how did she meet lyndon johnson? supposedly,chance, but it was certainly through a woman they both knew and they must have heard something about other before. it was a september afternoon dropped intod had the woman's office. ar name was jean barringer, woman lady bird had grown up with although the woman was older than she and lyndon the same office on the same day and it was as lady bird says in one of the interviews, it was electric going from the first minute. and the love letters which have the courtship letters which were released by the library last valentine's day. everybody should read them online. put "l.b.j. courtship they werend conducting a hot and heavy courtship there. >> and fast. to waste anyoing time. she was either going to marry him or not. >> he was at the time a congressional aide. right. >> so she knew she would be life in politics? >> i guess so. runcould be an aide and not but he clearly had ambitions and she was for those ambitions. call it whirlwind but it seemed like he was very directed.

jackie kennedy believed texas oil they're all correct but what do all those entities have in common lyndon baines johnson i don't think l.b.j. did it i know you did it's all ahead on larry king now. welcome to a special edition of larry king now fifty years ago the course of american history was altered forever when president john f. kennedy was assassinated in dallas texas today jay of kay's iconic legacy still lives on across the globe here to discuss why that legacy is particularly important for younger americans is scott de rice author of the new book titled the power of citizenship why the john f. kennedy matters to a new generation i met by the way to personal moron the john kennedy one. i was twenty four years old driving in a car with three friends in palm beach looking at the sites his car from behind oh my gosh he was parked he died of a cause that how could you hit me on this week and said you want to change license this is no just raise your hands from as the vote for me. then we get to robert kennedy and ted of course very well you're only thirty four what prompted you to writ

jackie kennedy believed texas oil they're all correct but what do all those entities have in common lyndon baines johnson i don't think l.b.j. did it i know you did it's all ahead on larry king now. welcome to a special edition of larry king now fifty years ago the course of american history was altered forever when president john f. kennedy was assassinated in dallas texas today jay of kay's iconic legacy still lives on across the globe here to discuss why that legacy is particularly important for younger americans is scott de rice author of the new book titled the power of citizenship why you john f. kennedy matters to a new generation i met by the way at a personal moment john kennedy won. i was twenty four years old driving in a car with three friends in palm beach looking at the sights has a scar from behind oh my gosh he was parked he died of a car said how could you hit me on this week and said you want to change license this is no just raise your hands from was the vote for me. and that began my new role. virginity you had of course very well you're only thirty four what prompted y

senators electing a successor to lyndon johnson did not want another lyndon johnson. they wanted someone to make the trains run on time and kind of keep quiet. so mansfield went about -- his philosophy was he lit 100 candles flicker. that was not the way lyndon johnson approached his concept of the leadership in the senate. before too long, a year or two in his leadership, he began to get criticism from some of his friends in the senate. thomas dodd in connecticut, the father of chris dodd, really blasted mansfield. talk about bipartisan. dirksen became the -- the republican leader to come to the defense of the democratic leader saying, you know, you should not talk about your leader. this is sacrilegious do that. and it was mike mansfield who had a speech prepared that said, you know this, is the way i am as a leader. you can basically take it or leave it. he was going to give that speech on november 22, 1963. that was the day john f. kennedy was assassinated. he never gave the speech. it was time for this speech, part of a series of speeches by former speeches in th

he worked humphrey and lyndon johnson in 1960. i mean, he was not a natural politician, but when he decided to run a race, he was a fiercely competitive, very tough, from the -- formidable back. >> a question. you mentioned a critique of defense policy in vietnam and the algerian and poland. and obviously what he had said about vietnam in algeria, how was that received in the u.s.? positioning himself for a presidential run? just curious as to how -- >> it was considered very controversial because the cold war was still in its intense phase and there was a sense that kennedy had sort of transcended what was appropriate. that there was -- there were several people is a committee should not come on the floor of the united states senate and criticize an ally. he actually gave his first speech -- i forget the exact date, but he ended up giving a very lengthy 11 week later saying, have gotten a lot of responses last week, and i feel like and the jury spine, first of all, why give that speech and also to respond to a little bit of the b

and also did something interesting to chair a special committee this is what lyndon johnson and created for himself he ticket very seriously and came up with a list of the five greatest senators and it came out of his identity as a young politician but also someone steeped in american history. >> there was robert taft as the to 20th-century once but the biggest was john calhoun and to the free civil war era so his committee quickly decided on the top three end they had a longer debate and then yvette back at that point george norris was a progressive but then there was a thought it could be a filibuster so kennedy had to back off so even then there was a hint of of filibuster. >> host: what would you say was one of kennedy's substantive pieces of legislation? >> he was very active on labor issues. it was thus a huge issue at the time it was the issue that he mastered now understanding the nuances of the of labor law with that complex political battle but to give some marvelous speeches with the french involvement algeria and how that u.s. should try to re-emerge in the cold war. the mos

and lyndon johnson as into the race of the last minute. he was then majority leader. johnson still thinks he has suggested hero kennedy's nomination. he has his joint appearance before the texas delegation, johnson's delegation. and so johnson, you know, he starts citing all of his legislative achievements and just says, the pass a civil rights bill in 57. they're working and another in 1960, and he is talking about all the work he was doing. i had to up fight filibuster's and quorum call after a quarrel, for coracle. some people or not your answering quorum call, but i was. a clear reference to kennedy. kennedy comes up and says, want to say, you know, lyndon johnson as a great job answering quorum calls. if you need someone to answer quorum calls, user guide. but that is not what a president does. he said, i think he is a great leader and he should stay as the senate democratic leader, said a majority leader. and so in a certain way and a kabuki way he sort of turns johnson's experience and across the toss against him and it became almost a liability as opposed to a

lyndon johnson was kind of in the middle. he was trying to put the party back together. >> host: connelly was his close friend. >> guest: secretary of the navy and a john kennedy, but essentially kennedy, kennedy's presidency is only really understood well in the electoral context that you would understand well and i understand well. kennedy had been elected by a smidgen. some say he was not elected at all. 119,000 votes on the official record. texas, tiny, tiny number of votes. you know, a few tens of thousands in the large texas electorate. look, kennedy during his full term worried about that reelection. it did not matter that things were good. he remembered how close it had been. he needed taxes. that is why he was there. >> host: i want to go back to because i did not give enough time to talk about your discovery of the broad recording. i want to get back to that. the entire basis, as i recall, the house investigation that concluded in 1979 was the fact that there was a microphone that was stuck open of a dallas police o

. >> she agreed to go texas because the factions of lyndon johnson and the liberal senator were at each other's throats and jack kennedy needed texas again. so they went to texas. they went to houston, they went -- ended up in fort worth, the night before on the 21st of november. and on the 22nd of november, as they were talking in the bedroom, he said something that i found eerie. >> yes. well, the night before they arrived in fort forth, they had come from houston. now they are in the hotel room in the morning. and the president looks at a newspaper. the dallas paper. he's reading it before he flies there. there's a full-page ad welcoming him to texas. they thought they're welcoming me. they were having a good trip so far. the 21st went great. then he read the ad. and it was a 12-list of being a communist, socialist, causing death of american soldiers in vietnam. and he said, will you look at this? we're flying to nut country today. then he said, you know, last night when we got here, would been a hell of a night to assassinate the president. it was dark, the crowds were pressing in.

[laughter] there's a tape of lyndon johnson, and i cannot for the life of me understand why he made. nick smith voice-activated tapes, right? kennedy and johnson, they would turn the machine on, or johnson would get a phone call and go like this to secretary, run the tape. the machine. there's a tape of johnson talking to this guy who was the present and haggar slacks. johnson said, are you the fellow making haggar slacks was yes, mr. president. you made me five pairs of pants last summer. i need five more pairs of pants this summer. listen, you've got to give me more room in the crotch because those pants are cutting my nuts something awful. [laughter] the president of the trendy, a white house tape. [laughter] but these days, historians know, we love it. >> kennedy comes off better in private and nixon or johnson did he didn't seem to let his guard down. was he just a more buttoned up speedy i think he was more buttoned up but he was also, jeff, he was more self-confident. and as he grew, he grew up in the presidency. by the end of the 1000 days he was much more accountable in the

but they are unwilling to impose censorship because lyndon johnson and others kept believing it was a limited war and lyndon johnson had domestic policy ideas but having said that, the of military much prefers an environment that goes back to the american civil war when photographers were all over the battlefield and those are some of the most part rendering pictures you would never say. world war i and two censorship prevailed with the propaganda chief of the not sees with thousands of german media people not to take a photograph of any dead german soldier. the american government decreed no photographs of dead americans be published on towel and 1943 when prose -- president roosevelt lifted the order because he was concerned about the public about the propaganda images they were seeing in the newspaper about how the war was going. so the memory was clear during the vietnam war. today is the embedded system is controlling. and when it is exercised in its entirety photographers would not be allowed to take pictures of wounded or dead americans. generally you were not allowed anywhere

we have the congressman from dallas leading a mob protested against lyndon johnson when he was jfk's running mate. some of you may have heard a lot of people who warned kennedy not to go to dallas before that fateful trip in 1963, you may have heard john f. kennedy sage jacklin that morning while we are headed into -- and what bill and i are trying to do is to present a portrait of the environment in dallas. when you delve into each of these stories and some of them are quite fascinating you have the wealthiest men in the world, h. l. hunt bankrolling a radio program that was devoted to taking down john f. kennedy and when kennedy propose to have the medicare program hl hunt's radio announcers came on the air hundreds of stations across the country billions of listeners telling them that this will lead to government -- will make the present day medical czar which i think is a russian word, czar. every american citizen so i finally get to answer your question. when you have this kind of intensity like we saw in dallas we wanted to immerse ourselves in the readers and the environment a

claudia taylor, lady bird, agreed to marry lyndon johnson.residents as young men in love, some times celebrities, we don't think of them as young men in love. particularly we don't think of this president that way. we think of lbj as the kind of president who was deliberately crass as a strategic tactic. he famously made people constrers wiconverse while he sat on a toilet. whose most famous presidential recording was him making an incredible phone call from the white house to order himself some pants from a man in texas. you have heard the recording of lbj ordering his pants over the phone, haven't you? oh, please tell me you have heard this recording. >> i want a couple, maybe three of the light brown, kind of -- almost powder color like a powder on a lady's face. and then there were some grerngs -- green, blue, black, about six pairs to wear in the evening when i come in from work. and i need about half an inch too tight in the waist. >> do you recall the exact size, i just want it to be, to get them right for you. >> i don't know, y'all j

a search warrant is issued for the home of suspect lyndon wesley, but nothing is found. guns, or other evidence. suspect navahcia edwards, a part-time adult actress, has been tied to the crime. her credit card records show that she rented the getaway car and purchased the masks. because she's not making enough money as an adult actress, police believe she pulled off the heist to pay back the $20,000 she owes for stealing from a chase bank where she worked. it's that debt that winds up getting her arrested. >> she had not made full restitution on the bank embezzling case, we were actively out looking for her. we got the okay if we were to locate her to take her into custody based on the embezzlement case. we found her driving down 294 in a car by herself, they said tell them to go ahead and pull her over and take her into custody. >> but once in custody, navahcia edwards doesn't cooperate. she continues to deny that she's responsible, even after her partner in crime and boyfriend, lyndon wesley, confesses and names her as the instigator. wesley tells authorities that he b

he worked with people like hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, richard russell, scoop jackson. it was a really interesting time with some great senators. >> so what was his relationship with lyndon johnson when they were both in the senate many. >> it was a very wary one. his file is thick with letters to lyndon johnson asking for better committee assignments, because johnson was the senate democratic leader. kennedy was the more junior senator, so he was sending johnson a lot of letters asking for different committee assignments. johnson seemed to put them away. and at one point ted sorenson sent a wonderful note, johnson appointed kennedy to some third or fourth tier, you know, boston harbor dredging commission or something, so sorenson said in the letter we're making great progress, senator johnson has named you the chairman of the dredging commission. so it was a wary, competitive relationship. but in the end i think johnson came to respect kennedy as a tough, formidable old decision. didn't think he was a real heavy hitter on policy, but he thought he was a real compelling

president lyndon johnson on two locations approached the ap executives to have me removed from the area and there were lots of other influences on publishers particularly on television and owners of the networks. it was in this environment then that the news product, the written and photographic product emerge from vietnam. there was a matter of controversy from the beginning we saw a picture earlier of malcolm browne photographed of the buddhist monk, committing suicide by fire and in saigon earlier in 1963. that was a picture that helped shape president kennedy's view that the government didn't see him but we have supported and was sent to an inadequate job. in fact the ambassador who leader told me that he had gone to the oval office to get his last instructions before being appointed ambassador to vietnam and the "washington post" was open and there was a picture of the burning month on the first confront page and kennedy said we've changed things. we can't let this happen again. interestingly enough, "the new york times" has the story did not published a photograph. "new york times

when we had to cut law, those are stanley marcus is best test is out there attacking lyndon johnson. he had to walk past them that day and he lost a lot of customers. >> so i haven't read your book hears sounds great. i'll pick it up later today. how much of this is really to john birch society? obviously there's a big element of that california imported gas. how much of it is that intelligence a kind of competitor at florida southern -- it seems like maybe they've seen in dallas kind of conflated the two. i am curious if that's the case or if there was more of an internationalist agenda for different mix with the southern? >> there is a strong impulse in dallas voter politely called southern traditions that i don't know this has been exiled to the corners of history as well. dallas at one time had been the national headquarters of the coup plot plan. there were very vigorous public parades in the city. just from my understanding of history, if i had to guess about knowing what i said come out of place somewhere in the united states, more deep the southern state. dallas was founded i

assistant to president kennedy, and his letters include correspondences with the kennedy family, lyndon johnson, henry kissinger and william f. buckley. this is about an hour. [applause] >> well, welcome, and thank you for that nice welcoming applause. and i want to thank you all for joining us for what i know is going to be a very special evening. as many of you know this year, vanderbilt welcomed john meacham with, i would say, wide arms and a very warm embrace as a distinguished visiting professor. [applause] and i think john has done well, and i hope we can take the visiting off pretty soon. [laughter] i would say that our political science students are just thrilled to have such a unique opportunity to learn from this accomplished historical scholar and celebrated to have. john's most recent book, "thomas jefferson: the art of power," rose to the coveted number one spot on "the new york times" bestseller list and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the times book review and the be washington post. and "the washington post." his best selling biography of andrew jack

. >> lyndon, please tell me as soon as you can what the deal is. i'm afraid it's politics.y business, not any proprietary interest, but i would hate for you to go into politics. >> isn't that awesome? after they first met it took two and a half months and 100 love letters between them before lady bird agreed to marry lyndon bain es johnson. particularly we do not think of this specific that way. we think of lbj as deliberately crass. he made people converse with him while he sat on a toilet. the most famous presidential recording was of him making an incredible phone call from the white house to order himself some pants from a man in texas. you have heard the recording of lbj ordering his pants over the phone, haven't you? oh, please tell me you have heard this recording. >> i want a couple, maybe three of the light brown almost a powder color like a powder on a lady's face. and then some green and maybe another blue or black. i need about six pairs to wear around in the evening when i come in from work. and i need about a half a inch too tight in the waist. do you recall t

lyndon johnson said he would end poverty. sure enough, dropped sharply, first, 5, 7 years after that. but then it stopped improving. we taught people, government programs, teach people to be dependent. and look what was happening before the war on pocher t pove. americans were lifting themselves out of poverty. government continued the progress for five years and stopped it. >> we should have been more generous of programs. we should have didn't other things government can do to help folks. >> oh, gosh. you want to give up? >> government doesn't teach dependency. >> listen, i am not here saying government is perfect. government has bad things, it is -- i am saying there are things it does really well and things the privates do really well. the test is hey, private folks step up. >> i think these graphs are the test. look, can we put these up. rise of food stamp use in america. you would say this is because more people are hung rechlt try. the recession. it goes up steadily. two lines refer to one as the number of people colle

lyndon johnson said he would and poverty. here is where the war began.ure enough it dropped sharply the first five, seven years after that. to then it stopped improving. >> we teach people to be dependent. that was happening before the war. americans were lifting themselves out of poverty. government continue the progress for five years and then stopped it. >> we should have been more generous, done the other things at government can do to help folks. john: government does not teach a dependency. >> i am not here saying government is profit. government has some bad things, clumsy, buraucratic. there are things it does really well. hey, private folks, step up. john: these graphs of the test. can we put these up. john: the recession, but it goes up steadily. two lines referred to one is the number of people collecting in the other is the cost. we are teaching people to be passive. >> i will grant you that is something we want to avoid. what is the solutiofrom a look at the people and say we will take your food stamps a way? up for the best. >> limit the pr

lyndon johnson said he would and poverty. here is where the war began.ure enough it dropped sharply the first five, seven years after that. to then it stopped improving. >> we teach people to be dependent. that was happening before the war. americans were lifting themselves out of poverty. government continue the progress for five years and then stopped it. >> we should have been more generous, done the other things that government can do to help folks. john: government does not teach a dependency. >> i am not here saying government is profit. government has some bad things, clumsy, bureaucratic. there are things it does really well. hey, private folks, step up. john: these graphs of the test. can we put these up. john: the recession, but it goes up steadily. two lines referred to one is the number of people collecting in the other is the cost. we are teaching people to be passive. >> i wilgrant you that is something we want to avoid. what is the solution from a look at the people and say we will take your food stamps a way? up for the best. >> limit the

this is a phone conversation with lyndon johnson. >> you just have to give me strength. >> i wasn't going to come over. >> you just come over and put your arm around me, let's walk around the backyard. let me tell you how much you mean to all of us, and how we can carry on, -- >> i know how rare a letter is in the president's handwriting. i have more in your handwriting than i do in jack's handwriting, for you to send me the thing today, the announcement and everything -- >> i want you to know that i told my mother a long time ago, when everyone else gave up about my election in 1948 -- you have a lot of courage that we men don't have. so we have to rely on you and depend on you and you have something to do. you have the president relying on you, there are not many women running around -- so you have the biggest job in your life. >> i ran around with two presidents, that is what they will say about me. ok, anytime. thank you for calling, mr. president. >> do come by. >> this relationship was not always the easiest of relationships, but how did he treat the departing first family and jacki

this was a committee that lyndon johnson created for himself, grew tired of it, handed it off to kenkennedy -- kennedy. so this was in some sense the one project that kennedy was in charge of during his senate career. he took it very seriously, you know, inquired of all the great historians in the country and spent six, seven months really digging into this, came up with a list of the five greatest senators, and it was something that became part of his identity as being a young politician, but also someone very steeped in american history. so -- >> who came out at the top of that list? >> el, there was robert taft and robert concern. [inaudible] were the two 20th century ones. but the big ones were john calhoun, daniel webster, henry clay. the great triumvirate of the pre-civil war era. so kennedy's committee quickly decided on the top three, webster, clay, calhoun. they had a longer debate on the next two, and even back at that point kennedy would prefer a gentleman by the name of george -- [inaudible] to be the leading progressive, but there was some hint that the nebraska senators

what are your thoughts sort of on how lyndon johnson factors into how we view kennedy today? >> well, i'm not a johnson expert, but there's a couple of interesting bits in the book about johnson. the first is that when he was picked as vice president, the liberals were outraged. they saw him as a southerner, kind of a gradualist on civil rights. so some of the union guys, the head of the united autoworkers, there was a mini rebellion against kennedy. a lot of those guys would have preferred stevenson anyway, so at the convention when johnson was picked, there's this famous scene where kennedy almost had to uninvite, uninvite johnson to be vice president. part of that was because of this uproar among the liberals. but later on i think you see johnson emerging as more of a liberal figure, at least on domestic policy. and there's another scene in this book where johnson, after kennedy had been shot, meets with walter heller who's a liberal kennedy economic adviser and tells heller, you know, tells heller to, you know, come up with a plan for war on poverty and says, you know, ke

but you know, lyndon johnson said it well at howard university in 1965. this is a theory that says that somehow or other, you can run a race, and it's a fair race to get to the finish line of a decent life, where some people start halfway around the track, and other people start way at the back. that's the republican theory. it's wrong. it's profoundly wrong. and i think the country is ultimately going to reject it. >> james, you really kind of can't get away from the racial component here. because part of what reagan -- sort of injected into the system in his campaign when he first ran for president and part of what's sort of become glommed on to this argument about poverty is the notion that programs at the federal level that help people mainly help minorities and therefore are a way of buying the votes of black and brown people. how did democrats counter that argument? because it has become pretty ingrained on the right. >> it has. i think first democrats have to acknowledge the fact that the entire conversation around so-called entitlements, most of t

president lyndon johnson flew to independence, missouri and in the presence of harry s.n, signed the bills into law. medicaid covered the health care costs of millions of low-income people. we asked henry aaron if that met our sponsibilities to tse who couldn't afford medicacare. this woun't be a problem if all stes providedenefits as generous ashose in say the upper third or upper half of the distribution. sometates provide meager medicaid benefits-- fewer than 10 days a year ofospitalization, severe limits on the number of doctor's visits one can receive-- so that even moderate illnesses may not be fully protected under the medicaid program. in addition, the population that may be served by the medicaid program in many states is quite narrowly defined. so notwithstandi the fact thamedicaid is the federal health program for the poor, millions of poor americans are not covered by any benefits at all they don't have government protection or private insurance because they're unemployed or because they work in jobs that don't provide suchoverage. about 15% to 20% of the ame

could you imagine lyndon johnson not going? could you imagine bill clinton not going? somehow show some solidarity with the people. but he didn't do it. so he flew over the site on air force one. you might remember the picture of him looking out the window. it became the symbol ofizelation of george bush. botching the management of the hurricane remember the fema. the agency guide. mr. brown, you're doing a great job. it didn't out to be true. a heck of a job. >> exactly. >> that picture was release bid the white house. it became a lasting image of george bush isolated at 35,000 feet. not paying attention to the suffering under the plane and in the country. and just a final point. his staff then and now say it's the moment where he lost the country nap people no longer thought he was a good manager and no longer thought he could be trusted to represent what was going on in the country. he really suffered from that. that's part of the story of the second term. >> you talked about the curiosity of clinton. how would you apply the phrase to george herbert walker and georg

there's also a letter from him to lyndon johnson to which he appoints johnson to the day by day operations. he was really on top. he staked his reputation on it. how the hell he ever thought -- >> that deployment also means we have mission control in houston. >> that's right. spent if i may move to another topic, thank you. while you include correspondence with many of the usual stalwarts of the civil rights era, two were striking to me. one was jackie robinson, and the other was josephine baker. the one is a colorful entertaining dancer and singer, and the other of course was the icon who broke the color barrier in major league baseball. with a defective lobbyists? >> yes, they were. what is revealed through history is the fact that kennedy is a political animal. the man is president of the united states. he's got to run again in 1964. he's not all -- all the polls showing him doing very well, it's still no certainty. that's what he goes to dallas. he is so concerned that -- all of his advisers say stay out, not takes out the. adlai stevenson just got stood on last month. do not go. he di

lyndon johnson had trouble motivating j. edgar hoover to investigate. because hoover didn't like doing that. johnson had to do something to convince him. you better go down there and launch an operation to track down the murders. how do he do that? he knew that j. ed edgar hoover hated him. he called him and said, alan, i want you to go down mississippi as my personal envoy to investigate what happened to those civil rights workers and write an report about racial tensions in mississippi. alan said i don't even know the name of the governor of mississippi. he had never been involved in the civil rights issue at all. he did go to mississippi. he spent two dais there. he wrote a report that nobody read. the reason he was sent there was just because johnson wanted to stick it to j. edgar hoover. it worked. [inaudible] twhoopped him -- -- what happened to -- [inaudible] protect him and saw to it that -- [inaudible] >> you are referring to the economic minister in the hitler regime. he's a figure in the book. he and alan worked closely together. in fact, the

and this was a committee that lyndon johnson created for himself. who handed it off to kennedy. it was one project that kennedy was part of and he took it very seriously and spend time digging into this and came up with a list of the five greatest senators and it was something that became part of the. >> there was robert taft and the 220th century ones. and he is the great triumvirate of the civil war. his committee decided en masse and kennedy would prefer a man by the name of george wants to be the leading progressive. there were some that could save you want when the filibuster that. so he had to filibuster that and there were some subtle heads and transients about. >> what would you say is one of his most substantive pieces of legislation in the senate? >> he was very active in labor issues and chairman of the labor subcommittee that he really does entail and he was a huge issue and he mastered it at the time. and he understood this better than anyone. and so it was part of foreign policy. and this includes algeria, and the whole battle with the soviet union and how the u.s.

high seas of the spy ship being taken by the north koreans and what was going on in washington with lyndonhem together for very -- what seems like riveting read. page turner. but it's history. >> schieffer: what about you, terry? >> well, so far -- i guess not very many days left in the year but the novel "the roundhouse" moved me to no end because of how far -- it's about familial love how far someone is willing to go to correct an injustice. and i write about -- most of us write about injustices, her's happens with deal with native americans which doesn't matter to me, but i found it riveting and i was in tears also at the end. i actually threw the book across the room because i was so excited about how it ended. she's a brilliant writer. >> schieffer: you know, do you all read on kindle or read in books? >> i read real books. >> me, too. >> i like to turn the page. >> schieffer: i do, too. but the one book this year, there was book called "the last line" which was william manchester's last book in the trilogy, he died before he was able to finish it. it was finished by a guy named paul

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lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... >> federal authorities say new yorkrain that jumped the tracks was going at a speed nearly three times as fast as it should have been. it crashed yesterday morning in the bronx. 4 people were killed. more than 60 injured. today authorities checked the train data recorders saying it was going 82 miles an hour on 30 miles per hour turn. too too fast. conductor was injured in the crash and is cooperating with the investigation. >> men time this is really unbelievable. shock for rescue crew who thought they were on recovery mission looking for bodies after tugboat capsized watch what happened. >> all right. you found one. he's alive he's alive. >> can you believe it. you tube video. seeing the out stretched hand there of the sole survivor reaching for divers. tugboat chef survived 62 hours, 100 feet under world trade center off the coast of nigeria back in may but posted. he managed to find an air pocket and the only member of the crew to survive. >> p.r. p has grown in popularity as a way to speed healing. famous athlete i

lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... >>> abc7 news begins with breaking kristen sze. >> the breaking news is from concord where a huge fire has forced local firefighters to call in help from surrounding communities. our reporter is on the scene near concord's airport. amy? >> this is a huge fire. it has been burning for hours before they got call at 12:25. authorities say what was on fire was the phone company that sold telephone supplies in concord so there are a lot of plastics that have burned. that is can there is a funky smell with the smoke going straight up. the air quality probably okay. you do fault want to get up close and both it but it is probably okay. they went to four alarm and prosecute in 70 firefighters and called in the county. they were on their way and they said that contra costa had it covered. they think they will be here all morning watching over the scene. they do not know the cause. it took hours to get the fire out. >> what we have not been able to do is go around the back side of the building and check to make sure there were n

interesting to me the first president of the united states where we heard about this problem was lyndon johnson in one nine hundred sixty five he was advised by his private is science adviser is that exactly what's happening now would happen and successive presidents and congresses have not really confronted this issue the way they should and in my view president obama is the last president with the chance to confront this problem in a way that bay held off the worst of the of the damage and one of the solutions to carbon change that's been proposed as a carbon tax what's your take on. what's at the root of the idea for a carbon tax and cap and trade which we heard about in two thousand and nine is the idea to begin pricing carbon and what that means is that right now we use an old math in our energy system where the cost of technology is really not reflected in the price we pay. it doesn't count the people who get sick or the children get as in coal pollution it doesn't count the cost of defending the persian gulf oil fields it doesn't cost the cost of climate change and all the damage

i can't help but think of lyndon johnson.ades in congress and in the senate, going along, placating, doing the bidding of the conservative forces who controlled his immediate political future. this was the lyndon johnson who was the segregationist, but then when he got to the top, he became president, no one controlled him anymore. he was free to speak his mind and act on his conscience. this is the lyndon johnson who ended segregation. i find myself wondering if there is a little lbj in this pope, a conservative cardinal who infuriated the left in argentina and now as pope is becoming something of a liberal icon. here to make sense of who pope francis is and how he is shaping up our politics, we're joined by msnbc.com's benjy sarlin, sarah p posner, ana marie cox is still with us, and ambassador flynn as well. ambassador flynn, i'll start with you. you were an appointee of president clinton as the ambassador to the vatican. you are somebody who has fairly conservative views on the cultural issues. when you look at the pope a

jack kennedy believe texas oil they're all correct but what do all those entities have in common lyndon baines johnson i don't think l.b.j. did it i know you did it's all ahead on larry king not.

>> so, yes this comes from a woman named victoria lyndon of victoria, texas. she was in hawaii.as inspired after she had a cup of joe that was delicious. it is a smooth coffee. it is not like starbucks. she decided to create this company. and when you buy the coffee, the proceeds go to support clean water causes. more than a billion people around the world don't have access to clean water. we really love this. >> you can give it to a whole office. >> exactly. >> and we love the holiday packaging. it is a perfect gift. >> okay, scarfs are beautiful. >> we love these. we thought those to be really good if you have hipster employees. so this comes from a woman inspired after a trip to cambodia to start her company. and her company is called crama wheel. when you buy a scarf, you support a cambodian seamstress and you provide a school uniform to a child. >> it means so much more. especially when the gifts give back to something else. now these are beautiful boxes. >> these were one of the more unusual submissions. these are boxai. this is a box within a box within a box. and there's

lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... dennis: what happens when you combine arrogance with incompetence? you get obamacare despite the touted improvements the government can still not get its act together now a senior fellow at the manhattan institute jury says with the latest. it was part of bush saying mission accomplished but now they are doing a barnstorming tour sagan has spent fixed senate the standard is very low so that the vast majority can get on it if amazon says one out of five gs away is a catastrophic failure so back end problems they still have not even built 30 or 40 percent of the web site that pays ensure so that people cannot access coverage and they already had problems up fro once they put up the other it is all kinds of problems to beckett has not been a creative level on tested. dennis: obamacare errors have found wide and 10 days transferor's even though the progress report says " although there is more work to be dyed the private sector velocity and the effectiveness. >> it is terrible. those form

interesting to me the first president of the united states where we heard about this problem was lyndon johnson in one nine hundred sixty five he was advised by is science adviser is that exactly what's happening now would happen and successive presidents and congresses have not really confronted this issue the way they should and in my view president obama is the last president with a chance to confront this problem in a way that they had off the worst of the of the damage and one of the solutions to carbon change that's been proposed as a carbon tax what's your take on that. well i think what's at the root of the idea for a carbon tax and cap and trade which we heard about in two thousand and nine is the idea to begin pricing carbon and what that means is that right now we use an old math in our energy system where the cost of technology is really not reflected in the price we pay it doesn't count the people who get sick or the children who get as but in coal pollution it doesn't count the cost of defending the persian gulf oil fields it doesn't cost the cost of climate change and all