because he thought he was a crook. >> oh, no, no, he had his circle of advisers and lyndon johnson wasle. >> so he didn't trust johnson? >> to say no trust isn't quite accurate, just not his trust. >> yeah, but i think he didn't trust johnson. i think he thought johnson would undermine him if he was let into the inner circle. that's based on my research. >> bobby clearly didn't like lyndon johnson. >> rfk was jfk's closest advisor. >> the book comes out tomorrow. when we come back, mit romney will enter the no spin zone. can he defeat president obama if he gets the nomination? a new poll says yes. i will evaluate any discussion with romney, and that will be interesting. we will be right back with the governor. ( grunting ) at bayer, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanc aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it's clinically proven to relieve pain ice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. this is not how witness protection works! when we set you up with that little hardware store we d

because he thought he was a crook. >> oh, no, no, he had his circle of advisers and lyndon johnson wasde that circle. >> so he didn't trust johnson? >> to say no trust isn't quite accurate, just not his trust. >> yeah, but i think he didn't trust johnson. i think he thought johnson would undermine him if he was let into the inner circle. that's based on my research. >> bobby clearly didn't like lyndon johnson. >> rfk was jfk's closest advisor. >> the book comes out tomorrow. when we come back, mit romney will enter the no spin zone. can he defeat president obama if he gets the nomination? a new poll says yes. i will evaluate any discussion with romney, and that will be interesting. >> bill o'reilly. in the follow-up section tonight. in hatchup between mit romney and barack obama, the governor wins, but obviously many polled are undecided. here's mit romney, fresh off the debate last night in florida. first of all, you guys all ganged up on rick perry. was that nice, governor? >> you know it's a funny thing about debates. everybody is fair game, myself included, as you noticed. >> so yo

because he thought he was a crook. >> oh, no, no, he had his circle of advisers and lyndon johnson wasutside that circle. >> so he didn't trust johnson? >> to say no trust isn't quite accurate, just not his trust. >> yeah, but i think he didn't trust johnson. i think he thought johnson would undermine him if he was let into the inner circle. that's based on my research. >> bobby clearly didn't like lyndon johnson. >> rfk was jfk's closest advisor. >> the book comes out tomorrow. when we come back, mit romney will enter the no spin zone. can he defeat president obama if he gets the nomination? a new poll says yes. i will evaluate any dscussion with romney, and that will be interesting. interesting. we wl l [ whispering ] ok, here's your room key, the crib is already there. great. thank you so much. [ male announcer ] we provide great service, so you can stay you. holiday inn express. stay you. [ tv announcer ] today's trivia question -- what's the hardest play in baseball? the unassisted triple play. the unassisted triple play. [ male announcer ] stay smart and book smart. book early an

c-span: had you been back to the white house for that kind of a social evening since lyndon johnson had been president? >> guest: yes, i was invited to a ceremony by the bushes for mrs. johnson, and i had been there during the carter administration when i worked here in washington as assistant secretary of education under shirley hufstedler, when jimmy carter and rosalynn were there. i believe that i'd been to a reception when president reagan was there. c-span: but sitting there that night at that dinner in the blue room, looking back on the time when you were responsible for those kinds of things and making them happen, what were you thinking? what were you thinking about the white house, this president, your experience? >> guest: i am a clinton supporter so i was thrilled to be at his table, and this young man doing the best he can by his country. i was thrilled at that and to see old friends, but a thousand ghosts pass through your mind of moments when you entered that house. we entered under a very dark curtain, the death of president kennedy, and i will never forget mrs. johnson,

for instance, there are caustic remarks about lyndon b. johnsonnd his role as vice president and later as president. she revealed that her husband and his brother bobby kennedy worried what would become of a country if johnson ever bebeme president. her daughter, caroline, put the full oral history tapes into a new book. you decided not to edit them. must have been very tempting. >> yeah, it was tempting. can i hear her voice in my mind. i can't believe i said that, or, i wish i added something, or, i changed my mind later. i think it's really important to realize the value, as well as the limitations, of an oral history. and once you start making changes, it's -- what do you do and it's not my oral history. >> reporter: i think people are going to read when she said about lyndon johnson and go, oh, my gosh. >> it's funny, because she was really fond of lyndon johnson. she found him really amusing and warm-hearted. i hope people will listen to the tapes and then go beyond them and try to figure out what else is going into what's said. so -- i thin

in fact, it was a better batting average than any president except lyndon johnson since the second worldbut the last two years i was in office i had the partisanship in the democratic party because at that time senator ted kennedy had decided to run against me and some of the more liberal democrats didn't want to see me have successes. so i experienced a little bit of what president obama experiences every day. that is, an almost total reluctance on the part of any republican in the house or senate to give him any support that would bring credit to his administration. so he has a difficult, almost insurmountable problem in dealing with congress. so it's totally different. and i think the whole episode that we just described in washington, the environment, is mirrored in the country. the country was not polarized when i was in the white house, or when i ran for office, either. and that's been brought about by the unlimited infusion of enormous amounts of money into the political process. not only during the campaign itself but after the campaign's over the lobbyists have unlimited funds t

. >> her husband did not support a lyndon johnson presidency. >> she was fond of lyndon johnson. she found him amusing and warm hearted. >> caroline kennedy compiled the recordings in a new book. >> i can hear her voice in my mind. i think it is important to realize the value as well as the limitations of an oral history. once you start making changes, what do you do? it is not my oral history. >> there are lighter moments. it shows what life was like in the white house with young children. >> i always thought it was so funny. after people used his bathroom that men could use after dinner -- there were all of these floating animals in the tub. >> photographs illustrating the early years of the beatles will be sold at auction might to this month in new york. performing as an up-and-coming band in homburg -- in hamburg, the images were captured by a young german photographer. >> four faces that change music forever. the beatles are instantly recognizable now, but when these rare photographs were taken, they were still just an up-and- coming band. >> the beatles' first arrived on th

and surprising revelation, new detailings of what jfk really thought about the prospect of lyndon johnsoning president. >>> and privacy breach. how the personal information of some hospital patients was exposed online. >>> several memorials will be held around the country this weekend to honor the thousands of lives lost in the 9/11 terror attacks. in shanksville, pennsylvania, a memorial for the heroes who fought hijackers aboard flight 93. one of the memorials will be unveil unveiled this weekend. we have mar ra compose who is there in shanksville. i'm expecting the turnout will be very big? >> yes, from the chairs put out for the dedication, yes. many dignitaries are scheduled to be here and former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton and vice president joe biden. behind me, you can see the memorial and it is covered so you can't get a great look at it, but you see a memorial tho victims of flight 93. it is a white marble wall and inscribed with the 33 passengers a seven crewers who were aboard the flight. that is one of the hijacked planes that did not reach the destination. you

does he have normal conversations and normal meals. >> we don't talk about lyndon johnson ever. not ever. when i do research for him i figure through osmosis what he wants to get because he never likes to talk about what he's writing about. >> charlie: why. >> he feels if h talks b it won't come out as good when he's writing it. >>harlie: i would ask him the same question about you but he's not here. so what's his, what makes bob caro the great bioaphe that he is, hard work, attentio to detail, he does a thousand interviews, he reads erything. >> he's such a great writer. it just brings everything to life. i just think he's a novelist. >> charlie: he can put you in the moment. >> right. even with me, we go like to a place like fountain and just makes everything so exciting. i don't think that johnson and anybody else would be as exciting. >> charlie: johnson would be a different subject in somebody else's hands. >> i think so. >> chaie: the johnson people in the beginning, it was around johnson in the first volume was crazy. >> well, they didn't like it. i don't think they -- i

lyndon johnson really ultimately was the kind of ac mark e of sustaining the notion that government had a part to play, a benevolent part to play inamerican life. >> rose: and he called it the great society. >> indeed. in some ways kind of an unfortunate phrase. but he was civil rights act, voting act, medare, wherever you look, he really kind of was unem brarsed about redeeming the promise of the new deal. >> rose: based on franklin roosevelt. >> exactly so. >> rose: in more ways than one. >> but the destruction of lyndon johnson, the vietnam war left a murmur where it was matter of liberal con placeence and offense certainly in the center left that t case for gernment, the hamiltonian case for government did not need really to be argued. or if it did, it only was argued among and between the high minded. the matter of greater or lesser, tinkering with the social fabric, in the matter of health reform and so on. and built into success, really, was to also, the certain sense of embarrassment about being part of the new deal legacy n respect of welfare, built into wanting to move, toward

so when lyndon johnson looked at the poor, he could believe it was because either of their race, most of them were african-americans then, the mexican americans in south texas where johnson grew up, and rural whites in places like appalachia, the ozark mountains in my home state, who were far away from the center of any economic activity. and then things began to change. in world war ii to 1980, the bottom 90% of americans claimed 65% of the national income, the top 10% got 35%. that was enough equality to build the world's greatest middle class, and enough inequality to encourage people to work hard and award them for innovation. it made it work. in the last 30 years, those numbers have changed a lot. the bottom 90% have gone from 65 to 52% of the national income. the top 10% have gone from 35 to 48% of the national income. the top 1% have gone from 9 to 21% of the national income. and so there's not as much to go around. now, we were beginning to reverse that in my second term, when the labor markets got so tight, for the only time in 30 years, the incomes of the bottom 20% of worke

at least at the time she made the recording, jacquelyn kennedy didn't have much confidence in lyndon b. johnsonan ride on some of the great things jack did and a lot of them will go forward because they can't be stopped, the civil rights, the tax bill, the gold range stuff. and maybe you'll do something more about the alliance and everything, but when some really big crisis happens, that's when they're going to miss jack. and i want them to know it's because they don't have that kind of president and not because it was inevitable. >> the tapes also shows a insecurity and a vulnerability of the first lady when she talks about the perception that she wasn't good for her husband's campaign. >> i was always a liability to him until we got to the white house. and he never asked me to change or said anything about it. everyone thought i was a snob in newport, with bouffant hair and wore french clothes and hated politics. and when because i was often having babies, i wasn't able to campaign and be around with him as much as i could have. and he'd get so upset for me when something like that came out.

he had pictures of him, ministering to lyndon johnson when lyndon johnson was at the hospital, the navy hospital in bethesda maryland. reverend wright, a marine, was assisting with the medical care, but my father again was actually further over than reverend wright and talking about reverend fight how can you possibly say this i was telling my friends, listen you should listen to my old man, my father was. but i wanted people to understand, number one, again reverend wright wasn't a marginal figure in black america, he represented a considerable and historic stream of faults within black america. and i wanted people to understand the experiences that would believe someone of reverend light speed scheiffer advantage to take the position that he took. and i use my father to help with that pedagogical purpose. my father was born in 1917 and louisiana. he suffered terribly under the white supremacist oppression. my parents were refugees from the jim crow south. i was born in columbia, south carolina in 1954. i asked my father, you know, why did you leave? my father said st. outcome he left

at least at the time she made the recording, jacquelyn kennedy didn't have much confidence in lyndon b. johnsonn can ride on some of the great things jack did and a lot of them will go forward because they can't be stopped, the civil rights, the tax bill, the gold range stuff. and maybe you'll do something more about the alliance and everything, but when some really big crisis happens, that's when they're going to miss jack. and i want them to know it's because they don't have that kind of president and not because it was inevitable. >> the tapes also shows a insecurity and a vulnerability of the first lady when she talks about the perception that she wasn't good for her husband's campaign. >> i was always a liability to him until we got to the white house. and he never asked me to change or said anything about it. everyone thought i was a snob in newport, with bouffant hair and wore french clothes and hated politics. and when because i was often having babies, i wasn't able to campaign and be around with him as much as i could have. and he'd get so upset for me when something like that came ou

was fond of lyndon johnson and really loved lady byrd. >> reporter: there she is talking about lbj's>> lyndon as vice president didn't just do anything. but it was all right. it was fine. rrl aga . >> reporter: again, four months after her husband's assassination. she doesn't think johnson is keeping control of laos and vietnam. >> so, that's the way chaos starts. >> and i think she actually liked lbj at times. but will he be able to stand up in a crisis? so, that was an interesting prof if i at the time. >> reporter: and keep in mind, bobby is going to mount his own campaign for president. >> bobby and lbj had this mortal hatred. >> reporter: so, she and bobby kennedy are determined to make sure lyndon johnson doesn't take credit for her husband's legacy. >> talking about lyndon, and people will think i'm better, but i'm not so bitter now. but i just want it to be put in context the kind of president jack was and the kind lyndon is. >> reporter: still ahead, that marriage that has intrigued us for decades. and the fragile young widow who bears a nation's grief. [ female announcer ]

but, you know, i have met lyndon johnson and i can tell you obama is no lyndon johnson.uldn't vote for president obama. president obama is in the deepest hole i ever saw for any incumbent president, and he is frightening to the american people, in terms of where they fear he would take this country in a second term, devoid of any concern for re-election. so the fact of the father is beating president obama is not much of a challenge for anybody that was on the stage last night. the question that we ask is, moving the ball in the direction of restoration of america to its rightful place of prosperity and leadership in the world, fairness and justice and equality for all, that is the person we are looking for, and so we're looking for a champion to beat him, not a person who will take the office and, you know, serve as an inconvenience minimizer, getting by without any great accomplishments for the country. jon: it's been a little more than 12 hours since the debate ended last night. who do you think won? >> i think you've got to give romney style. obviously he's been at i

kennedy talks about lyndon johnson's own self-doubt.s a good president from a truly great one. >> when we came to somebody's house in georgetown the other night, got very drunk and said i don't know if i'm capable to be president, if my equipment is adequate. people were thinking i'm bitter. but i'm not bitter. i want it to be put in context the kind of president that jack was and the kind of president that lyndon was. some of the great things that jack did, can't be stopped. when something really crisis happens, that's the difference. i just want them to know because they don't have that kind of president but not because it's inevitable. >>> joining me now to discuss is george will, cokie roberts and abc's senior political correspondent jonathan karl, george, she did, jackie captured a truism that president's mettle is tested in a crisis, is this president rising to that bar? >> i don't think so. his default position is, give a speech. he has astonishing faith in his persuasive powers. it's refuted by evidence. he went to massachusetts

kennedy was opposed to lyndon johnson from becoming president and talked to robert about preventing itrom happening. and in sweden, hate when this happens, a drunk moose got stuck in a tree after eating too many fermented apples. it's not uncommon there. the branches were sawed off to help the moose, it sobered up and made its way back to the woods. and here's the first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,295 after falling 119 points yesterday. the s&p was down 12 points. the nasdaq lost 19. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo, the nikkei dipped 55 points. while in hong kong, the hang seng shed 46. >>> well, when the fed chairman speaks, wall street tends to listen. investors didn't like what they didn't hear. stocks tumbled after ben bernanke delivered an economic outlook which includes no stimulation of investment measures. investors had hoped for some kind of cash injection. a rise in weekly jobless claims added to yesterday's gloom. today we'll see what they thought of president obama's jobs package. g-7 finance ministers meet in

president crying in his bedroom over the bay of pigs fiasco, and being privately dismissive of lyndon johnson, his successor. >> bobby told me this later and i know jack said it to me sometimes. he said, oh, god, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if lyndon was president. so many times he'd say if there was ever a problem. >> reporter: her view of lbj was also influenced, historians say, by this call a month after her husband's death, two days before christmas, 1963. >> i hope that you are doing all right. >> oh, i'm doing fine. thank you. >> you know how much we love you. you have a good christmas, dear. >> thank you. the same to you. >> good night. >> reporter: hours later she learned he was showing off for a room full of reporters. other snapshots. remember how she charmed french president de gaulle? >> i am the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris and i enjoyed it. >> reporter: in private she called de gaulle an egomaniac and martin luther king, jr., a phony. at the time, fbi director j. edgar hoover was trying to incite divisions between the kennedys and dr.

kennedy was fiercely opposed to lyndon johnson ever becoming president and even talked with brother robert about preventing it from happening. johnson was sworn in after jfk's assassination. >>> and in sweden, you don't see this every day. a drunk moose got stuck in a tree after eating too many fermented apples. apparently it's not uncommon there. after some branches were sawed off to help the moose, it eventually sobered up, got back up and returned to the woods. happy ending there. >>> now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,295 after falling 119 points yesterday. the s&p was down 12 points. the nasdaq lost 19. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, the nikkei dipped 55 points. while in hong kong, the hang seng shed 46. >>> when the fed chairman speaks, wall street listens, and yesterday investors didn't like what they didn't hear. stocks tumbled after fed chief ben bernanke delivered an economic outlook which included no indications of new stimulus measures. investors had been hoping for some kind of cash injection to boost the fla

kennedy quoted her husband saying of vice president lyndon johnson "oh, god, can you ever imagine what?" she described martin luther king as a phony and french president charles de gaulle as an go maniac. but throughout the interviews she described her husband as courageous, kind, and sensitive. one of their lowest moments came during the cuban missile crisis when he called her at their virginia weekend home and asked her to return to washington. >> it was just so unlike him. i could tell from his voice it was wrong and that's the whole point of being married, you can sense trouble in their voice and you musn't ask why. so we came right back. >> reporter: the missile crisis lasted more than a week-- one of the few times americans thought a soviet nuclear attack was a real possibility. >> i said, please don't send me away to camp david, me and the children. please don't send me anywhere. i just want to be on the lawn when it happens. i just want to be with you and i want to die with you and the children do, too. >> reporter: today would have been their 58th anniversary. chip reid, cbs n

he went on to lose to lyndon johnson, but many say his candidacy laid the historic groundwork for what was to become the reagan administration years. frank rich writes, "whatever perry's 2012's electoral fate, his lightning ascent is final proof if any further is needed in the day of tea party gop that a bipartisan consensus in america is as unachievable now as it was after 1964." i'm skeptical of what rich writes, but he's a smart guy. let's go to these questions, do you think, richard wolffe, you studied the politics of this presidency better than anybody, how do you see the argument here. let's start with the right wing, is this going to be a right-wing victory in this nomination process? when it ends up in tampa next fall, at this time next year, will we end up with a conservative candidate? >> i'll put money on that. the energy of the party is for an extreme candidate that doesn't want to have anything to do with the center, with moderates, with obama's position. >> that's what i think. i think the party of heat and hatred to some extent needs a head, that's got to match the heat

administration back to lyndon johnson has had the same basic bottom lines and obama hasn't departed from that. what he changed was the tone, of course. >> the claim about the 1967 borders was false, of course? >> right. there has been some twisting of obama's actual positions on this. he wanted to use the 1967 borders as a starting point but for a land swap to take place and essentially for the parties to work it out themselves and make their own piece -- basket -- peace. bull your question was -- what was your question? [laughter] >> about the political pressure the >> right, that's very important. i want to go back to that because the administration, i think you did see obama responding to some domestic political pressure from his own base when he was speaking before the u.n. this week and he was emphasizing we really do stand with israel. it was a much more lopsided story than he's told in the past, much more sympathetic to the israelis, and that was a message to his base. i don't know how much he's really at risk of losing jewish voters. gwen: and netanyahu was, got up and spoke toda

bobby kennedy for instance offered to resign when lyndon johnson became president and lyndon johnson said no. go grieve your brother and a year or so later said it is time to take this out and ask bobby kennedy to leave. fillmore does what no other accidental president has done. he accepts every one of these resignations when they're offered the day that he is inaugurated. here we have a president in a great political crisis with congress debating this, southerners ranting and northerners ranting. with texas saying they will invade new mexico which taylor felt was absurd. taylor knew the terrain. he would have personally hand the governor of texas the way andrew jackson promised. not threatened but promised to lead an army into columbia and hang the governor of south carolina in the nullification crisis but taylor is upset but fulmer is upset by the fact the texans might invade mexico. what does he do? fires the secretary of war and secretary of the interior and everybody else. he then spends the first three weeks of his administration trying to put it together. gets most people in o

according to your your writing used his knowledge of john kennedy's womanizing to ensure that lyndon johnson became vice president he wrote relied on dirty tricks to stay in office under kennedy and subverted the warren commission's probe into the investigation of his death do i have it right. here i think you have it generally right on a t.v. program one can talk about it too closely i think the last of the elements of what you just said are the most important. that in a sense he did subvert the warren commission but it's a bigger thing than that you know people too well when i wrote that book. old media . well surprise surprise on his sexuality and the more flowery bits that i reported about that from the first time conversation with people and in most places. it was the way he imbued he abused the system that had chemical abuse the democracy that is most disturbing the way in which he would. have hit effectively have these agents as spies. in the u.s. senate and in the congress the way in which and i talked to some people who had had personal experience of this the way in which he would s

and he knows if -- >> and of course, lyndon johnson wasn't. he read bible scriptures -- >> he's an historical figure of incredible significance. and if he's a one-term president, some will write him off in history as historical accident. he's going to run again, but he's going to have to figure out a better plan than he's got right now or he'll be in big trouble. >> i wonder how excited people around him are that are close to him for him running again. you do get the sense talking to people in the white house that most of the people in obama's closest quarters feel like he's doing america a favor. and he hears at the end of the day that america is not worthy of him. i just -- i think it's a possibility at some point if the numbers keep going down that somebody like hillary could step in. >> i think he would want -- i think he does have the george h.w. bush model very much in his head that he wants that to be a noble fight that he loses and he can say he was right. i don't think there's any chance. >> and that's what i see in latest proposal. i

s second bill of rights never came to fruition his new deal did and so too did lyndon johnson's great society and from after world war two until reagan our nation spent spread freedom to more and more americans by caring for each other by everyone pitching in to create a social safety net including the rich who paid an income tax rate over seventy percent for the first million or so and most of the time above ninety percent and what happened was more and more americans were free to chase down their dreams be artists and inventors to find that perfect job to teach and to build they were free to spend more time with their families to take vacations they were free to dream and to pursue those dreams and the explosion of innovation and opportunity in america during the period from the one nine hundred forty s. to the one nine hundred eighty s. was the result of that freedom that's because they weren't constantly living on the edge constantly living in need they weren't and assess if this men and women they were free to quit a dead end job because they knew it wasn't the only way they coul

like that the history of america i mean lyndon johnson cut poverty in half in four years of the great society he was the classic redistributionist politician who you're talking about and when he cut poverty in half the effect of that was that he created an entire generation. of basically black middle class in the united states that didn't exist before that or to a large extent it makes exist you know what i would dispute that according to thomas so will the greed economists research there was a thriving black middle class and as you put it there's always a long wait long before many others wanted long before the war on poverty and the great wall and any obligation to racialize it because a lot of the a lot of the middle class that emerged as a result the great society was white. far more people who are white and poverty are the middle class no one in the middle class who didn't have the urge because of the great society but the no but it was certainly helped i would dispute that ok so so your argument is that poor people should not be allowed to vote no it was never i never said that

things are just going to be -- >> so interesting, going way back, robert kennedy, to some degree lyndon johnson, made political careers or part of their political careers, the war on poverty. and i guess we felt a long time alaska the war on poverty -- a long time the war on poverty must be won but it's fell off the table. >> it's kind of stopped and we've been stuck in this place when you have a bad economy, poverty ticks back up. but even when things are good it stays at this level that's -- that should be uncomfortable for a country as rich as ours. >> john edwards tried to talk about it and he didn't get much traction. >> he didn't get a lot of political traction. gwen: he turned out to be a flawed messenger. >> yes, he did. >> reading about those statistics, the way they define poverty. and like $20,000 or $22,000 for a family of four. when you think about that, i think most of us would consider people who earn considerably above that, fairly low income. really get -- congrats how big this problem is. -- can grasp how big this problem is. >> and about how you define poverty, what things ar

that was 1964 when democrat lyndon johnson won by 59.1%. the field poll also found that the state is dividing into two entrenched camps, one on the coast, one inland. there are now more registered republicans than democrats in inland california. that's a big change from about 20 years ago. and the coastal counties have become increasingly democratic. outnumbering republicans by almost 20%. and in both inland and coastal california, the number of voters registering as nonpartisan, that has jumped by at least 10% since 1992. >>> san francisco mayor ed lee says he welcomes the expansion of a reknowned ceramic industry. heat ceramics just announced an expansion. they make dinner ware that's being used in some of the bay area's best restaurants. the new facility will employ 34 people. >> for them to come here at this time and to make a go at it is a wonderful story for our city. because we've been recruiting companies like heat ceramics to manufacturer here in the city. >>> san leandro police are searching for suspects in a graffiti attack on mo

several of our presidents have been teachers, and one of them named lyndon johnson, he was a teacher in one-room schoolhouse in texas, and because he was so horrified with kids coming in with dau stended bellies because of hunger, and he said if he had anything to do about it, we would have a national program, to feed students when they arrive at school and that's why it's in place and now it's an accepted standard of measurement, what percentage of your students are free-lunch eligible. we will hear that hundreds of times over the conference, probably useful to remember how we got that way in the first place. as we go to a break, the skau lastic organization is another education nation sponsor. they teamed up with the bill and melinda gates foundation to organize this incredibly comprehensive survey, over 10,000 teachers from across the country. here is how this is going to work. the national survey done by gates and skau lastic shows on average that teachers think only 63% of their students leave high school prepared to succeed in the next step, if that next step is college. when w

lyndon johnson sent out an e-mail asking h his staff to gather "a large group of customers together who are loyal riders to participate in the news conference." he told the staff make sure they can get to the news conference location safely and on time. maybe get a van or special train, et cetera. bart staff wound up chartering two suvs from a car service and though in one ever rode in them since jeff moore is the only one who showed up, bart still had to pay the bill. >> how much did you spend? >> it was $872. >> the bart board member believes it was a bad move by the p.r. department. in fact, franklin acknowledges bart staff even wrote a script for sympathetic riders to read from. >> i do not think it is appropriate to pay to transport people and also to provide a script for them when people can express what they want. >> i find it deplorable that they can waste taxpayers' money on the effort to deceive the public. >> protest organizer says it shows bart needs to make big changes. >> somebody needs to be in trouble for that. >> the one voice missing from all of this is the bart chief

he had the most productive legislative agenda since lyndon johnson in 1965. that's not opinion. that's fact. if you actually look at the legislation that has been passed. i forgive him a little bit when he said crybabyism. people have not taken a careful look at the record. >> is america more racist now that president obama is sworn in. well, thank you both for coming. oh, thank you so much. i love the vermeer collection. vermeer? dutch painter? only painted, like, 34 paintings? oh what an odd name. you've got like five of them in your hallway. those were actually in the attic when we moved in. we just both really love the color yellow. uh... [ host ] you guys are a lot of fun. yeah. [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best large luxury sedan. new car? pretty cool. ♪ [ woman ] my heart medication isn't some political game. [ man ] our retirement isn't a simple budget line item. [ man ] i worked hard. i paid into my medicare. [ man ] and i earned my social security. [ woman ] now, instead of cutting waste and loopholes, washington wants to cut our benefits? that wasn't the agre

. >> and the first lady was very open in her discussion of lyndon johnson in the role of vice presidentbeing vice president and how awful it would be gave li lyndon so many things to do. he never did them. he could have done more with the space thing. he just never wanted to make any decision or do anything that would put him in any position. so what he would really like to do is go on these trips and he never liked -- jack would say, you can never get an opinion out of lyndon at any cabinet or national security meeting. he'd just say that he agreed with them or just keep really quiet. i think it's so pathetic when all you can find to do with a president who's dying to give you a lot to do is take a state trip to so that's the kind of vice president he was. but jack always said he was never disloyal or spoke anywhere. bobby told me this later, and i know jack said it to me sometimes. he said, oh, god, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if lyndon was president? >> joining me now for on exclusive interview, the man who wrote the introduction to the book, historian micha