and that's how ddb came into the orbit of lyndon johnson and the dnc in 1964. aides and his advertising firm, wanted to portray goldwater as a dangerous man who, if he got control of the nuclear arsenal, might threaten the peace of the world. >> goldwater, jr.: the mood of the country at the time was one of worry about the soviet union in particular. peace was a big issue. >> man: bombs away. >> d. goodwin: that fear of nuclear holocaust had been part of all of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s. and by that time, we were used to it, after hiding under our desks for so many years. [ sawing noise ] >> man: in a saturday evening post article dated august 31, 1963, barry goldwater said, "sometimes i think this country would be better off if we could just saw off the eastern seaboard and let it float out to sea." can a man who makes statements like this be expected to serve all the people justly and fairly? vote for president johnson on november 3rd. the stakes are too high for you to stay home. >> califano: we had a -- i guess i would call it a rift between the s

now, lyndon johnson of the three presidents was probably the poorest. and he went to college for one year and had to drop out. although he eventually finished and he taught at eight mainly mexican-american school in texas. we will house in school, where you can see him in the back, in the back here and it was this experience that was formative lyndon johnson. in realizing that we are wasting resources, unless we activate the resources of all of our people , we are not going to be a great country. and had a tremendous impression on him. and beginning in the 1960s, these resources started to activate. this is betty friedman in 1950 with her son daniel. she's fond of this picture because many people depicted her, although, she had no interest in family. she's just a radical feminist and it's bob. her book, the feminine mystique which came out in 1962 was when the landmark books and there were three landmark books right around that time, betty freedom's book, michael harrington's book on poverty in america and carson's book silent spring and they all genera

also another story is here is lyndon johnson of course but 14 hours after kennedy was declared dead lyndon johnson was nearly shot as well. it is an incredible story everybody is in tense and depressed nobody knew what was going on secret service was on edge. they just lost president lbj did not move into the president for two weeks he was in northwest washington he is patrolling johnson's backyard at 2:00 o'clock in the morning and he is rustling in the bushes. there is somebody out there. he has a tommy gun he picks it up and the noise comes closer. he aims the tommy gun at the noise he was a split-second from pulling the trigger and out of the bushes walks lyndon johnson he went out to get some fresh air. fourteen hours after kennedy was shot lyndon johnson was nearly shot by a secret service agent in his own yard. it is also in a book called the kennedy detail. an amazing story. just incredible. there is a million stories to tell of the president we could talk all day about this stuff but i did want to talk briefly about donald trump. we've been talking about the history but in terms o

he was sidelined by lyndon johnson. and if the 50s land still had the dulles brothers around american farm policy whereas in the 60s his champion was hubert humphrey who was as powerful as he was sent as a result he had no power to know what the american war machine was doing in vietnam. he left the tet offensive very dejected and that moralized because he understood contrary to what the generals were saying the tet offensive was not the victory even though we killed a lot more of the enemy than they kill our troops. it was a huge psychological blow to south vietnam and the united states and lansdale understood that. he understood that the war was being lost in the felt, he just felt horrible because he felt he had some good ideas that could help us do better but he had lost this bureaucratic battle. >> one of the questions from the audience hear talks about the tet offensive and of course preceded by this massive overlap of up to over 500,000 troops on the ground seemingly doing well. >> the light at the end of the tun

one other thing by the way something people might not know here is lyndon johnson being sworn in on airforce one but 14 hours after kennedy was declared dead johnson was nearly shot as well. it is an incredible story. back in washington tents, depressed and nervous and angry nobody knew what was going on in secret service was on edge as they just lost their president lbj did not move into the president over two weeks he was in his home in northwest washington and a secret service agent operating on no sleep was patrolling johnson's backyard at 2:00 o'clock in the morning he hears rustling in the bushes there is somebody out there he had the tommy gun and picks it up as the noise comes closer and aims the tommy gun at the noise and said he was a split-second from pulling the trigger out of the bushes walks lyndon johnson. he had gone out in the middle of the night to get some fresh air and did not tell anybody. fourteen hours after kennedy was shot johnson was nearly shot by a secret service agent in his own yard is also in a book called the kennedy detail. an amazing story that very few

basically the -- part of hr's thesis was that lyndon johnson should have listen to to joint chiefs but if you look at what they war saying, they had a congestion outlook and thought the only problem was the war was there was not enough fair u fire power, even though dropped more bombs than in world war ii. they want he more conventional forces, more, more, more, and i think lyndon johnson was right to be skeptical that simply applying more convention alfire power would achieve a better end state, and ed lansdale has different perspective. one of those like john paul van and a few others who were neither hawk nor dove because they weren't doves in the sense they didn't want to abandon south vietnam, wanted to help south veteran but at the same time they thought the way we were going was the wrong way and the ware the military establishment was recommending was the wrong approach. >> question here, generals are often accuse offed refighting the last war. how did the experience of the korean war affect and influence american leadership, and specifically lansdale? >> well-didn't have any r

here we are with lyndon johnson. for lyndon johnson, we have the telephone from his desk at the white house. if you look at the telephone, it is massive buttons for different lines and everything. there is even an extra side panel for more buttons that were add on the side because he needed more to contact more people. lyndon johnson was always on the telephone. he had a telephone installed in his bathroom. he would talk with people. he would bring people in there and talk with them in the bathroom, which i think would be a little bit disconcerning. he also recorded telephone conversations he had. those were supposed to be not open to the public until 50 years after he had died. however, that changed in 1993 with -- related to john f. kennedy's assassination. as a result of a commission looking into that, they opened and they started transcribing or even releasing the public -- the public recordings of those. you can find them on the internet. >> anything to be desired. hell, i don't know why they're so interested in

trump has ever consumed as much news as lyndon johnson did.t some considered a sacrilege, he had three tvs installed in the oval office along with two teletype machines from the ap and up wire services. both of them clanked away inside a soundproof box in the oval office. and in a story that may combine folklore and exact quotes, after hearing cronkite's remarks from night, the president said some version of if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america. of course 50 years ago tonight 1968 was just getting started. both martin luther king jr. and bobby kennedy were assassinated in a matter of months. lyndon johnson decided not to run for reelection, and the war in vietnam dragged on for another seven years. that is our broadcast for this tuesday evening. thank you so very much for being here with us and good night from nbc headquarters here in new york. >>> this morning, an nbc news exclusive, multiple officials say the u.s. intel community had substantial evidence that send states had been, quote, compromised by russia prior to or during th

the democratic party, the last time democratic party got majority of the white votes when lyndon johnsonn in 1964. they built up the proportion of the black vote, it's been over 90% except for hillary clinton. only got 8%. on the republican side they now have a majority of the white vote in the '60s. they have about 20-30% max -- down to 8% of the black vote. so we have this split in the party that fractures them. at the conventions this year, 50% of the democratic convention was white. 25% was black. republican convention, 94% was white. we have a racial split. we have racial parties and also -- i must say this. petty, petty partnership that we never had. look, just your prior guests, can schiff talk to nunes. they don't talk to each other they put wall up between their staff. >> garrett: you mentioned the convention, one of the fascinatings things in the book, you're advocating that americans participate in primaries far more than they do. these tiny percentages think identify that produce nominees which the whole country has to deal with. >> lack at the last election. trim of was ego

lyndon johnson was at the president, the democratic president. they work together to get 68 votes for the civil rights bill of 1968, it was opposed by senator richmond russell of georgia, but when senator russell lost, he flew back to atlanta and said it's the law, we should follow it. that's what we did with civil rights, that's what we did with social security. that's what we did with medicare, debt with fixing "no child left behind," with 21st 21st century cures. when we take on a tough, complicate issue and talk about it long enough and get enough of out to agree, we get a consensus, the country accepts it and you don't have to worry.the next congress coming in and passing, repealing it and changing it. when we don't do that it's like obamacare, passes with a bipartisan vote and then we have a permanent political battle trying to repeal it or replace it. that's been going on for eight years. still not through it yet. hope to be but not through it yet. so, we need 60 votes for a solution to the daca children brought here, and to the border sec

it was a follow up to my biography of lyndon johnson. t concerns the domestic program, the thousand pieces of legislation that johnson and congress passed between november of 1963 and 1968. most people -- well, johnson has been getting much more attention than when i began writing the book. so he's beginning to get his due. but compared to other reform presidents -- theodore roosevelt or franklin roosevelt -- he still is very much in the shadows. people usually remember two things about lyndon johnson; the vietnam war which is justly regarded as a disaster and civil rights which is generally regarded as a triumph. but there was so much more. there was, in addition to the 1964 equal accommodations act, the 1965 voting rights act, the 1968 fair housing act, there was medicaid, medicare, the first federal aid to education legislation, the war on poverty, community action, the first clean air and clean water legislation, the first wilderness acts, public television and public radio were created by legislation passed as part of the great socie

it was a follow-up to my autobiography of lyndon johnson. programrns the domestic of the 1000 pieces of legislation johnson and congress passed the between november 1963 and 1968. well, johnson has been getting much more attention than when i began writing the book. so he is beginning to get his otherut compared to reform presidents, theodore roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, he is still very much in the shadows. people usually remember two things about lyndon johnson. war, which is justly regarded as a disaster, and civil rights, which is generally regarded as a triumph. but there was so much more. to theas, in addition 1960 four equal accommodations act and the 1960 five voting rights act and the 1968 fair housing act, there was medicaid, medicare, the first federal-aid to education legislation, the war on poverty, community action, the first clean air and clean water legislation, the publicilderness act, television and public radio were created by legislation passed as part of the great society. the department of transportation, the immigrati

lyndon johnson decided not to run for re-election.nam dragged on for another seven years. that is our broadcast for this tuesday evening. thank you so very much for being here with us and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >> i've never been given any specific direction to take additional steps outside my authority. >> nbc reports substantial evidence election systems compromised here in seven u.s. states by the russians in 2016 as the national security director reveals trump has not directed him to protect us in 2018. >> the notion that you have not been given this mission to stop this from happening this year is outrageous. >> then. >> there was no collusion. there's no ob instructions. >> there is no collusion. >> there has been no collusion here. >> as the white house keeps insisting on no collusioning. > where's hope? come here, hope. come here, hope. get up here, hope. hope hicks. >> the president's long-time aide stonewalls on hill.

of course, the most famous example is lbj, master of the senate, lyndon johnson. robert carry's master of the senate. and lbj did an extraordinary job of dragging the senate into the 20th century. it was a reactionary institution before lbj. and he made a great difference with his incredible tos of nature. incredible energy. he used all the power he could to overcome what the senate had been before, because before lbj the senate was dominated by southern committee elite chairmen and it was described as the only place where the south did not lose the civil war. the south's unending revenge upon the north for gettysburg. so johnson did everything he could in caro's book, describes it, how he got the first civil rights act through. a modest measure but it was the first. johnson wore out his welcome in the senate quickly actually. people got tired of his overbearing nature. they were tired of him. when he accepted the vice presidency from president john kennedy, people were surprised. johnson thought it was the only way to ever become president for a southerner, but a

lyndon johnson once said you get one year, you get one year before the congress stop it is thinking about you and starts thinking about their own reelection. no matter how big a majority you're elected with. they're going to start thinking about what it means for them in the next years midterm both the midterm primaries that will start soon and then the midterm general election. and then on the national security side, we saw from looking back at history, that every president faces crisis in the first year and crisis comeses at precisely the wrong time when a new team comes into place many of these people may be very experienced but they don't know one the or how to work together. and we saw that in particular in the bush 41 administration and vice president dick cheney who then was secretary of defense cheney told us in his oral history of that administration. we were probably dick cheney has this wonderful ability to go from being very self-confident to also being very self-critical he said on paper we may be the best national security team ever. and he might be right. the president of t

another one that is sometimes overlooked, not reelection but lyndon johnson in 1964 because johnson had just been instrumental in passing the most controversial piece of legislation, civil rights act of 1964. and overwhelmingly elected. it signaled the american people, the american electorate as a whole that was ready for this kind of change. another landslide. a thunderous vote of approval. >> back to the early republic. >> and we look at the civil war as the crucible of our time. and 7 southern states and having to be stuck in. there were body doubles, secessionists, simmering in maryland and anchor in virginia and lincoln is stuck there. let me take lincoln from that victory and say the republican party is the dominant presidential election party, lincoln all the way to fdr. it is all republicans except grover cleveland. from 1912, and cut the republican party in two. and wilson does reelection. and after republican and republican and republican and in 1932 all the way until 1980. and in the age of franklin roosevelt and the 1932 election. and i will get to why in one second but if y

roosevelt, which was signed by his wife, eleanor roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, lyndon johnson, ford, carter, ronald reagan, george bush, and so on, and, of course, more recently, george w. bush and barack obama. so the tradition has been maintained. at some point when a new president's elected, st. john's makes an effort to contact them and have them sign this very historic book, which is a very dear item to the church. it clearly does not sit in the president's pew anymore, but it's one of those great pieces of history that has been long associated with this church from 1856 to the present. abraham lincoln has an association with st. john's as well. when he was elected in 1860, his first church service that he attended after he arrived in washington in february of 1861, was at st. john's. he came to st. john's on the 24th of february, on a sunday, for the 11:00 service with senator william seward of new york. they sat in the front of the church, but hardly anybody recognized him, including the rector, who was giving the sermon at the time and didn't even know he was speaking

lyndon johnson was the democratic president. worked together to get 60 votes. imposed by the senator of georgia but when he lost he flew back to atlanta. that's what we did with civil rights, social security,e medicare and were recently. it's a complicated issue and we talk about it long enough to get enough of us to agree with we get a consensus. the country accepts it. it passes with a partisan vote and event we have the political battle three to replace it. the goal should be seven, not 60. 47 or 48 democrats and another 60. i have no doubt we can get the there. there were 36 senators of both parties seeking to be three weeks ago which we set to cornyn on both sides we would like for you to find a consensus on this. there did 20 or 25 about an equal number of both parties trying to find a solution here. i can't go back to tennessee at memphis or nashville and say sorry we can do it. i need to say i am going to go back the president has done his job, the senate worked on it foe a week. we got up to 54 votes and we need 70 so my hope is the president will cont

folks like aubrey jordan, and and richards -- anne richards, and president lyndon johnson. and we also have some great young democrats. i spent a lot of time today at folks at a roundtable and at a couple other events. and what i learned is that you all take your politics is seriously as we take our barbecue, which is very seriously. [laughter] all have a: now, you great crowd here tonight, and we are in manchester. but i know that we are also thinking about the challenges that we have in washington dc. if you are like me, you go on twitter or facebook or turn on cable news and you recognize that we have quite a mess in washington dc. that despite the great work of your representatives, carol porter, and so many democrats that are fighting the good administrationan that is leading our nation in the wrong direction. i don't know about you, but it makes me miss president barack obama. [applause] i miss having a president we can be proud of. i miss when we had a president who called all americans as worthy of great representation. presidenthen we had a who tried to unite our c

lyndon johnson who knew something about the senate call ed mansfield downtown and said, basically you got to break the southern filibuster by wear ing them out because richard russell's old and allen has cancer and mansfield said i'm not going to do it that way and he told them how he was going to do it and had two-month debate and never did anything like that mansfield and they went on from that, they passed 64 act. and then they went on from that to the greatest period of productivity. mansfield created a senate based on trust and mutual respect, bipartisanship was second nature we all knew that that's the way the senate worked. the senate could battle over -- senators would battle over important issues and then strike their compromises and go out to dinner together. mansfield senate was extended by robert burt and howard baker for another eight years. the air is filled with talk about water can -- watergate understandably, if you look back , the great senators, they were there for watergate, mans field launched the watergate committee with the unanimous vote of the senate two month

the vietnam war diminished lyndon johnson's moral authority. and it actually has come set of enhancing the reputation and influence of this domestic program and his philosophy, and to cut it, damaged it. i'm not sure that's the answer to your question but it's sort of the answer i wanted to give. i'm not sure people are less idealistic now. i certainly don't see in my students. johnson used to say most people want to do good. that's not the issue. the issue is distinguishing what's good and what's bad, and that's not always clear. one of the things i talk about in the book is in this sort of paradox of form, part of -- well, let me go back. spare me five minutes for this, it's significant. the thrust of the great society programs were nondiscrimination and quality opportunity. the 1965 various groups were telling mr. johnson that that was not enough, that poor whites, african-americans, hispanics had started the race too late and they had too many handicaps. so he delivered the famous speech at howard university in 1965 which he coined the term

are working for a man named eugene mccarthy who is running in the new hampshire primary against lyndon johnson on the basis of the vietnam war was a mistake. i didn't have a political bone in my body and my father was a republican and my mother was democrat that was against the war so i said okay. the next morning i got on a bus and went to new hampshire and i loved it. it was like sports. the divide up neighborhoods and write our own leaflets and knock on the doors and we had a great time so good that i was given a title in the mccarthy campaign and the nashua new hampshire in office because they had two machines in a new how to run them. it was a ramshackle campaign but if you remember your history and your member your history mccarthy didn't quite win the primary, came within three or four points but lyndon johnson, the man who i admire in an act, a rare act of humility saw the handwriting on the wall inside the country is against me in week later said i will not run. and i said to myself wow, a group of students and other assorted nobodies with a ramshackle campaign and we toppled the most

demonstration to get federal intervention," after bloody sunday, said zak.the country and president lyndon johnsonre so shocked by the films, he had alabama national guard troopers federalized to protect the third march. "really for me it was a transformative experience to witness this myself," allen zak said.zak's photographs show the disparity between blacks and whites in schools, paved roads, eating establishments and employment. "what made 26,000 people come out was the injustice and it was just obvious," zak said. for days he went through six rolls of film a day picturing how they were fed, slept, marched and sang, all the while he said hate was always nearby."just think, three weeks earlier these same state troopers were charged with enforcing segregation by all lethal," zak said.then, "i wasn't ready to live in a allowed an this."zak said 63 years later, and as a country has made advances, but said he where we are "i wish people good look at the state of race country and how it hurts everybody," he said. (vicki) black history month was first proposed back in february 19-69...(grant) and the

amy: that was lyndon b johnson 50 years ago in 1968. we will l continue with aaron glantz and vincent hughes in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: "my hometown," by bruce springsteen. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. our guests are aaron glantz with this remarkable piece called "kept out" looking at millions of cases around the country of redlining. he is senior reporter of reveal. vincent hughes, democratic state senator of pennsylvania. wouldsenator hughes, i ask you about what can be done, especially with some of these lending institutions. some of the ones mentioned in .he series are pnd what can local legislatures in the face of apparently not that much interest at the federal ,evel can deal with this issue what can you do at the state and municipal level to make these lending institutions more accountable? >> once we became aware of the information -- you're right, it is an incredible amount of andarch done by aaron emanuel. once we became aware of this, as you sig

president lyndon johnson went down to his ranch and he had several cars. he had a car that turns into a boat. he loved to drive that into the river on his ranch and drive in that. the president dove for fun but not in the official capacities. the presidential vehicle behind me is the most famous vehicle here in our collection at the henry ford of american innovation and the best known presidential limousine of any sort. this is the 1961 lincoln continental used by president kennedy and it is the car he was riding when assassinated in 1963. it looks different, when we think to the pictures of kennedy and we think of it aspect a deep blue color. it was a convertible and didn't have armor. this is a time after world war ii despite the cold war heating up we didn't think there could that kind of risk or danger towards the president. it is a force in everyday life in the united states. it is after the president eisenhower creating the interstate highway system. traveling for vacation, business and work. going by car and airplane and the family car is a force of

he gave guidance to dwight eisenhower, richard nixon, lyndon johnson, even bill clinton and his timef troubles. laura: he had a particularly close relationship with the bush family.he what role did play in george w. bush conversion to christianity? >> george w. bush credits billy graham with hi being a born again christian and with his finding sobriety. which of course, is absolutely essential to the career of george w. bush. laura: in moments of national pain, like 9/11, the oklahoma city bombing, what was it about having billy graham by your side as a president that was so important? portant because though he was a christian preacher, his message could resonate across religious lined across any k of denominational lines. this spiritual gravitas. he wasn't just a political religious right person. he was actuallyte q- quite critical of the religious rights, saying we don't want to poison b religion nging it too close to politics. if he was around on this very day, he would not be giving mulligans to donald trump for his lack of personal responsibility. believed in personal rectitude

i think he was closest pastorally to lyndon johnson who needed, needed what he called long, tall preaching. that was what johnson called it, on a regular and continuing basis. and who i think was the most worried about his faith, and i think he was closest personally to george herbert walker bush who had known graham for a long time, whose mother had known graham back in the 1950s and his father and, of course, who -- mr. bush, president bush's own children were ministered to by mr. graham. it was kind of a cross-generational family/pastor relationship. so i think that was different -- he was different to different presidents in different ways. >> host: now, one surprise i found in the book was jimmy carter, born again baptist sundayay schoolteacher, a man wo publicly at least kept his faith at the forefront of his presidency. you would have thought there would be two sons of the south, this natural allegiance. they weren't all that close, were they? >> guest: amazing to me too. it should have been really -- they were spiritually sort of close, but personally not close. jimmy carter's the

president lyndon johnson is thought of going down to his ranch. he is several cars. a few lincolns. he had a car that turns into ha boat. loved to drive that. so presidents did drive for fun but not in official capacities. the presidential vehicle behind me is undoubtedly the most famous presidential vehicle here in our collection the henry ford of innovation and arguably the best known presidential limo convenie limousine. it is the car he was assassinated in 1963 for john f. kennedy. the car looks different than when we think of it being a deep blue color. of course it did not have this roof. it was a convert b8 originally and no armor of any time. this was a time after world war ii despite the cold war heating up, we did not think there could be that kind of risk or danger to the president's life. but also a time when the automobile is absolute lay a force in every day life in the united states. just after president eisenhower signed legislation that will create interstate highway system so people are traveling on summer vacations, for business, work, going by car. and to some ex

earlier, said president lyndon johnson signed the fair housing act in 1968, and that was supposed toe mortgage discrimination illegal. it was supposed to allow people to build wealth no matter what their race was. it was supposed to end segregation. what we found in our investigation 50 years later, is that in dozens of cities across the country, people of color are still being turned away from the opportunity to live the american dream. and further, we found a government is completely dropping the ball on its enforcement of these laws. we found the obama administration had sued only a banks for violating the fair housing act in his first year in office, the trump at administration, justice department, did not sue a single financial institution. and the office of comptroller of the currency, which is in charge of enforcing another law called the community reinvestment act, which is supposed to get banks to lend in low-income communities and underserved theseorhoods, was passing institutions on the community lending reviews, 99 point -- 99% of the time. so the government is saying tha

kennedy and the neverending back and forth of the roles of lee harvey oswald fidel castro lyndon johnson and the country's intelligence agencies and had in the scandal one mystery surrounding it but what gets lost in the polarizing world of j.f.k. assassination theories and debates is the much more startling and frankly bizarre facts surrounding the murder of j.f.k. his brother and presidential front runner robert f. kennedy gunned down in a los angeles hotel kitchen hours after winning a crucial presidential primary but according to researchers say no sullivan and many others are of caged convicted us that's and simply cannot be the only one culpable in the killing here is what he had to stay. historically in that in there in the. early seventy's and witness testimony established that sarah harding was in the right position and he was too far away from bobby kennedy to actually be the person who killed him i'm sorry who was in front of bobby kennedy at the barrel of his gun it was just a thought and a half to five feet away according to the witness testimony and the autopsy tells us tha

. >> of course, president kennedy is assassinated in 1963 and lyndon johnson takes over.e move next to the johnson administration. johnson sets the stage and part of that stage was set before he was re-elected in 1964 with the gulf of tonkan incident. you will show us a cable, a document regarding a uss maddox. tell us about this. >> yes. this cable is about the second attack, tonkan gulf attack and there was one on august 2nd and it was the august 4th attack that this cable refers to. it's the second cable that the captain of the "uss maddox" which was the ship, the american ship that was believed to have been under torpedo attack by the north vietnamese, and in the first cable he said they were under continuous torpedo attack, but the second cable he's expressing a little bit of doubt about that and he says that freak weather effects on radar and overeager sonar men may have accounted for many reports. robert mcnamara did not report these captain's doubts to the president. so the president and others believed that there had been a second attack and it was after this sec