the news we can tell -- it's hard to get in the mind of lyndon johnson, it's hard to know.ally was almost to the end of the election, was probably more interested in nixon becoming president than humphrey. and as near as we can tell the reason is, and michael has done a lot of research about this, is that he didn't want to be the president who lost the war and he thought if humphrey got elected he would end the war and nixon might continue it or find a different end to it and keep his legacy intact, basically. and that wouldn't change until late -- when you see late in the film where nixon did this thing with the government that johnson finally came around and he realized he might lose texas. >> here's some footage from your documentary that shows that the democrats themselves even heckled hubert humphrey and teddy kennedy. >> with a small group of advisors, humphrey returned to his home in rural minnesota to pick up the pieces and plan his campaign. >> i remember so well in september of 1968 after the convention, the whole environment of politics had come apart. i mean, it

lyndon. >> how long ago did you do the interview with ted van dyke? >> that would have been about 2003 or 2004, 2004. it's been a while. >> he was emotional about -- >> very emotional. >> did you ever ask him why? >> again, that was the longest interview we did i think was about 3 1/2 hours. he was emotional all the way through. he was emotional because he saw the suffering and he didn't -- he couldn't go in. he said, i couldn't go in the room where these people were dying. i saw people with arms missing and legs missing. and i think he for a long time ted was against the war in the middle of that whole time so he just had a hard time with the suffering. >> was hubert humphrey ever dishonest with the american people about his feelings on the war? >> i don't think so. i really don't. i don't think that -- i think that he -- he said he would rather be wrong than a hypocrite. and i don't think -- i think he believed what he was saying. i think when he was for the war he was for the war. and, you know, like it or not and whether you agreed with him or not

most successful president in my memory was lyndon johnson. he had his great society program. the civil-rights act, only one part of it, in medicare and a massive program for the war against poverty. hy was governor when he put into effect the elementary school act. i went up and testified in favor of that act as a governor. all those things transformed the life of america. he was courageous enough to control budget deficits even when faced with terrible threats to the budget. he imposed taxes and other things to make it possible. he has been the most successful president. >> how can young people be a positive force in the political process today? >> some things that some of you may not like. [talking over each other] >> i would like for the young people in coming generations to strive for transcendence in political affairs. for superlative measures. not just in your own profession but in the political life of america. i would like for our country to become a real system. the next 20 nations in the world. and all the defense budgets on earth. and with a the dollar prevailing a

you did in washington, and you write about this in the book, is that you attended the briefing by lyndon johnson on the vietnam. tell a little bit about that because you actually spoke up in that briefing in a way that i think very few people did. >> well, this wonderful hubert humphrey was called the hefty warrior and just a wonderfully energetic and appealing person, he was vice president and had just come back from vietnam, and vietnam was increasingly becoming a major political factor in the country. it had not then when i first ran in 62 but by then i suppose it was 64, 66 -- 65. >> mabey 66. >> so president johnson was getting complaints that members of congress didn't feel they were being informed about the war. >> however the hid said such a thing. >> he invited the members of congress to the white house and we all went down, at least a large number, 150 of us coming and it was winter as i recall. the invitation came late and we went in and it is nothing for young congressman to be sitting in the white house getting briefed by the president and vice president just back from vietn

you were just mentioning lyndon johnson. i always kind of had a theory, one of the reasons we got into vietnam is because we could. we were prepared in those days to fight two-and-a-half force at the same time. and, you know, lbj never had to raise the reserves during the war. i guess what over half a million troops over there. then we went on and we put in a half million in the first iraq war, et cetera. so maybe we're not able to manage that now. we had a speaker here, james bradley who wrote the imperial cruise. and he made the point that theodore roosevelt had a low regard for china. later fdr had a high regard, five major powers are going to be after the war, but he had a high regard for japan, and even had a secret treaty with japan not approved by the senate, into negotiations and there was a secret treaty. do you know anything about that? >> i'm not sure exactly what secret for you are referring to. there were a couple of executive agreements that were called the gentlemen's agreement. i should just add here that in

you attended a briefing by lyndon johnson. tell us about that. he spoke up about that briefing. >> just a wonderfully energetic and appealing person he had just come back from vietnam. had not been when i ran in 62, but by then it was 64, 66, 65. so president johnson was getting complaints that members of congress to and feel there were staying informed about the war. a large number one down. the invitation came late. we went in, and it is nothing for a young congressman to be sitting in the white house getting briefed by the president and what president who is just come back from vietnam the recovery started to get the briefing. lyndon baines johnson was commander in chief. he was bigger than life. he would pop up every time someone would say something and answer the question. he bird with just about be ready to answer and stop. lyndon johnson would take over. >> that is pretty much the way it usually was. johnson was talking about doing the things he would do test when the war. you pipe dubbin said bombing halts. probably more critical than he

pulling out records he collected from the 1960s congressman brooks said governor lyndon johnson was the greatest arm twister washington has ever seen and he didn't like to get beaten down capitol hill. look at this list. he was never successful in getting more than 1-third of his proposed reorganization plan through congress even with this special procedure. if you win this argument bleaker turtle mr. president, on the legislation you still won't have anything to show for it in the end. carter looked at brooks with that steely face and promised the american people he would do this and he would not put this aside. the conversation was so intense that carter's adviser stepped in and move them to a different topic. he told the mitanni committee chairs all this reorganization proposal he would use every ounce of his power to move bills around them. he singled out congressman brooks. without hesitation speaker o'neill looked at the president and responded this would be the worst thing you could do particularly with a fellow like brooks. jack doesn't get mad. he gets even. you don't even know

we are not in the forefront of environmental issues, but lyndon johnson once. the elections we had in the year 2000, in 2004, showed increasingly the outcome of elections depends on money. it would be impossible now for anybody to be a candidate for either party that did not raise $100 million in advance, or $200 million. so, we have not stigma on ourselves, but we have opportunities to improve in the future. it requires some thoughts that are independent and innovative. i would say, idealistic. and it is going to be the next generation that will have to bring this about. >> [inaudible] >> i think a lot of people would say, he only served one term. he got defeated the first time. that is not my preference. [laughter] i would like for people to remember that i kept the peace and that i promoted human rights. almost without hesitation, and without too much equivocation. we had some leaders on earth that are not true democrats, but what i explained as south america was one. i would say peace and human rights. that would be my preference. >> before we came onstage,

i was joined by former senator eugene mac car think -- mccarthy who had challenged lyndon johnson for re-election and had waged a significant -- sufficiently significant initial campaign to cause lyndon johnson to drop out of the race. he was also, another co-plaintiff was the new york civil liberties union, the new york conservative party, stuart mott who had contributed $220,000 to the eugene mccarthy campaign. now, what was the common element of these groups? they were outside the norm of the political establishment. the the our concern that if -- it was our concern that if this law was kept intact, it would squeeze out the ability of challengers to come in and confront the political establishment. we won on one side, and that is the limitations on individual -- what could be spent in any campaign. we lost on the individual contributions because the supreme court just said that the appearance or fact of corruption supported this restraint. but the effect has been to consolidate the power of the establishment, especially incumbents who have extraordinary advantages over challengers.

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

laissez lyndon johnson the vietnam war had ended in victory in late 66. would we be looking at him as a great war leader and someone who did it the right way? >> you're the historian. it seems to me that, i don't know who said it, but wars are a series of catastrophes in the by success or victory. they are untidy, difficult, hard. the enemy has a brain. eisenhower i think said the plan is worthless. planning is everything, and the plan is worthless. >> that's one of rumsfeld's rules spent when i say rumsfeld rules, it's a rule i took from someone more intelligent than i am but with full credit. >> indeed. but it's true. every time you try to do something, or every office visit events. for every defense there's an offense. and there's a constant change that takes place on the battlefield. i think that we are unlikely for a period of time to end up with the kind of clarity we had in world war ii. because of the nature of the world we are living. it is asymmetric. it's not symmetric. it is ever-changing, and it is going to be a challenge for our leadership.

it was not the situation yet where lyndon johnson was elected as a peace candidate in 1964, and in 1965 cents 500,000 troops to vietnam and a sense of betrayal was so big you could cut it with an eye. i know because i expressed it myself and many people in this room probably did also. but by the same token it seems to me one can say when the fear lifts, when the economy begins to recover, when the hopes in obama or any other leader begin to fade further, when people become tired of obsessive warfare of what is called the forever war. one could reject a revival of some kind, antiwar sentiment. one of the things that seems to me we can't do, we mustn't do, is to buy into the argument that since there are not many american casualties, comparatively speaking, since thousands of body bags are not coming back from the war zone, we can't accept war as normal with the colonel level of violence, and accept that as normal. and so let me conclude by reading, the conclusion of this book which talks about the fact that death in a morgan -- in american wars are down. but we are seeing horrifying incr

it was not the same as the situation you had where lyndon johnson was elected as a peace candidate in 1964 and in 1965 sent 500,000 troops to vietnam, and the sense of betrayal was so thick you could cut it with a knife. and i know because it experienced it myself, and be -- many of the people in this room probably did also. but by the same token, it seems to me one can say when the fear lifts, when the economy given begins to -- begins to recover, when the hopes in obama or any other leader begin to fade further, when people become tired of incessant warfare of what is called the forever war, one could predict a revival of some kind of anti-war sentiment. one of the things that it seems to me we can't do, we mustn't do is to buy into the argument that since there are not many american casualties comparatively speaking, since thousands of body bags aren't coming back from the war zone we can accept war as normal with the current level of violence and accept that as normal. and so let me conclude by reading the conclusion of this book which talks about the fact that deaths in american

i missed it once and waited a whole year regretting the lost chance to track the lyndon leaves tiny migration. the next fall, refusing to endure that state of desolation again i asked everyone who loved me to please meet me just south of the border. we ordered green mussels and popcorn shrimp. the shrimp beat the mussels to the table. i drank for pleasure but since i left that state i hadn't found anything delicious so iate all the mussels. crouched, later in that state betrayal that come from learning some green things are not good. considering the law averages that a body in motion stays in motion unless faced with an equal or opposite force, peer pressure, skitology the projected near devastation of world forest should population the motdz of toilet paper consumption. germs vary. my role in the pressing the mean agent of common human hygiene i knew i never wanted to be near that state again. with extradition i was hardly away at all. when i first rolled over my parents were pleased and i left the state of never having rolled before. ditto, something on all fours to crawling. and once i cou

loretta comos, christina galette, brandon powell, lyndon antoine, rodolfo vargas, nancy falouou, kevin batissy. i am going to watch you guys up, but you know who you are. benjamin claus, phil naranjo, anjelica moldinato. you have two minutes to speak. please state your name. >> i am librett- -- i am loretta camos. president mendoza: can we have the chatter outside? >> i have -- several members of the fairmont community have already expressed opinions about the feeder plant that proposes the impairment -- beating vermont elementary into everett middle school -- feeding fairmond elementary into everett middle school. i have found myself as the representative of the natural feeder line into james lick. originally, this was the feeder school that was selected. there are many reasons why we believe strongly that should be the appropriate peter school for paramount -- feeder school for fairmont. lick already is our feeder school. many families have chosen to attend because of a spanish- immersion pathway. fairmont, several years ago, when my daughter was in kindergarten, took a step to becom

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

>> reporter: that's right, ann, we're on lyndon avenue which parallels 101 not far from the airport. and it is not far from where the people gathered today, and where the december shootings occurred. as you know, south san francisco is not a community known for gang violence, and homicides. and now that it has become known for that, people in the community organizing to try to make sure that reputation goes away. these south san francisco residents don't want another violent year like last year. they gathered to remember those who were killed. >> their memory is going to be alive forever in this community. >> reporter: and to encourage neighbors to talk to one another. and rebuild their sense of community. >> reporter: there were six homicides last year, three on one night and possibly gang related. still unsolved are 21-year-old hechter floor ez and 18-year- old omar cortez and 19-year-old gonzalez avalar. and this woman lost a cuss ton violence earlier in the year. >> -- cousin to violence earlier in the year. >> it has been nine months since she passed away and the pain is still t

>> i was in congress when the first $100 billion budget, not deficit, but budget passed in the lyndonohnson presidency. you can think about that. that's amazing. here we are today with debt of a trillion plus. the short answer is it is worth it. if you think othe people in iraq and the people in afghanistan, they've been liberated from vicious regimes, the taliban and the saddam hussein regime. they have a chance. the american people, the men and women in uniform, god bless them, each one of which is a volunteer, they each put their hand up and said send me. and they've given the people in that part of the world an opportunity, a chance to create a different kind olife for themselves. >> can you categorically say that democracy is best everywhere? a lot of people like to say oh, you know, it's not america's business, and we shouldn't be involved in some of these things that don't involve us. how do you make the case to america out there who might be skeptical? >> that's a very important question. and i think it would be wrong to think that there is a single template that ought to be p

host: charlie peters was here last week and wrote a book on lyndon johnson. like him or not like him, he accomplished a lot in terms of getting things passed. he died in 1973. his centennial would have been 2008. there was no centennial for l.b.j. we have one for ronald reagan. what's the difference between these two presidents? guest: oh, gosh that would take a while. there was a centennial, but it was modest. johnson was thought of in some ways as a predent guilty of over-reaching, of doing everything on aexas-size scale actually had a centennial that was quite modest. the rean centennial, much of which is clearly from the grassroots, is much grander than l.b.j.'s, make of that what you will. you could make the case that the last 40 years of american political history is,n many ways, a response to l.b.j. and the great society. when you think of what johnson -- that we te for granted headstart, medicare, medicaid, the voting rights act, the national endowment forhe arts, pbs, clean air and water legislation, also environmental legislation, and on and on and

my name is lyndon boozer, i have a question for you. what is your opinion on the current state of the economy? you know, we've seen consecutive quarters of gdp growth we've seen a year of job growth. you know, normally recoveries are pretty bumpy, it gets better, it gets worse, it gets better, it gets worse we've been lucky to be that every quarter is stronger than the last for job job and other quarters are stronger than the last in terms of job growth. looking forward, you know, it's important to recognize like the tax agreement we reached in december. most of the forecasters were fwaeshging growth of around 2.5% before we reached that agreement. since it, they've raised their forecast, you know, in the neighborhood of 3.5 to 4% economic growth. people were expecting about a million extra jobs as a result of that tax agreement. and, you know, you see that because consumers are spending but you also see businesses increasing their investment due to things like the expensing provision in companies like the one you work for and others wh

bolling kennedy had beautiful women clinton had women imagine a vietnam could have turned out of lyndon johnson one allowed to swing a dog around by the ears or nine eleven if dick cheney can go to an undisclosed location and shoot somebody in the face so we have all americans mr president i'm going to light up for the first time ever in order to help entice you into taking a well deserved smoke break yourself. come on sir. don't you wanna join me on a high speed rail to flavor. ok it appears never actually lit. back to you alone a. ok break thanks for your thoughtful analysis now aside from showing us they have absolutely no idea how to handle light or do you have a little bit of a point there that during stressful times everyone needs advice now and i'm not going to tell obama to pick smoking back up but i am dying to know what happen it's going to turn to next so let's let the investigation begin. now it's the twenty first century and times have changed in the past a student with a college degree was guaranteed a job with a good salary and benefits but nowadays that's not necessarily

if lyndon johnson the vietnam war and did? would we look added great war leader? haq who heads ecap taka. >> guest: it seems to me that wars are a series of catastrophe ended by success or victory. they're untidy, difficult, hard, the enemy has a brain and eisenhower said the plan is worth less. planning is everything and the plan is worthless. >> host: that is rumsfeld roles, it is a rule that i quote from someone who is more intelligent than i am. >> but it is true. every time you try to do something every offense has a defense and a defense has an offense. i think we are unlikely for a period of time to end up with a clarity of world war ii because of the nature of the world we are living in. it is asymmetric, and ever-changing and it is a challenge for our leadership and challenge for our country. with a growing finality of the weapons, what bush was faced with, when he made his decision, there was a study called dark winter by johns hopkins. with a series of experts that got together to say what if we took smallpox and put it in three locations in the united

all these points that i just mentioned grew in the mid-1960s congressional hearings, the signing by lyndon johnson of the various motor vehicle and pollution control laws. >> hinojosa: so you know that a lot of people... there are people who know you as the tireless consumer advocate... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ..and then there are people who didn't know anything about you... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...until you decided to run for president in the year 2000. and then they say, "oh, yeah; he's the guy who ran for president in the year 2000. isn't he the one who made bush win?" and you say... >> well, listen. first of all, it's factually wrong. i've talked to gore about this, and gore has talked to other people. first of all, we all have an equal right to run for election, and why do they put the wrap on the green party candidate for? i mean, do these two parties own all the voters? don't we want the voters to have more choice, the way they did, say, in the 19th century and the antislavery party, and the women's right to vote party, labor, farmer, progressive parties? it's harder and harder n

was, lyndon's totally in the pocket of the pentagon now. he believes everything they tell him, and he will have 500,000 troops in vietnam by the end of the year. and i thought to myself, it's what booth louis -- clare boothe luce said about him, he's crazy. it sounded really unbalanced to me. it wasn't unbalanced. .. >> socioeconomic, and the population. then for the last 30 years we've had a professional army. not a bad job, and what their job is is to kill. that's their job. and that's what they get paid for. when i was in, we were itching for a fight and we were trained for a fight. but we were civilian soldiers, so to speak. they are professional soldiers, and that's what they get paid to do is to kill. so could you comment further on the dynamic here, the difference? >> i'm not sure much, it's called for. that's a pretty interesting statement, and i suppose one thing i -- [inaudible] >> let me use that to make this point. charlie rangel, you know, has introduced a bill. he knew it was going to go anywhere. basically to revive the draft

lyndon johnson could make a new civil rights bill through. ronald reagan could have gotten his tax cut through. remember, the famous comments i can be bought but i can be rented. so patronage has been used to get a lot of legislation through, and how you feel about patronage really depends on how you feel about nafta and the bill clinton gave away the store, and about all the initiatives and berries residents, republican and democrat have had. and patronage is absolutely nonpartisan. republicans have used it. they used it when they controlled the congress. not that long ago. democrats had used it. liberals have used it. conservatives have used it. and we think that it an essential tool of government but an extraordinary susceptible to waste, fraud, and abuse. a thousand public officials a year are convicted of felonies, which makes one wonder why more hasn't been done for prison reform. >> that was martin tolchin given to the summit of his new book, "pinstripe patronage: political favoritism from the clubhouse to the white house and behond."

they will get a sense of the fact that president lyndon johnson could barely use the white house because of the demonstrators against the war in vietnam. we all have a tendency to think of the times we are living in a somewhat unique and distinctive, and of course, they are different. in my 78 years, i have seen an awful lot of turmoil in the country and difficulties in the country. i must say i also hope that people will read this and see how important the all volunteer military has been. if you think about it, back in the 1960's, before president nixon and milton friedman and a whole group of people had pushed for a volunteer army, and president nixon managed to get it through the congress. before that, there were people serving who did not want to serve and our military. everyone there today is there because they want to be. the mood in the country is so different as a result of that. compared to the vietnam war, what is going on today in iraq and afghanistan, the american people are proud of the military, and the military are proud what they are doing. they know what they are doing a

lyndon johnson lied an awful lot in terms of that cause, getting the united states involved in vietnam. today we are critical because of what he did in vietnam, and admired roosevelt for is in world war ii. they both fly. we have a first amendment, and we have a system of checks and balances that work for the media because we know this. we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they're doing. well, fox news masquerades as one of the watch dog institutions, but they operate as a political organization. the lie of the time. they make things up. they expanded their opponents. they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations and make no apology for it or even pretend to do differently. all they do is call themselves a news organization. the rest of it is quite obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies. every single potential republican candidate with the exception of marriage bonnie who is not an office right now is on the payroll of fox news. media matters' added up what it would have cost him to by that time on air. it was something like

wasn't sort of going down the normal path for picking vice presidents where he would pick a guy like lyndon johnson, for example, and then you bury him someplace. they didn't even let him go to meetings with the senate democrats when he was vice president. you know, you stash vice presidents. you get them out of the way, you send them to funerals or whatever. he wasn't just worried about the electoral college vote or the politics for the whole process. he was really looking for somebody who could serve alongside him and be a parts pant in the process. and get actively engaged. and he liked my background and obviously my experience and my resume. and he -- i came away convinced. we never signed a contract. but he meant it when he said, look, you can sign on and be a major player in my administration, get involved in whatever you want to get involved in. you'll have access to all the meetings and all the policy debates, however you want to operate. and it sounded very attractive, frankly, put in those terms. he kept his word. we ran integrated staffs. we avoided a lot of the pitfalls that a l

ever remembers -- everyone remembers hubert humphrey as someone was looking the bits of lyndon johnson. he was under tremendous pressures. >> that is sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. >> sunday on book-tv's "in depth." the founder of the american spectator magazine has written over half a dozen books. his latest is "after the hanover." join our 3 our conversation with your e-mails, phone calls, and tweets live sunday at noon eastern on book-tv on c-span 2. >> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke says the economy should grow rapidly this year. but that it will likely take several years before the unemployment rate falls to normal levels. he was at the national press club in washington for one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. i am president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists and we are committed to our professions future for our programming and by foster in a free press worldwide. for more information, please visit our website at www.press.org. for all of our members worldwide, i would like to wel

everyone remembers him as someone looking lyndon johnson's boots. people did not understand the pressure he was under. >> listen to historic supreme court cases on supreme court radio. the court considers the fair housing act, racial discrimination. >> the complaint says that he should be liable as an individual and he owns the corporation and because he was the officer broker. >> listen to the argument on c- span radio, in washington d.c. on 90.1 and online at c- span.org. >> robert mandel says the fcc recent decision on net and net neutrality would likely go down in flames. this is almost an hour. -- rober >> okay, we would like to get started. we would like to welcome our c- span audience. we are glad that they're with us today. i am pleased now to have with me the fcc commissioner, robert mcdowell. we had commissioner meredith baker providing the opening notes and it is nice to have the commissioner with us. i recognize a lot of the audience members from the last two conferences. bers from the last two conferences. commissioner mcdowell, i menti

. >> lyndon johnson enjoyed in the center of attention.wanted to make sure that his presidency was colorful. he had 22 people to film and tape and preserve everything that he did. it is an unparalleled record. >> lyndon johnson's years of president have a profound effect on how we view the white house. allowing cameras into the residence to film his family, we see how a first family lives inside here. we gain an understanding of the most powerful office of the world. >> you can see his office from here. the lights may be on until 8:00 or 9:00 or 10:00. sometimes, he does not come home for dinner until after midnight. in terms of his responsibilities, there is a great distance from here to there. >> it is the commute from home to work that all president will make. in the past, -- into the most powerful office in the world. the oval office. >> every man who was ever occupied this office has been dedicated to doing what he believes is the best interest for the people in this country. >> fdr relocates the office to where it is today. in part t

and denounced the vietnam war and called america the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, lyndonohnson took away before plan -- plant closed fbi agents that had been assigned to protect king. they knew what that meant. it was a beautiful moment. remember, can, like malcolm, became a pariah at the end. he would be booed by the back -- black power movement, dissension within his own ranks. southern christian was disintegrating as an organization. king stood up two months before he was assassinated in front of his staff and said, i take non-violence to be my lawfully wedded wife in sickness and in health, till death do us part. only by going back and standing for these moral imperatives we have any hope of protecting what is left of our anemic democracy. and we have to stop asking whether it is practical or even rational. we have to believe, as these great figures before us understood, that the good attracts could. we have to do so with nonviolence because if we do not and if we do not do it now then the opposition to this corporate state and these corporate forces will embrace the

everyone remembers humphrey as someone who was looking lyndon johnson's boots all the time and have no mind of his own. >> you're watching c-span, bringing new politics and public affairs every morning. we have washington journal about the news of the day, collecting you with policymakers and journalists and elected officials. watch live coverage of the u.s. house on week days. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs. on saturdays "the communicators." on sundays, "q&a" and "prime minister's questions. it is all searchable and our video library. c-span, a public service created by american cable companies. >> former secretary of state madeleine albright and former homeland security secretary tom ridge were honored by a group called the u.s. global leadership coalition. the event also included remarks by bill gates. all three speakers stressed the importance of foreign aid, economic prosperity and national security. abc news and ncr analyst cokie roberts were the speakers. this is one hour 10 minutes. >> thank you, sarah and george. that was lovely. in listening to

everyone remembers humphrey as someone who was leaking lyndon johnson's boots all the time and had no mind of his own. people did not understand the pressures he was under period runs through the vice presidency in 1968. >> "q&a", tonight on c-span. >> in a speech today, the israeli president address the political unrest in the middle east, including egypt, and the importance of a peace agreement between israelis and palestinians. he spoke at a security conference in israel. joining him was an israeli government professor who talked about the changing dynamics of the middle east and u.s. policy in the region. we begin with the president's remarks in progress. >> the riots have undermined human. division is tearing up sudan. there is revolution in tunisia. riots in egypt. there is more investment in missiles than in the war on poverty, and on the other hand, there are still important strategic answers, and there's a strong desire on the part of young people in all these areas for real change to correct the mistakes of the past. we cannot overlook the possibility that the younger genera

lyndon johnson had been surpassed. it is a bipartisan spending spree. i do not think the balanced budget is the key. it is smaller government. if we had a smaller government taking 43% of gdp and the budget was balanced, that was worse than in government spending 10% of gdp and having a small deficit. host: david kendall is with a group called third wave. he wrote about why he thinks the budget is a success. he says it is only good as the debate that it engenders. if congress does not have to vote on it, and it rarely does. measured by the standard, for the bomb was budget is a resounding success. republicans have attacked it as a job killer. but it does fear the impact of cuts to heating assistance and numerous other programs. but it nudges the debate forward. guest: the successf failure, i guess. this budget was seen as so far out of touch of economic ality that it spurred serious debate. if that ultimately leads to reform of the entitlement >> tomorrow, the low and come home energy assistance program, which has been targeted for spending cuts. the na

. >>> the great highway is closed between lyndon and vote -- between lincoln and sloat. this there are no cars here. this is because of the flooding here. they don't want people to be surprised by this. they will get out there and make the water go away. they will reopen it. we're looking at 101 approaching the 80 split. that traffic is okay. if you are driving on the westbound bay bridge, the traffic is backed up for about a ten-minute wait. 8:57less go to steve -- 8:57 let's go to steve. we've had reports in san francisco, also in the oakland hills, two reports, one says hail, now sun. that's gonna be the pattern today. we'll have some mostly cloudy skies, cold, breezy. hail. major reports of hail in the oakland hills i'm hearing and berkeley hills, too. if you are getting report, and you get video of it, we'll be happy to so it when we can, if we can. >> thanks for watching. stay dry. >> bye now. >>> and we leave you with a look at the tree down in oakland. >> today on "the dr. oz show," all new, a dr. oz medical alert. is your water causing cancer? dr. oz puts the na