the footage that we saw at the ranch, you say that lyndon johnson didn't let him talk about the fact that they had a meeting. why? and where did that footage come from? >> that footage came from the lbj library. johnson had this -- he had a -- for historians it turned out a nice thing to have, but he had someone follow him around all the time with a camera and at the end of the month they would have the president's month and they would edit something and show it to him, the previous month, so those were outtakes from the month he spent with the two of them. it's hard to get inside the mind of lyndon johnson, hard to know. almost to the end of the election was probably more interested in nixon becoming president than humphrey. and near as we can tell the reason is, and michael beschloss has done a lot of research about it, he didn't want to be the president who lost the war and he thought if humphrey won, he'd end the war, and he thought nixon would continue it or find a different end and keep his legacy intact. and that didn't change until late in the film that nixon did the thing wit

. -- lyndon johnson, fell the same way. >> take us up close to the friendship of lyndon johnson and mr. hoover. >> well, they lived across the street from each other. here in washington. >> at what time in their lives? >> from the late 1940's through the end of the 1950's when lyndon johnson became vice president. 30th place in georgetown. so they were across the street. neighbors. they would have a jack daniel's every now and then or a barbecue a steak. and once lyndon johnson bought a dog for his daughters and named it edgar. were they friends? not in the sense that you and i are friends. hoover didn't have any friends. >> did they think they were friends? >> they used each other masterfully. here at c-span you've got hours and hours of tapes archived of these two men talking together and these conversations are transcribed in the book and talking on the phone. johnson recorded it. johnson bugged hoover. and it's extraordinary. the flattery, the praise, the stroking. >> and didn't l.b.j. tell him i love you? >> you're my brother. you're my closest ally in government. and this led to

lyndon johnson's massive build and large gestures all but he looked like a big, excited blood hound, all ears and and insistent head. before the meeting with geri cobb and janie hart, johnson quickly scandal the background materials liz carpenter had prepared. she urged the vice president to give the women some encouragement and drafted a letter to nasa's james johnson'. the letter, while not a ringing endorsement of women astronauts, asked if any women r astronauts, or if they had been disqualified simply for women. i'm sure you agree that sex should not be a reason for disqualifying a candidate for space, carpenter drafted in johnson's letter. and indeed the issue of women in space was getting publicity in the press, thanks to interviews hart and cobb had been conducting with reporters. the morning of cobb and hart's meeting with johnson, congressman ken heckler of west virginia called for women astronauts, posting in the congressional letter a copy cobb's recent speech before the women's space symposium. heckler prefaced cobb's address with comments in his capacity as a member of t

lyndon johnson's massive build and large gestures all but overwhelmed the car. he looked like a big excited blood hound, all ears and gaping mouth and insistent head. before the meeting with jerrie cobb and janie hart, scanned background materials secretary liz carpenter prepared. she urged the vice president to give the women some encouragement and drafted a letter to james webb for johnson's sit. the letter while not a ringing endorsement of women astronauts asked if any women met guidelines or if women had been disqualified simile because they were women. i'm sure you agree sex should not be a reason to disqualify for space, carpenter drafted in johnson's letter. inde, the issue of women in space was getting press. the morning of cobb and hart's meeting with lyndon johnson, congressman heckler of west virginia called for women astronauts posting in the congressional letter a copy of the recent speech before the women's space sim bossium. he prefaced as a member of the house committee on science. i believe we should give serious consideration to women among ou

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escalation in vietnam during the presidencies of john kennedy and lyndon johnson. in other words, kennedy and johnson inherited a war from eisenhower and nixon before nixon inherited it from these two democratic presidents. but a lot of work needs to be done on this period. another big question has to do with nixon's position on the war in the 1968 presidential campaign. and what was his role in the so-ca so-called caper. there's wide agreement supported by evidence that nixon and his campaign organization engaged in a clandestine effort via intermediary to encourage the president of south vietnam into shunning the johnson-initiated negotiations and thereby influenced the u.s. presidential election vote in nixon's favor. and there is now new evidence, convincing evidence, that kissinger passed information on to the nixon campaign about president johnson and diplomatic negotiations. the unanswerable question, of course, is whether these efforts influenced the electoral vote in the '68 election between nixon and humphrey. a third question, issue, is sort of a con tex

because the only question as the dean said when referencing lyndon johnson is when you have the power. the question is, what do you do with it? so now we are challenged to really take action and give these young people an opportunity so that one day they can attend the great university like howard. one day they can be a teacher of the year. one day they can serve as secretary of education and even more. thank you very much. >> the chair of the congressional black caucus education task force, brain trust, danny davis from a great state, not pennsylvania, but illinois. >> thank you very much, chaka. and to the president and members of the faculty and staff here at howard, it's always a pleasure to be on this campus that has meant so much to education in america and has chartered the way for so many individuals to obtain the enlightenment that they needed to help make america what it is. i come especially to applaud president obama, secretary duncan, assistant secretary ali, and the office of civil rights at the department of education for developing a national data tube for examining eq

do you want lyndon johnson or trigger happy goldwater.r stickers and everything else. the slogan was in your heart, you know he's right. the democrats said in your heart, you know he might. he might what, pull the trigger. >> let's take a look at that ad. it's only been played once for advertising but it was played by the programs. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. these 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. >> that played on nbc's monday night the movies and only had to play once and what an impact. we'll be right back to talk about the real madmen. rica. we've got to protect the environment. the economists make some good points. we need safer energy. [announcer:] who's right? they all are. visit powerincooperation.com. our machines help identify early stages of cancer and it's something that we're extremely proud of. you see someone who is saved because of this technology, you know that the things that yo

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we stand on this ground once visited by president of the united states lyndon johnson. president johnson, once facilitators of much of the nation's education and civil rights legislation, was once a teacher. he referenced his first job out of college as a sixth and seventh grade history teacher in texas in a small school serving mexican-american students. and he said of that experience, and i quote him, i often walked home late in the afternoon after classes were finished, but all i knew was to teach them the little i knew, hoping that it might help them against the hardships that lay ahead. somehow, you never forget what poverty and hatred can -- [ no audio ] it never occurred to me in my fondest dreams that i might have the chance to help some of the sons and daughters of those students, to help people like them all over this country. but now i have that chance and i'll let you in on a secret, said president johnson, i mean to use it. and use it he did, to sign into law the elementary and secondary education act, now known as no child left behind. original intention w

lyndon johnson you're on the right track. does that go on today? >> i don't think it does. it shouldn't go on. i think that most people -- most journalists certainly, i think most other people who read this book say there's a lot of transgressions here. this guy is purporting to be a detached analytical news man and he's really snuggling up to a lot of his sources. he was a columnist of course. he wasn't an objective reporter who's simply giving facts. he was a columnist. that would be part of his defense no doubt. but from almost the very beginning joe got very close to his sources and probably most people would say too close. >> now here we are many years later donald graham runs "the washington post." is there any way to relate a donald graham back to the days of james polk and what the journalistic atmosphere was back then? >> well, that's fascinating. those were the days of the partisan press. and james polk or any president had to have a newspaper that was his spokesman. that was his mouthpiece. and polk had a real problem when he became president because the daily gl

own money in the 60's mind you into this early political party so that alabama could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wallace and the hundreds of thousands of new regularly black voters would have people to vote for, couldn't just folk but also run for office, so that plus his life work and he was committed to recapturing the greatness of african-americans and political participation because his grandfather had been a free construction legislator and he grew up hearing about his grandfather while he was coming of age in jim crow, and a radicalized him to be living under jim crow in alabama while hearing about the fact that black people used to have political power and be in office including his family. >> who was hershel cashin? >> my grandfather, he was the first black lawyer in the state of alabama and the architecture of reconstruction. i grew up listening to my father repeat this over and over and my eyes would roll. in the book i go off in search of my fallfish hashim will do the compassion and find out in the ellerbe anbar in 1978 not the first but the fourth colored lawyer i

president lyndon bane johnson made a courageous decision to the stand up for justice.ve a historic speech, introducing the voting rights act. it was one with week after the bloody sunday attack on the selma marches. and it forever changed this country. >> there can and should be no argume argument. every american citizen must have an equal right to vote. there is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. there is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right. what happened in selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of america. it is the effort of american negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of american life. it's not just negroes but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. >> the voting rights act of 1965 made voting a constitutional right for the first time. it blocked states from imposing barriers, like the literacy tests or poll taxes. and it barred states from blocking the vote based on race,

the 60's, 60's and early 70's into this political party so that the albanians could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wallace and that in the hundreds of thousands of newly registered black voters would have people to vote for. could not just vote, but also run for office. and so that was his life's work. he was very much committed to a recapturing the greatness of african americans in terms of political participation. very steep in the era of reconstruction because his grandfather had been a reconstruction legislator. he grew up hearing about his grandfather, gramm partial while he was coming of age and jim-crow. it radicalized and to be living under jim-crow in alabama well hearing about the fact that black people used to actually have political power and be in office, including his own family >> who was the? >> that was my great grandfather. he was in our family lore the first black lawyer in the state of alabama and the architect of reconstruction. i grew up listening to my father repeat this over and over, you know, as a teenager. miles of road. and in this book i go out and s

considering playing lyndon johnson and john cusack playing the role of richard nixon. i could see that. no? no? no, you can't. >> nixon had some distinguishable features, it's going to be a lot of make up work. >> let's play my favorite game, who is going to play bill carens? >> i don't know, probably a b-list actor. >>> all right, this now comes to us from wncnc news channel 36. one couple made a discovery that might make their friends green with envy. they unearthed a 50 caret emerald. it's a little bigger than a nickel but could earn them a lot more than that. its estimated worth? $10,000. the pair had been at the mine for just five minutes when they came across the precious stone. back to that mine. >> yeah, more. >> five minutes. imagine what else is there? >> that other place is arkansas where you d go and dig for diamonds and stuff. you probably don't find much. >> this is "early today." this is your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> 4:28 is our time now. we have 42 degrees here in the nation's capital. good morning to you, i'm joe krebs. >> a

former president lyndon johnson was thrust into leadership in the middle of a tragedy.resident kennedy's assassination. >> all i have i would have given gladl gladly not to be standing here today. no words are sad enough to express our sense of loss. no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the trust of america that he began. >> in his new book, mark undergrove writes of him, quote, there are few who knew him who wouldn't describe lyndon johnson as a wonderful man. not good, great. he's also director of the lbj library down in austin. he joins us now. thank you very much for joining us, mark. you know what's always impressed me is johnson's ability to get the civil rights act through. kennedy was working on it, and here aftermath of the assassination, and brought together the republicans and enough democrats to get the thing through. >> you're absolutely right, what is remark bt that is the political courage is took to get it done. he had to impose his friend and mentor, from georgia, on that bill. he called him to the white house and russell

all the people who knew him as well as johnson himself to tell the story of lyndon johnson and his presidencyyou get different perspectives everywhere. my goal was to have a balanced perspective of who this man was and what he means to this country today. >> jimmy has a question for you. >> so mark, i have read the master edit. i will read the book. but if you were in washington today and you were sitting in the senate as a top staffer or senator and you had the thought and knowledge of lbj and his presence, what would you do differently? how would you make washington better? >> what very few people realize today is the legislative achievements of lbj. as we look at the stagnant that's washington in 2012, we can learn a lot from lbj. it happens to be the first of a craftiness. you have to work around and outmaneuver opponents you might have and obstacles you might have towards pursuing your goals. second is cleej y'allty. the senate and house are places of cleej y'allty. you have to reach across the aisle effectively to get things done. you can't demonize opponents and expect to do business w

to his political advantage because it land blasted and implicated the concerns of democrats, lyndon johnson hubert humphrey, john kennedy. it was fine, as far as he was concerned. he called up mr. dixon and then henry kissinger, who at first was also not determined to pursue this or the ones who finally raised the issue to something of importance from mr. nixon and then the question is, so how did he respond? the first thing he did was to seek a prior injunction through but they actually enjoin the american society from discussing the subject. it was the same kind of an approach to an issue when a reconnaissance plane was shut down. now, since i thought about this point earlier, i ran and looked for this little piece of paper, which happens to be the record of the national security council meeting. the first and only national security council meeting that mr. nixon held in the context of the pentagon papers leak. it was held at 3:30 p.m. on the 17th of june, 1971. mr. nixon both opened and closed the meeting. he opened by saying that a number of u.s. presidents, if you wanted to get somethi

liam neeson is considering playing president lyndon johnson. and john cusack the role of richard nixon. >>> this comes to us from channel 36 in charlotte, north carolina, where in nearby hidden night one couple made a discovery that might make their friends green with envy. they unearthed a 50-karat emerald, a little bigger than a nickel but could earn them a lot if they decide to cash in. it is estimated at $10,000. tiny! the pair part of a local gem and mineral group had been at the mine for five minutes when they came across the precious stone. huh, good for them. >>> i'm veronica dela includes. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> in colombia, theatrics have escaped the playhouse and made the city their stage. entertainers took over the streets, parks and auditoriums in boeigota as the theater kick off. from the classics to the avant-garde, more than 2 million spectators are treated to perform anszs of all kinds by artists from nearly 60 countries. >>> well, the infamous french climber known

it was dedicated in 1968 by president lyndon johnson and contains the recipients of medal of honor.d from 1951 through 1975. the series focused on battles, figures and traditions in u.s. military history. >>> the long years stretched behind us into the past, forming corrs

i want to assure you it photograph from president lyndon b. johnsonoric voting rights act with the martin luther king behind him. i also want to take a look at the electoral map dating back to 1956 when dwight eisenhower won easily but the south remains solid for adelaide stevenson. this is back in 1956. then you can see how it changed. in 1964 when lyndon johnson said they lost this out, he indeed did lose the key southern states of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, south carolina, despite the fact he won everywhere else. in the 1980's, this is what jimmy carter look like winning, but of course he was from georgia. du can see the south remaining pretty solid for ronald reagan. what does this tell you? guest: what was happening while all of that progress was going on for republicans was that things were moving very glacially slowly up the local level. you of all over the past 30 or 40 years with the bifurcated politics where you may have locally elected state legislator tors, but increasingly people would vote for the republican presidential c

i end up getting five s., wilson, fdr, lyndon johnson, jimmy carter, bill clinton and obama. that might be six actually. i miscount a. i didn't grades on a curve. barack obama turns out to be the perfect at the god of woodrow wilson. like wilson, he doesn't have much regard to the original principles of the constitution. i almost feel like i needed to a second edition already just because the last couple of weeks, but last week matt lauer of nbc news asked why haven't you given us all this grand helping change a promise? obama's answer, i'm really to, quote, it turns out our founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than i would like. [laughter] it turns out, he's just now discovering this now? robert is here today. he said to some of professor obama's classes at the university of chicago. i point out a scholar of constitutional law actually taught the equal protection laws. his favorite cause of course in the constitution, he seems to just get over the separation of powers of the constitution. and so i in the book by saying that the modern

of the imperial presidency beyond that suddenly schlesinger was shocked to learn people like lyndon johnson and richard nixon could use the presidency in ways he disapproved so he thought his time lead to congress which he thought would be dominated by the congress to become the preeminent branch again so even a book that is on the right track was on the right track for the wrong reasons and for the wrong objects. now it's possible to judge president's purely on an illogical scale. we have the rankings and polls that come out from time to time from academics and they put presidents in categories of great and near great and average and so forth. you can do that and mostly that reflects the preferences of the people are responding to the surveys for most part. there is a more direct method that allows you to abstract able but from policy choices and is more useful and relevant, and that simple method is to take article 2, the article that defines the office of the president, and in particular, look at the oath of office that presidents take the lead article to is vague in some respects and in

you just criticized president lyndon johnson and the constructive efforts he made to strengthen education of this country. it's clear those who want to privatize social security don't like president roosevelt. i'm not sure you believe in the square deal either. i hope you're still for the land grant college program of president lincoln, but it's time we did something to strengthen higher educational opportunity. and what could be more basic than giving people a tax cut that by your vote you would eliminate. >> the time has expired. the question is on the amendment from the gentleman of texas. all those in favor? say aye. >> all those opposed no. >> nos have it. a recorded vote is requested. the clerk will call the role. >> mr. garret? no. mr. simpson? mr. simpson, no. >> mr. campbell? no. mr. calvert? no. mr. akin? mr. cole? mr. cole, no. mr. price? is mr. price, no. mr. mcclintock. no. mr. chaffetz. mr. stetzman. no. mr. langford? mr. langford, no. ms. black? ms. black, no. mr. ribble, no. mr. flores, no. mr. mulvaney, no. mr. young, no. mr. woodall? no. mr. yhuelskamp, no. mr. van holle

lyndon johnson has signed the civil rights act. he's losing support in the south. mrs. johnson alone, obviously with a staff and companions, but makes a trip through the south stopping to speak to the public, strongarms in an oh-so-polite way governors and leaders in that state to meet with her. and speaks to the public, saying here's my point of view. and takes some abuse from the public. and then will say, well, you've had your turn. i've listened to you. now i hope you will listen to me. knowing that southern gentlemen have to let you -- a southern gentlemen is going to have to listen to and greet and be polite to a southern lady. >> the dress. tell us how she picked the design for this. >> a wonderful dress. beautiful yellow made by john moore, texas dress designer. and it's actually, mrs. johnson, of course, the wife of a senator, the wife of a member of congress, used to do constituent tours at the smithsonian institution. she would bring people to the first lady's exhibit when she was touring them through washington. so she was very familiar with the exhibit. and

i want to assure you it photograph from president lyndon b. johnson 1964 signing the historic voting rights act with the martin luther king behind him. i also want to take a look at the electoral map dating back to 1956 when dwight eisenhower won easily but the south remains solid for adelaide stevenson. this is back in 1956. then you can see how it changed. in 1964 when lyndon johnson said they lost this out, he indeed did lose the key southern states of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, south carolina, despite the fact he won everywhere else. whate 1980's, this is jimmy carter look like winning, but of course he was from georgia. du can see the south remaining pretty solid for ronald reagan. what does this tell you? guest: what was happening while all of that progress was going on for republicans was that things were moving very glacially slowly up the local level. you of all over the past 30 or 40 years with the bifurcated politics where you may have locally elected state legislator tors, but increasingly people would vote for the republica

that gap was closed by fiscal '69 because and only because of the tax surcharge which lyndon johnson belatedly and at considerable political cost to him persuaded congress to pass in 1968 so that by '69 the context, the fiscal context was a little easier. fiscal '69 was, in fact, one of those rare years in fiscal american politics which the united states had -- nevertheless the fiscal position remained extraordinarily difficult. and it was one of the points of considerable difficulty and challenge which president nixon inherited. there were others. monetary policy was highly contested. highly politicized. relations between the fed and the outgoing johnson administration had been extraordinarily and publicly difficult as policy preferences diverged. and crucially although it was of no domestic political importance, it was a most momentous international importance. crucially the bretonwood system which died gold to the dollar and all other currencies to the dollar and fixed exchange rates, the present system had provided the liquidity for which the rest of the world recovered after the

point is used against the president one could make the same charge about president kennedy and lyndon johnson. it seems to me the president is there to use political judgment, not to bring disinterested intellectually validated expertise to the subject. i think if there's a charge, the charge is his determination to maximize employment and minimize the inflation rate by november 1972, a strategy that worked with extraordinarier in success had medium consequences shall the inflation rate which bottomed out in november of '72 rose in every single month between december 1972 and august 1974. he bequeathed inflation rates to his successor of three times that which he inherited from his predecessor. so the intertemporal of policy making was something he was inadequately tutored on. i'm not sure he was entirely appropriately supported on at least not by arthur burns and something of which he

unlike most colleagues in the lyndon johnson administration, he never waivered in his faith that america could bear this burden and seep the result. a southeast asia and world free of communist tyranny. undergirding this conclusion was his confidence in the american family. in the mid-1950s, with a carnegie foundation grant, he had conducted a fundamental re-examination of american values and institutions. as reported in his long 1957 essay "the american style," he found these values to be in contrast to aristocratic tickle europe he wrote, the american style includes a narrower but perhaps more intense family and a tendency to conform to the will of the political and social majority. america's family, churches and voluntary associations wove a highest individualistic and mobile population into a firm social fabric exhibiting a widening area of common values. under the strain of cold war against communism, americans have retained the old link between nationhood and ideal values. indeed, he said, recent developments had only strengthened. higher incomes aloud increase leisure, earlier mar

instead of the vision of lyndon johnson, who got this right in, who, when he's not having an oops moment, refers to social security as a ponzi system. of commitment to retint better appe economic ladder tospsibility fo financing retirement security so we don't continue to have tax breaks for billionaires and multinnair share but we have the revenues at the the cost issues as we did through the affordable care act, that we have the revenues for a balanced approach. it is not seniors, to blame retirees for the problems we have in medicare. it is essential that we seek a bala a person who really understands is the gentlewoman from florida, and i would yield 2 to her to discuss this matter o thank you for your eloquence. over the past several months in hearing after hearing on this committee just as we heard last wrecovering theme from our expert witnesses that have come before chairman bernanke said it. director elmendorf said acting director zients said it and secretary geithner reaffirmed that the draconian reckless cuts proposed by the proposal today willident in create an enormous headw

he did more for civil rights i think than either jack kennedy or lyndon johnson, but he didn't seek the applause and the acclaim for it, because it was simply not ike's style, and therefore he's never had the praise for it that he deserves. when they tried to keep black children out of the schools in little rock, ike had no hesitation. he did not send in peace officers or the fbi or united states marshals. he ordered out the 101st airborne divisions, one of the divisions that had dropped the night before normandy and had been under his command to escort the black children through the mobs into the schools. ike understood the use of force. he also understood if you were going to do it, you didn't fool around. you faced the segregationist with a mass group of 101st airborne troopers and got the job done. so, in many respects i think ike is a much more liberally minded president than he is given credit for. and also a man who devoted himself to the presidency. second volume of his presidential memoirs is full of waging peace, and he waged peace i think just as hard as when he was a general

for the retirement security programs to go back to the era of fdr instead of the vision ever lyndon johnson who got this right in 1965, we have governor perry who when he's not having an oops moment refers to social security as a ponzi system. that's not the kind of commitment to retirement security that we need. the better approach is one that calls on those at the top of the economic ladder to accept your responsibility for the cost of financing retirement security so that we don't continue to have tax breaks for billionaires and multi-national corporations that are not paying their fair share, but we have the revenues at the same time we try to deal with the cost issues as we did through the affordable care act that we have the revenues for a balanced approach. it is not visionary to blame seniors, to blame retirees, for the problems that we have in medicare. it is essential that we seek a balanced approach and a person who really understands that well is the gentlewoman from florida, and i would yield 2.5 minutes to her to discuss this matter further. >> thank you, mr. doggett and thank

because i think if he would have won that primary, i think he would have had a challenge from lyndon johnson also wanted to run, it would have been interesting. >> in the end where did you get your funding? >> all kind of places. hamlin university. >> that's in st. paul. >> they gave me seed money. and from 37, 38 organizations and individuals i received money over the years. the schuman center for media and democracy which was the schuman foundation then. >> bill moyer's running that? >> he's the president, right. gave me a large sum in the middle that helped. minnesota humanities commission, minnesota historical society, the south dakota humanities commission, afl-cio, i got it from all kinds of places, andreas foundation and dwayne andreas family and his brother, just from all over the place. it ended up being about $600,000 and about $200,000 i would say in kind. >> i assume there was never a time when this wasn't going to be a positive look at hubert humphries. >> well, i started off oth otherwise. i wanted to otherwise, but i couldn't find anybody that didn't like him. they were all in

president one could make the same charge about john kennedy, precisely the same charge about lyndon johnson. it seems to me the president is there to use political judgment, not to bring disinterested intellectually validated expertise to the subject. i think if there's a charge to be made, the charge is that his determination to maximize employment and minimize the inflation rate by november 1972, a strategy that worked in conjunction with extraordinary success, had very considerable medium run consequences. the inflation rate which bottomed out in november '72 rose in every single month between december 1972 and august 1974, and he bequeathed an inflation rate to his successor of three times that which he inherited from his predecessor. so there are -- the temporal nature of policy making was something which i think he was inadequately tutored on. i'm not sure he was entirely appropriately supported on at least by arthur burns and it was something of which he himself i think had rather slight understanding. so the answer is nuanced in he had his political interest was very clear, his pref

the proposal metal curtains are to provide a screen that would partially obscure the lyndon johnson department of education. we have been concerned and others would agree that this could be seen as a symbolic affront to one of eisenhower's contemporary, majority leader of the senate during his presidency. we don't think that the design team thought of these things in advance. frankly, nor did we for a while. but the public criticism does underscore the importance of context with respect to eisenhower's life and time. in addition we are concerned the metal skrims will have upkeep. high winds, leaves and paper could get caught in the metal traps. same could be said of interactive tech following. let me address myself briefly to process. from the early stage the eisenhower family has been calling for a memorial that's simple and one that focuses on eisenhower's achievements. my father john s.d. eisenhower, seoul heir wrote to this effect. the memorial commission has repeatedly suggested that among other thing the eisenhower family is not united in its views. i am also submitting a statement from

our next guest says he should take a serious lesson in history from lyndon b. johnson fascinating article because you went to a speech and you heard what? >> it was an organized by joseph, alipedden johnson top domestic aide. he brought together a lot of people from the johnson era, johnson staffers, his daughter, lucy, and the discussion was about how lyndon johnson did the things he did, all the great society legislation, some of which is in trouble now, medicare, for example. but the interesting fact that came out is the voting rights act, fair housing lawyer, medicare, on almost all of them, president johnson, despite democrats having a majority in both houses of congress, president johnson was able to get a higher percentage of republican votes than he did democratic votes and that many of these bills would not have passed without sizable numbers of republicans voting for them. how did he do that? how did he work across the aisle? johnson is famous for being kind of in your face and negotiating tactics, strong arm tactics. but it was also more just -- he said abou