they were meeting to a project titled linden johnson's money. the senate began sniffing around the baker controversy. llinden johnson's shelf life as a politician began expiring. he was going to bounce him from the 1964 ticket. with understand that story and life ran and all that dirty laundry was aired. >> that decision would be a no brainer, kenen di would jettison lbj. that was that. it was hardly without merit back then. it was during that senate hearing into the baker affair, though, with the documents, checks, invoices linking the vice president to illicit behavior that someone burst in to say the president had been shot. and that radically changed linden johnson's life and so many others, tregerred an instant transformation. he wanted to be president all his life. he knew exactly what he was supposed to do in that moment. he was calm. he was decisive. he took action. he told every kennedy aid he needed them ever, more than president kennedy did. he addressed a joint session of congress they began a term with kennedy's stalled legislative p

linden johnson -- early warren to hear it. >> when earl warren was brought into linden johnson's office, he broke into tears because he knew the burden that had been put on his shoulders. >> we have got to take this out of the arena where they're testifying that krusz che and castro did this. >> world war 3 might break out because the trail might point toward cuba and ultimately russia. >> the commission was supposed to investigate the assassination. the warren commission in the end, just flat ass lied to us. >> garry cornwell was deputy chief council on assassinations. he reopened kennedy's case in 1967 to see if there was a conspiracy. >> that memo that he wrote to bill moyers who were president johnson's white house assistant, they wanted a blue ribbon panel of highly respected people to convince the american public that lee harvey oswald was the sole asass seven. 50 years later, ypeople still have doubts about the investigation. >> because it wasn't a clear investigation, and i have some unanswered questions, but there's no doubt that oswald killed him. he was such a crazy guy that

i had talked to sam rayburn who said that linden johnson would never accept -- lyndon johnson would never accept the vice presidency, would never give up the senate majority leader. i bet john, lee then that the viceould accept president nomination. at 2:00, john connolly made that point that it was positive that he would not accept. this is the way that history is made. had lyndon johnson not accepted, he of course would not be president of united states today. no one could ever have believed or dreamed that a president so young would not conclude his term of office and that death would interrupt. there is little else to report here in washington, just the general reactions. a bulletin has just come in from dallas. a sniper armed with a high- powered rifle murdered president kennedy today. kennedy posta,r lyndon johnson has taken the oath of office as the 37th president of the united states. it is president lyndon johnson , 55 years old, the new president of united states. now back to new york. details on the swearing in of lyndon johnson. the oath was administered in dallas at 1:38 cent

america was a difference place than it was when linden johnson left the presidency. years later, you could see the fires burning from the looters a few blocks away. you talk to johnson's white house aid and she said i remember white house jeeps outside and protesters everywhere. >> imagine a president living with his family his wife and two daughters in the white house and in parts of the white house you could hear, because pennsylvania avenue was not then closed off. the protesters could come right up to the fence. you could hear them chanting, hey hey lbj, how many kids did you kill today. what you said is right. the kennedy assassination, when you look back on the 20th century is the great day vid. >> pleasure as always. cnn has a great new documentary on the subject of this. and it airs for north american viewers tonight at 9:00 pm and 11:00 p.m. eastern. don't miss it. up next, which nations have opened their wallets for the philippines and which have not been so generous. it is an interesting list. when we come back. you want a broker you can trust. a lot of gu

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linden johnson wants the report out so that it doesn't interfere with the election a "n" 23406. -- the election in november. because he was a man who had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that this may be a two to three-month operation to the conception that it will probably take six months. >> the hour glass of time was running out on them. >> can you say if you still think it was one man? >> i think we'd better not get into that area, you know. the report will cover all of that in great detail. >> this committee labored ten months, then brought forth a document close to 1,000 pages. president johnson received that report today. >> what the public understood and what i understood is these were very honorable men. they thought the commission had done a good job, and they would come up with an answer. >> when the warren commission report came out, i believed it. we were still in a time when you tended to believe what officials told you. >> it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m. eastern daylight time, sunday, september 27th

. >> next from the linden being johnson's presidential library, a tour of the white house narrated byady bird johnson. >> it is a very small room. a little crowded. let's walk this way slowly. >> years ago when i was the wife of a brand new texas congressman, i snapped photos. i never imagined that one day i would live on the other side of that fence. like the tourists, i had the distinct feeling that this house belonged in part to me. i think that is a feeling that everyone who visits here shares. just like the thousands who come here every year, i was impressed by the majesty of the pride of the stream of history that ran through each of the rooms. what the passerby 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. living quarters for the president and his family. here is our living room. actually it is the west end of the long hall. it is the nerve center and crossroads of all family activities. an intimate place and yet busy. it belongs to all the family. psychol

number one, economically, you had linden johnson with the great society.ith you had the development ofare state. and the massive government spending thatnt goes along with it. >> didn't that have ton't happen? >> that is the culture of dependency. >> didn't it have to happen?de >> no it didn't have to happen. barry goldwaterld arguing the other way. >> when barry got his butt kicked big time in the election, if you suddenlyou say to millions of african-americans and other minoritiesth going to let you hl citizenship, all right, after decades of deprivation, you don't think the government has a responsibility to develop social programs to help those people? >> that was part of how it was sold, bill but that wasn't the total intent. >> bill: i will say the same thing to you i said to colmes, do you not think the federal government had a responsibility to people who are down trodden for decades to send some money to help them? >> sure, of course. but as with every government project, it's never limited to what its stated intent is, bill. rug backourse. economy was wobbly and cut taxes to

linden johnson the man of many appetites. in known 67 with the wish of good eating, you can see the theme here president ford was presented with a live turkey all wrapped up from the supermarket. it wasn't until ronal reagan, morning in america for america's turkeys. he said the bhird of honor was headed to the peting zoo. he dodged the question of actually pardoning turkeys enter the eastern contra scandal they secretly arranged for funding anti-communist groups turkey photo ops were no exception. in known 67, iraqen said as expected the 55 pound bird was headed to the peting zoo. reporters did her to job asking for pardons for the former aids in the iran confrom scandal. reagan would say, quote, if they had given me a different answer on charlie and his future, i wouldn't have pardoned him he was talking act the bird. with that bit of classic reagan evasion may have given his vice president his successor as president an idea. it was george h.w. bush in known european offered the first official presidential pard on the a tha

it was only othe next day that we got live pictures when linden johnson the new president came back tooff the plane, actually, it was later that same night with mrs. kennedy and her bloodstained clothes with robert kennedy holding her hand and the picture showing her getting into the ambulance at andrews air force base with her husband's body. >> what was it like in the newsroom that day when you finally arrived? had you rolled back up the windows and driven into the bureau that day. describe the scene there. chaos? >> it was chaotic. but it was the kind of chaos where had you professional people who were steeped in journalism. most of these people came out sandra van came out of the kennedy white house. news service background. professional journalists and knew what they were doing even though it was loud and people shouting and also periods of quiet as the moments sank in to all of us. this was not president roosevelt dying in office. this was not william mckinley being assassinated this was for me at least for me as a 20-year-old first experience a national trauma it was sobering bu

linden enlisted. he enlisted and went off on active duty. i do not think we have another first lady who ran her husband's office. best truman work in her husband'senate office and lady bird johnson was always careful to say in all the letter she sent out that she was volunteering for services. qwest it was remarkable. he left her in charge. off he went. then various friends of his reported to him she was running the office a whole lot better than he had. coming back to networking with political women, it was an extraordinary group of women to begin with. what they were doing was not something that's sitting around drinking tea and tanning desk tending to -- they were politically active both in their husbands campaigns and the larger campaigns, voting registrations and all of that. they were very active in the district of columbia. no matter where they were from, at a time when it was not -- it would not have been popular were it known where they were from, they worked with the african- american women here in washington on all kinds of social service issues. they created a social safety net. qwest one thing that was interesting in the home building that home video we saw, she sai