they were all about linden johnson. >> it's an odd relationship that he has with johnson.he couldn't stand the kennedys. it comes bursting through the book. there's also jealousy toward the kennedys. at one point he says he had courage that he was well read. that he was a beat man. that he was a philosopher. this is bunk. i knew jack kennedy as none of these things. he says i want to be known for guts and courage. >> kissinger says i think you're known for competence. he says anything can be known for competence. i want to be known for guts. >> he liked lid en johnson. he very much worried if these pentagon papers were going to tell secrets of our state of what's going on in vietnam. it would enrain the anti-war movement which was already hot under the collar. he tried to jeft sequester to pentagon papers. the administration does very weird things like have a break in of elsberg's psychiatric papers to get his files it shows nixon's outrage of leaks. all presidents hate leaks but i think nixon hated them more. in the pentagon paper it wasn't just a leak but it was the new

and he said you're texas linden johnson died in the wool democrat. but things were tough, and they were thank you all over. but you never met anybody who had more respect for the office of the presidency. and every day that i walked through the white house gates, they didn't see it that way. thethe nixon tapes later reveal. >> let's look at a piece of tape during a press conference with president nixon. >> mr. president, dan rather, cbs news. are you running for something? >> no, sir, mr. president, are you? >> what did it feel like at that moment when the president got pointed with you? >> well, he did so before, and it was not a great surprise. if he thought you were going to try to ask a tough question, he would throw you a balance, and it was unexpected certainly in that setting, but i didn't think about what he was going to sigh. i didn't think about his response. >> when did you realize that nixon was going to leave office? >> i wa i thought until april oy of 1974, the president resigned in august of 1974, i thought in some way, he would want t

they were all about linden johnson. >> it's an odd relationship that he has with johnson.he couldn't stand the kennedys. it comes bursting through the book. there's also jealousy toward the kennedys. at one point he says he had courage that he was well read. that he was a beat man. that he was a philosopher. this is bunk. i knew jack kennedy as none of these things. he says i want to be known for guts and courage. >> kissinger says i think you're known for competence. he says anything can be known for competence. i want to be known for guts. >> he liked lid en johnson. he very much worried if these pentagon papers were going to tell secrets of our state of what's going on in vietnam. it would enrain the anti-war movement which was already hot under the collar. he tried to jeft sequester to pentagon papers. the administration does very weird things like have a break in of elsberg's psychiatric papers to get his files it shows nixon's outrage of leaks. all presidents hate leaks but i think nixon hated them more. in the pentagon paper it wasn't just a leak but it was the new

there's all sorts of evidence to suggest that he never would have done what linden johnson did in vietnamrom south vietnam to west berlin. >> though lbj had experienced the same crises by sitting next to kennedy, he had not come out with the same conclusions. he did not share kennedy's suspicion of the united states military or military advice. once kennedy was gone, it was inevitable that u.s. military policy was going to change. we lost a president that was skeptical of military advice and gained one who usually took it. >> russian announcement said he resigned. once cheering khruschchev were left in the dark as to what went on when leonid brezhnev was the new leader of the party. >> my father was shocked. his successor just went in the opposite direction, then divorce of his policies. he was very upset. >> he had begun a new age of the soviet union, a thawing of the cold war. not complete, but the beginning of something. but things change. >> the cuban missile crisis showed that neither side could gain a military victory over the other side. so therefore, the competition had to take a

linden johnson in 1964 in his state of the union address declares this war on poverty.ys many americans live on the outskirts of hope some because of their poverty and some because of their color and all too many because of both. so he's drawing the things together for us. our task is to replace their despair with opportunity. the administration today and now declares an unconditional war on poverty today in america. expectations right. wow. you're going to eliminate poverty. this martial rhetoric. it sounds like you're really going to go atl@4ú] it. so job training. what if there aren't jobs there? >> create them. >> job creation. this was one answer. yes. many african-americans and those on the left argued for. within the johnson administration secretary of labor willard werts. he said the poverty program must immediately start out on the emphasis of employment to provide the head of the house with a decent paid job. during the great depression, the federal government had public works and built all of this wonderful infrastructure and employed people. a lot of people

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after that president linden johnson, we assumed the conversations with panama with some scopes after years, those scopes had not reached any success. so we were a little -- a little scared that we were not going to have any new treaty. and for that reason, when we approached the negotiators of the united states, we did not believe that they really wanted to do justice for panama. not that in that moment. not in that time. >> take a step back from that. one of the negotiators was saw linowitz. he wrote about this period, he said for panamanians, the arrangement by and under the earlier treaty, the 1903 treaty that president roosevelt signed, were a source of shame to the panamanians. do you agree? >> yes. it was a source of pain. also there was a shame for the united states citizens, because i remember that in the discussions of the treaty of 1903, the senate and the congress of the united states, some senators rejected that treaty, and said it was too good for the united states and that probably that the panamanians won't like that treaty, and he was right. i remember, also that mr.

linden johnson in 1964 in his state of the union address declares this war on poverty. many americans live on the outskirts of hope some because of their poverty and some because of their color and all too many because of both. so he's drawing the things together for us. our task is to replace their despair with opportunity. the administration today and now declares an unconditional war on poverty today in america. expectations right. wow. you're going to eliminate poverty. this martial rhetoric. it sounds like you're really going to go atl@4ú] it. so job training. what if there aren't jobs there? >> create them. >> job creation. this was one answer. yes. many african-americans and those on the left argued for. within the johnson administration secretary of labor willard werts. he said the poverty program must immediately start out on the emphasis of employment to provide the head of the house with a decent paid job. during the great depression, the federal government had public works and built all of this wonderful infrastructure and employed people. a lot of people we

i believe it was linden johnson who said you got to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. i think we're trying to do when pushing on the nuclear issue and human rights issue. i think as we talked earlier, there is a lot that has been done this year with the release of the report. we've been attempting to use the un report to continue to put pressure on north korea. in the un security counsel we've already had an informal meeting where we've had 13 of the 15 members attend, discuss the report, and discuss its recommendations. we're also in the process of looking towards activity in gene geneva. we will continue our pressure in geneva. the human rights counsel on the human rights report. we're also going to have discussions in the general assembly in october at which the commission of inquiries report will be discussed. there will be a resolution that will be prepared and adopted in the general assembly by the end of this year. we're very active in terms of looking at how we might further push this forward in terms of action in the security counsel. with regard to sanctions,

linden johnson in 1964 in his state of the union address declares this war on poverty.ny americans live on the outskirts of hope some because of their poverty and some because of their color and all too many because of both. so he's drawing the things together for us. our task is to replace their despair with opportunity. the administration today and now declares an unconditional war on poverty today in america. expectations right. wow. you're going to eliminate poverty. this martial rhetoric. it sounds like you're really going to go atl@4ú] it. so job training. what if there aren't jobs there? >> create them. >> job creation. this was one answer. yes. many african-americans and those on the left argued for. within the johnson administration secretary of labor willard werts. he said the poverty program must immediately start out on the emphasis of employment to provide the head of the house with a decent paid job. during the great depression, the federal government had public works and built all of this wonderful infrastructure and employed people. a lot of people were

remember lbj, linden baines johnson was involved in the white house to set the tone. >> but remember,yndon johnson gave speeches from the white house saying we would intervene, and john f. kennedy insisting we will do something here. you are right in terms of forging links with the local community, but often the federal government had to intervene because the local municipalities were not paying attention to the civil rights of the local people there. >> i went to high school there. it's not either/or, but a both and a tone set for the white house and action and organization to be taken in the street. >> absolutely. >> thank you so much. >>> coming up, rick snyder tries to be a man of the people and fails miserably. plus, we're takinga i closer look at the history of excessive force used by the police, but income, i'm taking your questions and ask ed live is just ahead. stay tuned. ♪ [ male announcer ] when you see everyone in america almost every day, you notice a few things. like the fact that you're pretty attached to these. ok, really attached. and that's alright. because we'll te