, so i very much wanted to come to the lbj library to illuminate americans on what lbj means to america. particularly in the 21st century. how the things that he did during the course of his presidency continued to resound in today's america. >> why did you move from the library to the foundation and what is the difference? mark: the library, as most are, is run under the auspices of the national archives, the public side of the public-private partnerships that are presidential libraries. when i was the director, an employee of the national archives, now i'm on the private side of that. we help the national archives run that institution, putting money and resources into the library to make it even more for the american people. >> one of the things that the johnson family did was release all the audiotapes from the oval office. what was the reason for doing that? that was a pretty big gift to the american people, wasn't it? mark: a gift to history in so many respects. harry middleton, more or less the inaugural director of the lbj presidential library and then a speechwriter for lbj in t

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

host: that is lbj in 1964. we have just a little over 50 minutes, so let's move on to richard nixon. his record is interesting, you write the press was baffled as to help richard nixon became a rough liner of environmental activism. what were you saying? guest: i always knew that nixon when he had to leave the white house, he quoted the speech of theodore roosevelt, the man in the arena. i always knew that nixon admired theodore roosevelt probably with winston churchill, is great hero -- his great hero. what i did not realize is he had conservation streak in him. in california and politics of the 1960's you have to be an environmentalist, but a lot of what the republicans in california lived on the ocean, beautiful homes, carmel or santa barbara or laguna beach, and republicans wanted to make sure, it was a movement of wealthy republicans. not in my back yard are you building an interstate. so nixon was going to that constituency. when he read again he did not have any idea of modern environmentalism. he did no

his books include indomitable will, lbj and the presidency, the last republicans, and most recently, incomparable grace, jfk in the presidency. >> mark updegrove. we're sitting here in the shadow of the texas state capitol in austin. texas has played a rather outsize role international political world, hasn't it? >>ol

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we had a need to save some remnants of scenic rivers and lbj got deeply involved. so we now have areas that are designated red, wild and scenic rivers. but the key figure on all of this becomes william moe douglas from the supreme court. and he has most to do with the work maya's doing in the sense that douglas at the supreme court today, this is all pre environmental protection agency. the epa is not created till 1970. so in the sixties, people are demanding an epa, a regulatory and that can call balls and strikes in that can prosecute cute polluters and bill douglas from the supreme court who wrote a book called farewell to texas, because he thought all of the natural beauty spots were being mauled and destroyed in texas. but douglas would do protest hikes. he'd hike 186 miles from washington, dc and maryland to save the seno canal. he saved it. he hiked in the washington peninsula to save roads from not being built along the olympics. so you can have wild beach in america. he worked in john f kennedy, signed padre island national seashore. jack kennedy did it. l

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i think lbj was collaborative. the kilpatrick committee was an interagency that developed options for how to deal with nonproliferation. but so it's not so that we're talking about degrees of with nixon to me it's more about exclusion. so the white house often dominates, but nixon dominated to the extent and kissinger to i think ken and i both often use the term nixon jr foreign policy because it's hard to distinguish whose ideas whose and and so they they did marginalize gerald smith and i think the impact of that is they missed out on a vast amount of expertise on things that were significant and the salt agreement didn't handle everything because kissinger you know as smart as he was, was not a guru on how on nuclear weapons. so missing elements had to be addressed and salt too. and then, you know, that's the topic another of another forum. but i want add to that the sheer hostility of the nixon and kissinger to the bureaucracy. i mean, they looked at it. they looked at state like enemy territory. that's where k

and basic billie joe biden said exactly what lgb emma lbj said. lbj told dr. king, make him do it. there needs to be community involvement in action. people got to show their distrust just and we we've been lulled into this alarm and get on the twitter and i'm a show, i must say i'm a do the twitter, especially now. the twitter don't mean nothing. so well. well, i just write. well, you know what i'm saying is because i'm telling you, i'm trying to figure out if i'm a stay, if i'm a go. lot of us are trying to figure it out right now, especially since the other person has been reactivated. i don't know if a mistake. that's a whole another thing, but politics is personal and that white house listens and watches. so if you're disgusted, i'm not telling you what to do, but i'm telling you what happens. so i'm an immigrant. but i came off that norwegian boat and is a very boat to come off. i don't have any issues this year was the first year i voted. it's a long story, but it was my choice. but you talk about katrina, which has had a hurricane in naples. the naples police, and that crea

he launched careers like lbj, the future president but first majority leader of the senate of the time. he looked across party lines. not only did raburn get measures past like first civil's rights act and medicare but he expanded the membership of the house rules committee to help president truman vegetative proposals past and they did it by narrow margin of 217 -- 212 roughly what we are dealing with now. first time members and congress, he give this word of advice, he say if you want to get along, go along. get it? play team fall. o'neill, he knew nothing about ronald raegan until ronald raegan got the job as president and went to washington. during the cold war, he had to walk the fine line between a part of the conservative president which he wasn't in maintaining his party interest, a democrat. he imposed issues from tax cuts to massive defense spending to star wars but through it all, and don't hear about this part, they both would call each other friends. >> i think you know we've been getting each other for some time now and i hope you also know how much i hope this continues

we had a need to save some remnants of scenic rivers and lbj got deeply involved. so we now have areas that are designated red, wild and scenic rivers. but the key figure on all of this becomes william moe douglas from the supreme court. and he has most to do with the work maya's doing in the sense that douglas at the supreme court today, this is all pre environmental protection agency. the epa is not created till 1970. so in the sixties, people are demanding an epa, a regulatory and that can call balls and strikes in that can prosecute cute polluters and bill douglas from the supreme court who wrote a book called farewell to texas, because he thought all of the natural beauty spots were being mauled and destroyed in texas. but douglas would do protest hikes. he'd hike 186 miles from washington, dc and maryland to save the seno canal. he saved it. he hiked in the washington peninsula to save roads from not being built along the olympics. so you can have wild beach in america. he worked in john f kennedy, signed padre island national seashore. jack kennedy did it. l

in-depth, from the texas book festival in austin, author and historian mark, president and ceo of the lbjoundation will be our guest, talking about the presidential history. his books include the last republican and incomparable gate -- grace. jfk and the presidency. join the conversation with your phone call texts and more. live this sunday at noon on c-span two. >> with the midterm election six ys away, we have more live debate coverage for you. coming up tomorrow, daniel mckee and his republican challenger ashley kaelin debate in rhode island. live coverages at 7 p.m. on c-span. friday, it's a debate for south dakota's u.s. senate seat with republican senator

the jfk tax cuts launched a decade-long prosperity, but unfortunately, was unwound and undermined by lbj'sat society, but richard nixon, gerry ford, jimmy carter, none of them understood tax cuts. none of them understood the incentive effects, the economic growth effects of lower marginal tax rates. maybe web talk about that some more and some very smart people, arthur laffer who is still around, my dearest friend mentor, jack kemp and others brought the supply side essentially the kennedy tax cuts to reagan. reagan looked at them and thought about them and ran on them. it was very controversial just as it was in jfk's day, and it worked. it worked in fact. reagan had two rounds of tax cuts. i was there for the first round. i was involved in the campaign to promote it. :: that could easily applied to reagan. in fact, listen, kennedy was the first guy to use the phrase are writing tide lifts all boats. that phrase was used later by jack kemp, the late jack kemp, who was a very dear friend and also a mentor by reagan. i use it all the time. trump uses it. look, the trump tax cuts which were

he, a professor in the university's department of history and the lbj school of public affairs professor series, the author and editor of 11 books on policy, politics and foreign policy and hosts a weekly podcast. this is democracy, so i'm going to start with jeremy. the cover line, which i guess you may be able to see on the screens i'm sorry, the cover line, which you may be able to see on the screen, is about americas long and unfinished. that's kind of the key word here. fight for democracy. but focusing on here in the book is really the 20 years, 25 years or so after the civil war itself. and, you know, the unions winning the civil war, i guess, was probably in retrospect, somewhat predictable because it was larger, more prosperous, that at some point, it would outpace the confederacy see, but it was more ambivalent about winning the peace and what it meant. and we know that lincoln had at least talked about reconciling asian as being what would have been his guiding principle had he survived to lead the postwar era. do you think that was ever and do you think that some of the faili

somehow democrats are able to get people, lbj, jimmy carter, elected with the old rules, people showedn election day and voted on election day. it's not a giant racist or public and plot. stuart: is there any political party or political leader who says get rid of early voting, get rid of mail in ballots? >> i'm saying at and more people should. it is federal law, this isn't just -- first tuesday after first monday isn't just a cool habit or interesting custom, two federal statute say this and it involves 14th amendment equal protection of ballots, people voting different times in different places, i think it's unconstitutional on the basis of fourteenth amend been in the gop out to lawyer up and go fight this in federal court. stuart: i want to talk about this develop and in georgia. governor kemp has gone out to campaign with herschel walker. kemp was beaten up by trump, herschel walker is trump's guy. is this a getting together of the two sides and what do you think it does? >> i think uppsala people voted for kemp in georgia in huge numbers so he will take his glow and put it on he

same story in 2010 you had lbj great society in '68. china in '02 and covid stimulus in 2020.the revenge of the old economy. inflation starts to rise then you have interest rates go up and higher interest rates do what they cause investors to bring that duration in oil companies and industrials and old economy is short duration tech and growth is long duration think about the idea of low inflation in 2010. now higher inflation and shorter dur duration that is a dynamic. we can go back to '60s to '70s and '90s to 2000s. >> and we are hoping for more of the same we think it is time. we know the fed is telling us the pace of rate rise is going forward or perhaps not at 75 we are looking at pce this week. if things are changing and the interest rate scenario, what does it mean for the oil majors? >> when we look at the longer term story, the core problem with the old economy is the idea of under invesinvestment this is what we need to deal with we will enter a major cap x cycle both green and oil and metals over the course of the next five to ten years to solve these problems that

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or the white working class haven't voted for a democratic president to put in the white house since lbjthe democratic party has to figure out we should have a big tent and what have you and we need white working class voters but are they going tomorrow back or focus on our base on black, brown, gay and women voters. a challenge for the democratic party. >> are white working class voters going back to the democrats? >> white working class voters are never going back to democrats. the republicans and g.o.p. need to do a good job at getting to that white voter base. let me tell you something right now. the far left extremism among the democrat party is not something that's ended. when you think about the justice democrats. the group that endorsed aoc, all these other people. >> sorry to cut you off. we're coming up to a break. we'll get you both back. thanks for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" is coming up after the break. to pay down high rate credit cards, personal loans, even car loans. veterans get more at newday. there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-mont

you're so critical -- i'm not saying you're wrong -- of jfk and lbj in how they waged the war in vietnam's wrong with "the new york times" bringing the failures of these democratic administrations, two of them, to the public so they could see what was really going on. if you're a veteran, you know how many americans died in vietnam when the generals didn't think the war was going to hold. but they didn't have the guts to tell the commander in chief or to tell the country.. >>> >> supreme court sided with them. >> they said that you couldn't have consequences. >> didn't the public have a right to know if all these failures you criticize -- >> about the pentagon papers themselves, there wasn't a lot of new revelations there. a lot of it was known to the public, and it did show the war was unwinnable. once richard nixon became president and took the handcuffs off the military, we had the war won by 1973. the viet cong had been destroyed as a fighting force, ho chi minh's army no longer gained purchase in the south. it was only when he was weakened by watergate, democratic congresses began t

decades later in 1967, another unforgettable affair when daughter of lbj tied the knot in the east room her groom in his military uniform. >> they say that home weddings are the nicest. if home happens to be the white house, so much the better. >> in 2008, today's jenna bush hager who married her love henry hager in texas, celebrated with a white house reception a month later. but you don't have to be related to the first family to get married here. about a decade ago, pete sousa, held his nuptials in the road garden. anita mcbride says a white house wedding is always an event to remember. >> no matter how you may feel about a particular administration, you can't but be happy for a couple who is starting their lives and to have it happen at the white house, that's very unique and special part of history. >> reporter: it really is so incredibly uk. and the bidens are celebrating a lot this weekend. the president turns 80 on this sunday. the bidens are paying for everything and perhaps one of the most interesting parts, naomi and peter don't have to travel too far because they already liv

my dad could get that job with the manpower during the lbj ministration.e schools instead of being limited. it really had an impact on my life. i want to give back. i think my family feels the same way. >> maryland has a black governor first-time and -- he was on the show last weekend. it also has anthony brown as the first black attorney general. you won his vacated seat represented maryland's fourth district. what is the urgent issue you see right now in black communities, in maryland and nationwide. how would you helped with that? >> well, that's a great question. i think the big challenges with respect to the economy. inflation has been a huge challenge. gas is too high. groceries have been too high. i think the biden administration has taken steps to help address that. the fed has been pushing on interest rates. i'm starting to get worried they're going to push it too hard into her session. hopefully, they will find the right way to thread the needle. they will scale that back. the other part, to we've had issues like growing the economy, getting peop

starting with lbj, it became sort of a television extravaganza with a studio audience which is reallyt the congress does now in the state of the union. it's an address to the people and congress just happens to be there to applaud. and we'll see a state of the union in just a few minutes. as television advanced throughout the '60s and '70s, richard nixon -- not generally known as a master of television -- put a lot of emphasis on his public if communications, and his speeches, actually if you read them, were pretty good except during watergate, during his other public appearances he was not in the best of form. i am not a crook. that just didn't go over very well. but one president i want to focus on a little bit because we associate him with the presidenal i ronald reagan. reagan, as everybody knows, spent most of his career as an actor. he knew a lot about lighting, about sound, about how to carry himself. you know, he used to say, well, it's different when with you know how you look from behind. and he did, he had this acute awareness of how he was coming across on the screen. and

here's the thing, you're also so critical, and i am not saying wrong of jfk and lbj and how they wagedvietnam. what's wrong with the new york times bringing the failures of these democratic administrations to them, to the public, so that they can see what was really going on? you're a veteran, you know how many americans died in vietnam when the generals did not think the war was winnable, but they did not have the guts to tell the commander-in-chief or to tell the country. >> it just another example of the new york times putting itself in a position of judging what classified information should and should not be revealed, which is not its position. >> the supreme court sided with them. >> they said that the new york times cannot be subjected to a prior restraint. they said that you could have consequences at the defect. >> didn't the public at the right to know about these feathers that you criticize? us >> at the pentagon papers themselves, there were a lot of revelations there. a lot of it was well known to the public. it did not show that the war was on a one double. once restricti

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