has named you the chairman of the dredging commission. so it was a wary, competitive relationship. but in the end i think johnson came to respect kennedy as a tough, formidable old decision. didn't think he was a real heavy hitter on policy, but he thought he was a real compelling

he worked with people like hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, richard russell, it was a really interestingtime with some great senators. >> so what was his relationship with lyndon johnson when they were both in the senate? >> it was a very wary one. in fact, i spent some time at the kennedy library, and his file is thick with letters to lyndon johnson asking for better committee assignments, because johnson was the senate democratic leader. kennedy was the more junior senator, so he was sending johnson a lot of letters asking for different committee assignments. johnson seemed to put them away, and at one point ted sorenson sent a wonderful note, johnson appointed kennedy to some third or fourth of tier, you know, boston harbor dredging commission or something, so sorenson said in the letter, we're making great progress. you know, senator johnson has named you the chairman of the boston harbor dredging commission. so it was a wary, competitive relationship. but in the end i think johnson came to respect kennedy as a tough, formidable politician. didn't think he was a real heavy hitter on

he worked with hubert humphrey, linda johnson, d. jackson. it was a really interesting time of great senators. >> was his relationship with anna johnson the senate? be back it was very weird. and back, letters to lyndon johnson asking for better committee assignments. johnson is the senate democratic leader. kennedy was a more junior senator. johnson seemed to put them away. at one point ted sorensen said a wonderful know. johnson appointed kennedy to some third or fourth tier, judging commission or something. sorensen said a letter were making great progress. the boston harbor dredging commission. so it was a weary, competitive relationship. but in the end, johnson came to respect kennedy is a top formidable politician. didn't think he was a real heavy hitter on policy, but he was a real compelling political figure. >> cancan days career benefit at a click >> the issue very well. he had a good schooling and not. i think he's developed an appreciation. he spent 14 years. but it was clear he wanted to move on to the presidency and in fact beca

he worked with people like hubert humphrey, richard, jackson, it was an interesting time with a great senator. >> what was his relationship with lyndon johnson when they were in the senate? >> they spend the time of the kennedy library in his file asking for better committee assignments as a democratic leader kennedy was the junior senator so johnson had a lot of letters for different committee assignments. johnson continues to put them away in a wonderful note kennedy and johnson appointed kennedy some third or fourth tier as the commissioner. senator johnson was named in the boston harbor commission income so it was a competitive relationship but in the end i think johnson came to respect that he was a top formidable politician and a heavy hitter on policy, but he thought he was a real compelling political figure. >> john shaw, as president kennedy's senate career benefit him as president? >> i think it did. he understood the policy issues very well. he had a good schooling in that. i think that he gave an appreciation for how congress worked. he spent four years in the congress. bu