but i have never seen them -- i know of no evidence. -- mr.singer: lyndon updegrove: lyndon johnson was a domestic policy sage. he knew how to get deals done, he knew instantly what to do. there are many who think that he was out of his depth in terms of foreign policy. what is your view of johnson as a foreign-policy president? president johnson with the war from the first day in office. judge -- so you can't really judge the foreign-policy tendencies of a up,ident who was swallowed in a way, by the war. question, johnson was a master in knowing the nuances of domestic policy. and he did not know the foreign leaders as well as he did the domestic constituencies. and so it didn't come as naturally to him as it did with domestic policy. but on the foreign-policy issues , other than the war in vietnam, relationship good with our allies. enemies, he was very eager to come to some agreement with the soviet union, but everything was so overlaid by the war in vietnam. johnson wasesident a formidable individual. ways, it was a personal tragedy that he spent so much of his life to achieve that

lyndon b. johnson's beautification program. the 23 minute film details the first lady's effort to plant trees and flowers and improve parks and playgrounds in the district of columbia, with the hope that other cities would follow the example. ♪ ms. johnson: beautification, to my mind, is far more than a matter of cosmetics. to me, it describes the effort to bring the natural world and man-made world into harmony, to bring youthfulness to life to our whole environment. ♪ ♪ narrator: after the presidential elections in 1964, mrs. lyndon johnson felt it would be most effective is the nation's first lady to concentrate her efforts in a few major areas of concern. during a meeting at the lbj ranch, mrs. johnson was urged by the secretary of the interior to share her lifelong interest in beautification. putting this into practice would require organization and hard work. mrs. johnson wanted to make her adopted hometown an example for others to follow. washington, d.c., would be a showcase for the nation. and so, the community for a m

lyndon johnson is the guy who is the legislative genius. what you remember about lyndon johnson's vice presidency is he got to go to afghanistan. home with a camel. maybe. was a very confident experienced man who had been running it. but then he became vice president and have nothing to do. ultimately, it has to be with how else. sure if you will have much to difference. if he is not happy with that >> i read your wife's book on that. --as surprised to surprise to find all of these examples casting the vote against the presidential nominee. is that part of the vice presidency that we are selecting , the ability to count on that vote? >> it would put a strain on the relationship. in reducing the number of senators that could filibuster. rockefeller got actively involved as vice president and nothe position having to get involved in. as and in the final analogies, happen but you have to when toenough to know be a little more aggressive. analysis, you can go over and jump off the boat. it is probably not a good idea. thehe end, it is president

kennedy and lyndon johnson, johnson is the consummate insider and he decides to try to become workingt, primarily by through the party leadership and not running in the primaries. kennedy, because he is a catholic and less well-known, there's a lot of anxiety about whether voters will vote for a catholic. he has to go out and show he can be electable in a state like west virginia. a very protestant state. he made a statement about the separation of religion, the system was a mixed system that was not created in one moment of careful thought, but reflected both some role for popular participation in some world war party figures who knew the candidate and watch them in government and office in one form or another and can make can hold about who coalitions of the party together and to is going to be electable. wrote down after the democratic convention in 1968. a lot of stuff broke down in that era around that democratic convention. hubert humphrey becomes the democratic nominee. he had not run in any primary and he defeats people like eugene mccarthy and others that run in the primaries.

his name was lyndon b. majority leader from texas. >> johnson wants the nomination for himself, and he's prepared to play dirty. >> lyndon johnson's allies and friends at the convention begin to talk about kennedy's health problems. >> kennedy had serious health problems. addison's disease. he had a hormonal deficiency that could have killed him. in fact, his father put medicine in safe deposit vaults all over the united states so that kennedy would never run short. >> so what johnson does is he makes it a campaign issue. >> the kennedy forces denied it vociferously. and had doctors come out and say he was above average in health and energy and vitality and never had so-called addison's disease and they lied through their teeth. >> kennedy's illness is never mentioned again. it's a victory for jfk's team, if not for truth. >> had the american public known just how sick jack kennedy was, he probably could not have been a presidential candidate. >> now they work the convention floor. >> john f. kennedy. >> to

his name was lyndon b.ader from texas. >> johnson wants the nomination for himself, and he's prepared to play dirty. >> lyndon johnson's allies and friends at the convention begin to talk about kennedy's health problems. >> kennedy had serious health problems. addison's disease. he had a hormonal deficiency that could have killed him. in fact, his father put medicine in safe deposit vaults all over the united states so that kennedy would never run short. >> so what johnson does is he makes it a campaign issue. >> the kennedy forces denied it vociferously and had doctors come out and say he was above average in health and energy and vitality and never had so-called addison's disease, and they lied through their teeth. >> kennedy's illness is never mentioned again. it's a victory for jfk's team, if not for truth. >> had the american public known just how sick jack kennedy was, he probably could not have been a presidential candidate. >> now they work the convention floor. >> john f. kennedy. >> to win the nom

lyndon johnson liked to do a lot of work in bed at night. so the pdb changed. the sent to the white house late in the afternoon so he could read it at night. it is the president's book. the president wants it at night he'll get it at night. if he wants it in the form of interpretive dance, there's going to be a whole lot of intelligence officers learning to interpretive dance. [laughter] >> johnson would occasionally take briefings sitting in the bathroom as well. >> i've heard that story, and i don't want details. [laughter] >> you mentioned jfk had trouble sitting still. you're talking about his physical situation. >> i think it was on two fronts. >> yeah. >> one, the physical condition, but also his advisers said he was constantly trying to get into new ideas, constantly trying to move to the next topic. he was so excited about some other meeting, or he had an idea and he wanted to go chase that down that they could not get him to focus for long periods of time. forever, having a document as was designed, something small enough that he could fold it and carr

lyndon johnson says, let us continue for four more years. this is my answer.n the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war against a fourth rate military power in vietnam with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its own economy, when a nation with the greatest tradition for the rule of law is torn apart by lawlessness, when a nation which has been a symbol of equality, of opportunity, is torn apart by racial strife, when the president of the united states cannot travel at home or abroad without fear of a hostile demonstration, then i say it's time for new leadership in the united states of america. [ applause ] >> ideas are important to richard nixon. he seeks them from a variety of sources. his staff represents a wide range of interests, backgrounds, and beliefs. and they are all young. >> one of the great things about my staff is its youth. it's the youngest staff that a presidential candidate has ever had. and even -- well, perhaps even younger than john kennedy's staff when he ran for the presid

anyway, and got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson -- nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson during the transition between the two presidencies. he said, i have several of the offices wired for recording, including several telephones. he said, i strongly recommend you do the same. nixon had exactly the opposite reaction and had them all taken out. but this is the first time he had heard of presidents recording. so what were the reasons that he doesn't install>? back in the nixon white house, as we have discussed in prior lectures, there was a pretty efficient management system, except in the instances like watergate where the management system did not come into play. but the management system on a daily basis was there. when somebody had a meeting with the president, and they brought a guest in, they prepared a talking paper that went into the president, was approved fir st.then after the meeting , they prepared a summary of the meeting. i will give you for example, in this particular memo, elvis presley shows up at the northwest gate. i happen to know this because bud called

great career so that was a role model the other book written by french of tragedy and triumph of lyndon johnson a great book that covers my life experience is also with president kennedy's assassination in how lyndon johnson could use that period to push through legislation that only for health care and medicare and education and how a masterful politician can use the system to accomplish a helluva lot of things in contrast to today's congressmen. he used every trick that he knew to make changes. >> we have a pop-up exhibit here the powerbroker about robert moses. that is incredible. is a trilogy of the john send biography? there are four. thank you berkowitz is to brief and to much to discuss but a glad we have the 30 minutes to talk. i want to go to the audience to see if there are any questions for dr. sullivan? >> it was great this is your stories. a couple months ago and didn't skillion minute comment about a service to minorities as a college graduate have made to rethink leggett there because i'm black? that i thought that was untrue but then i thought of all the young people of

look at lyndon johnson. this cap is a legislative genius. -- this guy was a legislative genius. if you remember about his vice [indiscernible] everybody here today wasn't born then. it was a classic case with a confident or experienced man image in running the senate effectively became vice president and then he had almost nothing to do. we start tackling the process of the invention on a choose, ultimately for him to be effective it has to be with the approval and support of the president. it does not matter how he is selected. i'm not sure if you're going to get something to make enough difference. you may say the president did not take well his vice president , but if he's not satisfied with that choice, that individual will be relegated to duties -- [indiscernible] how your lovely wife spoke. a number of times vice president weather away from the president. surprised when i got into the history to find all these examples of vice president's casting a vote against the presidential nominee, casting a vote against presidential programs. most of that happened in the 19th century

the event was cohosted by the harry ransom center at the university of texas and the lyndon b. johnson presidential library. it is an hour. >> good evening. i want to welcome you to this conversation with alexander butterfield and bob woodward which will be conducted by my friend and colleague, director

lyndon b. johnson's beautiful -- beautification program.he 23 minute film details the first lady's effort to plant trees and flowers and improve

think of lyndon johnson. here is a guy who is a legislative genius, king of the senate. could get anything done as the senate leader. e kennedy administration absolutely cut his rights off. he got to go to afghanistan, and he came home with a camel river. >> you can lead the camel to water. >> well, maybe. t it was a classic case of a powerful, very experienced man who had been running the senate ffect live, and when he became vice president, he couldn't do much. we say maybe the convention ought to choose, but ultimately for him to be effective, he has to do so with the support of the president. i am not sure you are going to get something to make enough difference. in the final analysis, you may say the president did not pick well for vice president. but that is a judgment on the president. if he is not happy and satisfied with that choice, that individual is going to be relegated to duties. >> i don't know how much your lovely wife's book on madison covers. the number of times a vice president went their own way from the president. but i was surprised as i douglas int

the other book was written by my friend joe calihano, the tragedy and triumph of lyndon johnson. great book and, of course, it covered my life experiences too with what happened with kennedy's assassination, president kennedy's assassination and how lyndon johnson was able to use the, that period to push through a lot of legislation not only for health care, medicare, medicaid, but education, etc. so that's a fascinating story of how a master full politician was able to use the -- masterful politician was able to use the system to accomplish a hell of a lot of things in contrast to -- >> he was a persuasive character. >> oh, yes. right. [laughter] and he used every trick that he knew to, indeed, make changes. >> we actually have a pop-up exhibit for robert caro here, power broker tough. no, that's an incredible, i guess it's a trilogy that the johnson biography, isn't it? aren't there three books in the robert caro -- four, there are four. it's in the making now. thank you for keeping me straight here. anyway, i want to thank you. it's too brief, this is too much to discuss, but

we've had landslide lyndon elected.ut historically, wisconsin, minnesota, they've been clean in their voting. why this bill? >> look, the fact of the matter is, we know exactly why this bill exists. in off year elections, republicans can win. they can win the governor ship, and even the ledge lgislature. >> they don't show? >> they've lost in presidential elections since 1988. when walker and his people came in, they were loaded for this one. this was something they fought for and kept bringing it up. they would get pushed back, bring it up again. i want to just tell you, chris -- >> is this one of those alex things? >> yes, it does. it's more than that. the fact of the matter is, this is an assault on wisconsin's core way of doing elections. the historic premise in this state was they want the highest turnout in the country. they want to beat every other state. what this law does, and also the limiting of early voting in wisconsin, has made it so much harder. today, chris, today, for the first time in my life, i voted

also, i might say, it was something that was practiced during president johnson's administration, lyndonaines johnson, and it was also something that happened during the eisenhower administration. now, the other side, meaning the democratic side, has been talking a great deal about the so-called pressure campaign to try to get members to change their position. it is no secret that the white house strategy is to put pressure on this chairman of the judiciary committee and other republicans in the hopes that we can be worn down and ultimately agree to hold hearings on the nominee. this pressure campaign, which is targeted at me and a handful of my colleagues, is based on the supposition that i and they will crack and move forward on the consideration of president obama's pick. this strategy has failed to recognize that i am no strange to political pressure and to strong-arm tactics. not necessarily for mother democrat presidents -- not necessarily for more democrat presidents, probably for more republican presidents. when i make a decision based on sound principle, i'm not about to flip-fl

[laughter] >> in fact, lyndon johnson was president of the united state. these emphasize to students that this was lyndon johnson, not andrew johnson. [laughter] [applause] case, bob has fashioned a very distinguished career, including 30 years with the intelligence community, where he held significant assignments, including arms therol and a member of ,elegation on the disarmament and he has also taught to 2004. he was in monterey, california. a prolific scholar and writer, the author of several works, one novel and histories. , "fierceof those patriot: the tangled lives of william tecumseh sherman", a new york times bestseller. of it was also the recipient a 2015 award for excellence in civil war biography. at the time of its publication, he received widespread praise. andas called, a remarkable remarkably original work on one of the people that truly defined america. the national review asserted that, "it is hard to imagine any other biography capturing sherman in such an enlightening fashion." the wall street journal called a sharply drawn and compulsi

the decisions so it was anything but open. >> even humphry, the favorite son is not his own man. >> lyndonl of that convention. his shadow was everywhere and hubert knew that and we knew hubert knew that. >> we found a team of johnson staff there and they made it known that they were going to run things and that johnson might change his mind and run himself if humphry got out of bounds. it was very, very acrimony is on the floor where they are demoralized. >> it was a running, wrestling match and a political cultural clash between the past, the present and what the future was going to look like. >> the convention was the wild west. you weren't sure who was on your side and not and shootups everywhere and you had to be on your toes. >> the killing had to stop. >> the key vote on the floor is the so-called peace plant. the plan to end the vietnam war and the debate is heated. >> it was more angry shouting back and forth. johnson here and the peace forces there and there was a lot of anger and shouting. >> out in the sheets, anger is also brewing. on the first night of the convention, police

ofhard nixon got the idea taping from lyndon johnson, his immediate predecessor, during the transition between the two presidencies, they met. offices i have several wired for recording, including several telephones. recommend youngly do the same. richard nixon had the opposite reaction and had them all taken out. this is the first time he had heard of presidents recording. ?hat were the reasons tha back in the richard nixon white house, there was a pretty efficient management system, in stead of the cases of watergate. the management system was there. when somebody had a meeting with the president and brought a guest, they prepared a talking paper. into the president, and after the meeting, they prepared a summary of the meeting. , in this particular memo, elvis presley shows up at the northwest gate. i happen to know of this because bud called me and said elvis is at the gate and he wants to present the president with a gun. it's a silver gun with ivory handles. but he also wants to talk about law enforcement. what should i do? i said, have the secret service handle it, which they di

american politics but most people in america didn't know how dirty the election was and that was lyndon johnson against barry goldwater and johnson running for his first term, he was going to beat barry goldwater but the question was he wanted to beat him by a landslide and get a big majority for his electoral society program, so he debated a group called the 5:00 club which met after hours in washington and they did dirty tricks which ranged from actually creating a coloring book which portrayed barry goldwater in robes of the ku klux klan for children. to writing hundreds of letters to dear abby and ann landers, claiming to be from americans having nervous breakdowns at the thought of a barry goldwater presidency, said e howard hunt who at that time was an active cia agent to infiltrate the goldwater campaign and bring back statements of policy statements that goldwater was about to release, the white house knew about things he said before he said them, and there are some stories that they actually bugged goldwater's campaign, not sure if that is true or not but that is the story you

trouble to integrating spiegel, the catalog stores and department stores and in the 60s spoke to lyndon johnson's labor department and so on. these word the people populated michelle ng obama's youth and our with her in many ways in what she is doing now. >> if you haven't read the book, one thing i would commend to you is this rich description of the history and life of the south side of chicago which i wasn't as familiar with as i should have been but it is a wonderful aspect of the book and the six degrees of separation from michelle obama is pretty astounding too especially in terms of civil rights leaders recognize either a connection or are related to her, pretty amazing and thank you for your research on that. those who have questions make your way to the microphone, we will cover two other areas and open up to your questions. i want to start with linda hirshman. why do you think it is that justice ginsberg has been so co-ceo in forming friendships with people who are so ideologically different than she? >> people ask me that a lot. who besides justice scalia do you have in mind?

accusations against the new president, lyndon johnson.he accusations just continue and just continue. rumors continue to persist, which are interested -- which was interesting. supposedly a body in a coffin with an american flag draped over it was dumped into the ocean off of a ship. abound from the probable to the hypothetical to the ridiculous, and then how ridiculous. president reagan and three other people were shot by john hinckley junior. impress actress jodie foster. brady, a window ,cross the street, tim mccarthy and the president was hit in the arm, his left underarm, hitting a rib into his long about one inch from his heart. it was a devastating bullet, which explodes on impact. this is the actual gun. hinckley was denied ale -- denied parole. president reagan on the 13th day of the assassination, he left the hospital. before nancy reagan passed away recently, she had an interview the seriousness of his wound. she says it was a severe wound and doctors did not know for sure if he would survive. she was prepared for the worst. ou

as far as frank on roosevelt and lyndon johnson, if bill clinton and barack obama had been lyndon bainesranklin roosevelt, we would not have lost the jobs we did. neither of them would have permanent trade relations with china or undone glass-steagall, they would not have done those things that devastated our economy. i don't mind compromise. you have to have compromise but should the compromise always be at the expense of the american worker in favor of corporations and how convenient it is a take wall street money and do that? bill clinton and barack obama never compromised on reproductive rights. corporations don't care about that. for gay rights. corporations want to drive wages down this country and i'm tired of democratic residents taking money from wall street and giving workers short shrift. workers are the biggest constituency group in america and they keep falling behind and it did not happen by accident. respond too you economists and others who say the job loss and manufacturing isan before it nafta and largely due to technology and automation of jobs? productivity has increa

before 1964 when the democratic party started owning the blackla vote lock stock and barrel because lyndon johnson actually sign this into law and he marshaled it through for political expediency. before that you had republicanst championing all of the things that now the democratic party is giving lip service to. but i think that more importantly people like you and me are speaking out. you didn't have people calling each other names. and i do not believe that donald trump is a racist. i would have liked him to repudiate much stronger when hee he d came out with this support and white supremacist support and he says i cannot control who votes for him but he needs to talk in the vein of ronald reagan and say hey, if i'm elected president i'm going to bring all people together and recruit repudiate that trash talk. >> i have not endorsed a candidate or decided who i am going to court in the primary yet. but i will will vote as ai likea republican him and i like what donald trump's candidacy is doing for the political establishment because they aree tone deaf to to inclusion. and that is why

harding, harry truman, lyndon johnson, richard nixon. there are none in the dirksen building, but there is one in the hart building. there is a plaque indicating that barack obama held that office while he was a senator. the hart building itself became an issue in the news in 2001, less than a month after the events of september 11, a letter was sent to the senator in this building that contained a large amount of deadlynthrax. >> about 10:30 this morning, my office opened a suspicious package. we can't go into the details, because this is an ongoing investigation. just as soon as it became clear that there was a suspicious substance in the envelope, we contacted the capitol police and the capitol physician. i will have more to say about our own circumstances in the office after dan nichols of the capitol police, and dr. john isel, our capital physician, speak to the contents of the letter itself. >> i am lieutenant dan nichols, a spokesman for the capitol police. as a senator said, this morning a notice was received in his office which

it happened on lyndon avenue in hempstead before 5:00 yesterday evening. one woman died, three other people were taken to the hospital with injuries. at mangled bicycle was left at the scene. it is not clear whether the driver stayed or took off. >>> an alert for subway riders inne the the bronx. no 6 train service between pelham bay park and hunts point avenue due to a police investigation. lots of activity as you can see. there we'll keep an eye on this situation. stay with us. we'll have updates and how it could affect your commute. >> it's 4:34 right now, we'll check in with lauren momentarily, but chris, chilly out there, but still nice. we're getting greedy. temperatures will be warming up nicely this afternoon. the suburbs seeing some 30s out there early on. the sun mixing with high clouds from time to time today. a southwesterly wind, warmer afternoon. temperatures into the 70s. only exceptions are the south-facing coastal areas, your temperatures no higher than the 60s. 50 degrees right now. skies mostly clear in town. patchy high clouds here and

lyndon johnson... by nixon. ♪ reagan by bush. and i don't know who came after hoover.know much about herbert hoover at all other than the country was in pretty bad shape during his presidency. that's about it. and i guess maybe people wouldn't be talking so much about lunches during the depression. i'm gonna eliminate hoover from my thinking. ♪ i guess the other thing to think about is whose successor was in the same party or who was

and the same is true of roosevelt, of franklin roosevelt, of john kennedy, of lyndon johnson, of, perhaps prematurely of jimmy carter. >> but we'll have an obama resurgence, let's assume. because there's always a resurgence of interest in approval, but for now he has failed to meet the probably unrealistic expectations of people who saw in him whatever they wanted to see back then. >> yeah, and i don't fault him for that. >> you don't fault him at all for that? >> oh, i've got a few things i'd fault him for. >> name them. i want to hear it. let me see the bill of particulars. >> well, they began on the day of his inauguration. >> okay. >> i was -- his inaugural address was too rosy. what he needed to do was to say how terrible things were, just how bad they were. the speech was too much of a -- played that down too much and it was a kind of uplift. >> right. >> franklin d. roosevelt was lucky. the depression had gone on for three years. >> right. >> when he became president. but obama ended up getting ownership of that bad economy. >> correct. >> totally not his fault, but he didn't lay t

think of lyndon johnson. here is a guy, a legislative genius and senate leader in the county administration made him vice president. lyndon johnson's vice presidency to go to afghanistan where there is sore. [inaudible] it was a classic case of a very powerful, very calm, very experienced man running the senate very effectively once he became vice president he had almost nothing to do. he would say maybe well at the convention are achievers but ultimately for him to be effect give, it has to be the approval support of the president and it doesn't matter how else. i'm not sure you are going to get something to make another difference in the final analysis. you may say the president did not take well the objection. that individual will be relegated to duties. >> i don't know how much her lovely wife's book covers the vice president went their own way from the president, but i was surprised as i dug into the history to find all of these examples of vice presidents casting a vote against the presidential nominee,

but he was forced to confront it, the murder -- lyndon johnson was a southerner had to confront this race question which has affected every president he didn't want to do it, he he didn't want to deal with the busing and housing desegregation. every president had to deal with the race question. it's completely strained and unfair that the first black president is the only guy who gets a pass. >> not only that, but here's the point, if you say you do not want to be exempt from the normal characterizations of other presidents because of your color, which i think is fair, fair, then you can't be exempt from the responsibility that every other president has had which is to address race, now are we saying the following the existential terror, the personal discomfort, the kind of unease that this president understandably experiences because he is the first person to embody in his own existence is very body, the torn mandate and if you will the torn agenda of american democracy that he lived every day. he says look on by racial that means i have resolved some of the conflicts of the nation

if you want to go back to 1965 when lyndon johnson declared war on poverty, we spent some 22 or $23 trillion fighting poverty. what have we really accomplished over the period of time? if you use the census bureau official poverty numbers, the rates have barely budged. and even if you use th sort of alternative measures which are more accurate and taking to account the taxation and other things, you find that progress against poverty really stalled out somewhere in the 1970s and it's pretty flatter ever since. we are spending more getting fewer and fewer results that as bad as that is for taxpayers into the fiscal balance sheet of the u.s. government, the problem is that it's bad for the people living in poverty because not only are we spending money and not helping them in many cases we may be making their situation worse or at least that's the case argued by phil and lisa in their book. of the people in poverty and welfare tell their own stories. so we will have some conversation and get you involved as well. it raises awareness about liberty and freedom in the united states and is the aut

great influence on american politics but most people didn't know how dirty that the election was with lyndon johnson against goldwater in johnson running for his first elected term and was obviously going to beat goldwater but wanted to crush him for his freey society program.co he created a group that's met after hours in washington to do dirty tricks from creating a covering book that portrayed goldwater with the kkk for children to write hundreds of letters touche dear abby.t a and he said the active cia agents to infiltrate the goldwater campaign to bring back the policy statements to complain that he knew what he would say and some say that they've done to the campaign planned so what happened was had the press not gotten a hold of it nobody found out.and when you but people inside politics knew about that if you have richard nixon and after watergate says as far as i was concerned it was a routine political bugging feeling he was being disingenuous so in some ways it was he was doing what was done to him so from a certain point there were other things going on with nixon but and then t

as far as frank on roosevelt and lyndon johnson, if bill clinton and barack obama had been lyndon bainesnson and franklin roosevelt, we would not have lost the jobs we did. neither of them would have permanent trade relations with china or undone glass-steagall, they would not have done those things that devastated our economy. i don't mind compromise. you have to have compromise but should the compromise always be at the expense of the american worker in favor of corporations and how convenient it is a take wall street money and do that? bill clinton and barack obama never compromised on reproductive rights. corporations don't care about that. for gay rights. corporations want to drive wages down this country and i'm tired of democratic residents taking money from wall street and giving workers short shrift. workers are the biggest constituency group in america and they keep falling behind and it did not happen by accident. respond too you economists and others who say the job loss and manufacturing isan before it nafta and largely due to technology and automation of jobs? productivity

action on behalf of medical care, which provides the background for the medicare and medicaid of lyndonnson's great society. jeff: is there a president after fdr then who might receive more due or credit than you believe they might deserve? william: maybe more than one. but certainly, i would say dwight eisenhower. it is said that he succeeded in making great strides in civil rights by sending troops into -- at the time of the dispute with the governor. in fact, eisenhower did very little on behalf of civil rights. it is said that by refusing to engage joe mccarthy, he brought about the end of mccarthyism, of excessive attacks on innocent people who were called subversive. in fact, the eisenhower administration largely went along with mccarthy. and with others who brought him down. so, i think the reputation of eisenhower today -- which is very considerably better than it was among historians in the early period -- i think that is overblown. jeff: this covers from 1901 to 2001, but this is actually the second part of a two-part work. you wrote the second part of a two-part work first. w

that varied by president between jfk and lyndon johnson was one page all they need to know was these two or three stories then there are cases of dozens of major analysis and others nederlander if you are researching feedback this is what the president needs now most of the time it is not have the ability to have anything superfluous. >> senate that is a great talk. i want to see if i could draw you out but here is what is said. in the late nineties and early 2000's i wrote for a the pdb and publicly if you see the article these-- the pieces tend to be longer and much less reportorial but more about underlying dynamics and scenarios do you have a sense how that transition happened? >> the general trend is right but there are counter examples you will find information on one topic and there are several presidents but having a longer piece would have the pages of single bullets and then dropping and that followed. i had a feeling the president reads it ben thinks he is getting cranky. that i would like to get shorter pieces or he is asking more questions and should be inserted self. i

the tragedy and triumph of lyndon johnson. great book. covered my experiences too with what happened with president kennedy's assassination and johnson was able to use the -- that period to push through a lot of legislation not only for healthcare, medicare, medicaid, but education, et cetera. so that's a fascinating story of how a politician was able to use the system to accomplish a hell of a lot of things in contrast to today's congress. >> he was a suffer saucive character. [laughter] >> yes, right. he used every trick that he knew to, indeed, make changes. >> we actually have a pop-up exhibit. aren't there three books in the robert carl? there are four. it's in the making now. thank you for keeping me straight here. anyway, i want to thank you, it's too brief, there's too much to discus but i'm glad we got the 30 minutes to talk and i want to go out to the audience and see if there are any questions here for dr. sullivan, i'm sure he would love to answer them. here. >> hi, thank you. it was great listening to your stories. a couple o

heading over to lyndon, route 1 and 9 northbound, an accident before styles street. things are starting to slow down here as well. for weather and traffic on the 4s. >>> 6:01 right now. an urgent search is underway in brooklyn for an autistic man who disappeared while on a field trip to the park. tracie strahan is there live. >> reporter: there is a lot of worry because this man has never run off before. he is autistic and nonvisual. this photo was released by police a few hours ago. he was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a lanyard with his name. scuba teams will return in a few hours to search for michael yam. the worker from the group home says he returned to the fan a van discovered yam was missing. it's the lakeside here in prospect park where there are bike and boat rentals. police tell us when he was last seen here around east drive. canine units were out here yesterday searching for michael yam. scuba units expected on the scene in a few hours. >> thank you. >>> happening now, police in brooklyn are searching for a mother who vanishe