jack kennedy filed that civil rights bill, lbj, was a better bill that lbj ended up with but jack kennedy filed that fill and advisers who told him you ought to file a civil rights bill, he we wanted to wait until they won reelection in '64 to file a bill. bobby said you have to do it now and that was who bobby kennedy was. he has no patient, he came from a essentially a couple of years apart in age but a different generation. jack kennedy from from world war ii, we know what life is like generation, bobby kennedy was a enlisted in the navy and he saw active duty going out of port and coming back to port and that was the war injury bobby kennedy ended up with and for the rest of his life he felt a little bit inadequate because he hadn't fought in the war and he spent so much of his life dealing with what he thought were inadequacies. bobby was the one his dad described the runt of the litter and least likely to be able to do anything. and bobby spent his life working harder than any of his siblings to show the dad that he wasn't the runt and could get things done and joe kennedy acknowled

. >> great deal of time with lbj. we will have a glimpse that our book "5 presidents: my extraordinary journey with eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, nixon, and ford" as much as we can in 35 minutes and open up for questions and answers. i have to figure out how to make this work. >> takes a minute. clint hill was born in 1932 in the middle of the great depression and his mother realized she couldn't care for him. she had him baptized and dropped him off at the north dakota children's home in fargo, north dakota. when he was 3 months old he was adopted by a wonderful family. chris and jenny hill and their daughter janet, grew up in this home in north dakota, population 912. clint growing up in that tiny home in north dakota, did you always want to be a secret service agent? how did that come about? >> not at all. my intention when i was in college was to become a history teacher and coach athletics. the korean war interceded and i had to go into the military. i went through basic training in the us army and they send the

the one to me is a great tragedy and that is lbj.hey were so different one grew up rich in massachusetts and the other was from texas and grew up poor and presented. had they ever united in a coalition, they could have gotten more extraordinary things done. the idea they were at a cross purpose was a huge tragedy and one of the things that made him more determined than ever is bobby kennedy was calling for him to come out of vietnam. every time he gave an antiwar speech it seemed like the next day they increased the bombing of north vietnam. >> one of the things that struck me in the buck -- >> did you tell them how many times you read the book? >> i'm the only person that's ts read the book twice. [laughter] spank my wife. >> his wife read it five times. [laughter] what lyndon johnson did in the civil rights bill is put bobby in charge of getting it through. if it failed he would have bobby to blame. i think there were two purposes. one is the purpose you said, and he wanted it and knew there was nobody better to play off of the pre

. >> a great deal of time with lbj. and we're going to tell you, we're going to give you a glimpse into our book, "five presidents," now as much as we can for about 35 minutes, and then we'll open it up to questions and answers for the last portion. first, i have to figure out how to make this thing work. [inaudible conversations] >> he said it takes a bit. >> all right. takes a minute. clint hill was born in 1932, the middle of the great depression, and his mother realized she couldn't care for him. so she had him baptized and dropped him off at the north dakota children's home in fargo, north dakota. fortunately, when he was about three months old, he was adopted by a wonderful family, chris and jenny hill and their daughter, janice. he grew up in this home in washburn, north dakota, population 912. clint, growing up in that tiny town in north dakota, did you always want to be a secret service agent, or how did that come about? [laughter] >> no, not at all. my intention when i went away to college was to become a hist

. >> a great deal of time with lbj. and we're going to tell you, we're going to give you a glimpse into our book, "five presidents," now as much as we can for about 35 minutes, and then we'll open it up to questions and answers for the last portion. first, i have to figure out how to make this thing work. [inaudible conversations] >> he said it takes a bit. >> all right. takes a minute. clint hill was born in 1932, the middle of the great depression, and his mother realized she couldn't care for him. so she had him baptized and dropped him off at the north dakota children's home in fargo, north dakota. fortunately, when he was about three months old, he was adopted by a wonderful family, chris and jenny hill and their daughter, janice. he grew up in this home in washburn, north dakota, population 912. clint, growing up in that tiny town in north dakota, did you always want to be a secret service agent, or how did that come about? [laughter] >> no, not at all. my intention when i went away to college was to become a hist

in washington, you have the lbj department of education building. remember it was because he knew how to move with perfect timing in pursuing his initiatives that allowed us to have integration sooner rather than later. a great leader shall be a great communicator and shall follow through and do -- and a president who follow through was ronald reagan. and the people i interviewed for my book, his first turn white house chief of staff and second term secretary of the treasury james baker. and his biographer, h w brand. i talked to them about many aspects of ronald reagan's life but i want to zoom in -- what made him a great communicator? the reaction was, of course he was a great communicator. he spent half of his life as an actor. he knew how to deliver his lines with dramatic force. he said, no, it was more than that. it was his sunny disposition and cheerful countenance and spirit of optimism that give americans hope and allowed him to channel the inner voice of the american people. james baker said it was his consistent message over time and his

lbj's daughter and his white house counsel, larry temple. from then i learned the answer to troubling question, why in the world did linden johnson wait so long before he became champion of civil rights legislation. after all. he arrived in congress -- every single civil rights bill. in 1957 as the majority leader he took over out of the bill. it was passed but it had no effect. why did he wait until he was president before he final. and lbj, if you read much about him, country expressions that were always right on the mark, why did you wait to you were president, he said, you don't try to kill the snake until you've got the ho in your hand. [ laughter ] okay. as president, he had the ho in his hand with jim crow segregation laws. you're aware, he had served in congress for 15 years with even his greatest admires acknowledged he didn't take his job seriously. he had no idea how to get legislation passed. and then as president, of course, the civil rights movement erupted. martin luther king was getting thrown in jail all the time. riots. tim

lbj's daughter and his white house counsel, larry temple. from then i learned the answer to troubling question, why in the world did linden johnson wait so long before he became champion of civil rights legislation. after all. he arrived in congress -- every single civil rights bill. in 1957 as the majority leader he took over out of the bill. it was passed but it had no effect. why did he wait until he was president before he final. and lbj, if you read much about him, country expressions that were always right on the mark, why did you wait to you were president, he said, you don't try to kill the snake until you've got the ho in your hand. [ laughter ] okay. as president, he had the ho in his hand with jim crow segregation laws. you're aware, he had served in congress for 15 years with even his greatest admires acknowledged he didn't take his job seriously. he had no idea how to get legislation passed. and then as president, of course, the civil rights movement erupted. martin luther king was getting thrown in jail all the time. riots. tim

lbj! lbj! they're real! you don't get this quality from a novelty shop. i can't believe it! this is happening! this is really happening! mork, we got to do something! what can we do?! i'm doing it right now. i'm using all my will to reverse the process. it's simply a case of mind over matter. [ growling ] we're gonna have the wedding just as planned. [ barks ] man: telegram for mindy mcconnell. [ barking ] mork! no! sit! sit! leave 'em in the hall! it's getting worse! your hair's getting longer! and you were barking! i was? oh, mork! i think you're losing control of this! you're losing the battle. it could be worse. he might have turned me into a blowfish or a stri-dex pad or a lounge singer. mork, come on, you've got to fight this. try and stand up like a human. i can't, but i can do this. how could orson do this to us?! quick, mork, we've got to call him. um, plug me into your mind with you, and i'll talk him into changing you back. off! what you have to do is stick your finger in my ear, and with the other hand, scratch my head. i know that, but it sure will make me happy

>> the assumption among the kennedy intimates was that lbj was totally unbeatable in 1968.by would run in 1972. >> the anti-war movement needed a leader and it fell to eugene mccarthy. >> very nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> senator, president johnson supporters say you don't have a chance in new hampshire and you'll be lucky to get 10% of the vote. what do you say about that? >> well, i don't know. the people supporting me said we'll do better than that. >> one democrat, senator eugene mccarthy -- >> eugene mccarthy does something that's taboo. he comes out against a sitting president from the same party. >> mccarthy came in from left field. he was not thought of in the front rank of presidential contenders. but there was a great deal of frustration and even despair among the young. eugene mccarthy gave them hope. >> how many volunteers for senate mccarthy? >> i'm ready to vote in the primary. >> from nbc news election central in manchester, new hampshire, this is the news. >> if mccarthy gets as much as 30% of the vote or more against an incumbent president, he

he's playing the president in the new film lbj. he decided to take a picture with the bus at the capitol before the premier party. >> joe thomas is greeting the fans and signing the autographs at the admirals game. it is also taco tuesday at the arena. bucks. the game is at 7:00 tonight. >> packers head coach has won 65% of the games in green bay and reminding the nay sayers after the team's 47-25 loss to tennessee. the team's third straight loss for the season. we have not forgotten. the defense allowed 21 points in the first quarter. they are saying they are not faith in each other and play as one and sticking together and not pointing the finger. >> we are not playing the blame game or pointing the fingers. we are in this together. >> i'm a builder, a developer, i said that the first day i arrived here. >> i went to a packers party over the weekend and everyone is talking about >> a major piece of new arena is new in wisconsin. you may have seen the set of steel beams delivered yesterday. they are from europe. the steel is some

that's a huge task in order to take for sure. >> yeah, i thought at lbj for six years and i will tellfrican american and latino kids talk about that all of the time. they felt it was a slice and they really did. if we talk about equity, again, they didn't feel it was equitable at all. so that's some of the students' perspectives. >> absolutely. >> charter school versus government school discussion plays into this? [laughter] >> i think that's a whole other panel discussion because i grew up on all of this. technically by state law the legislators -- the legislature does not differentiate public schools from public schools. they are both considered to be public institutions, public education institutions, however, i think, you know, i certainly have a biased opinion on that as the school board member from austin independent school district, i think our charter schools select and they don't want to deal with students that are english learners or children with other issues. that's a challenge. i don't know if you want to offer your perspectives on that. >> i agree with you. i'm a fan of

twitter feed the picture of the oval office during a transition of a death of jfk transitioning to lbj trump world? they faced real constitutional questions as the first president-elect with so many foreign and domestic business entanglements, to name another area. >> well, you can only hope, and i think one thing we can hope, is that maybe once he gets his cabinet and the top level of his sometimes in the past you've seen presidents get a little bit more serious. and i think this might have surprised some people about president obama two days after the election, he gave every sign that he was chastened by what he learned, and perhaps the everyone who enters, and we'll see if that applies this time. >> presidential historian and michael beschloss joining us from washington. >> good to be with you, brian. >>> president obama gives out 12 purple hearts today. from dinner at the restaurant john george here in the trump building tonight, the three people, mitt romney, reince priebus and donald trump. tomorrow morning on "morning joe." a.m. eastern time. here tonight has to do with with he

lbj for example was a great success in terms of domestic policy, but horrendous in terms of the vietnam debacle that he was not primarily responsible for but had a lot to do with. historians are still arguing society programs, many of which still exist like medicare and are popular against what happened in vietnam? these questions are debated and it really depends on what you think this president did and whether you still value what they did. >> let's walk through what he did and if we value what he did. he talked about the aca, the affordable care act, obamacare as greatest achievement, how would you assess that? >> i think it is a great from truman on, not just dems but also nixon, have sought comprehensive health care reform. they all failed. only obama succeeded and he succeeded without a single republican vote in either the horse or the senate. the first time in the history of the republic that a major piece of social legislation was enacted w from the opposition party. and look -- >> isn't that a bad thing? kind of? >> the problem was that he didn't get support from republicans, b

i was thinking of lbj joining the jfk campaign as his running mate and that seemed odd at the time butctor of 100 to me. what do you make of it? >> it is odd but there are precedents for it. let me name you one or i could go on if you want me to, one that comes to mind immediately was 1968 when richard nixon won the presidency, put his cabinet together and for one of the slots who did he choose? a guy named romney, not mitt but george, the father of mitt romney who had been michigan governor, run against nixon for awhile in the '68 contest. there are plenty of examples. george h.w. bush appointed jack kemp who challenged him for the nomination in 1988. you mention jfk, lbj, how about reagan joining forces with george hw bush after he called reagan's economic program voodoo economics which we all remember from ferris bueller. >> this was the case of a former nominee coming out to say this guy shouldn't even be running, certainly shouldn't be our nominee, certainly shouldn't be our president. it is a little different in that regard, isn't it? >> yeah, okay, you've come up with something

the fact that more people are poor in america today the network backing 1965 when lbj declared the war of property. the fact that companies in america are trying to incorporate elsewhere because we had made it so unattractive to be in this country. the fact that our military is being hollowed out at the very time that russia and china are investing massively in their militaries. we face real challenges. at the same time, look at what is happening internationally. from china, russia, the middle east, it has been an awful time for interests and robbie world and freedom. i hope you don't mind me telling a joke. this is a joke about the president when he went to cash a check at the bank and did not have his license. you haven't heard it? the teller said to him, look, we cannot cash or check unless we know exactly who you are. he said, what you want me to do? day we hade other andre agassi in here, same problem. he put a target on the wall, hit a tennis ball into the target. we knew it must be him, we cast a check. she said the same thing happened a few days later when phil mickelson came i

interesting you mention lbj because we had a screening recently in washington, d.c.or members of congress, senators and house of representatives and linda johnson, linda bird, the daughter was there, and the expression of acceptance and the eruption after the screening was over, people standing and che cheering, it took on a different meaning than when we first started screening the picture before the election. it was like a completely different experience. people are saying we're back to where we started from. these are the same issues. seems like we're fighting the last battle of the civil war. >> and morph of nixon meets george wallace with a celebrity thrown in comes in after. it is amazing how cyclical history can be. you talked and played a sound bite when you were on "morning joe" in a may that trump's celebrity allowed him to bypass rules normally in place for a political figure. i have to read a couple other things you said. the president-elect pays $25 million for defrauding people of their life savings but use an e-mail server illegally, that's a story. do

bush 43, carter, clinton, fdr, lbj, and reagan. what is particularly important to us, for me as one of the owners at cortina, i was raised by two journalists during the heyday of print journalism, and they were also very politically involved, and i grew up at the dinner table hearing about the importance of democracy and the office of the presidency. and we have been -- it's been so important to us to work on these, now our seventh presidential library, to reach out to young people to use technologies that joe and craig talked about to open up young people's minds to the history of our culture and our country. lastly, i'll talk to you about a mobile app that we did that i think is perhaps our most visited exhibition, and we have the nixons to thank for that. because it is the pandas that have made this project so popular, and i will leave you with a shot of mrs. nixon with the pandas in china. in our wonderful zoo in washington, d.c. i'm going to turn it over to chuck, and you are going to her a lot about partnerships today, and ch

book outlinest how the fcc and lbj administration -- you can go back to the truman administration were the fairness doctrine interviewed with speech over the airwaves. i have not been able to figure at&tow cnn being bought by changes the editorial content of cnn in any way leading into the current hands if you are unhappy with it or running a change. there are lots of hundreds of years of antitrust jurisprudence. it should go through. i think the deal will go through. mike and i were talking ahead of time that we hope there will not be any interference through the fcc of editorial discretion that would probably unified most republicans and democrats. michael: the classic definition of monopoly, we go back to the and john dnert barons rockefellers. the content, product into the hands of the distributor and possibly freezing out a lot of independent voices that would otherwise be heard but cannot cope. whether at&t, comcast or whoever it is. peter: january 21 of next year, when that rolls around, who will be on the commission? who gets to have a voice and what will be some of the items t

it's not something that any campaign has ever said since lbj i guess so is a very visceral ad. people remember that ad and i think, and as you said the timing was dead on and the fact that they were trying to shift the conversation. >> it raises the ultimate question about who do you want and who do you trust to have their finger on that button or close to the button even in the time. god forbid we have a serious threat of a nuclear strike against united states. >> we'll take a quick break and come back and welcome senator tim kaine. >> this is the bill press show. >> all right, i'm going to get out of here. i believe he is in madison, wisconsin by the way. we will find out for sure. >> sorry. >> he dresses up as met my -- probably. >> hey jamie. jamie. >> how are you doing, man? [inaudible conversations] >> just listen in and enjoy and we will talk about it after. >> jamie, confirm madison wisconsin. confirm madison, wisconsin. is that where he is? okay. [background sounds] i have down here rochester. tomorrow tim kaine is in dubuque, iowa. >> yesterday. [background sounds] >>

. >> but they do outline with the lbj it administration even the fairness doctrine has tried to interfere with political speech i haven't been able to figure out how obama that changes the editorial content in any way and that is a vertical deal and that should go through and we were talking we hope there will not be any interference with that discretion that would unify most republicans and democrats. >> then go back at a mitt content distribution with product into the hands of of a distributor that they cannot cope with that type of power. with at&t or comcast. >> host: commissioners, january 21, n ext year when that rolls around liaison the commission in who gets to have a vote and what are some of the items that trump demonstration will have to counsel - - >> will the chairman be gone spirit you have to ask him that question so people that understand he cannot fire from the commission altogether some nobody ever has from the fcc so in theory he could stay on as a regular commissioner and traditionally when you change party is the chair will step down that is the function of all will h

like have you read lbj? do you know our history? you know, this is -- and we also have to caution ourselves to the complexity of that history. i thought donald trump disqualified himself at numerous points. but there is now this idea that has to be defined by the worst of his rhetoric. while there are guys in my neighborhood like that i love, that i respect that i think have incredible qualities who are not afraid of mexicans and not afraid of muslims and not afraid of blacks, they're afraid of their insurance premiums. in the legal community you hate this idea of creating people as a monolith. don't look at muslims as a monolith. they are individuals. it would be ignorance. but everybody who voted for trump is a monolith, is a ra that hypocrisy is also real in our country. and so this is the fight that we wage against ourselves and each other because america's not natural. natural is tribal. we're fighting against thousands of years of human behavior and history to create something that no one's ever -- that's what's exceptional ab

anyone take that lbj class or am i so old lbj stands for something else now?i follow you. >> it was like if you both spend more and tax, think you can get away with it and bust the budget, well, it's inflationary. but i'm not hearing that. >> do you know what the budget was when lbj trying to negotiate for 1964 the overall federal budget? he was trying to keep it under $100 billion. >> a billion here, a billion there. >> the entire u.s. budget. >> really? >> yeah. >> wow. that was a great society. >> it was. and led us to have problems we're having now. >> hadn't started yet. $99 billion i think 1964. >> and i think about the collapse of the phillies. nine games up, ten games to go. >>> meanwhile, interesting outperformance on the dow for year-to-date which is ahead. only twice in 20 years has the dow outperformed when all other indices were also up. >> the dow is filled with actual real companies. i think if we add something interesting sam zell was saying, if we're going to actually make things instead of post pictures on facebook, it adds up. they can take

. >> it was a bowling alley up until the lbj era.esting that the press doesn't do its job. but there is a feeling that certain perks that come with being the new york time and or nbc or one of the traditional media outlets, that could go away? >> every, every presidency has their certain pet reporters that they treat separately. in the obama administration, i witnessed at times, you are in the basement with the washington examiner along with bloomberg and other good media outlet and you would see the reporters going to a private briefing and they were seen as important reporters or friendly reporters. and we saw it again and again. and certainly, donald trump has a lot of lee way. even if he doesn't change the seating charge. he being do it 50- 50. and half to the media power sharing arrangement. or he could call on the reporters that he wants to. the white house controls the relationship. and in the p president obama white house, you saw the front row get attention. they dominated the briefings as you saw it was political theater an

he needs to put this thing back together or he is going to be like lbj during watergate.ope he rises to the occasion. just raw numbers, the guy arrived in 2008 on a historic victory. he leaves with a party in shambles, utter disarray. to what extent is barack obama responsible for the state of abject disarray of the democratic party? what responsibility does he bear? he isthe other irony is now at the height of his popularity. i think there wasn't an effort for a long time before barack obama to focus on legislative races on the democratic side. they were not as aggressive as they were among republicans. they both later role in it. the other think it is pretty clear, they got a jump on us in it wasuses. sometimes candidate quality or campaign equality. we have been getting clobbered in governors races and we've got to fix both of those. we've got to fix both of those. we've got to focus and we tend to be more of a washington oriented party with a one size fits all message. we may have to figure out how to talk to people differently in different parts of the country. we ha

my colleague, mark uptergrove, director of the lbj library in austin, texas, will moderate. so please join us for that. thank you very much and good morning. ♪

my colleague, mark uptergrove, director of the lbj library in austin, texas, will moderate. so please join us for that. thank you very much and good morning. ♪ of the sixth president. for our complete "american history tv" schedule, go to c-span.org. >> tonight on c-span3's "american history tv," we visit the richard nixon presidential library and museum in yorba linda, california. it reopened last month after a $15 million renovation. coming up in a couple of minutes, the museum's reopening ceremony. later henry kissinger talks about nixon's foreign policy and the museum's designers on the renovation. >> this weekend, c-span cities tour along with our cox communications cable partners will explore the literary life and history of tucson, arizona. on book tv on c-span2, hear about the important role mexican-americans played in the history of arizona from local historian thomas sheridan. >> long before arizona ever became a part of the united states, it was a part of first spanish and then later mexican sen norah. and so tucson was really the northern most the northern most c

county, probably the most conservative county in the state and only voted democrat twice for fdr and lbjif trump performs at 65 percent or better in ash land county in ohio, that is a good sign for him that the polls really are not capturing the conservative base that is out there. >> what about ottawa county? >> ottawa cooperate is the other one. 1964 always selected the candidate who is president. inely split republican/democrat and a great bell weather and it is reporting early and probably 8:30 or 9:00, we could see results that are an indicator. >> over all howe numbers are not expected to come in until 1:30 or 2. but the small counties that report early will give you and the viewers a good indication. >> that's what i will be watching tonight. >> in terms of voter attitudes. i mean there is an appetite for change this election. has donald trump done that or is hillary clinton resonating with ohio? >> ohio is evenly split and probably why it will be a tight race in ohio. and whether or not that case for change and whether or not donald trump was the right person to make that case fo

he needs to put this thing together, or he will be like lbj or nixon during watergate.ion. john: let me go back to the talk we had earlier about barack obama. the raw numbers. and gotarrived in 2008 democratic control of the house and senate. he leaves with a party in shambles. to what extent is barack obama responsible for the current state of abject disarray of the democratic party? think, and the other irony is he is at the height of his popularity. i think there was not an effort for a long time before barack obama to focus on legislative races on the democratic side. was not aggressive as it was among conservatives and republicans. they both played a role in it. the other thing that is pretty clear, they got a jump on us in statehouses. candidate inwas quality, campaign in quality. we were really being clobbered in the governors' races. we need to fix the legislative problems and the governors' races. we tend to be more of a washington oriented party, a one-size-fits-all message and whatnot. we may have to figure out how to talk to people differently in different p

a part presidential libraries, and i will list them in alphabetical order. , carter, clinton, fdr, lbj, and reagan. what is particularly important to us for me as one of the owners, i was raised by two heyday ofs during the print journalism, and they were also very politically involved. i grew up at the dinner table hearing about the importance of democracy and the office of the presidency. and we have been, it is been so important to us to work on these, and our seventh presidential library, to reach out to young people to use technologies that joe and craig talked about, to open up young to the history of our country. we'll talk you about a mobile app that we did that is perhaps our most visited exhibition. nixons to thank for it because it is the pandas that has made this project popular, and i believe you with a shot of mrs. nixon with the pandas in china and in our wonderful zoo and washington d.c. i will turn it over to chuck and you will hear a lot about partnerships today. chuckle introduce us to a couple of partners that helped us create this museum. >> thanks, amy. [applause]