the lbj foundation has convened this symposium to. reflect one of the crowning achievements the civil rights act of 1964. a defining that a sense doors of opportunity for all americans, regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion. origin. together with the voting act and the fair housing act, these three landmark laws he signed are remarkable in their scale and their scope. taken together, these three acts have made this nation fundamentally fair, fundamentally more just, and most importantly, fundamentally more consistent with our founding principles and through. we're a better nation begun because of them. we must be clear. there were our work is not done. it's not done. we do not celebrate these as part of our past, but as critical components of our future. president johnson understood. president lincoln understood in his own time that the courts would determine the scale and scope. the scale and scope of our laws. over a hundred years after the emancipation proclamation, president johnson vowed, in hi

-- going to go to work for lbj we never know exactly what it was that made lbj reach out to him. other than that, he had written speeches for jfk, but we found a tape recorder that johnson had. he had a little button in his oval office. it, whenever he wanted an important conversation recorded, mainly because he could get deals when he was making them with congressmen or senators. he wanted to make sure what they'd promised they for him so he could keep them out. you said you this here it is. but in this case he was talking to bill moyers and he said, i need somebody who can speeches for me. and the way he described, i want somebody who can put sex into speeches. what in the world that meant? i want something you can put rhythm. my speeches. i want somebody who can put great churchillian phrases into speeches? who could that be? and moyers said, the only person i know -- goodwin because he had worked with him in the peace corps. but he's not one of us. and that meant he was a kennedy. but nonetheless, johnson him. if he would work on a speech on poverty, and he did do that. and t

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his most recent book is "lbj and mcnamara: the vietnam partnership destined tohi fail." mr.ore we get into what's in the book, what's the format of this book? >> well, it's a series, or a serial. it appears on my substack which is called peter osnos platform, substack of course this is a subscription newsletter. that whole lot of folks are starting to use now. and i decided to do it as a series for a number of reasons. one was thatr i believe in the series concept. awful lot of people come off a lot of people now listen to podcasts. we're a podcast, a whole series, which in addition to which the series narrative, in other words, writing a book as a series, that goes all the way back to the 19th century. a lot of people have done it before me. i decided to do this as this is because i thought it was way to present the material that was accessible and type of digital format of series. because really for 20 years or so now i've been trying to figure out how digital really works for my kind of writing. and so this is the time to try as a series. book length, 18 parts, and each o

so he sends johnson sends bunker out private meeting between bunker and lbj.bunker tells me this and says you know ellsworth, we need to turn the war over to the vietnamese. and then he sends out coma, the pacification side. abrams the military. so when kissinger writes that the president has decided bunker suspicions lulled in may of 71, bunker did not the implication in and he could not believe that kissinger would go against the public policy of president nixon. and so when i pointed this out to him that led to sort of some awkward things between the ambassador and myself but i i wanted to i decided after his book was not published but i decided that you know, for the sake of the record and history i wanted to get to the bottom of this. so i so, i got to know richard nixon. so i got i got a bunch of letters from richard nixon. i spent a number of years cultivating him. and i have to admit in public, i had you know, i had an intent. you know, i, i, i had a private purpose in doing this because at some point i was going to ask him. and the point came in 1989,

the relationship between lbj and robert mcnamara.here are a lot of different ways of publishing books. in the early part of the century, i did the starr report. we turned it into a book. it was for sale all over the country and 72 hours. later i created an enterprise called caravan. it was intended to help publishers. a lot of them were academic and university presses that did not have their own resources. in 2007, suddenly there was the kindle and the iphone. everybody used that technology. i was doing that as a way to anticipate what was going to calm after that. over the years i tried to continue what is the best way for our kind of material. to actually reach the audience that we want to reach. i think technology has made it much more possible than it was. that was it. there are a lot of different ways for people to read books. that is still the most prominent. people still prefer the printed book. that is much easier to carry on the plane. that is the fastest growing sector of the publishing world, the audiobook. 20 years ago it

have gotten it so wrong, how could this group get the vietnam project wrong. >> peter for this book lbjsunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a, you can listen to q&a on all or podcast and c-span app. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including spark light. >> what is great internet, is it strong, is it fast, is it reliable? at spark light, we know connection goes way beyond technology. monday morning meeting to friday night with friends and everything in between. but the best connections are always there right when you need them. so how do you know it's great internet, because it works. we are spark light and we are always working for you. >> spark light supports c-span as public service along with these other television providers giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> and now a discussion on innovation and pandemic preparedness with nobel prize winning economist, the conversation focused on communication and pitching policy proposals to lawmakers, this is part of an event hosted by the center of global devel

and least favorite, lbj. it is very, very dangerous when democrats control the house, senate, and presidency. i think the lbj period was the most destructive period in american history. the last time democrats had all three branches, wasn't that the first two years of the obama administration? yeah, took away my health care. i could not keep my doctor. i think that was an absolute disaster. but under lbj, we got the 1964 immigration act. and that has perhaps destroyed the country irrevocably. also got a lot of terrible, terrible dysfunctional social welfare programs. and he was just a really bad person. not that i care if your policies are good. host: anncoulter.com is the website. thank you for coming on this morning. guest: anncoulter.substack.com. host: i am so sorry.

and least favorite, lbj. it is very, very dangerous when democrats control the house, senate, and presidency. i think the lbj period was the most destructive period in american history. the last time democrats had all three branches, wasn't that the first two years of the obama administration? yeah, took away my health care. i could not keep my doctor. i think that was an absolute disaster. but under lbj, we got the 1964 immigration act. and that has perhaps destroyed the country irrevocably. also got a lot of terrible, terrible dysfunctional social welfare programs. and he was just a really bad person. not that i care if your policies are good. host: anncoulter.com is the website. thank you for coming on this morning. guest: anncoulter.substack.com. host: i am so sorry.

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. ♪ ♪ >> sunday night on c-span q and a, author and publisher peter talks about lbj a book length subesident johnson and defense secretary robert handling of the vietnam war he also talks about publishing robert's memoir in retrospect, and the meetings he had with mack -- >> i was very pleased whatever the right word is that he let me push him around to get what we needed. i wanted him to do what i thought was essential. which was explain how it was possible that all of these really smart people the, quote, best and brightest which became a term and how could they have gotten it so wrong? how could this group -- get the vietnam project -- >> pert with his book lbj and sunday night at 8 eastern, on c-span q and a you can listen to q and a all of our podcast on free c-span now app. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies. and more -- including mid-co. where are you going? ing or maybe a better question is it -- is how far diewpght to go? and how fast do you want to get there? now we're getting somewhere. so let's go. let's go faster. ♪

nomination late in the cycle, the last president to come anywhere close to that was lbj. hubert humphrey not known for the same level of joy kamala harris has been evincing. i don't know if i passed bob's history tests, but those are some parallels, jen, and bob's point goes to the viewers, by definition, if you say 5, 10 million people volume the news and you're getting ten times that, right, those people by definition aren't following it every day. >> right. >> i heard from an obama veteran today like you, who says everybody knows gas is still more expensive than before. and they know she has ties with biden. you have left that post, you're now independent on msnbc, there are a lot of people who still look at the biden/harris thing and tie it to the uncertainty and economic malaise and they're not that happy. how does she speak to them, not even donald trump, given all his sins and now conviction? >> well, first of all, she's gracefully done this to date. it has not been on a debate stage. to echo both of you, this is a lot harder to do that. in terms of still hugging p

for lbj and then ended staying on his white house staff. he came to my office building in harvard. i was a young assistant professor and he was being given an office there. we all knew who he was. he was kind of well known among us, nerdy people who loved politics. we knew that he had bushy eyebrows, that he had kind of a strange, wonderful smile, that he'd worked for all these people with bobby when he died. so i was excited but i went to my room and just sort of plopped in into my office as if he were one my two t's. and he sat down he said, so you're a graduate student, right? i said, no, i'm an assistant professor. i tell him all my qualifications of course he knew who i was. he was teasing me. he took me out to dinner that night we kept talking all afternoon, all night never stopped talking for 42 years. so that's how it all began. when did he passed in? 2018. so six years ago in your book. and unfinished love story, this is what you write. quote, linden's a kind of poet, said --, seriously. richard goodwin from the time -- and i met,

. >> if lbj , >> if lbj, >> if lbj, >> so i could say yes , if tribal >> so i could say yes, if tribalats became the civil rights party . we have the civil rights party. we have paid a price with the majority of white voters. but that doesn't mean that americans are all hateful and stuff like any country, people have people that have mental problems. and sometimes, you know, some of these young kids that go to these young kids that go to these schools, it's you read or hear that they were bullied and they decided to take it out on, on, on somebody. but this is a, this is the greatest country on earth. we just have too many assault rifles on the streets . assault rifles on the streets. >> how can you detoxify us politics? so that figures like donald trump are not so demonised and hated ? demonised and hated? >> well, i think harris will win on november fifth and then that kind of anger out on the campaign trail will disappear. i think most republicans , politics think most republicans, politics will be happy and move on to a more pragmatic life where we're not always attacking everybody

they've only done so in 1964, lbj in 1996, second term bill clinton so we can't just bank on the female vote. they did not come out for obama they did not come out for hillary clinton. so hopefully something with this amazing rollout that we've seen, tim walz has been a fantastic addition tapping into some of this joy sentiment trying to reverse some of this vitriolic cesspool donald trump has excavated these past few years but it works in the popular vote. i'm hopeful that in wisconsin, and michigan, in pennsylvania, north carolina, virginia, arizona, nebraska even in florida, you name it, i'm hoping it will turn that tide. >> doesn't tim walz also cool this idea that is not rooted in truth there, is just so woke that democrats are so progressive when she is flanked by coach walls it's hard to make that argument. >> let me also say something i am encouraged by, the forbes study that came out the has suggested every time since 1984 that the s&p 500 starts one way on august 1 and then at the end of october, it is ahead, the incumbent party has won. i'm encouraged because i was looking at

asked for something the publisher, did the design, but i asked for something that reminds it us of lbj's policy of giving people public housing facilities. i today wouldn't wish on my worst enemy the sort of public housing facilities that were the norm in the sixties and the seventies and in fact today what we see are a large number of people where there's multi generational poverty that mom went in her kids got their own apartment later in their her kids got their own apartments. all of these hopes dashed. and so i wanted to make sure that we talked that and they had these chain link fence as around them. so as to quote prevent malefactors from coming in but in many instances it just people inside now you know the president said when he was a vice president that if mitt romney were elected president, black americans would be put back in chains horace cooper put your back in chains. is the of the book the subtitle how joe biden policies hurt black americans. thank you for spending a few minutes purse ability -- perseverance ofthe disability community. >> "washington journal" continues. h

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to paraphrase lbj if you can convince the poorest white man that he is better than the negro, you can pick his pockets all day long. trump taps into this thing that people need to feel that they are better than others so that his work for him. i'm cautiously optimistic about this race in the sense that democrats won the popular vote. we have seen it time and time again. it is just will they win the electoral college vote? we are one of the last few democracies that has not had a woman in power. we know many people would never prefer a woman of color. we know that white women do not work for the democratic party candidate. if only done so since we started collecting data, they have only done so twice, lbj and second term bill clinton, so we can't bank on this white female vote. they did not come out for barack obama and they did not come out for hillary clinton so hopefully something with this amazing rollout we seen since january 20th, tim walz has been a fantastic addition trying to tap into this joy sentiment and reverse the cesspool trump has excavated the past few years, it works

to paraphrase lbj, if you can convince the poorest white man that is better than the , you can pick his pockets all day long. for a certain segment of the population donald trump taps into this racist, xenophobic, anti-semitic, all the things that people need to feel, hence the border conversation, that they are better than others. so that's worked for him. he wanted to work again. i'm cautiously optimistic about this racing the sense that democrats win the popular vote, we've seen it time and time again. it's just will they win the electoral college vote. we know some people can never pull a lever for a woman. we are one of the last few democracies that hasn't had a woman in power. we know that very many people could never pull a lever for a woman of color. we know that white men do not vote for the democratic party candidate. they've only done so since we started collecting data as political scientists since 1952, they've only done so twice, lbj and second term bill clinton. we can't just bank on this kind of female vote. they didn't come out for barack obama and they didn't him out f

. >> the democratic party of lbj and-- >> it's the progressive wing of the democratic party today, onhe very forefront of saying, you know, this is an economy that everybody should be able to experience prosperity. and if you're too young to work-- . opportunity economy as it's named. >> if you're too young to work, too old to work, too sick to work or down on your luck for a while, we believe in a compassionate economy where your neighbor should help you get through the tough times. >> what? i believe in a democratic party and a progressive party that's unafraid to be advocates for the poorment my religion tells me that we should be advocates for the least of thee, and i don't really -- i want -- i think that's a progressive vision, too. yes, middle class, yes, you know, the business folks, i'm for them, no problem. but poverty is a major problem in our country. we've got a lot of people going to bed who are food insecure, house insecure, can't, you know, get the health care that they need and then the richest country in the history of the world at the richest point in its history, t

happen with two assassination attempts and you have ain standing president that has stood down since lbj leading candidates talking about eating dogs andan cats so that's where we are at and don't expect that to change. >> let me sharpen the questionga bit and ask you people you live with people who vote for you your friends and people you grow up with what do they see in donald trump that makes them want to vote for him? >> i know some people that are like i personally think he's a person and they are appalled by some of the thesebl things. they say i will still vote for for him in the left republicans agree with that. i never agreed with our approach talking about but he's a convicted felon. i thought as democrats we were the party that was all about second chances and we were going to condemn someone in that kind of situation. i was convinced that those trials it's not going to have an impact on that. it's like what's left? he's been impeached twice and now it's been too attempted assassinations and ones where bullet actually hit him and at this point they also want people to understa

assault on the liberty in 1967, israeli act of war against the united states of america, covered up by lbj, this is what's really happening, people need to understand.

a standing president stand down since lbj.nd crazy leading candidates talking about eating dogs and cats. so, that's kind of where we're at and that dynamic i don't expect to change. >> let me sharpen the question a bit, and ask you what people you live with, people who vote for you, your friends, people you grow up with, what did they see in donald trump that makes them want to vote for him? sen. fetterman: i know some people -- i personally think he is a terrible person, or i am appalled by these things -- but i fundamentally will still vote for him. i think a lot of republicans already agree with that. i never agreed with our approach talking about that he is a convicted felon. i thought democrats, we were the party that was all about second chances, and that we're not going to condemn somebody based on a mistake, or things in that kind of situation. i was convinced too that those kind of trials and that kind of thing will not have any impact on that. it's like what's left? he has been impeached twice. it's been two attempt

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