university of virginia, at an event hosted by uva, presidential scholars discuss his work from lyndon b. johnsono ronald reagan. >> welcome. we're going to have for the next 75 minutes is a kind of meeting of two cultures. one culture is represented by the people on this stage who are scholars associated with the miller center here at the university of virginia, and who study the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course, expressed in words, in t

kennedy and lyndon b. johnson recordings as part of the presidential recordings project at the miller center. ken hughes also with the miller center, who worked extensively and famously in some ways on the lbj and especially the richard nixon recording project. chester pach, a historian whose research, interests, and product has encompassed johnson and ronald reagan. and robert strong. bob strong, who was assistant director when the miller center was conducting its jimmy carter oral histories. i'm mike nelson. i have an affiliation with the miller center, but my day job is at rhodes college in memphis, tennessee. and our format is going to be essentially this, there are no prepared presentations, no prepared remarks. we're going to be flashing over the course of this session 15 cartoons, just a tiny curated but tiny slice of what we could do and probably should do if we were old enough in time. they'll unfold chronologically from the johnson administration through the reagan administration, and then basically, i'm

in 1965 a scientific report sent to us president lyndon b. johnson was already warning of the dramatic consequences of rising c o 2 levels in the atmosphere it suggested for the 1st time increasing reflectivity by one percent in order to cool down the planet in 1998 we were in aspen and we had a meeting about how to solve the climate problem and most of the talks were about transforming the energy not cutting down far but there was one talk somebody proposed putting some kind of shield to deflect sunlight away from the earth. astrophysicists lol would propose the idea of parking a space sunshade at the point where the gravity of the earth and the sun cancel each other out. point one. so i got back to my office and that we didn't have any money to work on this or anything and but the guy who had the next office over to me he was running climate models and we were really surprised at the outcome because it worked much better than we ever thought. can count deraa is one of the founding fathers of geo engineering shortly after the new millennium began he

president lyndon b. johnson attached conditions for receiving development aid one of them being that recipient countries must reduce their population. it was a time of drought and starvation in india. the president spoke on the phone with the secretary of agriculture. around the corner. of the president. but if you want to. exhibit a i don't want to get. there by the way i'm over 30 but what. i'm not sure i don't know but i don't know what i ought to get out of. character but. he stopped food deliveries until indira gandhi down to the demands. accusations were made that the west had imperialistic intentions with his population control fraud checks. department was founded at the united nations in 1969 the un f.p.a. the united nations population fund through this ostensibly neutral path western governments channeled millions into population control in developing countries the major donors besides the united states were sweden great britain germany and switzerland. south korea was among the earliest testing grounds

out of texas "the daily beast" reports on maintenance work at the lyndon b. johnsonc park wrote a letter to his supervisor and cced hundreds of other employees saying come no one has died because i could not see lbj's ranch or ancestral settlement on any given weekend. i say be a beautiful servant to the public trust and prove protect your employees and your visitors and close the park. the nps is under scrutiny right now for allowing some sites to close but not others and, of those nine tests positive from the nine employees a spokesperson sent us a statement saying "employees and visitors are considered to have risk of exposure either because the window for exposure was after the facility closed. or the employee did not work in close contact with visitors and once identified went into of self isolation. after request to close the grand canyon were denied even after reported tests and positive, the house committee on natural resources sent a letter to interior secretary david bernhardt writing "we implore you to do everything in your power to prioritize public healt

michael is a professor at lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas, and important for two nights conversation he is the author of "the new class war." the book which you can purchase, which is published today so we are here at the launch. congratulations on the new book. there is a direct line between the new class war and the work that mike has been a been pursuing since the '90s, maybe best exemplified by his book the next american revolution, the new nationalism and the fourth american revolution. sorry, the next american nation and new nationalism and the fourth american revolution. whether you agree with this interpretation of western politics since world war ii is work demonstrates serious effort and solutions to the seemingly never ending cycle of clashes and shifting coalitions which is exactly what our realignment podcast seeks to explore. also joining us is j. d. vance who fittingly was the realignment premier guest. j. d. of course is the author of best-selling and highly influential book

kennedy, lyndon b. johnson, and richard m. nixon saw die in the korean and vietnam wars combined. the lowest estimate would claim nearly as many americans as world war i under president woodrow wilson and 14 times as many americans as iraq and afghanistan together under presidents george w. bush and barack obama." to all of that, here's how new york's governor is advising americans to look toward the future. >> we're never going to be the same again. we're not going to forget what happened here. the fear that we have, the anxiety that we have, that's not just going to go away. when do we get back to normal? i don't think we get back to normal. i think we get back -- or we get to a new normal. >> from governor cuomo let's get to our lead-off discussion here on a wednesday night. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor over at politico. and robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post" and moderator of "washington week" on pbs. peter, since you were last quoted, i'm going

michael is a professor at lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs at university of texas and important for tonight's conversation, he is the author of the new class war, saving democracy from the managerial ellie. which you can purchase that, just published today so we are here at the launch, congratulations michael on that new book. there's a direct line between the new class war and the work that michael has done and has been pursuing since the 90s. maybe best exemplified by his book the next american revolution: the new nationalism and before the american resolution area the next american nation, new nationalism and the fourth american revolution. whether you agree with his interpretation of western politics since world war ii has worked demonstrates a serious effort to understand the causes of and solutions to a seemingly never-ending cycle of clashes and shipping coalitions which is exactly what our realignment podcast takes to explore. also don't joining us is jd vance who fittingly was the realignments premier guest.

river, he went to great lakes to acquire hundreds and hundreds of property, this was lyndon johnson's favorite place to. b you have hubert wearing a feminist boot here. johnson with his bad socks, and he is skinny. most images of johnson are not of him being skinny, this reflects, this is towards the end of his presidency. he really wasn't that old. one thing to think of lyndon johnson is that he died before he was eligible for medicare. he is in his early sixties. he's in his fifties for most of his presidency. he had a heart attack, his body is deteriorating, but he's still relatively a young person in this. i love the image of the horse in the background, this is an image, growing up in texas, people love courses, drawings of horses on their wall. i sat immediately in texas, looking at a nice wall with the picture on the wall. >> johnson had chosen humphrey as his vice president in 1964. he needed a liberal running mate last name wasn't kennedy. humphrey was the choice. it seems like the best move humphrey could make at a time. it was probably the most deleterious what in the long run. that's for his p