johnson has a different story. >> rose: what is johnson's story. >> well, johnson really says that he's asking "doesn't your brother want me?" and rayburn intervenes and says to philip graham, the publisher of the "washington post" "call up and get...". >> rose: who's close to both the president and... kennedy and johnson. >> correct. calls up there and jack kennedy says "it's all set, i'm making my announcement right now. lyndon should go out and make his own announcement." and johnson is in a distraught state. this is a moment where he's been on this roller coaster all day and he says "i don't know what to do." and actual philip graham says "you go out there and make the announcement." and they sort of push lyndon and lady bird out into the corridor where there's this jam of reporters and they put johnson up on a chair and he makes the announcement and he is the vice presidential nominee. >> rose: saying i accept the nomination of vice president? >> correct. >> rose: to be vice president. >> yes. >> rose: but he also remembered that robert kennedy... >> he didn't forget it until the e

the presidency of lyndon johnson. sworn into office following the assassination of john f. kennedy, president johnson served for five years and signed 207 laws, including the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. i'm director of the john f. kennedy presidential library and museum, and on behalf of tom mcknight, executive director of the kennedy library foundation and all of my library and foundation colleagues i thank you all for coming and our c-span viewers tuning in. i also acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedy library forum, lead sponsor, banc of america, raytheon, boston capital, the boston foundation and our media partners "the boston globe" your let me state from the outset as clearly as i can that few individuals stood more to help john f. kennedy get elected and his running mate, lyndon johnson, who had an impact on jfk's victory in the 1960 election. it must also be noted that before that inspired partnership, the t

reedy likes to tell johnson the truth. you hear johnson, a master politician. he is a micro manager. he is thinking what time it goes on in california. he is right. he wanted at 7:00 instead of 6:45. he manages everything of every detail. the third thing i hear is the tone of his voice, to tell you the truth. there are several conversations with the tone is a lot harsher and more demanding. what do you hear in that? >> you hear him harsher in some? go back to jesse kellam. you have a whole section were you talk about his relationship to the media and his threats. we heard a lot of that during the nixon administration. >> the reason that i do go into the threats that he may, in december 1963, he has been in office for a month. he has kennedy's civil rights bill started. he has committee's tax bill started. he did beat congress on another thing. he murdered them. he flies off to texas. during which he creates be "war on poverty." he has never conversations were he is worried the press is getting too close to the fact that he has accumulated a fortune during his l

johnson continues talking. there are things that when you are writing, you can hardly believe you're writing them. it seems to be must be exaggerating. >> you talk about robert kennedy cutting off his ability to fly wherever he wanted to fly. why did lbj do the same thing to hubert humphrey? he became his vice president and he would not let him use a jet plane across the united states. >> you really know this stuff. you are right. he certainly did the same thing to hubert humphrey. i have to say that i have not finished on why i will do it. and nothing i have examined and now. >> let me ask you about the next volume. i know you hate this. what is your timetable? what does it really matter what i say to you? would you believe me? >> of course. this book tenures. >> be a. that is not right. -- this book took 10-years? >> yes, but that is not right. i was doing the research on the rest of its. i have done most of the research on the next volume as well. >> that is underwriting the next? >> yes. i have written part

johnson." he controlled it as senate majority leader, so i said, well, if no one else did it, if i can find out how he did it and show how he used power, how he obtained this power, used it -- that was what first got me interested. and c-span: and, what did you do first? >> guest: first i went to texas. you walked into the lyndon johnson library -- the first two floors are a museum, then there's this huge staircase and on top of it are four floors. there's a glass wall with four floors of the papers of lyndon johnson. it all, whatever there are, there are 34,000,000 documents down there. they're all in these boxes, red buckram boxes stamped with the presidential seal in gold, and they tower up four stories, so that was the moment i thought of quitting, actually. and then, of course, for the next few years, we spent a lot of time -- my wife ina, and myself -- in texas. c-span: i want to ask you a personal question. i'm not sure you want to answer it, but i'll ask it anyway. how do you afford to

gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. right? right? gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. right? >> my company was suffering. >> we have the camera. [laughter] [unintelligible] >> and drop out of high school. taken 14 companies public. what i am also going to do reject -- [unintelligible] next year, we will stratagem is. -- strategizing. [unintelligible] [unintelligible] >> when did you become politically aware? i've been politically aware cents -- [unintelligible] >> right, but even as a kid, you follow the news, followed politics? >> in sixth grade. >> ok. right. [unintelligible] >> i got killed in a debate. it was a pivotal learning experience. i said i'm not going to let that happen again. >> right. >> they said who in the class was most likely to be president? there was no campaign. >> were you a popular student? >> that was one of those -- how did that happen? believe it or not, i never wanted to get involved in politics or campaigns. [unintel

johnson? >> not the moment, but i will take a second to say that i do not believe my books are biographies. write the life of a great man. what i am interested in is exploring how political power worked an american in the second half of the 20th century. with robert moses, i tried to do urban political power, how political power works in all cities. half than anyone else. >> the moses book was 1974. >> correct. >> did you name the titles of>> sure. sometimes the titles of my books come right out of the books. they come as i am writing them. my first publisher did not want "the power broker." i said that was the title. it did not come to a showdown. each title, it the whole thing is called "the years of lyndon johnson." the first volume is "the path to power" then "the means to ascent." >> what do you mean by the passage of power? >> i am glad you asked of that. the title of this book came at the end when i decided not to go on. the passage from one president to another. time of great crisis, w

and lady bird johnson. the way she is always steadfast in support of him, the mercurial personality, and that she's always looking out for him. one of the things i was struck by in the beginning day of the courtship. besides the include lady bird before she met john. son. i thought he was trying to set up initial relations. when you're doing an intense courtship. the book wouldn't occur to me as naziism and assault on civilly decision. with this inscription, to bird, in the hopes within these pages she may realize some little entertainment and find hear some of the principles which she believes and which she has been taught with respect. lbj. september 1st. 1934. this is a book about naziism in 19 34 well before they reared their ugly heads to the world. it shows the world view of this, you know, couple from texas. they had a great view of the world. but, you know, you can't assess lbj of itself. the johnsons were a package deal. i think most people saw them as that way. one of the things she talks about as

i wanted to do johnson. book was 74 and johnson was 82. what was the title?> "the path to power." >> did you name the titles of the books? >> sure. >> there was "means of [unintelligible] my first publisher, my current publisher did not want "the power broker" as the title but i said, that is the title. luckily it did not come to a showdown. my next publisher loved the title. each one i have had the title. the whole thing is called "the years of lyndon johnson." and now, "the passage of power." >> this book, 2012, what do you mean by the passage of power? >> it is -- i am glad you asked that. the title of this book came at the end when i decided not to go on to make this a book. i said this is a book. what form of political power and by examining here? the passage of power, from one president to another. because it is a passage at a time of great crisis, we learned a lot about the use of power in the past. >> i have read you have written the last sentence of the last book. i will redo the last sentence of each of your books. tell us what you were thinking. be

rights johnson was wonderful. he deserves the most total respect for the achievement of piloting it through. kennedy was scared and south boston's reaction to segregation was not quite as violent as birmingham but it was shocking and they liked lincoln about emancipation proclamation. i think it's not fair to the responsiveness of the kennedys. johnson was wonderful, but he coasted on the tragedy of kennedys with all of his skill, he deserves the most respectful achievement for piloting it through but it was all those events that happened before including the kennedy's commitment. >> roger if you would answer it and then i want kenneth to answer that. we are at the end, so i'll ask you to be brief and pithy. >> recap your question. >> is it fair and accurate, or accurate or both, that lyndon johnson pretty much gets the credit for being the civil rights president on legislation, or that was teed up by the kennedys, some would say? >> when lyndon johnson became president, it happened that my uncle was with me in wa

he throws johnson on the floor, leaps over the front seat, sprawl on top of johnson, and johnson -- andhnson's body with his own while the cars speed off to the hospital. johnson was later say to say he will never forget his knees many my back and his elbows in my back. he says to johnson as they put in to park at hospital, when we stop, get out of this car. we're not stopping for anybody. don't look around. we're going to get you to a secure place. they yank johnson out of the car. he doesn't even have time to see what is in jack kennedy's car, which is actually the president's body still lying there on jackie's lap. four agents run him through the corridors looking for a secure place. johnson, you know, fareed, doesn't know. he stands there for 40 minutes. no one gives him word. he tries to find out what president kennedy's condition is, and they just say the doctors are working on him. after 40 minutes, kenny o'donnell, who is a kennedy aide who loved jack kennedy, comes through the door, and lady bird johnson was to recall in her diary that seeing the stricken face of kenny o'donnel

gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. lee wrights. >> former incomes governor gary johnson, who dropped out of the republican presidential primary last december to run on the libertarian ticket was eventually elected as the libertarian presidential nominee. after the announcement he addressed the convention, thanking his supporters and family. [applause] >> i--i humbly accept the nomination. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] i'm going to make a pledge to all of you, and that is none of you are going to regret what happened here today. i really--i really want to thank my parents. they are both here. earl and la rain. i talked about earl last night. lorraine, she's the reason why we ended u up in new mexico. she was with the bureau of indian affairs. she was transferred there. she was the one who had me in third grade in tap dancing lessons, where there was one boy and 40 girls. i was the one boy. she had me playing the piano. i was perhaps the best fifth grade piano player that could happen. i love my parents, and

johnson says no, i'm not leaving without mrs. kennedy. they say well she won't leave without her husband's body. he says i will go to the plane but i won't leave until she and the coffin are aboard. >> jon: and he makes a decision to have her next to him. >> yes. >> as he is sworn in as a show of a peaceful transfer. but everything is done with purpose. >> with johnson everything has a political purpose. and usually a political genius and something personal in it you know, his refusing to leave dallas without jackie kennedy there is a political purpose. but there isas, you could say a humanitarian purpose. i'm not leaving her behind in dallas. >> jon: his relationship with bobby afterwards is fascinating. >> these are two men, as a historian, you hate to use the word "hate" because it is so strong. but hate isn't too strong to describe bobby kennedy and lyndon johnson. when johnson is vice president, robert kennedy seldom invites him, he had great parties at hickory hill. when johnson is invited he's put at what robert kennedy's wife ethy

i want you to answer my question about lyndon johnson. >> lyndon johnson, when he signed the first civil rights act, he said something like, we democrats have lost the south for the next 20 -- or three generations. lyndon knew what it was like in the south. the kennedys were scared, and south boston's reaction to segregation was not quite as violent as birmingham. but it was shocking. and they brought about the emancipation proclamation. the responsiveness of the kennedys -- johnson was wonderful, but he coasted on the tragedy of kennedys, with all of his skill, he deserves the most total respect for the achievement of piloting it through. it was all those events that happened before, including the kennedys' commitment. >> roger, if you would answer that, and then i want kenneth to answer that. we are at the end, so i'll ask you to be brief. >> recap your question. >> is it fair and accurate, or accurate or both, that lyndon johnson pretty much gets the credit for being the civil rights president on legislation, or that was teed up by the kennedys, some would say? >> when lyndon johnson

five-time champ jimmie johnson gets hendrick to 200.tt yocum is there for the celebration. [ cheering ] >> matt: back in june of 2001, rick hendrick got his 100th win. with jeff gordon at michigan on father's day weekend. a big hug from his driver. a special moment. as they regard win number 200. and what better place and more special place than nascar's oldest superspeedway and the southern 500. this is a special one, jim. >> without a doubt. you got to love that man. he just said 200 is great. let's go get 250. shows you where his head is. i love it. man, what a day. fast racecar. thank chad and everybody at hendrick motorsports for awesome racecar. kobalt tool chevy was bad fast. we had a pit thing that went awry earlier in the race but we worked our way back and had a great racecar and won the race. >> matt: southern 500. you had a hendrick car battling you for the restart. tony stewart, two champions. then you had to throw in fuel milal, lot of different drama coming down near the end. >> it was a lot of drama. fuel mileage race, w

lyndon johnson, jack kennedy and bobby kennedy. lyndon johnson despises jack kennedy. but he's the senate majority leader, kennedy is a young senator. johnson said of him "he's pathetic. he was pathetic as a senator, he didn't even know how to address the chair." he used to mock him, he used to literally call him not a man's man. he said he used to say to people "you know how skinny his ankles are?" and he'd hold up his fingers like this. he doesn't realize... he thinks he's going to have the democratic nomination in 1960. he doesn't realize that this young senator for whom he has no respect really is a great politician and is racing around the country corraling delegates and pressing people and taking the nomination away from him. by the time johnson wakes up it's too late. >> ifill: and his little brother who was considered the real number two when president kennedy was president, attorney general, he would be undercutting him at every turn, at least that's the way johnson saw it. >> bobby kennedy, you hate to use words as a historian like hatred, but hatred isn't to

and johnson will come inside to him. sweeney 1-4. lifetime off johnson. and the pitch will miss away. johnson has pitched 31 games. 34 innings against the red sox coming into the days play. that will be a base hit into centerfield. a one hopper to adam jones. two away. sweeney gets his third. >> jim: hit a couple strike outs and line drives. that's what he does. and again any time you get on and get pedroia to the plate the ability to hit doubles. such a good highball hitter. >> gary: johnson 6-13. runner on at first base will be the 14th hit of the ball game for boston. orioles have 12. pedroia takes a breaking ball a good one. inside corner. that one locked him up before he got the swing started. pedroia single came back. since then he has drawn two walks. been stranded both times. fastball away. one ball, one strike, two down. this will be the 18th pitch for jim johnson. the seventh reliever used by the orioles. two pal one strike -- two ball one strike count. >> jim: you can't anticipate going this long. 13 innings on friday certainly doesn't bode wel

force and johnson, you need -- forced johnson, -- boris johnson, he has shown that is somebody that canin in a big way and does not rely on the party brand. >> an overnight curfew has been enforced in cairo. the violence erupted after protests defied army warnings and started attacking the building. hundreds of people were injured and scores of arrests were made. johnson's this report. >> it all started as demonstrators moved into dangerous territory. launching an attack on the defense ministry. they must of known that they risked provoking fury from the military. as the protesters tried to break through a protective ring of barbed wire, soldiers responded with force. the army brought in water cannons and then tear gas. the clashes went on for several hours. at times, the response was brutal. the demonstrators had gathered to protest against the disqualification of the hard- line islamist candidate for president. united in their hatred of the military rulers. he eventually, the army brought in reinforcements, cleared the area, and deployed armored vehicles. a general appeared on televis

after 8 tightly fought election, the conservatives forced johnson has been elected as the mayor of johnson. he won after he failed to gain more than 50% in the first round. he beat labor costs can livingston by 62,000 votes. inhe beat labour's ken livingston by 62,000 votes. he said he would continue to fight for a good deal for londoners. >> in 84 days, london will welcome the world and the world will see a city that is going through a near victorian surge of investment in public transport. the jubilee line is going 3 miles an hour faster on average that was four years ago, while the murder rate is down 25% over the past four years. where the olympic and the pair lived at a news have been completed on time and under budget. -- and the paralympic venues have been completed on time and under budget. they will find a city hall administration that is getting on with this work of government and getting the resources and directing scarce resources to what matters for londoners. >> the defeated candidate announced that this would be his last election campaign. >> 41 years ago, almost to the day,

why did lyndon johnson make that ca call?ight say, you know, you don't really know, but it's a call that's so fraught with human emotion. lyndon johnson's secretary, a woman named marie famer, gets on the phone to take down the words of the oath as kennedy and castenback are giving it to her. she says i said to her what were their voices like? she said, catsenback's was like steel, bobby's wasn't when he started. i kept thinking you shouldn't be doing this. castenback said that the fact johnson called robert kennedy in that moment is just appalling. >> it is an amazing book, the detail. i'm just, you know -- it's a big book. i'm just getting through it. i can't wait to keep reading. you are the most gripping biographer of our day. >> thank you. >> and thank you. thank you so much. and we look forward to, of course, the next installment, which is all about him embracing jfk's legacy and the passage of civil rights. >> thanks. >> so, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> robert caro. >>> up next, the showdown over women's health

johnson was just an adventurist. when you -- when you came in to see her, she always wanted to know what you were doing. what was new with you, what was the latest. and when she traveled, she always had these had these little spiral notebooks like this, and she kept them in her purse with a ballpoint pen, and she would keep notes about where she was going and what she was seeing. and she took shorthand, and fortunately i read shorthand, not as neatly as she did, so i could read some of the notes that she had. but she -- we had flown -- when lbj was vice president, we had flown from the u.s. to the mediterranean, had flown the length of the mediterranean and landed in beirut and had just walked into the hotel room, which was supposed to be a rest stop before they went to iran and turkey and italy and lebanon, of course. and mrs. johnson's on the phone, so i come into the room. she said can you get a car and let's go to bombeck. i said what's bombeck. i said i thought this was supposed to be a rest stop, and she said i

johnson recorded? >> mr. johnson votes no. >> any one else that hasn't been recorded that wishes to be? >> mr. chairman, i'd like to change my vote to a no, mr. owens. >> who is that? >> mr. owens. >> mr. owens would like to change his vote from aye to no. >> mr. owens votes no. >> clerk will read the tally. >> on that vote 36 aye votes and 25 no votes. >> the amendment is agreed to. the committee postponed further proceedings on the amendment offered by mr. turner number 46. the question now occurs on the amendment offered by mr. turner. clerk will call the roll. >> mr. mckeon, aye. mr. smith, no. mr. bartlett, aye. mr. reyes, no. mr. thornberry, aye. miss sanchez, no. mr. jones, mr. jones votes aye. mr. mcintyre, votes no. mr. akin, mr. akin. mr. brady. mr. brady votes no. mr. forbes. mr. forbes votes aye. mr. andrews. mr. andrews votes no. mr. miller, mr. miller votes aye. mrs. davis, mrs. davis votes no. mr. will son boats eye. mr. longevo, no. mr. larsen votes no. mr. turner votes aye. mr. cooper votes n

yet the picture of johnson. but he plans to the bookshelf -- >> he points to the bookshelf and says there is my presidential library and from washington through bush. it is of his memoirs and diaries. they all study each other. they all talk about it. it is as though the only people who can understand them are the ones who came before. they devour the letters and diaries. >> george walker bush read 70 -- 17 biographies of lincoln while he was in office. it was in a "times" story. >> i entered bush for a -- i interviewed george w. bush for a different story. i asked him about how his views of his predecessors had or had not changed as a result of his own experience. he said i think differently about all of them. that was not what i expected to hear. >> tell the story about the time george herbert walker bush went to bill clinton's harlem office and bill clinton wasn't there. he knew it. >> bush at about age 82 is in new york. he had some time to kill. his plane needed servicing. he said let's go and visit the bil