but there are many pictures of lyndon johnson and bill signing ceremonies. i'm wondering about that. >> mrs. johnson hosted a reception for the new senate wives in 1953 after the kennedys were married. mrs. kennedy certainly stood out as a glamorous and intelligent young cenobite. they knew each other a decade for the assassination. during the vice presidential period, mrs. johnson was asked to substitute for mrs. kennedy at events, dinners, receptions, teas, events, and she did so. i don't think they were close, personally, or socially, but they had inimical relationship. mrs. johnson visited the kennedy compound at hyannisport. we visited the kennedys in florida. i do think after the assassination, mrs. johnson made it a priority to ensure that the kennedy children had a chance to finish their schooling in the white house, to leave on their schedule from the white house. and to certainly finish mrs. kennedy's effort to furnish and equip the white house with art and antiques as she had done such a magnificent job of doing. this was a great recording for jacq

she and lyndon johnson were leaving the baker hotel in dallas, walking across the street to an event at the adolphus hotel. focusing on well-to-do women who were therefore a event. they carried what mrs. johnson described in her oral history is a sea of angry slogans. she says that they did not like lbj and they hated kennedy. and this mom essentially blocked the passage. it made a very different and difficult for them to get through. and you have to realize the potential for some sort of mob action. she described it as just an animal like tense atmosphere where the slightest thing could trigger a riot. at one point, one of the signs not mrs. johnson's hat off. lbj recognized that she wasn't going as fast as she should have. but they were making the most of this event for television. it would display the behavior of his opponents. so that is certainly an example of courage. >> also on the lady bird special. when she toured the south after she signed the civil rights act, which i'm going ask mark to talk about. can you please tell all of us what his response to russell was when he was

to worry about an energy crisis -- lyndon johnson, before richard nixon. in 1955 he said we had two critical infrastructure pieces. one, makes a the natural gas supply chain, the other is the electricity grid. we have not invested enough capital into those infrastructure areas. host: fred, denver, colorado. your on with jeffrey leonard. caller code does the improved technology -- caller: does the improved technology of shale extraction make to the keystone pipeline obsolete? -- make the keystone pipeline obsolete? guest: i am not an expert in that area. i wish i was. we will be conducting natural gas movements in this country,

lyndon johnson. but something happened. could pete wilsonnd proposition 187 which was a restrictive, punitive measure directed at immigrants in califondia what i time whenia immigrants were exploding in california. now california, republicans are reduced to a white party and an increasingly less white state. >> if you take it election after election, and as the white share falls, as the minority share rises, republicans are basically-- just starting out the election-- are losing 1.7% of theote every four yevers. it's going down. they have to work a lot harder and they have no margin of er r. >> ifill: let me turn this on its head. is it a bigger problem for

what could he learn from lyndon johnson? >> i think and i think he still can learn from him, i think he has to make the white house a political asset more than he has. i think what happened is he had his family there. that's an a source of an enormous strength of him. he has his wife and amazing children but you have to use the white house as the people's house. those congressman and senators should be coming over there more. they should go to football games and movies. l.b.j. had them there for breakfast, lunch and dinner until 2:00 a.m. >> rose: we know this, l.b.j. went to baseball games because he wanted to sit next to richard russell even though he didn't care about baseball. the opportunity to have that much time with richard russell and it led to a friendship and therefore when he was in his darkest days russell was a person who reached oon the phone to say, you know -- what's happening? >> you're right. he would go and read the sunday papers with richard russell but that means he's not home with his family. so you're

i don't think lyndon johnson was an amateur when he inherited the presidency after the asass anyway i think of lyndon johnson, who could not give a good speech, really, who did not speak well with the teleprompter, who understand how to manipulate the levers of power in washington. he understood human nature, understood the strength and weaknesses of the people in congress and how to play on those weaknesses and strengths. obama doesn't have that skill set to use human nature as a way of getting done what he wants to get done in washington. >> host: holm books have you written? >> guest: i think this is my 11th book. three novels and eight nonfiction. >> host: what do you say to critics of your books? >> guest: what do the critics say. >> host: the accuracy of the stories you tell, et cetera. >> guest: well, the fact of the matter is, as far as i know, there hasn't been a single fact in this book that's been challenged in a kind of credible way. people have said, oh, klein makes things up. that's what kids in the schoolyard -- they call each other names. i've been called all kinds of

lyndon johnson nearly beat barry goldwater and richard nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. in each of those elections on of the candidates failed to capture the spirit of the american voting public and the winner had the advantage of the weak opponent. franklin roosevelt won the second term landslide because of his huge popularity. however in many more presidential elections, the candidates are in a battle to present themselves as of one that is capable of serving the country with the winner walking off with a modest majority. in the work of the campaign between the incumbent president and his opponent would be either a referendum on the first term of the president or eighth judgment which candidates would be a better leader. is there a difference between the two considerations? the sinnott baliles giunta judging the leadership skills of the incumbent based on the effectiveness during the first term? this is the unknown and leadership skills of the challenger. it's easy to point to the national security or the economic consequential than practice on their ratings of an incu

unfortunately, lyndon johnson's doctors denied his request to meet the queen. richard nixon had been very eager to please the queen since their first meeting in 1957 when he gave her a book entitled the art of readable writing. in an effort to improve their public speaking. which had been criticized in the british press. nixon also hosted a stand-in or for prince philip in the white house, which prompted barbara walters to scold him for not including any women. nixon had princess anne and two children visit in washington, even trying to fix up his trials with his daughter, patricia, once of the prime minister's residence in the country, but he never managed to get the queen over here for a state visit. his successor was the ambitious post in 1976. he game this week against with the queen at the white house to the unfortunate choice of the lady is a champ. planning went somewhat awry, as it did at the british ambassador's reception for 1600 people during the washington leg of their tour. elizabeth was being trailed by tv cameramen with very big bright lights. wh

obviously we've all read robert kara's fourth vacuum now and the ability of lyndon johnson just to keepether and telling people, everett dirksen, because you did need some republican support when you were going up against richard russ whole was your democratic senator from the south to say to dirksen, i need your help on the bill and finally dirksen releapts and then you say, but i need you to co-sponsor the bill and your name is going to come first and, you know, just doing that was a leadership style that johnson had, but john kennedy did not have. every president brings a certain aura to the leadership style, and in any given moment, you say, actually it would be nice if we could put l pull a little bit of that dna from that president and put it in the d nah ass of our current leaders in both the senate and white house. >> howard bake e told me me a great story about lbj and dirksen. he said when he was in an intern in dirksen's office, he heard him yelling into the phone, no, goddamnit, mr. president, you're not getting him. he said stick around, you're going to see something. and h

earlier this year, i moderated a seminar on l.b.j., and i asked evan duggan, one of lyndon johnson's young aides at the time, i asked him, "who did l.b.j. admire as a politician? is it and he surprised by everyone saying he thought the best politician he ever knew was dwight eisenhower. not just because of what he was able to do to get people together as supreme allied commander, but he said something and i saw it time and again in your book. he said eisenhower had a way of getting his way without you knowing that's what he wanted you to do. >> well, he'll had a great kind of confidence, the confidence to be humble. he was-- ike said it was a problem but in the end i knew i was in charge-- this was in world war ii. he had that kind of confidence. he didn't have to show anything. he knew at the end he would decide but he let peeled have their egoes, let them bounce off each other, and he was patient, a quality i wish i had more of. but-- well, i wish we all had more of. he was patient. he didn't decide until he absolutely had to. and he could tolerate enormous dissidence, and clashing

at the time the vietnam war was raging millions of students were in the streets and president lyndon johnson throughout nine hundred sixty eight was working desperately to bring a negotiated end to the vietnam war he finally got both the north and the south vietnamese to agree to terms of peace and by late september there was only a meeting in paris to seal the deal and then the cia brought l.b.j. a wiretap they'd intercepted between the nixon for president campaign and the office of president of south vietnam million two nixon basically told them that if they refused to go to the peace talks or at least refused to go along with the peace agreement that l.b.j. had worked out with them the nixon would give them a much better deal after the election l.b.j. was furious this was trees and because he could listen to the cia phone intercepts he knew that richard nixon was at the heart of it so he called the senior republican in the united states senate everett dirksen one of the most honorable men to hold a senate leadership position in generations and he told ever dirksen what was going on take a

and i love that carroll books on lyndon johnson to lyndon johnson was a larger-than-life character.is not going to go down in history, all the stories will not say was one of the great presidents of our time. but if you read the third volume of his book, which is an extraordinary example of leadership, and he posted today, it does give you hope that with proper admitted leadership, capitol in washington, we can begin to solve problems. caro tells us about how johnson was vice president of the most powerful guy in the world in washington, d.c., right where we are, when he was majority leader. the go two guy in washington. all things went through his office. he became vice president and help john f. kennedy become elected president, and then was relegated to nothing is in effect. he became almost invisible during the first three years of the kennedy administration. the book caro writes about how the kennedy team which came into washington with great hopes, called him corn poke. i love austin underwood to school up there in high school. there's a lot of smart people of the but i've alw

lyndon johnson readily beat barry goldwater and richard nixon, overwhelming george mcgovern. each of those elections, one of the candidates failed to capture the spirit of the american voting public and the winner had the advantage of a weak opponent. franklin roosevelt won his second term landslide because of his huge popularity. however, in many more presidential elections, the candidates are in a pitted battle to present themselves as the one best capable of serving the country, with the winner walking off with a modest majority. there is customary wisdom, a campaign between the incumbent president and his opponent will be either a referendum on the first term of the president or a judgment of which candidate will be the better leader. is there really a difference between these two considerations? does it not boil down to judging the leadership skill of the incumbent based on his effectiveness during his first term versus the unknown leadership skills of the challenger? it is easy to point to the national security or economic consequencess or consequent impact on the ratin

it received a memorable visit from lyndon johnson. during the 1960 presidential campaign lyndon johnson delivered to the south and he succeeded. the first stop on the whistle stop train tour of the south was culpeper, virginia. as the train was leaving johnson ran to the rear and shouted, "what did it nixon ever do for culpeper?" you can register for in person absentee balloting. it will vote for, because for them, this election is about hope and jobs. >> i am still blessed to have a job but there are millions who do not have jobs and they need jobs. >> nobody we talk to was willing to say for sure that their candidate would win. it is that close. because of hurricane sandy, some counties have extended voting hours through saturday. you'll have to check to see how late they will go. >> there is another battle going on and it has nothing to do with the presidential election. >> 77% of registered latino voters say they will go to the polls on tuesday. that could we had a good group of people. good group of employees out there. this was

lyndon johnson desperately wanted to be there to represent his country but he was in hospital with acute bronchitis. 4 three days johnson pressed for special accommodations including bringing his own chair to the funeral, arranging shelter from the rain, and being allowed to sit while others were standing. the queen granted all of his requests and thoughtfully invited him to a private audience at buckingham palace after the funeral. unfortunately johnson's doctors forbade him from making the trip, denying him his only chance to meet the queen. richard nixon had been very eager to please the queen since their first meeting in 1957. when he gave her a book titled the art of readable writing, in an effort to improve her public speaking which had been criticized in the british press. nixon also hosted a stag dinner for prince philip in the white house which prompted barbara walters to scold him for not including any women. nixon and retained the queen's two older children, prince charles and princess anne for two days in washington even trying to fix the charles with his daughter, tricia. ni

in the civil rights act, lyndon johnson needed 110 republicans to pass the civil-rights act. he was opposed vehemently by the democratic party and you failed to mention that. you are being extremely selective. as far as california legislature, willie brown gender -- gerrymandered us with democrats controlling. are broken overspent and overtaxed. our senators are not helping us. guest: i actually don't think i am being that selected. lyndon johnson on the civil rights act, had great support from the northern democrats and the western democrats. was able to overcome the southern democrats opposition with the help of the republican party. i said that about everett dirksen so i am not really being that selected. i do think my book touches a bark -- upon the origins of the problems we have today, the toxic politics of america started in the late 1970's. one of the problems, very frankly, was the opposite -- was proposition 13 in 1978, the tax revolt that rolled in from california. i think the first basic no-tax pledge, the revolt of 1978, has been greatly responsible for californi

read several of these already, robert caro's latest volume in his massive history, biography of lyndon johnson. janet reed's biography leonard cohen, all these people at the book festival among others. david maraniss is here with a book about obama. i was curious because all these books are so different in terms of authors's approaches to subject matter, with the subject is dead or alive, what kind of access the biographer has to be subject to. i am curious, do you have a philosophy having written many biographies of what exactly a biography should be and what it should do? >> thanks for the question and for all of you coming out. sunday morning is sometimes a chore. i am gratified so many of you are here. the question of biography and what i see it to be. i am trained as a historian so i tend to look at biographies which, regardless of how they are written to some extent all comprise the life and times of your subject. i tend to include more times than some other biographers do. in my experience and observation, biographers come to their subjects from one of two directions. they are either hi

he is not channeling lyndon johnson. he seems to be channeling teddy roosevelt. >> we are all defining ourselves a decade we were directly involved with. but he is going to have to get more involved in this business of legislating. clinton was directly involved with the balanced budgets and the surplus -- i remember getting calls from him late at night. i was wondering what he was doing up. [laughter] i guess i'm going to begin to act a little bit like a republican. first of all, while the democrats want him i would not call this mandate. it's a mandate, it is for the president and the congress to start working together. he doesn't talk to the members of congress. democrats will tell you that. he hasn't been engaged. the problem is not -- it is not enough revenue. it is too much spending. now, i sound like a republican. the solution is we will have to find some way to get more revenue and the way to do it that would still provide growth in the economy -- we will have to get entitlement reform and control spending. and if

but for nixon, he and lyndon johnson met several times. and he said, "we had so much to talk about. we had the war in vietnam, we had the russians and nuclear disarmament, all of these great issues to talk about." and he said, "but the first time i got to the white house, one of the first things lyndon johnson did was take me up to the family residence. and he took me into the president's bedroom, and he got down on all fours. he was on his hands and knees." this was the outgoing president of the united states showing the incoming president of the united states underneath the bed. he said johnson lifted the bedspread and he swished his hand underneath the bed, and he was referring to the listening devices that kennedy had installed under the beds. and he said, "dick, they're voice activated." and i said to him, "my god, that must have been an unbelievable scene." and he said, "you know, it really was.'" c-span: we've got another quote we're running out of time.

one might remember, if you go back and read various books, since roger brought up lyndon johnson, ladybird johnson was given all sport of rigid all sorts of ready a stations. even as late as the 1990's, during the clinton administration, a special deal was given to the washington post to get much cheaper spectrum than other people. the government has always found it difficult to run this as a market. now you have all sorts of government agencies, government bodies that have huge debt problems. local governments are really having difficulty meeting their budgets. and they are sitting on the enormous amounts of specter. and if they switch from analog technology, the generation of old technology, to egypt -- to digital technology, they could share that with private users and everybody would be better off. that is what economists want to see. but as roger said, every time we get close, politics seems to enter the fray again. so i am hopeful, but certainly cannot guarantee the problem will be solved. >> i think we do have to be patient, though, because the remember the idea of the spectrum auct

how did lyndon johnson get civil-rights back in 54 past? he had scotch with every single night and they talked through it all and ended up, republicans voted for cloture. it happened. i don't think hillary clinton will drink scotch every night but she will try to work with people like lindsey graham. hand basically try to create these types of coalitions. i think obama fa he had that with john boehner and it blew up in his face. hillary would have handled that differently. >> several characters. susan mcdougal, james carville, what led to the suicide of vincent foster? >> how much time do we have? first of all jim mcdougal is a weird person. he has a lot of psychological abnormalities. he is very manipulative. when he proposed the whitewater deal, they were not interested at all but hillary thought was a great idea. basically her decision. jim mcdougal kind of sick. susan mcdougal, his wife, was an incredibly suffering person who never betrayed her confidence and trust in the clintons. she was treated scandalously by kenneth starr who had h

the senate was once a showcase for american political talent, and people like lyndon johnson, ted kennedy, and howard baker forged alliances with political opponents to pass landmark legislation. >> we've come together in support of a bipartisan budget agreement. >> kroft: the partisan battles were always resolved behind closed doors. olympia snowe remembers how bob dole used to do it when he was majority leader. >> snowe: he would say, "go to my office at 8:30 in the morning and work it out." he was so intent on making sure that we came up with a solution to the issue that was before the senate. we don't know any longer how to work out differences in the united states senate. we can't get past our differences. >> this is not bipartisanship. >> we've seen roadblock after roadblock. >> because you can do that, that's theatrics. >> let me go on and ask you another question. >> no, it's my turn. >> evan bayh: eventually, someone has to say, "enough already. stop. we're going to try and do better than this." >> kroft: former indiana senator evan bayh, another moderate, gave up his safe democr

lyndon johnson, one. today it takes more than a week -- in fact, it takes about ten days to even begin considering a bill before we're even on the bill let alone trying to pass that legislation. it's time to get the senate working again. not for the good of the current democratic majority or future majority but for the good of the country. and for these plaintive cries that we're getting rid of the filibuster simply isn't true. and, mr. president, the filibuster, i believe in it. i believe the -- in minority rights. the filibuster is not part of the constitution. it's something we developed here to help get legislation passed. now it's being used to stop legislation from passing. so, mr. president, we're going to continue moving forward to make the senate more efficient. does that mean it will be really efficient? no. because we're changing one aspect of the filibuster rule. and what is that? we're going to change that that takes us ten days to simply get on a bill before we can start to legislate. the am

>> it is a different world but to say someone is toast, in 1964, lyndon johnson annihilated barry goldwater. and the theme was the republican party is dead. they have gone too far right, they had four years later, richard nixon who had been defeated in the governorship of california two years prior. nothing is forever. ever say never. nothing is toast. anyone can come back. a guy could come by in a white horse and there could be a new candidate emerging. it is too soon to tell. i would not put them into toast. do they have to come -- they have to find someone. we are very people oriented, not party oriented. obama was like. one of these that helped obama is people like him. that is a lot going for you if you can be like. they did not know romney and i do not think romney ever sold himself well enough to make that leap. rubio may be a tremendous canada. if he has charisma and he can swing through primaries, anything can happen but i would never locked in something. by any means it is not toast. tavis: if i were pushing back on larry king and i would never do that to larry king. if i want to

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in 1964 after lyndon johnson beat barry goldwater, in an enormous landslide, far bigger than obama'svictory this month, everyone announced the republican party was dead. the ideas of the great society and liberalism had one. years later, ronald reagan was elected governor of california. four years later, richard nixon was president. they have something the democrats did not have. they have a great post-boomer generation and trade when you think of them, -- a generation. when you think of them, that is a pretty good bench of energetic, slick, youngish politicians. when you are talking about the democratic party you are talking about joe biden and hillary clinton. we might prefer them to the republican contenders but that is a different generation. there is not this deep democratic bench. >> mr. obama has won a second term. what is your sense of the kind of legacy that he wants to leave in the second term. is he going to be more progressive. toss me about obama's future right quick. >> -- tell me about obama's feature right quick. >> he wants to have a very free pass toward enactment.

can i say that i think that it is wrong to bring up the presidency of lyndon johnson? most people back and did not have more than a television and a refrigerator, maybe some heat. that just does not compare to the energy needs of today. for my comment, what i wanted to say was with the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars to create a full infrastructure, would it not be less expensive, with higher yields, and better continuity if each home just created its own energy? if we removed the need of an -- for an all or nothing grid in this country and the investment would be back into the homes rather than the country? >> you have raised -- guest: you have raised all the different sides of the concerns i have wrestled with for years. you are right to say that in the age of lyndon johnson, we used far less electricity. your home today has 24 devices, 42 light bulbs, and countless other machines, like microwaves and so on, all of them running on electricity. while some use less than others, we use a lot of electricity. something like 45% of all homeowners leave the televisi

activists pushed lyndon johnson to set apart of the sea -- to set a part of the spectrum aside in the commercial media that there was the educational television their ranges from big bird and educational programming from kids but too long form documentary's and talk shows like yours, where you are not just concerned about the sound bite, but the whole meal. people who are the heart of the story are not so practiced and being able to make the point in eight seconds. and it is a gift to be able to hear what people have to say and especially someone who is not just repeating the consensus in washington. they need more than eight seconds so anyone will know what they are talking about and explain what it is that they are seeing. we need to take on these critical issues. tavis: i want to turn back to the politics in washington. very quickly, how do you respond to the accusation level that you saw that we are advocacy journalists? i just got a letter from the interim managing editor @ "current magazine." it is the bible for public media. the editor sent me a letter recently asking me if i w