and he started working for lbj when lbj was vice president. and then in the in november 63, as lbj was moving into the white house, he wanted to bring waldron with him as as a white house staffer. and walter was being, it was going through a security clearance investigation, as you had to do to be to work the white house. and in the process of that, it was discovered that robert waldron was gay and in an instant he was kicked off staff. his white house pass was revoked and his political career was ended. and it's a very tragic story that i tell i tell it for the first time. i'm proud to say that not even robert caro was was aware of this story. i actually informed him about it. take that. robert caro. i actually i discovered part of story in the lbj library, but i also discovered the bulk of it through. waldron's, fbi, which i had declassified about a 1000 pages and in that fbi file. i found the letter that waldron wrote to the man who outed him to the civil service commission, which was the bureau ocracy in charge of these investigations. it'

well i mean, that's easy question mean yoshioka motto was lbj photographer. and, you know, is he is the best ever he i mean he had an interesting character as his main subject, let's face it. but he was also phenomenal photographer. and so, i mean would probably choose one of his although i worked with a guy named jack kightlinger who had worked as one of the white house staff photographers for, i think, three or four administrations. and he with us during the first term of of reagan and worked under ogie to yoshimoto and there was a time when lbj had fired okamoto for for like a week or something like that. and jack has like one of my favorite photos. it's a picture of lbj alone in the cabinet room and in the foreground is a is a tape recorder. and he's listening to a narration from chuck robb, who had been sending tapes vietnam to his wife. yes, the president's daughter. white house communications. take those cassette tapes and try to improve the sound quality. and they put them on a real for real and lbj is listening to the horrors of what he's reporting a

so with as a backdrop, lbj started thinking about what's going on in vietnam, geopolitics are heating up. most people don't know much about. vietnam they don't understand. it's and history they understand the long war with the french and many didn't know about it. and besides we were a force to be reckoned as a military power. how could it take to subdue country the size of vietnam? so with that going on lbj escalated the war and instead of one or two pilots missing now there were and america's was changing on every front. in fact, i was very it was mostly a volunteer military that time but i was very surprised to see to read that draft cards were being burned back in 64. so things were happening faster right then. i remembered myself. right, right. are you going to add something here before i get to pat taylor now? okay. okay so so, pat, you're you're in this culture of there's an expectation portion of compliance force and being docile and behaving that's that, you know, keep quiet is was kind of the mantra fact you know there's a handbook of how women should be should not be too pu

now, lbj had the great society, but joe biden had build back better. and he still is working on it. the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what fdr started that lbj expanded on and joe biden is attempting to complete. >> my favorite part about all this is it seems -- it seems she has just learned that there is this guy named linden johnson. wait until you hear about this guy, literally when the largest percentage of the popular vote in the history of american presidential elections. by all that dastardly trying to address problems related to education and poverty and medical care, a terrible guy. also linden b. johnson was the majority leader in the senate. duds that sound familiar? joe biden's now the majority leader. congresswoman greene spent this weekend trying to horrify her audience by telling them that democrats like they always have want to do practical popular things to improve peoples lives. the horror. her pitch there was so unintentionally perfect that the white house today tweeted out her remarks sayi

now, lbj had the great society, but joe biden had build back better. and he still is working on it.ograms that is actually finishing what fdr started, that lbj expanded on, and joe biden is attempting to complete. >> there's been a major shakeup in the presidential campaign for republican florida governor ron desantis. after less than two months on the campaign trail, desantis fired roughly a dozen staffers and more dismissals are expected in the coming weeks. a source familiar with the move describes itcost-cutting measure. it comes after an analysis of expenditures. the numbers suggest for the first time that solvency could be a threat to desantis' campaign. that's stunning, especially because they've touted their fundraising ability as a key measure of their viability. the irony for desantis is that he raised just over $20 million between mid-may and the end of june. that is easily ahead of other republican candidates, even former president donald trump. but more than two-thirds of that money, nearly $14 million of it, came from donors who gave the legal maximum, and thusly they

social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what fdr started, that lbj, and joe biden is attempting to complete. programs to address education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, medicare, medicaid, labor unions, and he still is working on it. >> okay, so more than 30 million watched the ad in its first 12 hours online. how strong is this message? not just for the president, but for the party, in general? >> wow, i hadn't seen that yet, but, you know, if she wants to compare president biden to lincoln and george washing ton, that's great. i mean, who wouldn't want to be compared to fdr? one of the most popular presidents who won world war ii and got us out of the great depression, in -- the country, so, that is a fantastic and i think it is true. i think joe biden, fundamentally, is wanting to complete some of the work of the new deal with an economic bill of rights, bringing manufacturing back, and i'm glad representative greene recognizes that. >> yeah, 30 million views there. the house oversight committee will hear from witne

johnson aside this is a real problem for him and politically doesn'tio run for reelection, retire to the lbjch in texas. putin cannot do that. he does have that option it will allow that to happen. he won't survive that. >> let me ask you that in hypothetical resolution or remarks of this concept. you said putin is not looking for an offramp. you shared the view many other observers in the field that potentially putin might settle for an agreement that would lock in again will in crimea do you think that is something that except that? works not permanently. he doesn't want an offramp to the turnpike analogy and agreement the geographic gains that they have made on sovereign ukraine. not now at some point he thanks a special military operation has ground to a halt. this is the best that he can get for now. but he will never surrender his pursuit of thoset goals to detoxify and demilitarized ukraine. so it yes and agreement in the future is possible. it would only be transitory. it will never, in his mind be permanent. >> .we hear the time from the ukrainians. i would like to move it right now

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

now, lbj had the great society, but joe biden had build back better. he still is working on it. the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what fdr started, that lbj expanded on, and joe biden is attempting to complete. >> so, reverend al sharpton, that sound you're hearing is the white house thanking marjorie taylor greene for the campaign commercial. let's remember, of course, that in the first months in office, they eagerly embraced the lyndon johnson comparison. the great society is what they were shooting for. the most legislative presidency since then, the first two years when they had democrats in control of the house and senate. for most democrats, that's music to their ears. >> i was waiting for the attack. i mean, she said all of that, and i was waiting for, and what do you object to? she left out the votes righting act and the civil rights act. she forgot to say that lyndon johnson defeated barry goldwatd goldwater in one of the biggest landslide presidential elections in our history. biden defeated don

he does not run for reelection and retired to the lbj ranch in texas.esident putin does not have that. you will not allow that to happen. he will not survive that. >> let me ask you in hypothetical remarks. you said that putin is not looking for an offramp. given the speculative steps, do you share the view i have heard from many other observers in this field that potentially putin might settle for an agreement that would lock in gains he has made in the donbas region and other regions of ukraine? and of course, retain crimea. do you think this is something he could live with if ukrainians were willing to accept that? sullivan: not permanently. i always say, when i say he does not want an offramp, if we stay with the highway or turnpike analogy, that he could take a rest area. a cease-fire or some deal where he consolidates the geographic gains they made on sovereign ukraine. he may agree to that eventually. not now, but at some point where he things his special military operation has ground to a halt and this is the best he could get for now. but he wi

you have marjorie taylor greene comparing you to fdr who brought the country out of depression and lbjts act -- elementary and secondary education act, medicare, medicaid. it's basically a commercial that tells the american people this is what democrats can do when they're in office. so, yeah, we'll take that every day all day. but here's what's also interesting in terms of the inconsistency and the hypocrisy. presumably, she did this to sort of marry her position to the nixon position, which is look how bloated your federal government is, now let's do something different, sort of the conversation around his southern strategy and the backlash against what lbj was doing and working with urban communities to improve. however, just a couple of days ago there are reports that donald trump is trying to find ways to consolidate more power in the executive branch so that when he becomes president, he can run roughshod over agencies and presumably over the other branches of government. so in a very twisted way this is don't do what we say -- i don't know what's the word. it's do as we say and

and especially because we have basically three years to go like lbj, what, one year? and some of these others. and another thing that was a symbol that i think we should say this, since we're in the hallowed halls of decatur and the white house, historical was in 1902. all right, i'll put in the form of a question, what did t.r. and his wife do to the white house that suggested was a new era? oh, suppose so. and anyone the senate, you're going to have to hear. no, that's fine. so when the roosevelts move in in 1901, what find is a house that is, for lack of a better word, is falling apart. it didn't take to the truman administration for the white house to be in disrepair, for things to be very shabby. and, you know, over time kept adding plumbing, electricity, ripping through the walls. i mean, structurally speaking, the white house is in a poor state. it is not befitting the head of state, especially for the modern american president. and so this becomes one of the projects that the roosevelt's take on in 1902 with the assistance of mckim, mead and white, the new yor

the reason that gerald ford was on the warren commission was because robert mcnamara and dean rusk, lbj of state told president johnson, if you want a republican congressman who is serious and who can be trusted, you ought to consider gerald ford. well, anyway, in in the middle of what became the cuban missile, ford obviously top secret, you know, is trying to do his best to ignite a sense of urgency at pentagon and to some degree at the white house in terms of stepping up the surveillance flights. they stepped up in time after the whole thing was over. mccollum privately credited with a major part in making certain that the kennedy had the evidence, the photographic evidence that it needed to take to the u.n. and and worldwide. and that, of course, turned out to be essential to a peaceful resolution. but he had a ford that ford never talked it. you won't find a word of in his memoirs. you know, as a historian, i can his capacity for keeping secrets without emulating. well, we're so and we're so glad that he saved them for you to. unearth and one last thing. this war tradition. this i p

or will he be an lbj, a lyndon bates johnson?lf much like lbj because of his senate experience, because of his legislative feel. he is proving himself to be as productive as lbj in terms of getting bills passed. in a way, playing lbj to barack obama's jfk in that respect. none of the eloquence of an obama, but perhaps a lot more of a track record to show for it. in terms of how do you define bidenomics, i would say it's a simple definition. not reaganomics. a belief that there's got to be more than a trickle down to get the middle class going again. there has to be federal intervention. that's what we've been seeing, a big infrastructure bill, semiconductor bill. of course, the inflation reduction act. these are major pieces of legislation. >> you know, it is fascinating, reverend al, that we've been talking about the united states, how it's been doing globally. strongly than it has been, the military relevant to the rest of the world. diplomatically, nato is stronger than it's ever been. you look economically, and we talked abou

lbj? >> yeah. could be lbj. i mean, first of all, joe, you ought to run for something. you're pretty good at this. we should talk about that some day. >> nah. >> but the democrats and joe biden do have a good story to tell, and they should be worried about telling it. i think that's true, and then the other side of it is, here's the alternative. sort of make that 2020 case again. do you really want to go back to that? do you really want to go back to the trump years? do you really want to go back to the guy who's currently sitting on trial in a courtroom in washington, or sitting on trial in a courtroom in florida. or wherever he ends up next year, which when the trial is taking play. >> or a jail cell there is the side-by-side binary choice. to yur point as jen points out, 2016 sort of made people a little gun shy about counting their chickens before they hatch. maybe 2004 also. and in '20 and again in 2022 it was people, grass roots. it was activists, democrats working hard doing the old-fashioned stuff, getting people to come out and vote that frankly changed the cou

. >> steve: this talked about in the past this happened, in '68, i believe, lbj dropped out and said i will not run for reelection and he was being challenged by robert kennedy and they write in this op ed, a half century later, we have president biden with low approval rating being challenged by robert f. kennedy jr. >> katie: the white house backed themselves in this corner and the dnc has taken it and ran with it that joe biden is capable of running for a second term and he is confident enough to take democrats to victory. polling shows a different story. they say the staff has to keep up with president joe biden, his schedule is not full, he has problems recalling basic information and democrats are concerned about his ability to take on republicans and win the white house, especially if the nominee is president trump or ron desantis, for example. those are issues democrats will have to deal with, given they have developed this narrative joe biden is the man for the job. >> steve: let's transition and talk from democrats hunting for votes to you hunting for luxury hunting lodges

less than a five seat majority in the house, the next presidential term i think about, i think about lbj. this has been one of the most successful presidencies in my lifetime starting with the american rescue plan, the inflation reduction act, the chips act, all these things we have done transforming the judiciary. we put in almost 50 of 100 judges, african-american, african-american women, more african-american women on the appellate court then all presidencies combined. i can go on and on and talk about how beneficial the presidency has been to the american people. the reason why we go to the polls to vote for the president is to get stuff done. tell me what president in my lifetime, in our lifetime has gotten more done with almost less than joe biden has. >> dnc chairman jamie harrison, thank you for joining me this afternoon. up next, a look at what it will take to mobilize progressive voters in 2024. i will ask the congressman how the supreme court ruling could factor into that goal. plus, gavin newsom tells me about he tries to help democrats in republican-led states. epublican-led

i remember when lbj, this is back in 168 i think it was. he just withdrew from the 1968 presidential election. richard nixon, he stepped aside after leading republicanning said water gate was too much for you, step aside. that was 1973. do you anticipate something similar with biden this time around? >> seems like there's a collective action problem with the democrats and a lot are having the conversations you were reading about from cnn but it's awfully difficult to extract a president from office or from a reelection campaign if he wants to run. i think joe biden is a proud man and can get a bit own reigns owner reignsleading we've seen y and he's offended but he's not do much running for the election and the events are few and far between and the fundraising is pretty weak at this point. i think it is still very unlikely that he gets replaced because he's an incumbent president who has announced a reelection campaign, but the one caveat is the democrats sometimes fall in line in a way that republicans don't seem capable of. when the demo

i'm sure they were happy she also discovered lbj, a well-known president by most people.at guy was. yes, that is exactly, as everyone at this table has been saying, what joe biden has been trying to run on. the protector of how government can work for you. protector of your health benefits, protector of your rights. he is still working on build back better. by the way, if every democrat would say that, that'd be helpful to joe biden, too. yes, in the white house, i assume they were sitting there thinking, don't mess this up. what should we do, tweet it, reply, be funny, be serious? do we let it live as it is? i think they did a good job figuring out a good tweet there. >> you know better than anybody, this white house didn't shy away from the lbj comparisons early on. they wanted to say, we're being transformative, trying to change how government can serve its citizens, whether fdr or lyndon johnson. this is a gift from a far-right congresswoman, but it goes to what the white house is doing now, leaning in on economic issues. polls suggest a lot of americans don't feel gr

stuart: i think there could be an lbj moment for joe biden but it takes a real catalyst for that to happen. i'm not sure that the things you mentioned, all though they're of interest and they characterize where he is right now and his approval numbers are very low, i'm not sure we have that catalyst moment yet. but the one thing that is in reserve, i think, for him. it actually exists for both the former president and the current president because they don't want a new candidate and if either of them takes that option and if either thinks that moment has passed and in the presidential seat for joe biden is we already know, it's highly unlikely he'll pick mike pence because they had a major falling out over january 6 but his pick will be significant of something young and fresh and here's where we are now and here's where the future .s stuart: that's the way out? >> potentially. stuart: potentially. i think they have to do it at some point. listen to this, host mika and blaming biden staff for all his gaffes. roll tape. >> he's 80. you need to be there for him and you need to make a pathway

i would not be surprised if fools lbj and decides later this fall that he is not going to run for reelection. >> sean: it would not be surprised. ask a question for both of you. will joe biden be the nominee for the democrats in november of 2024? >> it is a 50/50 proposition. will be determined by his health and he polls. if any health issues emerge of any serious nature it will not be joe biden. >> he is the nominee without a doubt. best wishes of the press that he steps aside. this man is stubborn, stubborn old man. he is not going anywhere. >> sean: how precarious it is and i will take the last word if you will grant me that liberty. i think that he is one, maybe two at the maximum falls away from being pushed out. he is one or two massive gaffes away, like really bad ones, not the garden-variety away from a real movement to push them out of their way. we will see and time will tell. thank you, both. when we come back we have got that the feds hunter biden off easily. lindsey graham has got the latest and a lot to come on this monday night. glad you are with us on "hannity." these omega i

i was at the lbj library last week and. lucy and i were talking because lucy and linda and her mother came to visit that day as mother was leaving that afternoon one evening to go check herself into bethesda. and lucy said, i don't know why your mother just have somebody else. let us see the white house, because it's a real privilege to go back to the house and see the house after you've left. i've only been once and then allowed to go upstairs to my bedroom and see my bedroom of what it looks like now, who knows what it looks like now? but anyway, you don't normally to go upstairs into the family and so we were letting lucy and linda see their old rooms and and all of that and they unaware that mother was headed to bethesda naval hospital that afternoon, which i'm sure patty involved in right in that press release. and said to me, she goes, your mother was so gracious because she could have, you know, and said, but lucy, you and i now know how special it is to go back to the house. and why would my mother take that away fr

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surprised lyndon johnson in new hampshire, didn't win it, but wounded the president enough at the time that lbjot seek reelection, and along robert kennedy came along to enter the race. i'm just wondering if bigger players come to the fore here if it looks like, you know, an rfk, jr. is resonating, and that there are alternatives out there and that this could trigger bigger bold-face party names to come forward and give it a run themselves? >> a question that biden has some significant weakness. there are democratic voters, they say they're not excited about another run by biden, but that's different than voters excited about kennedy and what we hear when we talk to voters, when we talk to strategists is just because democratic voters aren't excited doesn't mean that they won't come home in the end. neil: fair enough. >> and there's a lot to see, but i think those are two different things, kennedy showing his power and biden's weakness doesn't mean the same voters. neil: got it. we'll watch it closely. eliza collins, wall street journal political reporter, a darned good one at that. in the mean

in social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what fdr started that lbjomplete. programs to address education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, medicare, medicaid, labor unions. and he still is working on it. >> as you may have seen apparently 40 million people watched, marjorie taylor greene, the very conservative gentle lady from the state of georgia said biden is doing things like roosevelt and goes on the line and creating these jobs. i never had an endorsement from her before. >> all right, joining us now democratic congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. she sits on the house commerce committee. thank you for joining us. were you surprised by marjorie taylor greene's endorsement and more seriously bidennomics. he's on the way to sell his economic agenda and i think some democrats would say probably started too late. why is it not yet translating into voter sentiment about the state of the economy? do you expect it to translate eventually and what can biden do to sell his agenda? >> good morning to you, sam. i never ceas

in social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what fdr started that lbjis attempting to complete. >> yeah, alice, i can't imagine that marjorie taylor greene was happy about showing up in a biden ad which apparently has gone viral. >> absolutely. i understand what she was trying to say, that president biden and democrats are spending a lot of money on large programs, climate change and all these issues. but it was ripe for the picking for biden to take that and use it as a campaign ad. the problem is, marjorie taylor greene is far from a mouthpiece for republicans, and the message of attacking this president on biden-omics and how the economy is doing bad could have been done in a much better way. sticking with the facts. prices are up, wages are down. people are still reeling from inflation and she would have been much better talking going that as opposed to the issues she brought up. >> on the republican side, molly, trump has an add, or he's taking a much darker and scarier road after news broke that he's the target in special counsel's jack smith's 20

than a five seat majority in the house, this next presidential term that i think about, i think about lbj. this is one of the most successful presidencies in my lifetime starting with the american rescue plan to the infrastructure bill to the chips act to all of these things that we have done, transforming the judiciary. he put in almost 50 of the 100 judges, african-american, african-american women, more african-american of women on the appellate court and all presidencies combined and i can go on and on on how beneficial this presidency has been to the american people. the reason why we go to the polls to vote for president is to get stuff done. tell me what president in our lifetime has gotten more done than joe biden house? >> jaime harrison, thank you so much for joining me this afternoon. up next, look at what it is going to take to mobilize progressive voters in 2024. i will ask how the latest supreme court rulings could factor into that goal. plus gavin newsom tells me how he is trying to boost democrats and republican-led states. enjoy 15+ blends before rapidly recharging via usb