so obsessed with getting out of vietnam that he went and asked robert kennedy to run against lyndon b. johnson who was the presumed guy running, because kennedy was against the war in vietnam. that tells you how passionate cronkite got against the vietnam war. he was friends with lyndon b. johnson. they were friends back in texas. johnson had only the cbs affiliate in austin. frank stanton, his boss, was one of the closest friends of lyndon johnson. it is seen as the turning moment, it the cronkite moment when he denounced it. it could have gone either way. he started becoming a hero of liberals. >> we had demonstrations in this time. this can along in 68. what proof is there that walter cronkite had that big of an impact on changing things when the war did not end to 73? >> i do not think he had that big of an impact. i think it was symbolic. he gave a boost of adrenaline to the new left or to the anti-war movement. it encouraged the dove to say on the attack. it has been over hyped that influence lyndon johnson's decision to not seek reelection. johnson had health problems. this was from the

i went to the convention as a delegate from west virginia and openly announced in support of lyndon b. johnsonnd i was 100 percent for lyndon b. johnson. i wasn't 80 percent. i wasn't 90 percent. i was 100 percent. and i announced it from the steeple tops. i didn't run hide under a rock." now, i said, this is the same way i feel about this man who whom i wanted to be judge. i'm not 80 percent, not 90, i'm 100 percent for him. well, we went round and round like that for about a half hour then he asked me to vote for cloture. and i said i'm not going to vote for cloture. i'm going to be with dick russell on that and he i said i do, but i said i'm going to be with dick russell. he said why don't i send you on a trip somewhere? why don't i ask you to go on a trip somewhere halfway around the world and you come back and make a big report on it and look good to your constituents and all that but you will be away when that cloture vote occurs. i said no mr. president you remember whenever you are majority leader when i first came to the senate you put me on the appropriations committee and i can go a

became testy with him in an interview and why he talked him into running for president against lyndon b. johnsongles are bursting with more flavor. [ crunches ] mmm. ♪ [ male announcer ] pringles... bursting with more flavor. [ crunch! ] to deposit checks at the nearest citibank branch. ♪ like this one. ♪ or this one. ♪ or, maybe this one. ♪ but when it's this easy to use citibank mobile check deposit at home...why would he? ♪ woooo! [ male announcer ] citibank mobile check deposit. easier banking. every step of the way. >>> prom nant anchors like dan rather and tom brokaw have criticized cozy relationships between journalists and politicians. i asked author of "cronkite" whether close relationships between journalists and presidents was an issue. >> no, it wasn't. cronkite tried to stay objective. the truth is you all have biases, favorites. he got very close to dwight eisenhower because cronkite covered d-day as a wartime correspondent in world war ii. that he had good, aimable relationship. john f. kennedy's relationship with cronkite was quite testy because kennedy wanted to do a do-over on

there is an extraordinary 14-minute conversation talking to lyndon b johnson after kennedy's assassination long c-span interview. >> that's lucky. >> very liberating to not feel the obligation to completely accurate and yet try to get the spirit of the man, the truth of the man accurate. >> joy: did you work on the fact that he was sleeping with a woman as well as with men? >> well, how do you work on that that? [ chuckling ] i act with a marvelous acting who plays susan mary. >> joy: didn't she play jacquelin kennedy. >> she did.. >> a great ally who wrote this relationship with great sensitivity. also joe's relationship with stepdaughters. >> joy: that was complicated. >> played by grace gummer. >> joy: whowho is merle streep's daughter. one of they are three daughter. and this particular daughter, grace, looks just like her mother. >> i worked with merle when she was about that age and i was a great deal younger. a few days working with grace i couldn't get meryrle out of my mind and then it was gone: that particular relationship, middle aged gay man with a young girl who opens his hear

the man president lyndon b johnson chose to lead was sergeant shriver, brother in law of the presidenton bifurcati's architect, he founded several important programs including headstart, jobs corps upward bound, vista, also the first director. peace core. he waded into presidential politics as george mcgovern and ran for the top spot in 1976. he helped rup the special olympics, a program created by his wife eunice kennedy shriver. a new book a good man chronicles the professional legacy of sergeant shriver but his commitment to family and faith and tonight, we are privileged to welcome the book's author, mark shriver. the second youngest of shriver's five children, a senior vice president at save the children and coming to us tonight, i think from washington, d.c. are you there? >> yes. i am here. yes. thank you very much, governor. >> you bet. what a fabulous book and what a fabulous father and role model. in fact, a lot of people would say your father is a great man. why do you call him a good man? >> you know, a lot of folks said that he was a great man as he was dying you mentioned

performance in san francisco, pulled cronkite from doing the atlantic city democratic convention of lyndon b. johnson. there was a duo to compete with brinkley. cronkite thought mudd was tried to take his spot. their relationship had a lot of ups and downs. it was very moving at the end of their lives. mudd was working at the history channel. his hearing was failing. at the end, cronkite almost tearfully said "you are a good man." they healed that relationship. >> he was born and raised in missouri. it was the hub of the pony express. his father was a dentist. he came from a family of dentists, german and dutch ancestry. in his early years, 1916-1927, he worked in the trolley system. it becomes a hallmark of his life. he is obsessed with transportation. it is one of his many interests. why he is a reporter is his curiosity about how things work. he sold "liberty" magazine. they loaded up in the car in 1927 and they moved to houston to the montrose neighborhood. in 1927, texas was a dust bowl. houston because of the port and no banks closed their. -- there. it was a pretty good move by the cronkites.

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president lyndon b. johnson's press secretary george ready defined presidential leadership as number one, seeing an urgent need; number two, developing a strategy to meet that need; and number three, persuading at least half the people that you're right. we don't need to change the rules of the united states senate. we simply need a change in behavior. less playing of games and more getting of results. the new congress, next year's congress, whether it be republican or democrat, must make its goal to dispute, amend, debate, vote upon the president's proposed agenda, and then to help the president succeed. because if the president succeeds, whether he's republican or democrat, our country succeeds. we might well remember the words of that chicago tribune editorial writer in 1862 who said, "let us first get the ship out of the breakers. then court-martial the officers if they deserve it." the second institutions we should refurbish and make work are our colleges and universities, all 6,000 of them. not just the land

lyndon, l. b. j. [burping sounds] >> bill: third or fourth. third volume of the lyndon johnson- the life of lyndon johnson. this is better than anything in that book, i'll tell you. >> bill: david shuster is on the ground wisconsin. going to give us a report at the top of the next hour. it is tuesday tuesdays with judd, judd legum from think progress. we're so pleased and proud to welcome into the studio in our last hour together, senator bernie sanders from vermont. this is the "full court press." >> i'm still trying to compose myself after talking about lyndon johnson's bung hole. >> here's what else is making news. it happened in our skies in 2004 and again this year, it is tomorrow. if you miss it you'll have to wait until 2017 for the next chance to see the elusive transit of venus. the astronomical event recorded in december of 1639 by jeremiah horrocks and subsequently by other -- >> bill: we weren't around yet. that's all. >> others astronomers used it and it changed our view of the universe. it occurs when the sun earth and venus grand our vantage point, we see venus a