again, it is not just the democratic left in the kennedy johnson years saying conservatives need to bettacked this way. the conservatives in the 1970's doctriney big fairness complaints against major networks are being allegedly too liberal. that was on defense policy issues. host: you have in your book, on the same section, a lot of politics. you have a memo from -- "for your eyes only, please." they are all involved in this, 1970. summary ofng is a the most pertinent conclusions from my meeting with the three spirit chief executive one, the networks are terribly nervous over the uncertain state of the law, the recent state decisions and granting congress access to tv. they are also apprehensive about us. why did you put that memo in the book? guest: because of the licensing control that was vested in washington, sensibly, in an independent regulatory agency, but the factor, there is political control. administration had a very pointed policy to talk to the network chiefs, particularly the presence of the news divisions, at the three network, cbs, and bc, and to tell them they were no

the white house and john kennedy and afterwards lyndon johnson was guiding what was happening in the social world already. and john kennedy was a man who believed in the great fury of history where they do guide the civilization along. and i kind of began to subscribe to that myself after seeing what kennedy and king were doing at the time. it's hard not to believe society could go in many different ways. this whole civil rights movement of the 60s could have gone in many different ways of john kennedy had not been there and if dwight eisenhower had still been there. eisenhower was someone who was not terribly interested and that is why things didn't happen the way they might have. but i think someone like kennedy and bobby kennedy and martin luther king sent a larger sort of view on where society needs to go and i think that holds throughout the spectrum up to the current moment where the leaders we do have impact on what happens to us from day-to-day. >> it is a much bigger cast of characters. >> i want to take some questions from the audience. >> can we have some questions. well do

so lyndon johnson, yeah, you don't really get the kennedys without johnson, and that ballet plays out, i think. of and especially with bobby and who's going to control the future of the democratic party. they couldn't come together, and that's, you know, how the story ends. >> i just think that the ground was tilled really for johnson. because the movement was going in such a way that he had the momentum really to move forward with the legislation that had been suggested by john kennedy. but nonetheless, he still did, you know, magnificent things in trying -- in getting that through at the same time. i think the nation was moving in that direction. >> right. so i guess one question with, you know, the nation move anything that direction and the narrative that we have here is the actual civil rights movement is always off stage in these narratives driven by bobby kennedy and john kennedy and martin luther king and lyndon johnson in the wings. and from a narrative point of view, i'm just wondering how we can right biographies that are biographies that don't -- >> true. >> it's impossibl

kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, carter, reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama. it's a mouthful for sure (laughs) - impressive. and you didn't just recite the names, but you asked the audience to clap along, did they? - they did. it was a way to get them involved and the final question is kind of an intense point so i think it kind of broke up the mood and made everyone more relaxed. - what gave you the idea to sing the presidents song? - well i actually learned how to do that in 7th grade. my history teacher used to bring his guitar to class to help us remember information, because it's so much easier to remember it in a song. it was just something cool and fun that i remembered i could do and it made me stand out from the rest of the contestants. - stand out you did! what's it like to hear your name announced as the winner, as miss teen usa? - it's a very crazy moment, a very exciting and surreal moment for sure. i always dreamed of it but i never really thought it would happen. a year ago today i would of never imagined being in the final two and hearing my na

kennedy. what would it mean for the country? the way johnsonomes in and inspires confidence in the country, takes over, makes people think the government is still working and says, i'm going to pass jack kennedy's legislation. the civil rights bill, medicare, the way he does this in the first couple of months, the way he takes over the government, to me, if you're interested in political power, the very essence of it, it is in the first days and weeks and months after jack kennedy is assassinated when lyndon johnson comes in and takes over the government and keeps it running and passes a lot of stuff that wasn't getting passed before. brian: that's for talking with us. there is no book this time, but it is on audible.com, you can find one minute 42 seconds of your stream of consciousness about writing, about power, about lyndon johnson, and about robert moses. we appreciate you very much for joining us. robert: thank you. [laughter] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accu

and you have these moments you know with eisenhower with kennedy with johnson with carter and reagan where they sort of wrestle with how bad nuclear war would actually be, and they look at the charts and they look at the map, and they watch the stress of these exercises unfold. and i think it actually really helped shape the way that presidents reacted to the real life crises of their presidency. and sort of took that step back from the precipice that key moment like the human missile crisis, like the early 1980s which we sort of forget now is probably actually the time when the united states and soviet union actually came closest to nuclear war. was from 1982 to 1984. particularly around this moment in 1983 of this nato exercise called able archer. which we didn't realize it at the time but soviet were convinced is the -- was sort of a stock horse exercise for a strike. and it ended up being this -- sort of moment that only later we sort of understood just how tense those moments actually were. >> when you started to unpack all of these very fascinating facts, how did is it strike y

read the volumes that robert carol wrote about johnson which are terrific books until great stories, it is interesting that you really have to look at the kennedyresidency and the presidency that follows. johnson who might not have applied to be so in tune with his predecessor really took his predecessor's agenda to heart and it became his. >> guest: yes indeed. >> host: it's amazing how that in many respects johnson was able to do things that kennedy could not have done. >> it would be hard to find two men more difficult than each other. we said he interviewed 11 presidents. >> host: nine it started with john quincy adams. >> guest: i interviewed six or seven. i've gotten to know those through the research for the past days, what strikes me is how different they are, really different. jimmy carter compared to say george hw bush or bill clinton and some of them in my view deserve deserve more focused and attention, the way that my instinct is that gerald ford has read deserves more attention than he has received. when you think of all that happened in that brief time he was president when he think of what he coped with to kind of kill him twice

senate -- johnson completely rejected it -- and when he becomes resident, he is the first american president to receive an israeli prime minister at the white house. this is something president kennedy agreed to before the assassination, but johnson not only carries through with it, withstanding a lack of enthusiasm within the bureaucracy, but he also later, after the 1967 war, let them come to the ranch, as a way of signaling a special connection. he is the first american resident to provide israel offensive weaponry. john kennedy break the taboo on providing weapons, but he provides hock anti-aircraft missiles. johnson is the first to provide tanks and aircraft. before he leaves, he makes the decision to provide f4 again something opposed by the state department and the pentagon, unless at a minimum, we have conditions on the israelis related, in the case of the pentagon to israel in theg the nbt -- case of the state department, israel withdrawing from the territories. johnson overrides their opposition. here is a guy who demonstrates over time this kind of unmistakable commitment, and a resistance to what he faces when he is president within the bureaucracy. ofn you look at the w

>>david: the united states had set off on a course under john kennedy and that came to be materialized under lyndon johnsona new era of racial equality. we finally resolved the profound american dilemma. >>dick: johnson was just getting started. he embarked on an ambitious legislative agenga to build what he called the great society. >>the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice. >>we're talking about medicare, medicaid, the voting rights act. the idea was that this great society, directed from washington, was gonna be visited on the land for good. >>roger: johnson was a new dealer to his soul. and he was a franklin. d. roosevelt democrat and he wanted education for the poor people and he wanted jobs for the poor people and he wanted better lives for the poor people. this was really heady stuff. people who cared abt these issues wer at the highest peak ofheir belief in their country. >>dick: richard nixon meanwhile was cooling his heels. out of public office for the first time in years, he had joined a law firm in new york. he'd also found a f

you can hear tapes of president kennedy talking to eisenhower or president johnson talking to harry truman bushes and the skw clintons, they all had these conversations because nobody else really knows what this job is like. so that's really an important source of expertise, even if there is great tensions between the two people. that's what president trump is losing by not talking at all to president trump, and, frankly, many of his advisors. >> certainly, great hope after that meeting with president obama and president trump. seems that that all kind of went away. julian zelizer, thank you for your perspective. >>> coming up, what do voters really think of james comey's testimony? getting a way from the spin in washington. >> he says that donald trump "told lies," plain and simple. raise your hand if you believe donald trump has lied at all about this situation. none of you believe that. [vo] what made secretariat the greatest racehorse who ever lived? of course he was strong... ...intelligent. ...explosive. but the true secret to his perfection... was a heart, twice the size of an avera

even lyndon johnson who had been in many of those meetings with president kennedy, what did he know about them? and suddenly decisions were being made about issues for which there was very little time to collect the evidence. you know lyndon johnson kept saying to me, in all those years, "a man is no better, a man's judgement is no better than his information." and i really believed that, and that has guided me in my journalism career the last 44 years. my opinion isn't worth a pig's ass if you don't mind my saying so, unless i can back it up with evidence. - you said in a couple of places, in some of the books th you have writn more than a dozen books. d the thousands of hours of television that you produced. i found three references to the word atonement. where you talked about a personal need to atone. when you said to william sloane coffin in one of the very last conversations you had with reverend coffin. you were saying you were glad that you had grown old enough to begin to account for in essence the sins of the past. and he said to you, "bill we have a lot to atone for." has your

does not come intono existence jacqueline kennedy what created the term everfo called the head cook for the chief cook and the pantry man leaves during the johnson administration and was a well-known cater.ad and elisabeth blake and dazed -- daisy in the first jimmy carter in the house before president carter and elisabeth maurer and kathryn smith. >> so when they come to the white house with that segregated practice with president taft so even though there was of multiracial cooking staffe time before the day's eight together so by the time inep ellora roosevelt rectifies the situation so i will let you decide if that is progress but it is no longer segregation in to save them notes san skiffs in then presidents are terribly moved without residence staff and there are civil rights advocates and the endaf of a broader society we saw what lizzy did warner fdr but another example was a longtime cook for lyndon johnson before the civil rights act actually uses her experience to support the bill because they would drive back and forth fromom texas and suffered so many indignities said i would not make bad ride anymore is a shame that presidents coul

explosive points of the executive branch from president john f kennedy seen here talking about the cuban missile crisis. to president linden b. johnsonis your father the one who makes the clothes? >> yes, sir. >> he made me some real light weight slacks. >> but the most infamous and dammic iteration was during the presidency of richard m. nixon. nixon began secretly taping conversations and teleephone calls in multiple locations of the white house in 1971 including the oval office. time and time again the president's words were clear. the president was acting like he had absolute power. even the president's own family was taped. >> hello. >> but it was among nixon's record gds one night, one week after the watergate break in that proved to be the smoking gun. nixon did everything he could to fend off the investigation. >> people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. well, i am not a crook. >> but the taping system became public when alexander butter field confirmed its existence. >> are you aware of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices. yes, sir. >> the ta

recording the most explosive points of the executive branch from kennedy captured here discussing the cuban missing crisis. to president johnson pants. >> your father makes clothes? >> yes, sir. >> you made me real lightweight slacks. >> reporter: the most infamous taping system was during the presidency of richard nixon. nixon began secretly taping conversations and telephone calls in multiple locations of the white house in 1971, including the oval office. time and time again, the president's words were clear. the president was acting like he had absolute power. even the president's own family was taped. >> hello. >> reporter: it was among his recordings, one week after the watergate breakup that was the smoking gun. number on did everything he could to fend off the investigation. >> people have to know whether or not their president is a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> reporter: the taping system became public when deputy assistant to the president alexander butterfield confirmed its existence. >> are you aware of the inis installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listenin

so specifically in the middle east what you see is that lyndon johnson, he stops the shipments of subsidized wheat kennedy sent to egypt, approximately half a billion dollars of subsidized wheat. so instead of that, the united states sells weapons to various countries in the middle east, iran, saudi arabia, israel, jordan. to the tune of $800 million in the years preceding the war. and the soviet union not only selling weapons to syria and egypt, but also promising more if those countries would give the soviet fleet permanent access in alexandria, the port in egypt, and the port in syria. so the superpowers basically exacerbating the crisis by, a, not giving foreign aid exactly when developing countries -- and specifically, middle eastern countries -- needed it the most. and, b, by pursuing policies that basically strengthened the hand of generals that were pursuing hawkish foreign policies. so when we get to the summer of 1967, we have a situation where a war doesn't have to happen, but it's very, very likely. isso these two stories, the onei told you about how i came to write the book and the story abou

kennedy here discussing the cuban missile crisis, so president lyndon b. johnsonour father the one that makes the clothes? >> yes, sir. we're all together. >> y'all made me some real light weight slacks. >> the most infamous and damning iteration of any white house taping system was during the presidency of richard m. nixon. he began secretly taping conversations and telephone calls in multiple logistics of the white house in 1971, including the oval office. >> time and time again, the president's words were clear. >> the president was asking like he had absolute power. even the president's own family was taped. >> i have julie for you, sir. >> hi, daddy. >> one week after the waregate breakin. nixon did everything he could to fend off the investigation. >> people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> but the taping system became public when deputy assistant to the president alexander butterfield confirmed its existence. >> are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president?

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early in the book, lyndon johnson comes back from his first cabinet meeting under john f kennedy and goes to see sam rayburn and says the quality of the cabinet going down the list of brilliant people and at the end of it he said, you know, lyndon, i would be a lot more comfortable if there was one texas sheriff in the cabinet. what he meant was a texas sheriff knew his brand new deputy at 4:00 in the morning was probably asleep and they needed to be checked on because he wasn't doing his job. in the real world, people behave in real ways. in the kennedy cabinet, you had a theoretical group with bunch of theoretical mindsets. they talked about orchestrating and up and down the letter and the north vietnamese were clear. they were going to win or die. we could have beaten them or accepted defeat which we ultimately did. they were not confused. they had been fighting for years. and this is exactly where we are today. you have all these people and this was and i was part of this. i thought there was an opportunity to profoundly rethink the middle east. i use to tell people i think we co

from president john f kennedy captured here discussing the cue been missile crises to president len din b. johnson >> your order on the clothes? >> yes, sir. >> y'all made to real light weight slacks. >> the most damaging of any white house taping system was during presidency of richard nixon. nixon began creditly taping conversations and telephone calls in multiple locations of the white house in 1971 including the oval office. >> we are going to -- >> time and time again, the president's words were clear. >> [inaudible]. >> the president was acting like he had absolute power. >> [inaudible]. >> even the president's own family was taped. >> i have -- for your sir. >> hello. >> hi daddy. >> it was among nix count's recordings one night in 1972 that proved to be the smoking gun. >> [inaudible]. >> nixon did everything he could to fend off the investigation. >> people got to know whether or not they're president's a crook, i'm not a crook. >> the taping system became public when the deputy assistant allan butter field confirmed its exist. >> mr. butter field are you aware of any listening devices in

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kennedy: let's turn on this side. right up front. >> hi, ross johnson, wilson center. comment question and then a real question. it should not be a surprise that it took the united states to 1953 or something to crank up this effort, given the general demobilization of not just information but everything after world war ii. it is only the korean war that starts the military mobilization and all that. so it's not necessarily a surprise, i should think, and i wonder if -- i wonder if you are not reading too much into the so-called truman doctrine, which , to my mind, it is a comment, but i appreciate your reaction -- to my mind, it is not a worldwide doctrine. it is a doctrine about greece and turkey and not much else, actually, whatever the words are , so that is not necessarily a catalyst that one should look for immediate action. the question would be do you feel then in the book also specifically, in the voice of america, which starts cranking but europe-focused, and incorporated in usia in 1953. i wonder if you deal with that in the book. thank you. first.ker: secon

johnson. looking at "the telegraph" is simon kennedy's work.e party this morning? guy: hmm -- tom: nobody knows? that is the problem. nobody knows which way it will go. there is clearly a factional debate taking place and i have no idea how it will unwind. tom: that is a fair answer. with our bloomberg first word news, taylor riggs. taylor: on capitol hill, the stage is set for serious few weeks of lobby and on the bill to replace health care. senator mitch mcconnell decided to delay a vote after it became clear he did not have enough support to pass it. there is opposition from both moderate and conservative republicans. fed officials are ramping up after what chair yellen called somewhat rich asset prices. she said the valuations have risen noticeably. critics have worried the fed easy money policy could lead to a financial bubble. prime minister theresa may gauge is the first test of her minority government power. jeremy corbyn will attest the forth ad will put motion asking for it and -- for an end to cuts. the ransomware is hitting asia. t

jacqueline kennedy comes forward to try to save penn station. jane jacobs was on the front line philip johnsonose great figures of the period. but the preservation movement is only one part of it, really. the other part is citizens coalescing to save their cities in ways that are beyond preservation. when the world trade center was built, something called washington market, that had been there since the 19th century, was demolished to build the world trade towers. jane jacobs at the time was like, why are you destroying this vital thing that is as much an organ of the city as the fulton fish market? row was where the towers were built. these things that we take for granted were seen as insignificant. the flower district in new york which is a , wonderful part of the city that was not glamorous, but was a real economic engine. jacobs is really about preserving what the everyday city is. these grand things like train stations that were demolished they matter, too, but , jane jacobs is telling us the subtle things matter, and it all works together. charlie: was moses a bad guy, or just a bad idea

johnson couldn't stand him. >> the point you were making about the jared kushner and robert kennedy comparison is that, in fact this isn't all a strange thing, that he did this secret channel discussion with the russians. well, i'm curious, jeff, would you feel the same if president obama or president bush or president clinton before him had used a family member to go to the russian embassy and ask them about a secret channel using russian communications? would you have the same reaction? >> first of all, other presidents than president kennedy had this kind of relationship -- >> but, wait a minute, a jeff, if you're telling me -- jeff, you're honestly saying -- jeff, you are honestly saying that if hillary clinton won and during the transition, she tasked chelsea clinton with meeting with russia's ambassador and russian businessmen in order to set up what they're describing as some sort of a back channel, that would be okay with you? that wouldn't be screamed from the headlines? >> anderson -- yes, there would be. there would absolutely be screaming headlines. all i'm simply saying here is that presidents are

so jacqueline kennedy comes forward to try to save penn station. jane jacobs is on the front line, philip johnson is on the front line. all those great fillings of the period. but the preservation movement is only one part of it, really. the other part of it are citizens coalescing to save their cities in ways that are beyond preservation. preserving, for instance, when the world trade center was built something called washington market that had been there since, you know, the 19th century was demolished to build these world trade towers. and jane jacobs at the time is like why are you destroying this vital thing, that is as much, an organ of the city as the fish market, radio row was where the world trade center was built. all these things that are small parts of the city that seem, we take for granted, are as insignificant, like the flower district in new york. which is a wonderful part of the city that was not particularly glamorous but a real economic engine. jay sob-- jacobs is really about preserving what the every day city is. these grand things like train stations that are demolished, the