the lbj special was really lovely. so, congrats on that. >> thank you. >> with both of these presidents, what would you vote look for in a voter as a modern president? >> say that again? >> what would you look for as a president? you, as a scholar of the presidency. >> i've been asked this before. i think, at the end of the day, all presidents are different. they come in with different skill sets and experiences, they come in with different visions and a looks on the world. i think it's hard to paint any leader with the same brush, we should expect different things from different leaders. because not everyone is capable of the same things. at the end of the day, the best we can expect from our presidents is that they love their country and they do their best. most of the presidents in my lifetime, in my view, have held up to that criteria. they did their best and they love their country. john f. kennedy certainly fits that criteria, as does lyndon johnson and so many others. but honestly, i don't know that we can ask f

>> you are in charge of the lbj library. there are so many things we are celebrating on the 50th anniversary. every day, we see lbj programs that benefit all of us. it is hard to think of one from kennedy. >> yeah. two points, thank you, ken. those are both wonderful observations. to your first point, it was interesting to write about this mad men era president in the metoo era. i talk about that. i really put a light up to his character, by virtue of where we stand in 2022. as much as we have advanced as a society in that regard. and you are right, kennedy doesn't look good. the cuban missile crisis, i just want to comment on that. the misconception is that it was a zero sum victory for the united states. that the russians, the very emboldened nikita khrushchev, sends missiles into cuba and we stare on and a blank and withdraw. and that's true. but we didn't realize until years later, there is a quid pro quo agreement around that. there were missiles in turkey that we had that were dangerously close to the soviet border, po

and the lbj special was really lovely. so congrats on that. thank you. a specialist in both these presidents. what would you look for as a voter in your modern president? say again? i'm so sorry. what do you look for in a president? you as like a scholar of the presidency. you know, i i've been asked this before and i think at the end of the day all presidents are different, you know, they come in with different skill sets and experiences that come in with different visions and outlooks on the world. and i think it's hard to paint, you know any leader with the same brush, you know, we should expect different things from different leaders because not everyone's capable of the same things at the end of the day the best we can expect from our presidents is that they love their country and they do their best. and most of the president's in my lifetime in my view have held up to that criteria. they did their best and they loved their country john f. kennedy certainly fits that that criteria as does lyndon johnson and and so many others, but but i honestly i i

tapes, the lbj tape stopped or.it's the project that we have entered into with the lyndon johnson library and foundation, you can scroll and browse through. and get over 100 clips, like you have seen before here, on vietnam, civil rights, the war on poverty, on johnson, kind of the man and a variety of other topics. and this is all free of charge. we are hoping to do something comparable for the other presidents and working with the other presidential libraries as well. i gold plated material we published through uva press comes through this presidential recordings addition. and if some of you have to have the ability to vpn into a uva network, you can access the. unfortunately, for others, there's a paywall. and we are currently in conversation and have been in conversation with the press and without the units of the university for a while to try to make these open access. because i think it's one of my goals, to make sure that students across the country have access to all these tapes. what better way to help teac

you can listen to them particularly the lbj tapes through lbj tapes.org. it's a project that we've entered into with the lyndon johnson library and foundation. you can scroll and browse through and get over a hundred clips like you've seen before here on vietnam civil rights the war on poverty on johnson kind of the man and a variety of other topics, and this is all free of charge and we're hoping to do something comparable for the other presidents in working with the other presidential libraries as well. our gold-plated material that we published through uva. press comes through this presidential recordings digital edition, and if some of you out there have the ability to vpn into a uva network you can access these. unfortunately for others there's a pay wall and we are currently in conversation and we've been in conversation with the press and with other units at the university for a while to try to make these open access because i think it's one of my goals is to make sure that students across the country have access to all of these tapes what better wa

you can listen to them, particularly the lbj tapes, through lbj tapes dot org.it is a project we have entered into with the lyndon johnson library and foundation. you can scroll and browse through and get over 100 clips like you see before you here on vietnam the civil rights, war on poverty. on johnson the main. and a variety of other topics. this is all free of charge. we are hoping to do something comparable for the other presidents. we have been working with the other presidential libraries, as well. our gold plated material that we published through the uva press it comes with this digital addition. some of you out there may have the ability to vpn into a uva network you can access these. unfortunately for others there is a paywall. we are currently in conversation, have been in conversation, with the press and the other units in the university for a while to try to make these open access. it is one of my goals to make sure that students across the country have access to all of these tapes. what better way to help teach american history, at least modern ame

lbj liked to swim naked in his pool. so my husband learned this after he left kennedy after kennedy died and he joined johnson staff and a few weeks later. he was called by bill moyers who said he wants to see us in the pool. and so my husband said, i don't have a bathing suit. he said don't worry. it's not needed so they get to the pool. they quickly undress themselves get into the pool johnson doesn't relax. he just talks the entire time in the pool. my husband said he'd walk. he was like a polar bear. he was just side stroking up and down the pool. come on in boys. it'll do you good so they get in but it wasn't meant for relaxation. he talked about all the bills that he wanted to pass in the congress the entire time he outlined this is in march and april of 1964. eventually. my husband will write the great society speech from which this is the the rudimentary beginning of it talks about civil rights and voting rights and medicare federal aid to education and tax cut. i want you to start putting together a program. he

we were just talking that's right across from the lbj library, which is a another great library. he has an extensive career. he's served as a chief researcher and advisor for former cbs news. anchor walter cronkite's best-selling memoir a reporter's life, and that's a very nice work right there. he was also an executive producer of pbs documentaries when i rise in cactus jack which we have a relationship with with vice president garner here lone star on capitol hill. he also served as a historical advisor and commentator for several documentary films including including jfk breaking news in the president's photographer. he's also written 12 books and one of them as an alabamian selma the civil rights photographs of spider martin, i would highly recommend spider martin being amazing photographer from news local newspaper down there who some remarkable photos at the time. he's also written flash of light wall of fire japanese photographs documenting the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. his most recent book is we were here for that today about the hobbies is amazing. i alw

in march of 1968 as the vietnam war raged on lbj announced that he would not seek re-election that year lady bird opened up the white house as had her predecessor jacqueline kennedy to the american public via television cameras. this was recorded by the white house naval photographic center. many years ago when i was the wife of a brand new texas congressman. i snapped photographs outside these iron gates. i never imagined that one day i would live on the other side of that fence. like many tourists i had the distinct feeling that this house belonged in part to me. i think that's a feeling that everyone who visits here shares. just like the thousands who come here each year. i was impressed by the majesty of the great state rooms on the first floor and was proud of the stream of history that ran through each of them. what the pastor by doesn't always realize is that there are two sides to the white house. the official side that remains in the public eye and the private side that the public rarely sees the living quarters for the president and his family. this is our living room. actuall

old new york he wrote tribune where you got to tag along with a white house reporter who watch lbg -- lbj signed the 1964 civil rights act into law. pretty cool. [applause] it's hard to avoid partisanship when discussing his book or just look at that title. and as i tried to tie his introduction to current events are last few weeks i kept waking up to new headlines every day that seem to require constant rewriting. it was like oh what method mitch mcconnell responsible for today whether the supreme court abortion or campaign finance voting rights or climate change are holding up critical appropriation or primary election results so much traced back to what is the so-called grim reaper. with your indulgence let me focus on the fact through lens of mitch mcconnell ira shapiro raises the foundational question. what should we expect of electedon behind officials in our public? should we simply expect them to be driven by nothing more than a quest for unbridled power employing tactics in the main -e name of amassing control as james madison warned us about in the federalist papers, or maybe, j

people talking about whether he might be more of an lbj-like figure, getting legislation passed.ck. when you're comparing it to other presidents, you can look at lbj. you can look at ronald reagan. you can look at bill clinton. bill clinton might be one of the best example of a guy, even with a republican congress i was a part of that fought him at every turn, balanced budget, four years in a row, welfare reform, tax reform. you could go down the list. 20 million new jobs, a strong economy. he's also a guy who, of course, i'm living proof of this, a guy who got hammered in his first midterm. but the list of accomplishments for joe biden and this democratic congress in a really divided climate just seem to keep growing. >> yeah, i think for -- look, for much of biden's presidency, they look like the bad news bears who couldn't figure out how to get things done the last two weeks. they looked like the yankees, like they know how to hit the ball. they've gotten their act together on major priorities which they've been promising without success until now. this has been a really good

fdr, lbj.you don't get these opportunities very often andi think the democrats felt there was an opportunity . it collides with their narrow majority and that's why they had to i think i just. but i don't share the view that the problem is primarily a democratic problem. if you look at bernie sanders and his $6 trillion program. the democrats quickly made it $3 trillion program then they looked okay, 1 and a half trillion dollars they've been compromising. but for 30 years, the republicans have moved in the direction of from conservatism to radicalism to white supremacy. it's longstory in american politics . we have one political party which is somewhat fractious and we have one apocalyptic cult. i didn't deliver the line quite right. we have one party fractious and one party that was described by a 25 year veteran stalwarts of the republicans ub10 years ago as an apocalyptic cult and it's only gotten worse since then. >> during the second impeachment trial there were, there was the opportunity

you have to go back to -- depending on how you define these things -- to lbj. so i think for history biden -- i don't think there's much debate anymore, he is an enormously consequential president and just judging him by his legislative agenda, you know, he's sort of in that modern pantheon now. the short term is a different question. you know, will this translate into an improved political environment for democrats? i interviewed the president's campaign pollster yesterday and in april he was saying that this was the worst political environment for democrats that he had seen in 30 years in the business. he's completely changed his tune on that now and because of this legislative agenda that democrats can now run on, you know, he thinks they have a fighting chance to hold their losses in the house and as a lot of analysts believe, actually keep the senate. >> leanne, there are two separate related questions, number one, what does this all mean for the american people, but that very much relates to what does this mean for democrats as ryan was just saying headin

and for the new york herald tribune where he could tag along with the white house reporter to watch lbj signed the 1964 civil rights act into law. [applause] it's hard to avoid partisanship working at the title. [laughter] looking at current events i kept waking upeq to new headlines every day that have constant rewriting. what mess is mitch mcconnell responsible for today? whether the supreme court or abortion or voting rights were climate change or primary election results. so much to be trace back to the so-called grim reaper. so with your indulgence only focus on the fact through the lens of mitch mcconnell schapiro raises a question, what should we expect for the motivations behind elected officials in our republic? should we expectth them to be driven for unbridled power was cynical tactics as james madison warned us about? are we should expect something more of our leaders that at the very least sometimes rise above petty and selfish tdesires to amass power to put the country before themselves and their tribes. at the very least not incite angry mobs or abandon ethical norms or b

they were both in washington, lbj got there a little earlier than mr. nixon did, when he was first elected to the house in 1946, but when nixon was vice president of the united states, and therefore presiding officer of the senate, lbj was the majority leader. they would work together on legislation. in fact, one of the seminal pieces, in fact the first civil rights legislation passed since reconstruction was passed during the eisenhower administration. nixon worked very closely with johnson in rustling up the votes for that. this is off the environmental subject, but martin luther king, who nixon had met in ghana when it became independent, sent us a letter afterwards saying it could not have been done without your effort. again, that's just another example of how both sides of the aisle can work together to get things done. this is one example of a president honoring the work of one of his predecessors, often on different sides of the issues, but recognizing in what i think is a great tradition, i want to say we could use more of it, but showing that

um, they were both in washington lbj got there a little earlier than mr. nixon did when he was the first elected to the house in 1946. but you know when nixon was senate was vice president united states and therefore senate president, you know presiding officer of the senate lbj was the majority leader. and you know, they would work together on legislation. in fact, one of the one of the seminal pieces of the first in fact the first civil rights. legislation passes reconstruction was passed during the eisenhower administration and you know nixon worked very closely with johnson in wrestling up the votes for that. um, just this is off the environmental subject, but martin luther king, then who nixon had met in ghana when ghana became independent sent nixon a letter afterwards saying, you know, we couldn't have been done without your effort. but again, that's just another example of how you know both sides of the aisle can work together to get things done. and this i think is such a great example of one president honoring the work of one of his predecessors

lbj got there a little earlier than mr. nixon did when he was elected to the house in 1946.but when nixon was vice president of the united states and therefore presiding officer of the senate, lbj was the majority leader. and they would work together on legislation. in fact, one of the seminal pieces -- in fact, the first civil rights legislation passed since reconstruction which the eisenhower administration. and nixon worked very closely with johnson in wrestling up the vote for that. just off the environmental subject -- but more luther king, who nixon had met in ghana when ghana became independent, sent nixon a letter afterwards saying, it couldn't have been done without your effort. but again, that's just another example of how both sides of the aisle can work together to get things done. and this, i think, such a great example of one president honoring the work of his predecessor of a different party, often on different sides of the issues. e ibut recognizing in what i thk is a great tradition, which -- well, i won't say that we could use more of, but maybe i should sa

when lbj signed the civil rights act, that was meaningful to me and i wrote congratulating him.t was a complete surprise to me because i had forgotten. susan: i looked in c-span's archives before we talked and discovered this is the 148 citation of you in the c-span archives. i am wondering, one of them was in 2016 with the heads of this insomnia and library of congress. you told us you three had never talked before. did anything come out of that discussion? david: we talk on a regular basis and especially during covid, sharing information about coordinating information, dealing with the covid situation. we have activities going on on the preservation front working together, sharing information about various formats in our collections, it's an ongoing conversation. susan: last question, what are you going to miss the most. david: the staff. i am fortunate to have some really smart, clever, passionate folks about the mission of the agency, and they have been just terrific to work with. susan: what does retirement look like? david: it's a blank page. i have made no commitments, an

. >> they talk about jfk and lbj. he was around in the 60s.t of time wanting to digest what was happening in the country. the entertainment world was changing. the economy was being reinvented. he needed to be looked at for himself. ♪ if i can dream of a better land where all my brothers walk hand in hand, tell me why oh why can't my dreams come true ♪ brian: you talk about st. jude. >> they have canceled checks. first dollar out he would give to st. jude. brian: danny thomas is famous, launches st. jude to fight cancer. >> today it's a billion dollars a year. >> elvis and i are going to have a match wrestling versus martial arts. he was a huge wrestling fan his whole life. but then verna presley called and said elvis loves the idea but he's not in too good a shape right now. but he will get in shape and he will be back. he never made the tour. brian: it was never meant to be a graveyard. oftentimes the homes of presidents, it's their final resting place. ♪ i'll be coming home, wait for me ♪ brian: not only was bill a close friend of elvis. he

west wing style fantasy in which biden signs bills into law, he puts down the pen and does the reverse lbjriod of great success, he says, with that, i'm going to fulfill my pledge to be a bridge president, the gate is open. let the bridge fill up. and that's just never going to happen. we know joe biden. he's going to take from this success, john, i think, affirmation that my party, my country needs me, i can get these kind of deals done in the congress, i can take on trump again, i alone, if you will, can do this. >> can fix it. >> exactly. >> one thing that president biden said this week when asked about a recession, the economy is on everybody's mind, he said he didn't see one. is that a wise thing to do, to get into a big debate about the recession or do they assume there is going to be people talking about the rescession -- >> all week long we had the white house, the economic advisers at the white house reaching out to -- white house reporters like myself, to preemptively squash the bad news that we knew was going to happen. but i do think to your point, many of the economists that i

lbj? >> chuck howl, page 95, chuck and his family where there from kennedy to johnson new years. in the book it talks about johnson being particularly personality about absolutely scalding hot water in the shower. and how the staff had made it, tried to make it harder than impossible. and air conditioning. chuck howl talked about that transition. reacting to the assassination, the change of administration, bringing president johnson and his family in. >> grant asks, as president biden visited camp david? do you know? >> he has been there eight times so far. pretty good. he leaves most weekends, if you had read the paper lately, he has been to tell a, where camp david eight times since january. and he was there as vice president. >> tiffany asks has camp david ever been damaged by bad weather? >> there were microburst on the hill, the use of wind that would sometimes knock down trees, in the state park or that national park but fortunately, nothing serious has hit the area where camp david is, the 200 acres. >> marianne asks a good question, has i ever been a wedding at camp david

from what had been at a low boil on the jfk and lbj administrations. she moved the needle quite a bit. >> having worked with misses johnson, i do feel for women at a high level. civil rights and beautification and environment heated up. misses --mrs. did not push for a woman on the supreme court. she pushed for the environment in a way very few people did. it was a revolutionary process. i had a question for the panel. what was nearest and dearest to mrs. nixon's heart? linda, do you want to comment? one of the things mrs. nixon cared about was her nearest and dearest to her heart. can you unmic? >> she was quoted often as saying, people are my projects. one thing she would have been most gratified by, the number of people who gained access to the white house who may never have been able to visit before. those who had health challenges, she was able to bring in. there is a notary -- coterie in washington of public servants who regularly visit the white house. it can be key. she wanted to bring people to the white house who had never been there before a

lbj? >> -- age 95, lived in california, where i am today. he and his family, where there from kennedy to the johnson years. in the book, it talks about johnson being particularly personality about absolutely having hot water in the shower, and how chuck and the crew endlessly try to make it harder than possible. and how to deal with air conditioning. and you talk about that transition through kennedy, reacting to the assassination, the change of administration, and then bringing president johnson and his family into camp. >> grant asks, has president biden visited camp david? do you know? >> he has been there a time so far. pretty good. he leaves most weekends, if you read in the papers recently. he went to delaware. he has been to camp david eight times since january. as president. he was there a number of times as vice president. >> tiffany asks, has camp david ever been damaged by bad weather? >> there are micro bursts on the hill. -- fortunately nothing serious has a hit the area where camp david's. it's 200 acres. >> marion asks a good

this president has done in 19 months, the most effective transformative legislation policies since lbj. >> what we are going to do is to continue happy the president make a case. a lot of the things that we are seeing congress pass in the last couple of weeks are things that the president campaigned on. >> this is an extraordinary successful 18 months of joe biden's presidency. what is notable about it is the number of things done in a bipartisan way as well as those bills like the inflation reduction act and the republicans refused to vote for. >> griff: , they say things are great. what are you complaining about? democrats to push through their massive spending agenda today, even though a third of lawmakers won't show up for the vote. and democrats don't even really know what the impact the bill will have on the economy, but don't take my word for it. check this out, cbo "given the scope of the amendments title i, cbo expects it will be a few weeks before we can fully analyze and estimate those budgetary effects at which point we will provide a complete cost estimate for the legislat

that one tooth has in lbj, that crown logo. i had never seen anything like that.'t know. does that end up on tiktok at some point? price i will find out. if you saw that, wouldn't you say you have something in your tooth? oh that is just cold. question i on abc 7, it is the bachelorette followed by claim to fame and stay with us for abc news at 11:00. that will do it for this edition of abc 7 news. ♪♪♪ from the alex trebek stage at sony pictures studios, this is "jeopardy!" let's meet today's contestants-- a librarian from chicago, illinois... a music educator and choral director from ukiah, california... and our returning champion-- an engineering manager from oakland, california... ...whose 40-day cash winnings total... [ applause ] and now hosting "jeopardy!"-- ken jennings. [ applause ] thank you, johnny. welcome, everyone. as you heard, our returning champion, amy schneider, has now been with us 40 days and 40 nights. she has amassed over $1.3 million and answered over 1,300 clues correctly. it's been a remarkable run, one for the books. and at this point, on

lbj and nixon in particular, and jfk all said, we have already invested here. if we pull out, that is not peace with honor. if you pull that logic apart, it that says, whether this is the right place to be come of the right expenditure to have come of the way we honor those who already died is by killing more people, or allowing more of our people to die. that is nothing best form of honor. and i am a supporter, i think the u.s. was in the right prosecuting the vietnam war. but if the only argument you're making is that we are rude to fight or prolong the war because we are dishonoring the war debt, that is not a great argument documents have to be made on the of the parties involved and what is best for world politics. there are other ways to honor the wounded and dead, such as taking care of their widows, building monuments, taking care of the orphans, the wounded. we did not do that well as a society in 1971, 19 need to come in 1973. so there is a dishonor that happened -- 1972, 1973. so there is a dishonor that happened. when we are talking about hubris, th