lbj never, ever rested.n one year, you get not only medicare and medicaid, you get elementary and secondary education and higher education. an infusion of federal aid education for the first time in our history. you get the clean air act and the highway beautification act, which sounds cosmetic, but it is remarkably transformative environmentally. you get the immigration act of 1965, which is the most sweeping immigration reform in the history of our nation and fundamentally changes the heart and soul of america. and you get voting rights. the most important civil rights legislation ever to go on the back without which you would not have barack obama as the 44th president of the united states. in addition to that, you get the establishment of the department of housing and urban development. you have the implementation of upward bound and head start. this is one single year. and i would argue that it is the most important year legislatively in the history of our country. probably even more so than the first y

germany: there were many different lbj's. there was the public statesman lbj. he was a speech teacher. he taught high school speech. that comes out in his public speeches. a lot of times you hear the more colloquial johnson where he lays it out as you would when the door is closed. that is one of the things you get on the private telephone recordings you do not get in these public speeches. the lawyers has an interesting phrase that lyndon johnson was the 13 most interesting man he knew in his life. you get all 13 men and these recordings. host: this conversation is between the president and martin luther king junior. before we go to the recording what was the relationship between the two men at the time? mr. germany: it is tricky. lyndon johnson -- he has this massive and electoral victory in 1964. martin luther king junior, in many parts of the country, is the most hated american. there was a lot of opposition to martin luther king junior. there were billboards all over the south claiming he was a communist. johnson is concerned. there are reports. herbert ho

the lbj project, what is that? >> the lbj project is a gold mine project in essence. it is a group of scholars at the university of virginia, public affairs. that is trying to get all of the recordings tribed, annotated. everything you would need to know what's going on in the information. editors there try to present it. we are trying to put everything out from the assassination all the way through the end of 1969. it is the history with the bark off. there was a lot of bark on when it comes to lyndon johnson. >> what do the telephone calls reveal was going on other than the history was concerned. >> first, lyndon johnson was extraordinarily busy. voting rights is one of many things going on in 1965. he's not going to yield on it. and you also get to see -- people call him a magician. they call him a lot of different things. one thing he definitely is is effective. he pulls a lot of different strings. but often do it it quietly. >> why do you think lyndon johnson was so intent on getting this done, considering he already got a victory when it came to civil rights? >>

lbj would sign that bill into law on july 30th, 1965. another conference committee member, tennessee democratic senator albert gore senior, talks to lbj on october 2nd, 1964. >> i made a statement which i hope has not been discreet and i wanted to tell you about it. i said that this, in my opinion, assures health care bill next year and a good one, that this will permit you to take the issue to the people and seek a mandate, which i'm confident you will receive. and i want you to know that i had said that. >> well, you just had no agreement? >> had no agreement, that's right. there was only one change this morning. senator byrd, who yesterday apparently changed his vote to receive. but george -- george was there. russell didn't show up. but george voted his proxy. and so four of us roted to insist upon the senate position. and we have adjourned not subject to the -- subject to consultation by senator byrd and wilbur, if the congress should return after the election. >> that's good. >> the sentiment to adjourn up here is quite high on bot

she standing next lbj as he is sworn in on air force one. lbj's great. he's from texas. they call him big daddy. really tall guy. you can kind of see outselling is right here. he became a lefty during the new deal. the 1930's. that's what he became a democrat. that's when he became politically engaged. you remember the new deal. bunch ofing to throw a stuff against the wall, see what sticks. this is the energy. these are the kinds of programs that he becomes a part of and it becomes his sort of calling. he gets involved in the new deal in texas in the 1930's. then he goes on into the house of representatives and the senate. he becomes one of the most powerful members of the senate. he same as this is called the johnson treatment. if you don't believe -- if you don't vote the way he wants you to vote, he gets in your face and talks with you and insults you. the johnson treatment. he becomes a really skilled leader pushing legislation through. but he's also got this sort of kennedy had hollywood good looks he was from boston and spoke well in front of people. lbj is from t

germany, the lbj project, what is that? mr. germany: it is trying to get all of the recordings transcribed, edited, annotated anything you would need to know to understand what is going on in a conversation. the editors are there. we are trying to put everything out from the assassination. it is lyndon johnson's vision of history with the work off and you're talking about a lot of work on with these telephone calls. host: what do the telephone calls reveal? other than what we know about how the history is concerned? mr. germany: lyndon johnson was extremely busy. the voting rights is one of many things going on in 1960 five and he is dedicated to getting very significant voting rights legislation passed, and he is not going to yield on it and you also get to see -- people called him a magician. they called him on a lot of different things, but one thing he is is easy active, and you get to see lyndon johnson pulling a lot of strings, but also doing it very quietly. host: what you think that lyndon johnson was so intent on getti

hue better humphrey described lbj as a psychiatrist. he could read you. he knew it moerveated you. he knew what might motivate bob was different from what motivate linda or larry. he got that. and he used it. he exploited it. there's an expression, that people are motivated by either love or fear. and you need to know the right combination in order to get them to act. lbj got that and he used to apply something that was legendarily known in washington as the johns ontreatment or just the treatment. there was no doubt who was applying it. johnson was the master of that and he used a combination of flattery or threatening or whatever it took to get somebody over to his side. i think the one thing that i would take exception to was the adjective you have associated here with johnson is ruthless. but i can test that. i don't think johnson was ruthless at all. i think he was too smart to be ruthless. he knew in washington at that time if you ran over somebody, if you were ruthless, you wouldn't be able to get them to your side in the future. he needed those folks in the future. so he on

starting at 8:00 p.m., lbj's daughter linda johnson robb, lbj special executive counsel and lbj library director on the battle to pass medicare and medicaid and why president johnson succeeded where others failed. after that, white house recordings of phone calls between lbj and his aids swell members of congress who talk about the politics and strategy behind the bill. then at 10:00 p.m., the medicare bill signing on july 30, 1965 at the harry s. truman presidential library in independence missouri, including remarks from president johnson, and former president truman. all of this tonight on american history tv on c-span3. tonight op the communicators, author and presidential pioneer on the wright brothers. >> they weren't the first people to have the idea of building a flying machine and they weren't the first people to try. so why did they succeed where everybody else failed? and the answer is, they understood the problem they were trying to solve much better than anybody else. and at the end of day, being creative is not about having ideas in the shower or ah-ha moments, or lightnin

that was part of lbj's war on poverty. it wasgi programs to help preschool, underprivileged with children. tools they would ery su need to be prepared to go to school with their peers.hono this was a veryra successful program. she was approached to be an honorary chair of the program. she said, i will work on head start, but i don't want to just be an honorary chair. i want to actually work on it. very successful program, like i mentioned. it justh celebrated its 40th yr in business, or since it was established, in 2005. in 1964, lady bird johnson went on the first solo organized campaign trip by a first lady. she went on what they call the lady bird special. it was a very, very organized train trip that took four days,n went through 40 southern states. they had all kinds of different things printed up, as you can see here. postcards, whistles, matches, banners, menus at the different stops. well hats. she wasn't always well receivedc again, she'st. doing this train trip through the southern stater who are not happy about

edited transcripts of lbj's white house call. and we will see the president's speech at the u.s. capitol before he signed the bill. that is sunday at 10:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m., antenna caught clock p.m. eastern here on american history tv. in the year 1215, king john of england signed the magna carta which placed limits on the monarchs power. the founding fathers turn to the magna carta when drafting the u.s. constitution. up next on american history tv, a panel of scholars examined the influence of the magna carta on the constitution. panelists discuss the historical context of the magna carta, as well as common

we talk with lbj's domestic advisor and an historian who has edited transcripts of lbj's white house and we will see his speech at the capital before he signed the bill. sunday at 10:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. next on american history tv, university of california berkeley history professor examines the intersection of guns capitalism, and revolution in the americas. he discusses the history of a gun production in europe and how the americans did not create their own large-scale gun production system in the 1700s. it focuses on the american revolution and how arms trading contributed to an american victory. he also talks about capitalism's role in the haitian revolution of 1791-1804. this was the society of historians for american foreign relations annual meeting. it is about 50 minutes. >> it's my great pleasure to introduce our featured speaker for today's lunch. you are in for a treat. you made a smart decision to be in this room right now. that's not in here. professor brian de lay is a native of colorado springs. he grew up in of the springs -- i am a f

that was part of lbj's war on poverty. it wasgi programs to help preschool, underprivileged with children. tools they would ery su need to be prepared to go to school with their peers.hono this was a veryra successful program. she was approached to be an honorary chair of the program. she said, i will work on head start, but i don't want to just be an honorary chair. i want to actually work on it. very successful program, like i mentioned. it justh celebrated its 40th yr in business, or since it was established, in 2005. in 1964, lady bird johnson went on the first solo organized campaign trip by a first lady. she went on what they call the lady bird special. it was a very, very organized train trip that took four days,n went through 40 southern states. they had all kinds of different things printed up, as you can see here. postcards, whistles, matches, banners, menus at the different stops. well hats. she wasn't always well receivedc again, she'st. doing this train trip through the southern stater who are not happy about

next lbj talks to committee chairman wilbur mills. >> mr. president, don't worry one minute about these doctors and insurance companies organizing against this bill. we have written the insurance people. i must admit. completely out of the field of people over 65. but the ama is blowing in all direction. i've had them in confidence come to any at the last minute telling me they would accept the payroll tax if we'd use it to finance our program with the state administering it but you couldn't have that, but they've come a long, long way. they're going in all directions. now, the insurance people are going to oppose it. there's no doubt about that. they were going to oppose hr1. they were going to oppose anything we did, but they got no more to oppose with respect to what we got in this bill and they would have voted for it, anyway, without with we've done. the only thing i'm concerned about, i'm very frank about it, is there's about $450 million in this bill out of the general funds of the treasury for which you haven't budgeted your situatio

we talked with lbj's domestic policy advisor and an historian who has edited transcripts of lbj's white house calls, and we will see the president's speech at the u.s. capitol before he signed the bill. sunday at 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. and >> howard university history professor edna greene medford discusses the experiences of freed slaves and the years following the american civil war. she discusses economic independence, education, and political rights of the aspirations and talk about their struggle to achieve that. this program was part of the symposium hosted by the lincoln group. >> and you may wonder why we have this old podium. this pulpit is the one in the old church that pastor gurlleey would have used during the pre-martial era while the old church was in action.

lbj, john f.kennedy, abraham lincoln, kennedy, abraham lincoln, eisenhower, all of these presidents. they have all dealt with issues of race. >> and acted on them. >> yes. people have to to understand when i get these talks about why would you ask about race to this president. he's a black president. because he is the one who can affection eight change. >> bill clinton, did he come close to issuing what some african-americans would consider an apology for slavery? >> did he come close? he wanted to. there was a speech he gave in africa. he did not apologize for slavery. there was a black and forth fight with him in the white house that was for and against. i will never forget it. i said i'm not looking for an apology from slavery. people are like know that needs to happen, yes they need to happen. he was the one but i think he was the only one who could've done it. he was a white president that could've done it. george w. bush said oh the africans participated in the slave trade. he wasn't going t

that conversation, another lbj recording is on our and some of these are blunt conversations. our phone lines are open. we have a line for republicans, democrats, independents. you can also find us on facebook. tony is in fort worth, texas. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? thesehinking about changes and i think that black people came out because of president obama. this is a lot to do about nothing. when in the black came out and voted for obama, they went things and of these unless someone does something to address the black people in the u.s., we will come out again. there is a new candidate out there right now addressing what you are talking about. i think the new voting restrictions are given by a fear of changing demographics. , a most diverse electorate , so a people participated lot want to make a older and wider and more conservative, as opposed to more diverse was a -- like it was in 2008. this is a director spots to the obama election, this kind of attempt to restrict the right to vote, this is not new. it has gone on for years. i have been for many decade

ryan cranston did a recent play about lbj did research at the lbj library. even in ways you don't necessarily see. our great grandkids might have a shot at seeing the records and think about this. don't think of it as the president you like him and think about the person that you disagreed with and you want to see what happened and what really led to the decisions to go to iraq. what really led to the debacle of the affordable care act's web site. we are not going to know that so maybe if he decided not to continue that focus can you imagine the next president saying okay that died most popular most votes first african-american president, he didn't build one. the next president is going to build one? any other questions? >> a substantial amount of the budget goes to the presidential library. i'm number 315 on the foia list. i might get everything i want by 2020. now to what extent is that a result of putting that much effort and money and resources into the presidential library? >> you know i think the term and federal budgets, the number of people you can h

what did you tell lbj? >> that pretty much.ced legislation to create a blue ribbon commission to do just that. >> president johnson was persuaded by senator harris. >> first what happened, second why did it happen, and third how can we keep it from happening again and again. that's what we tried to do. >> harris and the rest of the panel led an investigation in the streets of the embattled cities to help america understand what lay behind the anger. >> i was in chicago in the '60s. i knew we went through periods where my parents were afraid. talk about what it was like then, what the nation saw in its cities. >> i think it made people terribly fearful. i think people who didn't know what the conditions in these black cities were like, or these black sections of the cities were just shocked. and querylous. >> helped to clarify what really happened. >> j. edgar hoover and president johnson and a lot of people bleef believed that somehow these riots were organized. >> conspiracy? >> there was conspiracy here, we absolutely determi

andy young says in this book that lbj did say that he didn't have the power to push it forward, we're talking about voting rights. after they successfully got the self rights act. so, -- reverend jesse jackson said -- this is interesting -- he said, people like dr. king as martyr but not a mantra, so strategically, these civil rights leaders lad to figure out how to give him the power. so, they were -- they had to work strategically to work together toe get the power for the president. what was that? to go down to alabama and andy young talked about, in the book, specifically for the book, the presidency in block and white, how at the time in alabama, three people, three african-americans could not be on the street together. it was against the laws there. for three people to be in the street together in alabama. >> host: because that could be considered leading to a protest or demonstration? >> guest: yes. they had to find a way to have a meeting to begin the process for the marchs and that was -- they had to strategically figure out how to present the situation so that lbj could have

that is what they want to come to see. >> here we are in lbj's oval office. presidential libraries have oval office replicas. this is distinct for two reasons. it is slightly smaller than the actual oval office. it is 7/8 scale. the reason it is smaller is because it was added as an afterthought. president johnson wanted visitors in the library to see where the president worked. we did not have a large enough space to accommodate the oval office. it is slightly smaller. another thing that makes it unique is that this was the actual future in lyndon johnson's white house, including his desk. this is not the resolute desk that we all associate with the president, the dust that president obama currently uses and many of us recognizing the photo of john f. kennedy junior popping out of his father's desk. that desk is used by most present. johnson, because he wanted to take his furniture back the library, opted to use the desk used as a center used as senate majority leader. he used it as vice president and sent it to the oval office. that is his chair. that is hi

linda johnson robb, lbj deputy special council and lbj presidential library director on the battle to pass medicare and medicaid, and why where president johnson succeeded when others failed. white house recordings of phone calls between lbj and his aids who talk about the politics and strategy behind the bill. then at 10:00 p.m., the medicare bill sign on july 30th, 1965, at the harry s. truman presidential library in independence, missouri. including remarks from president johnson and former president truman. all of this tonight on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> tonight on the communicators, author and british technology pioneer kevin ashton on the creative process, and how that process takes work. >> why did the wright brothers fly first, and what was the process they used because they weren't the first people to have the idea of building a flying machine. and they weren't the first people to try. so why did they succeed where everybody else failed? and the answer is, they understood the problem they were trying to solve much better than anybody else. and at the end of the da

we talk with lbj's domestic policy advisor and historian kent who has edited transcripts of the phone calls. and we will hear his speech. that is today on american history tv on c-span3. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> presidents dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, lyndon johnson richard nixon, gerald ford ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush all served in world war ii. up next, university of kansas history professor theodore wilson talks about their wartime experiences and how that later influenced them as future commanders in chief. the kansas city public library hosted this event. it is about an hour. prof. wilson: if i did not know very much about my parents, i'm not sure how much i knew about world war ii, but i do very much appreciate henry's very generous introduction. it is about an hour. prof. wilson: if i did not know very much about my parents, i'm i am delighted to be taking part in the commemoration of the 70th an

pbs marks the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act this week by premiering a new film: "jfk and lbja time for greatness." >> back in washington, lyndon johnson gathered all those who would fight for the bill in congress and they took their lead from lbj. don't accept amendments that will weaken the bill, stand the way all the way through. it will be jack kennedy's civil rights bill or no bill at all. tune in this tune in this tuesday at 9:00 pm. >> sreenivasan: the largest wildfire burning across drought- stricken california has doubled in size in the past 24 hours. the fire in lake county, north of san francisco, has burned 47,000 acres, destroyed 24 homes, and threatens 5,000 more. the fire is only five percent contained, with almost 2,000 firefighters still battling the flames. italy's coast guard has rescued another 1,800 migrants from africa and syria crossing the mediterranean sea. rescue crews found five dead passengers on the over-crowded boats. italy has received 90,000 mediterranean migrants this year. in france last night, 200 migrants hoping to cross into the u.k. broke

johnson and his aides and congressional members about strategy on how to enact and enforce the law and lbj's955 speech at the u.s. capitol and the signing of the bill. also this weekend tonight at 7:10, the university of california at berkeley history professor looks at the history of gun production in europe and how arms trading contributed to american victory during the revolution. get our complete get jewel at www.c-span.org -- our complete schedule at www.c-span.org. >> next, author in french historian dominique fracois explores the role of women during world war ii. he argues women were a vital support of the successes of the war by participating in women's armed forces organizations and manufacturing force of lies. the kansas city public library hosted this event. -- manufacturing war supplies. >> i'm pleased to welcome our speaker, dominique fracois, back to the american heartland. dominique was in abilene as we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the d-day invasion. he is a renowned military historian. he has published 16 books, many on the battles of normandy. he is currently worki

including a series of white house telephone calls that lbj had with aids and member of

lbj hated him. he quickly learned he could not raise money to run for president. that is because he took orders from his conscious, not from people who had money or marketing consultants. it is hard for me to imagine any politician being able to do that today. >> i suppose i would want people ,o remember that i worked hard i did what i thought was right, i followed my own conscience, i helped some hope -- i hope to prevent the terrible holocaust of a nuclear war. announcer: the two are of madison, wisconsin continues with a visit to the city's native american effigy mounds and what they reveal about early cultures. w

starting at 8:00 p.m., lbj's daughter linda johnson robb. larry levenson and mark uptegrove on the battle to pass medicare and medicaid. and why are president johnson succeeded where others failed. after that, recordings between lbj and his aids who talk about the politics and strategy behind the bill. at 10:00 p.m., the medicare bill signing at the harry s truman presidential library in independence, missouri. including remarks from president johnson. and former president truman. all of this tonight on american history tv on c-span 3. the c-span cities tour visits literary and historic sites across the nation to hear from local historians and civic leaders every other weekend. this month with congress on its summer recess, the city's tour is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. lincoln nebraska where we'll look at the design of the state capit capitol, the past and present of the first people's of the plains and we'll talk with petic aree c rickets. that starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> wendy davis spoke for more than 10 hours

lbj knew how to swear. there was another side. late at night nixon would take his yellow pad and make notes to himself. and those notes he would describe the man he wanted to be. and we would use words like joyful and serene and inspiring and confidant and things we don't associate with nixon. he did all of the time. he aspired to be somebody he could not really be. it would last for a while and he would lash out. the tapes are not wrong. but again the tapes miss things. you listen to enough of the tapes, he has a level of knowledge and expertise particularly on foreign policy that is deep. nixon was saying he hated intellectuals and he would rather talk to an athlete. nixon was a terrible athlete but a great intellectual. he would read into political theory philosophers political biography, everything churchill wrote. he read more than the normal president because he was shy and lonely and had a lot of time to read. he was going on about harvard. none of them in the cabinet. none of those harvard he hired lots of harvard aids of

affect -- she was on a first name basis with everyone from hermie -- everyone from harry truman to lbjnd sang at the white house. but her own autobiography had hundreds of listings where she was and what she sang and why she's hanging. -- why she sang it. there are other people who did as much or more but the hell you jackson was the lone black artists who could afford to do that. the ward sisters to a degree, but they were marching on the front lines, dividing the music at the meetings, giving where they could and doing benefit concerts. that has never been chronicled the way i think it deserved to be. when we started nothing but love and god's water, we went to the places where the movement happened and tried to track down not just the gospel singers, but the pastors, the djs, the people on the front lines, the members of the mass choirs and said what did you sing, where did you sing it and why did you sing it? why were you compelled to sing this in the face of the dogs and the water cannons and the hate you are experiencing on a daily basis? we went to arming him very early in the p

lbj went into the navy in 1941-1942, during world war ii,r and while he was in the navy, ed lady bird ran his congressional office. she answered correspondence. she coped with political en problems in his district, and s she gave special attention to any of his constituents who visited washington and visited his office. lady bird johnson, with an inher ten tans from her mother, purchasedu apt small radio station in aust, texas. it was in terrible financial condition.l new close to bankruptcy. she took over that station.foun she hired all new on-air staff. she found commercial sponsors. she kept the financial accounts. she even cleaned up the building itself. she served as the manager, and thhe

an idea that lbj said president truman inspired a generation earlier. before signing the bill in truman's presence on july 30th, 1965, lbj said it was designed to ensure every citizen against, quote, the ravages of illness in his old age. starting at 8:00 p.m., lgj's daughter, linda robb, and library director on the battle to pass medicare and medicaid. and why president johnson succeeded where others failed. and phone calls when lbj and his aides as well as members of congress who talk about the politics and strategy behind the bill. then at 10:00 p.m., the medicare bill signing on july 30th, 1965, at the harry s. truman presidential library in independence, missouri, including remarks from president johnson, and former president truman. all of this tonight on "american history tv" on c-span3. >>> ant tonight at 8:00 on c-span, the reverend al sharpton, education secretary arne duncan, and the urban league annual conference in ft. lauderdale, florida. here's al sharpton. >>> we must begin to prepare now whether it's the national urban league, whether i

nixon would've needed one more state to in attacks as they also been stolen by lbj. nixon felt he was a good buy -- a good guide by not protesting that election. i.t. was bitter. he was bitter. one thing that's important remember as nixon, nixon always thought the kennedys were bad and dirty tricks and he was, that he was catching up with them. is laid a chance to use the irs, he thought he was playing catch-up ball. bobby kennedy had nixon audited three times by the irs. nixon thought the kennedys were better at dirty tricks. he wasn't at high-growth about that. i wrote a biography of bobby kennedy. but, of course, nixon's exaggerated and in his own mind made it worse than it actually was. the other cool kids so to speak federal nixon that's what the georgetown set. my old employer mrs. graham, dennis back in the day to but didn't have some power. those dinner parties with the head of the cia and the state department would get together. in 1950 after nixon won his u.s. senate race they invited nixon to dinner to kind of check it out to see who was this new guy. of c

lbj maybe running for reelection.wins the new hampshire primary but gene mccarthy gets so close that, lbj has to announce he will not seek, nor accept, the nomination to run for reelection and therefore, he's knocked off. people look at that scenario now. hillary clinton can win iowa. she's doing well, but still win the new hampshire primary. if bernie sanders get really close and she looks really weak, now we have a conversation about joe biden beginning his presidential campaign in south carolina. >> that is right. smoking joe might come in there. we'll see. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next on the run down, carl cameron with the latest on where things stand in the republican woman: in a one-year span, i counted over 100 blood transfusions. that whole experience, lindsey's experience, changed our whole lives. just changed our outlook on everything. [ laughter ] sometimes you take things for granted that you shouldn't. we all do that, but... wow, we don't do that much anymore. okay! fun's over.

lbj maybe running for reelection.the new hampshire primary but gene mccarthy gets so close that, lbj has to announce he will not seek, nor accept, the nomination to run for reelection and therefore, he's knocked off. people look at that scenario now. hillary clinton can win iowa. she's doing well, but still win the new hampshire primary. if bernie sanders get really close and she looks really weak, now we have a conversation about joe biden beginning his presidential campaign in south carolina. >> that is right. smoking joe might come in there. we'll see. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next on the run down, carl cameron with the latest on where cameron with the latest on where things stand in the republican everyone loves the picture i posted of you. at&t reminds you it can wait. test test. test test >>> tonight, donald trump continues to draw massive crowds but is the attention for the billionaire businessman a bad thing for the g.o.p. ? joining us now from washington, d.c., carl cameron, so, car

johnson and his aides, martin luther king, junior, and strategy on how to enact and enforce the law, and lbj'st the capital and the signing of the bill. tonight at 7:10, the university history'snia berkeley defector looks at the history of gun production in europe and how lead to an american victory in the revolution. get our complete schedule c-span.org. joseph banister, the only pirate in history to have fought the british missionary -- the british military to a standstill. >> most pirates hightailed out when they saw the british military. he actually fired a shot. "q&a," sunday night on the search for the pirate ship the golden fleece and its captain, joseph banister. >> started off his life not as a pirate or as a noble english sea captain, a gentleman, who is trusted by wealthy ship owners to sell their ships. the golden fleece, this beautiful 100 foot long sailing ship, between london and point -- port royal, in the caribbean. for years, he did that responsibly and nobly. reasons one for cannot quite determine, joseph banister stole his own ship, recruited a pirate crew, and turned pirat

so in 1965 in the summer, i had been working with lbj's phone conversations and laird appears briefly, but prominently. fascinating phone conversation with ford, june of 1965. lbj suggested half jokingly, only half jokingly, that laird was off his rocker and urged ford to put a muzzle on him to engrashate himself with ford the president then proposed that his dissident senator wayne morse be traded to the republicans for mel laird. as secretary of defense, laird, as already had been mentioned was the architect and even coined the name for the policy of vietnamzation. his major accomplishment, hunt contends, was getting the united states out of vietnam. and the book documents with which detail how he did this. his single minded commitment often put him at odds with president nixon who i think appreciated fully the political importance of what laird was doing, but also had some problems with it. .henry kissinger who did not always appreciate it. they pure cysted in seeking peace with honor. code words for an independent, noncommunist south vietnam. their negotiating position called for

lbj's august 6th, 1965 speech at the u.s. capitol and his signing of the voting rights act of 1965.nd at 9:55 p.m., voting rights then and now the national museum of african-american history and culture. reconstruction from the past to present day. >>> tom wheeler talks about his investigation for maximizing the benefits of broadband internet access in the u.s. he announced the federal communications position would begin regulating advisers as public utilities, similar to the way it regulates telephone companies. the proposal includes future enforcement of network neutrality rules, requiring all content to be delivered at the same speed. the brookings institution hosted this event. >> thank you very much, darryl, and to you and rob for hosting this. it's great to be here at brookings, i was saying to darryl. really significant functions that this institution provides is to become a place where policy makers and the public can interact on conditions. i'm really grateful to you for hosting this today. maybe we ought to start out today with a little broadband scripture. in the beginnin

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ahead of lbj and kennedy, pushing them harder. not as hard as king. for a white labor leader, he was essentially, yet, think about what happened in michigan and detroit and all of the auto workers moving out of detroit and into the suburbs. so, it is so much to walter. cavanaugh and the police chief were progressive liberals, trying to change it in detroit. they made a lot of dramatic changes. they were succeeded in some ways, against all the odds, but that success lead to four years later, a riot. and everything was up in smoke. all of the efforts were sort of decimated by that. he's a tragic character. another figure is aretha franklin's father. he was an incredible speaker, preacher in detroit and he actually organized the rallies to detroit. he's another one of the figures in the book. they all emerge from what i was -- the story i was trying to tell. >> if you could summarize the story you were trying to tell, what did you learn throughout? >> i learned how central detroit was to america in so many ways, helping create the middle class, helping b

in 1964 when lbj had to choose who the next commander in vietnam would be of macv. he chose westmoreland, regrettably, who put tremendous emphasis on the americans doing the main fighting themselves. he stuck to that principle right to the end of his command and be a rams came in, and his view how to fight this war dovetailed very nicely with the nixon/kissinger approach of training the south vietnamese troops and giving them the capacity to fight the war. the reason vietnam iowaation was so important, it's a principle that carries forward into other conflicts in the future. what we did in afghanistan, what we've done in iraq and so forth. and it's the same motion that comes up there. the second point i wanted to make is that although the -- winston wasn't there and dick, there were secret negotiations during the lbj time. and they never got very far. but they did get so far as to achieve a bombing halt at the end of 1968, in october of '68, right prior to our president ia elections and they ended up getting a seat at the table for the vietcong and south vietnamese.