remember they needed to give support, lyndon baines johnson ticket that passed. there'there is a variety of exes and for this one you are entitled to see what the government are up to a. why do we need strategies. every state has its own state public records law that entitles the state and local records like the town hall and school district. research i've done shows for example on average three quarters of the time they will deny you that information three quarters of the time the police break the law. this is pervasive throughout the country. they have no enforcement provisions or very little, no teeth. so it's stacked against a citizen and the only recourse is to hire an attorney and take them to court and who has the time or the money to do that. so i wrote with my co-author to help maneuver to the system to figure out how to get the information they are entitled to and unfortunately to no city and a little gumption and psychological human tactics. >> have you ever pursued? >> i was a journalist for a long time. i had to fire lots of public records requests.

lbj, president lyndon baines johnson rushed through congress a resolution called the gulf of tonkin resolution which gave him a carte blanche to do whatever to support and protect south vietnam. it was the beginning of the escalation of the vietnam war. he believes it was not a true declaration of war, that was a needless and reckless and ultimately damaging resolution. and he was correct. it led to changing our country in still ways that are not completely understood and calculated. it was a major event in the history of our country, created a lot of concern about our trust in government. thousands and thousands of people dead. we were in a country where we didn't belong. ultimately had to leave. ripple effects throughout the world. he was correct. people realize that now. one of the most interesting aspects of wayne morse, at the time he was really the fiercest critic of the vietnam war. in lbj's face constantly that he was sending our boys off to be , just for no good reason to protect our economic interests. was lbj'se time, he person in the senate who helped pass all of the great society

texas, and there's a political rally, and for the first time in your life you see in person lyndon baines johnson, the senator of the state of texas. what did you think when you first saw him? - i was bowled over by the helicopter. (audience laughs) i was on the town square and the helicopter landed. he traveled the state, this is the 1948 election, which he was beaten by 87 very contested and i have no doubt illegal votes down in the valley of texas. but he was campaigning hard in a helicopter, so who didn't want to see a helicopter in '48 the first year that helicopters were used in campaigns? so i went down to the town square and when he got off the helicopter took his big stetson and tossed it into the crowd. now i later learned that he did that at every stop and he had somebody on his staff who went and got the stetson and returned it to the helicopter at the next stop so he could toss it again. i mean i learned a lot about politics in that very moment. that realization that this was part of the game. this was just not that he had an endless supply of stetsons in the helicopter, but i rememb