kennedy saw the same thing and lyndon baines johnson as well who succeeded john kennedy who didn't run for a term in office again because as president because the vietnam war was immoral and unwinnable he knew it but also because his domestic priorities providing health care to the people in britain made him possibly even improving upon a civil rights situation were impossible do with the vietnam war and so what we see in this is why america can kill a million plus people in the middle east since nine eleven and while we also have the highest murder rate in the industrialized world it's why we're the biggest arms export are and we also personally own three hundred fifty million guns right it's why america has eight hundred military bases around the world and the most prisons and the most prisoners if you look at where our priorities are and how much we're spending on our social services you will surely see that our priority is either militarized efforts overseas war or militarized efforts at home so yes i think it's much worse than under eisenhower just briefly and finally if us still

kennedy and lyndon baines johnson. african-americans knew this and they rallied to him. frederick douglass was a tremendous campaigner for ulysses s. grant and believed in him. >> the last question. after i finished the book, and it is as i said before terrifically well-written and researched. i finished the book and i felt as though grant was a little bit elusive. i couldn't figure out what made him tick. but i read your book at you spent yearand youspent years red thinking about grant so i want to ask is grant still elusive to you or do you feel like you do understand. >> i think the focus on what a person data. the person did. i thought i knew about grant. when i started the biography after about a year i came to my own conclusion i don't really know the man. and bend words the end of the book i come to this conclusion. there wasn't that terminology in this century susan kane wrote this wonderful book in which she argues extroverts when our society. so he wasn't a good public speaker or expert. if i had one phrase to call upon i would call it the moral courage. most p

. >> you know, martin luther king never asked lyndon baines johnson what he should be doing. he never did. >> that's right. >> he never held political office and never ran for political office. it is essential that all of us walk out of this door abandoning the idea that somewhere out there is supposed to be organizing me, funding me, taking care of me, it will not happen and it might be right and just that it happen, but it will not happen and so the only thing to do is to -- is to organize yourself, and i tell you something, if you start organizing yourself and you start generating a body of people who are with you and then the bodies and the candidates will start looking for you, and it just works that way and it's not moral and it's not just, but it's reality. let me just say this about -- you just mentioned 9/11 and deer in the headlights and i don't know if i agree with your analysis, but i'll say this. north korea is a serious thing. you have this guy making bellicose threats against somebody else who has very little to lose over there. kim jong-un, the world always th

. >> and as far as lyndon baines johnson, how did he factor into all this when it came to national guard? >> well, i mean, real fence. romney has got to make some hard choices about whether he's going to bring in federal troops even. because it's essentially admitting that he's lost control of his city and his state. so this is a really tense moment. remember that detroit was again the apple of washington's eye. there's lots of funding coming into detroit via office of equal opportunity funding. all of this is in jeopardy. and what's really interesting, of course, is that because detroit was so important to the johnson administration, after this, johnson himself is a little shocked. he's a little stunned. and this is the first time we get calls for a federal study of what in the world is going on? notably, even though he calls for this, he does not take it ultimately seriously and he doesn't implement what the so-called kerner commission suggests was needed. but it really was that moment. detroit was the moment when everyone woke up. >> let's go to pierre, longview, texas, you're on with