if my language gets a little raunchy it's only because i've been listening to lbj. i'll clean this up if you hear me saying that someone never mark can't find his rear end with his hands because i've been listening to the johnson tapes, not because i would ever talk that way in private, but i hope to have a book based on those tapes before too long. thank you so much for asking. >> thank you sir. [applause] >> i think we have time for one more question, yes sir. >> do you see any parallels from the 1850s, with the cultural tribalism leading to the caning in the senate, in terms of what we're experiencing now, and which may lead to a slippery slope. >> i think one thing is positive, and that is that the good news is anyone asks the question have we ever been more divided than we are in 2018? well the good news is, 1859, slieivery, and maybe even 1932, when many americans were saying we should do something radical to solve the great depression with an unemployment rate that was up you know somewhere 25% or 2higher, or 1940 a time that it seemed every american househol

lbj was a suspicious person.drow wilson almost said, i know better than what you americans should do, in pursuing this war and also going to a league of nations, and the result was that he wasn't able to persuade people that an international organization for peace was the right thing to do. the other thing that happened with wilson, you see so often, they have these physical breakdowns, because war is very tough. they have depressions as abraham lincoln did. in franklin roosevelt's case, he had advance cardiovascular disease. so you combine all this, you begin with a president who is going to war with flags flying, even in some cases for the best of reasons, but you'd better be prepared for the fact you will not necessarily know what you will be getting. >> the descriptions that you have here of the death of lincoln, the death of roosevelt are graphic, compelling stories that i've never heard before. again, when i talked to you on a regular basis and especially reading this now, one of the things that always amaz

implement so that you don't end up like algae -- lbj. >> so you have that looming over your shoulder if i don't do something i'm going to end up like lbj a one term president and that would be bad. now you have sort of hinted to the american people are led the people to believe during the campaign that you have a secret plan for ending the war. thus if you like me i have a solution. the problem is he did not have a solution. you know that you have an expiration date. you promised big but now you have to find a way out of the mess. economics is driving and politics is driving and society is driving and you have to find a solution. >> what other problems if you just say to with it. >> we tried our best like uncle walt said. we gave it our best shot but now

that same day, lbj was briefed on the plan. then two days later, a new notice went out regarding operation fracture jaw. look at the first line, quote, discontinue all planning for fracture jaw. also, make all of the material about fracture jaw secret. place all planning material, including messages and correspondence there under security. lbj not only kiboshes the vietnam nuke plan, and fast, it goes to over and secret forever within two days. he takes action to make sure nobody even has any idea that this was even ever considered because he did not want the american people to know that this was even a potential option, even as paranoid and nuts as johnson was because of vietnam at this point in his presidency, he still had the wherewithal and the savvy to shut that plan down when that bubbled up from his generals. who would you rather have been in charge in that situation, the generals or the somewhat crazy president? who would you trust to do the right thing now if that kind of situation arose now? the great michael beschlos

with woody harrelson playing lbj with poor prosthetics. brian cranston took the play all the way to the small screen for hbo and did a marvelous job. -- did a story of soma that included lbj. the first two were pretty good. they helped us, to your point about hamilton shedding new light on the constitution and new interest to the institution , those productions do that for lbj. to have what he and brian come to the library, study the role, i was really impressed at how much they marched into trying to understand him. i was marveling at how curious they were, they wanted to know every factor of this complicated personality. i will tell you, i had a problem with someone because it told the story about lbj's involvement in civil rights in the wrong way. it showed him as an obstructionist. and political contested this version -- the new cycle is 24 hours on a good day. but that story seemed to continue on and on with the run- up to the oscars. we had entertainment tonight calling the library, i said don't you have a kardashian to chase? it bec

mark uptegrove is president and ceo of the lbj organization in austin texas. until recent lip he served as the director of the lynne don johnson library and museum. he has authored four books on presidential history, including his newest book, the last republicans inside the extraordinary relationship between george h. b bush and george b. bush. mark is a commentator for abc news, good morning america and this week. and finally, our third panelist is stewart mcfarland. he is president of the white house historical association. his 30-plus career in washington has been a senior role at georgetown university, the american red cross and the motion picture association. he also worked with the ronald reagan organization to plan and execute the ronald reagan centennial celebration in 2011. please join in welcoming me -- please join me in welcoming today's panel, anita mcbride, mark uptegrove and stewart mcfarland. >> thank you very much. i would also like to recognize gill west and other board member john barrett who was not able to be with us today. anita is on the

a film by rob reiner called " "lbj "lbj." they did a marvelous job. ava did this story of selma which included lbj. the first two were pretty good. they help us. we had woody and bryan come to the library and study the role. i was really impressed with how much they immerse themselves into trying to understand lbj. i marvel at how curious they were. they want to know every facet. it showed him as an obstructionist. >> which was not true. that story seem to continue on and on as a run up to the oscars. we had entertainment tonight calling the library. like don't you have a kardashian to chase. it became a big story. that launched a debate about the responsibility the film maker has in capturing the reality of the subject in telling it accurate story. lbj is to my kids what calvin coolidge would have been to me. that's a long time to go back. >> a modern president has been treated more frequently in movies than john k. kennedy. with the volume of material does the library and foundation respond or does it have any extra traction for you when he's a subj

and let's start by diving into lbj. mark, your leadership with the lbj foundation. monday would have been the 110th birthday of president johnson. and so there was a commemoration of sorts, or at least a noting of that occasion. and johnson was larger than life as president. larger than life post-presidency, and what would he think of his legacy as we see him today? >> well, first of all, stewart, to you and anita, congratulations on this conference. [ applause ] i know how much work they have put into this, and it has clearly paid off. because it's been a rousing success. so congratulations to both of you. >> thanks. >> and thanks to all of you for what you do. i mentioned it yesterday to the group that convened around lunch, but, i'm not only an historian, i'm a patron of your establishments. and i appreciate so much, not only what you do, but the passion that you put into what you do. so, so thanks so much for preserving and perpetuating the history of this great country. stewart, to answer your question, i told a story yesterday that i'll repeat, but lbj, when h

that lbj set him up for this, but john kennedy was leaving and he turned on the porch of the lbj ranch saw me leaning in the corner, came over and said, w hear you're not comih us." i said, "no, i'm going to teach at a baptist school "and i'll get my phd." and he said, "don't you know harvard was founded "by a baptist preacher?" he said, "we need you in washington so i went. and just a few nths into working in the vice president's office, boring job, he was bored out of hi amind, it was a non-jthat time, and i had written a speech for lbj, he said, "i don't have a speech, i'm going to speak "at this university give me a speech." so i sat down on my little portable typewriter and wrote a speech proposing a youth corps, where did i get the idea? from hubert humphrey in minnesota he had been advocating a youth corps a peace corps, kennedy of course picked it up but so did we. and after the election i realized as kennedy announced to that he was goinstart the , that's what i wanted to do so i began what bec fe a strenuous and almoile effort to rest myself free of the vice president's offic

sure that lbj set him up for this, but john kennedy was leaving and he turned on the porch of the lbj ranch saw me leaning in the corner, came over and said, i said, "no, i'm going to teach at a baptist school "and i'll get my phd." and he said, "don't you know harvard was founded "by a baptist preacher?" he said, "we need you in washington," so i went. and just a few months into working in the vice president's office, boring job, he and i had writtenhis mind, it a speech for lbj,at time, he said, "i don't have a speech, i'm going to speak ve "at this uity give me a speech." so i sat down on my little portable typewriter ot and a speech proposing a youth corps, where did i get the idea? from hubert humphrey in tinnesota he had been advo a youth corps a peace corps, kennedy of course picked it up but so did we. and after the election i realized as kennedy announced that hpewas going to start the corps, that's what i wanted to do so i began to rest myself free of thesand t vice president's office. and i was one of the founding organizers of the peace corps, becato its first deputy dir a

lbj hated proxmire. when he thought about running for president at one point, he quickly learned he could not raise the money to run for president because he took his orders from his conscience and not from the people who had money or the marketing consultants. it is hard for me to imagine any career politician being able to do that today. [video clip] >> i suppose i want people to remember i worked hard, i did what i thought was right. i followed my conscience. i helped some, i hope. to prevent the terrible perspective of the holocaust. announcer: you can watch this >> while in helmand, montana, we learned about jeanette rankin who became the first woman elected to congress in 1960. chess but we are in the

thing is that it was really in modern times, lbj that started the tradition that presidents go to the scene of a big accident. you remember, at least from reading about it, 1963, there was a major disaster, naval disaster, nuclear submarine called the thresher, that sank. john kennedy was a naval man, but there wasn't a ceremony, he didn't make a statement. he put out a written statement, but very unlike the way that we see presidents do it in the modern era, which is so closer, so much closer to the way that ronald reagan reacted to the challenger disaster in 1986 by giving that memorable speech from the oval office. >> bill clinton, i was covering him -- >> absolutely. >> when he went to give the teddy bear service, as it was known forever, after the oklahoma city bombing. these are moments where you are the consoler. it comes with the job. >> part of the job is, you're chief of state as well as political leader. that means after something like

we will talk about lbj and one moment. where do you stand on that. the war that we have fought and included soldiers just from a volunteer force if they're going to be a war. one form of the sacrifice is a draft so that everyone is exposed to the risk i guarantee you there will be fewer of those. and you asked about lyndon johnson to his great credit in 1967 he realized that too much of the war was being borne by people who were especially african-american and poor he change the draft laws. and that's when you began to see the huge demonstrations against vietnam and a march on the pentagon. that is something else also. that should be a constraint on future presidents who want to dig -- gingerly to get into wars.

we haven't seen that since fdr and lbj in the last century. the former federal prosecutor andrew mccarthy. but you make of all this with the democrats satisfied? >> they'll never be satisfied because as we've discussed before, this was never about what they said it was about. this is never about whether kavanaugh was a serial. it was never about whether he was a boos back in high school and college or whatever else they alleged the last few weeks. this has always been about delayed. we are talking about democrats in the senate who announced from the beginning that they were never going to support kavanagh whether it came out that he was the greatest legal minds in history and he was the biggest choirboy in the history of maryland. they were never, ever going to support him for ideological jurisprudential reasons. this has always been about delayed. elizabeth: it's also been about big consistency and liz's

we want to think the lbj foundation for being our host venue. special thank you to our candidates. -- coverage continues right now with a special post debate program and in-depth analysis. see how our focus group of undecided voters weighed them. election day is tuesday, november 6. early voting opens october 22. get out there and exercise your right to vote. thank you and good night from austin. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] with the control of congress in question this election day, see the competition for yourself on c-span. debates from key house and senate races. make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. republican and democrat who are running for governor of ohio take part in a debate at marietta college that features an audience participation town hall format. we have live coverage beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3 -- 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. tomorrow night, pennsylvania governor debates challenger scott wagner

. >> good evening, we are coming to you live from the lbj presidential library on the campus of the university of texas at austin for the only texas gubernatorial debate this election season. i am the anchor at kxan news in austin and i will be your host. let's introduce you to our candidates. we begin with incumbent governor greg abbott, who is seeking reelection, and his challenger, former dallas county sheriff lupe valdez. we want to let you know that this debate will be seen on air and online at every nexstar media group market covering the great state of texas. we also have broadcast partners airing this debate in dallas, fort worth, san antonio, and houston. let's introduce you to some of the partners tonight. here are the panelists for the debate. we have an anchor from from san antonio. norman garcia, the political reporter at nbc five in dallas/fort worth, and an anchor from houston. here's a quick rundown of the rules we have this evening. each candidate will get 60 seconds, 30 seconds for rebuttal, and 30 seconds for any follow-ups. the sound of a bell will reign when their time is

so, i think lbj and lloyd bentsen were cut from the same cloth. steve: are the political demographics changing in texas? rep. green: i think they are. i have a district that was created as a predominantly hispanic district. mostly mexican-american. the district was drawn in 1991, when richards was governor. majority of democrats in the legislature. the three new congressional seats were in urban areas, one in dallas-fort worth, johnson has. one in san antonio that was created, the late frank to hader was the state senator, and also member of congress. the one in houston was drawn by a minority district. i was in the state senate. my hispanic friends at showed me, i represented most of that area and i grew up there. in ahey are running hispanic district was unusual. we had some competitive primaries and court cases,. and things like that -- court cases and things like that. i went out without having a primary opponent, for 20 years. steve: why do you think you want in the first place? rep. green: hard work. iran against a city councilmember. they a

change your mind and your vote like an independent texan can. , we are coming to you live from the lbj presidential library on the campus of the university of texas at austin for the only texas gubernatorial debate this election season. i am the anchor at kx a and news news in austin and i will be your host. let's introduce you to our candidates. we begin with incumbent we have an anchor from san diego -- from san antonio. reporter at nbc five in dallas/fort worth, and an anchor from houston. here's a quick rundown of the rules we have this evening. each candidate will get 60 , 30 seconds for rebuttal, and 30 seconds for any follow-ups. the sound of a bell will reign when their time is up. there are no opening statements and candidates will get closing remarks. all questions will be asked in english. we are also presenting a interactive event. xgov/debate.ink t we want to go to steve to begin things tonight. >> thank you robert. the aftermath of mass shootings in parkland, florida and hitting texas at the first , and at santa fe high school, i have talked to many students who say they

i have gone through the lbj types -- tapes. he takes those. he was agonized. he was pushed by his own staff, some against his wishes. was the political strategy of the democrats, the bombing halt helped humphrey. the negotiator in paris was part of the democrats who hated nixon who was working with clark clifford who pushed the bombing halt to get humphrey over the nine -- over the line. book,in teddy white's something that is much overlooked that is also mentioned in clark clifford clifford's book is that the russians very much involved in the election. a russian collusion story that scholars ought to look at. the russians wanted to get hubert humphrey elected. >> you were talking last night development of the advance manual. could you recall that for us? >> does it take for my two minutes? >> yes. >> i made the point that billy graham had said to richard nixon, vice president of the united states in 1960, have one of your men come down. i can show them what we do. carolina andorth met with the billy graham people and they showed him the manual they used when

lbj hated proxmire. when he thought about running for president at one point, he quickly learned he could not raise the money to run for president because he took his orders from his conscience and not from the people who had money or the marketing consultants. it is hard for me to imagine any career politician being able to do that today. >> i suppose i want people to hard, i didorked without thought was right. i followed my conscience. i helped some, i hope. to present the terrible perspective of the holocaust. can watch this and other programs on the history across the country on c-span.org. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. tv,ext, on american history at the end of a three-day conference, on the 19th century american west, scholars discuss the value of studying western history, how key events influenced the west involvement and cultural and political trends today and in the future. the aspen institute posted this event. i want to begin by thanking staffand the institute and everybody. i d

lbj to his great credit, although he made so mistakes in vietnam, said absolutely not.not moving nuclear weapons to vietnam. had he not had a litter of johnson's wisdom and judgment at that moment, you could affect the civil war in vietnam turning nuclear. the russians and chinese could have come in. there could have been tens of millions of human beings killed. truman followed that logic to invite china into the conflict. with congress not declaring despite that's what the constitution requires. is there a difference in how we conduct business. it is so much more instantaneous today. michael: that is one of the reasons. the other reason is presidents want to escape responsibility. harry truman, and i can 51 the koreans invaded south, truman said you would do what presidents normally do and go to congress and ask for a war declaration. i have got it from the notes that were taken in his private meetings. truman says i am not going to do that because i have midterms coming up in a couple months. i don't want a big debate that might be embarrassing to me. i am just going

i am from texas and i come from a long line of texas democrats, folks like lbj and barbara jordan. the last great governor of texas, and richards -- and richards. [applause] i have to think what they would say about our leadership in the white house. we know we need a change. need to get onto different path in this country. often these too days, we see a leader pulling us toward the worst of america. i want to start off by sharing a story about what i thought is the best of america. i served as secretary of housing and urban development over -- under president obama. it was the honor of a lifetime. in those two years, i traveled to 100 different communities in 39 states. i remember visiting san diego, of a housingsite development that was being veterans to provide who were formally homeless with a place to live. i met the developers and he told me that he was a veteran. he had been homeless. way ofoject was his giving back and making showing that others could have the same wonderful second chance that had been extended to him at one time. that is the spirit of our nation. we are a

tenure in the white house from 1966 to 1969 and for over two decades has served as a trustee on the lbj foundation. and susan ford bales is the only daughter of gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the bulk of her father's presidency. since 1981, she has served as a trustee on the gerald ford presidential library foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, cofounder and coexecutive chairman of the carlyle group and our country's leading patriotic philanthropist, generously contributing to the preservation of our nation's history and culture. he is also the host of bloomberg's david rubenstein show, peer to peer conversations. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, matthew mckinley, tweed roosevelt, clifton truman daniel, lynda bird johnson robb , and susan ford bales. and david rubenstein. >> thank you all for coming. i want to apologize again, as one of my roles as chairman of the board of the canada -- board of the kennedy center, i think this is the first time the air-conditioning hasn't worked. but most of you who are descendents of presidents proba

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time the president's job approval is below 50 percent to the party has lost an average of 40 seats lbj ford was at 47 lost 48 event ronald reagan sitting at 40 percent or lost 26 seats bush down at 39 percent obama was at losing 36 seats and 42 percent four years later trump is probably sitting at 43 percent approval right now based on the last 13 nonpresidential elections the republican party should expect to lose an average of 40 seats but i think it will be the upper twenties. >> so that sets the stage so now we would go in chronological order. before the two-term governor of michigan was the beneficiary and of the four of you by far the largest percentage of the vote. >> i benefited from two and i survived one and in 1974 or 1972 elections for mcgovern were wiped out i knew the next timeout would be a good term because there would be six years and it started to plan the congressional campaign at 4:00 in the morning i wanted to serve in congress deal with government and worked on as a child. so in those days you did not declare right away because people would think it was a joke bec

and lbj then nominated thornburg to take his associate justice seat. the fix was clearly in. mr. nixon didn't want to get involved in the battle against portis. or the combination. but a lot of us on the staff were anxious to. we were working with senators up on the hill. john tower, howard baker, bill brock. bill brock was one of the main ones. after a number of months, portis was denied confirmation, and warren stayed on the court. until nixon was elected and nixon replaced him with warren burger, a judge from minnesota. between these events, this is a republican convention. this is nixon at miami beach with a little bit of tear gas around there. nixon was great. his most controversial decision was the man the side of -- the man beside him, mr. spiro t. agnew. after nixon picked agnew, the press went wild. why did you do this? agnew had been tremendously troubled during the riots. and so nixon invited me to watch agnew's speech. where he accepted. and it was just next him and i and -- and it was just nixon and i and nixon sat watching the tv. nixon turned to me and said, i thin

look at the flooding around the lbj dam in texas hill country. 45 minutes northwest of austin. at least one death reported in the area. >>> in ohio, a police officer with strong words for kids playing with a b.b. gun. how this went down and what the officer says now. ian is going te the lead just follow his- hello. uh, no i need it right now. yeah... success is a numbers game. and you're not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait. the more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed. the most inspiring minds. the most compelling stories. download audible. and listen for a change. unstopand it's strengthenedting place, the by xfi pods,gateway. which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. >>> chinese mega-star fan bingbing has been seen in the public for the first time since she vanished in june. picture published by visual china says the snaps were taken october 15th. they show fan arriving a

seemed tax cut to come out of nowhere, you know, i am from texas, and i come from a long line of texas lbj ands, folks like barbara jordan, and the last great governor of texas, and richards -- anne richards. [applause] and i have to think what they would say about our leadership in the white house. we know we need a change. we know we need to get onto a different path in this country. we know that oftentimes these days, we see a leader that is pulling us towards the worst of america. i want to start off tonight by sharing a story about what i saw as the best of america. i had the opportunity to serve secretary of urban housing and development under obama. it was the honor of a lifetime. in those years i traveled to the different communities in 39 states -- 100 different communities in 39 states. i remember visiting san diego, going to the site secretary of g and development under of a housg development being renovated to homeless --formally who were formerly homeless with a place to live. i met the developer, and he told me he was a veteran and that he had been homeless, and this project

lbj hated proxmire. when he thought about running for president at one point, he quickly learned he could not raise the money to run for president because he took his orders from his conscience and not from the people who had money or the marketing consultants. it is hard for me to imagine any career politician being able to do that today. [video clip] >> i suppose i want people to remember i worked hard, i did what i thought was right. i followed my conscience. i helped some, i hope. to prevent the terrible perspective of the holocaust. announcer: you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country on c-span.org. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. c-span studentcam video competition is in full swing. this year's question, what does it mean to be american? students and teachers from her on the country have taken to social media, posting about their entry. someone tweeted, glad to have shared a moment with them of montgomery blair high school as they seek to p

we will talk about lbj and one moment. where do you stand on that.war that we have fought and included soldiers just from a volunteer force if they're going to be a war. one form of the sacrifice is a draft so that everyone is exposed to the risk i guarantee you there will be fewer of those. and you asked about lyndon johnson to his great credit in 1967 he realized that too much of the war was being borne by people who were especially african-american and poor he change the draft laws. and that's when you began to see the huge demonstrations against vietnam and a march on the pentagon. that is something else also. that should be a constraint on future presidents who want to dig -- gingerly to get into wars. it's clear whatever they gained was not worth the cost. the good option of mankind. why did they feel like it was important to fight the war in vietnam. he was told by the secretary of defense. who i see as one of the great villains in american history. i've been studying this for 20 years. he told them it was necessary to fight in vietnam in orde

thank you to the university of texas's lbj school for hosting. also i want to thank schoenfeld as for participating. the reason why i support arming teachers is because it was one of the proposals that came out of the three days of roundtables that i conducted. in the immediate aftermath of the shooting in santa fe, i went to the school in santa fe. i hugged those kids. i talked to the parents and teachers. then we had these roundtables to talk about very meaningful solutions, saying that never again should we allow this to happen, because schools are a place to learn, not a place for fear. in the aftermath of the three days of round-tables, we had multiple solutions, one of which was to give the choice to schools to arm people on the school, not necessarily teachers, but it could be a coach, it could be an administrator, it could be a staff member. it does not have to be a teacher , which is very, very important. it is not the state mandating that teachers be armed, but allowing schools at their choice. >> thank you, governor. sheriff valdez, yo

even like lbj when you think about what lbj did in those first 18 months, medicare, medicaid, civil rights, voting rights. i mean, where is humility? certainly lincoln had that in spades. it doesn't mean you're humble, it means you know you have limitations and can acknowledge your errors and learn and grow as a result. >> president trump was asked what his biggest failure was and he couldn't come up with one. he basically said that i didn't do nafta sooner. you talk about you look for, i think, a common thread between these four presidents that you write about and one of the common threads is empathy. talk about that. >> it means that you can understand other people's points of view. teddy roosevelt said that the way democracy would fail would be if people in other regions, sections and religions and parties see each other as the other rather than as fellow diseases, fellow human beings. lincoln was born with empathy. when he saw a little turtle being used by little kids to put hot coles on the turtle's back he went up and said this is wrong. teddy roosevelt developed empathy. he didn't h

i mean all of my guys, lbj felt fdr was his hero. fdr felt teddy was his hero.dy felt lincoln was his hero. lincoln felt washington was his hero. >> teddy in the upper right there. he finds donald trump very funny in this fiction. >> he got that look. if anybody could come today to combat mr. trump i think it would be teddy roosevelt. i mean he was as much of a central figure, i mean he loved to be in the center of attention but wanted a square deal for the rich and the poor, the capitalist and wage worker and had all these pit this. >> he would be a bull moose challenge would be the right thing for donald trump -- >> he was able to have a self-deprecating sense of humor which you don't see in trump at all. laugh at yourself when you have to. >> doris kearns goodwin, i really appreciate you stopping by "the beat." i hope you'll come back. gene, great having you. "leadership in turbulent times," check it out. >>> we turn to a progressive icon with warnings for donald trump and the democrats as we approach midterm polling, favoring the dems, ralph nad ser here com

sheriff valdez: thank you to the people behind the scenes at the lbj library. i am running for governor because i want to give every day texans a fighting chance. i want to make sure the government is fair, equal, and provides opportunity for all of us. i came from the poorest zip code in san antonio, a child of migrant workers. because of public education, i went on to college, the military, federal agent, and sheriff of dallas county. i had over 2700 employees and a million. over $160 with compassion and working with a lot of folks, we made that agency into a model department. opportunity and texas should be as big as the texas sky. i want to bring that to texas, so i humbly ask for your vote. god bless you and texas. >> governor, 60 seconds. governor abbott: we live in a state where anything is possible, a state where a young man's can be broken and he still can rise up and be governor. in texas, you can succeed no matter your circumstances. four years ago, i promise to make texas better, and since working together we elevated texas to new heights. we are nu

tv --arr, lbj, reagan had lbj, and reagan had tv.o is it more about the character of the person in the office than technology? alex: all of those parallel mechanisms to communicate with the american public were considered. obama went around the media all the time. we did not love it, but it was a concerted effort to get their message communicated and it was an orchestrated effort. the tweets that are issuing forth from 1600 pennsylvania avenue -- they are at 4:00 in the morning, misspellings, emotionally charged, off-the-cuff. they are not considered dialogue with the american public, and that feels really new, and that might be the personal, the politician itself. there is -- i do not know if there is any other politician or presidential nominee that would think to issue the tweets that this president had. it changes the dynamic of what is acceptable to issue forth to the american public. jeffery: the central points -- you can blame it all on the election of 1912. [laughter] when it that is comes back to the progressive era in histo

. >> so you have that looming over your shoulder if i don't do something i'm going to end up like lbj a one term president and that would be bad. now you have sort of hinted to the american people are led the people to believe during the campaign that you have a secret plan for ending the war. thus if you like me i have a solution. the problem is he did not have a solution. you know that you have an expiration date. you promised big but now you have to find a way out of the mess. economics is driving and politics is driving and society is driving and you have to find a solution. >> what other problems if you just say to with it. >> we tried our best like uncle walt said. we gave it our best shot but now we need to pat ourselves on the back and leave. >> they have still gotten to that point. what is the biggest advantage when he comes into office? >> you did not start the war but he can end the war. >> what else? >> it can only get better. >> what are nixon's credentials? what are his bona fides as he takes over? >> he served in the navy in world war ii. he has been a senator. he was e

that we're -- >> all right, as john brennan turns away from questions from the moderator, mark, of the lbj foundation, president and ceo, let's talk about what we just heard. and bob bayer, we'll come back to the topic about the bombs in a second, but as a former cia operative, that's a former cia director, very directly saying that the president of the united states, his rhetoric and his language has an -- an argument could be made that he has incited individuals to take matters into his own hands. he didn't say that trump was specifically responsible for what happened today or this week, but it was a pretty tough criticism. >> no, i don't think trump believes that he's in any way responsible for this, and he's not directly responsible for the pipe bombs, but he has incited violence. we know that. and this populist agenda is directed at his base and the far right of his base, which looks at john brennan as a member of the so-called deep state. that john brennan is part of a conspiracy against trump, against the united states. john brennan is the one that essentially opened the russian fil

lbj was sitting at 49% approval. he in '66 lost 47. ford was ad 47, lost 48. even the great ronald reagan was sitting at 43% approval lost 26 seats. clinton was at 46 approval, in '9 had, lost 52 in control. bush down to 39% by 2006, lost 30 seats, obama was at 45 and '10 lost 63 seats and control. and 42% four years later and lost 13 seats. trump is probably sitting at 43-44, 45% approval right now. but based on those last 13 non-presidential elections, the republican party should expect to lose by these numbers, an average of 40 seats, but i think we'll lose in the upper 20s, and you'll see a blue wave in the house. >> all right that sets the stage. >> david: before we get going time for four little history lessons and we'll take them in echronological order starting from the first. before mr. jim blanchards was our ambassador of canada, and two-term to michigan. he was a beneficiary of the watergate waive. of the four of you got swept into office by far the largest percentage of the vote. the landslide jim blanchered explain to us. >> i love waves and benef

lbj did not lie when he asked for congressional support. he was under tremendous pressure to do more in vietnam. 1964, a report in august the uss maddox had been attacked by north vietnamese boats. when my camaro i went to vietnam in 1998, that occurred. mara went to vietnam in 1998, that occurred. i spoke to some people who were on the maddox who said they were certain the attacks occurred. we don't have time to go into this, but this was not a matter of anybody lying, nor did kissinger gordon nixon lie. they thought -- the agreement was flawed. we had just kicked the but of north vietnam -- the butt of was, vietnam and the game if it violates the agreement, we will send the b-52s back and it was only when congress may that illegal that it was impossible to fill those promises, but nixon and kissinger had no idea that congress was going to cut all funds. there are a lot of people have different views about vietnam, between 1968 and 1975, i was in 42 out of 44 provinces. i can tell you what i saw and the difference in the delta was incredib

liz: he's saying central mayor car and south america, lbj was forward that. why not do it now?the concept after merit-based system. the important thing is to identify how it is defined. what does that mean? remember that's even if you are just college educated, for example, if you are looking at the issue of national security, think about the and bernadine oe san bernardino shooters. and my grade grandparents had little or no education and lived the american dream. liz: i'm sorry we are short on time. the president did speak. stay right there. more after the break. >> breaking news, moments ago the murder of jamal khashoggi -- we bring in -- >> he was to have a forceful response but was to make sure he is all the facts and will put america's interest forward on the issue. >> he's also saying the white house he will yankees of certain saudi officials, your reaction? >> you want to do is in the best interest of america. this isn't just about the death of jamal khashoggi. the rest of the world is watching. if president trump is easy on the saudis it will be a telltale sign for oth