did johnson not even like baseball? (laughter) but if richard russell wanted to watch a baseball game and he needed somebody to be there with him... >> johnson... >> it used to drive me crazy because i loved baseball and he would be talking through every inning. (laughter) >> but it wasn't just that. johnson comes to the senate and he asks bobby baker, the senate secretary, he doesn't ask about the senate rules. he said everyone else came and asked me about the rules. lyndon johnson asked me one question "who has the power around here?" i told him "there's only one power, richard russell." johnson doesn't ask for the best committee, he asks to get on russell's committee. he starts saying to late... russell was a bachelor and he was lonely johnson would say "let's get a hamburger." hen-the-he said "why don't you come home for dinner?" russell usually didn't do that. lyndon would say "you've got to eat somewhere." and he started... when you say what are the means by which lyndon johnson rose so fast? a lot of it is just w

johnson was secretive about things. i'm not sure johnson knew what he was going to do. the other ending was he would continue to be president and work towards peace in vietnam. he made this decision rather late, and so -- i don't know if it's found me, i'm not sure. i know humphrey was told not to tell his wife about any of it, tell muriel about any of the meeting with johnson in the morning. so he was pretty surprised whether it happened. >> in terms of the time line, that announcement took place on march 31st. it was just a couple of days later, april 4th, 1968, in which reverend martin luther king was shot in memphis, tennessee, and it was that evening that senator bobby kennedy, who was running for the democratic nomination had this to say in indianapolis. i want to show you. i'm going to ask isaiah and libby at the washington center to come back and get their reaction to what senator robert f. kennedy had to say that evening. >> i have some very sad news for all of you, and i think sad news for all of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world

here's park guide daniel luther portraying president johnson and telling the story of how andrew johnson met abraham lincoln. >> in 1847, i went into the 30th congress for my third term, representing the people of the 1st district. and while i was there, i met an extremely tall, raw-boned young man representing the prairie state of illinois. and his name was abraham lincoln. and we fell into conversation. and i introduced myself and told him that i was from northeast tennessee. and he replied that he had relatives in northeast tennessee. and perhaps i knew some of them. he identified his great uncle isaac as having owned a farm and which his father had worked as something of a hired hand in the 1790s. and he also identified another great uncle, a gentleman by the name of mordecai who lived in the town of greenville. to which i replied greenville is my hometown. and your great uncle mordecai, in fact, performed the wedding ceremony for me and my wife, eli eliza, in 1827 as well as mordecai and i served on the town council together in 1829, and i reassured lincoln he was in good hands in t

the truth of the matter is that johnson, and this is something i point out in my book, johnson was e tension to kennedy's victory. without johnson on the ticket there is no way texas would ever have gone to kennedy because kennedy was simply too liberal or ran as a liberal in that election. and also senator clinton anderson of new mexico in his memoir says without johnson that kennedy would not have carried new mexico because there are about seven counties along the texas border that were settled by texans and they were greatly influenced by johnson. in addition, johnson learned that there was a move afoot by the states rights governor of louisiana to have the democratic lectors in louisiana had been unpledged and not vote for kennedy in the electoral college and this was stopped by personal intervention of russell long acting at the request of lyndon johnson. if johnson hadn't been on the ticket, that request would probably not have been made and it would have been hard for russell long to argue the case. as it turned out the state central committee voted 51 to 48 to put kennedy ele

but that if kennedy could persuade johnson to get on the ticket with him, and have a kennedy/johnson ticket, that would be by far the most difficult ticket for nixon to defeat. and that was, i think, a correct analysis. the truth of the matter is that johnson, and this is something i point out in my book, johnson really was absolutely essential to kennedy's victory. without johnson on the ticket, there so no way that texas, which turned out to be close anyway, would ever have gone to kennedy because kennedy was simply too liberal or ran as a liberal in that election. also senator clinton anderson of new mexico in his memoir says that without johnson, that kennedy would not have carried new mexico because there are about seven counties along the texas border that were settled by texans and they were greatly influenced by johnson. in addition, johnson learned that there was a move afoot by the states' rights governor of louisiana to have the democratic electors in louisiana be unpledged and not vote for kennedy in the electoral college. and this was stopped by personal intervention of

it was a huge step for johnson and brooks and other americans. brooks was one of 11 southern congressmen who voted for it. all the other southerners -- brooks was a major player in this huge change. he went with johnson the next year in the voting acts riots of '65 and the housing act of 1968. so jack brooks who's featured here on this statue at the lamar campus was a major player in change in the united states. he's honored here on the lamar campus for many things that he did for our region and this campus. >>> throughout the weekend here on american history tv on c-span3, watch oral histories. our history book shelf features history writers. revisit battles through the anniversary of the civil war. visit college classrooms throughout the country. go behind the scenes at museum sites on american artifacts. view our complete schedule c-span 3. >>> from north carolina to austin, texas. the group stopped in several presidential and historic sites along the route. one of the stops was the andrew johnson homestead in tennessee. a site owned and opera

the truth of the matter is that johnson, and this is something i point out in my book, johnson really was absolutely essential to kennedy's victory, without johnson on the ticket, there is no way that texas turned out to be very close anyway would have ever gone to kennedy and kennedy was simply too liberal as iran in that election and also senator clinton anderson of new mexico in his memoir says that without johnson kennedy would not have carried new mexico because there are seven counties along the texas border that were settled by texans and they were greatly influenced by johnson. in addition, johnson learned that there was a move afoot by the state's rights governor of lose lose to have the democratic electors in louisiana be unpledged and not vote for kennedy in the electoral college and this was stopped by personal intervention of russell long acting at the request of lyndon johnson and had johnson not been on the ticket, it would have been hard for russell long to argue the case. as it turns out the central committee voted 51-48 to put the electors on the ballot and it was ve

and then the importance of 1960 johnson on the ticket. agnew just seems a puzzle being picked in 1960. all three of you should be able to comment on that. >> this is the question of why nixon chose agnew. the republican party in 1968 was not unified. this is very important. the republican party today is much more unified than it was in 1968. nixon could not choose a liberal because the conservatives had so much power. and he couldn't choose a conservative because there was still enough moderates and liberals. he couldn't choose therefore ronald reagan and nelson rockefeller, but further, he didn't want either of them. i mean, you don't want to be overshadowed or have someone like that either. a few names -- a couple names were tossed out. gerald ford. george bush of texas. although a few hours before nixon chose agnew, he actually was talking to, i believe, rogers morton of maryland or i believe it's rogers. he had a brother from kentucky. was it thurston? and he said rogers, if you want the vice presidential nom, i'll give it to you. mor

johnson had influence and mrs. johnson could work behind the scenes. this was too far in front. and there was some backlash over that. and she -- after that retreated to a more veiled, behind the scenes kind of lobbying. but it's also mrs. johnson that takes the first solo campaign whistle-stop tour. it's a trip she takes into the south. during the 1964 election campaign, lyndon johnson has signed the civil rights act. he's losing support in the south and mrs. johnson alone obviously with a staff and companions, but makes a trip through the south, stopping to speak to the public. strong arming in an oh so polite way governors and leaders in that state to meet with her. to here's my point of view. and takes an abuse from the public and then will say, well, you have had your turn. i have listened to you and i hope you'll listen to me. knowing that southern gentlemen have to -- southern gentlemen has to listen to and greet a southern lady. >> the dress. tell us how she picked the design for this. >> it's a beautiful yellow, made by john moore texas dress designer. and it's actually

i andrew johnson do hereby proclaim freedom. full, broad and unconditional to every man in tennessee. those were words. some four months later we backed them up with action. the convention i called to recreate a local state government to the union, also enacted an amendment to the tennessee state constitution ending forever slavery in this state. which became part of our constitution with a popular vote of the people on february 22nd, 1865. shortly after that i went back to washington to take the seat as vice president. the second highest office in the gift of a free people. five weeks later the war was over. and one of its final casualties. and with his death, the burden he had born for four years fell upon my shoulders. sorrowful times, discouraging times. yet as i spoke to the gathering of the cabinet that came to my rooms at the kirkwood hotel in the morning, i told them i had hope. i had hope that our government having emerged from its present trials would settle on -- and believed this nation would come together and would

the west perished without johnson. after the war was over, rather than admitting the strife had ended because of either the bankruptcy or the cause that it was tied in with slavery, the lost opportunity at shilo fed into the larger idea of the lost cause, and it had an effect for southern cultural history for a century. the inability to come to terms that not only the south was outweighed by material resources and manpower, but generals like grant and sherman were better than southern generals or that people from ohio or michigan or indiana were just as courageous as good southern troops. out of the inability to accept reality became this myth making, and that is a ripple of albert sidney johnson's death. i want to turn to a happier note in some ways. about six miles from the battle, there is a flamboyant guy named lou wallace. he draws, paints, writes, he thinks that he's a poet. everybody from west point hates his guts. everybody remembers that state ledgesors were promoted. and -- lgs lators were promoted -- legisla

simon johnson, sr. fellow at peterson institute and proif he tr are sore of entrepreneurship at myth sloan school of management. dr. johnson has testified before this committee on several occasions and we welcome him back this morning. we also have dr. freedbergston, director of the the peterson institute. he recently announced after 13 years of ably leading the peterson institute, he steps down as director and focusing more o'of his time on research and writing and i commend him for his year of leading at the institute and wish him well in his further endeavors ppd he's testified many times before the budget committee as well. we also have with us this morning, dr. adam larrick, visiting scholar and someone deeply knowledgeable on european affairs having spent the last two years there. we look forward very much to your testimony and welcome you to the senate budgdget committe as well. i'd like to begin by briefly reviewing the situation as i see it in europe. to be clear, what is happening in europe ha

johnson had influence and mrs. johnson quietly, you know, could work behind the scenes. this was a little too far in front. and there was some backlash over that. and she after that retreated to a more veiled behind the scenes kind of lobbying. but it's also mrs. johnson that takes the first campaign swing solo campaign whistle stop tour. the lady bird special is a trip she takes into the south during the 1964 election campaign. lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act. he is losing support in the south and mrs. johnson alone obviously with a staff and co companions but makes a trip through the south, stopping to speak to the public. strong arming a an, oh, so polite way governors and leaders in that state to meet with her. and speaks to the a public. saying here's my point of view. and takes an abuse from the public and say you have had your turn. i listened to you. now i hope you will listen to me. knowing that southern gentlemen have to let you -- southern gentlemen is going to have to listen to and greet and be polite to a southern lady. >> the dress, tell us about

you mentioned judge frank johnson earlier. what's the difference between judge frank johnson and judge cox? >> well, about as different as night and day. judge frank johnson was a remarkable trial judge. he knew what his responsibilities were under the constitution, and every day of his life he met those responsibilities. >> he was white. >> he was white. >> district judge? >> district judge. and he was from northern alabama, of one of the counties that did not succeed 100ari h00 before in the civil war. >> and judge cox? >> he was a good lawyer. he was a good trial judge on things other than civil rights matters. he was awfully -- he was awfully tough on me when i tried my cases -- tried the cases before him in '61, '62, '63. we finally -- i think he came to respect me. he during the trial of the 16 people in meridian in 1967, he decided, however, in his mind that the trial was going to be fair, and he gave -- he gave the state, the government, you know, a fair trial. he was firm. but, you know, there was -- judge johnson and

chilling stuff here about rose kennedy talking to lyndon johnson.old conversation if you consider the situation. maybe everybody was in shock. you'll hear it in a minute. this is "hardball", only msnbc. [ de ntis t ] chris thinks [ de the best way to live life is to dig right in. but as his dentist, i know that to do that, he needs to use the brush more dentists use. oral-b. trust the brush more dentists and hygienists use. oral-b. life opens up when you do. >>> congresswoman michelle bachmann says she is not negotiating with the romney campaign about endorsing the former massachusetts governor for president. the boston globe reported the talks were under way between the one-time rival camps but bachmann called on "the globe" to retract that report and denied others that said an endorsement of romney was imminent. bachmann's former debate coach moved over to the romney campaign and is credited with helping romney and those two dedebates leading up to last night's victory in florida for him. >>> we're back. >>> we're back. new tapes from president ke

if lyndon johnson ainru why you think he would or would not have won the election? >> that's a tough one. i think that that's the kind of question that can't be answered except to say that his election would have depended on the war as well, i believe. he might have been more adamant about ending it or fintiding so way to not have the war work against him if he had run. he might have had better luck that way. and i don't know if he would have won. it would have been really interesting. i think it would have still been a close election. this was in such con start to 1964 when he won before vietnam was really an issue. this is also makes it clear how vietnam had become the decisive issue. in 1964, he went some 43 of 50 states or something along those lines. if the north vietnam meche saw a divided government that can be used against him, so he had to still serve the president as vice president. he had johnson tells him he would cut all the funds and everybody -- and all the support he had, what little support he had if he came out against the war. he had at least a ha

, asking johnson first. and then johnson managed to decide that bundy just had to go to the dominican republic at precisely that time to be an emergency envoy. so he sent him to the dominican republic. bundy had to cancel, but then he came back and felt an obligation, so he rescheduled. he then, he absolutely wiped morgan thaw out very ruthlessly, and in some respects and unfairly, he found some positions that looked very bad. he just generally, you know, generally was a much superior debater. and the public view was that johnson was pleased. johnson was actually furious. he told one of his aides, bill boyars, later famous as a television commentator, that he would be very happy to receive bundy's resignation. boyars didn't tell bundy that, but he thought that, you know, johnson was sort of blowing off, and he didn't want to -- but anyway, the relationship wasn't the same. and when the foundation called bundy and asked him if he'd be interested in being president of the ford foundation, bundy said yes. and t

jimmie johnson okay. looks like he has climbed from the car that he wanted fixed to get back out there and try it again. mike: tony stewart and shootout rookie marcus ambrose lead. juan pablo montoya with denny hamlin, ryan newman. kyle busch. a.j. allmendinger. those are the cars on the lead lap. jeff burton one down and kasey kahne three down as we get set to go back to green for a green/white checker finish. >> darrell: kyle busch is still running and has been in two really serious wrecks. could have been. don't count him out. he could drive right up to the front. >> mike: green flag. stewart brings them across the line. ambrose a big push from kezelowski. >> larry: both rows are five drivers pushing each other. now, you don't worry about the water temperature gage. >> darrell: cooled down and good to go. 11 car down below the yellow line there but didn't advance his position. >> mike: but bowyer could not stay with tony stewart and that cost tony the lead. the tazmanian devil, marcus ambrose, two time

and this court case, which ruled for johnson against johnson's slave, said that johnson's slave would continue to be a slave. and that set some important legal precedents. another individual that i talk about in the book is william ellison. and mr. ellison was a free black in south carolina. he was one of the most successful slave owners in the south prior to the outbreak of the war. he was a cotton begin builder. and if you wanted a cotton gin built right, you went to this free black, william ellison and he sent out a crew to build you what was perhaps the best cotton gin built. and his work force was made up of slaves. according to the 1830 united states census, in the states of louisiana, maryland, south carolina, and virginia, free african-americans owned more than 10,000 slaves in 1830. in south carolina alone, there were 171,000 african-american slave owners that owned slaves in 1860. in the book, spent a number of chapters looking at the work life, family life, social life, food, clothing, shelter, religious life, medical life, the education or lack there of education of slaves

he didn't like being in the same room as lyndon johnson.nt in history. that is the vietnam war. a new tape that came out november 20 just released,1963. just two days before the assassination. kennedy had his eye on the situation in vietnam that fall. here is just, as i said, just two days before he got killed, talking about what he was going to follow up with south vietnam. let's listen. >> they were going to have a briefing book for me by saturday. i think i ought to be back here till maybe seven. then i have to see cabot lodge on sunday. what is your sense about where we would have gone? we went with 500,000 troops as our complement of troops over there. subsequent beginning in '65. do you think kennedy would have -- i have my own views. do you think kennedy would have escalated the way johnson did? >> i absolutely do not. the evidence is, i think, growing all the time that john f. kennedy would not have been suckered into vietnam the way lyndon johnson was. i say that was mike forstel. i'd written the book of his father and i used to in

view the goldwater spot in 1964 and you'll see no creative progression until you get to the lyndon johnson campaign. we will look at a few of the eisenhower spots. they are creative mainly in the sense this they represent the first spot advertising in american poll particulars and -- american politics and we will see those now. >> eisenhower answers america. >> they say we have never had it so good. yet, i have had to stop buying eggs, they are so expensive. >> no wonder, you pay 100 difference tax on one egg. we must cut costs which means we must cut taxes. >> eisenhower answers america. >> general, how would you clean up the mess in washington? >> my answer? it's not a one agency mess or a one department mess. it's a top to bottom mess. and i promise we will clean it up from top to bottom. >> eisenhower answers america. >> can you cut taxes, mr. eisenhower? >> we can and will if you help. taxes have gone up steadily for 15 years the democrats say they have to go up more, help me put the lid on crazy government spendsing. >> eisenhower, answers america. >> my children hear so much good go

we'll start with simon johnson. dr. johnson, thank you, again, very much for being here. please proceed. we'll go right through the witnesses. and then we'll open it up to questions. and we'll do seven-minute rounds. and again, thanks to all the witnesses for being here. dr. johnson, please proceed. >> thank you, senator conrad and senator johnson, and thank you also for placing the conversation today in the context which you just did of the u.s. budget and our unsustainable situation. i think that is absolutely correct. and i'd like to frame my remarks very much to respond to that. let me make three points. first of all, the eurozone has already failed. the eurozone was established as a bastian of stability of prosperity on the world. it was designed to further cement the european union and to build a larger, more powerful economy, that this has not worked. as you said a moment ago, fiscal mismanagement lies at the heart of their problems and i completely agree. they're trying to solve fiscal problems through, i think you might call it, monetary solutions. i might call i

he didn't like being in the same room as lyndon johnson. to history, the viet nam war. a new tape came out november 20, just released, november 20, 1963 two days before the assassination. kennedy had his eye on viet nam. two days before he got killed, talking about what he was going to follow up with the ambassador henry cabot lodge. >> they were going to have a briefing book for me by saturday. i think i ought to be back here until maybe seven, then i have to see cabot. >> what is your sense where we would have gone, we went with 500,000 troops as the complement of troops, subsequent beginning in 65, do you think kennedy would have escalated the way johnson did, made this in an american war. >> i absolutely do not. the evidence is i think growing all the time that john f. kennedy would not have been suckered into viet nam the way lyndon johnson was. i say that make i had written the biography of james forrestal, i used to interview mike. john f. kennedy wanted to plan how to get out of there. there was a feeling it was a lost cause, kenned

and then, of course, the tale of the tapes, the johnson tape was created in the waning days of the johnson administration. it's shorter. it's later. this tape was presumably created immediately after the assassination. and probably it's the closest we'll ever get to what is the original raw tapes, which have since gone missing and are very likely destroyed. >> one of the stories describes the events of november 22nd as chaotic circumstances, for understandable reasons. do these tapes capture that? >> much of what's missing actually is that chaos. you do get this on this new round. communications are not great. you're not dealing with a situation where i could text you immediately or get constant access to e-mail. communications broke, they were pulling in patches from all over the country. the old version, when i say the old version, the previously known version, really doesn't capture that caucasian yas. the new version, you really get that impression. you see people attempting to reach other people. the connection gets broken. there's static in the background. one of the questions that h

jimmie johnson okay. looks like he has climbed from the car that he wanted fixed to get back out there and try it again. >> mike: tony stewart and shootout rookie marcus ambrose lead. juan pablo montoya with denny hamlin, ryan newman. kyle busch. a.j. allmendinger. those are the cars on the lead lap. jeff burton one down and kasey kahne three down as weeset to g gooack to green for a green/white checker finish. >> darrell: kyle busch is still running and has been in two really serious wrecks. could have been. don't count him out. he could drive right up to the front. >> mike: green flag. stewart brings them across the line. ambrose a big push from kezelowski. >> larry: both rows are five drivers pushing each other. now, you don't worry about the water temperature gage. >> darrell: cooled down and good to go. 11 car down below the yellow line there but didn't advance his position. >> mike: but bowyer could not stay with tony stewart and that cost tony the lead. the tazmanian devil, marcus ambrose, two time

. >> verne: johnson looks inside. to robinson. 1:15 to go. >> clark: moore and robinson really fighting down in the low post. no double team. >> verne: turnaround. off the glass, too strong. missouri. >> clark: excellent job by steve moore to fight him and challenge him and force him over the top, through his body. >> verne: one minute to go. missouri calls time out. before you tackle your projects, stock up on craftsman innovations at the tool mega sale, this week, only at sears. get up to 50% off all craftsman mechanics tool sets and craftsman tool storage. plus hundreds of other craftsman tools are on sale, craftsman. trust. in your hands. [ doorbell rings ] ♪ you're a pizza delivery guy? ♪ well come on in man, what you waitin' on? ♪ [ male announcer ] for fresh delivery taste without the delivery price. it's digiorno. >> verne: missouri has led since the 6:15 mark of the first half of play, largest lead 19, it was 12 at the break and then extended to 19 points. k.u. has clawed back but they trail by three again wi

senator johnson? >> thank you. i'd like to offer johnson amendment number one and only. i would -- like my colleague from kansas, new to this process, and as i studied the issue, there's pretty -- pretty eye popping charge here that the gao study laid out the deficits of the 30esal service and it's $250 billion and it is a quasi private quasi governmental agency here, but the fact of the matter is if we experience those types of deficits we'll be on the hook for it. or the taxpayers will be on the hook for that. that certainly governs my votes in this process. my amendment recognizes my concern about the $6.9 billion -- what's referred to as an overpayment. i think the overpayment is primarily the result of a recalculation based on actuarily assumptions which can change. when you take a look at an overpayment in the pension fund, i kind of like the fact there's a cushion there, particularly when you look at a going concern like the postal service that doesn't look like a going concern. you want to make sure they're properly funded and having a little bit of a surplus. so

prince georges county police arrested 49-year-old lin wood johnson today and detectives say johnson newharris, who is a well known community activist, they are not saying exactly how he knew him. harris disappeared september 21, the next day, somebody was caught on surveillance video using his atm card at a bank. his phone and his car were discovered in the following weeks. police say johnson's motive was robbery, but not giving out many details. >> we have recovered what we believe to be the murder weapon, the murder weapon is a firearm. mr. lin wood johnson gave a full written and verbal confession to prince georges county police department homicide detectives just a few hours ago. >> police are still looking for some other suspects in that murder. >> an update now on that wrong way crash out in anne arundel county that killed four people over the weekend. maryland state police say both drivers were under the influence of alcohol. the crash happened around 3:30 saturday morning and police say 19-year-old brittany ann walker was actually driving the wrong way on route number 50 when she ran

. >> verne: johnson looks inside. to robinson. 1:15 to go. >> clark: moore and robinson really fighting down in the low post. no double team. >> verne: turnaround. off the glass, too strong. missouri. >> clark: excellent job by steve moore to fight him and challenge him and force him over the top, through his body. >> verne: one minute to go. missouri calls time out. before you tackle your projects, stock up on craftsman innovations at the tool mega sale, this week, only at sears. get up to 50% off all craftsman mechanics tool sets and craftsman tool storage. plus hundreds of other craftsman tools are on sale, craftsman. trust. in your hands. [ doorbell rings ] ♪ you're a pizza delivery guy? ♪ well come on in man, what you waitin' on? ♪ [ male announcer ] for fresh delivery taste without the delivery price. it's digiorno. >> verne: missouri has led since the 6:15 mark of the first half of play, largest lead 19, it was 12 at the break and then extended to 19 points. k.u. has clawed back but they trail by three again wi

. >> there were 150 days to go before london's olympic games, and doris johnson -- boris johnson launched five balloons on the thames. as he heads into your own reelection campaign, many think he holds -- into a reelection campaign, many things he holds higher ambitions. >> the countdown has begun. the five giant olympic rings slowdown the thames. the games' organizers proudly announced they will be delivered on budget and on time, but months ago, these pictures were being beamed around the world as london became the scene for widespread in rioting and looting. doris johnson had to return from his holiday to join the clean-up operation. >> thank you to the innocent, hard-working people of this city. >> does he wonder if london can pull this off peacefully after that mayhem democrats we want to pull off the greatest games ever held, -- after that may hamid? >> we want to pull off the greatest game ever held. people have come out to watch it. i think everybody worried about people being skeptical about the olympics and hostel in a recession have basically been proved wrong. i think it will

it was a huge step for johnson and brooks and other americans. brooks was one of 11 southern congressmen who voted for it. all the other southerners voted against it, including many texans. so brooks was a major player in this huge change. he went w in the voting acts right of 65 and housing act of 1968. so jack brooks who is featured on this statue on the lam ar campus was a major playing in civil rights in the united states. he is known for many things he did for the region and for lamar university campus. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is in beaumont, texas. to explore the history and lit rather culture of a city where the oil industry in texas got its start. you're watching american history tv. 48 hours of people and events, telling the american story. >>> it is 50 years of beaumont history, 1900 to 1950, in microcosm, it shows how a wealthy southeast texas family lived in the first half of the 20th century. the mcfaddens were a family that came to texas from tennessee. first in the 1820s, and they settled in this part of texas, fa

i'm here with dwayne johnson. go see it this weekend. now, a lot of people don't know this, but i was originally supposed to be in the movie. [ laughter ] i played a jungle explorer. >> i don't remember that. >> jimmy: yeah, you do. yeah, you do. because -- remember it? yeah, remember, we had that big scene together. it was me, you and that giant lizard. i was talking about that lizard earlier. [ laughter ] remember, i was doing all the improv? i was improving all the scenes. and all these awesome one-liners i was throwing out there? and catchphrases, just giving you gold out there. [ laughter ] kind of what i'm known for in the hollywood circles. [ laughter ] >> oh, yeah. actually, yeah, yeah, yeah. no, we cut all that crap out. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, no, no. >> only because it wasn't right for the movie. >> jimmy: well, maybe we should let the audience decide. [ cheers and applause ] it just so happens, i have some clips from the shoot. check this out. check this out. ♪ >> be very still. if we don't move, th

i think that was one of the convincing things, was that johnson had been with lyndon johnson. he was broken on the wheel of vietnam. he had stood down, and quite clearly one argument we had was if the democratic party cannot unite itself, it's fighting in the streets of chicago. this isn't experience unparalleled in mystery. 32 years from now most of americans living today will celebrate a new year that comes once in a thousand years, eight years from now in the second term of the next president we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the american revolution. by this selection we all listening on television and radio, we will determine what kind of nation america will be on its 200th birthday. we will determine what kind of a world america will live in in the year 2000. >> as you know, pat buchanan, every campaign is about the future as much as it is about the past. >> i give the president great credit. he was always looking to the future. he was always talking about the younger generation in the year 2000, and this was the greatest time and place to be alive. i think he re

johnson and then along came kennedy, bobby kennedy, and all of this just sort of caused him to just basically give it up and say, you know, i need to be out of this. and the reason he quit was there are a lot of different ideas about it, but some say he was not healthy. others thought that he felt he couldn't win the war and couldn't do any good. maybe he couldn't win the election, his re-election. so no one really knows what those reasons were. humphries was shocked because johnson had -- when he -- when he read this over tv in a letter to people. sort of a thing that he had written, and in the morning he called -- that day that he left, he called humphreys and told him to come over in the morning and showed him a letter and said there's two endings to this and didn't tell him which one it was. humphries went to mexico on a trip and found out that he had left the presidency.

i'm kellie johnson. we manufacture complex components for the aerospace and power generation industries at three locations in southern california. the company was started by my grandfather more than 60 years ago and we employ over 200 of the best men and women of the industry. i'd like to discuss the issues facing the small and medium manufacturers in the united states. as a manufacturer, i was heartened by the system president obama put on manufacturing and competitiveness in the state of the union address. and if we make good on president obama's plan to be the best place to do business, we must take immediate action to reclaim manufacturing as the foundation of the american economy. when jobs are the number one issue on everyone's mind, we know that manufacturing is a known and proven solution. it's a catalyst that generates american jobs across many industry sectors. we know it's what has helped create and sustain the middle class and a hardworking engine that drives our economy. but we face a compet