lyndon b. johnson. >> i don't think mother would have ever chosen politics for her career. >> there is lyndon. >> but shemar ried him for better, for worse. >> it feels as though something has happened. >> they were thrust into this position in a very violent way. >> she assures him that he is the right man to push america forward. >> lyndon johnson has great laws. >> lady bird couldn't escape the pentacle of that war. >> she was the only person always telling the truth. >> lyndon johnson's mood shifts were guard gann ch juan. >> lady bird knew how to stabilize him. >> who privately ran the show? lady bird. without her, he would never have been president. . >>> throughout her time in the white house, lady bird johnson recorded an audio diary. it's a unique insight into her life as first lady. >> friday, november 22nd. it all began so beautifully. the sun came out bright and beautiful. we were going in to dallas. >> here they come. i can see mrs. kennedy. this comes the vice president and mrs. j

lyndon johnson had a vision for what america could be. ronald reagan had a vision for what america could be and i think they were both successful in communicating that vision, is that what is lacking now or have there been structural changes in the american political system to make that kind of leadership much more difficult? jonathan: i think it comes down to a question of emphasis. i'm sure chase gets asked a lot that question of could reagan get elected in today's republican party? which people talk about a lot as this idea there are so many purists in today's republican party that even ronald reagan is not ideologically pure enough for today's republican party. my own feeling on that and this is something i try and describe is reagan is incredibly good at figuring out exactly where he needs to be as a conservative to get elected. i think the difference, and this is partly what made reagan an effective political leader, starting in the 1960's is at the same time as he is focused on what does he have to do to win the support of his fell

to romance these workers, nixon embraced key elements of lyndon b. johnson's vision, signing a whole bunch of laws that were passed by the democratic-controlled congress. i will read you the list of laws that richard nixon passed. as a republican, he passed all of these laws with the democratic controlled congress. republicans begin to complain after a while. he passes a national environmental policy act created the epa. the environmental protection agency. he passed the clean air act, the consumer protection agency act. the federal the noise pollution and control act. the equal employment opportunity act. the federal election campaign act of 1971. the employment retirement income security act. the occupational safety and health act, which is always a constant target under republicans ever since. workers in dangerous occupations like coal mining or who were exposed to hazardous substances like asbestos were big fans of all of these things. these were very popular things. republicans held applause. the republican president said fortune magazine was pu

they produced that ad and brought it to lyndon johnson to to show tought it lyndon johnson and his people get some phone calls from friends who are reacting to the spot, some of them reacting negatively and moyers is called to the second floor of the white house and johnson makes quite a production moyers downing about the spot and telling him to look into this. he turns, goes back to the elevator. moyers says that johnson follows him to the elevator instead, do you think we really only run it once? johnson was recognizing it was a good spot. moyers may have been in on the decision to tell them not to air it again but he is nothing to do with its creation. bob, democrats line. caller: hello, good morning. yes, i want to comment. i guess i'm old enough to remember how things were back in 19 64 and i remember in 1964 ad, it wase daisy very effective, but it was also .eally accurate at the time, goldwater, he was very radical about the use of nuclear weapons. he was also a racist, which people do not bring up, but he was. he voted against the 1964 voting or the 1965 ad, but he voted no and h

for johnson, for lyndon johnson, he lost that trust in credibility because of vietnam. people just did not trust him anymore. the question has been raised, though i'm not sure that we'll see it play out yet for a while, whether president trump has lost a lot of credibility with regard to coronavirus. we'll see. that one has yet to be, to play out and, you know, we'll see it this fall. i think that probably donald trump is very unlucky in that he was kind of moving along very well to re-election, because the economy was quite good, and then coronavirus hit, and turned all of our lives upside-down. now, i have a question and, again, anyone, please go ahead and yell it out. does anyone know, and it was in the 20th century, who was considered to be the unluckiest of presidents? i can't hear you. who would be considered to be the most unlucky president of the 20th century? >> nixon? president nixon? >> why would president nixon be considered the unluckiest president? >> watergate, maybe? >> well, think of, you know, an event that really, you can't control. unfortunately, you

they produced that ad and brought it to lyndon johnson to show -- brought it to show to lyndon johnsonight that it showed on television, johnson started to get some phone calls from friends who are reacting to the spot, some of them reacting negatively and moyers is called to the second floor of the white house and johnson it's having dinner with some friends and johnson makes quite a production out of dressing moyers down about the spot and telling him to look into this. he turns, goes back to the elevator. moyers says that johnson follows him to the elevator instead, do you think we really only run it once? johnson was recognizing it was a good spot. more years did to and he might have been in on the decision to tell them not to air it again but he is nothing to do with its creation. >> bob, democrats line. >> hello, good morning. yes, i want to comment. i guess i'm old enough to remember how things were back in 19 64 and i remember in 1964 that ad, the daisy ad, it was very effective, but it was also really accurate. at the time, goldwater, he was very radical about the use of nucle

kennedy, lyndon bains johnson, richard nixon and ronald reagan. now professor deluxe analysis only looks at the 20th century. i'm going to throw in some of the presidents from the 21st century as we go along. if we can go to the first slide. professor dally talks about the six points. the first one he says is his vision. then the second second is charisma third is pragmatism. the fourth is consensus building followed by trust their credibility luck and then i'm going to throw in which is on the last slide which is something that i will call communication competence. i'm gonna leave the slides behind for right now. let's start with vision. vision according to dallick is that a presidents come up with an idea and they help us to develop something that is going to pull us all together. it's going to be something that is going to unify us. sometimes it comes to us as a enough phrase. a new deal, the new frontier, the great society. these would be the things that are going to occur when we talk about vision. let me talk about a few of the presidents th

lyndon johnson aired a spot in 1964. ladybird on the tarmac, returning to the air force base after the assassination of president kennedy but it is the first time, that i am aware of, that a candidate's wife is actually speaking. not just speaking to talk about how wonderful her husband is but it's a clever, i think, effective use of the candidates wife to attack the other candidates, which kind of softens the blow. here is ronald reagan was campaign saying, jim carter is attacking us, it's unfair. and then she quickly sort of pivots to attacking jimmy carter so what their sense, i think, certainly was that they could be seen as protesting the attacks and attacking back but doing it in a very soft way. nancy reagan, as you say, was an actress. the other thing about that spot i think is effective is she is clearly not reeling from a teleprompter, she is just talking. when you see spots for the candidate well, clearly conversing as opposed to reading, looking at the camera, reading the teleprompter, i think they are always

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. she had i think i counted 34 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 reporter 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 sexis

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a professor from the university's history department and lyndon johnson school of public affairs. he's the author and editor of ten books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. his most recent book, impossible presidency, rise and fall of america's highest office. it has been noted in this context, biography published in 2009. his writings appear widely in blogs and media and he's a frequent public lecturer and guest on television and radio programs. he hosts a weekly podcast through jeremi suri.net. pleasure to have you here. jeremi, you have the floor. >> thank you, christian. let me begin by congratulating tom. actually tom and diane i've known since i began my graduate student career. both diane and tom have been so important to my development as a scholar and my continuing growth and learning as a scholar. it's really a pleasure to be here. it's also pleasure to be part of an event. this the second time i've been part of william roger lewis lecture at the wilson center. glad to honor a colleague, wonderful to be part of this. let me jump right in. i want to echo nice an

lyndon b.ave ever chosen politics for her career. >> there is lyndon. >> but shemar ried him for better, for worse. >> it feels as though something has happened. >> they were thrust into this position in a very violent way. >> she assures him that he is the right man to push america forward. >> lyndon johnson has great laws.

a week after his death, president lyndon johnson appointed supreme court chief justice orel warren to lead a commission to investigate. author philip shenon takes us to the original conference room on capitol hill to discuss key artifacts and lingering controversy surrounding the kennedy report. watch at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> next, martha jones, author of "vanguard: how black women broke barriers, won the vote and insisted on equality for all" talks about some of the ways african-american became involved in women's suffrage and other political movements in the first half of the 1920s. the united states historical society and women's suffrage centennial commission hosted this event. >>> dr. martha jones was the very first scholar that we recruited for this symposium. back in the day when you could see one another, i went over to baltimore and we had coffee and got to know each other a little bit. and she agreed she would come and keynote our conference. and so we are so honored. dr. jones is a historian, a writer and commentator

and i got really stuck in lyndon b. johnson head, and it was a very disturbing experience. because i really don't like him. but it's interesting when you encounter disagreement in the scholarship, or disagreement in the history, if you can sort of get yourself to imagine when it would've been like to be that particular person. you can begin to make, at least foreign opinion about what they might conduct. so those of fund process, which was kind of playing each accidental president in a play, at least for the duration of of writing it. well yes, please? >> andrew johnson was one of the hardest presidents to be impeached. they tried several times. why was it so, why was congress so reluctant to impeach him? >> that's a great question. and also, he does get impeach. i think what's interesting about andrew johnson, is when people talk about when it catastrophe wise, they are often point to the fact that he was impeached. there's many reasons to critique andrew johnson. the irony is, they think he was impeached for, it was violation of the tenure of office act. which was deemed

kennedy for president of the united states and for vice president senator lyndon b. johnson. the party united behind it's candidates. richard m. nixon was the choice of the republican party. hi was president since 1953. now he was a candidate for the presidency. his running mate was candidate lodge. they meet face to face in television debates seen and heard by millions of people. they will decide which of these two men should lead the country for the next four years. but personal contact with people is still than in essential feature of a american presidential campaign. senator kennedy, a tireless campaigner, goes to all sections of the country spelling out his views on domestic and foreign policy. the overriding issue is the maintenance of peace and meeting the challenge of the international situation. on domestic affairs he stresses the government's role in demographic problems. senator kennedy's wife has to limit her campaign appearances because she is expecting a child. still she is seen by thousands. give me your health, give me your voice and your hands to move america

in april 1961, lyndon b. johnson, then vice president of the united states after a fact-finding tour of southeast asia reported to president j.f. kennedy. the battle against communist must be joined in southeast asia with strength and determination to achieve success there or the united states inevitably must surrender the pacific and take up our defenses on our own shores. asian communism is comprised and contained by maintenance of free nations on the subcontinent. without this influence, the island outpost, philippines, japan, taiwan have no security, and the vast pacific becomes a red sea. >>> former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe testifies before the senate judiciary committee on the crossfire hurricane investigation which looks at russian interference in the 2016 election. watch live coverage of the hearing today at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. stream live or on demand at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. >>> weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a previe

and for vice president, senator lyndon b. johnson. party united behind its candidate. ♪ richard m. nixon was the choice of the republican party. he had served as vice president of the united states since 1953. now, he was a candidate for the presidency. his vice presidential running mate, ambassador henry cabot lodge. as the campaign gets underway, the presidential candidates meet face-to-face in television debates seen and heard by millions of people, the same people who will decide which of these two men shall lead the country for the next four years. but personal contact with the people is still an essential feature of an american presidential campaign. senator kennedy, a tireless campaigner, goes to all sections of the country, spelling out his views on domestic and foreign policy. on foreign policy, the overriding issue is the maintenance of peace and meeting the challenge of the international situation. on domestic affairs, he stresses the government's role in meeting economic and social problems. [applause] senator kennedy's wi

kennedy for president of the united states, and for vice president senator lyndon johnson. the party united behind its candidates. richard nixon was the choice of the republican party. he served as vice president since 1953. now he's a candidate for the presidency. his running mate ambassador henry cabinet large. as the campaign gets underway, the presidential candidate meet face to face in television debates seen and heard by millions of people. the same people that will decide which of these two men will leave the country for the next four years. . personal contact with the people is still an essential feature of an american presidential campaign. senator kennedy a tireless campaigner goes to all sections of the country spelling out his views about foreign policy. the overriding issues the maintenance of peace and meeting the challenge of the international situation. on domestic affairs, he stresses the goals senators kennedy's wife jacqueline has to limit her appearances because she's expecting a child. so she is seen by thousands. give me your help, give me your hands a

he reveals the lesser-known leaders and highlights t.r., trueman and lyndon johnson. we learn why america is a brilliant nation and a living document. lessons very powerful for today. now, please welcome me in joining jared cohen. >> thank you all very much for having me. i can't think of a better place to give a talk about this book, i haven't been here in some time. i love the backdrop of all these books here tonight. i think the place that i want to talk about an important context for somebody who spent the last eight years every single day as a technology ceo. before that four years working in foreign policy. some people tell me when i'm writing a book for the past 5.5 years, is it a book about cyber war? no, is it a book about cyber policy? >> no. they say, what is it about? i say, it's about dead presidents. it's confusing to them, it's confusing to anybody unless you grew up with me. so when i was 8-years-old my parents bought me a children's book called, the buck stops here. as my parent read to me at night trying to conform me into a precocious child. they di

kennedy and lyndon b. johnson, not sure who that other guy is, that show us the city would permit and on the moon. .overnment is unavoidable liberals, conservatives, no matter what they tell you. it's another reason why who you pick matters. they sponsored an educated workforce and it allows private industry to take risk. and asrtant as it is, vital as it is, even more important is what government does to build the framework of capitalism. we see over and over again the great multiplier effect, the well thought out, well realized infrastructure. magic word, infrastructure. enterpriseure hasn't , by pushing the erie canal to the great lakes and new york city in the cockpit of the western world, at the height of the industrial revolution, setting off an economic whom in making every town and city along the way a humming engine. to this day, 80% of everyone in new york state, in entity that stretches from the atlantic ocean to ohio, lives within 25 miles of some part of the erie canal system. hisago's first m

these men, millard film, or chester arthur, theodore roosevelt, calvin coolidge, harry truman, and lyndon johnson, who ascended to the presidency because of these unfortunate circumstances. becoming president under these circumstances is often a thankless task and many hoover this men have disappointed rather than reassured, although several have exceeded expectations. cohen delves into the implications the system of seeings and argues that this limited reading to the constitution, one of which many americans take for granted, may not the be only way to handle succession. walter isaacson writes this out, jared cohen treats to us colorful and momentous episodes of our history. he reveals the historic importance of some lesser known leaders and highlights the greatness of t.r., truman and lyndon johnson. we learn why america is a resilient nation and our constitution a living document. lessons very powerful for today. now please join me in walking -- welcoming jared cohen. >> thank you all very much for having me. i can't think of a better place to give a talk about this book than this incr

the example of lyndon johnson, less charismatic, and succeeded who came more consequential providingy historical analog. mr. biden could be a deft salesman for progressive priorities. using his disarming folkey americana vibe. i'm going to forgive you for forcing to pronounce a french word on television. do you think he will be able to sell something like -- and take the issue of health care. the affordable care about, take about pain. that will put a lot of people into more veer pain than they are in right now. could he find a way to find compromise if he has to on health care? >> i think one of the things we have to be humble about is that it is not always the radical thing is done and the not rates get the moderate things done. sometimes is flips, right? a lot of his coming of age, would not predict the fdr presidency. if you heard the way that lyndon johnson talked about black people in private, that would not have lead you to predict the voting rights act and the civil rights act. so i think what biden, less because of the relationship's point that everyone emphasizes, but more

the only president that has ever done anything for black people was lyndon b. johnson when he gave us the right to vote. and onet both parties will call you the n word to your face, the other will do it behind your back. nothing will change. until this country goes back to god and moves forward. and until that happens, we are going to continue to see the dividing of america, and a house divided can't stand. thank you for allowing me to share my viewpoints. host: here is this morning's political playbook. they know he is lost, let's talk about the real world. trump's alliesd know he has lost, they say. they know there is no lawsuit they will win or recount that will get in the tens of thousands of votes he needs to get closer to a second term. republicans are readjusting to the reality of a joe biden presidency. yes, plenty of people are pretending otherwise but it is mostly performance art. points this out, trump has not had a public event since his comments post- election. the second lady at 11:00 a.m. eastern, just a reminder, we will have live coverage of th

however, the other side of lyndon johnson's presidency is vietnam.nd one of the things i intend to do is to try and show what it means, when a modern, industrialized nation makes war, certainly not on a primitive nation but a rural, peasant nation. i want to go to vietnam and see how that works. and probably leaving one of these vietnamese villages that were bombed by b-52s. the horrible thing about that bryan is the b-52s flew so high that not only were they invisible from the ground, but you cannot hear them. so these villages and never even knew they're being until the bombs actually hit. >> host: and 2014, mark levan, bonnie joseph, being west, lewis watery guest, and buddy slade, rose osman, ron paul, mary frances berry, joan pissed give it, michael korda, and arthur brooks all appeared. tyson was with this in 2017. here's a portion. >> i was asked by the "new york times" or some impasse, several impasses ago in congress. and they just thought they would have fun and ask people who are definitely not politicians what solutions did they have for

as lyndon johnson once said, you can't be a statesman until you've been elected. and it's true. politics is the way we get to practice policy. and even if your politics, if it is not successful, you are giving back to your country when you participate in politics. it is our system. it is very imperfect, but better than most other systems. better than all other systems. i would encourage all of your students to find a way to participate in politics. if you want to go straight to public service. you can do that. go take the foreign service exam and go into one of the nation's international policy institutes. there are ways to get, to do -- george bush used to say, the way to get into politics is to go out and do something else first successfully, which is what he did. which is what i did. mine was being a lawyer. whatever you do, remember, this is the finest country in the world, and it is incumbent upon each other to give something back, and the way you get back is to participate in politics and/or public service. >> secretary baker, we can't thank you enough. this is something w

lyndon johnson and race. you would not have bet on november 22nd, 1963 that, lyndon johnson would end up playing that role. and you would not have bet on the evening of april 12th, 1945, that harry truman would become a great global thinker. so, the great news is have presidents who want to learn, who are open to new experiences and seeing the world not only through their own eyes but through the eyes of their adversaries and allies and advisers and have some guts. that, in fact, if your president of the united states, you're not playing just for next week. you're playing for the next generation. >> doris kerns goodwin reminded us that lbj said he was jealous of truman for sleeping at night after the decisions. everybody stay put right here. we're going to continue our conversation. still ahead, our conversation with former secretary of state madeleine albright whose own family felt the impact of communism in europe firsthand. you're watching a special hour of morning joe. we'll be right back. we'll be right

the first black woman to be appointed by lyndon johnson. these would be the women who today still grapple with the legacies and the fact of voter suppression in our own time. surely. but they do so with a new sort of access a new sort of influence, and do so as a force in american politics. so with that, i think they will end and say again thanks so much for all of our hosts for convening as yet again in this wonderful series of conversations, and i think i am going to invite back jean campbell if i'm not mistaken. jane is going to join me for some conversations and i think some question and answer. so thanks jane for doing this with me. >> thank you so much martha for that. informative presentation. it really is. so much to think about, and so much to understand. i have a couple of questions myself. then we started to get some questions from our audience. i would remind the audience that you can put your questions in the queue and a box. and i will try to make sure that we get as many ask as possible. while we have the courage to do with u

. ♪ in april 1961, lyndon b.sident jf kennedy, the battle against communism must be joined in southeast asia with strength and determination to achieve success there. or the united states, inevitably, must surrender the pacific and take up our defenses on our own shores. asian communism is comprised and contained by the maintenance of free nations on the subcontinent. without this inhibitory influence, they are than outpost, philippines, japan, taiwan have no security and the vast pacific becomes a red sea. ♪ ♪ >> you can watch archival films on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series, 10:00merica saturday at p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. the c-span cities tour travels the country, exploring th

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> in february 1965, president lyndon johnson called on the vice president to lead a cabinet an initiative called discover america, the group worked to produce an increase in domestic travel. as travel for most americans is severely limited or impossible, we invite you take a virtual journey while watching the 1967 united airlines film discover america. the aerial trip across the united states supported the johnson administration initiate by highlighting attractions from coast to coast. ♪

lyndon johnson and race, you would not have bet on november 22, 1963, that lyndon johnson would havend up playing that role and you would not have bet in 1945 that harry truman would have become a global thinker. the great news is have presidents who want to learn,er who open to new experiences and seeing the world not only through their own eyes but through their adversaries and their allies and their advisers and have some guts that in fact if you're president of the united states you're not just playing for next week but for the next generation. >> doris kearns goodwin said that lbj was jealous of truman for being able to sleep at night after the tough decisions. everybody stay put right here. we'll continue our conversation. still ahead, our conversation with former secretary of state madeleine albright whose own family felt the impacts of communism in europe firsthand. you're watching a special hour of "morning joe." we'll be right back. special hour of "morning joe. we'll be right back. ♪ (music swells) (dog barking) ♪ (music fades) (exhales) experience the power of sanctuary a

that is that campaign that will force the hand ultimately of congress and of president lyndon johnson and will give us a voting rights act in 1965. it is that moment that is the culmination of the work that you women like hallie quinn brown and those associated with the national association of colored women had long done. and still american women do not have the unqualified write to vote, even in 2020. the voter suppression tactic that kept women from the polls in 1920 have changed, and yet we recognize the way in which voter i.d. laws shuttered polling places, exact match requirements, the purging of voter rolls continued to dedrive american women of the vote, including women of color. the policies of voting officials which do not caretake the right to vote, are still with us as we watch officials fumble and miss the mark in ensuring that we, all of us, will get to the polls in november 1920. and still i think it's important to say much has changed. the great deal about the political landscape for african-american women in 2020 was for some americans unimaginable and for many america

on one hand there is an anecdote about lyndon b. johnson saying the press is saying good things about a member of your cabinet you are weak and you should fire them immediately. i thought that was pretty funny. a really good example of people who are lowering the administration, the press could serve as a good way by giving them credit for things that go well and shifting blame for things that don't go well. also the sense that the press is at odds with the u.s. government. they are always trying to find out what is going on in the background. kissinger will talk pretty favorably about them in terms of the intelligence and the knowledge of the people in the press court. on page 21 at the top of the says i too was ignorant of the way washington was governed when i announced my new permission -- position that i would have no dealings with the press. senior members of the press began calling. then i had read or listen to for years and was now meeting at the firsthand. , they were toman become personal friends. he goes on to say i had t

and the lyndon johnson school of public affairs. he's the author and editor of 10 books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. his most recent book is the rise and fall of america's highest office. he also offers -- published in 2009. his writings appear in media and he is a frequent public lecture. he hosts a weekly podcast. 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. i want 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 b

in april 1961, lyndon b.states, after a fact-finding tour of southeast asia, reported to president j.f. kennedy, the battle against communism must be joined in southeast asia with strength and determination to achieve success there. or the united states, inevitably, must surrender the pacific and take up our defenses on our own shores. asian communism is comprised and contained by the maintenance of free nations on the subcontinent. without this inhibitory influence, the island outposts, philippines, japan, taiwan have no security and the vast pacific becomes a red sea. ♪ >> according to the 1943 war department film "movies at or," world war ii training films were shown around the world to as many as 30 million military personnel monthly. before youtube existed, the distribution of these films was a logistical challenge. this film, produced by the u.s. army signal corps, shows how training, informational, and hollywood films were circulated , andip, train, air, truck dogsled, and sometimes even by camel. ♪

i said when i accepted this re-election this morning that lyndon johnson, who started his career as a public school eacher in a little school down in texas talked about standing before a classroom and watching the children who you know have an uncertain future. that's the way i started my career. and i cannot tell you what it does to you to stand before a classroom and see a kid that you know has not had breakfast, trying to learn. that's the kind of challenge that we have today. and covid-19 has exposed how serious that challenge is. we must in this congress respond to the dreams and aspirations of the children and their families and i am hopeful that we can work together within our caucus and reaching out across the aisle to get done what needs to be done for the american people. his is a very important -- let's just say journey toward as more perfect union. and i'm pleased to be a part of this leadership and i'm looking forward to us getting some things done for the american people and it's my great pleasure to now yield to the assistant speaker for the 117th congress, katherine cl

and the lyndon johnson school of public affairs. he's the author of ten books on contemporary politics and his most recent book, is the impossible presidency the rise and fall of america's highest office, and has been noted in this context and he offered his writings. appear in blocks and print media and he has a weekly podcast. this is democracy available through his web page. jeremy surrey dot neck and thank you for being here. >> thank you and let me begin by congratulating tom and tom and diana i've known since i began my graduate student career and both of them have been really so important to my development and continue growth and learning as a scholar and it's a pleasure to be part of this event it's the first time i've been at the robert lewis center. and it's a wonderful colleague and friend and it's wonderful to be a part of this so let me jump right in the and i want to echo all the auditory lauded tory things they've said about tom's book, and i want to add one more to what others have said and i really enjoy this book,

>>> in february 1965, president lyndon johnson called on the vice president to lead a cabinet task force on tourism. in an initiative called discover america, the group worked to produce an increase in domestic travel. as travel for most americans is severely limited or impossible, we invite you take a virtual journey while watching the 1967 united airlines film discover america. the aerial trip across the united states supported the johnson administration initiate by highlighting attractions from coast to coast. ♪ >> from the earlest edges of recorded time, people sought to make more of their lives. the universal desire for something beautiful. something ordered and in good taste is expressed in architecture, the arts, sports, the varying patterns of hospitality. in these designs for living, there are impressive parallels everywhere. in this truly wonderful world. ♪ ♪ ♪ as americans, we're proud of our skyscrapers. and justly so. great thrusts of steel and stone and glass etched against the skyline. the pinnacle of dreams of the man on the streets. nothing is more american, of course, t

on the one hand, there's the pretty funny anecdote of lyndon b. johnson saying if the press is saying good things about a member of your cabinet, they're your leak and should fire them immediately. i thought that was funny. and that's a good example about how -- for people who are lower in the administration, the press can serve as a good way to build their own reputation by taking credit for things that go well and shifting blame for things that don't go well. but there's the sense gnthat th press is at odds with the u.s. government because they're always trying to find out, what's the dirt going on in the background. what's going on. but kissinger also will talk favorably about them in terms of the intelligence and the knowledge of the people in the press corps. for example, on page 21 at the top of the page, he says, i too must be said was ignorant of the ways of washington or government when i proclaimed at the press conference announcing my new position that i would have no dealings with the press. appoint my appointment was announced, member

he hi writing a multivolume set on lyndon johnson and the johnson years.e volumes. >> i am going to go to live in the southern city for as long as it takes for me to find out exactly what differences it pa made in the love of black people in the south of lyndon johnson got the voting rights. >> host: do you nowhere you'll live yet in. >> guest: , tames tike. >> host: when will you do that. >> guest: i'm going to go on a book tour now, then -- we always spend two months in france, and then i'm going to start. >> host: what beaut the idea -- i know you mentioned in the past going to vietnam. >> guest: yes. you remember everything. that's the two things i want to do because if i can just say, i try to write about political power and feel you don't write about it fully enough unless you write about the man who uses but its effect on the people on whom it's idea for good or ill. for good, lyndon johnson threw this great civil rights act of his presidency and voting rights act, transformed the political power of black people in america. i want to go to a souther