>> guest: lyndon johnson. >> guest: lyndon johnson, certainly. >> guest: several negative courses. not talking to the public about vietnam, perhaps pursuing the vietnam policy longer than public support. c-span: let me put some people behind these--this analysis. and by the way, why would you trust james david barber's... >> guest: we're not. >> guest: not necessarily. >> guest: i mean, we--this is a very influential analysis, and we make reference to it, but... c-span: why is it influential? >> guest: because a lot of people have read the barber book. ok? what we're doing, though, in this chapter when we do our presidents is a very different approach. we're using our own analysis of polls. and we're talking about the personality, attitudes toward politics, just as barber is, attitudes toward public opinion and the sort of, s you say, investing the energy in the certain kinds of political activity. but then, we come up with our own ranking and categorization of these individual presidents based on a couple things: how they respond to public opinion and the kind of, what we call the

lyndon johnson began the great society and did important things. medicare, the civil rights act. then bogged down in the vietnam war. woodrow wilson, of course, shortly into his term was consumed with the european war which he ultimately had to get into. on a lesser scale, without question, i had this... i got on the committee, it was then called bking, it became financial services, because i have a passion for dealing with low-income housing. rental housing. that's one of the things i'm frustrated by. i have felt we made a mistake in trying to get lower-income people into hses that they own. if we had decent rental housing for people there wouldn't be a need to have a push to put people inappropriately in some cases into that. and i finally got to be chairman of this committee in 2007 whi has jurisdiction over housing and housing is a broadway to deal with... i'd like to... we could get rid of homelessness except for those who were for mental or emotional regions determined to be homeless. i thought we could do a great deal to improve people's living conditions. i wanted to inte

would he have done what his successor lyndon johnson did, create a war involving troop levels of half soldier soldiers soldiers, where we lost 58,000 american soldiers. a question i have been asked again and again traveling the country for my new book. this much i know, the day he died he had given a speech that very morning in fort worth that said "without the united states, south viet nam would collapse overnight" those were his words that morning of november 22nd, 1963 with lyndon johnson at his side at the chamber of commerce. without the united states, south viet nam would collapse overnight. was he ready to introduce combat troops or limit the role to many thousands of advisers in country, do what lyndon johnson did make it an american war? there are good reasons to believe he would not have. his war buddy recalls he issued orders to marine unit commander -- to the french when they were fighting the fire pour the french were overwhelmed by the spirit of those fighting them. the vietnamese did not want foreigners running their country either directly or through a government they

so anyway it is a recent not a historic provision and there has been the feeling before lyndon johnson that the goodness of the good that the church does causes it to deserve a tax exempt status but that certainly can change any time government wants to change it it's an interesting time we live and dr jeffers thank you for being with us thanks for having me tom sure tween magic mormon underwear and crotchety baptist preachers and with rick santorum who's catholic heading into new hampshire which is over sixty percent catholic it's going to be an interesting race. it's the good the bad in the very very. ugly the good mike huckabee exactly four years ago he won the republican iowa caucus in two thousand and eight former governor of arkansas and g.o.p. talking had some harsh words of truth actually for the two thousand and twelve republican field yesterday he said if i walked in the booth today i'm not sure who i'd pull the lever for so the radio interview it appears to me and still does to a large degree that many of the republicans are more interested in defeating barack obama than the

was he going to do what lyndon johnson did and make it an american war?buddy recalls kennedy issuing orders to a marine unit wanting to take his men into a combat situation. the warning was for the president. if he did it, he'd have hell to pay for it. kennedy resisted introducing americans into front-line fighting because of what he'd seen happen to the french when they were fighting in the country. he'd seen how the firepower the french had been totally overwhelmed by the nationalistic spirit of those fighting them. the vietnamese did not want foreigners running their country, either directly or through a government they were seen to be controlling. the tapes released yesterday show kennedy getting conflicting reports. the military was telling him the u.s.-backed government in saigon was winning the battle against the vietcong. the state department had just told kennedy that the government we were backing was focusing mainly on fighting its own students who were moving over to the vietcong side. kennedy wondered aloud if the military and the state depar

mike, you are still going vote for lyndon la rusch. i understand that.o you think is going to be the best challenger for obama? >> i think it will be romney frankly. and this thing drives me crazy and makes me want to stick a fork in my eye. we are handling this wrong. did the list of pseudo semi capable not really experienced candidates parading around as if they could win is completely distracting from the overall concern which is we need something new in 2012. we need to shift direction. but the republicans i'm afraid and all those who would like the new direction are going to be so incompetent and disorganized that we are not going to get there that we will end up with four more years of barack obama. >> that is a cogent and depressing thought. bill. >> like yourself of the many races i covered as a journalist i have seen anything like this. of the many races i have dated as a journalist, prefer samoan. whether it is michele bachmann, anything newt says, is that crazy trumps pragmaticism all the time. sad news for gary johnson and the huntsmans of th

i don't think lyndon johnson would be that cool. this guy, when you talk with athletes, he played himself, at least he was on the team. very, very smooth. >> like when you play. >> i am not running for president. i would have to take a pay cut to leave kron. >> barry larkin is headed to the hall of fame. never set me up like that, pam. i always come out looking bad because i speak the truth. then i sound like i am a jerk. there it is. barry larkin, the way you break it down. ron was voted by the veteran's committee. he will go into the hall of fame. barry larkin will be the only guy to give his speech in july. he was aided by the fact that he played for one team. and tiger woods is going to play at the at&t golf tournament for the first time since 2002. so all of a sudden that event becomes more than just huey lewis. okay? >> good night everybody. ♪ secondhand smoke affects everyone's health. it's not just irritating. it can cause heart disease and even death. speak up about secondhand smoke. your health and the health of your famil

ever won both iowa and new hampshire at -- >> you can still win by ling or lose by winning, like lyndon johnson or even bush and buchanan in 1992 where buchanan was send but he won the moral victory. it depends on the margin between romney and whoever is second. if it is santorum and and he comes within single digitits, it will be seen as a santorum victory. >> remember bill clinton, tsongas -- >> comeback kid. it is all about expectations and the margin. it is not necessarily the order of finish, excepthat santorum has to show that he can beat ron paul and allhe others. >> you wonder about the ron paul factor. the slogan is "live a free or die." apparently this is ron paul territory, b but he has not done that much up there.. >> you look at the trend ron paul is picking up in newew hahampshire. >> the independent vote in new hampshire is not a peer republican -- >> undeclared. >> in iowa, they wenent heavily for ron paul, independents and democrats. when-state republicans. -- one-day republicans. >> republican elders are being very nice to o ron paul these dayspraying he does not run a

>> michelle, and joe paterno coached the nittany lions every season since lyndon johnson was in the white house, nearly half a century, pacing the sidelines at penn state. a look back tonight from nbc's ron allen. >> reporter: joe paterno was one of the greatest figures ever in college sports. 46 years as head coach at penn state, 409 victories, the most of the division one school. from his idealistic early days, paterno had implemented what he called a grand experiment, to graduate more players while maintaining success on the field. most recently his teams consistently ranked among the best in the big ten for graduating players. the coach took the nittany lions to 37 bowl games, and two national championships, hundreds of the players he coached went on to the nfl. penn state became known as happy valley. >> people ask me why i stayed here so long, and, you know what, look around. look around. i stayed here because i love you all! >> reporter: but last year, everything changed. in his final days, paterno battled lung cancer, his spirit and legacy battered by the child sexual abuse scanda

i find it amazing that lyndon johnson, among the most sort of conservative politicians when he came tohis personal business and politics would agree to air a spot with this. it was so new and different and revolutionary in its style and talent. it is kind of remarkable that johnson did this. but in doing it, he did participate in changing the way that american politicians communicate with the public through their paid advertising. before then it is a completely different style of advertising. it was not very creative. it was mostly 15 minutes and 30 minutes speeches, just the candidate look into the camera, sitting behind a desk or on the edge of the desk. very low production quality to it. very little spot advertising. most campaign did not rely on the fifth team, 32nd spots. they relied on this longer broadcast when they were preempting television shows instead of putting spots inside television shows. so this campaign showed vertical advertisers how to do it for way. spot advertising and moving creative advertising principles, actually thinking that advertising a product, advertisin

if you're looking at the influence of fdr on truman and other presidents, waiting in the wings is lyndon johnson and lyndon johnson is a new member of congress and he's soaking up everything fdr does in terms of patronage and big government options and he's a big help to fdr in the national elections in 1940. >> roosevelt appearance delicate task using manipulating civil liberties which we haven't done as much with. for example, he wants to put moses annenberg in prison. moses annenberg is the editor of the "philadelphia enquirer" and it threatens to bring pennsylvania into the republican column and you go back to annenberg with an irs audit who is vulnerable. he doesn't just pay a fine. to go see prison. then johnson is guilty of all sorts of campaign contributions and especially some of his supporters so the irs is going after johnson, too, and so johnson comes to roosevelt. so roosevelt has to pull the irs off of johnson so that he can continue to be roosevelt's man in texas. and then put it on annenberg to make sure annenberg goes to application so you have a maneuvering here by fdr.

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

lyndon johnson won big time in 1968. eugene did so well, it helped convince johnson to break out of the presidential race. going in with a double digit lead, if mitt romney wins with anything significant less is going to be portrayed as a loss. all be dizzy. the hard results here tonight at 11:00. all that spin tomorrow on 9news now at 6:00. >> the real stuff tonight, gary, thank you. >>> the president won without opposition. and while all eyes are on the republicans in the granite state, the president's campaign doesn't want voters to forget. they are picking his opponent come november. the obama campaign bought a large ad on the new hampshire union leaders website. it is a series of mentions on the main newspaper site, paid for by obama. >> a new poll is giving us a better sense of how the race would shape up if the election were held right now. in a survey of more than a thousand adults, 30% of republicans asked, say they would vote for mitt romney. newt gingrich comes in second with 20% of the vote. down from 28 in d

there was lyndon johnson before him, but the practice was started by president john f. kennedy. and today, his presidential library released 45 hours of audio recordings, a kind of narrative of his last weeks of his life. >> at one point, we hear a confident president on the tapes, thinking about re-election and the best way to sell himself to younger voters. >> kennedy was very well aware of the power of the image. he can be heard pushing the idea, quite revolutionary at the time, of producing films for the '64 democratic convention in color for the first time. >> jfk was one of several presidents who got conflicting advice on vietnam and in one conversation, you can hear his frustration with two separate aides just back from there giving him contradictory advice. >> you both went to the same country? >> the kennedy children, john and caroline, are on the tapes. we can hear the president introduce them to soviet foreign minister. >> come in a minute. say hello. do you want to say hello to john? you know the ambassador. >> they are very popular in our country. >> and then there'

. >> you can still win by losing or lose by winning, like lyndon johnson, or bush and buchanan in 1992. bush was second but when a moral victory take it depends on the margin between romney and whoever is second. if it is santorum and it is within at single digits, it will be seen as a santorum victory. >> tsongas, the comeback kid -- >> it is all about expectations and the margin. it is not necessarily the order of finish. except that santorum has to show that he can beat ron paul at all the others. >> you wonder about the ron paul factor. apparently, this is ron paul territory, but he has not done that much up there. >> the realclearpolitics poll, ron paul is picking up in new hampshire. >> the independent vote in new hampshire -- >> and declared -- undeclared. >> in iowa, they went heavily for ron paul. one-day republicans. >> republican elders are being very nice to ron paul these days. they are praying he does not run as an independent. >> he is the sort of like at jesse jackson in 1984. he has a constituency, a strong one in the party. not going to win the nomination, but he coul

not in back debt there is no fighting here the journalese say here soon i'll come to see you with lyndon little downies you think about five days later they killed him. personally most of which you can sleep in our profession and you don't just see the death of a human being but also a mother's grief when they bring her son's dead body tour with a mother. or maybe a wife who has just lost her husband. just a beltway your knowledge dealing with only the end of a human life but also with the consequences of doubt and. the two men killed in the palestine hotel were not the only journalists who lost their lives from american gunfire on that day. a few hours early a missile from an american fighter plane targets the office of al-jazeera channel in the center of baghdad. the palestinian journalist. gets killed on the spot. i see lights glowing in the sky i don't know if this is the beginning of an air raid or some random explosion is just. above the left eye coming over the roof five six people were in the basement the camera was sending a live shot storage as they had our building here in doh

lyndon fletcher is going to hawaii. his 30s straight appearance in the pro bowl.ears' linebacker brian urlacher who hurt his knee. fletcher led the nfl with 166 tackles, a career high. the pro bowl is set for january 29. you can see the game here on nbc 4. we're excited. >> we are, finally. >> well deserved. >> uh-huh. >>> the time is just six minutes away from the start of the 5:00 hour. >>> coming up, showing off the next big thing. some of the hot new items you'll find at this year's consumer electronics show. >>> plus, the price of bankruptcy. why one local store's financial troubles had c >>> looking for the next high-tech gadget? you're in luck. the consumer electronics show is underway in las vegas. microsoft announced new nokia and htc titan phones using windows phone software that will be available later this year. plus, there's smart-tv and soon refrigerators -- get this -- they're going to text you when it's running low on milk. >> like every other day for me in my house. >>> apple is teaming up with target to sell its products. >> wow. >> apple is repo

released a nearly 2 1/2-hour recording of conversations aboard air force one as the new president lyndonlew back to washington. the tape includes that wrenching call between johnson and kennedy's grieving mother, rose kennedy. >> i wish to god there was something that i could do and i wanted to tell you that we are grieving with you. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. i know. i know you loved jack and he loved you. >> mrs. kennedy, we just wanted to -- we people like we've lost -- >> all right. thank you very much. good-bye. >> and this long version of the recording was discovered last year in a box of belongings from the estate of a former kennedy aide. >>> and take a look at this man, number 58, mark herzlich, 6'4" tall, 246 pound, the rookie linebacker for the new york giants preparing to play in the biggest game of his life. a few years back top of his game as a college senior, the warrior was diagnosed with bone cancer. his prognosis was grim. doctors said he'd never play football again or, worse, might even die. months of chemotherapy, radiation and grueling physical ther

one of the biggest margins since lyndon johnson. he won with young people, students, afro-americans and poor hispanics. in 2010, we got the worst shallacking since the civil war or something. lost 63 house seats. 63 congressmen. i remember in 2008, 39 people, i got out of the vote in homeless shelter. went to the same shelter in 2010, no one voted. what can you tell me to reassure me a little bit that things are going to be different? that people are, in fact, in these demographics are going to turn out? when i see people protests on occupy movement. i see the highest poverty we had up among our base. so what are the polls showing? how is a campaign going to get to these? wrong romney necessarily can. what are the positive signs you see in the demographics that didn't vote in 2010? >> anita dunn, to what degree can you reassure the mayor? >> in 2010, the election as mid terms are, was a referendum. it was not a choice. it wasn't framed as a choice. presidential elections have different dynamics than mid-term elections. i think this