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lbj was nothing if not a realist. he was well aware that the law alone isn't enough to change hearts and minds. a full century after lincoln's time, until justice is blind to color and education is unaware of race and opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skills, emancipation will be a pro clamation but not a fact. he understand laws couldn't accomplish everything but he also knew that only the law could anchor change and set hearts and minds on a different course. a lot of americans needed the law's most basic protections at that time. it's dr. king said at the time, it may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me. and i think that's pretty important. [ applause ] passing laws was what lbj knew how to do. no one knew politics and no one loved legs lating more than president johnson. he was charming when he needed to be, ruthless when required. he could wear you down with logic and argument and horse trade and he could flatter. you come with me on this bill, he w

so connecticut passed an lbj law. that's how joe lieberman was able to go back to washington as a senator from connecticut even though that re-election campaign for him was the same campaign, the same year where ultimately the supreme court gave the presidency and vice presidency to bush and cheney instead of gore and lieberman. same deal in wisconsin in 2012, actually, where mitt romney chose a member of the house to be his running mate, congressman paul ryan, of wisconsin's 1st district. members of the house have to run for re-election every even-numbered year. 2012 was no exception for paul ryan. he was up for re-election. so there was this weird spectacle of the paul ryan for congress twitter account. see, that's the address there. paul ryan for congress. tweeting out pictures of a paul ryan for congress sign stuck into some wisconsin lawn literally right next to a paul ryan for vice president sign. of course you can only hold one of those offices at one time. but in wisconsin they had an lbj law, so he was allowe

or was there something unique about lbj?tion and of course it's impossible to say, but the momentum had gone out behind the civil rights act by the late fall of 1963. they were already trimming the bill in committee and there was very little optimism it could be passed. i don't want to say that the entire difference was made by lbj's drive and legislative skill. it also mattered that president kennedy was killed and the country was deeply grieving and lbj presented this as something that could be -- hatred could be attacked and president kennedy could be remembered and his death could be overcome in part bypassing this bill. so president kennedy gave a lot to the momentum to the bill simply by the way he died as well as having introduced it in the first place. >> taylor, let me ask you this about reverend king. did he -- when did he become convinced lbj was going to fight to the end for this? >> i don't know about fight to the end but he went back and told his aides it's a totally different environment. all he talked to me a

. >> yes. >> schieffer: and said he just didn't have the expertise that lbj had and we need lbj, and then a lot of the lbj people in the old days wonder when is barack obama going to finally mention the name lyndon johnson in public? >> right. >> schieffer: which of course he did and went on at some length about it. >> what is the inside story on all of that? what happened here. >> he does resent the fact he is being compared to lbj, to hims in a different situation, to him lbj had a large democratic majority even after losing dozens of seats in the house, still had a large majority, president obama has a republican house and so on but he over came that to give a very unvarnished and very glowing testimonial to president johnson and in some ways to rebut his critic i think, he is trying to say look i get that, just like he encountered resistance to medicare, i have encountered resistance to the affordable care act and talk kded about being a relay swimmer, somebody who moves along without necessarily achieving in our own time and happy even if we get half of it. >> let's go on to wha

lbj was nothing if not a realist.nough to change hearts and minds. a full century after lincoln's time, he said until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. he understood laws couldn't accomplish everything. but he also knew that only the law could anchor change and set hearts and minds on a different course. and a lot of americans needed the law's most basic protections at that time. as dr. king said at the time, it may be true the law can't make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me and i think that's pretty important. [ applause ] and passing laws was what lbj knew how to do. no wone knew politics and know one loved legislating more than president johnson. he was charming when he needed to be, ruthless when required. he could wear you down with logic and argument, he could horse trade and he could flatter. you come with me on this bill, he would reportedly tell a k

she's now the barbara jordan visiting professor at the lbj school of public affairs. dr. lonnie bunch, founding director of the smithsonian's national museum of african-american history an culture. somebody we've had on this show before. mayor franklin, i want to start with you. when it comes to what president carter said yesterday, basically a little tough talk, a little tough love talk which is to say that, you though, we're not celebrating something that happened 50 years ago. at the same time we need to deal with the realities of today. how do you look at the realities of today and where we are and what advancements still need to be made? >> well, there's no question that president carter gave us a charge, a challenge to take action to close the wealth gap, to ensure that more young people had access to -- have access to higher education and first rate education and that there are problems. i don't think that he intended to dampen our spirits as much as to charge us and inspire us to take on some of the problems that still exist. america's a great country with greatwe

and frankly, del, lbj's legacy now being rehabilitated to some extent.has worn the albatross of vietnam, but when you look at everything he accomplished. known of course as the master of the senate, the voting rights act, medicare, and the civil rights act, all being enacted under lbj's tenure, politics were a lot different back then, and i think you are going to hear president obama speak very point nextly about the issues of race and the legacy of lbj, del. >> and this harkens back to a time when both sides of the aisle came together and got something done. >> it has a nixon to china feel to it, doesn't it? lbj came from the hill country, and there were some senators that would not be known as democrats today, remember the bow weebel democrats. and filibustering nothing less than the civil rights act. so a lot has changed certainly. president obama of course has chafed at some of the comparisons that have been made between him and lbj over the health care. but times have changed. he got it done, and he is down there in austin today to laud lbj's memory

lbj had 290 democrats in the house of representatives, and plus a super majority in the senate. and still, you mention that he's from texas, and that was significant in getting that through. but there are several senators, namely strom thurmon from a south carolina, launching the strongest filibuster around the civil rights act. eulogized by president clinton himself. so there's a lot on this very significant milestone. >> mike, your history is always on point. >> . >> some believe though, as mike mentioned, the nation has taken a step backwards. several states restricting laws on why, when and how you can vote. ♪ protesters congregate at the rotunda each weekday, blasting the policies of governor scott washing. on this venue, more restrictive voting laws. two weeks ago, he signed legislation banning early voting on weekends and weekdays after 7:00 p.m. this comes on the heels of a voter i.d. law passed several years ago, and now being challenged in federal courts. supporters say that it makes the voting hours more uniform and eliminate voter fraud. but david says that they real

, president obama said, that was lbj's greatest. that's why we remember him. it was certainly lbj's most personal speech as president. 50 years ago, politicians and presidents did not have handlers who were constantly urging them to personalize everything they said. and lbj did so very rarely. here is the original version of what president obama calls l.b.j.'s greatest. >> i often walked home late in the afternoon after the classes were finished. wishing there was more that i could do. but all i knew was to teach them the little that i knew. hoping that it might help them against the hardships that lay ahead. some how you never forget what poverty and hatred can dupe when you see its scars on the hopeful face of a young child. i never thought then in 1928 that i would be standing here in 1965. it never occurred to me in my fondest dreams that i might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country. but now i do have that chance. and i will let you in on a secret. i

he is speak about the lbj library in austin, texas. he is joined by many of the titansover the civil rights movement, that is john lewis shaking his hand right now. he also referenced andy young, and also julian bond who was one of the younger students during the civil rights movement, but is now teaching at the university of virginia in charlottesville. they are looking back at a moment in history when president johnson signed the civil rights act into law. mike viqueira is at the house with, and mike as you listen to the president describe the civil rights act of 1964, you couldn't help but think about the health care legislation of 2014. >> yeah, that was on the president's mind obviously. what can you say about a speech like that? here is president obama, the first african american president, and mrs. obama the e deant -- desendants. and then upon ascending the president he did a 180 and became a hero, an icon, alongside some of those giants that you just mentioned in attendance. putting his pen to the civil rights act in june of 1

, what we think about lbj.right on what he did right and so wrong on what he did wrong, and he could not have been more wrong on the vietnam question, and he could not have been as right on civil rights. i circle back to this because i , and you could put abraham lincoln into this, but i do not know if a more courageous act has been committed. they said on tape, we knew he was writing off the south for his party for decades to come. he knew that his supporting this was the right thing to do on the one hand, but he knew he was destroying his base. any like to say that he was and he did not have a future in the democratic party, that white southerners, and i think you saw that in advance, and there are a lot of things that they said in the years leading up to at that point in that direction, and i think he saw a different type of future. there is a lot of forward thinking liberals at the time that were saying, one way or another, black america is going to become part of the mainstream, and that is the base of the

and lbj's popularity plummeted.nder if you see the beginnings of really the modern story of politics and the modern political divide we now see. >> the backlash. the president -- michael said that johnson made the moral case for all the things he did, but it came with consequences. and yes, i think right now what we're seeing is this sort of clash between two different eras. president johnson had a different senate, but i also think at the time there was a rev rans for the presidency, for the office of president among members of congress, but also members of the press that just does not exist today. we have seen things happen to president obama, also to president clinton, president bush that would never happen back in the day of lyndon johnson. so if you look at what's happening now, take for instance newtown. an event that happens along with the bombings in birmingham and all the things that could push people to do the right thing. there was a human cry in the country, do something about this. the president gets ou

lbj was nothing if not a realist.e was well aware that the law alone is not enough to change hearts and minds. the full century after lincoln's time, he said. until justice is blind to color and education is unaware of race and opportunity is not concerned with the color of men's skins. entious mansation will be a proclamation but not a fact. he understood that laws couldn't accomplish everything. but he also anyhow that only the law could anchor change and set hearts and minds on a different course. and a lot of the americans needed the law's most basic protections at that time. dr. king said at the time. it may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can keep him from listening me and i think that is pretty important. (applause) passing laws is what lbj anyhow how to do. no one anyhow politics and no one loved legislating more than president johnson. he was charming when he needed to be. ruthless when required. he could wear you down with logic and argument, he could horse trade, and he could flatter.

and lbj as to what compromises he was willing to make. >> absolutely. honor lbj but remember not only the civil rights leaders but the activists. in the spring of 1963, the only reason john kennedy was able to plausably send a civil rights bill to congress because there were activists in birmingham who wound up on the front pages of numbers, teenagers being barked at by vicious looking barking dogs. >> and john lewis was one of them. >> 1965, lbj after he was inaugurated told dr. king, can't do it yet, the time is not right. dr. king essentially said i'm going to do the job of making sure the job becomes right and selma, fair minded americans that might have been on the fence were outraged. so the situation was such that johnson could go to congress with that controversial bill. >> what about the fact they did not do voting rights in the original bill? this was very painful to the civil rights -- >> it was very difficult, the issue of voting rights was always central to the civil rights movement. think about the civil rights act of 1964. we breathe this

would lbj been invited to speak at sclc.f the movements that are meant to be pressing presidents and lawmakers when the presidents and lawmakers are president -- does that make sense? >> it does. but thank god if president johnson, the exposing we're giving this topic is enormous and well deserved. yes, he was pumped up, look at the audience. pumped up, look who introduced him. but he's speaking clearly what everyone already knows. you hit the nail on the head. the 2012 election was a clear indication that this was done for clearly partisan reasons. everyone knows it. i've worked on voting cases for 30 plus years. you piss somebody off when you tell them they can't vote. they'll go back to their house, get their i.d. and bring back their cousins. this wonderful picture of people standing in line trying to exercise that right because they can see it for what it is. >> i think the republicans understand that, that 2012 there was a lot of anger and also it goes to what media pays attention to. and when people get angry, they're

i think lbj would relish this fight.ings up for "the reid report." i'll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. "the cycle" is up next. >> hey, joy. >> good stuff. we'll continue the coverage of advancing the dream. obviously the strides we've made as a nation but the challenges we all still face. we'll give everyone an update on the stabbing near pittsburgh. and i'll talk about why marijuana should be legalized. >> there we go. nobody told us to expect it... intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. the problem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. so it's time we do something about it. and there's help. premarin vaginal cream. a prescription that does what no over-the-counter product was designed to do. it provides estrogens to help rebuild vaginal tissue and make intercourse more comfortable. premarin vaginal cream treats vaginal changes due to menopause and moderate-to-severe painful intercourse caused by these changes. don't use premarin vaginal cream if you've had unusual bleeding, breast or uterine

the way we talk about lbj, and george h.w. bush today, was not the way they were talked about when they were sitting in that office. looking 25 or 50 years from today, will we be talking about president obama in a totally different light? >> past is prologue, and we certainly will be. if you look at all presidents in the polling era, they all do better, sort of out of sight, out of mind, we begin to think more favorably of them. there is an exception. richard nixon still around 19%. so it is within reason. if you think about it, it's the human experience. and we tend to forget the more painful memories, and remember the good. so that's what we think of johnson and the civil rights act. we don't think of johnson, broken by the vietnam war, and sort of limping out of office. and very likely, we'll remember president obama as the guy who extended health care to all americans. unless the republicans can repeal it in the next few months. >> and we do look back at johnson, and we look at the civil rights act as soft of government at

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we will have highlights from the civil rights summit at the lbj library in austin and our own summit with tavis smiley from cbs, nicole hanna jones of republican a and eric dyson of georgetown university and evan wolf son and look back at the boston marathon attack one year later. plus an all-star panel of analysts. 60 years of news, because this is face the nation. captioning sponsored by cbs >> schieffer: good morning again, pro russian militants seized police stations in eastern ukraine, there is chaos and confusion today, ukrainian officials say gunfire was exchanged. pistol lard of sky news is there and filed this report for sky news by phone. >> the we are at the police headquarters, which remain firmly in the hands of those armed protesters and carrying ak-47s, pistols and holsters on their hips and remain firmly in control of that building. they are reinforcing their barricades, there was a new delivery of, deliveries while we are filming and also filled sand bags, bashed wire and they are preparing to defends themselves, people are walking in the streets, there is a crowd in

[applause] laws was what lbj knew how to do. politics and nobody loved legislating more than president johnson. he was charming when he needed to be. he was ruthless when required. [laughter] he could wear you down with logic and argument. he could of course trade -- horse trade and flatter. you come with me on this bill, he would reportedly tell a key republican leader for my home state during the fight for the and 200 yearsill, now, people will only know two names, abraham lincoln and -- [laughter] he knew that senators would believe things like that. [laughter] [applause] president johnson like power. he liked the feel of it and the wielding of it. and hunger was harnessed by a deeper understanding of the human condition. underdog,thy for the for the downtrodden, for the outcast. it was a sympathy rooted in his experience. as a young boy growing up, johnson knew what being poor felt like. poverty was so common that he would say that he did not know it had a name. the family home did not have electricity. everybody worked hard

this was at the lbj library, george w. bush gave a speech following in the wake of president obama and before him bill clinton and jimmy carter speaking at this event, the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights. a lot of people were commenting about george w. bush's opening remarks. this was in his second paragraph. let's watch. >> it is an honor to be back to the llbj library. last time i was here i introduced my mother, which is a pretty tough task. i'm impressed by the new learn vagss, thank you for showing them to me. former presidents compare their loi br libraries the way other men may compare their -- well, wondering how lbj would have handled that. he's a funny guy at times. the president today quoted one of my favorite lbj lines when he said, if one morning he said i walked on the water across potomac river and the headline would read the president cannot swim. the real influence of the president is not found in the headlines. it can only be judged with time. >> well, a little awkward there, sor

lbj he had gone too far. it went even further in 1966 the democrats lost 47 seats in the house. it was attributed very directly to white backlash and the interesting thing is right after watts, johnson who politically could see around corners said one of the people who is going to benefit from this backlash, this conservative movement against not only civil rights but my whole great society is a candidate in california for governor by the name of ronald reagan. >> wow. president obama speaking at length today about lyndon johnson. it was remarkable not just because of the anniversary being celebrated and because the president gave such an important speech but president obama has not talked very much about president johnson before. do you have a theory or any explanation as to why that is? >> i can only speculate, you know, he gave his acceptance speech in denver in 2008. the first time, the day after lyndon johnson's 100th birthday you'd think speaking to a huge state in the democrats, you would mention the g

. >> lbj was nothing if not a real list.w alone isn't enough to change hearts and minds. a full century after lincoln's time, he said until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men skins, emancipation will be a proclamation, but not a fact. he understood laws couldn't accomplish everything, but he also knew that only the law could anchor change and set hearts and minds on a different course. >> 10 years after the civil rights act was passed, baseball hall-of-famer hank aaron was hot on the heels of babe ruth's home run record back in 1974. hank aaron says president obama's opponents in the republican party are abusing him the same way the people who threatened hank aaron decades ago. the baseball great told "usa today" he kept the hate-filled racist letters he received while playing. he also said sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, president obama is left with his feet stuck in the mud from all of the re

. >> to the lbj library.o commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act. something that he signed in june of 1964, in this building behind me, and to celebrate lbj himself, a man whose legacy was tarnished over the last generation because of the escalation of the war, principally, but to relook at his record, passing landmark reglation. to medicare, food stamps a host of social programs but the civil rights act, and the voting rights act. two landmark pieces of legislation pushed through in a time of racial division and social unrest. the president talked about the cynicism, president obama about the cynicism that pervades an american society, and is the jaundice view of washington with and keep pushing forward as lbj himself did. >> rereject such cynicism, because michelle has lived out the legacy of those efforts. because my daughters have lives out the legacy of those efforts, because i and millions of my generation were in a position to take the baton that hend had to us. it was

lbj was nothing if not a realist. he was well aware that the law alone is not enough to change hearts and minds. a full century after lincoln's time he said, until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. laws could not encompass everything, but he also knew that only the law could anchor change and set hearts and minds of a different course. on a different course. a lot of americans needed the laws most basic protections at that time. itdr. king said at the time, may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and i think that is pretty important. [applause] passing laws was what lbj knew how to do. and no one politics loved legislating more than president johnson. he was charming when he needed to be, ruthless when required. he could wear you down with logic and argument, he could horse trade, and he could flatter. ,ou come with me on this b

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msnbc reporter adam sueward ewa joining us from the lbj library.nd i have seen the list, entertainment, sports, and i have seen from billie jean king to krozny stills and nash, and may vis staples, and presidents are there, and what is the point that we are expected to hear? >> well, the summit is going to be looking at not only lbj's legacy as far as the civil rights are concerned, but the civil rights going forward there. are panels on gay rights, panels on immigration, panels on women's rights, and what we are going to hear from the speakers and the presidents in particular, they will try to talk about civil rights not as a past issue, but reframing the issue going forward and talking about what they would like to see happening, and that is maybe different depending which president is speaking from barack obama to george w. bush, but there is certain ly going t be a lot to see. >> and this event is obviously at the lyndon b. johnson presidential library. if there is a mark on his presidency, it is for the vietnam war, but he also was a pioneer o

and while the lbj library is the perfect place to reflect on this kind of seminole achievement., joining us tonight to discuss it is clifford alexander jr. he was associate special counsel to president lyndon b. johnson and played a critical role in passing and implementing the civil rights act of 1964. an honor to have you here tonight. >> thank you, ari, appreciate it. >> when we look at this achievement, and you look at all these presidents from both parties down there, what do we learn today about this period of history and tell us what you were doing when you were serving lbj at that time? >> at that time, i was on his staff welcome working on administration. i was there in the room, and he gave me one of the pens that he used to sign the civil rights act. and later on, i continued to work with the civil rights leadership, i was their liaison for president johnson, and he made me head of the opportunity commission in 1967. >> right. >> which was title 7 of that act. but i think most importantly, that some revised history that comes out of this. i saw the elder bush, he vote

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lbj. why did he support civil rights? a southern guy, grew up working class, a teacher.yed ball with those guys. why did he become the great champion of civil rights? what caused him to do that? >> i think as you say, he had that back ground as a young schoolteacher in a mexican school. he'd seen what he said hate could do to the face of a child, the eyes of a child. remember, he was in texas. first the hill country as a congressman, then the whole state. he told the leaders of the naacp, when he became president, they said, why are you strong for civil rights? he said, i'll answer in words that will sound familiar. free at last, free at last. as president of the whole country, he had to get right with the issue. 100 years after the civil war he had to fix this problem or wouldn't have a chance to do anything else what he wanted to do, like what became the great society. >> he used words like the sold on words. yeah? >> we get our heroes in a complicated package. he wasn't the perfect person by any means. >> did he use those old words we don't like now to sort of befrien

couldn't figure out how to work together. >> and at the lbj library.0th anniversary of the civil rights act and it's fair to act would that type of legislation make it through a congress today? i think the answer is probably, no. something that grand and something that sweeping, and it's a reflection half a century later about how different politics are than they were 50 years ago. >> mark halperin, or even 15 years ago? >> it's gotten so worse so quickly. >> the irony, the last three presidents, they all ran saying, the perfect diagnosis of what was wrong and with a strong belief they were the ones to fix it, and all three of them have failed to do it. it's quite a puzzle, and president clinton probably, because he came from arkansas, probably spent, and was governor for so long and in public life longer than the other two, he probably feels this and has a better feel for the heartbeat of it than anybody in the country and yet he can give a speech but he can't change it. >> yep. and what's so fascinating, john heilemann, is that those three presidents

our chief white house correspondent chuck todd was there at the lbj presidential library in texas. >> reporter: he came to power in the wake of a tragedy, and three days after becoming president, lyndon johnson made a promise about civil rights in a phone call to martin luther king. >> i think one of the great tributes that we can pay in memory of president kennedy is to try to enact some of the great progress sieve policies that he sought to initiate. >> well, i'm going to support them all and you can count on that and i'm going to do my best to get other men to do likewise and have your help. >> reporter: a half century later, a celebration to a promise kept. >> he understood what it meant to be on the outside, and he believed that theirs was his, too. >> reporter: with the presidential legacy haunted by vietnam, it eyed the civil rights act as an opportunity to paint a picture. daughter, linda johnson rob. >> he would be proud of what we've done and say we have further to go and we all need to keep the eye on the prize. >> reporter: the three-day celebration brought together presid

at the lbj library in austin, texas, to mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. there today. bill plante reports on how president johnson pushed through the landmark legislation. >> no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor president kennedy's memory. and the earliest possible passage of t pass rhts bill for which he fought so long. >> rep0 s or ther by battin the streets over racial equality, passing president kennedy's civil rights bill seemed out of the question for the new president. he brought up the civil rights bill and said pass this as a testament of john f. kennedy. >> one of the things about lbj, he was in the best sense of the world brilliantly opportunistic. >> reporter: joseph califano was part of johnson's domestic policy team. >> the assassination of kennedy, he used other things to get the civil rights act of 1964 passed. >> reporter: getting civil rights bill through the congress controlled in part by southern segregationists took all of lyndon johnson's guile. here he is using his persuasive powers on congressman russell. >> i t

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lbj's power as well as his quirks were notorious. butler." >> i want y'all to get on the phone and call the naacp. >> his sweepeechwriter, goodwin. he also robertedly swore like a sailor and occasionally used the "n" word. >> back then it was part of our vernacular, too. honestly. language with martin luther king was always respectful. >> reporter: but early in johnson's political career, he was no civil rights activist. casting votes against the legislation. >> when he was a senator from texas, he really couldn't follow up that much because otherwise he would have lost his seat. >> reporter: so what was the driving force behind this momentous moment? many look to johnson's childhood in texas. where he grew up in a small farmhouse as the eldest of pofi. >> he had been poor. johnson had felt guilty enough and had had enough pain about his own hardship and poverty as a texas schoolteacher. >> reporter: as president, he was a shrewd dealmaker and politician, drawing on his experience in congress. >> he had lived and breathed and been th

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. >> yeah, people in movies run from godzilla is how people would address the legacy of lbj.that obama and johnson have faced, their styles are very different. has that served this president, president obama, well? >> there are things president johnson did that if a president did them today it would be on social media immediately. it was a much less transparent time, and i think, you know, we have a much cleaner and less corrupt politics because of that, but some of the wheeling and dealing that johnson got away with, some of the manipulation, i don't think that kind of thing will be possible from a president today. >> do you get a sense of president obama sees health care reform as a continuation of lbj's great society? >> i do, and i think that this is where the hole was when lbj was done, we had medicaid and medicare, but there was a large swath of people who were falling in the middle, and remember, obama's predecessor, bill clinton, the first thing he did was to try and get a health care law passed and he failed. i think it's further to the right than a lot of democrats

it was july 2nd 1964 that lbj signed legislation outlawing racial discrimination in america, competing's legacy. presidents johnson and kennedy led the effort from the white house spurred by the singular leadership of martin luther king jr. but it was much more a bipartisan effort than history recognized. a story behind the story of the political players on both sides of the aisle who successfully pushed the civil rights act forward. tell me about the fact that there was first of all bipartisanship. >> a novel idea in today's america. >> the southerners were aposed to change and the final bill passioned the senate 73-27 with 27 out of 23 republican votes. unheard of. there's unsung heroes especially. one member of the house from western ohio, district now represented by john boehner, he was the ranking member of the judiciary committee. he made a deal with the kennedy administration that if they would give the republicans equal credit and no water down the bill in the senate, he would back him and he did. >> in your book you note a letter from jacqueline kennedy onassis, she wrote, i w

prior to that lbj's whose presidency went so bad he didn't try to get the renomiknacnation. if you go back before truman he talked about the presidency like a great white jail. he had the highest disproval rating of any president until george w. bush. go back to woodrow wilson. his terms ended in dispare. he had 2-3 strokes toward the end. reagan was elected because it was the best people could do to gate third term of reagan. we won one term. he lost in 1992 to bill clinton. clinton wins with 43% of the vote because of the third party candidate. bush gets in without winning the majority. and bush leaves office and around 2007 he had the worst gallop approval numbers since truman. obama wins in 2008. 2012, obama is the first president in history, the first democrat i believe since lbj to get over 50% of the vote. but in 2012, first president to get elected to do this with less poplar and electoral college votes. reagan won 49-50 and obama won 26. a bare majority. if you look at a map of counties it was a sea of red. under obama it was still a sea of red if you look at counti

bush, a little bit worse than bill clinton and lbj. that is how people viewed ronald reagan over the course of his presidency, sort of fair to midling. if you look at the all-time approval rating highs and all-time approval rating lows for presidents since world war ii, ronald reagan ends up fair to midling on those scores as well. not the highest, not the lowest, right in the middle. ronald reagan's presidency had a lot of problems. he blew up huge, huge unprecedented deficits. the gap between the rich and the poor got much worse. the aids epidemic, which he did worse than ignore, the stock market crash in 1987, the iran contra scandal very easily could have got president reagan impeached, it's saw many of his top officials indicted, it might have saw a lot of them in prison had his successor not pardoned everybody. part of the reason they created the ronald reagan legacy project in 1997, after he'd already been out of office for two terms, was because they needed one. conservatives were really worried that ronald reagan was not going

she is the barbara jordan visiting professor of ethics and political values at the lbj school of public affairs. robert kimball is the former legislative aide to republican congressman john lindsay of new york, as director of the republican legislative research association, he served as the chief aid te to the house republican leaders in the leadup to the passage of the civil rights act. >> and director of the civil rights clinic at the university of texas school of law, and linda bird johnson rob is the daughter of president lyndon johnson and board director of the lbj foundation. welcome to you all. lyndon johnson rob, was the civil rights act, your father's most significant achievement as president? >> well, i would have to say all of the civil rights acts. because there were three an even say the immigration act which i think also is the civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective. that he cared very, very much about it. he wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color. because he knew how, particularly in the south but not only in the south, we were so restricted a