it is a very low approval rating for lbj. along with the fact that he is not terribly popular, he is not running for reelection. the last time there had been a supreme court justice confirmed by the senate who had been nominated by a president who had announced he was not running for reelection was 1893. that was a long time ago. this charming looking man. this was how will jackson, he was a grover cleveland nine the. serve for a couple of years and got ill and died in the 1890's. from this standpoint, there is a good precedent for johnson. a sickly any president who is nominated gets confirmed. why this precedent, johnson may have some problems here. he fills to anticipate where the key opposition comes from in 1968. this is the chart that johnson is looking at as he's making his election in 1968, this is the roll call vote for marshals confirmation. you will notice that this is not a unanimous vote, like many of the other thirties, forties and fifties nominees have been. there are 11 senators who voted against thurgood mars

it is lady bird critique of an lbj speech.hat was right after a press conference and you could hear how very direct she is with the president in his approach and his presidency. >> you want to listen to that one minute to my critique. >> yes, ma'am. >> [ inaudible ]. you look spledid. the close up were much better. they were more close up than they were distant. during the statement, you were a little breathless and it was too much looking down and i think it was a little too fast. not enough change of pace. a drop in voice at the end of sentence. there was a considerable pickup in drama and interest when the questioning began. your voice was noticeably better and your facial expressions were much better. i thought your answer was good. i thought your answer on vietnam was good. i really didn't like the answer on the doll because i think i heard you say, and i believe you actually have said out loud that you don't feel you ought to go out of the country this year. so i then don't think you could very well -- [ inaudible ]. >>

if you just type johnson lbj home movies.he said that was the favorite campaign and it was the only one they lost. >> would you talk about progression from congressional aide to congress? >> when shemar married him, th when she started out. she had been married six weeks or five weeks or something and he served about a year before he went back to texas so he could be head of the national youth administration. and then she goes back in 1937 when he's elected to congress and other she's there for about a dozen years as a congressional wife and she's very good at making -- at networking with other women. she's a very loyal member of the congressional wive's club. then he gets elected to the senate in 1948 and she's a loyal member of the senate wives. in the house years, in 1941 after pearl harbor, lyndon enlisted. he had been in the naval reserve and he enlisted and went off on active duty. she ran his congressional office. i don't think we have another first lady who ran her husband's office. beth truman worked in the office fo

has elements of lbj's personality. it's almost like he's married george wallace's instincts to lbj's inflexibility. so, now we're in a situation where scientists have gone to him, friends have gone to him, said, hey, we really need to have locked this thing down and put masks on, otherwise 150,000 to 300 thoushs people are going to die. now he didn't listen to them. now he's sitting here with the mail-in ballot issue and he recognizes it's very, very hard on the data systems to predict what's going to happen with mail-in balloting. he's getting that feedback with the campaign. and he has this sort of tweet. there's two elements of that tweet. one, to rile everybody up on this network and other networks. number two, it's to deflect from the disastrous economic numbers today. our gdp has fallen 33%. it is the worst gdp differential in modern economic history, so, he wants to deflect there. and then, the third thing, chuck, which i have seen all too well, he'll throw these things out and then he'll begin the process of sp

for lbj this is just one more bill he is passing. i do not know he fully realizes how important it is, or how transformative it is going to be. it is part of this wave of civil rights legislation. in a way it is the same coalition behind these laws. they're all about civil rights and human equality. immigration is very much part of it. host: i'm going to combine audience questions. this is addressed in your book in a couple of ways. one of the arguments against immigration is, they are taking our jobs. and there is always the question of are they an economic benefit or an economic drag. are those arguments in your research he saw across time, or is that a new argument against immigration? jia lynn: it is always going on. what is so interesting, is that you see, as we do now, a lot of people pro-immigration our business interests. i will pause, and and describe a bit how we thought about the u.s.-mix go border because that is all we thought about -- thick about now. -- think about now. in the past when you sit -- when you said 'immigr

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by then he had already was on the outs with lbj and essentially talking to her about lbj's shortcomings you have to really listen to that with that in mind. >> well, we're talking about first person historical documents. shelden cooper on twitter asked -- some of the previous first ladies burn letters from their husbands. did jackie do that? or did john write to her very much? >> i think says in the december 2, 1963 phone call with lbj, you hear emotion in her voice, i now have more handwritten letters from you, mr. president, lyndon johnson, than i did from jack. i don't think -- >> then jfk in general did not write long, emotive letters to anyone. >> right. he wrote a lot as a youngster to his parents and siblings but was not a romantic i think it would be safe to say towards his wife. we don't know she burned any letters, but her letters currently are not available yet at the kennedy library. >> rachel is in portland, oregon. hi, rachel. >> hi. thank you so much for this program. and i was wondering how did jacqueline kennedy influence art and fashion in the united states? >> and rac

you put lbj courtship letters, and you can read the transcripts.they were conducting a hot and heavy courtship there. >> she was not going to waste. >> she was at the time of congressionally, and so she knew she was going to select someone in politics. >> you could be a did not run, but he had ambitions. and she was for those ambitions. >> she seemed like very directive. he knew he wanted to go from the get-go. was she encouraging this? did she have any doubts about it? >> from her own oral history, she said hold on here, and said, well, are you going to marry me or not? because if you're not, let's just not see each other. so she finally said, oh, okay. >> did her father approved? >> she like london, but it was too fast. london showed up on halloween, so, what is that? seven weeks later? i mean, the time they had spent together, which was about five days i think, they were ready to get married right then. even the fathers that this was a little bit too fast, and the woman who enters them thought it was too fast. and f he thought it was too fast. w

lbj was not happy as vice president. kennedy had isolated him -- not so much jack but bobby, there was a raging contempt for each other. because bobby was closer to jack, lyndon johnson was shut out and he is not part of these two days. although he makes a very memorable speech about 30 days before in which he uses morality and talks about the morality of the american presidency and what it should be doing for the american black. but these two days he is not present, and actually he is not much present beyond the space program. this is an extremely difficult time for him. robert caro deals with this. he was shrunken and almost invisible in the kennedy administration. did try jack kennedy hard on several occasions to make him feel at home, but he did not trust him as much as he could have. lyndon johnson would become the great civil rights president within a year. colleen: from rick, do you believe the assassination of medgar evers one day after kennedy's june 11 speech was some kind of statement to jfk? andrew: well, it

by then, he had already -- was on the outs with lbj, and was essentially talking to her about lbj's shortcomings. so, i think you have to really listen to that with that in mind. >> while we're talking about first person historical documents, sheldon cooper on twitter asks, "some of the previous first ladies burn letters from their husbands. did jackie do that, or did john write to her very much? " >> well, i think she says in the december 2nd... >> she does. >> ... 1963 phone call with lbj -- and you even hear a little emotion in her voice, where she says, "you know, i -- i now have more handwritten letters from you, mr. president lyndon johnson, than i did from jack" -- i don't think she... >> and jfk, in general, did not write long, emotive letters to anyone. >> right. he certainly wrote a lot as a youngster to his parents and to siblings, but was not a romantic... >> mm-hmm. >> ... i think it would be safe to say, towards his wife. but we don't know that she burned any letters, but her letters currently are not available yet at the kennedy library. >> rachel is in portland, oregon. hi, rache

because really they act in some ways to have as much power as the president grants him so with the lbj and jfk administration lyndon johnson is the vice president under jfk the attorney general kennedy's brother from the days they were both in the senate and robert kennedy tries to demean johnson and we can his role in that was the first 1000 days but then you have those circumstances now suddenly the vice president and now kennedy works with the president and in the oval office that in the coronavirus. but that is unusual. sometimes you have a president giving certain powers to a vice president it's interesting in the book i point out humphrey was lbj vice president and from what he said he was nicer to his and in fact the opposite as he was belittling humphrey but then in his later years he did say the vice president did become more comfortable you look at dick cheney he is very involved between secretary rice as the national security advisor and then :-colon powell. and then i mentioned earlier the bush domestic team but the foreign-policy team and then the vice president was an imp

and for over two decades, has served as a trustee of the lbj foundation. and susan ford bails is the fourth child and only daughter of our 38th president, gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the bulk of her father's presidency, and since 1981, has served as a trustee of the gerald ford presidential foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, the co-founder and co-executive 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 "the david rubenstein show: peer-to-peer conversations." ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to this stage matthew mckinley, tweed roosevelt, linda johnson rob, susan ford bails and david rubenstein. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. i want to apologize again, as one of my roles of the chairman of the board of the kennedy center. i think this is the first time the air conditioning hasn't worked. most of you who are descendents of presidents probably have ancestors

have to play an important role they acted the pleasure of the president and the very circumstance in lbjand jfk administration is the vice president under john f. kennedy. the attorney general is kennedy's brother who hates johnson and hated since that they are both in the senate johnson as a senator. wisconsin trying to demean lyndon johnson and weaken his role in the robert kennedy was the most powerful person for this first thousand days. then he had the terrible tragic circumstance were kennedy is assassinated and suddenly the vice president is elevated to the presidency. and now rfk, robert kennedy's working for someone who hates him there's a screaming fight they have in the oval office shortly after johnson is inaugurated right after the first cabinet meeting prayed they don't talk for two months after that. think about it rfk was the sitting attorney general and did not talk to the president for two months that is unusual sometimes you have the president giving certain powers to a vice president it's interesting in the book that hubert humphrey you think lbj might have learned ha

i also point out that hubert humphrey it was lbj's vice president lbj might have learned from experience he had to be nicer more inclusive. an effect the opposite was the case he was as belittling as humphrey as the kennedy people were of johnson and this measure of events. in later years they have become more powerful the bush 43 administration obviously dick cheney who mentioned earlier when he was deputy chief he is very involved in the clash of the titans between secretary rice and colin powell and donald rumsfeld heard a mention earlier in team got along the port engine foreign policy the vice president was an important part of that. the vice president i just really liked into a serious situation with the vice president was able to tamp down conflicts. but sometimes he vice president is involved. civic thank you. great, with a lot of questions coming in salt try to get to as many as we can take it we can keep it short so we can get to some more of them. but also like to answer the question or have something to say we are happy to have you share your wisdom as well. i have another qu

peniel joseph is the barbara jordan chair in ethics and political values at the lbj or school of public affairs and a professor of history at the university of texas at austin. he's written several previous books on african-american history including stokely: a life, and he lives in austin, texas. he's joined by the assistant professor of african and african-american studies and social studies at harvard university. he's written for npr, huffington post, baltimore son, the nation, time and tv news and more. his broader academic interests include political thought, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, the philosophy of race and racism, questions of poverty, crime and incarceration and political and social theory and the aesthetics and sociology of hip-hop and black youth culture. thank you so much for joining us virtually tonight, and i'm going to hand the screen over to you guys. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> all right. all right. well, it is an honor and a privilege, as always, to be here with my dear brother and somebody i consider to be an enormous inspir

lbj on the side. he's very committed to the warren court revolutionary. he was kennedy's only appointee, very deferential to congress. very pro law enforcement and is in dissent in miranda. so there was a balance on both sides, but essentially the most frightening thing about the war in court, look at all the former judges and politicians on the court. you black, former police court judge in alabama. he saw all of it firsthand! there's another great biography, so many great biographies that our viewers have to see. but the great biography of hugo black, who describes how as a lawyer, he is trying a hispanic defendant and he brings the defendant up and closes the stage the defendant looks menacing and does not say anything, he just as i want the jury to take a look at that man. later, he regrets that kind of behavior, and as a police court judge, he thought that he saw how the system can be really abused to the third degree. tom clark, a former politician as well, just all of these guys -- most importa

to -- scoop jackson, hubert humphrey would be appalled, lbj would be appalled.o democrats adapt and adjust to the deficit that is to come? sen. van hollen: in this case, the challenge we face is doing economyand allowing the spendings case, we are money to try to keep afloat. there is no doubt this will add trillions to our deficit. i've been one of those who argued we need to be prudent when it comes to deficits. i think we will have to look at a variety of things. the $2 trillion addition to the deficit from the trump tax cut put us further in the hole. that is not my number. that is the congressional budget office number over 10 years. we will have to figure this out going forward. probably the worst thing for the deficit at this point would be for the economy to be even harder hit. -- tom: i look at the past and i think of pat buchanan, richard nixon, and a gentleman from maryland named agnew. what he did was identify a silent majority. how does your candidate when the silent majority this time around? the president assumes he owns it. sen. van hollen: joe b

. >> lbj feels confident to move forward.condition that north neat vietnam has asked for has been met. so, four-party peace talks, will happen. well in saigon november 1st, the president stands up and drops his major bombshell. >> translator: south vietnam cannot participate in the negotiations. >> i have no more things to tell you. >> embarrassment is commonly today among americans here in vietnam particularly those of us who have acquaintances among the vietnamese. we find ourselves apologizing. >> once we heard the means were not aboard, i said let this play out, when the south vietnam thing breaks it's going to look like johnson didn't have all his ducks in a row and it's as political as can be. >> i think president johnson wen into this bombing clause with the very best intentions. i think the reason the ducks were not in a row is he was relying on an old team. a team of well-intentioned men but they're tired. i think we need a new team. a new team that won't make these mistakes. -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a m

maybe lbj. >> it's ok, i'm a new yorker. >> i know, you can handle it.'m not worried about you at all. the rotation away from tech, let's continue this conversation. out,talk about rotating asia, china, europe, much more so. is there an argument to stay u.s.-based? rest of the, the world is recovering faster than the u.s. production inhe china, we saw it in the data coming out of china in the last week and we saw it coming out of europe. so the rest of the world is recovering faster. valuations tend to be higher in the u.s. and i think you definitely have to have an allocation to europe but the softer dollar does argue for a cyclical tier in the u.s. dollar is helping these multinational companies and multinational companies are exposed. u.s.,ve to stay in the but i think asia is great and i think europe looks like a nice trading here. >> will continue this conversation. is the weaker dollar a symptom of the foreign influence or a driver of them? >> matt is a really great technical question, thank you. i think it is a symptom and it let's gotom because b

the lbj scenario, president johnson was a brawler. he was a strong political fighter, but in the wake of the protests in the vietnam war and in the wake of the protests in the street and in the wake of his surprisingly strong challenge from eugene mccarthy in the new hampshire primary, his psyche buckled and he said, i'm not going to put myself in the country through it and he said he was not going to run for reelection. the president is down in the polls. the president has been the subject of four years of unbelievably harsh criticism. if,ould not surprise me over the july 4 of weekend or shortly thereafter, in consultation with his family, he decided it just wasn't worth it. i don't think it's going to happen. but then again, i think if you had said in the middle of january 1968, woodland and baines johnson not be a candidate for renomination, that woud be considered -- >> sunday morning we will discuss with monuments on "washington journal." watch sunday morning and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook com

remember that lbj, lyndon baines johnson, understood when he signed the civil rights act of 1964 andoting rights act of 1965, he made a comment that he w he was ceding the south to the republican party. i say that because as we talk about john lewis' continuing fight until his last days for voting rights, one of the things we saw republicans shift from was in 2006 bipartisan support for reauthorization the voting rights act of 1965. but after 2006, by december of 2019, we saw the republicans stand up to oppose it, including doug collins who said as a republican that it was a political weapon, that somehow the right of black, latino, native americans to have their rights without barriers to the ballot box. democracy can only be a tool to advance problem solving, selecting leaders that do that. that's what john lewis was in the room for. that's what lyndon baines johnson was willing to stand up for. and that's the continuing fight that we still have that john lewis was fighting literally until the day he died. >> as we continue to watch and wait for the ceremony to begin here, a bit of

nixon, lbj use language far more salty and you would argue today's standards racist. this man is a good-hearted man and i really do believe that in terms of the economic opportunity zones and the criminal justice reform, he really has done more than any recent president for integration and the advancement of everybody regardless of their race, color, creed, religion. you know this. >> sean: dan, this is what it comes down to, slogans, bumper stickers, symbolism. i will take the substance. i will take the jobs, i'll take the opportunity zones, i will take the money for historically black colleges. iol will take the results over e rhetoric. every two years, every four years, he is a sexist, racist my whole life. >> do you want a talker or do work? do you want a guy who build t stuff or talked about building s stuff. the greatest political scam in the last 50 years has been the media perpetrating the falsehood that the democrat party is on the side of the minorityd community. this is ridiculous. do you know how many people, by the way, do op-ed columns and elsewhere whis

>> lbj is the hinge. he was feeling enormous pressure how the antiwar was developing. and that situation with every battle the vietnam and how many battles have taken place and what documents they can retrieve and then with the domestic policy advisers and what protest was taking place. and so on these very days to not run for president again. and then mcnamara, and other members of the world on - - cancel. and the other thing is and then to say how will we win? >> and with a list of cast of characters why do you do that? >> because there are so many people in this book and i want the reader to feel overwhelmed because as it unfolds you know which characters you will follow to the book and then it's been a few chapters. look at the cast of characters to be refreshed. and then to intimidate people that then you don't see them again. >> there are some characters in the early chapters who come back like in chapter 27. >> you started the book when? >> started in the year 2000 looking at the "washington post" al gore and the biographical stories. i came up with the concept

i can tell you what eisenhower did and lbj, i can tell you what donald j.id, but i can't tell you what obama did. now, i want to educate obama the former law school professor and all y the leftist kooks out the, this country systemically racist? let me tell you something, no country puts thousands of men on the battlefield and loses them in a civil war. they keep the union and end slavery. the equivalent of 4 million men lost their lives to end slavery. that's a little bit more than barack obama has done or lebron james. e let's go over it quickly civil rights act of 1866, does that sound like a country systemically racist? i don't have time to get into what everyone of these is civil rights actba of 1861. civil rights act of 1865, civil rights act of 1957, civil rights act of 1960, liberals, follow along. civil rights act of 1964, civile rights act of 1965, civil rights act of 1968, civil rights act of 1990, civil rights act of 1991, we have supreme court decisions, 1948, shelley versus kraemer. 1954 brown versus board of education, 1962 valley versus pete

nixon, lg lg lbj used what is sd racist. this man is a good-hearted man and i really do believe that in terms of the economic opportunity zones and the criminal justice reform, he really has done more than any recent president for integration and the advancement of everybody regardless of their race, color, religion. you know that. >> sean: dan, this is what it comes down too. slogan stickers, symbolism. i will take the substance. i will take the jobs. i will take the opportunity zones. i will take the money for historically black colleges. i will take the results over the red rake. every two years, every four years, dan bongino. the racist, sexist, my whole list. >> you want a talker or you want a do were? you want to guide that built up for a guy that talks about building stuff. you know sean the greatest political scam in the last 50 years has been the media perpetrating the myth and falsehood that the democratic partdemocraticparty e minority. this is ridiculous you know how many people op-ed columns whispering in the pr

all of the work that the civil rights movement, that its leaders made, including presidents like lbj, to make suhr that the fa sure that the fair housing act, which was passed right after the passing of martin luther king jr. and to make sure that it came to fruition and all that followed that to give life to the civil rights act, the fair voting rights act, just because it was all done doesn't mean it was done well. and we finally in 2015 got this unfinished piece of business as it related to housing done and these guys come in a couple years later and put it on ice and say no, no, we're going to go backward to take us back to 1950 or choose your year when people could still be discriminated against because of the color of their skin. it's one more reason why i think so many people have had enough of this administration and they want somebody in the oval office who is actually committed to equal opportunity and the best aspirations of the civil rights movement. >> you spoke to senator kamala harris this week about the gridlock in congress regarding the eviction moratorium and other c

the problem cess' running as richard nixon but is he lbj.problem there. >> it's all -- this is all happening on his watch. he has no one else to blame. he can try, but it won't be very convincing outside the very narrow anti-reality community in which he spends his days absorbing tv junk. >> david frum, always great to talk to you. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. bye-bye. >>> the uk tries to answer the question, do alcohol and social distancing mix? we're live with the pictures next. usaa is made for what's next no matter what challenges life throws at you, we're always here to help with fast response and great service and it doesn't stop there we're also here to help look ahead that's why we're helping members catch up by spreading any missed usaa insurance payments over the next twelve months so you can keep more cash in your pockets for when it matters most and that's just one of the many ways we're here to help the military community find out more at usaa.com to help the military community and the hidden smiles. the foggy gl

king, but when they finally got the right to vote after all of this bloody, all the marches to get lbjts act, she decided to join in. after the voting rights act was passed into law. she even registered people to vote, all because of her son, who took his signal from his own mother and her faith. >> for viewers who are watching these images from selma, i want you to know some of the buses, some of the vehicles, they are members of john lewis' family traveling with him. that's why you're seeing this procession and numerous vehicles heading from the church to the edmund pettus bridge now. bakari, the notion about freedom not just a one-time act. something that must continue always. the fact that john lewis was there at black lives matter plaza in washington earlier this summer, it speaks to how he lived the words he spoke, he lived to the advice he gave. >> i mean, he also knew, just thinking about bloody sunday and the bridge he's about to go across, that not only is freedom a verb, justice is a verb as well, but he also would always say that freedom ain't free. it requires you to act.

. >> joining me now is the assistant dean of the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texasutor. what does what he allegedly said to alexandria ocasio cortez have to do with loving his god and his family? >> i truthfully have no idea but what i do know is a.o.c.'s speech is one for the history books. when i saw this speech i could not move for the entirety of the ten minutes. i was captivated. you know, i'm looking at the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. this is in the background. i'm preparing my classes, talks i'm giving where we are commemorating the hundred years women in this country had the right to vote. we see that even though we have come a long way, many things have not changed. and a.o.c. along with other women in a variety of representative bodies are highlighting how we are still fighting that fight,how we have to have that descriptive representation in order to break down the institutionalized misogyny. >> it was remarkable. i agree. very powerful ten minutes and it has been widely applauded from all corners. that said, there was a response on twitter b

act, not just the changes made under recent previous presidents, but this goes all the way back to lbj. he's basically saying to white subu suburbanites, i guess, i'm going to protect you from black people? >> this is a strategy by the president to win back some of those white suburban voters who have been fleeing him according to the polls, in particular college-educated white women who left the republican party en masse in 2018 to help democrats win back the house. and polling shows they're with biden right now. but if trump can peel some of them back into the fold between now and november he could have a better chance of carrying a state like pennsylvania where there are so many suburban voters in the philadelphia area, for example. so there's a deliberate effort here to try to win back those white suburban women. >> and kristen, you know that area well, of course, in pennsylvania, that's one of those three states that helped him win the election, and it was the suburban white women whom he lost, as well as a lower than anticipated turnout of black people in philadelphia. >> that's

i also point out that hubert humphrey was lbj's vice president and he might've learned from the experience that he had to be nicer with humphrey and the opposite was the case, he was belittling. in later years without the vice president he had become her powerful in the bush 43 administration, cheney was deputy chief of staff, he is very involved between secretary right in security advisor and he had colin powell who got expelled in cheney's vice president and i mentioned earlier the bush domestic team in week three, the foreign policy team was rightfully in insight, the vice president was important part of that, the vice president, i just really seen to a serious situation with the vice president he was able -- sometimes they are involved. >> we have a lot of questions coming in, i'll try to get to as many african and we need to try to keep it short so we can get to more of them. if you answer the question have something to say, were happy to have you share your wisdom as well, i have a question from gabby g, which white house had the biggest fight that impacted execution of policy? >> i

lbj said, how can i get civil rights legislation enacted.o do it incrementally and can i bring the nation along with me. the opportunity for donald trump or any republican is to speak to unifying principles in this moment. they're fundamentally not doing that. the nation sees it and they'll reject that message from republicans in november. >> which brings me, garrett, to you because before you make texas your second home it was a place called capitol hill that you spent most of your days. you know the politics of all of this. how is this all playing in texas? does the president's strategy make texas more or less of a battleground state? >> well, look. texas will be as much of a battleground state as the biden campaign decides to make it. it's on the cusp of being competitive, but it's going to take an enormous outlay of money and time and expense to compete across the state of 30 million people and dozens of media markets. and texas is probably still going to be decided on the economy, not on cultural war issues. the economy in texas had don

lbj was concerned he wasn't getting the straight story from the general so he wanted his son-in-law toend back dispatches and that's what that is. we don't know whether johnson was particularly overwhelmed by the reports, although, they weren't good. you can imagine he was. think about what else is going on by that time in his presidency martin luther king had been assassinated, robert kennedy had been assassinated. it was a time of woe in america and carl longley wrote a book about 1968 and johnson has that picture on the cover also. we chose it because, first of all, we want people to know right away this is a historical book although we have a president at the moment who is fascinating and interesting and obviously i write about him, this is a book about the office, the burdens of the office and that picture pretty quickly gets you right to the burdens and also johnson is the author of my favorite quote about the presidency. so that also was nice to have him teed up there as well. >> what's your favorite quote about the presidency? >> johnson said come he had a lot of great quotes,

you mentioned women, >> lbj and barack obama. >> lbj, and president kennedy , yes but at that meetinghere i met president kennedy i also met and in johnson. and i said before the speech that lyndon johnson gave on march 15 and i wish every student of american politics, every high school student want to know anything about the civil rights movement, should read that speech of president johnson's. he started that speech off by saying i speak tonight for the dignity of man and for the destiny of democracy. at times history and faith need a safer place in man and freedom and he went on to say it was more than a century ago where i was for this last week in selma alabama. he condemned the violence in selma, introduced the voting rights act read and as i said before. he was the first one to use the theme song of the civil rights movement in his speech or in a statement. when you said and we shall overcome. the morning of august 6, 1965, he called james farmer and myself. the only two of the so-called six to meet with him that morning when he signed the voting rights act in 1965. jet lyndon

ultimately, he will stand just like lbj, and at one point in his life, he will step away from the political trap and he will say, if nominated, i will not run. if elected, i will not serve. one thing sherman always protected was his popular image. he knew when not to get into politics, unlike his friend and superior, general grant. that is why this image comes to us in tact. he was willing to look down the road and figure that scars heal. it takes a long process sometimes, but if you don't do certain things, you will be rewarded. sometimes perceptions change. controversial, and that is up to us. and that includes my program for this afternoon. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] american history tv, on c-span3, were each weekend we spend time exploring the past of american history. ♪ >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, supreme court, and public policy events. you can watch all of c-span's public a

instead, lbj's vice president, a guy called who uber humphrey, a want -- someone who is ambivalent about the war in vietnam but promised to carry on johnson's policy, he gets the nomination. he had been around the political bush a few times and was named richard mill house nixon. nixon lost to kennedy in 1960. he lost his bid to become governor of california. but richard nixon is not an easy guy to make disappear. he comes back from the political dead and wins the republican nomination and he does something tricky. i won't be able to say much more today, but he does something very interesting. nixon had maine his balance politically as a fierce anti communist. as a guy who always said we need to stand up to the threat of soviet communism. but by 1968, the war in vietnam was wearing thin with, again, not just radicals and young people but more and more americans. they did not want to betray their troops. they did not want to give up on their vision of what the united states stood for. they certainly did not have a radical critique of american foreign policy. but my gosh the war had been g

lbj's vice president, hubert humphrey, he was ambivalent about vietnam but carry on johnson's policies, he gets the nomination. on the others, richard nixon. he is not an easy guy to make disappear. he comes back from the political dead and wins the political nomination and he does something tricky. he had made his bones politically as a fierce anti-communist. a guy who said always we must stand up to the threat of soviet communism. by 1968, the war in vietnam was wearing thin with again, not just radicals and young people, but more and more americans. they did not want to give up on their vision of what the u.s. stood for and they certainly didn't have a radical critique of american foreign policy, it the war had been going on more than three and a half years when election day came. nixon offered something interesting. he did not say we will win matter the cost and defeat communism no matter what the cost. thisid americans must win piece. -- peace. what does that mean? i promise you i will win this peace for america. i have a plan to end the war in vietnam. thank goodness. how will yo

are other people, john harris, talking about the fact that maybe donald trump just walks away like lbj washington journal" wrote, this is not to suggest that the november election will be rigged as mr. trump asserts. if he believes that he should reconsider his participation and let someone run who isn't looking for an excuse to blame for defeat. and donny, this president is surrounded, texas a state he shouldn't be having to spend a dime in is a toss-up state. all the polls are showing it's a toss-up state. the dallas morning news showed biden ahead by five points a couple weeks ago. they thought they had arizona in the bag. arizona now leaning comfortably to biden. michigan, they thought they had a great chance in michigan. the trump team has been saying for weeks they may abandon michigan. things aren't going great in had wisconsin. look at the pennsylvania poll out yesterday. i think a lot of states are going to be close, i suspect, wisconsin, arizona, georgia, texas, florida, going to be close. looking at the numbers in pennsylvania and the philly suburbs that trump is going to ge

sort of do what lbj did, because when people talk about lbj and politics they talk about his landslide victory in 1964, but not him leaving in 1968. and he does not want to get beaten, you know, by -- by biden getting close to 400 electoral votes and you look at the polls. i don't know if people close to him are lying to him, but he's behind in georgia, texas is tied. even i read that even some gop pollsters are talking about the problems he's struggling in kansas. struggling in kansas. this is shaping up to be a historic landslide. so i don't understand why he would hang on especially because the coronavirus just keeps getting worse and here's the worst part for him. and the worst part for his campaign. he said that the virus wasn't going to come back in the fall. that it was going to be gone. you know, that's when the second wave starts. that's when doctors and epidemiologists and scientists say it's actually going to be at its worst. if you look at the 1918 pandemic it was at its worst. so he'll never be able to wish this pandemic away and as the death rate raises, as the infection

he also took george mcgovern out to meet with lbj in a famous meeting out there.clinton learned a lot during the campaign. the essential thing him and hillary learned was -- and from that moment on, bill clinton's whole concept of how you can be a progressive, moderate progressive, and still hold on to something in america as it was changing was the first of those many lessons that he followed over the next 20 years. >> during his, turn the clintons increase their national profile, leading to the 1992 presidential campaign. we mentioned it that was a bruising one. you will remember it well, including the arrival of ross perot's candidacy and campaign. abroad bill clinton and hillary to the white house. shortly after they arrived, there was the announcement about health care. we have a couple of clips to show you to help demonstrate the intention of the first ladies involved in the health care issue. let's watch. >> i am grateful hillary has agreed to chair this task force, and not only because it means she will be sharing some of the, heat i expect to generate. i

you should know that he was not vetted by lbj, and the president nixon kept him.n lets this into his. argument >> but i also think the heart of her cases that the publication of the material specified -- as i've tried to argue their, materially affect the security of the united states. >> it will affect lives. it will affect the process of the determination of the war. it will affect the process of recovering prisoners of war. i cannot say that determination of the war recovering prisoners of war is something which has an immediate effect on the security of the united states. i say it has such an effect on the security of the united states that it on to be the basis of an injunction in this case. >> what he was saying was -- i am speaking on behalf of the united states. i am telling you, based upon the material that we have in the possession of the united states, that publication of this material will damage the united states and various different intangible ways. i cannot say it will have the specific result immediately, but this is dangerous material. we ever re

to the airport as the caller suggested, he also took george mcgovern out to the allies to meet with lbjhat campaign. but the essential thing that he and hillary learned wasmló how could lose. and from that moments> during the terms of governor the clinton's increased national profile leading to the 1992 presidential campaign. we mentioned earlier that it was a bruising one. those of you who wore following politics at the time will remember it well including at rief of ross perot and that brought bill clinton and hillary clinton to the white house. shortly after they ariefed there was the announcement about health care. we have a couple of clips to show you about how to demonstrate the intentionú2jlf e first lady's involvement in health care. ay1ohdn i'm pleased that hilla she'll experience some of the heat i expect to generation. in the coming months people will learn as the

he also took george mcgovern out to the (inaudible) to meet with lbj in a famous meeting they had outhere. clinton learned a lot during that camp. but the essential thing that he and hillary learned was how you can lose. and from that moment on bill clinton's whole concept was how you can be a progressive, moderate progressive and still hold on to something in america as it was changing. that was the first of those many lessons that he followed over the next 20 years. >> during his term as governor, the clintons increased their national profile leading to the 1992 presidential campaign. we mentioned earlier that it was a bruising one. those of you who were following politics at the time will remember it well including the arrival of ross perot's candidacy in the campaign. it brought bill clinton and hillary clinton to the white house. shortly after they arrived there was the announcement about healthcare. we have a couple of clips to show you about the - to help demonstrate the intention of the first lady's involvement in the healthcare issue. let's watch. >> i am grateful that hillar