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because lyndon johnson was such a smart, intuitive politician. he remembered the harry truman losing china charge by the republicans. obama reads history. he knows what was on lyndon's mind and he knows what was on truman's mind and he does not want to be the kind of person who's going to go down in historas the losing president. i mean, one of the most diffict thinks about "haunting legacy," crlie, is to try to understand what is it that presidents go through when they make major decisions about war and peace. these are human beings and they have fears and in obama's mind not only the first black president in american history-- and that's on his mind, too, as something that he cannot be careless about so you can't lose. there's so much of obama that wants simply to win but he faces problems economically, faces problems on the military side and very much like lyndon johnson who went through that whole business in the '06sbout can you have guns and butter? >> rose: did president obama make the wrong decision on afghanistan? >> marvin speaking is?
because lyndon johnson was such a smart, intuitive politician. he remembered the harry truman losing china charge by the republicans. obama reads history. he knows what was on lyndon's mind and he knows what was on truman's mind and he does not want to be the kind of person who's going to go down in historas the losing president. i mean, one of the most diffict thinks about "haunting legacy," crlie, is to try to understand what is it that presidents go through when they make major...
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as much as you can the essential mistake is that barack obama is making is that he believes lyndon johnson's great society entitlements can elevate the poor to prosperity. they can't. in 1965, the poverty rate in this country stood at 14%. now, after untold trillions have been spent fighting poverty, the poverty rate is 14.3%.
as much as you can the essential mistake is that barack obama is making is that he believes lyndon johnson's great society entitlements can elevate the poor to prosperity. they can't. in 1965, the poverty rate in this country stood at 14%. now, after untold trillions have been spent fighting poverty, the poverty rate is 14.3%.
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upon to the dawning of the entitlement state which really started under franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson, medicare, medicare and those splo exploding costs. 40 million americans on medicare, 40 million on medicaid. 24 million earned income tax credit checks. 7 million on unemployment. we've created this massive european style welfare state that simply isn't affordable. >> paul: steve, the president would say, sure, it's sustainable, all you've got to do is raising revenues and missing the other side of the balance sheet, you're not talking revenues. why don't we just raise taxes and that would be fine. >> because we would look like europe and i think that's what
upon to the dawning of the entitlement state which really started under franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson, medicare, medicare and those splo exploding costs. 40 million americans on medicare, 40 million on medicaid. 24 million earned income tax credit checks. 7 million on unemployment. we've created this massive european style welfare state that simply isn't affordable. >> paul: steve, the president would say, sure, it's sustainable, all you've got to do is raising revenues and...
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>> in the modern era, there is not lyndon johnson. the criticism ofim, by david brooks most recently this week, is that he is too much like the senate majority leaderer. the president has the bully pulpit and he used it. at that republicans started screaming bloody murder indicates that they are worried about it. >> charles? >> the problem is that this has the feel of a town where the president, the leader is not beating. he did not propose a budget. well the one he did was voted down by the senate 97-0, it was so preposterous. the democrats in control the senate have not produce a budget in two years. republicans have. we have a president at a full campaign mode was not proposing anything at a public -- who knows whether in private. there is no democratic proposal on the table for a budget. he is demagoguing against medicare and the ryan plan. he has deced do that and that is how you get reelected. that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan which does not p
>> in the modern era, there is not lyndon johnson. the criticism ofim, by david brooks most recently this week, is that he is too much like the senate majority leaderer. the president has the bully pulpit and he used it. at that republicans started screaming bloody murder indicates that they are worried about it. >> charles? >> the problem is that this has the feel of a town where the president, the leader is not beating. he did not propose a budget. well the one he did was...
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>> in the modn era, there is not lyndon johnson. the criticism of him, by david brooks most recently this week, is that he is too much like the senate majority leader. the president has the bully pulpit and he used it. at that republicans started screaming bloody murder indicates that they are worried about it. >> charles? >> the problem is that this has the feel of a town whe the president, the leader is not beating. he did not propose a budget. well the one he did was voted down by the senate 97-0, it was so preposterous. the democrats in control the senate have not produce a budget in two years. republicans have. we have a president at a full campaign mode wawas not proposing anything at a public -- who knows whether in private. there is no democratic proposal on the table for a budget. he is demagoguing against medicare and the ryan plan. he has decided dohat and that is how you get reelected. that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan which does not p
>> in the modn era, there is not lyndon johnson. the criticism of him, by david brooks most recently this week, is that he is too much like the senate majority leader. the president has the bully pulpit and he used it. at that republicans started screaming bloody murder indicates that they are worried about it. >> charles? >> the problem is that this has the feel of a town whe the president, the leader is not beating. he did not propose a budget. well the one he did was voted...
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but he has got to be an arm twister behind the scenes, and he is not lyndon johnson. but this is really, really serious now. this is his moment of leadership. this is no joke. he has got to get it done. >> nina? >> in the modern era, there isn't it a lyndon johnson, and the criticism of him, by david brooks this week, is that he's too much like the senate majority leader. the president has a bully pulpit, and he used it, and that at the republicans started screaming bloody murder indicates that they are worried about it. >> charles? >> the problems this at -- problem is that this has the feel of a town with a leader was not leading. he did not propose a budget -- well, the one he did it was voted down by the senate 97-0, it was so preposterous. the democrats in congress have not proposed a budget in two years. the republicans have. what we have is a president in full campaign mode was not proposing anything in public -- who knows whether in private. it seriously, there is no democratic proposal on the table for a budget. he is demagoguing against medicare and the ryan
but he has got to be an arm twister behind the scenes, and he is not lyndon johnson. but this is really, really serious now. this is his moment of leadership. this is no joke. he has got to get it done. >> nina? >> in the modern era, there isn't it a lyndon johnson, and the criticism of him, by david brooks this week, is that he's too much like the senate majority leader. the president has a bully pulpit, and he used it, and that at the republicans started screaming bloody murder...
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but he has got to be an arm twister behind the scenes, and he is not lyndon johnson. but this is really, really serious now. this is his moment of leadership. this is no joke. he has got to get it done. >> nina? >> in the modern era, there isn't it a lyndon johnson, and the criticism of him, by david brooks this week, is that he's too much like the senate majority leader. the president has a bully pulpit, and he used it, and that at the republicans started screaming bloody murder indicates that they are worried about it. >> charles? >> the problems this at -- problem is that this has the feel of a town with a leader was not leading. he did not propose a budget -- well, the one he did it was voted down by the senate 97-0, it was so preposterous. the democrats in congress have not proposed a budget in two years. the republicans have. what we have is a president in full campaign mode was not proposing anything in public -- who knows whether in private. it seriously, there is no democratic proposal on the table for a budget. he is demagoguing against medicare and the ryan
but he has got to be an arm twister behind the scenes, and he is not lyndon johnson. but this is really, really serious now. this is his moment of leadership. this is no joke. he has got to get it done. >> nina? >> in the modern era, there isn't it a lyndon johnson, and the criticism of him, by david brooks this week, is that he's too much like the senate majority leader. the president has a bully pulpit, and he used it, and that at the republicans started screaming bloody murder...
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i mean, lyndon johnson had lots of experience with african-americans around them. and the presidents from the north are considered like iconic presidents like president kennedy who had no experience with african-americans his whole life. was not after he was interested rather late in his president in 1963 where he started to take notice of this 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 admiring of physical courage and he saw the physical courage of the demonstrators and this impressed him a great deal and by the time his presidency he was assassinated he was a much different kind of president dealing with civil rights than he was initially but, of course, that was cut short. >> host: you know, one of the things that so intrigued me about your book was the bibliography. you had to have a great time looking at all these folks who wrote about their time in the white house, many in the back stairs of the white house and lots of african-americans who worked for pres
i mean, lyndon johnson had lots of experience with african-americans around them. and the presidents from the north are considered like iconic presidents like president kennedy who had no experience with african-americans his whole life. was not after he was interested rather late in his president in 1963 where he started to take notice of this 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...
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library last year it's amazing it's richard nixon that lyndon johnson was accusing of treason. but by then nixon's plan of work south vietnam boycotted the peace talks the war continued and nixon won the white house thanks to it gerald ford was the next republican after nixon left office the same way he entered it by breaking the law jerry ford took over the jury four was never elected and would never have been president had it not been for richard nixon's treason so that's two republicans in office thanks to cold hard trees and then there was ronald reagan elected in one nine hundred eighty one thanks to a little something called the october surprise when his people sabotaged then president jimmy carter's negotiations to release american hostages in iran reagan's people promised the iranians that if they held off on releasing the american hostages and sold after the election when reagan would give them a sweet weapons deal i had investigative journalist robert perry on my radio show earlier today because he just obtained some of the explosive documents from the george h.w. bus
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lyndon johnson, also from texas had experience with african-americans around him. the presidents from the north, many times, some of them are considered iconic presidents in some ways like president kennedy had no experience with african-americans his whole life. he was not interested in the civil rights issue. it's only after he became president and rather later in his presidency in 1963 where he started to take notice of this 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 admiral -- admiring physical courage. he saw the physical courage of the demonstrators. this impressed him a great deal. by the time his president -- he was assassinated, of course, he was much different kind of president dealing with civil rights than he was initially. that was cut short. >> host: you know, one the things that so intrigued me about your book was the biography. because you have -- i mean you had to have -- many of them in the white house and lots of african-americans who worked f
lyndon johnson, also from texas had experience with african-americans around him. the presidents from the north, many times, some of them are considered iconic presidents in some ways like president kennedy had no experience with african-americans his whole life. he was not interested in the civil rights issue. it's only after he became president and rather later in his presidency in 1963 where he started to take notice of this tremendous bubbling up of the civil rights movement. you know, by...
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as much as you can the essential mistake is that barack obama is making is that he believes lyndon johnson'sreat society entitlements can elevate the poor to prosperity. they can't. in 1965, the poverty rate in this country stood at 14%. now, after untold trillions have been spent fighting poverty, the poverty rate is 14.3%. amazing, is it not? the conclusion, america is bankrupting itself with an entitlement philosophy that does little. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, according to a consulting firm mackenzie and company, 20% of american men ages 25 to 64 are currently not working. that's up 13 points since 1970. if the study is true, that's obviously a massive problem. here now to analyze our barack and hard place duo monica crowley and alan colmes. colmes, all of the trillions spent on the poverty programs and the poverty rate is almost exactly the same. >> i have got to disagree with your statement in talking points that somehow this president is like lyndon johnson's great society wanting all these entitlement programs. he has offered to cut medicaid, medicare and soc
as much as you can the essential mistake is that barack obama is making is that he believes lyndon johnson'sreat society entitlements can elevate the poor to prosperity. they can't. in 1965, the poverty rate in this country stood at 14%. now, after untold trillions have been spent fighting poverty, the poverty rate is 14.3%. amazing, is it not? the conclusion, america is bankrupting itself with an entitlement philosophy that does little. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight,...
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the chairman thinks that it is lyndon johnson's fault. i do not think that medicare is a terrible thing. i do not think it has caused the same problem. to have a decent middle-class and social security and medicare is something we should be proud of as a country. medicare costs us a lot of money. almost as much, perhaps the same order of magnitude as the pentagon, $700 billion will go to the military. members of this house and voted to continue to spend money in the camps for structure programs in afghanistan when there are people that continue to be arguing the notion that they would go beyond george bush and keep troops in iraq this year when you -- we are in such a terrible financial situation is a difficult thing for me to understand. the majority of this house and voted to give the pentagon and $17 billion increase. money spent in afghanistan end iraq. i do not believe that members who are willing to spend almost without limit should be telling older people to feel embarrassed about getting adequate medical care. >> i now recognize t
the chairman thinks that it is lyndon johnson's fault. i do not think that medicare is a terrible thing. i do not think it has caused the same problem. to have a decent middle-class and social security and medicare is something we should be proud of as a country. medicare costs us a lot of money. almost as much, perhaps the same order of magnitude as the pentagon, $700 billion will go to the military. members of this house and voted to continue to spend money in the camps for structure programs...
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lyndon johnson came to power in an extraordinary situation. it is not easy to find liberal moments between those two times when the country agree on the gold and was willing to move forward and make progress in the way we would define progress. it is a tougher hall than most people who hold these values so in that respect, significant that teddy roosevelt proposed national health insurance in 1912 and every democratic president since harry truman has tried to pass that and barack obama passed it. there are a lot of weaknesses to it but it is not nothing. the first two years of his presidency was the most consequential democratic presidency in 50 years. it is not chopped liver. i don't like chopped liver. that is point ii. that point lead to the argument i make in my book which i will be signing after this panel. which is about the system and the system is -- what i call the system which have a lot of components. part of it is the filibuster in the hold and part is the legacy of the most corrupt, incompetent and ideologically upset presidency o
lyndon johnson came to power in an extraordinary situation. it is not easy to find liberal moments between those two times when the country agree on the gold and was willing to move forward and make progress in the way we would define progress. it is a tougher hall than most people who hold these values so in that respect, significant that teddy roosevelt proposed national health insurance in 1912 and every democratic president since harry truman has tried to pass that and barack obama passed...
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figures in the book as far as president's goal who have made breakthroughs -- abraham lincoln, and lyndon johnson. it is interesting. he was not known as a pioneer in civil rights throughout his career, but after president kennedy died, in an effort to continue that legacy, he pushed far beyond what kennedy did on civil rights. even at the expense of the democratic party in the south, he did think it was the right thing to do, and he had a lot of criticism over vietnam and other things, but on civil rights, he is a landmark figure. >> going back to the influence question, i think about the four little girls in alabama, the civil rights workers that were slain, i'm just wondering, would the president having these relationships with the people that worked with them, if he was somehow influenced seen the reaction of the people who worked for him? >> that is interesting. one case of this came with bill clinton. when he was a teenager in little rock -- little rock, ark., that is when they had that little rock nine. that stayed with him for the rest of his life. he felt he could not believe the a very
figures in the book as far as president's goal who have made breakthroughs -- abraham lincoln, and lyndon johnson. it is interesting. he was not known as a pioneer in civil rights throughout his career, but after president kennedy died, in an effort to continue that legacy, he pushed far beyond what kennedy did on civil rights. even at the expense of the democratic party in the south, he did think it was the right thing to do, and he had a lot of criticism over vietnam and other things, but on...
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lyndon johnson was challenged in be.he easiest way to lose an incumbent president is to have to fight to battles at once. as much as i come even if i find america's ago with obama, if i thought he was terrible i still wouldn't be against challenging him. i would be building for 2016. >> with that one why don't we opened up to questions from the audience. you can ask about the presidency. you can ask about eric's dietary restrictions. [laughter] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> i can do that. i can be part of it. israel and american jews i want my big issues like pay a lot of attention to it. obama blue in the middle east. there's a very long question. how would one possess obama's dealings with netanyahu and what can we expect from hamas agreement, is that basically it? and egypt. i don't know about egypt. he blew it with regard to the middle east because he started out as he's done altogether too often for many of our case, he started out bold. he made a little resistance and then he ran around. he ran away and yo
lyndon johnson was challenged in be.he easiest way to lose an incumbent president is to have to fight to battles at once. as much as i come even if i find america's ago with obama, if i thought he was terrible i still wouldn't be against challenging him. i would be building for 2016. >> with that one why don't we opened up to questions from the audience. you can ask about the presidency. you can ask about eric's dietary restrictions. [laughter] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >>...
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upon to the dawning of the entitlement state which really started under franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson, medicare, medicare and those splo exploding costs. 40 million americans on medicare, 40 million on medicaid. 24 million earned income tax credit checks. 7 million on unemployment. we've created this massive european style welfare state that simply isn't affordable. >> paul: steve, the president would say, sure, it's sustainable, all you've got to do is raising revenues and missing the other side of the balance sheet, you're not talking revenues. why don't we just raise taxes and that would be fine. >> because we would look like europe and i think that's what the democrats and especially the president wants. europe has very high taxes and one of the ways that europe finances its massive welfare state is through a value added tax on top of the other taxes that they have. i don't knowi i don't think that's the america that american voters want, but that's the decision americans have to make. do we want to raise taxes or everybody is entitled to everyone else's money or we're going to co
upon to the dawning of the entitlement state which really started under franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson, medicare, medicare and those splo exploding costs. 40 million americans on medicare, 40 million on medicaid. 24 million earned income tax credit checks. 7 million on unemployment. we've created this massive european style welfare state that simply isn't affordable. >> paul: steve, the president would say, sure, it's sustainable, all you've got to do is raising revenues and...
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basically reagan was reaching out to the racist democratic base that had been feeling left behind by lyndon johnson signing the voting rights act and things like that. if that and we either of those reagan democrats or republicans these days than in the evidence against you know back and yeah yeah and so i mean you know if even that myth is a myth and then there's the myth of well then the reagan democrats became clinton democrats well maybe maybe not i mean how did the sea merger in for example you what you write today in your piece about tom friedman tom friedman was wrong about the lexus and his famous book the life as it was as the lexus was actually created with huge government subsidies in japan and protectionist policies how is tom friedman wrong now in this whole narrative. well tom friedman has written many many columns kind of giving all my eyes to this mythical centrist road or i think it's a valuable narrative when you're trying to push unpopular policies and if you look right now we see this kind of mainstream media narrative again and again that this standoff is a result of both parti
basically reagan was reaching out to the racist democratic base that had been feeling left behind by lyndon johnson signing the voting rights act and things like that. if that and we either of those reagan democrats or republicans these days than in the evidence against you know back and yeah yeah and so i mean you know if even that myth is a myth and then there's the myth of well then the reagan democrats became clinton democrats well maybe maybe not i mean how did the sea merger in for...
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the general welfare of america when for example franklin roosevelt passed the new deal or when lyndon johnson created the great society and cut poverty in afternoon ited states and for years the republicans have always a good general welfare they opposed the new deal they opposed medicare they filibustered things like unemployment benefits food assistance programs and now they're out rageous demands in the debt limit debate republicans with their libertarian and agenda read the general welfare clause differently than the founding fathers did they think the best way for the government to promote the general welfare is to get the hell out of the way and leave it up to the mythical free market the billionaires and the transnational corporations to promote the general welfare health insurance corporations that use death panels to determine if your organ transplant will hurt their bottom line like will corporations the spew of crude all over our oceans and suffocate us with the missions as they laugh all the way to the bank with their record breaking profits like banks and gamble with our money an
the general welfare of america when for example franklin roosevelt passed the new deal or when lyndon johnson created the great society and cut poverty in afternoon ited states and for years the republicans have always a good general welfare they opposed the new deal they opposed medicare they filibustered things like unemployment benefits food assistance programs and now they're out rageous demands in the debt limit debate republicans with their libertarian and agenda read the general welfare...
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would be poor people on the street i don't think there would be people who are actually you know lyndon johnson poverty in half in the united states and for a half years after he built the foundation he didn't eliminate. the foundation in are going to be an asset so what so you can never be programmed to build a program that works all right for a couple of years and then and others and you know what it was floundering before that before too quickly yes reagan reagan yes ross homeless people on the streets we don't want to go out is not to remember you know not why did you decide we did not have almost people on the streets before reagan i think raising a video of him kind of like that voice dragging the homeless people out on the even that money just to shut down the mental hospitals stop and the bernie goldberg in his book talks about how like when reagan no it's about homeless but the day after like couldn't get some of our own homeless recently limited there's no more stories about homelessness and everything's fine fine in the world i have not seen a failure stories where almost it's an ong
would be poor people on the street i don't think there would be people who are actually you know lyndon johnson poverty in half in the united states and for a half years after he built the foundation he didn't eliminate. the foundation in are going to be an asset so what so you can never be programmed to build a program that works all right for a couple of years and then and others and you know what it was floundering before that before too quickly yes reagan reagan yes ross homeless people on...
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insurance program ever since it was created in the summer of one thousand nine hundred sixty five by lyndon johnson as part of his great society program here's an example that i shared with you from the washington post on march sixth one thousand nine hundred three senate budget committee chairman republican pete domenici warned of the nation's governors the other day medicare to me bankrupt in two and a half years and the subway is found to put the brakes on its burgeoning costs and this one from the new york times in january twenty second one nine hundred eighty nine the phone that pays all government reimbursement for hospital care of medicare patients is projected to become insolvent in the next decade or so in fact there's a long history of predicting that medicare is going to go broke any minute the new york times continued that tradition wednesday of this week by writing officials have said that the program which provides health care to people sixty five and older is not sustainable in its current form really fortunately the real economists over at the center for economic and policy research
insurance program ever since it was created in the summer of one thousand nine hundred sixty five by lyndon johnson as part of his great society program here's an example that i shared with you from the washington post on march sixth one thousand nine hundred three senate budget committee chairman republican pete domenici warned of the nation's governors the other day medicare to me bankrupt in two and a half years and the subway is found to put the brakes on its burgeoning costs and this one...
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think the poor people on the street i don't think there would be people who are actually you know lyndon johnson poverty in half in the united states for now half years cut in half he he built the foundation engine eliminate that he could build the foundation in over the last episode so let's say you can never be programmed if you don't have a program that works all right for a couple years and then and others and you know what it was found very before that before bill clinton reagan reagan yes ross homeless people on the streets we don't . have to remember you are not going to go so we did not have almost people on the streets before reagan i think everybody's video of him kind of like the voice dragging the homeless people out on leaving that money just to shut down the mental hospitals stop and the pretty goldberg in his book talks about how like when reagan oh it's all about homeless what could they after likely to get some of our own homeless recently limited there's no more stories about homelessness and everything's fine fine in the world but i have not seen a failure stories about homele
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what would lyndon johnson do in a situation like this? not this. >> that's true. it is time to play hardball. i think democrats and progressives were heartened, i think, by the president's press conference last wednesday when he essentially drew a line in the sand. it's unclear whether he moved that line or kind of kept it where it was today, but, you know, we'll see. what's the ending sneer. >> here's the end game. this is why from the beginning i've been shocked. the end game is sachs owns a lot of treasuries. people think it's the chinese, no, you have treasuries in your 401(k) and are we really going to -- is wall street going to tolerate running through the red light on this? >> a lot of the worst disasters happen without trying to get to that point. everybody believes you're going to be able to pull off the highway before you hit the traffic jam, then you discover it's something unimaginably worse. that's where, i think, the president has disserved the country, his party, i hold no brief for his party. i would like to see this ultimate deal look more like th
what would lyndon johnson do in a situation like this? not this. >> that's true. it is time to play hardball. i think democrats and progressives were heartened, i think, by the president's press conference last wednesday when he essentially drew a line in the sand. it's unclear whether he moved that line or kind of kept it where it was today, but, you know, we'll see. what's the ending sneer. >> here's the end game. this is why from the beginning i've been shocked. the end game is...
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i still remember lyndon johnson talking about that light at the end of the tunnel. and how the joke was probably some vietcong. [laughter] mariska is a deep sadness that i feel to even raise that. he knows that. he knows about the light at the end of the tunnel. that is why he played around with the phraseology. that is what he is thinking in what is in his mind. to me, that is very sad because it suggests that the end of the day he really doesn't know how we will get out of their. he plays with different formulas kicking the can down the road. when he started december 2009 saying he will have the surge troops go in in that was 30,000. they did not get there until the tail end of the summer so they have won fighting season and they claim to have done quite well. but at this point* you can be sympathetic to the military point* of view to say if you want to get another two or three seasons you could hurt the other guys. general petraeus told the number of his people the most important thing for us right now is to hurt them and turn them bowed. and then they will come
i still remember lyndon johnson talking about that light at the end of the tunnel. and how the joke was probably some vietcong. [laughter] mariska is a deep sadness that i feel to even raise that. he knows that. he knows about the light at the end of the tunnel. that is why he played around with the phraseology. that is what he is thinking in what is in his mind. to me, that is very sad because it suggests that the end of the day he really doesn't know how we will get out of their. he plays...
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thinker among all us, bill moyers, founding organizer of the peace corps, press secretary to lyndon johnsone deepest, brightest, most fascinating interviews from bill moyers journal are collected in this book of the same name. bill, so happy to have you here. >> pleasure to be with you, rachel. >> one of the things i was struck by in reading your book and watching the show is the respect that you have for individual journalists. and the contrasting worry you have about the media as an institution today. how do you think we are doing at explaining our role to each other? >> not that well. i mean, some journalists do it very well, and others don't. but we don't explain it very well to the public at large. and i guess we can't. the murdoch scandal doesn't help. a group of people already held in low repute by the public at large. in fact, it's very interesting that what rupert murdoch had been doing to the royal family, to parties of england, to celebrities, didn't create much stir. in fact, lots of people liked it. but when the hacking apparently and allegedly went into the family of the phone
thinker among all us, bill moyers, founding organizer of the peace corps, press secretary to lyndon johnsone deepest, brightest, most fascinating interviews from bill moyers journal are collected in this book of the same name. bill, so happy to have you here. >> pleasure to be with you, rachel. >> one of the things i was struck by in reading your book and watching the show is the respect that you have for individual journalists. and the contrasting worry you have about the media as...
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since lyndon johnson in 1964 to win that state.he president has an advantage there. the larger the population in that section, the more that puts it in place for president obama. host: iowa, dan, democratic line. have you been seeing candidates out and about? caller: 0, yes. it's pretty sad. it's nothing but politics. whoever does end up getting the big prize is going to be the one that's comes up and tries to repeal the 2010 vote by the supreme court, citizens united. that has given corporations control of the vote, control power. they can funnel as much money wherever they want. they can tie up anybody in the courtroom because they do have the money. this alone is the reason why we see an ongoing political thing year to year. it does not take a break any more. host: are you getting out to meet any republican candidates about the issues even though you are a democrat? caller: yes, i work with people that get along with michelle bachmann and stuff like that. it's a corporate game. why would people with millions of dollars want to r
since lyndon johnson in 1964 to win that state.he president has an advantage there. the larger the population in that section, the more that puts it in place for president obama. host: iowa, dan, democratic line. have you been seeing candidates out and about? caller: 0, yes. it's pretty sad. it's nothing but politics. whoever does end up getting the big prize is going to be the one that's comes up and tries to repeal the 2010 vote by the supreme court, citizens united. that has given...
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bacterial infection during her presidential campaign and received high-profile visitors, including lyndon johnson. presidents have also visited to support the wounded troops, and entertainers dropped by to help the soldiers forget their troubles, at least for a few hours. in recent years the hospital became a cutting-edge facility for prosthetics for soldiers losing a limb, and also suffered a black eye in 2007 for substandard living conditions in one of the outpatient buildings. the writing was on the wall. it was decided in 2005 walter reed should close its doors. the oldest buildings on the walter reed campus will be saved as historic landmarks, while some will be shops or residences, and others turned over to the state department, but the important work of helping the veterans will go on. the new facility will be the walter reed national military medical center. >> the air force is trying to determine what went wrong with an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile this morning. flight commanders destroyed the minutemen 3 icbm five minutes after takeoff over safety concerns. it was the seco
bacterial infection during her presidential campaign and received high-profile visitors, including lyndon johnson. presidents have also visited to support the wounded troops, and entertainers dropped by to help the soldiers forget their troubles, at least for a few hours. in recent years the hospital became a cutting-edge facility for prosthetics for soldiers losing a limb, and also suffered a black eye in 2007 for substandard living conditions in one of the outpatient buildings. the writing...
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he was a former aide to lyndon johnson, cabinet secretary under jimmy carter. when he left government he found add public interest think tank devoted to fighting drug abuse. and in 2008, the same year we were buying our drugs online, the same year the woman south of seattle was buying hers online, joseph califano was writing to google telling their chairman and executive chairman, erik schmidt, that google was filled with prominent displays of ads for rogue pharmacies suggesting that google is profiting from advertisements for illegal sales of controlled prescription drugs online. google says it stopped the practice last year and it's filed lawsuits against some of the online drug advertisers, but califano says these sites appear and thin disappear, often overnight. >> i wrote to mr. schmidt and asked him, please, you have to look at what's going on. why are we having such an explosion in prescription drug abuse among teenagers and kids? but where do they get them? >> reporter: google, he said, never responded. and google still isn't responding, telling cnn thr
he was a former aide to lyndon johnson, cabinet secretary under jimmy carter. when he left government he found add public interest think tank devoted to fighting drug abuse. and in 2008, the same year we were buying our drugs online, the same year the woman south of seattle was buying hers online, joseph califano was writing to google telling their chairman and executive chairman, erik schmidt, that google was filled with prominent displays of ads for rogue pharmacies suggesting that google is...
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since lyndon johnson in 1964 to win that state. the president has an advantage there. the larger the population in that section, the more that puts it in place for president obama. host: iowa, dan, democratic line. have you been seeing candidates out and about? caller: 0, yes. it's pretty sad. it's nothing but politics. whoever does end up getting the big prize is going to be the one that's comes up andries to repeal the 2010 vote by the supreme court, citizens united. that has given corporations control of the vote, control power. they can funneas much money wherever they want. they can tie up anybod in the courtroom because they do have e money. this alone is the reason why we see an ongoing political thing year to year. it does t take a break any more. host: are you getting out to meet any republican candidates about the issues even though you are a democrat? caller: yes, i work with people that get along with michelle bachmann and stuff like that. it's a corporate game. why would people with millions of dollars wt to run for of
since lyndon johnson in 1964 to win that state. the president has an advantage there. the larger the population in that section, the more that puts it in place for president obama. host: iowa, dan, democratic line. have you been seeing candidates out and about? caller: 0, yes. it's pretty sad. it's nothing but politics. whoever does end up getting the big prize is going to be the one that's comes up andries to repeal the 2010 vote by the supreme court, citizens united. that has given...
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lyndon johnson running against barry goldwater? >> yeah, this is the classic of modern negative campaign ad. the daisy ad. the girl picking flowers. >> john: starts innocently enough. >> and it's going to start a countdown for a nuclear bomb being dropped and implication is that barry goldwater was a mad bomber. a magazine called fact wrote a name claim being he was insane. >> and it was talked about so much, it had impact. >> these are the stakes to make a world in which all of god's children can live, or to go into the dark. >> we must either love each other or we must die. >> there was a ton of stuff slung at barry goldwater, that he was a fascist, that he was a member of the john bird society which he was not, that he was like hitler or stalin according to some psychiatrists who kind of psycho analyzed him from a distance and he won a defamation suit against the fact magazine. >> we have a cover of the magazine that made the claims by the psychiatrists and he sued and they had made it up? >> yes, but that has not gone away, but
lyndon johnson running against barry goldwater? >> yeah, this is the classic of modern negative campaign ad. the daisy ad. the girl picking flowers. >> john: starts innocently enough. >> and it's going to start a countdown for a nuclear bomb being dropped and implication is that barry goldwater was a mad bomber. a magazine called fact wrote a name claim being he was insane. >> and it was talked about so much, it had impact. >> these are the stakes to make a world...
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he was ahead of hud under i believe lyndon johnson.before that their african-americans in the white house. talk about what we did before we were cabinet members. >> you know, in the very beginning course we had sort of been appalling history of our president and the race issue. eight of our first half as slaves in the white house. they were the virginia planters, southern planters and they thought that slavery was part of their
he was ahead of hud under i believe lyndon johnson.before that their african-americans in the white house. talk about what we did before we were cabinet members. >> you know, in the very beginning course we had sort of been appalling history of our president and the race issue. eight of our first half as slaves in the white house. they were the virginia planters, southern planters and they thought that slavery was part of their