johnson. this is just over 50 minutes. >> hi, and welcome to the texas book festival.d my name is carol dawson, and iw love being a moderator every year at the texas book festival, and i particularly love this task this year. task this year i have had the privilege of reading two books that interlock so beautifully that it provided one hold 360-degree experience in reading them. before we begin, and i introduce our authors, i want to remind you all that all proceeds of book sales at the texas book festival goats the libraries of this great state. so, please avail yourself of the book tent and after a recession is over the book signing tents where you can get both of the signatures of these two wonderful gentleman on the front pieces of your books. now, our panel today, as you know, is about ladybird johnson, an oral history, and it involves a total of 18 years' worth of interviews with ladybird johnson . and indomitable will come lbj in the presidency, the interesting thing about these books i

johnson. michael gillett who assembled ladybird sorrell history directed the lbj library oral history program from 1976-1991. he later served as director of the center for legislative archives at the national archives and is currently the executive director of humanities texas in austin. he is the author of launching the war on poverty, an oral history. to my right mark of the growth is the current director of the lyndon baines johnson presidential library and museum in austin, texas. a post he assumed in october of 2009. an award winning author and presidential historian, he has written three books relating to the american presidency, indomitable will lbj in the presidency was published by crown in march of 2012. baptism by fire, a presidency took office in times of crisis in 2009 and second act, presidential lives and legacies after the white house. he spent much of his career at time magazine, first as president of time canada and toronto and then as los angeles manager. he has also been a

johnson, like kennedy, like eisenhower, like truman -- forget about johnson -- from truman, eisenhower and kennedy, all three presidents, were on record as was the majority of the congress, of saying that the united states, the head of the free world, in what was sill still a very strong cold war climate. the bay of pigs happened just before that in 1962 -- the united states had the responsibility to protect the independence of nations from communist aggression. this meant south vietnam. now, kennedy had raised troop levels. i won't go into all the things that truman and eisenhower did, but right along we are very heavily involved in protecting south vietnam, and johnson believed that these prior commitments committed him. he also was a strong colored warrior. he used to comment often on how the young people who were protesting simply didn't understand communism because they had never really grown up and had to fight world war ii, didn't know what amazement meant automenment, and chamberlain and so forth, give into the nazis. the united states must keep it commitments. it must be stron

johnson's book? my ultimate vision is that the housing finance of the real estate system that is sufficiently flexible to fit the capability of every individual family. we should define a system that shows people what they are able to afford and builds momentum towards ownership by giving them savings vehicles come counseling and information. if people of equity and want to use it, the system should make judgments about how much to let them use. the system should allow flexibility and economic capacity and should invite all film is to think of homeownership and prepare for it. but shoko is that when i read this. what was driving a was more and more debt, more and more leverage. that was the only thing cne and freddie were interested in. their business as mortgages, said they wanted more of them. the bigger house, a lower down payment, higher mortgage. whatever it was infallibly to increase their profit potential because that's the system to make a private public system was devised. >> great comic tha

johnson doesn't give up on the freedom struggle. he continues to try to get legislation after this although initially staggered how could this happen. he's done more than any president by far that happens under his watch and he was just really shaken by this but he got over it. a lot of others were uncertain. but even johnson realized he had made this enormously powerful speech where you teach at the commencement in june and written by daniel moynihan the speech that basically calls for the affirmative action in terms of social policy, not in terms of the university admissions but they have special means and social policies to call the white house conference in the fall this changes that. everything gets reinterpreted. johnson wasn't and the black people are not pure at the odds of white and white or not you're in the eyes even of the leadership of the black community, and of course then you get the lines in leadership and of course malcolm x died in february, but they don't really seem to get traction on tell what? he makes everybo

this was the time and johnson was not nothing if not grandiose. not much of a speaker but on top of everything. people contrast did two obama. when you talk about the way johnson managed congress never letting up and on top of things. and wanted to get these things done. with the loud and boisterous texan with the opponent of-- responded the civil-rights but by 65 he was a strong liberal. >> so much of what has happened since during the late 20th century just the liberal protest? it is prefaced at some point* how could this be the wealthiest country? as i understand that period if history, it would be a throwaway line. even though it was a cliche was the most truthful statement of the period everybody believed america should not be believed because they're filthy rich sets the background. what went wrong? [laughter] the main title was the eve of destruction. whenever scott the book, we play with titles i know what of the '60s songs but that is not what i remember. what does the the of destruction mean to you? >> guest: i have to a bit to visit the

johnson may have alluded to. what i did do was encourage him to reapply once the four year period -- a disqualifying crime means four years from the time of the conviction until the application needs to pass, so i did encourage him to apply after that four year period which would be september of 2013. second point they would like to make it seems pretty clear to me and it did at the time of the hearing that the law is specifically crafted to disallow individuals with convictions such as this from operating a tow truck for four years. he fits the definition of the individual that you should not allow to drive for four years pretty well, and the conduct we find egregious. the conduct occurred with a tow truck so it makes is more relevant -- >> hold on. >> [inaudible] >> it was more relevant, so that being said -- >> please. let the -- >> with that being said i think the decision was reasonable, and prudent. the problem was of course, and i think that's what the confusion was for this board, at the previous hearing.

>> he remains secretary of state right through the end of the johnson and administration. -- johnson administration. >> how long did it take him to recover? >> he started this in two letters in the state department in a week or two and was back at his desk for two or three weeks, not for long periods of time. but he was a lot -- a hard worker all his life. he felt it was important for him to be back at his desk. bear in mind his son, frederick, is the number two in the department. he takes much longer to recover. he is not back at his desk until the end of the year. we are also talking about a very small apartment, roughly 30 or 40 people here in washington. if we come to the present and think about what might happen in the event of an assassination attempt, it would be terrible. there will be many more people who could step in to cover than there were in 1865 to step in and cover for seward. >> you say hillary soared. >> you wrote a book, and years ago? >> a five years ago now. >> who was he? >> when i told them i was writing about him, people would get a panicked look on their face

miss johnson? >> i agree with that, the sfmta is one of the areas where we found the department whose money was going places that nobody was looking for. that is what i'm trying to talk about. and you can throw more money at it, but a lot of people who have been there have been there a long time running our state. and this is the result of where it's gone. if you are just throwing good money after bad. so you need to address the issues of where is the money going? and why are they not -- twitter got a tax break, a payroll tax break, but it was a lot more than that the public didn't hear about. we pay for a muni bus that is dedicated directly and only to where interstate twitter is located. they can afford to pay for a muni bus. they are also getting a police station, their own police substation. >> thank you, miss olague. >> it's easy to talk about the waste in upper management, but i think what we need is the political will to challenge that waste. and i think we have to look at it through the bud

what was it like when he -- when johnson was elected. this is -- he had a majority in the house, a majority in the senate, and he was re-elected or elected in a landslide. not really his second term because he didn't have two elections but it was the second term of the kennedy/johnson administration. >> yes. and you feel he had a sens when you're running -- when you're in the second term, you have nothing left to run for except a place in history. and you feel johnson knows what he wants to do with the country domestically. he starts the war on poverty right at the beginning of that in what you would say his second term. if you say the first years after kennedy. all his life he's wanted to end poverty in america. he starts the war on poverty. he launches so many great society programs, medicare. so the first year, let's say, 1965 or let's say the first seven months, you say, this is a man who's going to leave his mark on history. you know, they say the moral arch bends justly, but it bends slowly. i didn't say that. martin luther king sa

miss johnson? >> i agree with that, the sfmta is one of the areas where we found the department whose money was going places that nobody was looking for. that is what i'm trying to talk about. and you can throw more money at it, but a lot of people who have been there have been there a long time running our state. and this is the result of where it's gone. if you are just throwing good money after bad. so you need to address the issues of where is the money going? and why are they not -- twitter got a tax break, a payroll tax break, but it was a lot more than that the public didn't hear about. we pay for a muni bus that is dedicated directly and only to where interstate twitter is located. they can afford to pay for a muni bus. they are also getting a police station, their own police substation. >> thank you, miss olague. >> it's easy to talk about the waste in upper management, but i think what we need is the political will to challenge that waste. and i think we have to look at it through the bud

not tonight." [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. >>> now forwhat in the world" segment. with pennsylvania's visit to asia and the farn war in ghanaian, our focus has been on the far east and the middle east, but let's not forget the surprising developments in the region we share a 2,000-mile border with, latin america. i just read a new world bank report. yeah, that is what i do in my spare time -- and it has some important findings. between the years 2003 and 2009, nearly 50 million people joined latin america's middle class. that's twice the entire population of the state of texas and the sixth of america's population as a whole. in those six years, the size of the region's middle class expanded by 50%. the proportion of people in poverty fell sharply from 44% to 30%. and as the rest of the world became more unequal, latin america was the only region to decrease the gap between rich and poor. the findings have important consequences locally, but also for the world. when china lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the 1980s,

johnson. here is list of his books beginning in 1999 with a book called, interface culture. emergence came out in 2002. mind wide open, 2005. everything bad is good for you. came out in 2005 as well. the ghost map, 2006. the invention of air, 2008. where good ideas come from. 2010. and his most recent is called, future perfect, the case for progress in a networked age. he is our guest for the next three hours. if you would like to dial in and talk with mr. johnson, 202 is area code. 585-3880. eastern and central, 585-3881. west, mountain and specific time zones. 2 2 is area code. contact mr. johnson electronically as well. booktv@cspan.org is e-mail address. wit -- twitter handle is@booktv. we'll take the calls in just a minute. mr. johnson, you mentioned twitter, am i right you were the first person on twitter to have over a million followers? >> oh i don't know if that is exactly true. i have a lot of followers on twitter. >> host: you were one of original users. >> guest: right. what happen

johnson? maxwell named johnson as the new ceo and in 1991, maxwell retired. anti-tacoma retirement package that equaled more than $20 million. well, even charles schumer who was normally a big fan of fannie mae was taken aback. schumer comment i think maxwell did a good job at that's enough senate. under johnson, fannie perfected its lobbying. it went around the country financing housing projects in the district of any congressman who might prove useful. the congressman loved posing for pictures in front of those projects and taking credit for bringing money into their districts. at fannie mae was going to need a lot of friends. because there was a political problem to be dealt with. in the late 1980s, thousands of savings and loan institutions had gone bust. largely because they made a lot of crazy loans on real estate. the deposits of those s&l's were insured by uncle sam, so the government ended up with the bill for about $124 billion, and congress felt obliged to look around and see what e

he raises the money to defend andrew johnson. he helps andrew johnson to collect his defense lawyers. >> why was he impeached? >> johnson is impeached by the house of representatives and tried by the senate and comes within one vote of being removed from office. there were a handful of republicans who switched sides and voted to acquit johnson, seven, to be precise. >> were there any campaign finance laws back in those days? >> there were none. it was understood and illegal to bribe a senator and to vote one way or the other. in the johnson impeachment, i reluctantly conclude that probably some of this money that was raised in the defense of andrew johnson made it into the pockets of the senators in return for their votes. >> how could you tell? >> one telltale sign is that roughly $100,000 was raised for the defense fund. we have the bills, they are over in the library of congress, from lawyers. the lawyers will take $11,000. $90,000 go to the lobbyists. it defies reason. another telling detail, a newspaper article not long afte

johnson has admitted there was a 2007 arrest. there was a 2009 conviction and the conviction was for reckless driving and for malicious mischief to a vehicle, and he served short of a year -- there was pushment was a year and a half in custody. i don't know if that was serve -- i don't know how that was served. whether it was served at home, whether it was served -- >> he can tell us how he served. >> actually my difficulty with it is not what he served or i mean i have a police report here. i think the issue is that the code requires a proof of a conviction which we don't have any certified copy of any court document. we don't have a rap sheet. i understand not sharing a rap sheet but a certified conviction from the court would have sufficed and i believe you could have presented that so that's the issue for me. i don't know that there was a conviction under this code section, and everything else is hearing in my opinion. >> sure. >> so that's the issue. >> if you want more proof, if you want a document that can be provided. it

johnson and miss selby. please explain whether you think sit/lie is working to address public safety as intended across the city and how you would reform it, if indeed you would reform it? miss breed? >> i did vote yes on sit/lie. i had a number of issues in the upper haight that were just really unfortunate situations and i thought there needed to be some sort of solution to the problem. unfortunately it hasn't worked. we still have some real problems in the haight and we need to make sure that the social service agencies that deal with mental health abuse issues, that deal with drug treatment issues, those particular organizations are on the front line helping the folks who need the help. and the people that are and sometimes what we perceive as the "problems of the haight," are the ones that need the services the most and we need to make sure that the services are where they are needed. and they are needed in the haight and with sit-lie we just move the problem from one location to another. it's to look a

johnson and miss selby. please explain whether you think sit/lie is working to address public safety as intended across the city and how you would reform it, if indeed you would reform it? miss breed? >> i did vote yes on sit/lie. i had a number of issues in the upper haight that were just really unfortunate situations and i thought there needed to be some sort of solution to the problem. unfortunately it hasn't worked. we still have some real problems in the haight and we need to make sure that the social service agencies that deal with mental health abuse issues, that deal with drug treatment issues, those particular organizations are on the front line helping the folks who need the help. and the people that are and sometimes what we perceive as the "problems of the haight," are the ones that need the services the most and we need to make sure that the services are where they are needed. and they are needed in the haight and with sit-lie we just move the problem from one location to another. it's to look a

why johnson? a friend of mine who had been at fannie in one of the regional offices for long time said it was simple. fannie many a near-death experience on interest rate risks. they thought they so much of solved through hedging. they had a near-death experience in -- they thought they had fixed that. they were left with one risk. political. who do you bring in to deal with political risk? you bring in a politician. you described well. the qualifications that jim johnson had. i want to spend the rest of the time i have focusing on a couple of threads. one was the press release that fannie may and jim johnson announced in 1994, the trillion dollar commitment, a couple of thousand word i they went in to great deal about what they were going to do and the national 0 home ownership strategy both of which are discussed in bob's book. i start with lenders ab statement by a community activist the testimony for the senate. i think it represents the point at which the challenge was thrown down that brough

[applause] [applause] john: we're back with gary johnson.his show, special correspondent kennedy, spent election night with president obama and his fans, and a real expert on individual freedom, the cato institute, david bowes. >> i'm zach from florida, and i was curious of your future plans at the 2016 election, and if that's in the plans. >> well, i think that the last thing people want to hear right now is anybody with future maps going to 2016. i mean, that's like sticking the finger in the throughout ready to throw up just over how sick we are of presidential politics at this moment, but staying involved, trying to provide a voice here for issues that i think are really important, and those issues are civil liberties, and those issues are spending, nd those issues are the endless wars that we find ourselves in creating more enemies to the country than fewer. john: on the scale between fun and horribly grueling, what was the campaign like? [laughter] >> it was exactly that. [laughter] it was fun to horribly grueling. looking forward here

[applause] [applause] john: we're back with gary johnson.special correspondent kennedy, spent election night with president obama and his fans, and a real expert on individual freedom, the cato institute, david bowes. >> i'm zach from florida, and i was curious of your future plans at the 2016 election, and if that's in the plans. >> well, i think that the last thing people want to hear right now is anybody with future maps going to 2016. i mean, that's like sticking the finger in the throughout ready to throw up just over how sick we are ofresidential politics at this moment, but staying involved, trying to provide a voice here for issues that i think are really important, and those issues are civil liberties, and those issues are spending, nd those issues are the endless wars that we find ourselves in creating more enemies to the country than fewer. john: on the scale between fun and horribly grueling, what was the campaign like? [laughter] >> it was exactly that. [laughter] it was fun to horribly grueling. looking forward here to fun here

yvette johnson's grandfather. >> we don't have a written menu. i'll be glad to tell you what they're going to serve tonight. >> frank never intended to interview blacks for his film about white attitudes in mississippi. but after hearing booker wright's rhythmic menu, he couldn't resist. >> we have fresh shrimp cocktail, fresh oysters on the half shell, fried ousters, stewed oyster. >> almost like a song, a poem about all the foods. >> best food in the world is served at lusco's. >> frank says lusco's wouldn't allow him to film booker's bit there. so he arranged to meet him the next day at booker's own restaurant. >> we went, set up the camera. i said okay, action. and he told this wonderful litany of the menu. but then he did something else. >> without warning, booker wright began speaking candidly and in language that viewers then and now might find offensive. >> customers, disrespecting me. some call me booker. some call me john. some call me jim. some call me nigger. all of that hurts, but you have to smile. >> he basically says he's smiling

might consider themselves our allies going forward and in the future all right thank you governor johnson place well we should do unto others as we would have others do unto us that should be the united states influence influence the united states should have should be the beacon on the hill the notion that we've been a country that stood up to the bully as opposed to being the bully well we're the bully right now look the largest demonstration in the world in support of the united states after nine eleven was in iran where over a million citizens showed up in support of the united states and we're going to bomb iran we bomb iran we're going to find ourselves with another hundred million enemies to this country that we would otherwise not have i absolutely believe that because of our military interventions we have hundreds of millions of enemies to this country that we wouldn't otherwise have the results are from our military interventions are that tens of thousands hundreds of. thousands of innocent civilians in the countries that we go in and intervene die our men and service women die

here johnson i think that one of government's fundamental responsibilities can be to educate and buy can educate the notion that we should mandate labeling we should mandate what ingredients there are in food i have celiac disease i can't consume gluten it makes me sick it's poison so i would not be able to function if it weren't for food labeling it's very very important to me so consumers make their choices but they make their choices based on having all the information that they want genetically modified food should be labeled as such. as we approach the final minutes of the final presidential debate of the two thousand and twelve election season we go to closing statements each candidate has two minutes and dr stein goes first. well you know we are in many ways at the breaking point for people the planet the economy and our democracy but we can turn that breaking point into the tipping point take back our democracy and the peaceful just green future we deserve in this race i am the only candidate that will tackle climate change that will provide the jobs that will jump start the

jefferson, truman, johnson and bush were the four. also failed because of economic crisis or the failure to act to detour such a crisis and these were jefferson, cleveland, coolidge, franklin roosevelt with a 37 downturn and george bush to eight failed due to their inability to leave with jefferson, wilson, truman, johnson, nixon and bush. they failed to to franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. four of them did not effectively communicate this agenda or initiative were jefferson, monroe, grant and cleveland. obviously the dominant source of failure for the second term prudent has been their inability to successfully work with congress, the second term presidents have faced troubled or second terms do directly to the fight between the congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of release. those presidents that serve in the congress having the majority of the opposing party during the second term included willson, eisenhower, nixon, ronald reagan and clinton. the competitive battle t

steven johnson is our guest. learning is not just about information, it is also just about -- it is also about storing information in knowing where to find it. how do you relate to current episodes on data to the statement and can we learn more by storing more and is there a best way to store more information? >> guest: i'm glad he wrote about "emergence." it's a great book to reference. there is a data story in "future perfect", which gets to this question entirely. one of the platforms, is the 311 platform. which is in many cities around the country. the most advanced version of it is in in new york city. what 311 does is allow anyone to call three numbers on the phone, to talk to a live human being, and they can report problems and report a noisy bar down the street, they can ask questions. is their there alternative parking, our schools closed today, they can ask for services they need, i need a battered women's shelter, etc. what makes it so powerful, not just that you get a live human being who can answer y

>> 2012 libertarian nominee gary johnson joined booktv at freedomfest in las vegas. he talked about his new book, "seven principles of good government." this is about 15 minutes. >> on your screen is the cover of a new book coming out august 2012, "seven principles of good government," liberty people in politics and is written by former new max are grew governor gary johnson and he is also the libertarian party nominee for president in 2012. governor johnson, when and why did you leave the republican party and become a libertarian? >> will you know i have probably been a libertarian my entire life so this is kind of coming out of the closet and i don't think i am unlike most americans. i think there are a lot more americans in this country that declare themselves libertarian as opposed to voting libertarian. so you know the pitch that i'm trying to make right now is vote libertarian with me just this one time. give me a shot at changing things and if it doesn't work out you can always return to tyranny. i'm going to argue that is what we have right now. >> what are t

no one else wanted to admit that they had this happen. >> i talked to a former ceo of johnson & johnson went to mr. burke? >> the predecessor of mr. burke. he said be up front, don't try to hide anything. we talked to our card brands, employees, so on and we developed this endescripticrypt which garbles the transaction at the time the card is swiped, all the way to the end. it encrypts it. if the bad guys get in and steal, they are stealing garbage, they don't have anything useful. we introduced that to the marketplace. >> and that's why we were able to come back. >> that's why we were able to come back in the marketplace. and we went to our competitors, and said let's work together, share information about the bad guys and that's the payment processors sharing council. a very robust organization, we're very proud of that. >> terrific. a great question asked of you in your conference call, how about square, how about paypal, groupon. aren't those guys coming on? you are a very candid guy. your response to these new payment programs? >> we love it, jim. there are 9 million sort of core m

he is johnson's longtime pastor. he was telling some funny stories about johnson. johnson well known for having a rich sense of humor. everybody laughing with some of the stories that he was telling about some of the pranks that johnson would pull and his friends and loved ones. he was beloved by so many. his life is here. his brothers and sisters are here to say goodbye to the veteran firefighter. he lost his life last week doing what he does best. this funeral mass was preceded by a dramatic procession down western ave. we want to show you what that looked like. the ladder truck #39 making its way down western avenue led by the traditional bagpipes. they went underneath a giant flag that was hoisted over the roadway. johnson's family talking about their terrible loss of course grieving this loss. also finding some consolation for them. the tremendous outpouring from fellow firefighters and families has truly been a consolation for the family. >> you're here today to celebrate the life of a good man. of a faithful man. of a hero. that is what we are here to celebr

of tonight, davey johnson took the manager of the year. he led the nationalist, a team which did not have a winning to the best team in all of baseball. davey johnson will turn 70 next year. he says it is world series or bust. if we did not win the i would getthought fired. if i won this award, i thought i t fired. hopefully, i can live through getting this award. world series or bus, it is going be my last year. >> the wizards went to charlotte their first win of e season. take you back to time -- time warner cable arena. made it look easy. he led the bobcats with 17 points. generateds could not any offense. 17 turnovers for the wizards. anythingd not get going. 92-76, that was the final tonight. let's go to college basketball. virginia hosting delaware. 59-oints and 20 rebounds, 53, a virginia hit only 37% of its shots. they'll lose tonight to delaware. the redskins will be back on the tomorrow.ield disappointing 3 and 6. be in totaleemed to disarray. the defensive coordinator fired. michael vick is injured. philadelphia -- players say t

years ago, they tested it a few yearser later and found that johnson & johnson has taken it out of their products in china and other countries but not in the united states, well, if you can do it in one country, why can't you do it in all of them, doesn't everybody deserve safer baby shampoo no matter where they live? that put a lot of pressure on them because the consumers said we don't want those things in our products and the change happened and now they have a plan with timelines and clear transparent goals to get those chemicals out of their products. it might be a little slower than we'd all like as consumers but it's moving in the right direction and getting one major company to move put a lot of pressure on those other companies if they want to maintain their credibility, so we're seeing safer shampoo products, we want to pass laws. >> radiation is the longest and best studied exposure link to breast cancer and what can we do about that, some radiation is naturally occurring, but we know that since 1980, radiation exposures for the average person have doubled and most of that is