that same was true for lbj. we're finally getting a sense now of how lbj should be remembered and that is because vietnam, which is a principal part of lbj's legacy, was so divisive, it took that long for parks to recede. we're remembering him for the great society, particularly civil rights which built the foundation for modern america so he is looking better than he did when he left office in 1969. considered the top ten of our four 44 president, 4 because trump is the 45th president, but grover cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th president. so there have been 44 men who held the office. george w. bush is hard to say what his legacy will be but it's going to take us i think at least that long for parks to receipt around his presidency -- for passions to recede around his presidency. >> i asked that question about 43 of the father of a good friend in midland, texas, who had known 43 very well. they lived near each other in midland and he also known lyndon johnson pretty well. i said, judge, how would you compa

but beginning particularly in the eisenhower administration and the lbj administration, lbj appointed more women to higher office than any other -- all previous presidents combined during his term in office. and you can bet lady bird saw to it as well. these were some of the gifts that were given to our generation. and a poll in 1961, over 90% of the respondents said that they believed in our government, that they believed that government was doing good. and in 2014 that was down to about 13%. so we've fallen a bit. and i talk, in the last part of the book i talk about that fall. yes, civil disturbances in the cities, vietnam, watergate, the transformation of the political party system, all of that played a role. but particularly from the reagan administration on, the great political scientist theodore lowy said the last democratic president we had was richard nixon. and, you know, obviously, that's -- some dissonance there. [laughter] but nixon, if you look at his housing and urban policies, if you look particularly at the fact that he was the environmental president, give you some i

. >> jack kennedy's main rival for the democratic nomination is lbj. >> i move here and now to socitlegate present in this room or the sound of my voice. >> lyndon johnson, the majority leader of the united states senate, senator from texas, thinks kennedy is sort of a lightweight. >> some of us talk about how we ought to do it. and then when we get down to doing it, just don't get it done. >> but kennedy is rolling with this stuff. >> i appreciate what senator johnson had to say. he made some general references to perhaps the shortcomings of other presidential candidates, but as he was not specific, i assume he was talking about some of the other candidates and not about me. >> with his ego bruised, johnson gets personal. >> lbj began to disparage joe kennedy sr. as being an appeaser back there with hitler in the pre-war era. >> johnson not only smears jack's family, he also attempts to expose jack's deepest secret. >> the day before the vote, the johnson people put under the hotel room doors of every delegate a yellow sheet of paper saying that kennedy had addison's disease. >> for

lbj, 6465. but even he reached out to republicans. when mitch mcconnell started doing healthcare trying to get 50 out of 52 votes from the caucus, my reaction was that could not work and it isn't supposed to work that way he is supposed to be looking for people on the other side to get 65 or 70 votes of course he would say that would be impossible because none of them would vote for us et cetera but the notion that one party rules by themselves brings to some bad places. >> common ground moving to stand your ground to compromise is a good thing but as a capitulation and that mindset is dangerous. >> early in the book, to that point you make an observation that i think is the essence of the book. you state america strong enough to survive a few bad years but the senate has been in decline for several decades. so what are the implications of that? to be in decline this long? >> i think there are profound implications if not reversed. and frankly i think no one captures that better than you or trent lott did in crisis point the system is

we learn that lbj was the greatest president for black america and that couldn't be more false.hat he did is even slave us with the great so -- what he did was enslave us with the great society. our fathers are not in our homes because that was i season toughized by lbj's great society act. they have all of us voting for them for all the wrong reasons. we don't understand our history and don't understand the economic policies behind it. jesse: you think the education system in our country teaches america that the big government policies started under lbj are good for them, but you are saying those government policies have maybe stifled the growth of black america. >> it's not a matter of opinion. it's a matter of fact. i came up in the public school education. we also learned, the republican party is virtually demonized in our textbooks. most of blacks believe the republican and democratic parties switched in the 1970s switched. that's a myth. it never happened. something called the southern strategy. they are learning to be ignorant in the school system and once again at home v

if you listen to the tape recording of lbj calling dr. king after the jfk assassination he says martin, i'm going to need you now. i need your advice. i'm on your side. it's very touching call. they had important beatings. it worked together on the civil rights act, the voting rights act, other things. one of my favorite speeches in american history is totally forgot today. it's lyndon johnson's speech on race on the gettysburg battlefield on may 30, memorial day 1963 a few months before he became president of lbj tried to give the speech much longer than the gettysburg address. >> host: which was pretty short try . >> guest: yesterday and he opened with this great line, 100 years ago the slave was freed. 100 years later he remains in bondage because of the color of his skin. it's a stirring speech. the kennedys were dubious of king. certainly after racial violence jfk gave and the port speech for the little girls were killed in birmingham and a stirring speech on civil rights but robert kennedy did sign the order. j. edgar hoover hated m

greatk back to lbj's society and liberal activists redefining the role of the federal government and challenging traditional values. our guests -- the 1968 election and the politics of division. turmoil68, america in "n c-span's "washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. >> the university of oklahoma is home to the carl albert center. we will learn more about this former speaker of the house and see collections from other oklahoma commerce meant. >> today, we are at the carl albert research center at the university of oklahoma. the center was founded in 1979 by ron peters. peters thought we have this powerful member of congress, we need to do something at the university to memorialize his ideals about congress, about legislating, about governing. collections of60 members of congress and 20 political collections. today, we will look at the carl albert collection, we will look at the robert s kurt collection. was speaker of the house from 1971-1977. prior to that, he was majority , and just was whip a regular member of congress. there he is in the speaker's office. pict

she insists on wearing her bloodstained clothes. >> by putting jacqueline kennedy in that photo, lbjowing the continuation of power, and that jfk's widow is standing there. but i think ultimately the image conveyed utter shock and grief. >> meanwhile, bobby goes in to some emotional nether world because he realizes that everybody else may be falling apart, but he's got to hold it together. he calls sister eunice and says start planning the funeral. he calls brother ted and says you will tell our parents what's just happened. >> and so it comes to ted to have the most onerous duty possible in that family, to tell the father that president kennedy is dead. >> ted and eunice didn't want him to hear this from anybody else. and they called rose who had heard about it immediately. and they told rose to unplug every television in the house. and they arrive and they told him. and he started to cry. >> joseph and rose have now lost three of their nine children. >> joe kennedy always focused his ambition on his children. and you have to wonder if at some deep level he felt that he himself was

lbj, '64-'65. and even lbj reached out the republicans. when mitch mitch mitch, when senator mcconnell started to do health care and trying to get 50 of his 52 votes from this caucus, my reaction was, well, that shouldn't work, and couldn't work that way. you're supposed to look to the other side and get the vote he he would say that would be impossible because no one would vote with us because they're against trump, et cetera. but this notion that one party has to rule by themselves is -- brings to us some bad places. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org doering. >> welcome. i'm the associate director of the bob graham center for public service and we're so glad to have you here tonight. we're very privileged

lbj might be able to deliver it. so the next morning at 8:00 o'clock in the morning and that is as simple as it can get. in the beginning he is ambiguous. and he is thinking about it and making commitments to people that he was going to give it to scoop. so johnson's letter really trigger that and with that strong opposition i could allow bobby to talk it out and then they laughed at that. so he wanted everybody to know. because then johnson wanted to give it up. and then to learn the importance of the electoral n college the last election. by the way who knows who want taxes? probably kennedy because nobody knows because there was no republican party then. one party running the state and no means for the recount in illinois they didn't know what they were doing but is still something that never ended. and at the biltmore they are holding his hand as they walk out to announce an bobby just watched him with that look of his. i remember as a kid watching that. and i kept thinking what is wrong with this picture? this w

greatk back to lbj's society and liberal activists redefining the role of the federal government and challenging traditional values. our guests -- the 1968 election and the politics of division. turmoil68, america in "n c-span's "washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. >> the university of oklahoma is home to the carl albert center. we will learn more about this former speaker of the house and see collections from other oklahoma commerce meant. >> today, we are at the carl albert research center at the university of oklahoma. the center was founded in 1979 by ron peters. peters thought we have this powerful member of congress, we need to do something at the university to memorialize his ideals about congress, about legislating, about governing. collections of60 members of congress and 20 political

lbj's liberal politics redefined the government and challenge traditional values. with the assassinations of martin luther king jr. and kennedy dealt shattering blows. that is next sunday, april 8 live at 8:00 p.m. >> monday night on the communicators. michael powell is interviewed by kyle of politico. >> my own belief of what happening with facebook today is predictable to some degree. i think that you have a brilliant advertising model that essentially emphasizes precision propaganda. there are precision propaganda can be used for good or for evil. i think that you have had this mythology almost in the opening internet that information always wants to be free and available, but openness is always good. full't think there was a thinking through of the way one could inject into that social stream of evil and negative behavior. i think as various forces have matured and learned how the products worked, they are learning how to take advantage of them for their own purposes. >> watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. wednesday morning, we a

cleaver, our kathleen former black party communication secretary, and historian peniel joseph of the lbj school of public affairs. first, here is walter cronkite on april 4, 1968, announcing that martin luther king, jr. has been shot and killed. ♪ walter: good evening. king, the luther apostle of the civil rights movement has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. present issued a bulletin for an arrest scene running from the scene. officers reportedly chased and fired on a car containing two white men.

it tracks how he evolved and moved from an establishment figure to taking on lbj in the frontal assaultn on vietnam. such a tumultuous time. >> al weaver, how about yours? >> well, in honor of april and baseball season, i have one "where nobody knows your name" by john finestein. it's about life in the minor leagues. he follows players who are has-beens, future stars, anonymous, and absolute nobodies in aaa. it is timely because the omnibus there was a measure passed taking away minimum wage rights from minor league players. >> he always delivers the goods. the indians took on the brewers. thank you james, anna, hope, and al. thanks all of you for your books. thanks all of you for watching. buy the books we talk about. keep the authors going. keep the conversation going on msnbc.com/hugh-hewitt. see you next saturday morning here on msnbc. insurance that won't replace the full value of your new car? you're better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with new car replacement, if your brand new car gets totaled, liberty mutual will pay the entire value plu

kennedy and lbj going on that fateful trip to dallas and in '63. it was democrat. my home state of virginia is trending blue. once a reliably red state. the days of george allen -- it was red. it is no longer. the democrats are going to do very well in the elections. it is an anti-trump vote. we saw that in virginia in 2017. people who had never run for office put their name on the ballot and were able to win, because they didn't like republicans. comstock will be in a fight for her life at home. host: ohio, danny. caller: what do you think of what martin luther king, and the civil liberties union, going across the country, taking every , westernjesus christ civilization -- [inaudible] nativity scenes, taking those down. taking down crosses. they did that. then they told us that, teaching kids in school that, we were never a christian nation. i destroyed evidence in a court of law -- i guess that would be -- i would be thrown in jail. this is a different sort. also, i notice now how they are goingft arican history. statuere robert e. lee's down, stonewall jackson -

johnson's appointment secretary, a position now known as the chief of staff, tells the back story of lbj's decision process which began in september of 1967. this half hour interview was recorded for c-span's "the weekly" podcast. which provides context and the ground to issues in the news. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. but let men everywhere know however that a strong and a confident and a vigilant america stands ready tonight to seek an honorable peace and stands ready tonight to defend an honored cause. >> march 31, 1968, 50 years ago, james jones, no aide was closer to president johnson than you, serving four years as his appointment secretary, equivalent to the white house chief of staff. walk us through the process that president johnson undertook to decide not to seek re-election. former rep. jones: well, it actually started about seven months previous in september of 1967. the president said, told me he wanted to go to the ranch that weekend. and he'd like to have john connolly, who was then the texas govern

lbj's great society and emboldened liberal activists redefine the role of the federal government and challenged traditional values. but the assassinations of martin luther king junior and robert f kennedy dealt shattering blows. our guests are kathleen kennedy townsend, rfk's daughter and former governor of maryland and michael cohen. robert f hear from kennedy during his march 15, 1968 presidential campaign announcement. >> i have traveled and i have listened to the young people of our nation and felt their anger about the war that they are sent to fight and about the world they are about to inherit. in private talks and in public, i have tried in vain to alter our course in vietnam before it further saps our spirit and our manpower. for the raises, the risk of wider war, and further destroy the country and the people it was meant to save. i cannot stand aside from the contest that will decide our

lbj's great society and the role of political activists redefine the role of the traditional governmentin luther king jr. l chattering blows. sunday, april 8. is the 50th anniversary of martin luther king jr.'s assassination. join us for live coverage on c-span and american history tv on c-span3. on tuesday, we're live from the university of memphis holiday in with taylor branch and four, --, beginning at 4:30 p.m. eastern, with live coverage outside of the lorraine hotel with live remarks from religious leaders including rev. jessee jackson. eastern,t 8:00 p.m. events announcing dr. king's assassination and a portion of his funeral in atlanta. eastern, at 8 p.m. live coverage with civil rights leaders past and present including marian wright edelman, gina bellefonte, and tamika mallory. anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. live tuesday and wednesday on c-span and american history tv on c-span3. ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal live every day with impacts for you. at fellowon monday, at the brookings institution on u.s.-russia relations and recent threa

kennedy and lbj going down on that fateful trip to dallas in 1963, it was a democrat state.home state of virginia, we're trending blue now. once a reliably red, you know, i remember the days of george allen and others. it was a red state. it's no longer a red state. so i think that the democrats are going to do very well in the elections. i think it's an anti-trump vote. we saw that in virginia in 2017. people who had never run for office put their name on a ballot and they were able to win because people just went in and they didn't like republicans. barbara comstock's going to be in the fight for her life at home, by the way. >> republican line. this is ohio. danny, go ahead. >> caller: i'd like to ask you what you think of what martin luther king would have thought of the american civil liberties union going across the country taking every venue of jesus christ off of the public square, the ten commandments, which western civilization was based upon, nativity scenes, taking those down, taking down crosses, you know, doing that. they did that then they told us -- now they'

[applause] >> lbj thought mlk betrayed him over the vietnam war and he wanted to expand the mission to economic justice not just black blacks. everyone. poor whites. appellations. hispanics. the great irony from the impoverished life is like of education james earl ray was exactly the person martin luther king would have wanted to help and then in 1968 he wanted to organize for the poor people of all races to converge in washington and have a tent city on the mall and protest economic justice one thing people should remember he was conflicted over come by doubt even 66 would say is this too much for one man to do sometimes he say you take it over i'm out and left the room then he would come back. it was the pressure he was under >> i will take you on a brief 30,000 year history very, very brief. when we were hunter gatherers, primarily our gods were gods of the sky because what is important is geography and landscape so the way we understood our connection with the deities was those aspects of nature that helped in the hunt. most of those deities were male with him exception the moon i

he was the first mainline politician to rise up against lbj. host: thomas joins us from maryland. democrats line. caller: good morning. i find it interesting in the conversation that your journalists are having. it seems like they are coming across, to me, that they live in a white supremacist world with perks, whether you are liberal or conservative. it is still white supremacy. the reason i'm going at it this way is i noticed you are talking about reagan, and you showed the first clip of cronkite. you were talking about what was addressed to white people, for white people, by white people. primarily. you haven't talked about the south or anything that deals with minorities and the great suffering that was really going on internally in this country. white supremacy was at the roots of it. reagan, johnson. they were forced to accept black people as people. let's be real. you are renowned journalists and photographers, let's get down in the dirt, let's say, and be real about what is happening in america. it was not all about white people. all your pictures show white students, and

lbj was right after announced he was not going to run. pictures were all over the paper.ctually, my whole vietnam experience, i had a lot of close calls, but that was an early one. newspapers in circulation, in 1968, 60 2.5 million americans received a newspaper in the morning or afternoon. according to pew research, that number is down by 20 million as of 2014. what does that tell you about the press? >> it tells me the world of newspapers was big and alive back then, and now, it has been supplanted by television, radio, internet. guest: so it is amazing to me that there are as many newspapers as there are functioning. but we live in a world that is so completely different from in thatwas in 1968, and world, we were closer to events. we depended upon a more limited group of people. that could be argued as a negative. you've got the slant of only those people. at the same time, they were highly experienced professional reporters. today, people don't really regard reporters as professional. they regard them as propagandists. that is a horrible change that has taken place,

kathleen cleaver, former black panther party communications secretary, and historian peniel joseph of the lbj

lbj's great society and emboldened activists redefine the role of the federal government and challenged traditional values. but the assassinations of martin luther king junior and robert f kennedy dealt shattering blows. our guests are kathleen kennedy are caroline kennedy, and michael:, author of the 1960 election on the politics of division. f hear from senator robert kennedy during his march 15, 1968 presidential campaign announcement. ♪ >> i traveled i have listened to the young people of our nation and felt their anger about the war that they are sent to fight and about the world they are about to inherit. public, ie talks in have tried in vain to alter our course in vietnam before it further saps our spirit and our manpower. for the raises, the risk of wider war, and further destroy the country and the people it was meant to save. i cannot stand aside from the contest that will decide our nations future and our children's future. the remarkable new hampshire campaign of senator eugene mccarthy has proven how deep are the present divisions within our party and within our country. u

a wonderful hotel in los angeles, the scene of the fight between bobby and lbj. i got letters from tempo neil but the johnson people, sam rayburn, catherine graves's husband, we are going to try to get johnson on the ticket and johnson went along with it. the night jack got the nomination, lbj before he went to bed wrote a handwritten letter to jack saying i will do whatever you want, i am yours, basically. with the very clear implication he was ready for the ticket and he said to one of his minions i want you to deliver personally by hand to the senate, i want him to have it before he goes to bed tonight. .. they call and say let's meet at ten and offered it to him. bobby finds out about this. in the beginning he was ambiguous about it. how many electoral votes are there. he's thinking about it. and then bobby goes for whatever reason he goes crazy about it. it was contingent though. that they put it together or not. and they actually offered it to them. they spent the day with bobby. bobby was so's strong his position to it. they did allow him to go up and talk

it reminds you this was the man who wrote a book claiming that lbj killed kennedy. >> there would beical records that if somebody really wanted to they could. have you talked to him about this poisoning. >> it is ludicrous. in terms of assange, you know, he had spoken to us in july and august of 2018. and his desire. and one of the things i find striking about all of this is why he wouldn't have wanted us to be there if he didn't meet with assange, it would have puffed up his role in the campaign. >> if mueller has been asking questions about him, to sam nunberg and others should it be a concern to roger stone that he hasn't been asked to come in and talk to mueller. >> i continue to be amazed of the number of individuals affiliated with the trump campaign in some way and even if they haven't been asked to come in subpoenaed or come in know that they are being looked into in the investigation, some indication that perhaps some of their records have been wrapped into the investigation and continue to get lengthy public interviews. it doesn't matter from the investigator standpoint, ro

. >> eager to be sworn in, lbj calls attorney general bobby kennedy for the precise wording of the oath of office. >> he wants to seize the reigns of power and show the world that he's in charge. to bobby, this is hasty to the point of obscene. >> bobby kennedy as the blood is still cooling in his brother's veins begins to recite those words he heard last on january 20, 1961. >> i do solemnly r swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> bobby's voice breaks down. it's too much for him. >> here is a picture of the swearing in of the 36th president of the united states lyndon b. johnson. >> president johnson wants jackie to stand next to him for his inauguration. she insists on wearing her bloodstained clothes. >> by putting jacqueline kennedy in that e photo, he's showing the continueuation of power and jfk's widow is standing there. but i think ultimately the image conveyed utter shock and grief. >> meanwhile, bobby goes into some e emotional netherworld because e he realizes that everybody else may be falling apart, but e he has to hold it tog

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they have hijacked education, hijacked family via lbj in the great society, taking away black fathersyou still look at hip-hop culture and nba athletes for direction. they are constantly utilizing hollywood. kanye west is the first person brave enough to come out swinging against them and saying she has a right to speak -- he has a right to speak. >> sean: it was so refreshing he did that and i was happy for you. a very dear friend of mine, she's been a guest often. she wrote a best-selling book black-lash. she writes "google my name." because she is a black american whose conservative. the things that come up are vicious. why do you think that is? >> i think the reason is because politics is downstream from culture. if they lose the culture war, they lose everything. they cannot afford to have black people thinking differently. if we move the black vote 5%, the democratic party's finish. it's a house of cards they have been building when you get black icons like kanye west. black stars speaking out, they are in serious trouble. >> sean: under president trump president trump, black an

[applause] announcer: sunday on 1960 it, america in turmoil, liberal politics as we look back to lbj's great society and a liberal activists redefining the role of the government and challenging traditional values. our guests include kathleen kennedy, the former lieutenant governor of maryland. collin.ael 1968, america in turmoil, live on sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's washington onrnal, and c-span3. ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and a policy issues that impact you. coming up on sunday morning coffee and conservative commerce -- will talk about his recent column, warning that washington could be reaching a breaking point. and former maryland lieutenant governor kathleen kennedy townsend and author michael: will be with us to discuss the evolution of liberal politics in 1968.b e sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 sunday morning. join the discussion. one of the oldest homes in normal -- norman is the moore-lindsay house museum. join us inside as we learn about the family who lived here and their role in the development of norman.

>>> joining muss are julia swage, and research fellow he lbj school of public affairs, and paul rathboner, king of havana." julia, is this symbolic or more? >> clearly it's a symbolic change, but it has to be more than that, if we look at the good-bye speech that raul castro gave on thursday and then the inaugural address of the new president diaz canel, what we heard was both continuity and change. both brothers, one is no longer with us, the other one has stepped aside. a matter of continuity that was so intensely emphasized, of course, makes the notion of change one of gradualism and one of always invoking the legacy that those two brothers brought to the cuban revolution and how it will remain present. >> john, this is happening at the time that the trump administration is reversing the limited opening to cuba that the oboopa administration made. what's going on on that front, and does it matter? >> it's been a partial reversal of the approach that obama began. there have been some concrete measures such as making american visits to cuba more different and to clamp down on the milita

so there's this wonderful picture, i wish we had it today with lbj reaching across the crowd to shakeexas one year later. you know, nowadays, it might be taking a risk to go and shake hands and say good-bye to a democratic president, of the other party, who was unpopular. george h.w. bush it never would have occurred to him. he thought that politics should be civilized that's what he did. >> michael bishoff as we watch the motorcade go through houston. and we're listening to some of the local coverage in houston knowning on. here's the hearse. michael, the bushes have been part of houston life for so long. with moves east and then back west, but really since george h.w. went west young man, they have -- it's been a big home base for them. >> right. and they've really stuck to houston and been a very big part of houston over the last number of decades. for them, although they had come from the northeast and spent a lot of time in new york city and to some extent, washington, it was like moving to the big city. because they moved to houston in the early 1960s from midland, texas, which

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so america did not truly fully embrace lbj's war on poverty and we still have seen that. you're seeing rev right-hand william barb barber picking up where dr. king was as nas nated. 40 days of direction action. let me tell you something right now, you're seeing white folks in kentucky, idaho, kansas, aligning with poor african-americans and hispanics. you're going to see that happen and see this issue addressed over the next several months. the question is will america, republicans and democrats, be ready to deal with the issues. >> jennifer, we have the white house and the press secretary weighing in on the debate surrounding the death of stephon clark. >> those are things that have to be at a local level and not federal decisions at this point in time. >> there are a lot of african-americans moms across the country feel their sons are dying. doesn't the president feel like he has to do something about that? >> i think we should do every single thing we can every single day to protect the people of this country. that's why this president focused on safety and security of

. >>> sunday on "1968: america in turmoil selena liberal politics" as we look back to lbj's great societyel cohen, author of "american milestone." the 1968 election and the politics of division. watch "1968 america in turmoil" live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on "american history tv" on c-span3. >>> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was createed as a public service by america's television cable companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> the national amuse of african-american history and culture recently opened an exhibit looking at the 1968 poor people's campaign, which martin luther king jr. organized to shift the focus of the civil rights movement to economic issues. reverend king was assassinated weeks before the campaign began in washington, d.c. a panel of civil rights activists and smithsonian museum staff looked at the impact

when i approach democrats in a , and suggest lbj, one of the prominent lawyers stood up and said who are you? i had been in town and came here in 1965. thank you for the call. guest: that is a great story. book, iesearched my went through my papers and found oral histories of people who work on the campaign, people would sort of say, staffers involved in the campaign, that they did not like mccarthy on a tosonal level but found him the distance and not really engaged in the campaign and yet, .hey all revered him it is interesting about mccarthy. though he was again a very he waslt person, courageous and had he not done that, i do not think johnson thed have dropped out of race. he would not be the actor work -- antiwar people of the party, go to the convention and debate about the war in vietnam. in that sense, you know, mccarthy inspired a great deal of loyalty among supporters. i found it interesting that among -- among his supporters, he had a great deal -- toward kennedy because he felt he still mccarthy's thunder. mccarthy had been courageous enough to challenge. he did it when

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distracting the message it also had the effect to infuriate lyndon johnson and it ended their friendship lbj thought he betrayed him and it caused great division and he wanted to expand the mission to economic justice and not just blacks but everyone poor whites or appellations or hispanics the great irony of t5 is impoverished from education but t5 the boy was exactly the person that martin luther king wanted to help then he had a big plan for the summer of 68 to organize a nationwide poor people campaign for people of all races converge on washington to protest for economic justice and rights he was broadening the movement people should remember he was so conflicted and overcome by doubts even as early as 66 he would ask himself is it too much for one man to bear? sometimes he would say take it over i'm out. then he would come back to think of the pressure he was under it was hard for him. and challenged by rival leaders. in command of an entire movement he had gone through a series of challenges and doubts. and so that's why -- i think one reason his speech and a the night of april 3rd, 1

they're living and madeleine albright's world and the president is in danger of joining the likes of lbjpresidents, field administrations involved in failed wars by listening to these people. he should not act. if he doesn't act, then he should feel quite comfortable because he the company of george washington, john adams, and the man who said we don't want to be a part of other people's wars. >> tucker: thank you for that. we are following white house all night for any news on syria obviously. hillary clinton meanwhile says america is racist and the solution is calling maxine waters. that story is next. >> racist and white supremacist news is listed in the media and in the white house. [ doorbell rings ] janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use homequote explorer. quiet. i'm blasting my quads. janice, look. i'm in a meeting. -janice, look. -[ chuckles ] -look, look. -i'm looking. it's easy. you just answer some simple questions online, and you get coverage options to choose from. you're ruinin

one of the cowboys was president johnson, lbj, it was his great uncle.e ended up drowning in a river crossing a few years later, but he was one of the top in those days. cores idea was that he needed to draw attention to abilene, and the only way he would do it was -- this is an exciting way to do it, he shipped all the cars back to saint louis for love these wild animals and put on virtually the first wild west show. he had the same cowboys roping mustangs, buffalo, showing off all of these wild animals. and he said, just come to abilene. that is the way it is out there. he went to chicago and did the same thing. also making a deal with kansas pacific to provide a train so that they could be like tourists. they would go to western kansas and see the great herds of buffalo in western kansas. it worked -- it what all the buyers back to abilene and he was able to keep the markets back going where they needed to to keep the cattle coming around texas and buyers coming to abilene. so this whole thing was working really well. there is so much to this story. t

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the establishment didn't think lbj was vulnerable, let alone that that consummate politician would abandonde the white house, it was young people that pushed that seeming impossibility into reality. barack obama has publicly mused on how older voters were initially skeptical of him but young people stepped up. >> i was never the likeliest candidate for this office. it grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy. this is your victory. >> i'm joined now by tony schwartz, he's the co-author of "the art of the deal" and he also wrote "the way we're working isn't working." and he's delved into many of these issues. let's start with how young people in this new gun movement are doing something we remember from the vietnam and the civil rights era. >> i remember students taking over that building in 1970, i have a very good memory of that and all those marches. and i think that what's transformationly changed the experience compared to that one at that time is the blend of the digital world and how it is a microphone and a screen to the world. so these a

in lbj's last couple of years there were some antiwar protesters circling the executive avenue. they were chanting how many kids are here today and he heard it in the white house for days on end he heard the chanting. so the whole idea of a president being able to get away from the bubble of washington, the bubble of the white house just further mental health i think is so important. they need to get away to be relaxed and not worry about it showing up in the newspapers the next day or more protesters or anything like that. >> succumb at camp david has seen very few world leaders other than our own allies. v. accord under the administration was negotiated. so, aside from that, i'm showing some ignorance, is there any other significant policy generated out of camp david? >> i can think of one right off the top of my head that many people you remember in 1979 when it seems the lakers seemed like things were spinning out of control with the interest rates and everything else, carter secretive himself at camp david for a month and there were rumors going on in washington the preside

. >> eager to be sworn in, lbj calls attorney general bobby kennedy for the precise wording of the oathe wants to seize the reigns of power and show the world he's in charge. to bobby, this is hasty to the point of on scene. >> joining us is evan thomas, historian, journalist and this episode focuses on how jfk's death impacted bobby in a profound way. he lost his brother and as attorney general he lost the president he served so closely. what went through his mind in that period right after his brother's death? >> well, he was worried that he'd gotten his brother killed. he was worried about blowback, this assassination was somehow a reaction to that so he was fearful he'd gotten his brother killed. on a grander scale, he has to wonder right away does he step in and pick up his brother's mantle, become a successor and carry the family name into politics? >> and so, as he faced this pressure to carry on the family's role in politics, how did he respond to that pressure and make the decision to run for president himself? >> well, slowly and in agonized way. i mean, took him years. his ba

and there we are in the lbj room. this major portrait of lyndon johnson above us.s myself, jumps up, runs around, grabs my arm and says, "amy, you just took the entire bowl of thousand island dressing and you're about to eat it." [ laughter ] and i said that's what we do in minnesota. we eat the thousand island dressing. but what i learned that day is, and i still try to keep it as my mantra, never forget where you came from. no matter how -- what happens in that place. and if you want to go into politics, if we want more women and younger people to do, you're going to confront obstacles, you're going to have embarrassing moments, but just don't give up. >> seth: thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> seth: really appreciate it. senator amy klobuchar, everybody. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ you are many different things in one amazing package, and t.j.maxx gives you the freedom to express every one. with our unique mix of must-have brands at must-buy prices, you can be active or totally relaxed. ♪ ♪ you can shop online or take it h