lyndon johnson didn't do that. but lyndon johnson still had tremendous clout in the south. jack kennedy had weaknesses, both because of the catholic issue and because of the civil rights issue and because the south was trending back for the first time really to the republican party. the south had broken loose on the 1952 and 1956 elections when eisenhower took a bunch of states. and it could slide even more under jack kennedy. so you have to play nice with lyndon johnson if you were jack kennedy. but does he? he makes the joe biden choice. he takes the safe choice initially. , somebody who maybe can't hurt you, but someone that's not going to help you. he asks to offer the vice presidency in private to a senator from missouri named stuart simonton. simonton accepts, but the courts made public jack kennedy will start rolling and says no, i really should as a courtesy offer this to lyndon. he's not going to take it. [laughter] he is senate majority leader. he lives for power. he's not going to be vice president. this is, you know, john bamberger who was from texas and was abo

lyndon johnson.y the way, the not senator goldwater part was written by a number of people, that speech. there was a call and response kind of thing that caught on. that was an early one, that kind of speech. it worked really well. susan: the call and response? mick: yes, not senator goldwater, the call and response. susan: senator humphrey had ambitions for the presidency for quite a while. he made a real bid in 1960. here he was at the convention accepting the vice presidential nomination. you could see how excited he was. he earned the nickname the happy warrior. mick: he loved politics and he got in trouble for calling it the politics of joy, which is what he was about. he believed it was a way to change the country. he believed in a very innocent and we might think naive way. he believed in the american people. one at a time and all american people at once. that was a way for him to change the country. susan: another clip, and this is later on in 1974 when hubert humphrey was gathering material

lyndon johnson -- his own kids were against the war. families were broken over it. >> the other thing that people should understand that made this real was television. television was bringing it into people's living rooms every night >> it was wide open because nobody had really done any kind of -- television was not restricted. it was all brand new. nobody in the administration had any control over it. the journalists were just going out there and getting whatever they found. we do not have that now. it is much more controlled on the battlefield. it had a profound effect on the country. another reason why people came out against the war because they were seeing it all the time on television. 300 body bags were coming back every week. they were showing the body bags coming back. it had a profound effect. it changed the average person's mind. >> we have to remind people that the war started before lyndon johnson's term. it had been raging for 15 years. about johnson's attitude the war was what? >> i think he was confused about a for a lo

lyndon was dishonest on issues like vietnam.said i will not send american boys thousands of miles away to do what asian boys should do. there was a bumper sticker that showed up the next year, and it said that if people voted for barry goldwater there would be a war in vietnam. and there was a war in vietnam. his ideological time had not come. and also, i mentioned the absolutely atrocious campaign that he ran. i found a memo, they fired their research staff, and i found a form letter they sent out to political science professors in every state that said, "dear professor, please send us any books or pamphlets about the political situation in "insert state here." this was not a very professional operation. host: we're welcoming questions from the audience here. we have one from the front. >> i have lived in central phoenix for 53 years. as a person who knew barry goldwater and worked with him in the community, i knew him to be a man of impeccable integrity and who was dedicated to the proposition of personal responsibility. when

vietnam war under lyndon johnson was gradualism. we're going to tighten the screw and eventually they're going to give up. yeah right. i think if barry had been president, and i'm not saying it would have been a good move or a bad move. i'm not sure. but i think he would have come in with with what later became the co-lynn powell doctrine. if you're going to go to war, you have to go with the attite that you want to win it in the next hour. that's his attitude. then he said we lost the war in vietnam for one reason. the politicians tried to run the war. in his quote. and politicians don't know their ass from a hot rock about running a war. that was his quote. i think he would have taken a far more aggressive approach to it, as compared to johnson's gradualism, which dragged out almost as long as our current wars. >> what kind of a president would he have been? >> barry would have been something we don't see too often today. i think he would have been a very honest president. i think he would have been very candid as he was his whole

thank you. >> lyndon johnson -- the most famous moment between lyndon johnson -- lyndon johnson and wallace came in the midst of the selma crisis in which president johnson brought him to washington, or actually, governor wallace volunteered to meet with him where he got people treatment from lyndon johnson. he was pretty intimidated by the whole process, but he was not alone in that respect. lyndon johnson intimidated everyone. that was, of course, in the early 1960's. the last hurrah for the kind of racial campaign came in 1970 against albert brewer, who had been one of his proteges. he replaced his wife as governor. in the wake of that campaign, it was a pretty all out use of the race issue, attacks that brewer was a candidate of blacks. in the aftermath of that, politically, he said to many of his aides that this was the last campaign he would be able to run like this. the public mood of voters was changing and black voters were fully enfranchised at that moment. when he emotionally chain, that, i think, really comes later on. >> as we discussed with dan carter a little earlier, george

the smothers brothers crucified and lyndon johnson yet lyndon johnson's daughters love the show.hen they were canceled one of the smothers brothers were canceled lyndon johnson, who had been dealing with, he didn't love what they were talking about, they were doing a lot about the vietnam war and when they were canceled he wrote them a letter and basically said, it's not easy being fought for satire but that's part of my job and part of being in this country that where we have free speech and it was my honor, it was my honor to. [multiple speakers] yes. >> do you think Ãbgo ahead. >> that's where we should be. it's interesting when somebody mocks me but all my comic friends mock me, i think it's hilarious, like a badge of honor. it really is. if someone did a bit about me on snl i would be like oh my god i arrived. >> it would be amazing. >> what into it? people really take themselves so Ãband way too, seriously. >> right. to go on a less serious note for a second, one of my favorite jokes from the book is the so long joke. >> oh my god. >> can you give a little bit of that? give

and he shocks the pundits by almost defeating lyndon johnson in the first democratic primary in 1968. he doesn't quite win, but he almost wins. suddenly it's like, huh, people don't like the war in vietnam. not protesters, not radicals, not new lefters, not black people, i don't know if there were any black people in new hampshire in 1968. but regular folks don't like this -- well, into the fray jumps the junior but very well-known senator from new york, bobby kennedy, the dead president's brother who also says i too will stand against these war in vietnam. i too will challenge the seated president of the united states. johnson is horrified at what he sees as betrayal by his own party's representatives and it's a real moment of truth for him. johnson is not in the best of health. he's had gallbladder surgery, his heart is not good. he's faced incredible stress from a war that he never wanted to fight but felt it was unavoidable. he decides in the face of this challenge to quit. he doesn't quit the presidency, but he walks away from his campaign to be re-elected. electorally, this move

previously we covered the police shooting of lyndon cameron a 13 year old unarmed white autistic child just outside his home in salt lake city utah while this week the body can put it at the salt lake salt lake city police officers involved in the shooting have been released and the answers they provide just creates even more questions r.t. america's natasha sweet has the story and a warning the video you're about to see may be to start. a 13 year old autistic teen is fighting for his life as salt lake city is now working to improve its police force according to the mother at all started after her son desperately needed help for his mental state of mind i mean he's actually automatically yes thank you lori a barton says she called police to assist her with getting her 13 year old son limped into the hospital as he suffers from mental illness. in a state sensory disorder. chased. it's like it's going to hurt but instead when he ran away from officers one opened fire shooting lyndon leaving him seriously injured a policeman so how did. the family attorney for lyndon said he's lucky to be

there is a great shot of lyndon johnson looking sour.ut the kennedy one, which had photographers and newsmen writing appealed to me. i must admit that i have a soft spot for jfk. i was 11 years old when i was elected. and his vigor, as he himself would put it, is what really interested me in politics when i was a kid. a little bit of payback time. susan: it's clear from your index and your notes that you did extensive research for this book. it was interesting to me that one name kept popping up again and again in your chapters. that is a long-term white house correspondent helen thomas. counted 34hink i citations in the book. who is she for people that don't will the name? and why was she so important in your storytelling? mr. holzer: i picked a few people who lasted for several presidents and could look at ahead and back. and another groundbreaking woman who was known for her cute questions, that often triggered a laughter when president kennedy responded. she started out in the roosevelt era and faced pretty sexist comments and teasin

and lyndon johnson's daughter loved the show. when they were canceled, on the smothers brothers, lyndon johnston who had been dealing with, he didn't love that they were talking about. there were doing a lot about the vietnam war. when they were canceled, he wrote them a letter basically said, it is not easy being fire for satire but that is part of my job. and part of being in this country that where we have speech and it was my honor. it was my honor to be part of this. i wish you the best. mark: so that's the partnership. it. judy: . this what we should be . he said when someone mocks me, i think it is hilarious. it's a badge of honor. it really is. somebody did a bit about me, on my gosh. mark: it would be amazing. judy: yes amazing. good people really take themselves so and way too seriously. mark: right. to go on a different out for a second. one of my favorite jokes throughout the book is the long joke. can you do a little bit of that. to give people a sense of similes jokes . judy: so my mother, it's difficult to use of c

lyndon johnson had dinner with him on the eve of the 6 day war. the strategy worked the u.s. israeli relationship proved to be stronger than the killing and injuring of more than $200.00 americans the american israeli relationship was very much at stake. was brought back from the precipice the crucial intelligence came from the u.s. ambassador to the united nations after goldberg he won't tell of a vat the united states had the audiotape which revealed israeli pilots knew it was an american ship before the attack. the tape was quietly buried. and i think a conscious decision was my to sweep it under the rug to put it behind my reading is that the us government had made the decision to accept the apology and reject the other rationale but don't push it further with the politics sorted the only remaining issue was the fate of the u.s.s. liberty badly damaged and now in malta for extensive repairs the torpedo hole was massive and was revealed to be much bigger once they got the ship into dry dock and drained it of water. the sealed compartment was a water filled too full of bodi

quite pointedly lyndon johnson unleashes an air war on now the enemy, an american air war on north vietnam. and operation rolling thunder, as it's called, begins in which massive amounts of bombs from u.s. airplanes flown by u.s. pilots begin to be unleashed on north vietnam. now these are targeted bombs. they're not wholesale destructions of cities. they are aimed at troop movements, they are aimed at factories building war materiel. they're targeted bombs. they're not terror bombing. they're not like what happened in the end of world war ii. but the bombs are intense. 600,000 tons of bombs will be dropped on north vietnam in this operation rolling thunder. large-scale support at this point. so is there any critique at this point beyond those very few voices that i discussed earlier? yeah. there are some americans who from the get-go, from the gulf of tonkin resolution right through the coup incident, the death of eight marines, the launching days later by lyndon johnson of operation rolling thunder, who do protest, who do raise questions. but most of these voices, most of these individua

i wright about lyndon johnson in the book, this smothers brothers were crucifying him on their show, and you're too young for that. >> i'll just nod along. >> for people of my age. a great show, a variety show and very -- comp immediatans or social commentators and the show was commenting on social issues. >> you've write it was a something a lot of other comedians took from later. >> right. >> loved it. >> absolutely. and come immediate yeps tell the truth -- comedians tell the truth which is why we're so threatening so the smothers brothers crucified lyndon johnson but his daughters lovedded the show. and when they were canceled, one of the smothers brothers were canceled, i lyndon johnson, who had been dealing with -- he didn't love what they were talking about, the vietnam war and he -- when they war condition sell head he wrote them letter and said, look, it's not easy being fodder for satire but that is part of my job, and part of being in this country that where we have free speech it and was my honor, it was my honor to be. >> lambasted. >> ways, and i wish you the best. and

lyndon johnson, the majority leader of the senate, had also suffered a heart attack.spend the night at london's branch -- lyndon's grant. we got there late. mrs. johnson was very upset because the doctor told her about lyndon johnson should be sleeping. and he was get up -- he was up until 2:00 in the morning. on the way home, just the two of us for traveling. adlai stevenson said to me, if i want the nomination next year, i will have to run in the primaries. i said, they are right. if president eisenhower does not to run, every democrat is going to want the nomination and you'll have to fight for it. if president eisenhower does run, you ought to forget about it. he said, i am not going to run in those primaries. i am not going to be a candidate like i am running for sheriff. i am not gone to do. of course, he ended up doing it because that is where the system -- that is the way the system operated. >> joe m. los angeles, we are talking about adlai stevenson. >> i want to jump ahead to the 1960's. what you thought his relationship with the kennedys was. i know he was

lyndon johnson was seen as overregulated the economy, over regulating society. he became innocence the first celebrity, first major celebrity to be elected to the office. barry goldwater didn't win in 64 but -- 66. he actually defeated the most recent california governor, jerry brown, his dad, who had been governor before. he >> this is a comment. i hope you like it. currently wants me to tell you that she likes year shirt. >> thank you currently. you and i do a lot of blue on blue. i >> yes but i think i surpassed you today. >> that's a higher quality shirt that i saw. >> it's wonderful that you mentioned this because this was actually brought to me by might relatives in india. so i'm wearing my indian internationalism in a really stylish way. right? now eddie what about your shirt? >> i mean it's been a while and no one has commented on my shirt. it's very summary. >> it's jungle-y, doesn't it remind you of the jungle? at first i thought it was camouflage. you joined the marines. camouflage on there. got a speed on style because it's important to me. >> he's d

so in 1965, for example, roughly at the time that lyndon johnson is telling the american people we've begun to escalate a military involvement in vietnam, you've got martin luther king and tens and tens of thousands of others marching in selma, alabama, to ensure the right of african-americans to vote in a state that had long disenfranchised them. so, right? so there's this kind of parallel social movement occurring as these early -- and we can use the word now -- antiwar advocates are trying to come up with their own answers and solutions. so obviously to some extent this nascent anti-war activism is going to look at the civil rights movement. they have a repertoire. they already have some means and tools and practices that might be adaptable to our cause. so that's one piece out there. there's another piece out there that's almost happening simultaneously but it's, again, a precursor to this. we talked earlier about what was happening on the university of california berkeley campus in the fall of 1964, really just weeks after the gulf of tonkin resolution is passed. on the campus at

woodrow wilson, even lyndon johnson was a racist and martin luther king made him give rights so we could -- that's all bull crap. it's not what america is about. >> go ahead and respond, ari. >> again, you know, as a scientist, i care less about the parties and issues, i'm looking at the data. while antifa, when you're talking about antifa, you're talking about the movement, a recent studies are talking about something between a 10 to 20, 30 people in each area or in each town, so we're talking about a very small groups that are not really koords nated effectively and so far, while they are maybe involved in some of the protests that we see, it's very difficult to argue that they are engaging in any kind of violent campaigns. they're definitely not operating in the same level that we see on the far right. organizations such as the 3% or the oath keepers who have an organization that deploying their people in areas where there's clashes. it's much more organized. you are correct, in the early 20th century, many politicians from the democratic party were members of the kkk. they were affil

they basically got around that but it was very easy for the future incumbents like richard nixon or lyndon johnson to avoid debate and it was only through some very clever lawyers on the part of the former aide and there almost wasn't a debate in 1980 and then there were three candidates and which candidates would be included. i will say a couple things how i write about it. first of all, going into the debate, the two candidates were pretty much tied. somehow imagine he dominated for most of the part but after, ronald reagan shot ahead like a rocket and the fundamental reason is they believed ronald reagan, not everyone of course but a lot of people believed he was an extremist and bold. that he wasn't up to the job of the presidency, and they were desperate to have a debate. they were frightened to have a debate because both sides fought maybe jimmy carter would reveal ronald reagan to be a shallow person that wasn't up to the presidency. one of the things that happened that was striking was ronald reagan said many things that were about his records. the first instance he said he had nev

and lyndon johnson come as vice president never knew about the lie.e never knew about the secret deal. so johnson was living under the myth that kennedy was eyeball to eyeball with the russians and did not blink. many didn't blink because he felt like he had to. that's the reason i wrote my first book. my got caught up in vietnam because he had just as much as the predecessor. so lying is a very complicated matter. lied because we lie all the tim time. beginning of the book we are taught how great it was that jacob lied about his birthright to his father isaac to steal from esau. then of course there'd be no moses if the midwife had not lied about the israelite child. we understand that. it's very hard to understand the consequences of lying before the lie takes place. i think journalists is to say the truth. you can't worry about whether it's a good lie or a bad lie. scholars and intellectuals to defend the truth, to defend the language. one thing that donald trump should goad to jail for, he is so promiscuous. even though if he knows a few words. so

and the lyndon johnson school of public affairs. of 10he author and editor books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. the riserecent book is and fall of america's highest office. also offers -- published in 2009. his writings appear in media and he is a frequent public lecture. podcast.a weekly this is democracy through his professional webpage. it's a great pleasure to have you here. you have the floor. >> let me begin by congratulating tom. tom and diana i have known since i begin my graduate student career. they have been so on portman to my development and continued growth and learning of a scholar. it's a pleasure to be here and pleasure to be a part of an event. this is the second part i have been a part of a lecture at the wilson center and it's a real honor. let me jump right in. to echo all the things about tom's book. i want to add more and more to what others have said. i really enjoyed this book and i read it twice. i read it in the final version. i really enjoyed it. it's a book about kissinger that really makes

nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson, his immediate predecessor. during the transition between the two presidencies, nixon and johnson met. and 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. this is the first time he had heard of presidents recording. so, what were the reasons that he does install? well, back in the nixon white house, there was -- as we have discussed in prior lecture -- a pretty efficient management system except for those instances like watergate and a few others where the management system did not come into play. but the management system on a dally basis was there. when somebody had a meeting with the president and brought a guest in, they prepared a talking paper that went into the president, was approved by haldeman first, then went into the president. and then after the meeting, they were prepared a summary of the meeting. let me give you a for example. in this particul

lyndon b. johnsnson, for exampl, produced a solid 5.3% of growth. the source of this information is the u.s. department of commerce. so, he obviously, lied here in this situation again. it won't be easy for him to rebuild the economy after the coronavirus was so costly for so many americans. brent: that is a very good point. it is always good to let the truth come to light, especially talking about the economy. thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the european council president charles michel has gone into quarantine after one of his security guards tested positive for covid-19. it means a summit of e.u. leaders due to begin in two days has been postponed until october 1. a court in pakistan has sentenced two former polilitical activists to d death over their role in n it a d deadly garment factory fire. it killed 260 0 workers. the men started the fire as part of a political extortion scheme. u.s. senator mitt romney has said he supports holding a vote to fill the supreme court vacancy before

then the guys gonna become president three years after that which is lyndon johnson.johnson is the majority leader in the senate. the democrats have taken control of the senate and fulbright has become the chair of the meeting since 1949 and he becomes the longest holding chair until 1959 until his resignation in 1964. this graphic is from 1963 it's a very significant scrapbooking it's a documentation and the official copy given to the senator of the signing of the treaty. so we have senator fulbright over here we also have the premiere of the soviet union jeff in the middle, well chris jeff looks a little serious at the always is, fulbright is happy with how it's going. one thing he was doing was defusing conflict and helping double policy lead the united states and -- what we're looking at here are documents from the fulbright papers that show the complexity of his political position as a southern senator. and also the compromises and some of them the mistakes even distinguished as well fulbright make over a long political career. right over here is the southern man

she helps i don't think a vice presidential candidate ever produces a victory the exception being lyndon johnson 1960 for j.f.k. but she helps them i think she's popular among communities where turnout was a terrible problem for hillary clinton and biden has to make sure that minority communities vote polling is your business are there too many polls. actually i would argue there are in the key swing states i like to do polling as which most people today do we don't rely on this poll because we think it's great or that poll because we think it's great you wash out a lot of the air in polling when you average out the results that's fine nationally but the popular vote doesn't mean anything i want to see more polls in michigan i want to see more polls in wisconsin and pennsylvania and arizona so that we can average them and have a pretty good idea of what's happening how important is the upcoming debate much less important than most people think it's the end of the the vast majority of people don't change their minds in debates they tune in to cheer for their side it's like a sporting even

state i just don't know how many people change no one would have thought that a wise approach as like lyndon baines johnson would be the major presidential force for a black progress in the 1960 s. people do change and the evidence for biden doesn't look good by tends to be someone who just moves. with the whispers of others in the old crime bill the architect of the. most massive mass incarceration regime in the modern world targeting poor people especially black black youth the same would be true with the war in iraq killing a half from me and precious brother the sources in iraq with no apology whatsoever i mean these are these are these are real crimes against humanity it seems to me and he's not the only politician politicians across the board were complicitous in the in congress in washington d.c. at the time but he might change i mean i do believe people can change i just can't make big profits. progressive project on his changing that's why i vote for him as an anti-fascist vote stand with noam chomsky stand with angela davis and stand with my brother bob avakian encourage dick's sta

actually position 9 the average annual economic growth of his 1st 3 years as a president was 2.5 percent lyndon b. johnson for example produced a solid 5.3 percent of growth and the source of this information is the u.s. department of commerce so he obviously lied here in this situation again and it won't be easy for for him to rebuild the economy after the coronavirus was so costly for so many americans yeah that's a very good point and it's always good to let the truth come to light especially when we're talking about the economy w.'s fact checker notion of a your thank you. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the european council president charles michel has gone into quarantine after one of his security guards tested positive for cocaine 19 a surprise announcement means that a summit of e.u. leaders that was due to begin in 2 days' time has now been postponed until october 1st a court in pakistan has sentenced 2 former political activists to death over their wall in a deadly garment factory fire the 2012 blaze killed more than $260.00 workers the court said

presidential candidate has won the majority since lyndonjohnson candidate has won the majority since lyndony since lyndonjohnson and this isa since lyndonjohnson and this is a problem they have often faced with republicans trying to paint them as left—wing and has radicals. joe biden is far from a left—wing but a centrist moderate but this is a strategy likely to work with many of those sort of suburban housewives that donald trump is referring to and that is what he is hoping it will do and try to instill anxiety about a left—leaning radical and for the progressives in the party, there is definitely a danger that they will not be excited about his candidacy. he was not really the first bit of that left—wing of the party and is —— they may very well stay home if he is not progressive enough. thank you very much, professor. thank you for having me. three years ago, a crackdown by the military in myanmar left thousands of rohingya muslims dead, and forced a mass exodus across the border to bangladesh. over a million rohingya people now live in the world's largest refugee camps in cox's bazar,

. >> president lyndon johnson signed the land mark law in 1965, and ever since the voting rights acte supreme court stuck a dagger in the heart of the voting rights act of 1965. they're saying in effect that history cannot repeat itself, but i say come and walk in my shoes. >> shelby county was suing the justice department, and when you sue the justice department, you name the attorney general as the defendant in the case. and so that's why my name under fortunately appears on that case. the shelby county decision is one of the most disastrous supreme court decisions of all time. they get the pre clearance authority of the united states department of justice had which in essence gave the justice department the ability to challenge the change that would be made and covered locality with regard to procedures. that way the justice department can stop something from happening as opposed to filing a lawsuit after an election had already occurred. since shelby county about, 27 states have actually passed a necessary photo i.d. laws, purged voter rolls. polling places have been moved withou