i have never seen anyone so affective as lyndon johnson. in one instance, i have been working with my predecessor on the public works economic pact. it did a great deal of work writing the language. my predecessor saw that i was invited to the white house for the signing. lyndon johnson gave pens out and grab me by the lapel and said he wanted the clean water bill. lyndon johnson would have been margaret as president if he did not have the war. >> i would like to look across the ark of time you have served and ask if you can't tell me what your most memorable boat was. >> my most memorable bill and i have had many that have been enacted into law. my first term, second year in congress, the house and senate had passed a cost-of-living adjustment for retired federal employees. shortly afterward, i received a letter from a constituent saying that they noticed that congress passed this cost-of-living adjustment. i am a federal employee. i am a lighthouse retiree. i did not get an adjustment, why? that is a fair question. i was serving on the co

san bryan tv as well as -- lyndon avenue has been shut down just behind me. the shooting took place behind the bushes on 8th lane. here's what police say happened. six people were shot in total. that happened around 7:15 tonight. two have died, one remains in critical condition, three have nonlife-threatening wounds. they will not confirm if this is gang-related yet and not releasing the identity of any of the victims. most residents seem to have an idea of who is involved in this and they say they are frustrated that violence has erupted in their neighborhood once again. >> i was walking that way and then you hear like all these gunshots and i didn't know what they were. >> so what did you do? >> i left home. i didn't want to stay here. >> for my generation, it's hard for me to move out of here but it's not the same anymore. >> do you feel like it's unsafe? >> yes. >> reporter: police say think are looking for three -- they are looking for three suspects at this time. three men from their late teens to early 20s. they were last seen in an impal la. they are

lyndon avenue shut down for at least two blocks. then in a t that's where a shooting occurred. and in this large area it means that police really have their work cut out for them in finding evidence and in finding witnesses in this investigation. violence erupted in a shower of gunfire in the south san francisco neighborhood. just after 7:15 p.m. tonight south san francisco police say an unknown number of gunmen shot six people. >> i was walking that way and you heard gunshots. >> what did you do? >> i left. i didn't want to stay in. >> reporter: ruby said her 15- year-old brother was shot in the leg but he was the only relative who was hurt. >> now my second brother, he is 19 years old. the cops are always after him since he was working. now he's killed. instead of cops protecting him. look what happened now. >> reporter: police will not confirm if this was gang related and they have not released any identity yet but they are scouring the area for suspects. >> they are checking door-to- door. they are checking with people on the street. >> reporter: when we arrived there was n

at south san francisco at lyndon avenue and lake lane. two men could be packing some dangerous heat. george is live on the scene, and george, i know you talked to investigators. >> reporter: yes, i did, jessica. you know, there is still a lot of confusion out here. you see a lot of people who have come out to the scene wondering if one of those shot is a family or a friend. neighbors called 911 around 7:15 tonight after hearing shots fired. police came out and found three people on the ground. two of them were already dead. we talked with one woman tonight who says her 15-year-old brother was shot in the leg. >> i'm not sure what happened. we just saw my brother who is 15 years old. he's traumatized right now. we're going to go see him. he's not talking. >> reporter: witnesses say they saw a 2000-2002 brown impala driving away from the scene. they say this is a gang area, but it's too early to say if this was gang related. nbc bay area news. >> we'll check in with you a little later, george. >>> the wallop from the winter storm now slammi

and be i don't know if you notice it, but you can recognize lyndon johnson's profile. so, fortunately, i noticed that right away. but it was close. i had nightmares over that for a long time afterwards. >> those of you who have been here know where we are, but, of course, the c-span viewers might not know. we're actually on the seventh floor of what used to be the texas school book depository building. the museum has exhibits on the sixth and seventh floors, and we're in a separate area. it's a saturday afternoon. in two days it will will have b7 years since president kennedy was killed right outside of these windows. jerry and lisa, where has this book been, and why has it taken so long for the story from you guys to come out? >> let me start with the motivation first. when i retired, i started looking on the internet and started reading stories about agents that we had served with that were accused of being a part of a conspiracy. the driver turning around and shooting president kennedy, although the you look closely -- if you look closely, he would have had to have

it will be we who i don't work there anymore but the people that are still in that lyndon building are the primary tenders. they will pick up trash and replace plants that get stolen or vandalizeded. whether it's tree pruning or paving repair that might need to be done by an ouder a outsider for. there will be a fund established. like in a homeowner's association. >> but that's a very complicated project. there are much smaller projects. what come to mind is a project i worked on at caesar chavez and gererroro. this house was delomolished. it was concrete and now it's a dumping ground. because in the absence of any plantings it as a freeway connecter came tire land and encampment and the cattate a rat and -- it built. so we pulled it down and planted it. getting resources in the neighborhood. there was a little old lady across the street that lived there forever. when she sees anybody out there doing something she yells at them. we passed the plate around and got a hose and sprayer. she waters and when she's on vacation she talks to her neighbors on either side. it's not rocket science

. >> they are playing lyndon music. lot of them are in tears. >> ♪ imagine all the people living life in peace you ♪ >> on this 30th anniversary, some of the biggest names in music are paying tribute to him. >> my whole life as an artist was shades by hand -- was shaped by him. >> in one of his last major interviews, he said, i do not believe in destiny. i believe in what i am doing now. critics say 30 years after he died but he and his music are still of great interest. bbc news, new york. >> much more on that and all the international news anytime, of course, on bbc.com. you can catch up with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm @bbcmikeembley. you can see what is coming up on facebook. thank you for being with us. >> hello and welcome. >> see t the news unfold, get te top stories from around the globe and click to play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and hon

this happened last night about 7:15 at the corner of lyndon avenue and 8th lane. neighbors tell us they heard several gunshots and then found the victims in the street. investigators are looking into possible gang links, something a brother dismisses. >> he was a very good person, very respectful, very energetic. he was striving to do well in life. >> why does this happen here? why did they do this to them, they didn't do nothing. >> three other people are wounded. they are expected to survive. police are looking for three men in their late teens or early 20s. >>> meanwhile, police are trying to stop a crime wave in palo alto. there have been 15 robberies since september. in several cases the robber was armed. police have made three arrests so far and they are looking for a person of interest. they are looking into the possibility the crimes are connected. >>> we want to introduce you to two groups who have one thing in common, their lives have been impacted by violence. a program is uniting them and moving them toward recovery and a better nut. >> reporter: this

as i said in the article, lyndon johnson on many social justice, economic issues, was one of the greatest presidents we've ever had. it was not easy in 1968 for those of us are around dr. king. to break wisconsin. we knew that once he publicly opposed johnson it would create a firestorm. tavis: on the vietnam question. not expedientght, or popular or plays to one's vanity, but if it is right, you have to do it. maybe someone will say, mr. jones, being president, you have to be pragmatic. pragmatism has some limits. do you know what they are? morality. tavis: i could do this for hours. i still feel like i have not done justice to the article. if you go to "the huffington post," you can read the article that clarence b. jones wrote. found its way from the internet onto the pages of the new york times. people are talking about what will happen with progressives in 2012, given the disappointment that many have, particularly with the president caving in on the bush era tax cuts. >> it is not about anger or punishing. it is about accountability. it was really about when yo ulovu love someone, y

police are hoping for dpluz solving the december 22 shooting on 8th lane and lyndon avenue. three other victims were wounded. investigators say they have not been cooperative with police and few witnesses have come forward. >> a very sad ending to a two day search for a missing snow border in placer county today. crews found the body of a 25-year-old about 400 feet from a trail the wilderness area on the back side of alpine. >> she was a good skier and knew what she was doing. and she's a beautiful human being. i want to say i love her with my heart it was news no one wanted to hear after 40 hours, a 25-year-old was found in a tree well and rescue yeses think she may have crashed into it. >> it appears she succumbed to injuries and weather. we will not know until an autopsy is perform. >>ed. >> on husband her boyfriend saw her snow boarding out of bounds. he couldn't find her at 4:00 and called for help. >> they're having a melt down know. shante is our life. she's our life. >> they tried to catch the area she was last seen in. the snow and high winds prevented it. but when

you recall it happened wednesday at the corner of lyndon and ace lane. neighbors heard gun shots and found the victims in the street. investigators are looking in to possible gain links. did this happen here? why did these people come here and do this to them? they didn't do nothing.)) three other people were hurt. they're expec . >> he was a very good person. he was very respectful and very energetic. he was trying to do well in life. >> why did these people do this to them. >> three other people were hurt. they are expected to survive. no arrests at this hour but police are looking for three men in their late teens or early 20s driving a brown chevy impala with at at tinted windows. s. >>> a 64 year-old was arrested in october after elementary school children complained he touched them inappropriately. prosecutors do not have enough evidence to determine what happened. he told the mercury news he did nothing wrong but the schools are telling him he is not welcome to teach there. >>> it's going be a wet messy holiday for residents in southern california

clearly lyndon johnson generation was branded by munich. the munich analogy kept surfacing, appropriate or otherwise. and in johnson's case, he also was halted by the fact that the right wing had exploited china's going communism in 1949. he recognized that inside the civil rights bill he was probably signing away the south. you just wonder whether all of this came together to influence in any way contacting viacom. >> guest: i disagree with my fellow historians who tend to agree in movement and patterns that can't be changed. i think a good example of rejecting this notion that you are imprisoned in, say, the history of munich, the appeasement of dictators, is the way that president eisenhower the third great caesar in my view, the way that he dealt with the suez crisis in 1956. because the british, french and israelis went in to take back the suez canal. and they assume the united states, even though the most powerful country in the world, would simply stand back and say, not egypt, and allow to happen. and eisenhower did not. he's the pr

the unfair treaty that we have formulated in the early 1900's and then when johnson was in office, lyndon johnson they had a big altercation and a group of people were killed, and panama broke relations with the united states and venezuela and other leaders in the sphere organized the third world power, and so all over the world there was opposition to the united states because we were violating panama's busy human rights as you may or may not remember the panama canal treaty was signed in the middle of the night. i think john hay was the secretary of state in washington, and they never saw the treaty. it was negotiated by a frenchman who hadn't been to panel for 18 years but was speaking for panama, so it was him on a fair treaty from the very beginning. and almost everybody recognized, including as i said, two-thirds of the u.s. senators. >> host: do you -- you went back to panama's ex-president to monitor the election, and call noriega out as running such a fraudulent election. do you think the fact that you were the architect of the panama canal treaties gave you a credibility in pana

he quickly rose to the white house under lyndon johnson where he drafted a key war memo and wrote a chapter of the pentagon papers. during the nixon years he accompanied henry kissinger to the peace talks in paris afternoon alongside kissinger and clark clifford. holbrooke aspired to be a great man himself. his signature achievement negotiating an end to the war in bosnia at the dayton peace talks in 1995. that ended a religious and ethnic war that had raged among the former yugoslavian nations. tearing europe apart leading to ethnic cleansing against minority muslim, rapes and genocides until he negotiated a peace treaty signed in paris at the end of 1995. >> this the best alternative to continued war. >> reporter: he served as ambassador to germany and then to the united nations under bill clinton. a close adviser to john kerry, holbrooke was known to have aspired to become secretary of state had kerry been elected. instead of next democrat to occupy the white house was barack obama who offered the state department job to hillary clinton. clinton carved out a special envoy role for holbro

police say around 7:15 last night six people were hit in the drive-by shooting near the corner of lyndon avenue and 8th lane. two died on the scene and one at the hospital. ovalos's 15-year-old brother was also shot but expected to survive. members of the family came to grieve here where gavalo was killed. his father told us he does not think the police did everything they could to protect the people in this neighborhood. he says the police do nothing but arrest and harass people here but could not keep this from happening. his half brother says he was a good and caring person just in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> it is overwhelming. i am just thinking of all of the good memories that i had with my brother when he did live with me and when we were younger. >> reporter: today the name of another victim was released. cortez, from south san francisco, the name of the third victim has not been released. at today's gathering 19the scene many were angry and openly criticized the police. >> where are the polices when you need them? they are always there when you don't need them and when

but the good thing was that shortly thereafter, the president, who was lyndon baines johnson at the time, did ask me to dance. and what kind of a dancer was l.b.j.? he was a terrific dancer. you mentioned that you had to fight down the temptation to share your views on the vietnam war. you bet. i was marching against the war and playing in a wonderful play called, oh, what a lovely war-- very anti-war sentiment-- at arena stage at the time. l.b.j. was pariah to those of us who were against the war, and there i was dancing with him. and i thought, "now's my chance to tell him." and then i thought, "it's not the time." this poor man needs a little relaxation. besides, he fox-trots very well. [laughing] if he'd been a poor dancer, you would have let him know your view? [laughs] you bet. i-i was-- on the other topic of courage, another early example in your career came in a scene from the great white hope, where--by today's standards would not be shocking or offend most people, i think-- but a scene in which you and james earl jones are in a bed together-- interracial couple, fully clothed.

and i think the best presidents like lyndon johnson, for example, fdr or ronald reagan knew that and ronald reagan and gorbachev wasn't what he could predict and how he approaches the soviet union and the fact how he remembers ronald reagan and then lyndon johnson was vietnam. i mean, the way that overtook his presidency was something he didn't expect in '63 and '64. that's what being a president is about. and in some ways that's what we measure. that's one of the things we look for. how do they respond when those events happen? when those shifts take place. >> and tevi troy, you're nodding your head. >> i want to remark both on this question the political savvy and whether there's a checklist. and president bush, i think, showed his political savvy both in being elected twice although the first one was clearly close but also he had an agenda going into that first term. and he really accomplished the things he said he was going to accomplish. he had the no child left behind reform. he had the tax cuts and he had the medicare part d. those were really his three signature things he pus

three others were hurt in the shooting at eighth lane and lyndon avenue. no one has been arrested. witnessens told men they were awning machine. >>> a former dog walker accused of steeling his clients jewelry is in court today. nicholas was given keys to varis homes so he could walk dogs. and that he stole jewelry worth more than $5500 on different occasions. he's in jail now on $50,000 braille. >>> it shows the program this year amean loan -- crime stoppers began in the early 90s. since then rewards have been offered in other violent crimes. >>> 20 minutes now before 6:00. a man and woman are say this morning after their boat flipped. the two were crab fishing when a large wave capsized their boat. both were wearing life jackets and able to make it so shore on their own. they were not seriously hurt. >>> time now 5:40 a peek from today. the california line will get $16 million in upgrades. bus service will be substituted for the cable cars between the financial district to china town and on to knob hill. that work is scheduled to be finished by next july. >> i'm sure the cable car

three others were hurt in the shooting at eighth lane and lyndon avenue. witnesses told police they saw three men driving away from the scene. investigators believe the shooting is tied to an escalading war between two violent street gangs. >>> a former dog walker accused of stealing his clients jewelry is scheduled in court today. nicholas was given keys to various homes. he is accused of stealing jewelry worth more than $5500 on different occasions. the da's office says he gave the jewelry to his girlfriend to pawn off. he's in jail now on $50,000 bail. >>> crime stoppers shows that program lead to hundreds of arrests for violent crimes. crime stoppers is credited with solving 79 cases. crime stoppers originated in the early '90s. but since then crime stoppers rewards have been offered in hundreds of violent crimes. >>> 6:36. a man and a woman are safe this morning after their boat flipped over near bodega bay. the two were crab fishing yesterday when the large wave capsized their boat. both were wearing life jackets and able to make it to shore on their

>> reporter: frank, we're at lyndon avenue allege 7th lane. if you look over my shoulder behind me, you can see officers gathered in front of the bring building. the coroner is also here on the scene. we want to pan the camera right, you can see an alley way and a small white house are crime tape and bushes there. behind the french corner where the bodies are. that happened at 7:14 when police got numerous calls of shots fired. we have late video of the scene where bodies are found. it looks like a body. when police responded they found several people laying in the street. two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, the others taken to san francisco general hospital. we heard from a police sergeant a few minutes ago, she said the first calls came in at 7:14 tonight. >> we arrived. we found two or three people laying in the alleyway on 8th lane. we have a total of six shots, two are deceased, one in critical condition, and three have non-life threatening injuries. >> reporter: we heard from a couple of relativings who say the third vi

>> reporter: frank, we're at lyndon avenue allege 7th lane. if you look over my shoulder behind me, you can see officers gathered in front of the bring building. the coroner is also here on the scene. we want to pan the camera right, you can see an alley way and a small white house are crime tape and bushes there. behind the french corner where the bodies are. that happened at 7:14 when police got numerous calls of shots fired. we have late video of the scene where bodies are found. it looks like a body. when police responded they found several people laying in the street. two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, the others taken to san francisco general hospital. we heard from a police sergeant a few minutes ago, she said the first calls came in at 7:14 tonight. >> we arrived. we found two or three people laying in the alleyway on 8th lane. we have a total of six shots, two are deceased, one in critical condition, and three have non-life threatening injuries. >> reporter: we heard from a couple of relativings who say the third vi

lyndon johnson knew how to get it done. he worked every issues personally in addition to having a very able staff at work the hill on both sides of the house and the senate prev. i have never seen anyone so affected. in one instance, i had worked with my predecessor on the development act. i did a great deal predic. lyndon johnson grabbed me by the lapel and said "i want you to tell john that i want that." [unintelligible] he said "i know what you are here for and i will do it." i've never seen a president operate that way. it cannot hide vietnam on the shoulder, -- if he had not had vietnam on his shoulder, he would have been on the books as the greatest president. >> i want to look at the time you have served here and maybe what's your most memorable boat was. >> i've had many. my first term, second year in congress the house and senate have passed a cost-of-living adjustment for retired federal employees. shortly afterward, i reseat a letter from may -- received a letter from a constituent saying i know this congress is

lyndon johnson gets historic credit for it, as he deserves, but within this body, where the cloture vote determined whether or not it would pass, the key figure was everett dirksen. and my father, with me as his chief of staff, was caught in that pressure, with the conservatives saying one thing, the liberals saying another and dad trying to decide which way he would go. i remember a comment that he made as he made his decision, and he made his decision to go with dirksen -- vote for the bill, vote for cloture. being a businessman, he had thought it through. he believed in free markets, as well as i do, but he made this comment which i have always held on to as an example of the way you deal with this challenge. he said, you know, i've thought about it, and many of these companies that refuse -- i'm using the language of the tim time -- refuse to serve negroes are public companies, with their stock available on the stock exchange. so what we are saying is, it's all right for the negro to own the company but it's no not all right for him to patronize it. that's unsustainable. so on this o

it happened december 22nd at lyndon and eighth. three men in a dark chevy opened fire and sped off. they were between 15 and 20 years old. >> san jose police are searching for two teenagers suspected of stabbing a man in front of a little school after 8:30 at the corner of mac lachlan and bridges academy little school. police say the two suspects fled in a car. anybody with information is asked to call play is police. >> a crime spree against pot growers and dispensaries is starting to worry neighbors. men with guns stormed the home on location urt street and tried to rob it of money and pot. investigators say it turns out the home was a marijuana agree house. by the time officers arrived the suspects were gone and the victims were shaken up. he has nothing against pot, but she not happy about the criminal element it seems to attract. >> pot brings money and money brings criminals. criminals want the money and the pot. >> the attack follows a 48-hour blitz of robberies and break-ins last week in san jose. from december 13th through the 15th, five places were broken into our roshed.

it happened at the intersection of lyndon and 8th. witnesses spotted three gunman racing away from the scene in a dark chevy impala. they believe it's tied to an escalating war. >>> police in palo alto are looking for advice in a recent string of robbery. there have been 15 reported. in some cases the victims were thrown to the ground. police say if you are ever approached by a robber, the best thing to do is comply. >> there is nothing that you own that you have on you person is worth fighting over. if a suspect demands your purse take it off and give it to them. >> in the most recent incident on wednesday night a woman was robbed right near her home. police say they are looking for several suspects. officers officers are working overtime to get them off the street. there is a $10,000 reward to solve the crimes. >>> some taxpayers may have to delay filing their returns. what the irs now has to do because of a recently passed tax law. >>> welcome back to the morning news. there is a man hunt going on in mumbai india right now for four

it happened december 22nd at lyndon avenue. three men in a dark chevy opened fire and swed off. the victims were between 15 and 20 years old. we are also following in another developing story out of oakland. a scary or dell for several people caught in an apartment fire overnight. we understand some of them jumped from the window to try to escape? >> that's right. when firefighters got here, they say this fire was moving out of an upper unit. four people could be trapped in another unit. they fought back the names and inside they found three people down, two adults and a female child. several ambulances called to the scene and crews hoping to work on the victims. three were taken to highland hospital and the women taken to eden. the three that were down are in very critical condition. this started at about 2:00 in the morning. a neighbor was sleeping down stairs and she barely escaped. >> i got scared. i see the fire coming up from up stairs and i got in and i woke up my kids and said the apartment is on fire. you get scared. we got out. i got my kids and went out. >> she and he

south san francisco police are looking for three men seen driving away from the scene at lyndon and eighth last night. neighbors called 911 after hearing shots fired. they found three people on the ground and two were dead. another victim is in critical condition. another said her 15-year-old brother is shot in the leg. >> my brother is 15 and he's traumatized right now. right now he's not talking because he's traumatized. >> police are looking into whether there was an argument before. they saw a 2000 to 2002 brown chevy impalla with tinted windows drive away after the shooting. >>> a portion of the a.m. ma den county park in south san jose is off limits indefinitely. santa clara county parks department shut it down after a landfill company released a by product of methane gas at the northern end of the park. they don't know if it's harmful to humans or animals, but they smelled a strong odor tuesday. a few trails by the entrance are closed until further notice. >>> taking toxins off tap. the epa is moving to address a potential health risk of chromium 6, a known carcinogen in water. they

south san francisco police are looking for three men seen driving away from the scene at lyndon and eighth lane last night. police said neighborings called 911 and police came out and found three people on the ground. two were already dead. we spoke with a woman who said her brother was shot in the leg. >> he is traumatized right now. >> police say they are looking into whether there was an argument before the shooting. they saw a 2000 to 2004 brown chevy impalla with tinted windows driving away after the shooting. >> a portion of the quiksilver county park in south san jose is off limits indefinitely. santa clara parks department shut it down after a company released a by product of meg 18 gas and at the northern end of the park. they don't know if it's harmful to human animals and they smelled a noxious strong odor tuesday. a few trails are closed until further notice. >>> president obama looks to be ending the year strong. he is stringing a series of unlikely wins with help from republicans. the passage with a treaty with russia and don't ask don't tell are talking come back for the pre

lyndon johnson had a huge victory. in 1968, of course, the republicans won the presidency. in 1972, the democrats were assessed as being almost gone. we won one state and the district of columbia, maybe two states and the district of columbia. two years later, the president who won that 1972 election resigned in one of the biggest political crisises that has confronted our you country. in 1976 we won the presidency. four years later, you know it went to ronaldeagan and it goes back and forth. in 1994, of cose, the republicans won a big victory in the house. in 2006, 12 years later, we won a victory and enlarged that victory in 2008. wh is my point? my points that both parties ought to get the message that, look, if you're not doing the right thing, we're going to change horses. i think the american people want us both to work together to solve problems that are real problems, not ideological left and right problems, but problems that they see in the terms of their jobs, in the debt that confronts their country. those are the two major issues in this election. we need to add

some, of course, are very well known, like the one with lyndon johnson taking the oath of office afterkennedy's assassination. but the picture of john and robert kennedy and marilyn monroe together is very rare. the secret service confiscated all the other photos of that trio. >>> the heisman trophy ceremony takes place tomorrow night right here in new york. those players certainly bound for the nfl, which had one game last night. here's espn news. >> good morning. some nfl football on thursday. peyton manning, and the indianapolis colts have been struggling. trying to turn things around, against the equally struggling tennessee titans. second quarter, 7-0, colts. kerry collins. quick pass to kenny brent. he runs along the sideline. but stripped. and the colts pick up the fumble. later on the drive, second and goal. manning, complete to pierre garcon. touchdown. 14-0, colts. titans punting now. over the head of brett kerns. and the colts recover, taking over deep in titans' territory. ensuing drive. manning. garcon. first two-touchdown game of garcon's career. colts win, 30-28. >>> nba

lyndon johnson didn't do that by himself. i'd love to give him the credit. it tax a republican from -- >> you're dealing with an i'd yolgs, by the way, i was totally correct in that last argument. we're dealing with an ideology that they want to defeat president obama. president obama won nine bush states then they come in and say no to everything. so we're not nice enough to the republicans? >> no, that's not what i'm saying as a democrat. i'm saying as a democrat i want to give elected leaders whether in congress or the city council the room to find the solution. if we start the day by calling each other liars, if we start the day by calling each other baby killers, murderers, racists, we don't get to the topic of the substance. here's the deal. for most of my adult life, i've been willing to look up and say when we lost an election, oh, what the heck, we'll get them next time. >> go tell that to the republicans. >> i am. >> they lost in 2008 when they were obstructionists throughout. >> ed, there were republicans with me in new york. there are republicans

what happened was, this administration came in, for the first time since lyndon johnson we had a machineryernment. super mar majorities in the house and senate, they could pass anything they wanted because they had the 60 votes in the senate that hasn't happened since johnson. they decided to govern for a part son decision they passed the health care bill which i think was a fiscal disaster. they passed the stimulus package. financial reform package. all of those things i don't think was good policy. if this had been a divided government which is what we are going to get next year, obviously what was being anticipated by the president when he reached compromise on the tax issue, you wouldn't have gotten those policies put in place the way they went in. you would have gotten better governance. >> greta: if you were going to be senator again, would you vote for repeal or fixed health care? >> i would vote to repeal it. you have to be honest about it. the president has the veto pen. there are only going to be 47 republicans in the senate that's 20 votes shore. as a practical matter you have t

shown by president kennedy for president eisenhower as in the friendship between my grandfather and lyndonthese people did get along in the final analysis. i think they were -- as you recreate the conversations that they had and so forth, there is this national interest, there is this vision of the national interest that brings them altogether. >> i hope you'll come back for a longer interview. there is a picture in the book, you're both 8 years old, it's january 20, 1957 at the inauguration of your father and grandfather, second term. you're looking at her. it's a wonderful picture what were you thinking? >> i was thinking he was a really cute 8-year-old. he liked my black eye. he also -- >> you had a black eye. >> were along at tanks, airplanes, missiles coming down pennsylvania avenue. >> we are in washington, it's cold. this is a day like today in 1957, and we had this phenomenal parade, sort of -- >> those men, they are always looking over the shoulder at the tanks and the weapons. julie mnixon and coming up nex. what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? that

holbrook joined the foreign service, posted first to vietnam and then to the vietnam policy team in lyndon johnson's white house and finally as a junior member of the u.s. delegation to the paris peace talks. he often said it was the defining experience of his public life. holbrook went on to serve in high posts in three democratic administrations, including assistant secretary of state for president carter and ambassador to germany, assistant secretary of state and united nations ambassador for president clinton. whether dealing overseas or in washington, holbrook used his intellect and his ego to bully, to charm, to cajole. his persona bore fruit when he pushed three warring nations to end the bosnia conflict. the 1995 dayton peace accord was the crowning achievement of his career. the day the deal was announced in one of his dozens of newshour appearances over the years, holbrook spoke to elizabeth farnsworth. >> those last few hours, the toughest thing you were negotiating about and how you resolved it. >> by the last few hours the issues were very small in relationship to what had bee

your name in conservation you're going to be on the short list with fdr and maybe tiahrt, fdr and lyndon johnson. how were you able to succeed so wildly on the conservation field? >> guest: first of all it took me four years to do it, almost four years and i memorized enough of alaska and about halfway through i saw that we were not going to get any support from the two alaska senators, one a democrat and the alaska member of the house is one. so, my secretary of interior came up with a idea of using a bill that passed the congress in the early 1900's, i think 1907. it was called -- it was designed to save monuments, and how they value things to the future that should be preserved and he gave the president almost the unilateral right to do so. we used that legislation on large areas of land to visit made them as national monuments to be preserved, and there was nothing the congress did to overwrite my decisions. and eventually, the amount of land we set aside as the national monuments in alaska and other places was as large as the state of michigan to a tiny income and the enormous amoun

that on the court because that meant richard nixon got to pick the next chief justice instead of lyndon johnson. the ethical issued raised after the chief justice nomination died and they found themself exposed in writing about financial scandal payment he had take that was deemed inappropriate, i mean, brennan was very concerned about that so much so that that contributed to his decision then in 1969 to basically withdrawal. if you watch the court in the 70s, unless you were actually in the supreme court chamber, you never laid eyes on william brennan for 13 years. he disappeared from the public. he withdrew from all speaking engagements. he withdrew from financial investments. he resigned from the american bar association. he basically disappeared from the public eye in part because his wife was suffering from cancer, and he spent a lot of time with her, but also because of the scandal. he was not going to take a chance that he had any finger in anything that might involve any kind of problem. >> i wanted to close tonight reading one paragraph. i don't want you to feel cheated we didn

you know, he was to diplomacy what lyndon johnson was to politics.now, you have this sense of we're just not going to meet this kind of guy again. it is extremely sad because i just thought he was indestructible. he was being groomed for so long to be secretary of state. >> he was also quite colorful. >> yeah, he was wonderfully colorful. and he always -- he always had this sort of inside, he would take you inside the inner sanctum of things and tell you things. he was extremely analytical at the same time and he lived for diplomacy. everything else in life was waiting. he always liked to be out there in the action. when he was on wall street, his heart was in. >> it takes a certain kind of personality to be a diplomat and to be drawn to that field. what was it about his life that made him want to do that? >> well, i think richard had many qualities, many of them have been mentioned in the last few minutes, but i think what's so far hasn't been said is that he really saw the united states as a force for good in the world and that i remember getting t

o in 1962 i think it was, 63,esidt lyndon johnson the president then, proclaimed -- i'm forgetting, whichade it ssible possible for the cubans to stay here as they arrived to the united states and the law has not been repealed or anything. it was just a mandate by the clintonh administration to retun them which has made so far the return of the cuban refugees possible, back to the island. >> now mr. basulto tell us your history. when were you born in cuba and how did you get to this stage in what has been your involvementmi and essentially fighting for the ndban government?, a >> i was born in cuba and as a m youngan man, i was recruited by the cia, because we were working at the time with an internal organization in cuba and the cis promised to us that they were going to give us all the help we needed to chase -- change the ose wer government of cuba into a demographic -- democratic pigs. government. were it was known later as the bay of pigs.yeah. i was number 22 in the bay of a pigs invasion if you will. i was sent to cuba as a radioin. operator to send back information.rds, in other w