in "getting it wrong" called the cronkite moment, supposedly lyndon johnson was watching the cronkite show, and at the end of it, johnson supposedly leaned over and snapped off the television set and said something to the effect of, if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america, or if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the war, or if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the country. there are various versions as to what he said, a lot of various versions as to what johnson supposedly said. that in my view right off the bat is a tip-off, a marker of a media-driven myth. if you can't get the story straight as to what the president said in reaction to this, there's something wrong with it. more than that, it doesn't take much research to find out that lyndon johnson was not at the white house that night. he was not in front of a television set. he was in austin, texas, attending the 51st birthday party of governor connelly. at the time when cronkite was editorializing, lyndon johnson was making remarks at the -- on the campus of the university of texas at austin about connelly turning 51, saying w

he was friends with lyndon b. johnson. they were friends back in texas. johnson had only the cbs affiliate in austin. frank stanton, his boss, was one of the closest friends of lyndon johnson. it is seen as the turning moment, it the cronkite moment when he denounced it. it could have gone either way. he started becoming a hero of liberals. >> we had demonstrations in this time. this can along in 68. what proof is there that walter cronkite had that big of an impact on changing things when the war did not end to 73? >> i do not think he had that big of an impact. i think it was symbolic. he gave a boost of adrenaline to the new left or to the anti-war movement. it encouraged the dove to say on the attack. it has been over hyped that influence lyndon johnson's decision to not seek reelection. johnson had health problems. this was from the press secretary of lyndon johnson that lbj apparently said if i lost cronkite, i lost the country. that is very hard to document that he precisely said that. he realized that he is losing the mainstream media. he thought

because he was friends with lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson and lady bird were friends of walter cronkite. johnson had owned the cbs affiliate in austin and a lot of properties with cbs and dr. frank stanton, cronkite's offendable boss at cbs was one of the crew of -- closest friends of lyndon johnson. it is seen as the turning moment, i call of the cronkite moment where he denounces the income and at that point it could've gone either way for him, but he started becoming a hero of liberals. >> we had had demonstrations in 1965, '66, '67, and this came on in 1968. what proof is there that walter cronkite had that big an impact in changing things if the war did not end in 1973. >> i do not think he had a big impact. it became symbolic. what it did is gave a boost of adrenaline to the new left or the anti-war movement, that they had cherry picked off an establishmentarian who was pro war ended in see the light. it encouraged the doves to stay on the attack. i think it has been over hite, that the influence lyndon johnson's decisio

well, lyndon johnson wanted greene to carry out his decision but he wanted to make greene feel that lyndonnson who was the leader would like for him to stay. so that's a picture following aç meeting of the committee when johnson has ostensively tried to prevail on greene to stay on as chairman. and greene had said he would like to off in the next room and think about it just for a few minutes. so johnson followed him out into that room. so beginning here at the top you see johnson talking with greene. then johnson gets a little closer. then johnson gets a little closer. then johnson's a little closer. and here johnson has greene back over the table. and here johnson's right up in greene's face with that typical pressure action that johnson could bring to bear, talking right up under your chin looking you in they eye. and it's a series. it's like an old silent picture film. and it shows greene backing away. c-span: anybody in the senate today deal with his or her colleagues this way? >> guest: no, and johnson couldn't deal with them today. i keep saying that. johnson could not deal with the

lyndon johnson except he wasn't sure eager. that they comes when the government and tom eagleton go to the ranch and he might not be the best vice-presidential candidate. bill clinton, co-chairman of texans for mcgovern and taylor branch eventually be clinton's direst talk about which one accompany the government and eagleton to the ranch? clinton loses the coin toss the taylor brings back from the meeting which did not go well a signed picture of lbj. that is as close as clinton got to meeting lbj. was great about the american presidency is we all remember when or if we saw even a motorcade going by so ronald reagan remembered he saw fdr on the back of a train in iowa. i think it was doubling and truman as i mentioned before so everyone has their creations story but clinton never met lbj. he said history will be kinder to him. that is what they all hope for. right over here. >> the implication that "the president's club" is unique to american democracy. are there similar models in europe or other democracies? prime ministers o

lyndon johnson grant them secret security secret service detail and use of presidential helicopters andven projectionists from the white house film library being treated at walter reid wanted to watch movies from the white house library. richard nixon at the clubhouse as john mentioned, which only one reporter in history has stepped foot inside a peer >> when i asked the white house to back up to the clubhouse on jackson square right across to the white house, i called the press secretary, jay carney, who was my colleague at the time and he said that building? i don't think we know anything about this. last night in 1869 richard nixon as president and he is getting calls constantly in the country of texas, where suddenly accept lyndon johnson is going crazy. he has been sent home. his term is done and he decides not to run for reelection in a stir crazy. he's been drinking from a firehose for 10 years and is constantly calling the white house saying i want to come out and do stuff. i need a plane. i need somewhere to stay. johnson was driving to nixon white house. so it's such a distrac

lyndon johnson except he wasn't sure he'd could form a government either. the day comes when mcgovern and then tom eagleton go to the ranch right after the convention but before they realized eagleton might not be the best vice president of candidate. bill clinton and the co-chairman of texas for mcgovern and tailor branch who eventually would be clinton's direst kind of, sort of, had to flip a coin about which one of them accompanies mcgovern and eagleton to the ranch to see johnson. clinton does the coin toss so tailor brings back from the meeting, which did not go well by the way, a signed picture for clinton of lbj so that's as close as clinton got to meeting lbj but what's great about the american presidency as we all remember if we saw the motorcade, ronald reagan remembers he saw fdr on the back of the train somewhere in iowa. i think was des moines. i wouldn't count on it. he was at a treman event is a management for so someone has their creation story that clinton never met lbj. he told us he thought as all presidents do of their successors, he sai

they were certainly different in just about erype itas t otr i lyndon johnson's life. as he is passing into the presidency this is one of the more interesting times to see bearooe iredible job having looked at his other book and heard him talk about this book and the others. heudenl heel thod s people decide for themselves what they think is important. having -- he has captured so much and does so much research. hncioarlyown an le ing up years what lyndon johnson's life would have been like and each time he has gone further he has done detailed se.aun o heanel wr was privileged to invite him to speak to a group of republican senators at one point and he came and we had aery teedthriences ck and for that lyndon johnson had as majority leader and the tactics he used which are very different from any kind of leadership tactics thayou would be able idire.boutruay da was a very strong leader and also very demanding. i would certainly recommend robert caro's books and h research is so goodhat wonjoyha another book that i have been beginning to read is a book by douglas brink

lyndon -- from lincoln when he saw john wilkes booth jump on stage with aing todayer in his hand. he thought the president had been stabbed. he said he made his way through the crowd and mrs. lincoln begged him to save her husband. he says i soon passed my fingers over a large firm clot of blood. i passed the little finker of my left hand through the perfectly smooth opening made by the ball, the ball being the bullet. physicians argue over whether lincoln might have been saved. they say if you hadn't probed that wound, did that actually help cause his death. four researchers have been looking through these documents at national archives and they finally came across this. in the surgeon general's personal correspondence back in 1865. the doctor we are talking about never wrote or spoke about this for an additional 44 years

lyndon johnson left us 800 hours. most of them are telephone tapes. and the johnson library has released all of the telephone tapes. there are still some tapes that were done in the cabinet room that are to be reviewed and released i'm sure in the next few years. we're talking about 800 hours for johnson and about 200 hours for kennedy. then nixon. in 1971, february, president nixon doesn't personally install it. he orders its installation. it's installed by the secret service. this is a taping system that's going to grow. but ultimately, it would cover the following scenes and sights. the president's hideaway office in the executive office building, the oval office, the cabinet room, the president's office at camp david, and the lincoln sitting room upstairs in the white house. there's a lot in this exhibit that is high tech. but this is decidedly low tech because it's fun. and gives kids -- i mean, we're not talking about, you know, high school students, college students. they'll enjoy the touch screens and listening to voices from the past. but, yo

johnson and lyndon johnson's vantage point.retty interesting kind of hard-nosed politicians both publicly and behind-the-scenes jockeying for position throughout the primary election in 1960 and throughout the convention which is interesting and the other book is the social conquest of earth by edward wilson which is basically how our species came cause -- came to rely on social interaction emotional intelligence and the way we communicate with each other and build the social networks we have and how far back that goes. it is a really interesting book to be reading at the same time you are reading about the kennedy/johnson interactions because there is so much perception and the emotional intelligence needed in politics and reading people and all this and something our species has been devolving with for a long time. in the final book, by father thomas keating called heartless. he is our originated -- someone who started to promote centering prayer which is a christian brunner--- christian based meditation and has wrote a lot a

that changed the debate, it shook lyndon johnson. he have -- we'll come back to the other point in a mi minute. why did he have so much authority, one reporter, one anchor. >> he had that much because he became beloved. he brought the nation through -- we were used to him in the 1950s. he was one of the inquisitors of the nixon/kennedy debate but mainly the kennedy assassination when he guided america almost as pastor in chief through that long weekend and just started building an audience, mr. steady eddie. also some areas also got cbs news. >> cbs and nbc had huge audiences, there wasaudiences, was no cable television you all that. so come back to the senate office, bobby kennedy and walter cronkite tells him what? >> cronkite recognized that morley safer was right and '65, morally told him that the vietnam war was a bust. cronkite not only did that report but he went to see bobby kennedy, sat with the kennedy press secretary and said you have got to run for the presidency, you have got to challenge lyndon johnson. cronkite turned

he was at home one night in 1964, when president lyndon johnson called him to order six pairs of khakis. lbj loved haggar's slacks and gave meticulous instructions during the call which features his usual burping and barnyard language. the recording became a cult favorite on radio and the web when the lbj library released the tape. a few years back. here's the president calling joe haggar. >> these are almost -- these are the best i've had anywhere in the united states. >> fine. >> but when i gain a little weight, they cut me under there. so leave me -- you never do have much margin there but see if you can't leave me about an inch from where the zipper -- ends around under my -- back to my [ bleep ]. >> lyndon johnson, joe haggar, 1964. up next here, after a break, when you are the queen, you can ask the very best to perform for you. >>> finally tonight, back to london where this was a big night. britain's very best entertainers came out to salute the queen's 60th jubilee and celebrate their country before the world. again, nbc's stephanie gosk was there. >> reporter: without prince ph

he was at home one night in 1964, when president lyndon johnson called him to order six pairs of khakis loved haggar's slacks and gave meticulous instructions during the call which features burping and barnyard language. the recording became a cult favorite on radio and the web when the lbj library released the tape. here its the president calling joe haggar. >> these are almost -- these are the best i've had anywhere in the united states. >> fine. >> but when i gain a little weight, they cut me under there. so leave me -- you never do have much margin there but see if you can't leave me about an inch from where the zipper -- ends around under my -- back to my [ bleep ]. >> lyndon johnson, joe haggar, 1964. up next hereafter the break, when you are the queen, you can ask the very best to perform for you. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at nissan, our ideal is innovation. 5 all-new models over the next 15 months, including a completely reimagined altima. welcome to our most innovative year ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ nissan. innovation that excites. sleep in my contacts. relax... air

, lyndon johnson, when asked about the civil rights demonstration sweeping across the south, says that, yeah, i don't understand what's going on, but what i do know is that our students -- or our kids in texas are not stupid enough to get wrapped up in these kinds of civil rights demonstrations. the next day, the first demonstration was in houston. okay? in other words, over and over and over again, students are going to take to the streets. they're going to challenge racial segregation. i'll give you another footnote here, too. the person who covered the first civil rights demonstration in houston, texas, the first sit-in, in houston, texas, was a young reporter from east texas who would eventually come to identify with the movement. that reporter's name was dan rather. dan rather. this is a -- like i said before, this is a movement that is sweeping fast. indeed, it's sweeping across the south so fast, so very fast, that the elder civil rights leaders, the people in the naacp especially, are becoming concerned, or maybe i should use the term alarmed. in other words -- and it's not --

the lyndon johnson.ack obama lost the white vote by 12%. he's having terrible problems with what used to be the democratic base. therefore, he needs to energize the latino vote. as never before. this is good way to do it with a good policy. >> i think it's a good policy. i think it's the right of the administration to, if they have limited enforcement budget to decide, we're going to enforce these before those. that was the root they did this. i don't think it's unconstitutional in any way. i think that the argument that the president promised comprehensive immigration reform and didn't get it done said by republicans is like the legislative version of why are you punching yourself game as a kid. they're preventing it from happening. then saying, he didn't do it. >> he had a democrat congress. >> he had a democrat congress. and he's getting filibuster in every possible way. opposed by the republican party. to say that mitt romney will not be able to wiggle out of this one. he opposed immigration. >> let

so in a way, cronkite outlasted and outdrew, if you like, lyndon johnson and richard nixon, and by thecountry was trying to heal with gerald ford and jimmy carter, cronkite was a bigger star, celebrity, more respected than even the presidents of the united states of that era. his last time he did a big election was 1980, reagan won, and again, cronkite was a buddy with ragan. they shared the same sen-- reag. reagan he did well with and eisenhower well. they were republicans, yet he was personally -- fdr, a new liberal. >> he was loved by america, but was he necessarily loved by the men who followed him and the men who preceded him? >> there was a great deal of animosity between murrow and cronkite. dated back to a broken handshake agreement cronkite had made with murrow in 1942. murrow held a bit of a grudge. and dan rather succeeded him in 1981. cronkite was for rather, thought he was a great investigative reporter, but within a year, their relationship soured terribly and got very, very bitter, at least from cronkite's perspective. he just thought rather should be canned and fired. a

. >> rose: of lyndon johnson. >> yes about lyndon johnson and one of the things he took on was kennedy's tax cuts and the reason why kennedy wanted to pass tax cuts is to generate revenue, so what changed in the democratic party, president kennedy and president i don't know son believed the way they could generate the revenue for government they wanted in order to pay for the things they wanted to pay for is by lowering tax rates, why has that now changed? now i am not saying that is necessarily the challenge today, i think more of a challenge than simply the rate today is stability in the tax code, a simpleness to the tax code, a compliability with the tax code and i wish we would spend time on tax reform, and the arab spring doesn't happen without technology and without twitter, facebook, youtube it just doesn't happen and in cuba people don't understand this, i think the latest figures are 80, 85 percent of the people have no access to internet whatsoever they can't communicate with each other, if you been people had access to the internet, there is no way the castro regime could surv

it is the intersection of lyndon and hemlock, and reports of to s-u-v on fire. this is one of them, a green jeep 4 by 4. firefighters got that first call around 340 in this morning. there was one s-u-v on fire in the street and another one of few minutes later in a carport. that appears to be a black nissan s-u-v. investigators were called to the scene because they're not sure if it is arson related but the cars are so close together. we do know that no buildings were damaged and there were not any injuries but fire investigators are here trying to determine the cause of the fire. this isn't the first time that redwood city has investigated car fires this month. on june 13th reported car fires just south of here. this is lyndon street and hemlock avenue and we're told that the fires that happened earlier this month were just south of this location. we know that no one was injured and fire investigators are here on the scene and we will try to get more information for you. >> new this morning, three people were forced out of their home in a word. kitchen in a hou

franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson were able to work with congress.advanced a vision for this country. with all due respect to tim pawlenty, that barack obama sounds like an arsonist. like romney saying, a vote for president obama would be unpatriotic. to me, that's language that this country doesn't need. >> i think the argument -- >> i think matt's right. we ought to come forward and both sides the president should have a mea culpa. we have gotten into a place whevery different from where the campaign wanted in 2008. we got to back away from that. otherwise, we're not going to be able to confront this pretty serious challenge at a time when we could do it. if there's someone on the other side that's willing to meet the president there, i think they could get a deal. you saw a glimpse of that last year. if they're going to come at it like the russian judge at the olympics, president said that i'm going to do something historically republican, i don't think it can work. >> we're seeing the consequences of the stalemate across europe right now, but par

wise figure beginning to write the history of the johnson administration with the right hand while lyndon johnson had his lefts arm in a lock deck dating what was going on in the memoirs. so first for both much you, and to john, you find your book subject to be a person preof course if id with legacy. senator, are you preofoccupied with your legacy. >> i appreciate you saying that. you did one of the first reviews that pointed out that the legacy project that for which i'm chief historian is not interested in that in any way. the ground rules, when i took the job with the secretary of state's office we were going to do meaningful work not subject to fair favor and that the subjects themselves didn't get to be the editor had their -- [inaudible] slade from the get go, he wouldn't haven'ted that and he was -- he wouldn't havemented that. he was understanding about some of the harsh things people had to say. i don't know if he bristled or not in private, but it was a very interesting experience for him. i know, sally is his wife was an absolute amazing resource i think one of the things abou

and challenge lyndon johnson for the democratic nomination because cronkite had gone to vietnam and wasthe johnson administration had lied to the american people and called the war a stalemate. many people are questioning why would a cronkite, a serious journalist, urge somebody like bobby kennedy to run for president. the answer is vietnam tore the country apart. cronkite stayed in the middle from '55 to '68. once he went inside the country being a humanist transcended being an anchor. >> i want to talk about this whole idea of liberal and conservative when it comes to news. we hear so much about it now. especially with the advent of cable news. some people being on the right and being on the left. was walter cronkite considered a liberal in those days, did people know about it and was he criticized for it? >> he was not considered a liberal until 1968. then he was classified as a dove. and then the nixon crowd, i've listened to all the nixon tapes with people like chuck colson and others going after walter cronkite. cronkite had become so popular he was seen as the patriarch of libera

well, it was the information that the generals wanted to feed him and the secretary of defense, and lyndonbecame their--one of their important spokes people robert mcnamara. everything that we're talking about now is, indeed, in the play but the play is about him as this extremely complex and kind of larger than life character, larger than life emotions. >> cenk: the parallels that i saw was, number one, we had false information about iraq. which the newspapers were doing the drum beat, false information. they wouldn't listen to the people saying not true. >> shock and awe. shock and awe. >> joy: the other thing that truck me is in a way he's high-ranked rush limbaugh. he has a lot of power, and in a way it's a misuse of that power. >> well, he didn't consider it misusing it. he considered him right and righteous. >> joy: so does limbaugh. >> in an important loud voice. different almost in every other way than limbaugh but in the contemporary journalistic landscape, limbaugh is probably the best comparison--the most powerful voice the way alsop was. >> joy: on the other hand, he was social

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

recently reading robert's latest going on lyndon johnson, and many came to mind of a wonderful cartoonby the great paul conrad of the "los angeles times" showing a wise figure beginning to write the history of the johnson administration with his right hand while lyndon johnson had his arm and a law, left arm in a locked, dictating what was going to be in the memoirs. so the question for both of you. to john, did you find your book subject to be a person preoccupied with his legacy? and center, are you preoccupied with her legacy? >> well, i really appreciate you saying that because you did one of the first reviews that pointed out that the legacy project for which i'm chief is doing is not interested in that thing anyway. the ground rules when it took the job as secretary of state's office work that we're going to do meaningful work, not subject to fear or favor, and the subjects themselves didn't get to be the editor, slade from the get-go, he wouldn't have wanted that and he was, he was very, very understanding about some of the very harsh things that people had to say about him. i d

they were torched off of lyndon street.they were able to identify the suspect after looking at surveillance video from the nearby gas station where a witness remembered a man buying gas to fill a gas can. police found the suspects near the scene. they're identified as 23-year- old morris pena and 36-year-old raul gomez. >>> berkeley fire responded to a fire this morning. the one armed fire was reported after 7:00 a.m. it took firefighters about 40 minutes to control the fire. we're told no one was hurt and the cause is under investigation. >>> the chp is investigating a big rig fire that briefly fired off the oak ramp in oakland. it was 5 from north 880. ktvu's alex explains that. >> reporter: this tractor trailer burned. the market street off ramp was closed briefly as the crews put water on the fire. traffic was also backed up for a short time. the driver of the truck told me he was on the freeway headed to the port of oakland when his engine started making noises. his son described what his dad did next. >> he got off of

that's when president lyndon johnson nominated thurgood marshall to become the first african-american justice on the supreme court. it was a huge step forward for civil rights in this country. the leading african-american attorney in the country chosen to our nation's highest court. what a moment. but today, 45 years later, republicans are in the midst of a vicious attack campaign against the nation's first african-american attorney general. it's part of an ugly effort that began even before holder took office. and hasn't let up since. republican lawmakers are now threatening to hold him in contempt of congress. they're also calling on him to resign. it's an escalation of their attempt to attack him over a program called fast and furious. a so-called gun walking operation that was dreamed up by the bush administration and ended by holder. he made that very point yesterday. >> if you want to talk about fast and furious, i'm the attorney general that put an end to the misguided tactics that were used in fast and furious. an attorney general who i suppose you would hold in higher regard