he came into the johnson administration as a speechwriter. he is known for having coined the term "the great society." he wrote most of the text that survived that johnson delivered at the university of michigan when he launched the great society. good one was one of those who work with the president, but then he broke with him over vietnam. the hapless residential candidate, mccarthy, new hampshire and early january of 1968 was with good one in new hampshire. brian: this is about litton johnson. you we've this kind of thing throughout the book. let's watch. [begin video clip] >> he was in the presidential bedroom. he said, derek i'm here. i looked around. the voice was coming from the bathroom. i walked into the bathroom and there, seated on the toilet, was the president of the united states. [laughter] trans1 time he had george monday and there. george bundy stood with his back to the president and walked out of the room afterwards with his back to him. johnson later remarked, you wonder how a man like that ever got so far in the world. ]end

but he came into the johnson administration at moyers' beck and call as a speech writer. he's most famously known for having coined the term "the great society." he wrote most of the text that survived that johnson delivered at the university of michigan in 1964, in which he launched the great society. goodwin was a kennedy-ite, one of several that stayed to work with johnson. he later broke with the montana over vietnam. >> and you say he supported jew yeen -- eugene mccarthy in 1968? >> mccarthy was a hapless presidential candidate. they had to bring in goodwin in new hampshire in early january of 1968 in order to save the campaign. >> this is not substantive. this is richard goodwin making a speech back in 1997 about lyndon johnson but you weave this kind of thing through the book. let's watch. >> one day i was up and the -- i was summoned to the presidential quarters, the presidential bedroom, i heard a voice say, dick come here. i looked around. the voice was undoubtedly coming from the bathroom. [laughter] i walked into the bathroom and there, seated on the toilet wa

lyndon johnson's administration misled both congress and the american people into that war just as the bush administration misled us into the war in iraq. and what disasters both of those wars were. the war in vietnam nearly

he came into the johnson and ministry should -- administration as a speechwriter. is known for having coined the term "the great society." he wrote most of the text johnson delivered at the university of michigan when he launched great society. a 30--- kennedy-ite. mccarthy, the hapless presidential candidate, had to bring in goodwin in new hampshire in january of 1968. brian: this is not substantive. this is richard goodwin making a speech about lyndon johnson, but you weave this through the book. >> the presidential -- i heard a voice saying, come here. i looked around. the voice is undoubtedly coming from the bathroom. [laughter] i walked into the bathroom, and seated on the toilet -- [laughter] was the president of the united states. he had george bundy and their. with his back to the president. he walked out of the room afterwards with his back to him. said, you wonder how a man like that ever got -- part of the world. brian: how much of this if you find? annette to make you believe it was a common happenstance. johnson required 24/7 devotion from his staff. m

johnson was senator during the eisenhower administration when eisenhower forced israel, france and theuk to withdraw from the suez canal. and johnson thought at the time israel should have been allowed to maintain the egyptian territory and onto it until egypt agreed to normalize its relationship with it. and to establish a permanent peace. in 1967 the opportunity arose again and rather than apply international law and withdraw as a legal obligation, instead he becomes reformulated as a political equation of a quid pro quo exchange of land, when you give us peace. in the negotiation there was disagreement. israel wanted to keep it. there was disagreement about which territories were to be withdrawn from and the debate the enraged about the terms of withdrawal of immediacy, what would come first, withdraw or piece? there was one of the piece of the debate which was the armistice lines being tenuous and not being the permanent line. the johnson administration as well as uk urged the definite article, the, be dropped from the resolution in order to permit negotiation on the permanent bord

the administration the johnson administration lied about why we should get involved in the war in vietnam, the bush administration lied as to why we should get involved in the word iraq. it seems to me that if nothing else, based on those two events about what the war vietnam to pick congresses, to take a deep breath and understand the people who wrote the constitution were not fools they said it must be the elected people closest to the constituents who have to debate these issues and know that decisions being made will result in the loss of life we have advocated that responsibility no one can say whether we better but we need to accept our responsibility not take the words of presidents with the two most significant wars have lied to the american people. once again, i know there may be differences of opinion regarding the u.s. been involved in the war in yemen. if you think it's a good idea vote against the resolution. there should be no different will be accepted our responsibility under the constitution to vote on whether or not it's a good idea. >> another question we get from time

administration also with the focus of the program and in that debate to describe how the johnson administration understood the problem of poverty in the 60s that is a very distinctive moment in american history. >> put yourself back to those two decades after world war ii and remember this is in the context of u.s. emerging from the great depression and in the 30s most economy and liberal policymakers assume the foundation was broken he would have high rates of unemployment with low productivity he economy would not function in this was to be the state of the world so liberals in the 30s thought about remedies redistributing in nature so the pie will not get any bigger just to make sure they have enough to live is to divide the pie into smaller pieces so that goes out the windows by the 40s and 50s with the postwar boom in which increasing numbers of blue-collar workers enjoy things that were unimaginable in earlier decades like a defined benefit pension and employer healthcare and wages that put people into the middle class in the 1950s consumer boom it was prosperous with annual gdp growth of

johnson and others claimed so therefore i think with their accessible level of propaganda johnson administration in their humorous folly set themselves up for this massive defeat which helped it to -- to bring american popular support for the war effort. >> yeah, it's an interesting point you make max because -- you know, you can go online to watch a lot of the coverage of the -- and there's -- not much different than the kickoff in the war and fallujah still the same world. just more instant there as max says i wongd per you're driving in a point about -- maybe greg is there too. but you know what was the gears weren't meshing there between the military strategy and the politician. but if west is overpromising he's not really aware of what's going on on the ground. >> yeah, he is. yeah. i think we food to be very, very careful about this idea that west is kind of a -- doesn't understand what's going on. so i wonder to overplay the hand. >> i think he makes a critical critical -- in this case in public he overstates the case but the problem in private he's having different conversation with the

the johnson administration lied about why we should get involved in the war in vietnam, the bush administration lied as to why we should get involved in the war in iraq. it just seems to me if nothing else, based on those two examples of what the war in vietnam did and what the war interacted, congress has got to take a deep breath and understand that the people who wrote the constitution were not fools. they said it must be the elected people closest to the constituents to debate these issues, who know decisions being made will result in the loss of life of people in their own states and we have abdicated that responsibility. no one can predict whether the decisions made by congress will be good decisions with regard to war and peace or if we will do better than presidents, i don't know. but at the very least we have got to accept our responsibility, not simply take the word of presidents 2 in the two most recent wars have lied to the american people. once again, i know there may be differences of opinion regarding the wisdom of the us being involved in the war in yemen. if you think it is a g

in the johnson administration, you had the bribery scandal. when grant became president, in a sense he inherited this culture people saw as being pervaded with corruption. and this sensitivity of corruption. he did not create it. we must remember this was the wider context. this is a postwar period. you tend to see a moral laxity move in for a while tiered wartime means self-denial and self-sacrifice. postwar periods, you see a lot of self-indulgence, self-serving. some other examples. after world war i, we have the harding years, the guy who ranked below grant in that poll. we also have the roaring 20's. somewhat regarded as a time of personal immorality. after vietnam, we have watergate. we also have the me generation that blossomed in the 1980's when selfishness became enshrined in this country. in grant's own time, there were outcroppings of corruption in many places, including new york city, where the boss tweed ring was riding high at the time grant was taking office. it had nothing to do with grant, tweed, his ring was a democratic ring

and essential to this interpretation despite the fact that it has administrations from the johnson administrationto the present, well, not this administration, have recognized that occupation law applies as a matter of law, not fact and israel is in occupying power but has failed to implement its own interpretation of law for two reasons. one is in the aftermath of the 1967 war the johnson initiation determined the value of israel as a cold war aspect in the middle east as within the soviet union to build a power vacuum left by the european colonial powers. in that struggle to fill the power vacuum what it decided in inaugurated after 1967 was a policy of injuring israel's qualitative military edge over collection of its neighbors so that it could prevail in a military confrontation should it arise. that is a policy one. before that the united states maintained systemic policy of equally arming israel in its allied monocle regime. qualitative military edge and the second policy that it inaugurates and this is another piece of this remark of why the generous occupancy works is that the johnson adm

the administration, johnson administration, lied about why we should get involved into the war in vietnam. the bush administration lied as to why we should get involved in the war in iraq. and it just steams me that -- and it just seems to me that, if nothing -- based on those two examples, what the war in vietnam did and what the war in iraq did -- that congress has got to take a deep breath and understand that the people who wrote that constitution were not fools. and what they said, it must be the people -- elected people closest to the constituents who have got to debate these issues, who know that decisions being made about result in the loss of lives of people in their own states. and we have abdicated that responsibility. now, no one can predict whether the decisions made by congress are going to be good decisions with regard to war and peace, whether we're going to do better than presidents did. i don't know. but at the very least we have got to accept our responsibili responsibility, not simply take the word of presidents who in the two most recent significant wars have lied to t

they rejected this idea out of hand though it would be revisited during the johnson administration because it didn't compute in an era where you have this widescale austerity. the qualitative measures included job training for people who had been displaced. even then, there was a great focus given to displaced call miners in west virginia and kentucky, ohio, a great deal of attention given to small industrial cities in the midwest so you get job training, education, healthcare so people could be healthy enough to access the workforce and there was a focus on qualitative measures like healthcare for people who were by definition out of the workforce, children and elderly. give people the tools they need to capture the prosperity, help themselves out of poverty. >> you talk about in the context of qualitative liberalism the office of economic opportunity and community action program which is controversial. remind us about that. bring back that memory. >> there were people in the white house who took ideas seriously so there were a bunch of holdovers from the kennedy administration who were f

under the johnson administration more than 90% of americans aged 65 and over have become eligible for retirement benefits. federal government commitments to special housing programs for senior citizens now total some $3 billion. medicare, a landmark in social welfare legislation and one of president johnson's most significant accomplishments paid the combined hospital and doctor bills of more than 11 million people in fiscal 1967 alone. this has not been all. president ujohnson pledged to continue the battle for more meaningful opportunities for the nation's elderly. the president's weekend trip ended with a stop in puerto rico for a brief rest and round or two of golf with his vietnam bound son-in-law. even on vacation the affairs of his country travelled with him. the president's commission on civil disorders released the findings of the investigation into causes of urban unrest. the commission called for a massive nationwide effort building on the base of what has been accomplished to solve the deep rooted problems that give rise to urban discontent. in vietnam the allies begin to

johnson and others claimed so therefore i think with their accessible level of propaganda johnson administration in their humorous folly set themselves up for this massive defeat which helped it to -- to bring american popular support for the war effort. >> yeah, it's an interesting point you make max because -- you know, you can go online to watch a lot of the coverage of the -- and there's -- not much different than the kickoff in the war and fallujah still the same world. just more instant there as max says i wongd per you're driving in a point about -- maybe greg is there too. but you know what was the gears weren't meshing there between the military strategy and the politician. but if west is overpromising he's not really aware of what's going on on the ground. >> yeah, he is. yeah. i think we food to be very, very careful about this idea that west is kind of a -- doesn't understand what's going on. so i wonder to overplay the hand. >> i think he makes a critical critical -- in this case in public he overstates the case but the problem in private he's having different conversation with the

in the johnson administration, you had the bribery scandal. when grant it president, he peopleed this culture saw as being pervaded with corruption. and this sensitivity of corruption. he did not create it. this was the context. this is a postwar. . period.is was a postwar self-denial and self-sacrifice. , you see a lot of self-indulgence, self-serving. some other examples. after world war i we have the harding years, the guy who ranked below grant in that poll. we also have the roaring 20's. somewhat regarded as a time of personal immorality. after vietnam we have watergate. the generation that blossomed in the 1980's when selfishness became enshrined in this country. 's own time, there were outcroppings of corruption in many places, including new york city, where the boss tweed ring was riding time at the time grant was taking office. ring,ng was a democratic but it represented a culture that was pervading this postwar period. there was corruption in some of the reconstruction state governments. there were also private outcroppings of corrup

lyndon johnson's administration misled both congress and the american people into that war. just as the bush administration misled us into the war in iraq. and what disasters, both of those wars were. the war in vietnam nearly destroyed an entire generation of young people, almost 60,000 died in that war, and god knows how many came back wounded, in body and in spirit, almost destroyed an entire generation. yet congress abdicated its responsibilityet in vietnam as t did in iraq. mr. president, the truth about yemen is that u.s. forces have been actively engaged in support of theli saudi coalition in this war, providing intelligence and aerial refueling of planes whose bombs have killed thousands of people and made this humanitarian crisis far worse. u.s. involvement in the human war has also proven counterproductive to the effort against al-qaeda is abilities, the state department's found that c the conflict saudi led forces and the houthi insurgence has helped al-qaeda and isis yemen branch, to quote, deepened their inroads across much of the country, end of quote. in other

lyndon johnson's administration misled both congress and the american people into that war just as the bush administration misled us into the war in iraq. and what disasters both of those wars were. the war in vietnam nearly destroyed an entire generation of young people, almost 60000 died in that war and god knows how many came back wounded in body, spirit and almost destroyed an entire generation and yet congress abdicated its responsibility in vietnam as it did in vietnam and iraq. mr. president, the truth about yemen is that us forces have been actively engaged in support of the saudi coalition in this war providing intelligence in aerial refueling of planes as bombs killed thousands of people and made this a humanitarian crisis far worse. us involvement in yemen has also proven counterproductive to the effort against al qaeda's affiliates, the state departme department, country report on terrorism for 2016 found that the conflict between saudi led forces in the the insurgents have helped al qaeda and isis yemen branch to quote, deepen their inroadsh across much of e country. in ot

the administration, johnson administration, lied about why we should get involved into the war in vietnam. the bush administration lied as to why we should get involved in the war in iraq. and it just steams me that -- and it just seems to me that, if nothing -- based on those two examples, what the war in vietnam did and what the war in iraq did -- that congress has got to take a deep breath and understand that the people who wrote that constitution were not fools. and what they said, it must be the people -- elected people closest to the constituents who have got to debate these issues, who know that decisions being made about result in the loss of lives of people in their own states. and we have abdicated that responsibility. now, no one can predict whether the decisions made by congress are going to be good decisions with regard to war and peace, whether we're going to do better than presidents did. i don't know. but at the very least we have got to accept our responsibili responsibility, not simply take the word of presidents who in the two most recent significant wars have lied to t

worst foreign policy blunders in our modern history, they are the war in vietnam where the johnson administrationresolution to suck america into that vietnam kwag fire. it just happened and johnson the american people on you think 15 years the war in iraq where we had a republican president george w. bush, dick cheney lying about saddam hussein colliding with osama bin laden working on weapons of mass destruction not true. we went into that war which destabilized the middle east, resulted in hundreds of thousands of people there dying, displacement of millions of people, 4400 of our own young men and women dying in that war. what's the commonality of those two wars? congress did not play the constitutional role that is supposed to be played. article one section 8 says it is congress, not the president, who declares war. we have advocated that responsibility. right now in yemen, we have an unbelievable humanitarian disaster. 1 million people with cholera, 10,000 dead, millions of people being displaced, congress has got to determine whether or not our military plays a role in that war. we have not

was anti- second amendment, anti- firearms so that you had a situation in which in 1968 the johnson administration put through congress the most restrictive firearms laws every adopted in this country called the gun control act of 1968 in the polls showed that most people supported gun control. those were good words. years later, after johnson left office, then instantly some of the research since and shows that one of the motivators was that opposition to second amendment was beginning to become a liberal left mantra. one of his motivating factors with these people were all upset because of that war in asia. that didn't work, but he tried. a year later, richard nixon attorney general ellie richardson appointed a commission which then recommended the justice department within ten years ban the manufactured sale of possession of all handguns in the united states so anybody who was around at that time and most your audience is younger than that so they weren't, but some of us were, if we were asked by 2015 if the supreme court would've certified the meaning of the second amendment to guarantee the r

>> so what we saw in the johnson administration and the nixon, at least for part of it was real support for race-conscious policy. nixon at some point in time an advocate of affirmative action and we saw the supreme court back it up strongly for a period. and i think this was also in the idea that these policies do lift numerous boats not just the boats of people of color. and then there's a significant attrition in support around these matters as i think whites start to -- aggrieved whites, not all articulate the satisfaction with this and the loss of status and privilege and the idea that their children are being forced to integrate in schools and that's not what they signed up for when they moved to these neighborhoods. so i think that -- race-conscious policies are rather important. they used to be an articulation of race when drafting policies. certainly, color blind policies had all kind of affects such as the new deal, right? that when you allow -- when you write into legislation that funds are supposed to be an opportunity to disseminate the local level and you give that instruc

>> barbara perry, was richard nixon undercutting the johnson administration in trying to keep the war going through the election of 1968, saying you'll get a better deal with me? >> well, that's what the latest literature, the historical literature says about that question. but i'm going to pass it over to pat, because i think he was there and he will know the answer to it. but the historians are saying yes, that indeed nixon was back channeling with anna shinault, which was the widow of general s shenault from world war ii. so the nixon camp and the south vietnamese were encouraging the president of south vietnam to hold off on participating in peace talks, get a better deal under nixon. nixon was saying he had a plan to end the war, so he was being very public about that. but i'll let pat address the behind the scenes issues. >> yeah, i don't credit what recent authors have said about this. i was with nixon and i had nothing to do with it. i remember seeing him that saturday before the election and telling him a friend of mine had called and said, michigan's gone and we're down thre

host: was richard nixon undercounting such that -- undercutting the johnson administration?hat is what the latest literature says about that. i'm going to pass it over to pat because i think he was there and he will know the answer to it. the historians are saying yes, that indeed nixon was back channeling. whittle -- widow of .laire -- from world war ii and the go-between between the nixon cap and the south vietnamese. encouraging the president to -- president of south vietnam to hold off on dissipating in peace talks. get a better deal. saying that heng had a plan to end the war. he was very public about that. i don't credit what reason authors have said about this. i was with neck's in. as i am that saturday and said that friend of mine called john sears. michigan was gone and we are down three. we were in tough shape. there are reasons why i don't be did not the president need anybody to tell him that richard nixon was going to take a harder line than hubert humphrey. secondly, if it was some kind of signal sent, where other tapes that -- wiretapped planes, wiretapped pe

host: barbara perry, was richard nixon undercutting the johnson administration in trying to keep the war going through the election of 1968, saying, you will get a better deal with me? barbara: that is what the latest literature, the historical literature says about that question. but i will pass it over to pat because i think he was there and he will know the answer. but the historians are saying, yes, that indeed, nixon was back channeling with anna chennault, who was the widow of the general from world war ii, and was the go between, according to the historian's literature now, between the nixon camp and the south vietnamese, encouraging the president of south vietnam to hold off on participating in peace talks and get a better deal under nixon. remember nixon was saying that , he had a plan to end the war so he was being public about that but i will let pat address the behind-the-scenes issues. pat: i do not credit what recent authors have said about this. i was with nixon and i had nothing to do with it. i remember going in to see him that saturday before the election and tellin

host: barbara perry, was richard nixon undercutting the johnson administration in trying to keep theng through the election of 1968, saying, you will get a better deal with me? guest: that is what the historical literature says about that question. but i will pass it over to pat because i think he was there and will know the answer. but the historians are saying, yes, that indeed, nixon was back channeling with anna chennault, generalthe widow of the from world war ii, and was the go between, according to historian literature now, between the nixon campaign south vietnamese, encouraging presidents -- the president of south vietnam to hold off in peace talks and get a better deal under nixon remember., nixon was saying that he had a plan to end the war so he was being public about that but i will let pat address the behind-the-scenes issues. guest: i do not credit what recent authors have said about this. i was with nixon and i had nothing to do with it. i saw him that saturday before the election and a friend of mine had called john sears and said, michigan is gone and we are down th

johnson. it's time for new leadership under a republican president and republican administration. [ applause ] it is time to begin. lyndon johnson says let us continue for four more years. this is my answer. when the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in ta war against the fourth rate military power in vietnam with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its own economy, when a nation with the greatest tradition in the rule of law is torn apart by lawlessness, with a nation that has been quality of opportunity has been torn apart by rifle strive, when the president of the united states cannot travel abroad without threat, then i say it's time for new leadership in the united states of america. [ applause ] >> ideas are important to richard nixon. he seems this from a variety of sources. his staff represents a wide range of interests, backgrounds, and beliefs. and they are all young. >> one of the great things about my staff is its youth. it's the youngest staff that a presidential candidate has ever had. even, well, perhaps even younger th

hear testimony from homeland security secretary kiercen neilson and jay johnson, who was secretary during the obama administration the hearing starts live wednesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> next, today's white house briefing with press secretary sarah sanders. she spoke about a range of issues including a possible meeting between president trump and russian president vladimir putin. as well as a special counsel's investigation into the 2016 elections and russian interference. this is 20 minutes. sarah: good afternoon. happy agriculture day. today we honor the men and women who work every day to feed, fuel, and clothe the people of the united states and the world. secretary of agriculture sonny perdue hosted vice president pence at the department of agriculture to commemorate the day. as you may remember when the president spoke at the american farm bureau convention earlier this year , he said our farmer deserve a government that serves their interests and empowers them to do the hard work they love to do so much. this administration is making sure government does that by reducing burdensome regulation

transcribe, edits and ano-tates the secret white house tapes particularly from the kennedy, johnson and nixon administrations. if you watched the ken burns series, you will have seen mark's name and our colleague, ken hughes' name in the across of each episode because they were crucial providing the clips from the nixon and johnson years and kennedy tapes as well. mark is a foreign policy historian of the first order, focusing on the cold war and especially one element of the hot war, vietnam, in that era, and particularly the kennedy and johnson policies towards it. my favorite of his many publication, his book, a companion to john f. kennedy, which sounds like it might be about some girlfriends of the president, but it meant itself to be a companion. and some of that story is covered in that volume. very slureriously, this is a ma work mark edited, every topic of jfk's life and career and presidency and i rely on it almost exclusively as i am preparing to speak about president kennedy. i think of him as my colleague even though he preceded me at the miller center several years where he served as director o

johnson. it is time for new leadership under a republican president and a republican administration. pplause] it is time to begin. lyndon johnson says, let us continue for four more years. this is my answer. when the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war against a low grade military power in vietnam with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its own economy, when a nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is torn apart by lawlessness, when a nation that has been a symbol of equality of opportunity is torn apart by racial strife when , the president of the united states cannot travel at home or abroad without fear of a hostile demonstration, then i say it is time for new leadership in the -- leadership in the united states of america. [applause] >> ideas are important to richard nixon. he seeks from a variety of sources. widetaff represents a range of backgrounds in beliefs and they are all young. >> one of the things about my staff is its youth. the youngest staff a presidential candidate has ever had. perhaps

committee, senator dianne feinstein pressed the former secretary of homeland security jay johnson about the last administration'secision to go public with russia's election interference but only to do it with a paper statement in october of 2016 because to this day, we still don't know which 21 states were targeted and probed by the russians. here's senator feinstein. >> senator, the american people were told -- >> not sufficiently in any way, shape or form, to know that there was a major, active measure going on perhaps by a foreign power. it became known that there were 21 states that in fact had been pierced. >> uh-huh. >> but that information, as to what states, have not been released. america's the victim and america has to know what's wrong, and if there are states that have been attacked, america should know that. >> we also heard from democrat senator widen, that 43 percent of all americans using voting machines that have some sort of security vulnerability. in many cases a kind of back door but because these are created by private industry and run and managed by private industry, there's very little rec

and deputy city administrator, jennifer johnson came with me as well and we got a lot out of it.so from our office we put out the resilient sf plan, stronger today, stronger tomorrow. this came out in 2016, april. that plan lays out sort of four specific strategies around preparing for tomorrow, mitigate, retrofit, adopt, housing, empower neighborhoods. those are covered in the report thaw received and i was going to go over three of the different initiatives amongst many that we're working on. the first is the lifeline council. you can see on the slide here. we've had two -- lifeline council as jason mentioned was something that mayor lee started after some of his experiences in new orleans. we started to kick it off in 2010, 2009. many of you were involved in that. the recommendations led to the effort that elaine and the port is leading around the sea wall, because it's so critical to so many aspects of san francisco. and actually of the bay area as well. it's regional and state wide impact. the lifeline project, we formized the committee more. this is a committee that gets to