johnson on the train, but so were the johnson daughters. that was a lot of coverage. >> we would come back as i mentioned a little bit later on and have reflections from linda, the daughter who was part of the campaign. i wanted to just ask this question when we are talking about her approach to politics and campaigning from a facebook viewer. he asked, essentially asking whether or not she could have had a political career in her own right if she had been born later. >> i somehow do not see her as running for office but she developed the traits. she started taking speaking lessons, public speaking lessons, in 1959. that was a far cry from where she started out where the only thing she did was working in the back room with the letters and getting other women to do the speaking. lyndon's mother and his sister were the ones she turned to in the 1940's. she did develope. maybe another time she would've been. >> also, what happened with my mother, contemporary, was that my father was killed in a plane crash and my mother ran for her seat. that

john n johnson. joy served as the president's right-hand man on domestic policy issues throughout most of his presidency. let's start at the beginning of the white house term for lyndon johnson. what approach did he take when he learned he was going to be president of the united states. >> he immediately felt and i talked to everybody that he intended to use these years to do all the things he had always wanted to do. and that he was going to change the world in effect for education, for health care, for the environment. he was totally focused on the dmes domestic changes in the country. you have to remember at that point in time the kun stri going through massive changes. >> how did he establish his legitimacy? >> when he was elected the greatest landslide of any president what he ran against barry goldwater. he brought in every leader, every business leader, every labor leader, every -- he knew the power structure of america as no president before him had ever known it. he also made it clear to the

johnson filled in. so she knew the role well and she was a quintessential washington political wife. she had been on the scene since the 1930s and she really knew it well and she had a cadre of other political wives who were just extraordinary women and they all gathered around her. that also made that transition somewhat easier. >> host: we should say at the outset among those gathered around was your mother. can you talk about the friendship between your parents and the johnsons? >> guest: well my father was first elected to congress in 1940. he was 26 and my mother was 24. think of it. it was after world war ii so it was still -- the rules were still there where you have to go calling. the supreme court on monday and the summit on wednesday and there was my mother this 24-year-old girl and of course people were older than they are now so her first day of having to go calling and the horn hunks of side. she goes running down and it's lady bird johnson and al gore's mother. they took her calling that f

a johnson. qwest if he was unhappy and her , -- was really to keep him keep the domestic life going, how did she help him through that? >> he was always trying to get him to go to the gym because he put on a lot of weight. she tried to get him to watch his diet. she invited a lot of people he would like to see. they were not good years. everybody will agree he did not do well. the vice president, that job is a little difficult for strong people. >> she started these women lunches. she had them in places like seneca. this iseople think something new under the sun, that just recent first ladies had been interested in women and women's issues and promoting the role of women around the world. mrs. johnson was doing that back when she was second lady. campaign, this was the one where she really came into her own and campaigned and understood what it was like to be on the national stage in ways she had not in the past. qwest i do not think anyone until theyit is like are on it. that is always a shock

johnson. good evening and welcome to c-span's "first ladies: influence and image." tonight we'll tell you the story of claudia taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird. the wife of our 36th president. here to tell her story tonight are two guests -- cokie roberts, political commentator for abc news and npr. she's also the author of two books about women's political history -- "founding mothers" and "ladies of liberty." thanks for being here. >> betty karolyi is a first ladies expert. she's the author of numerous books including "first ladies from martha washington to michelle obama." and she's currently working on a new biography of lady bird johnson. ladies, i want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 years ago this week. this is an administration birthed in national tragedy. what were the immediate challenges for the brand new first couple in those first terrible days after the assassination of kennedy? >> well, they were enormous. first of all, nobody knew whether there was a

lyndon johnson.his reply is no, i'm not leaving this hospital without mrs. kennedy. they said well mrs. kennedy won't leave without her husband's body. johnson says well then we will go back to air force one and i'll wait there for her and the body. but i'm not leaving dallas without her. and when she gets back to the plane, he really wants her to be standing next to him in that famous photo, when he's taking the oath of office, as a symbol of continuity, as a symbol of stability. >> rose: so he goes to the plane. he knows that she is going to come with the body. what is the first communication, direct communication between the first lady and the new president? >> johnson wants to make a private telephone call to robert kennedy. and to make this private call he goes with his secretary maria familiarer into the president's bedroom. shuts the door and makes this call to washington to robert kennedy. and as he's doing that, the coffin comes on board, followed by mrs. kennedy. and the kennedy aides. the

johnson and joe califano talk about this in his memoir about the way in which johnson would control people. this was one technique he had. the kennedys would leak things that would be to their advantage. it's a very changed environment. >> we began by talking about the polls and i want to end by asking you about your professional assessment of kennedy. he was very focused on greatness and the idea of great leaders, great men. where does he ran? he had a short-term. average? >> i would say jeff a significant president. i wouldn't say he was a great president in a league with let's say trn at dr. or lincoln or washington but he was a significant president. in some ways his legacy becomes more significant than his record as president. there were some great achievements, significant achievements as president. the resolution of cuban missile crisis the promise to put man on the moon, putting the civil rights bill before congress. those four mage or bills that johnson passed it be called kennedy johnson bills but impossible to describe him in a league although lots of people people -- the polls

the fact that lyndon johnson, whom you studied now in four volumes, that lyndon johnson didn't -- he was focused on the continuity of government, the possibility of conspiracy, on big things but he also did not realize how that call would be received by bobby kennedy. his focus was so much on his own relationship with kennedye empathizing with what bobby kennedy would be feeling only a half hour after his brother had been killed. >> you don't really know what the human motives are that impelled lyndon johnson to make the call to robert kennedy. we don't really know what's in a man's mind. we only know this was a relationship where each man tried over and over to humiliate the other. when jack kennedy picks lyndon johnson as his vice presidential nominee three times that day robert kennedy comes down from the kennedy suite, which is 9333 in the biltmore hotel in los angeles to johnson's suite which is 7333. he comes down the back stairs three times to try to get lyndon johnson to withdraw from the ticket. it's the most humiliating -- it's a day of utter humiliation for lyndon johnson.

remember johnson's credibility gap? didn't know when lyndon was telling the truth greedy people this earlobe and scratched his chin you know he was telling the truth. when he -- you knew he was lying. [laughter] he didn't think it was funny but it was so revealing of the way in which his credibility was destroyed. when nixon said in a press conference i am not a crook, that's when his presidency was over. the president doesn't need to tell the press in the country i am not a crook. you need consensus. you need support from a wide array of people. otherwise we can't govern effectively but roosevelt understood that and he had a public face and he manipulated. the subsequent presidents like truman and johnson and bush, they faulted on this count and they should have taken that fdr more seriously. >> this is the national constitution center so i have to ask you what was kennedy's constitutional legacy? when you think about that byron white who was deferential to congress the last avatar of bipartisan judicial restraint what

johnson. the memories of all of us are flashing back to that warm, april spring day of 1945 moment lost franklin d. roosevelt. this is the second time around that we've been through one of these crises. the last shooting incident, not fatal, occurred in 1950. the white house was being renovated at that time. you may recall that two puerto rican nationalists tried to run their way into the house and assassinate president truman who was taking a nap at the time. that is the story. the president of united states is dead. the new president of the united states is lyndon johnson. mrs. kennedy is still at the hospital. she was not hurt. the white house spokesman refused to comment on her condition. president johnson is under heavy guard and was taken away from the hospital by white house officials. president kennedy was shot in the right temple. it was a simple matter of a bullet right to the head, said the white house doctor. >> for additional information, we go to station wbat-tv and news man char

& johnson -- related charges? or is this settled, all the claims? >> this is a global resolution with regard to the drugs we announced. this is based upon the evidence we evaluated and made a determination as to what the result would be and we have now reached a global resolution so we can move onto other cases. >> how many physicians were involved in the kickbacks? how much was paid to them? >> we do not have that specific umber. a lot of what had occurred was that j&j and janssen paid the kickbacks to omnicare and on the care in 2009 settled charges against it in which it had accepted kickbacks and had taken max to nursing homes that were tilizing omnicare. the pharmacy had prescription drugs in the kickbacks were in the form of regrets that went to omnicare as well as fees that were supposedly paying for data and to also payments that were disguised to look like educational funding, in particular for a pharmacist who were used to induce doctors to prescribe certain medications and in particular, risperdol to se

this is where president johnson announced the great society program. which was his major plan for improving the country. he gave it at the 1964 commencement. it was may 27th. six months after kennedy was shot. johnson had just been in office for six months and he would be running for election his first time to be elected president and this was seen by him and his staff as a good time to roll out the program that was going to be his touchstone of what he wanted to do -- do with the presidency and it would be a big audience, it was not just students faculty and parents, they had school kids from all over the state, all sorts of dignitaries came, and the whole place was filled. >> your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbr e unbrideled growth. for in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upwards to the great society. the g

the johnsons have this at the result of a lawsuit. investigators in florida told the johnsons and authorities kendrick climbed into a gym mat reaching for this shoe and that his death was an accident. >> they know their child did not climb into a wrestling mat, get stuck and die. where's that video? >> reporter: the sheriff's office says that moment was not recorded. the johnsons also questioned moments in the surveillance video like this one. kendrick is seen running in the gym and then another image appears showing other students. it jumps from one moment to another. the johnsons' attorney tell from the surveillance video what happened to kendrick and when the other students entered. >> we don't have any time code with which to synchronize the events that are shown in the video. >> either the camera did this on their own or a human being interacted to make this camera do these things. >> reporter: an attorney for the school tells cnn what we produced to the sheriff is a raw feed with no edits. the attorney for the county sheriff's o

lyndon johnson actually gave mrs. johnson a camera as a wedding gift and she became quite the photojournalist. she had an 8mm camera to capture home movies, we have hours and hours of her home movies. as well as the recorder here are -- where mrs. johnson every night at the white house would record her daily observations. this became the basis for the book which is a very insightful chronicling of those tumultuous years of the 1960s. now mrs. johnson lived for 34 years after the president's death. in her later years mrs. johnson love to sit here at this desk to keep up with the correspondence and all of her activities as a very active former first lady. also in the space we have mrs. johnson's closet with all of the clothing, her formalwear, the ranch clothing with the boots and the hats, a lot of for -- a lot of her colorful outfits and her shoes. one of my favorites is the straw hat with the bluebonnets painted on top. and then her private bathroom that is again very reflective of the importance of family with all t

a comment that speaks balkans about her regard to johnson. -- speaks volumes about her regard to johnson. i think that the forgotten detente magnified degrees in the morning, particularly abroad the following his assassination. bobby kennedy tried to comfort jackie afterwards by telling her that if jfk had been shot in 1961, after the bay of pigs, he would be remembered as the worst president ever. and he knew, both of the new jfk well enough to know that this was actually a comforting thought. anyway, the university of chicago did a survey within days of the assassination, and they discovered that 53% of americans reported crying real tears between his death and funeral. even a third of white southerners said that they tried. they told pollsters that they mourned him as if he was someone close, very close and dear, a result perhaps of giving a press conference that was televised every 16 days. george bundy said he mourned him more than his father. jimmy carter cried for the first time since his father tried. and de gaulle said to a friend, i am stunned they are crying all over france. i

investigators in lounds county, georgia, told the johnsons and their attorneys johnson reached into this mat for a shoe, and it was an accident. >> they know their child did not climb into a wrestling mat, get stuck, and die. where is that video? >> reporter: the sheriff's office says that moment was not recorded. the johnsons also question moments in the surveillance video like this one. kendrick is seen running in the gym, and then another image appears showing other students. it jumps from one moment to another. the johnsons' attorney say they can't tell from the surveillance video what happened to kendrick, and when the other students entered. >> we don't have any time code with which to synchronize the events that are shown in the video. either the camera did something on their own, or a human being interacted to make this camera do these things. >> reporter: an attorney for lowndes county school said what we produced for the sheriff was a raw feed with no efforts. the attorney for the sheriff's office tells cnn, my client has confirmed the video was not altered or edited by anyone

johnson and joe califano talk about this in his memoir about the way in which johnson would control people. this was one technique he had. the kennedys would leak things that would be to their advantage. it's a very changed environment. >> we began by talking about the polls and i want to end by asking you about your professional assessment of kennedy. he was very focused on greatness and the idea of great leaders, great men. where does he ran? he had a short-term. average? >> i would say jeff a significant president. i wouldn't say he was a great president in a league with let's say trn at dr. or lincoln or washington but he was a significant president. in some ways his legacy becomes more significant than his record as president. there were some great achievements, significant achievements as president. the resolution of cuban missile crisis the promise to put man on the moon, putting the civil rights bill before congress. those four mage or bills that johnson passed it be called kennedy johnson bills but impossible to describe him in a league although lots of people people -- the polls

or if you're johnson & johnson, you do both. >> thank you very much.e're going to bring on board dr. gregory smith, a former anesthesiologist and president of the comprehensive pain relief group. you have produced a documentary because you have concerns. your documentary is "american addict" and it raises the question of how pharmaceutical companies market to doctors. if we could take a look at some of your documentary. >> pharmaceutical representatives are universally attractive. they get recruited from cheerleading squads at big ten schools. >> this is an anti-psychotic medication, it's very popular, it's very expensive. these others are diverted the reason being the medical programs pay a lot of money for these drugs. >> what was once a diagnostic manual that was paper then is now a huge book with hundreds of diagnoses in them. >> it's the lawyers fault. we invented corporations . it doesn't have a conscience, you can't put it in jail. >> that is a seg edge of your "american addict" documentary, and going to the idea of using fashion models to lure

it was a lesson johnson had learned during his time as a u.s.ator from texas when at age 46 he became the youngest majority leader in history. while in congress, he once said of himself, "i do understand power. whatever else may be said about me, i know where to look for it and how to use it." a master of the senate, biographer robert carroll's 1,242-page foundational work on johnson's years in the senate, carroll describes him as ruthless, shrewd, and a gifted political operator who uses his considerable gift to get things done, including the moment he characterizes as the culmination of johnson's mastery of the art of political persuasion, his push for the passage of the civil rights act of 1957. you see, that law would establish a prohibition against interfering with an individual's right to vote in a federal election and to protect the vote for blacks in the jim crow south. as majority leader shepherding the bill through the senate, johnson was trying to achieve the impossible because before that time southern democrats had blocked every att

johnson sees the real danger in that.igations into all the facts of these last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have suggested a congressional investigation. >> killing a president wasn't a federal crime at the time. so you had the federal government intervening in still what was a local murder. there certainly was a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas criminal investigation, there was the state of texas court of inquiry, and there were committees on both sides of congress while of course the fbi had been given the job to conduct the full-scale investigation. >> johnson realizes something has to be done. he realizes that he has to appoint a body that the public will respect to look into this. >> yes, mr. president. >> i've got to have a top blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate this assassination. i want to ask -- and chief justin warren as chairman. >> one justice universally respected for his integrity is the chief justice of the s

president johnson received that report today.

johnson sees there's a real danger in that.to put these rumors to rest. >> investigations into all the facts of these last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have suggested a congressional investigation. >> killing a president wasn't a federal crime at the time. so you had the federal government intervening in still what was a local murder. there certainly was a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas criminal investigation, there was the state of texas court of inquiry, and there were committees on both sides of congress while of course the fbi had been given the job to conduct a full-scale investigation. >> johnson realizes something has to be done. he realizes that he has to appoint a body that the public will respect to look into this. >> yes, mr. president. >> i've got to have a top blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate the assassination. i'm going to ask chief justice warren as chairman. >> if there's one public governmental official in th

lyndon johnson gave mrs. johnson a camera for a wedding gift. she became quite a photo journalist. an 8 millimeter camera to capture home movies. we have hours and hours of home movies, as well as the recorder here where mrs. johnson every night at the white house would record her daily observations. this became the basis for the book, "a white house diary", which is a very insightful chronicling of the tumultuous years of the 1960s. she lived for 34 years after her husband's desk. she loved to sit here at this desk to keep up with her correspondence and all of the activities of the very active former first lady. also, in this space, we have mrs. johnson's closet with all of the clothing -- her formal wear, the ranch clothing with the boots and the hats, a lot of her colorful outfits and her shoes. one of my favorites, the straw hats with the bluebonnets painted on top. and her private bathroom. it's reflective with the importance of family with all of the photographs of those who mattered so much to her and to her grandchildren and great grandchildren, she was known as nini, a ver

remember johnson's credibility gap? didn't know when lyndon was telling the truth greedy people this earlobe and scratched his chin you know he was telling the truth. when he -- you knew he was lying. [laughter] he didn't think it was funny but it was so revealing of the way in which his credibility was destroyed. when nixon said in a press conference i am not a crook, that's when his presidency was over. the president doesn't need to tell the press in the country i am not a crook. you need consensus. you need support from a wide array of people. otherwise we can't govern effectively but roosevelt understood that and he had a public face and he manipulated. the subsequent presidents like truman and johnson and bush, they faulted on this count and they should have taken that fdr more seriously. >> this is the national constitution center so i have to ask you what was kennedy's constitutional legacy? when you think about that byron white who was deferential to congress the last avatar of bipartisan judicial restraint what

johnson sees that there's a real danger in that. not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have suggested a congressional investigation. >> killing a president wasn't a federal crime at the time. so you had the federal government intervening in still what was a local murder. there certainly was a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas criminal investigation, there was the state of texas court of inquiry, and there were committees on both sides of congress while of course the fbi had been given the job to conduct the full-scale investigation. >> johnson realizes something has to be done. he realizes that he has to appoint a body that the public will respect to look into this. >> yes, mr. president. >> i've got to have a top blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate this assassination. i want to ask -- and chief justin warren as chairman. >> there's one public governmental official in the united states universally respected for his integrity and that is chief justin of the su

johnson sees the real danger in that.to rest. >> investigations into all the facts of these last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have suggested a congressional investigation. >> killing a president wasn't a federal crime at the time. so you had the federal government intervening in still what was a local murder. there certainly was a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas criminal investigation, there was the state of texas court of inquiry, and there were committees on both sides of congress while of course the fbi had been given the job to conduct the full-scale investigation. >> johnson realizes something has to be done. he realizes that he has to appoint a body that the public will respect to look into this. >> yes, mr. president. >> i've got to have a top blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate this assassination. i want to ask several and chief justice as chairman. >> there's one public governmental official in the united states un

johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at parkland hospital.ents reach in and the grab johnson and pull him out and start to run him down one corridor around looking for a safe place. >> mr. johnson, his whereabouts are being kept secret for security reasons. if anyone knows where mr. johnson is, it is not us at this moment. >> there was a signal moment in our cultural history. suddenly it occurred to us the right thing to do is to turn on television. >> reports continued to come in but in a confused and fragmentary fashion. >> president kennedy has been give an blood transfusion at parkland hospital here in dallas in an effort to save his life. >> it was odd. because there were no commercials. it was just a continuous experience. >> two priests have entered the emergency room at parkland hospital where he rests after the assassination attempt which now was about a half hour ago. >> what are your feelings right now, ma'am? >> i am absolutely shocked, stunned. we have the same birthday. i'm just crazy about him. >> who would want to shoot the pr

that was johnson. who dreamt of being the second fdr and who had grandiose notions what use could do with legislation, and kennedy was more detached in that sense, too. we're going to have medicare and have demonstration programs, but i think it would have been acutely aware, for instance 0, the political dangers of a great society program with big city mayors at odds with community based organizations, fighting for money. kennedys were from boston. they understood the black-white conflict in terms of white working class and schools. johnson saw it as the north and the south. so i think you would -- kennedy just didn't talk that way. i can't imagine him calling for a war on poverty. because he had a great degree of skepticism about the power of government, whether it was military or domestic. he would have had programs, but smaller, more modest, and it would have been very important for kennedy to make sure that this wasn't seen as a racial program. shortly before he left for dallas, the one political

johnson. >> president obama's pick to head home and sector department to questions about his senate confirmation hearing. if confirmed, jeh johnson would replace janet napolitano who is now serving as the president of the california university system. senator tom carper of delaware chairs this two-hour hearing. >> [inaudible conversations] >> come to order. bearing will come to order. thank you. before dr. coburn and i give our opening statements, i'm going to again, i want to welcome mr. johnson. i want to welcome his family and will have an opportunity to meet a couple of them, but you're all good to come. happy you're here. senator menendez will be joining us shortly but i think -- cory booker is a new kid on the block. we will let him go first. we are happy you're here, literally and figuratively. welcome, thank you. have you done this before? is this the first time you've introduced a witness because it is my first time and it's appropriate i should introduce someone of such ex ord my cal

johnson sees there's a real danger in that.wants to put these rumors to rest. >> investigations into all the facts of these last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have suggested a congressional investigation. >> killing a president wasn't a federal crime at the time. so you had the federal government intervening in still what was a local murder. there certainly was a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas criminal investigation, there was the state of texas court of inquiry, and there were committees on both sides of congress while of course the fbi had been given the job to conduct a full-scale investigation. >> johnson realizes something has to be done. he realizes that he has to appoint a body that the public will respect to look into this. >> yes, mr. president. >> i've got to have a top blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate the assassination. i'm going to ask chief justice warren as chairman. >> if there's one public governmental official

a close relationship between johnson and kennedy. he said, come on over. when he got over there, this was -- >> schieffer: the day after he got back from dallas. >> the 23rd. first full day as president. they arrived late at night, he was -- he was trying to get in touch with the white house and phones wouldn't work. he said, we could go under attack which he thought might be possible. he thought there was another stage in this what might be a -- >> schieffer: an attack? >> i couldn't gets the secretary of state on the phone. the next minute he's on the known with his speech writer's daughter who has her boyfriend there. assures the young man everything is going to be okay. he was comforting the nation one person at a time. he gets off the phone, puts that down, starts talking to the television worried they're going to insight a riot if they amp up the talk of conspiracy and it was just tumultuous evening which the president is trying to take control of his office. but also trying to just figure out the new situation he was in. >> sc

supreme court who was reluctant to chair the warren commission he was only persuaded because johnson convinced him the russians had killed kennedy and if the truth got out it would parsipur to world war three this was a lie that johnson told over and over there was no truth to it we now know that when kennedy was killed nikita khrushchev wept fidel castro who was with an american when he got the news kept repeating over and over again this is very bad news this is very bad news no i don't think that the russian state was involved in any way in the assassination i think johnson lied about this roger i want to move on to your own career in politics you've called yourself your own words a g.o.p. hit man what is that term mean and why do you use the title to describe yourself. well it's it was meant kind of euphemistically at the time but i look i'm not a conspiracy theorist i am a hard political realist i have been on a national american presidential campaigns i started with richard nixon in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight i worked for ronald reagan i worked for george h.w. bush i

. > johnson & johnson and subsidiaries agreed to pay more than $2.2 million for marketing for uses that were never approved. eric holder talked about the justice t from the department. his briefing was 30 minutes. >> good morning, thank all for being here. associate by the attorney general and the for tant attorney general minute achusetts, car orti ortiz. the deputy inspector general for investigations at the department of health and human cantrell. gary we are here today to announce johnson and three to pay ries have agreed $2.2 million to resolve criminal marketed claims they prescription drugs for uses they and proved they were safe effective and paid kickbacks to pharmacies for prescribing and promoting these drugs. through the alleged actions, the pockets atined their the expense of american patients, and private insurance industry. everyonee up costs for and negatively impacted programs solvency of like medicare. involving the anti-psychotic drugs and the necricore and other products. addresses ent allegations of conduct that put at risk some of the most vocal society, including

here is victor blackwell. >> we are kendrick johnson. that's my child and we'll fight until it's over, until we get the truth. that's all we ask for is the truth what happened to kendrick job son. >> reporter: jackelyn johnson and her husband kenneth hope to find that truth in the video the day the 17-year-old died. look carefully, there he is in a white t-shirt and jeans carrying a yellow folder. the johnsons have this folder as the result of a lawsuit. cnn filed a motion to get access to the video. investigators told the johnsons and their attorneys that kendrick climbed into a gym mat reaching for this shoe and his death was an accident. >> they know their child did not climb into a wrestling mat, get stuck and die. where is that video? >> reporter: the sheriff's office says that moment was not recorded. the johnsons also question moments in the surveillance video like this one. kendrick is seen running in the gym and then another image appears showing other students. it jumps from one moment to another. the johnson's attorney says th

supreme court who was reluctant to chair the warren commission he was only persuaded because johnson convinced him the russians had killed kennedy and if the truth got out it would parsipur to world war three this was a lie that johnson told over and over there was no truth to it we now know that when kennedy was killed nikita khrushchev wept fidel castro who was with an american when he got the news kept repeating over and over again this is very bad news this is very bad news no i don't think that the russian state was involved in any way in the assassination i think johnson lied about this roger i want to move on to your own career in politics you've called yourself your own words a g.o.p. hit man what is that term mean and why do you use the title to describe yourself. well it's it was meant kind of euphemistically at the time but i look i'm not a conspiracy theorist i am a hard political realist i have been on a national american presidential campaigns i started with richard nixon in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight i worked for ronald reagan i worked for george h.w. bush i

, johnson stormed out of the room. jfk went to see jaerks jackie said what was that about in those raised voices. jfk said that's linden. he's in trouble. which really gives you an idea of his situation just before it became president t. unthinkable happened 50 years ago yesterday and obviously the first thing he has to do is mend the country and make sure they realize they're lucky enough to have someone with 30 years experience in government but at the same time he's worried he's gotten information, lee oswald the accused assassin may have had close ties with the cuban government and just about the first thing that johnson was worrying about inside was if there is a piece of information that says oswald was acting as an agent for cuba or the soviet union if killing john kennedy, americans will demand we go to war against the soviet union and might kill 40 million people. nobody knew it on the 23rd of november 50 years ago, that's what was going through his head. >> he was also terrified politically in even in 64. i w

johnson. the oath was administered in dallas at 1:38 central standard time, roughly an hour and 20 minutes ago, by a federal district judge him a sarah t. hughes. president johnson took the oath of board up residential plane at love field in dallas as he prepared to fly to washington to take over the presidency. this is the oath that was administered to mr. johnson. i solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will do the best of my ability to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. that is all we know about lyndon johnson being sworn in. -- kennedy's art assessor predecessor general eisenhower has issued a statement. i share the sense of stock -- shock and dismay that americans feel into the specific dish in the despicable act that resulted in the death of the united states. we express our personal grief and prayerful concern to mrs. kennedy and all other members of the family. the statement issued on half of gen

supreme court who was reluctant to chair the warren commission he was only persuaded because johnson convinced him the russians had killed kennedy and if the truth got out it would parsipur to world war three this was a lie that johnson told over and over there was no truth to it we now know that when kennedy was killed nikita khrushchev wept fidel castro who was with an american when he got the news kept repeating over and over again this is very bad news this is very bad news no i don't think that the russian state was involved in any way in the assassination i think johnson lied about this roger i want to move on to your own career in politics you've called yourself your own words a g.o.p. hit man what is that term mean and why do you use the title to describe yourself. well it's it was meant kind of euphemistically at the time but i look i'm not a conspiracy theorist i am a hard political realist i have been on a national american presidential campaigns i started with richard nixon in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight i worked for ronald reagan i worked for george h.w. bush i