it was mainly lyndon johnson. he gave up on himself. the lessons from tet that apply to to they are things like don't give the enemy credit for having a better plan than they have. sometimes you see people talk about terrorists like they're some kind of geniuses, long-term planners with the sophisticated plan the we can't understand. that everything they do is part of this unfolding of history. maybe they are just making mistakes. i don't think osama bin laden fog that ten years after 9/11 he would be holed up in a cave somewhere wondering when a missile was going to come down on his head. i don't think that was part of the plan. he thought he would be head of saudi arabia right now. that was the plan. not what is going on right now. don't give him credit for being a genius because they are not. secondly don't read the fine their objective to the point where they meet them. the terrorists and the bad guys want to win. they want to take power. they don't want to remain terrorists all their lives. when they are not taking over countries o

sworn in office on january 20th. >> host: not lyndon johnson, yes, lyndon johnson. >> guest: i don'tant to push this. >> host: before we go into the other scenarios and one of the things that's kind of mind bending about all of this in the first you have jack kennedy killed, right, before he becomes president. >> guest: right. >> host: in the second scenario you have bobby kennedy not killed. >> guest: right. >> host: in california. >> guest: right. >> host: however, his brother has been killed back in 1963 in dallas. >> guest: yeah. >> host: right? >> guest: it's imprudent to prevent your mind being bent too much, at the end of each chapter i have something called reality reset because this is not like philip ross' one continual story. so after the first scenario with lyndon johnson as president ends at the cuban missile crisis, i say, okay, jackie did come to the door, jack wasn't blown up. he got to be president. he was assassinated, johnson took us, you know, through civil rights and a war. it was the '68 and now we pick up at the ambassador hotel. >> host: right. >> guest: and w

we know a lot of people who worked for lyndon johnson. the tough thing for them is when someone says the lost my son in vietnam. why did he die? what would you say for iraq? >> it is the hardest thing. anyone in a position of responsibility when a conflict occurs and as joyce and and i would go to meet with the wounded whose lives are changed forever, meet with their families and meet with the families of those who got killed, we would think to ourselves as we are going in what is it we can say or do that will help them understand the appreciation that we and america have for their sacrifice? the individual sacrifices and the sacrifices of families as well. and we would come out of those meetings almost invariably inspired, not feeling we helped them but feeling they helped us. the pride they have in their service, the cohesion they feel with the units they were in, their desire to get back, you just could not fail to come out of those meetings inspired by the young men and women. thanks to milton friedman and richard nixon and the congre

lyndon johnson also from texas had experience around him. the presidents from the north many times some are considered laconic presidents in some ways like president kennedy had no experience with african-americans his whole life wasn't interested in the civil rights issue and is only after he became president and rather late in his presidency in 1963 when he started to take notice of the tremendous bubbling up of the civil rights movement, you know, by the protesters in the streets and being a world war ii veteran, he was very much at miring of the physical courage and he saw the physical courage of the demonstrators and the so pressed him a great deal so by the time his presidency -- he was assassinated of course he was a much different kind of president dealing with civil rights than initially and of course the was cut short. >> host: one of the things that intrigued me about your book is good bibliography because you had -- you have to have a great time looking at all these folks who go about their time in the white house, many at the wh

he was the head of hud and i believe lyndon johnson. he forgot the african-americans in the white house. talk about what we did before. >> guest: in the very beginning of course we have sort of a rather appalling history of our presidents and the race issue. eight our first 12 presidents had slaves in the white house. they were the virginia planters, the southern planters. they felt that slavery was part of their livelihood, and also politically they felt they couldn't do anything about it because it would alienate the southern states and this was a common theme throughout our history. we have a sad failure to live up to our ideals through our presidents in the beginning. because all the notions of the founders and the declaration of independence and equality and the rights of people, really they didn't apply to african-americans. this is what the first president to do. our very first president george washington i think people might be surprised to learn how really racist he was, propelled in many ways by his wife, martha. but they felt

and hubert would just about every to answer, and stop and lyndon johnson would take over. >> that's pretty much the way it was. >> yes, indeed. it was a powerful figure. >> and johnson was talking about the things he was doing to win the war, and you piped up and said like bombing homes? >> he was -- you know, as a congressman listening to him, i was probably more critical than it would've been as a member of the executive branch being asked questions by members of congress. so where you stand kind of depends on where you sit. but he, he was going to appear at what he was trying to figure out what to do in the war in tranninety and he would go through a heavy bombing period and then it would be a bombing pause and he would hope that would cause a positive reaction from the north vietnamese. or the vietcong. and it didn't. and he in explaining what he was doing was asked a question by democratic congressman from texas about why it wasn't working. and his answer was in effect that it would work. and, of course, the fact was if you do something for a period and then stop completely, it's conf

so get lyndon johnson sworn into office on june the 20th. that's what the first wrinkle. >> host: yes, linda johnson, of course. i'm pretty sure that's what was here before we go into the other scenarios, one of the things that's a little bit mindbending about all of this is in the first scenario you have jack kennedy killed, right? before he becomes president. in the second snow to have a bobby kennedy not killed in california. however, his brother has been killed back in 1963 in dallas. >> guest: to prevent your mind from being bent too much, at the end of each chapter i have something called reality reset. this is not like it's one continuous story. so after the first scenario with lyndon johnson is president ends with the cuban missile crisis, i say okay, jackie did come to the door, jack was a blow to. he got to be president. he was assassinated. johnson took us through civil rights and a war, and now we pick up at the ambassador hotel. when that section is over, say this didn't happen, robert kennedy was assassinated, now we pick up. >>

. >> host: yes, lyndon johnson, yes of course. i'm pretty sure that is who it is. before we go into the other scenario, and one of the things that is a little bit mindbending about all of this is, in the first scenario you had checked kennedy killed before he comes comes -- becomes president. in the second scenario you have bobby kennedy not killed in california. however, his brother has been killed back in 1963 in dallas. >> guest: to prevent your mind from being events too much, at the end of each chapter i have something called reality presents, because this is not like phillip ross word is one continual story. so after the first scenario with a lyndon johnson's presidency and the cuban missile crisis i said okay jackie did come to the door, jack wasn't it blown up. he he was assassinated. johnson took us through civil rights in a war. 68 campaign and now we pick up at the ambassador hotel. when that section is over i say this didn't happen. robert kennedy was assassinated and now we pick up. >> host: okay, i get it. there are people a lot younger than you and i

so that's why in a second scenario when robert kennedy lives, lyndon johnson is not about to sit back and let that happen. >> host: why did you read the third scenario? and i will let you describe -- >> guest: the third scenario we've ragin back to reality now it's 1976. it's the second debate. gerald ford having almost lost the primary and the inauguration of we behind jimmy carter but he's catching up because after all carter we don't hear what he really thinks and if he really knows anything about foreign policy and in, it comes up the issue of whether or not the united states is seceding to the soviet union over eastern europe and he goes through a well rehearsed answer about this and then he says there is no soviet domination and there never will be in the ford administration. and that is "the new york times" spent a lot of time stops the debate and if you see the tape and looks like somebody hit him on the head with a hammer. he can barely get out the questions. mr. president, did you mean to suggest the soviet union doesn't exercise influence in eastern europe? and ford begins

something and answer the question and hubert would just about be ready to answer and stop and lyndon johnson would take over. >> that is pretty much the weight usually was dhume. >> yes, indeed. he was a powerful figure. >> and johnson was talking about the things he was doing to win the war and you piped up and said like --. >> as a congressman, listening to him i was probably more critical than i would have been as a member of the executive branch being asked questions by members of congress so where you stand kind of depends on where you sit but, he was going through a period where he was trying to figure out what to do in the war in vietnam and he would go through a heavy bombing period and then there would be a bombing pause and he would hope that would cause a positive reaction from the north vietnamese or the viet cong and it didn't. and, he and explaining what he was doing was asked a question by a democratic congressman named young from texas about why it wasn't working. his answer was in effect that it would work and of course the fact was if you do something for a period and then

something and answer the question and hubert would just about be ready to answer and stop and lyndon johnson would take over. >> that is pretty much the weight usually was dhume. >> yes, indeed. he was a powerful figure. >> and johnson was talking about the things he was doing to win the war and you piped up and said like --. >> as a congressman, listening to him i was probably more critical than i would have been as a member of the executive branch being asked questions by members of congress so where you stand kind of depends on where you sit but, he was going through a period where he was trying to figure out what to do in the war in vietnam and he would go through a heavy bombing period and then there would be a bombing pause and he would hope that would cause a positive reaction from the north vietnamese or the viet cong and it didn't. and, he and explaining what he was doing was asked a question by a democratic congressman named young from texas about why it wasn't working. his answer was in effect that it would work and of course the fact was if you do something for a period and then

. >> reporter: bart spokesman lyndon johnson showed us around the new seat lab. >> go sit down. sit down. >> okay. >> this is comfy. >> this is comfy still. >> the transit agency is replacing the current train cars and wants rider feedback on future seat design to accommodate the anticipated jump in ridership. >> if we are here in this seat, pretty high up. you can't please everybody. >> the lab focuses on seat height and width and leg room. the most talked-about topic, what the seat should be made of. >> actually, if they would maybe make plastic seats or something that is not cloth. and that can be cleaned more often. >> i think cleaner seats. the fabric is not very appealing. >> the lab begins today with groups of senior and disabled passengers. and then the lab hits the road at stops across the bay area. >> this is about the bart of tomorrow but we have to make the decisions today and we want to hear from you. >> reporter: in oakland, elizabeth wenger, cbs 5. >>> catching a cable car in san francisco will be a little tougher this week. part of a powell hyde street line will

does by taking the top marginal tax rate back up to seventy percent or jack kennedy had it were lyndon johnson had it were richard nixon had it actually nixon had it ninety percent where where were truman and eisenhower and and and hoover and and and it was just a whole bunch of pattern is that it discourages casino behavior what happens is that when a very very wealthy people are looking to pull in twenty thirty forty fifty one hundred five hundred million dollars a year out of their business and then have a seventy percent tax they say to themselves you know instead of pulling this money out and stick it and swiss bank account and gambling with it i think i'll leave it the biz. yes and when you leave in the business what do you do you build new factories you grow you build your company and what do you do with that you know you end up hiring new people if you look back at the history of this country every time the top tax on very wealthy people has been over fifty percent what we've seen is that throughout that period of time there have been no booms and busts and employment for trick particu

had government under glide eisenhower and under jack kennedy and under richard nixon and under lyndon johnson and all the way up to and jimmy carr all the way up to the first four years of the reagan administration you had we had basically no deficits from george washington until ronald reagan he blows apart taxes on rich people and and david stockman comes right out and says oh we're going to do this to create a crisis so there won't be any money to fund democratic programs so you know you've got jude wouldn't be saying we write in the wall street journal to santa clause three democrats in santa clauses was so scary for years we got to figure out if he had a closet idea how to be santa clauses cut taxes who cares if there's a deficit it'll put the rich the democrats back to the well it has worked perfectly what you guys are doing and i think it's going to bite you when you say you guys i'm not a republican i'm an independent and the republicans are part of the problem they started this problem in one thousand nine hundred six when they turned away from the tax try try one hundred eighty six

but she was willing at the request of lyndon johnson to come out in the cabin to stand next to him when he took the oath of office. and you remember that day. you have this image burned in your brain. she refused to change clothes she was wearing her famous raspberry chanel suits. her hat can often the chaos but she refused to take off the suit because she said i want them to see what they did too my house band. i was seven years old at the time and i remember watching television and remember that we gasped when she came off the plane still wearing that super she refused to take off. then she was the mortar and chief. she had a few moments of shock the very quickly got her wits about her and asked her husband's family and cabinet members looking into planning the funeral and that it was on abraham lincoln's funeral and thinking of symbolism in history e in her grief parker here she comes with caroline and john and one hand and the president's brother behind her and peter behind the group. in the videos i can only find one moment and public where she begins to cry softly when they arrive

and lyndon johnson wanted him to take his two dogs down to texas. and the black valley says i have enough trouble getting down there myself but i'll take two dogs. lyndon johnson, i told him under those accommodations and you couldn't go to the restrooms and all that kind of stuff you can't go to the hotels. the terrible stories about that. but in school integration what happens is african-american kids -- they were forced to exchange a well developed curriculum with a narrow one. and with this hysteria accompanying the election of a black president, the curriculum is getting narrowering, so like in texas they don't want to teach islam, they don't want to teach arabic and in arizona they want to eliminate ethnic studies. i'm thinking what has been the bargain in school integration where black kids are told that their history and their teacher mean nothing and they have to submit to what people in this country call western civilization which i don't hear when i go to europe. i mean, you think -- i mean, they're over there, you would think that they w

a review took place over the next couple of weeks run by lyndon johnson. and the answer came back to kennedy, moon. why the moon? was it a technical run that the soviet union to that date and still some today was using a converted icbm that was designed to lift a very heavy nuclear warhead and lift space pay loads. but to get the people to the moon, the soviet union would have to build a rocket and so would the united states. and lombron was brought in and give me the resources and we will win. and he was right. after the weekend of may 6-7, a group of people came together to write a set of recommendations to go through the vice president to the president. and nasa space member web and mcnamara signed that memo on the morning of may 8. and you see the words, men and not machines capture the world. and that these aimed at the prestige are part of the battle at the fluid front of the cold w war. it was clear language and you could read the memo and find nothing about space exploration. it was very much about how compete and be successful against the soviet u

a review took place over the next couple of weeks run by lyndon johnson, and the answer came back tokennedy, moon. why the moon? it was a technical reason was that the soviet union to that date and to some degree still today was using a converted ibcm designed to lift a heavy nuclear warhead and therefore could carry heavy space payloads, but to get people to the moon, soviet union had to build a new rocket, and so would the united states. it was brought into the consul traitions and von braun said give me the resources, and we will win. he had little humility about his capability. [laughter] he was right, by the way. over the weekend of may 6 and 7, a group of people came together to write a set of recommendations to go through the vice president to president, nasa administrator webb, that memo on the the morning of may 8, and you see the words, men not merely machines that captures the imagination of the world, and that large scale space projects aimed at national prestige are part of the battle on the fluid of the cold war. pretty clear language again. you can read the whole memo

then it came to new hampshire primary, and the stunning perceived outset of lyndon johnson bite eugene mccarthy. johnson won the race, but mccarthy's 42% was so dramatic that everyone said, the press said that the president of the united states is in deep trouble. four days later, bobby kennedy, who had stayed out of the race, it jumps into the race. murray kempton, many people were bitter about that, saying it was opportunistic. murray kempton said it was proved that st. patrick did not drive all the snakes out of ireland. [laughter] then you had nelson rockefeller supposed to get in and challenge us, and he announced, "i am not challenging richard nixon in the primaries." in march, lyndon johnson is going to give his major address on the vietnam. he announces he will not run again for president of the united states. tremendously dramatic events. we were hoping he would be in the race with kennedy and mccarthy. four days later, martin luther king was assassinated in memphis. i grew up in this town of washington, d.c. why it's up to the 17th street corridor, 14th street -- riots up to

lyndon johnson tried to have the great society and ended up with entitlement. we know the culture of entitlement in afghanistan for the same reason. forget something and expect nothing in return. i don't think it's good for a country to do it. in the last thing we do is tell them, stop nationbuilding him that our forces get back to doing what they do very well and that is destroying the enemy. so that's why i call it the wrong war. that's all i have to say. i'll be willing to take any questions you might have. [applause] >> hello, mr. weiss. my name is antiwar, intelligence research and the d.c. metro area. my question is what we'll need to happen before the afghan government and americans can take it from here? >> we have to tell them. let's leave it up to them, indeed. they are never going to tell you to go home. why do you want to tell somebody to stop laying the eggs? so it's us who have to say to the afghans, you have to start stepping forward instead of allowing them to control the pace. and i believe we're getting to the point where will do that. when i'

. >> let's say that lyndon johnson's vietnam war had ended in victory in late 66. would we be looking at him as a great war leader and someone who did this in the right way to? >> hear their story. seems to me -- you are the historian. somerset wars are a series of catastrophes in dubai success. they are difficult, they are hard, the enemy has a brain. eisenhower i think said the plan is worthless. planning is everything, and the plan is worthless. .. >> it is not symmetric, it is ever changing. it will be a challenge for our leadership, for our country, but the growing fall di of those weapons -- what president bush was faced with when making his decision on iraq was there was a study by john hopkins university called "dark winter," and if my memory serves me correctly what a series of experts got together, and they said what if we took smallpox and put it in three locations in the united states of america, and in a relatively short period of months, the dark winter exercise done by john hopkins university concludes, and i'll be wrong by a bit, but concluded that

lyndon johnson lied a lot in a bad cause. in terms of getting the united states into the vietnam. we are critical of johnson because of vietnam, and admired roosevelt because of world worlr ii. but they both lied. we have a first amendment and a system of checks and balances that work through the media because we know this. because we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they are doing. well, fox news pulls off one the watchdogs, but they operate as a political organization. they lie. they lie all the time. they make things up, they slander their opponents, they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations, and they make no apology for it. all they do is call themselves a news organization and put up news shows. but the rest of it is quite obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies and raise money for candidates. every single potential candidate with the exception of mitt romney who is not in office is on the payroll of fox news. i think media matters added up what it would have cost them to guy the time on the air. and it was som

that was under the administration of a lyndon johnson. the war started und the john f. kennedy administration. your timing was a little off. >> the french were involved in that war for many, many years. >> sit down. sit down. >> thank you very much. >> please continue. >> we were very polite when he spoke. we expt thsame courtesy from him. obviously, i am wrong. what i would like to talk about is not the specifics of how many documents were compromised or said what to do. what i would like to look at is how we as individuals and organizations and groups of people deal with issues of secrecy. secrecy is something that we have all experienced throughout our history. there are various forms of this. we have religious secrets, as shown by the gnostic sects and the knights templar. we have social secrets such as the freemasons. we have commercial secrets, trade secrets, property and commercial confince materials. we have criminal secrets. the mafia has a secret code. lastly, we have state secrets. l of these organizations have a commonality on how they deal with those secret

and he certainly stands in the line from harry truman forward, lyndon johnson or somebody who believescare. republicans don't forget, it's been an article-- they are opposition to national health insurance, except when it involves republican members of congress. >> lehrer: other than that. >> he did rally the left. i mean, the speech was strong in rallying the left as mark said. he called republicans unamerican. that tendses to rally people, i guess when you call their opponents unamerican. but you know, substantively it still still doe matter. and here i have a question mark. maybe he does sincerely want to follow through on the cuts that he sort of gestured toward. he gave us headings under which future cuts would fall. but i do think if you look at the program, it's essentially excuses seniors and the middle class from any shared sacrifice. and i just don't think we can solve a problem this size excusing seniors and the middle class. >> lehrer: but the president and secretary quite geithner on the program that same night said if there is going to be deficit reduction you're to the g

we had a jfk was killed, lyndon johnson didn't seek a second term because to get mom, richard nixon resigned under watergate, carter, we turn to the former actor that the inauguration to lead the country and here he is shot on the 70 a day in office, the last four shot have died and here he is cracking jokes in the face of death, and with that it did was it allowed him and the country to separate the man from his politics and a form of this bond his approval ratings would did in the course like every president he had his troubles, but i do think it allowed them and allowed him to sustain a lot of problems later and kind of also made him a mythical figure. the late political columnist for "the washington post" told me in the interview a few months before he died that this is the day that made ronald reagan a mythical figure. and i think that's important especially with these one-liners >> and was important that the white house put those out. linen who was a media adviser to the president and longtime political strategist when he was back in california knew it was important to get that kind of

pressure coming from lyndon johnson, pressure coming especially from randy clark, the attorney general of the united states who is a huge admirer of king and who was his boss although some people say that he didn't really have a boss. you have to remember that there were over 150 different wrong it's going on around the country. this manhunt was going on against a nation on five-year to eventually, and people had to, you know, people have to realize no matter what the political persuasions might be of some of these individual field agents out there that solving this crime was a paramount national importance. hoover didn't want to get involved at first. he wanted to the local case, memphis police department. it became clear this was an international case that the assassin had fled to another state, maybe another country. this was the biggest assassination that happened in the country with kennedy. cindy and there was no question and once the fbi gets involved in the jobs they are supposed to be doing, mainly solving crimes and doing police work and detective work i found out, you know,

one of my dear friend was john roach was invited to lyndon johnson. i quoted extensively. it has been in the background of my life for long time. >> can you tell us what your next project might be? >> i'm looking at a variety of things. maybe something and the 1862 soo uprising. we are coming up on the 150th anniversary of that and some other ideas. the tenth on with the publishers want. .. fa hope things that are very popular. it keeps us from being able to have an adequate social security system, a good fully funded safety net. is a way to say look, you may like those things. this may be a democracy. you may have very favorable polling. we are not trying to take those things away. we simply can't afford them. very insidious, very effective. you see in other issues like public employees and unions and the right to collectively bargain. we need to look at this deficit issue very carefully. james galbraith is a very esteemed -- he points out a very interesting tidbit in the projections, congressional budget office's projection. every reporter writing about this uses the sam

there was what it was an adviser to every president from lyndon to johnson.he took the subway to downtown manhattan. it is hard to imagine a goldman partner taking the subway now, but he was a senior partner, and on the subway, he came up with who should be the treasury secretary during the eisenhower administration, and eisenhower had never heard of him, and he got the job, and he was a good secretary. paulsonn, corzine, and all went into government service, and part of the reason is they believe in it and they may get a priority, and you have your time at goldman sachs. you have your time making millions of dollars, and then they want you up, and they want you out. most of the guys are sort of forced out after a period of time, which may be one of the reasons lloyd blankfein is talking about leaving, and then they want to give something back, some talking about philanthropy. if you want to be the secretary of treasury, guess what, you do it. it is not something you campaign for, but if you get asked, you do it. tavis: last year at goldman sachs? >> i do not

. >> i lyndon baines johnson do solemnly swear -- >> reporter: almost every american president has been in with his hand on a king james bible. kjv language has been the source of some of the most important speeches in america's history, including lincoln's gettysburg address and martin luther king jr.'s most beloved remarks. >> i've seen the promised land. >> reporter: politicians to this day make king james references. >> that i am my brothers' keeper, i am my sister's keeper. >> reporter: for a long time, many christians considered the kjv the only version authorized by god himself. >> our lord jesus christ, the great shepherd of the sheep. >> reporter: with the advent of more modern translations, the number of king james-only churches has decreased dramatically. but the kjv has never disappeared from regular use. >> there used to be, maybe 30, 40, 50 years ago, a single translation might be the preferred translation of choice for a church. i think those ys are gone. where a pastor, if he's smart, will use multiple translations, the king james will liky be one of them. >> reporter: e

we had jfk killed, lyndon johnson did not seek a full second term because of vietnam. richard nixon resigned. ford made it three years. carter under malaise. return to a former actor at the inauguration. the the country. here he is shot. the last four presidents have been shot and died. here he is cracking jokes in the face of death. what that did was it allowed him and the country to separate the man from his politics. it formed this pond that though his approval ratings would debt. of course like ever-present he had his troubles, but it build this bond with the american public that allowed them and him to sustain a lot of problems later and kind of also made him a mythic figure. the political columnist for the washington post, a very astute man. this is the day that made reagan a mythic figure. i think that is important. >> and at think it was important that the white house put those lines out. a media adviser to the president, longtime political strategist for the president when he was back in california knew it was important to get that kind of detail out, not only

lyndon johnson lied an awful lot in terms of getting the united states involved in vietnam. today we are critical of johnson because of what he did in vietnam and we had higher roosevelt for his leadership in world war ii but they have applied. we have a first amendment and we have a system of checks and balances that works for the media because we know this, because we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they are doing. "fox news" masquerades as one of these watchdog institutions as the gatekeepers but they operate as a political organization. the lie all the time. they make things up. they slander their opponents. they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations and they'd make no apology for it. they don't even pretend to do differently. all they do is call themselves a news organization and put up -- but the rest of it is quite obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies. the maze running -- raise money.

and yet, she was willing at the request of the new president, lyndon johnson, to come out in the cabin and stand next to him when he took the oath of office. and again those of you who remember that day, i know have this image burned in your brain. mrs. kennedy refused to change clothes. she was wearing her famous raspberry chanel suit. she is starting out the day with the raspberry matching pill box hat. that had come off in the melee and the chaos, but she refused to take off her bloodstained suit because she kept saying i want him to see what they did to my husband. and even though i was just seven at the time i can remember watching the black and white television in our living room with my family and i can remember that we gasped when she came off the plane and was still wearing that suit. but she refused to take it off. she then became to the mortar in chief for the nation. she had a few moments of shock, again given the horror she had witnessed in dallas, but very quickly she got her wits about her. she asked her husband's family, sargent shriver and some cabinet members to start

. >> a lot of it goes all the way back to, what was it, lyndon johnson when he first used it to pay for the vietnam war. i believe that's where all of a sudden it was funded fine, but when they started using money taking it out to fund other projects, that's when we got ourselves in trouble. you're seeing that with funds from states, look at the state of illinois is broke. a lot of them have done that. now all of a sudden they're -- there is not enough people to pay for it. >> i don't know about the lyndon johnson thing, but there is a wave of elderly who are coming up because of the baby boom generation that is causing a great deal of social security's problems. in 1983, ronald reagan and tip o'neill came to an agreement and agreed they would raise the payroll tax and the retirement age. that helps with social security's long-term problem for a while. and we're at a point now whether it's benefit cuts or raising the payroll tax, there is probably going to be some accommodation down the road toward either putting more money into the system or paying less out in benefits or some combinat

are feasting away at the one strong middle class our nation is currently the professor at the lyndon b. johnson school public affairs at the university of texas a senior scholar with the levy economics institute of bard college and the chair of the board of week of economists for peace and security he's written hundreds of articles and policy papers and five books including his most recent predator state i'm pleased to welcome now from austin texas professor james caviezel professor geld with welcome welcome to our program. good evening so glad to have you with us in for not able to deal with the predator actually even before before that question let's define that you use the term predator state other times you've used the word predator class predator groups but he's talking about well the theme of the book which appeared in the fall of two thousand and eight was that. conservatives had long since abandoned any serious commitment to small government supposedly free markets that had come to a sensible and accurate realisation that the fundamental institutions of our economy were in fact those pr

lyndon johnson lied an awful lot in terms of getting the united states involved in vietnam. today we are critical of johnson because of what he did in vietnam and we had higher roosevelt for his leadership in world war ii but they have applied. we have a first amendment and we have a system of checks and balances that works for the media because we know this, because we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they are doing. "fox news" masquerades as one of these watchdog institutions as the gatekeepers but they operate as a political organization. the lie all the time. they make things up. they slander their opponents. they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations and they'd make no apology for it. they don't even pretend to do differently. all they do is call themselves a news organization and put up -- but the rest of it is quite obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies. the maze running -- raise money. every single potential republican candidate with the exception of mitt romney who was not in office right now is on th

congress passed, lyndon baines johnson signed medicare. one of the principal drivers of that was, we had a poverty rate for seniors at twice the poverty rates they are today because of medical costs. nobody can save enough money to provide for medical care. if you can't buy insurance, which most seniors can't and couldn't and you get sick, you're bankrupt. you lose everything. the principal thing that drove seniors into poverty and bankruptcy in those days was medical costs. medicare was establish. now the greatest legacy proposed here by mr. ryan, the chair of the budget committee, is to end medicare. and he's doing this under the guise of the path to prosperity. the question would be, whose prosperity? not the seniors, perhaps the insurance industry. i'd be happy to yield time back to the gentleman. mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. defazio. i heard you toss out two numbers. one number was the amount of medical -- the percentage of the cost of medical care that seniors now pay. did you say 28%? mr. defazio: about 25% on average of all their

that was under the administration of a lyndon johnson. the war started under the john f. kennedy administration. your timing was a little off. >> the french were involved in that war for many, many years. >> sit down. sit down. >> thank you very much. >> please continue. >> we were very polite when he spoke. we expect the same courtesy from him. obviously, i am wrong. what i would like to talk about is not the specifics of how many documents were compromised or said what to do. what i would like to look at is how we as individuals and organizations and groups of people deal with issues of secrecy. secrecy is something that we have all experienced throughout our history. there are various forms of this. we have religious secrets, as shown by the gnostic sects and the knights templar. we have social secrets such as the freemasons. we have commercial secrets, trade secrets, property and commercial confidence materials. we have criminal secrets. the mafia has a secret code. lastly, we have state secrets. all of these organizations have a commonality on how they deal with thos

that was under lyndon johnson during the vietnam war.d normally be unlikely that mullen will continue. there are reports that obama has been somewhat frustrated with the admiral during the famous bob woodward argument about troop levels and certain levels in afghanistan in 2009 when mullen did not provide alternatives in the way the president seemed to want and it stuck to the single proposal of the military under general petraeus moving forward. host: their discussions asked about the secretary of state and her future. talk a little bit about her role with the national security team and what happens if a change would take place. guest: there were two positive surprises involving hillary clinton and the obama administration. the first surprise is that her relationship with the president has been pretty good, pretty strong. most of us who look at history and when the president appoints someone with an independent political base who is prominent as secretary of state that it is asking for trouble. without going back to harry truman and jim