instead, on that fateful november day, lyndon baines johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the united states. johnson pursued kennedy's economic proposals and pushed the tax plan through congress. how well did it work? perfectly. business week, which isn't exactly a liberal pro-kennedy publication, said it probably was the most successful tax cut in history. it came out of the textbooks. it went back into the textbooks as the fiscal measure that came closer to carrying out what people had projected for it. that was a tax cut that worked. the economic policies of the kennedy-johnson administration had stimulated demand, creating growth in the economy. busiss was boomi. jobs were plentiful, unemployment near an all-time low. but many observers, including the president's council of economic advisors, were concerned about the appearance of inflation as the ecomy heated up. [james duesenberry] but in 1965, the real aggregate demand was risi [james duesenberry] but in 1965, it was continuing to rise into 1966. thatroced the high-capacity utilization, the ring raw materials ices, and

king next to lyndon baines johnson, barack obama is lyndon baines johnson and john kennedy. he is abraham lincoln and as soon as the black community can understand that they can level a critique to the united states for not discussing the black agenda and not discussing black poverty. he says he is not president of black american. i say fine but black americans are american citizens no matter what anybody says. we are american citizens and should be advocating for an end of poverty, the end of racial inequality, and the end of mass incarceration, so when we think about president barack obama, we need to go back to what dr. king said in his last speech. he said the greatness of america lies in the right to protest for rights. whoever is in the white house, should be someone who is talking about an alleged -- an agenda that affects african-americans, even if that black person is the president of the united states. [applause] >> good afternoon. it's great to be here and i too want to join in the congratulations of the harlem book fair for the black book fair, for organizing thi

it was in the presidency of lyndon baines johnson. i was a congressman, and it was first federal budget in our history that hit $100 billion. and everyone just gasped at the thought. >> but now it doesn't seem like -- >> now we have trillion dollar deficits. >> and it doesn't look like the republicans are helping us any. so will you write a book for them? >> well, let me say something about that. i think the republicans, you know, there are people all across the spectrum in both parties, but the -- i was asked, i was speaking about my other book, "known and unknown," at fort leavenworth, the military base, not the prison. [laughter] and there were, i think, 1490 majors from mostly our country, but from around the world too. it's a big school there. and someone asked me what's the biggest problem that i worry about when i go to bed at night. and the answer was american weakness. and why do i say that? i think the signal that's being sent out from this country is that, basically, we're modeling american economy on europe, and it's a fai

in 1964, of course, the president was lyndon baines johnson, became president after john f. kennedy was assassinated. although lbj had long been vocally opposed to the expansion of the vietnam war, even though he had campaigned for office saying he didn't want to send american boys thousands of miles away to fight a war that asian boys ought to be fighting for themselves, even though he had campaigned that way and he had believed the war in vietnam was a mistake, by 91964, once he was president, lbj had become convinced despite everything he said before, the war in vietnam needed to be expanded. it should have a much greater u.s. involvement. on august 4th, 1964, lbj made that case to the public in the most dramatic way possible. in a live late night urgent broadcast, president johnson told the country that the united states navy had come under attack. in the gulf of tonkin just off the coast of vietnam. president johnson said there had been open aggression on the high seas against the united states of america and that the united states of america needed to respond to that a

and i dare say lyndon baines johnson you know with the snow whole notion that the government is not not to make people to pin this stuff. never been questioned but it's the great equalizer i teach at cuny and look at this image lecture at the city university of new york i mean in your college we bring into this system people who ordinarily would not have an opportunity if it were not but this public space and they can compete some of them with the sons and daughters from yale and harvard and whatever and that's what this public space is about with this public hospitals public schools and whatever and i think we've been too much in retreat in terms of the finding that we've had so many victories over the years in terms of you know you can discount the big of efforts to win rights for workers for women the regulations that have been there to help people from again you know there i say if it were not for these things we'd still be working child labor all kinds of things and so we have to defend the public space car equalize the commerce. you mentioned a few minutes ago malcolm x. and dr ma

. >> it was in the presidency of lyndon baines johnson.and everyone just gasped at the thought. >> now does a semi -- >> now we have trillion dollar deficits. >> and it does not but republicans are openness. for how was speaking about my other but at 411 from, the military base, not the prison. and there were 1490 majors from mostly our country, but around the world. it's a big school there. someone asked me of the biggest problem was. and the answer was american weakness. the signal being sent up to this country is that basically where modeling american economy and air. the debt we are encouraged with the sending out a signal to the world of this country is that going to be what it was in the past. when i went to washington eisenhower was president. i can have the navy and served during kennedy, johnson and the congress. sibila is spending less than 4%. our allies in europe were spending less than 2%. the signal that goes out to the world is that we have cut for under $93 billion out of the pentagon budget. the signal with that is that th