lyndon johnson was sworn in as president bobby disliked johnson intensely and all of this seems somehow like a coup d'etat. from. bobby grief. to function. longer a forceful presence of cabinet meetings surely it was bobby not johnson who was the rightful heir to the kennedy throne. johnson was a brilliant tactician and he quickly succeeded where the kennedy's had failed. to challenge to. the growth in our community and ashley's arms and in our hearts. to make the best of use again just. johnson managed to push the civil rights act through congress in one thousand nine hundred sixty four and the voting rights act one year later. he also set about creating the great society a sweeping set of social domestic policy programs bobby kennedy was now little more than a spectator as his nemesis lyndon johnson moved ahead with his reforms. as he slowly adjusted to life after his brother's assassinations bobby kennedy considered a new mission to return to the white house this time as president but first he would have to get past lyndon johnson. in july nine hundred sixty four kennedy his wife and

lyndon johnson behind the scenes? coming up to the convention was plotting to work it out to get a draft because humphrey was a weak candidate he thought eugene mccarthy was a fluke and johnson was getting pressure. it was almost set up. johnson had mere daily invite him to chicago for his birthday party he wasn't going to the convention but going to the birthday party to announce he was going to russia soviet union as the first president to visit to get peace in vietnam than his boys was start the draft and that might put the kebabs on all of that was a few days before that was going to happen the soviet tanks rolled into one of the nations of jumpers about the and that was the and of the summit. lbj came this close to claim that nomination. >> be nine be nine. [inaudible] >> i can repeat the question did mayor daley with the kennedys to see if edward would get into the race? that delegation was supposed to break for hubert humphrey to announce the endorsement daly called everybody together the delegation together at

it was always lyndon johnson. there been a couple instances where he disagreed with doesn't trump about would get involved and who would be speaker after paul ryan h said he would resign or, you know, and donald trump wanted kevin mccarthy and mike pence said you need to let them figure this out on their own but let congress do its thing. occasionally he will disagree with the president but not often and, mike pence really wants to keep relationships on the helper he goes up to touch gloves, that's how he put it, as often as he can on capitol hill and always wants to walk through the rotunda so he can get his photo taken with people. i think what is missing about the understanding of mike pence is how deeply ambitious he is. >> host: richard nixon anna spiro [inaudible] >> guest: it's an amazing story. he wrote in the book about his experience as vice president and how he thought he was railroaded and it was an excuse of watergate was the scandal was building up in the nixon and he thought he was unfairly pushed o

thanks everybody else in the world but doesn't thank lyndon johnson and lyndon johnson did not forget it. by now we're starting to accelerate into vietnam. johnson has started to send combat troops over there. late 1967, the vietnam war has been going on now for a solid three years of open combat. we had almost a half million troops over in vietnam. a number of u.s. senators were becoming these antiwar senators. kennedy was starting to move in that direction from '66 and '6 but wouldn't commit because his brother was the guy that first got us into vietnam and he was kind of in this quandary of attacking the policies that he was a part of in his brother's administration. johnson's going full bore on vietnam, on the republican candidate, they're all supporting president on vietnam, saying, go, go, go. and so a game howard lonesteen who send one term in congress, leading the antiwar movement decided signing petitions and having protest made won't work. he need to find somebody who will challenge johnson directly on the vietnam war and everybody's number one choice is bobby expend they we

lyndon johnson came to the house in the 1930s and rayburn wondering and they almost had a father-son elationship. some days really pass without being at the johnson dinner table. he never married so you never family of his own was close to the johnson family and particularly loved lady bird johnson. johnson parlay that into that influence into becoming one of the young and the new deal notice by franklin roosevelt for his hard work and parlay that into his narrow -- became majority leader of the u.s. senate in his 40s at a time when he had only sold for relatively short period in the senate, something that was unusual at the time and parlay that majority leadership into being a candidate for president. although it was obviously a great blow to lose the nomination to john kennedy in 1960 the cancellation prize of the vice presidency was real and when kennedy was assassinated in 1963 johnson becomes president. he is probably the longest and biggest lasting protÉge of sam rayburn. another protÉge of rayburn's was jim wright from here in fort worth. he was elected to congress in 1954 and

i think there is more like a lyndon johnson-hubert humphrey relationship, where it was always very clear who is in charge and it was always linden johnson. there are a couple of instances where mike pence disagreed with the president. after paul ryan said he was going to resign, donald trump on it like mccarthy and pence said, thing.gress do its occasionally he will disagree with the president, but not often. mike pence wants to keep relationships on the hill. he goes up and touches gloves, as he puts it, all the time. about thessing understanding about mike pence is how deeply ambitious he is. >> richard nixon end spiro agnew? wrote a bookew about his experiences vice president and how he thought he was railroaded. up the scandal was building in the next in the nixon administration, he thought he was unfairly pushed out. they had a really tough relationship. , if people know him at all, it was knowing that he was forced out of office because of scandal. >> people said he took bribes. was not a great politician by any means. agnew kept trying to have private meetings with mixing, nixon r

the democratic party of bill clinton is not the democratic party of lyndon johnson. it's bill clinton that says the era of big government is over and ends welfare as we know it so they turned us back into a far more centrist party that still appeals to that and clinton has that style. he was able to do that. the big one you talk about is reagan. and the reagan democrat. for all intents and purposes, a local study of people who would later be called reagan democrats, one of the lines in the book is, before people called them reagan democrats, in philadelphia, they were calling them rizzocrats because it was less about party and more about the person. host: let me take it one step further, then. what is it about the white working class voter? what do they want from elected officials? whether the mayor of philadelphia or president of the united states? timothy: that's difficult to say. and you were right when you said they're not a monolithic group and we shouldn't treat the white working class as if they are this blob of interest. they want different things. the way i

tye: at that convention where lyndon johnson was nominated in 1964, johnson -- while i think at that moment bobby kennedy, as you say, had no interest in doing it, johnson was so paranoid that he apparently asked j. edgar hoover to have agents check out what was going on in the kennedy camp and to be stationed at the convention and report back to him if anything, if they picked up any sniff that there was going to be a kennedy movement. the truth was the best speech at that convention was the speech that bobby kennedy delivered. depending on whose count you used, it was as long as 17 minutes of interruption applause during bobby kennedy's speech, but it was a speech that l.b.j., in his paranoia, was thought about him and talked about a son and his loss of his brother jack, and in truth, the end that have truth was the most rousing endorsement of l.b.j. bobby kennedy was three things -- he was a catholic, he was his parents' son and loyal to the kennedy family, and the third pillar he stood on was he was a democrat, and he donned well was going to support, even though he detested lbj,

a very warm welcome to the president as he comes in. [ laughter ] >> as 1967 faded into 1968 lyndon johnsond one of the most important presidencies for domestic policies in history. >> helping millions avoid the horrors and last year medicare and medicaid brought better health to more than 25 million americans. [ applause ] >> also, a great period where he passed, this landmark civil rights institution. this racism will give him a place in history. >> no tree in the forest is as tall -- >> if ever there was a nation capable of solving its problems, it is this nation. >> johnson had to be the best. he was driven by this idea to be top-dog. that's how he felt about vietnam. >> since i reported to you last january, the enemy defeat in battle after battle. >> he knew all of that would make him a cdate, but he also knew he was unlikely to be in any future mount rush more because of the war. this is what made johnson's fingernails sweat. >> today may raids on the north vietnamese -- >> caisson is a marine base in the bother western corner and starting surrounding and attacking it. >> 500 vietname

in a symbolic gesture, he hands the pen to kennedy. >> i thought that was a gracious act on lyndon johnson'sknow, they have had a lot of challenges between the two of them. >> with johnson running for president in 1964, kennedy has hopes to be picked for vice-president. >> he felt he represented the kennedy wing of the party and that it deserved a place on the ticket. >> johnson harbors no affection for kennedy and chooses minnesota senator hubert humphrey as his running mate. >> if johnson had a choice for vice-president between kennedy and ho chi minh, he would have gone with ho chi minh. >> johnson is fearful that kennedy's appearance will stampede delegates at the democratic convention to pick him. >> like a shrewd politician, lbj moved rfk's appearance to the final night of the convention after the nominations had been done. >> it backfired. when rfk did speak, the hall went crazy. there was this forlorn bobby standing up there as the symbol of the nation's loss. >> that ovation ran about 12 minutes. >> it was the last word. you may have just nominated president johnson, but we all miss

korean n, during the war, the united states, one of the reasons lyndon johnson tried avoid mobilizing the economy is, he was aware of how serious had gotten at the end of world war ii. he was a young congressman at point and so i think there s a similarity in the way that hese wars seemed to grind on with no -- definite outcome or in view, is a me similar later. we tend to think of vietnam respect.ferent in that i don't think it was. >> there were, what, half a million troops, highest number war, in this time, 1968. 543,000.ike right. after the tet offensive, the eaction by the government was to contemplate a request by another 200,000 troops. can you imagine? of course, thoseroops were not sent, but it tells you how expensive that would have been. meanwhile, back in philadelphia, i think the war is being seen in an increasingly critical way. fullyt know if people are aware that this city was a know of activism and i the next panel will look closely at protests but i think it's important to think of protests the issue of war as we're talking about now, and a personal antidote. was a h

the final say in the delegate selection was in the hands of the party bosses and lyndon johnson. >> someoneout humphrey's loyalty. he said, don't worry about hubert, i've got his pecker in my pocket. >> earlier this year, top u.s. leaders vowed that the marine outpost at khe sanh would be defended at all costs but today the u.s. command in vietnam announced that the marines are pulling out of khe sanh. >> that's the last bunker on this base. now that the american troops have blown it up, there's nothing to protect them from enemy artillery. so now it's time for the final departure. >> why did we fight so hard to keep it if we were going to give it up like this was the question some asked themselves. others were relieved because they privately believed khe sahn was of marginal importance, anyway. >> the futility of the war, what was the clear goal? there was no clear goal in the end result was abandonment. >> khe sahn, a few must remember their comrades, among the 2,500 casualties. >> i think khe sahn stands as a symbol of the whole war effort. we got in for a supposedly strategic reason. it

i must say that both lyndon johnson and martin luther king jr.e two distinctly different individuals. they came together in a very critical time in the life of this country. both of these men were committed to a more just, a more equal, and a more democratic america. so they came together to make america much much stronger. 1965.e back in late to have a weekend with my parents, and to discuss a move. he came to ask that my parents consider moving from selma to atlanta. it was so interesting, because my parents told him that they pretty much knew what they wanted to tell him, their decision. him for thehanked offer to relocate us to atlanta and to continue our lives there, but there was so much history in this house relating to my mother's family, relating to the civil rights movement, my father wanted him to know that they were going to stay here and keep a light shining in this house. you mayr knows, martin, need to have another march, and we will be right here with the house. 4, 1968, of august the my parents and i were here having dinner. and

but his biggest influence was is in mentorship of lyndon johnson, and lyndon johnson came to the house in 1930 and rayburn took him under his wing and they had an almost father and son relationship. rayburn never married so he had no family of his own and was very close to johnson family, i particularly loved lady bird johnson. and so johnson parlayed that into -- that influence into becoming one of the young turks in new deal, noticed very much by franklin roosevelt force his hard work and his talent, and of course, parlayed that into his narrow and famous victory in the 1948 election i texas, and then became majority leader of the u.s. senate, in his 40s at a time when he only served for a relatively short period in the senate, something that was very unusual at the time and parlayed that majority leadership into being a candidate for president, and although it was obviously a great blow to lose the nomination to john kennedy in 1960, the consolation prize of the vice-presidency was valley then when kennedy was assassinated in 1963, johnson becomes president. so, he is probably the l

. >> host: now, what did you learn about lyndon johnson, somebody you knew personally? >> guest: well, you know, it's interesting. obviously, the war in vietnam will always be a scar on his legacy. but the more i thought about what he did in that first year after and a half when he was president, in civil rights, in voting rights, in social justice issues, the more respect i had for his extraordinary ability not simply to deal with the congress, but to have conviction and to have a vision of where he wanted to take the country. the very first night he became president when kennedy was killed, he laid out -- he said i'm going to get medicare, voting rights, a civil rights bill. unbelievable that every single thing he said came true. >> host: what were the turbulent times for theodore roosevelt? >> guest: well, much like our own in a lot of ways because the industrial revolution had shaken up the economy much as the technological revolution has today. you had a lot of immigrants pouring in from abroad, you had a gap twoan the rich and the poor -- between the rich and the

it includes lyndon johnson from my state who would go on to become president as well as mike mansfield from montana, who went on to serve as majority leader for 16 years. and a more recent times, there's been great statesman like bob dole, trent lott, and bill frist. now we all know that senator mcconnell is an avid student of history, and he's learned a lot from a of these leaders. their examine proposal, their ups and downs, their successes and their challenges. and in a sense, he standsn their shoulders. the experience, the example, the great leadership each of them demonstrated have benefitted all of us, but nobody more than our leader senator mcconnell. in today's world, the qualities embodied by all of these men is not really very widely understood. but we have to look no further than senator mcconnell to see what that leadership looks like. one thing it requires is recognizing your role, but also respecting the role of other members in the conference. as i said, senator mcconnell deeply understands the nature of the senate and his position, and he illustrated this when he spoke

in hisgest influence was mentor ship of lyndon johnson. he came to the house in the 1930's and rayburn took him under wing. they had an almost father-son relationship. without rally past rayburn sitting at the johnson dinner table. rayburn never married so he had no family and was very close to the johnson family. he loved lady bird johnson. johnson parlayed that into becoming one of the young turks in the new deal. much by franklin roosevelt for his hard work and talent. of course parlayed that into his narrow and famous victory in the 1948 election in texas then became majority leader of the u.s. senate in his 40's, when he had only serve for a relatively short. in the senate. that was very unusual at the time. he parlayed that into becoming a candidate for president. it was a great blow that his nomination in 1960, the consolation prize of vice president it was real and when kennedy was assassinated, johnson becomes president. he is probably the longest and samest lasting protege of rayburn. another protege was jim wright from fort worth

so this coalition succeeds in 1964 in reelected ralph yarborough to the senate, in re-elect lyndon johnsonto the presidency and getting support in texas for him, and ultimately they transform local politics. they redraw the map of texas elections so that now, today, you have these blue inner city, central cities, surrounds by red suburbs. but they scudded in their goal of breaking down the doors of the democratic party and transforming it and using it to filing for things like equal prime minister opportunity. they helped to win the civil rights act and the roting -- voting righting a and implement them. they have to keep sitting at lunch counter and file indicate in the court. and fight in the workplace. mr. moses leroy, fighting for equal opportunity and in 1965 he has the tool eeoc and can use that to break open employment at the southern pack. a few years later he is the named plaintiff on a case that creates single member voting district tuesday the city of houston. so day achieved this decades long goal of winning independent political power. it's the same peel. over seasonal e sever

it's a fictional manuscript but she has basted on lyndon johnson and it's called linden, love and therridors of power. it's a historical fiction set in the white house with resident johnson as a character, and i think that it probably includes a lot of the actual events and things that she observed and things she observed about his character. and again it's never been published, but we do have it in her papers, and it's a pretty interesting read. she worked in the white house and she was, she found it difficult at times not only because of president johnson and the way that he ran his executive branch and randy oval office, but i think she also felt that her voice on certain issues wasn't being heard. she was very much against the vietnam war, for example, and she witnessed a lot of things happening that just didn't sit right with her. around this time she read a book called "black like me" by an author name john howard griffin, and in that book john howard griffin had darkened his skin and lived with african-americans to write about that experience of being an african-american man in

bill and defining the roone party in a way that i thought would be unfortunate, that i voted for lyndon johnson, which in retrospect was a huge mistake. but it w a protest vote. senator mcconnell's willingness as a college student to buck his own political party resurfaced 40 years later in his leadership on first amendment free speech issues. in 2006 he cast the deciding vote against the adoption of a constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning. when most republican colleagues and almost all of his constituents had a different point of view. he argued that the first amendment protects even personally offensive messages. and mcconnell became the senate's leading voice against restrictions on political speech under the guise of, quote, campaigneform, unquote. again, some of his own party disagreed, including president george w. bush and senator john mccain, but he persisted and on multiple occasions the supreme court has agreed with mcconview of protecting political speech under the first amendment. mr. president, two of the three united states senate office buildings in washington, d.c.,

because they would come home and talk and be articulate about it and the senator who ran against lyndon johnson eugene mccarthy used to talk recently about maybe mcnamara wanted to change the color of the corpses but in this village they were brief this this company that hadn't seen the enemy they had been sniped at and they'd fallen into pits with sticks pull of poison they'd lost about twenty or thirty people have their hundred and they want to pay back and they were told by the cia official contract employ bad intelligence some are you going to go into a village and you going to see the enemy there so they got ready to go to their credit to be kill or be killed for america right they had seen no combat really and they fly in and there's nothing there woman making five hundred fifty sixty men women no one no men old men women children and they began to round them up and executed what i could write about. the they did things like throwing up babies and catching them alive on bayonets i mean and raping like crazy i didn't. so much trouble with that story because i didn't know what i was getting

if you ask a neoconservative how did you vote in 1968, they would say lyndon johnson. if you asked a conservative -- i'm sorry, if you say it 1964, they would say lyndon johnson. and a conservative was a goldwater. that is one distinction. the second is because of that, neoconservatism are objectives of liberalism which means in foreign affairs. there is a critique by conservatives, neoconservatives is that neoconservatives are too utopian. wilsonian if you like. we want to democratize the world, and the answer is yes. what distinctions us from liberal is that we do not rely on the institutions that liberals rely on. the u.n., treaties, all of that wilsonian stuff. we believe in power, american power in particular. what distinctions us from other conservatism or traditional conservatives, they are more likely to be realists. they're not interested in the governance of other countries. they are just interested in how the government reacts related to the united states. you might look at the additional -- traditional conservative and a look it other nations. neoconservati

start the film with a quote from bill moyer, who was a famous journalist and press secretary to lyndon johnson. where he talks about the -- a free and independent press. and the need for a free and independent press if we are going to have a democracy. it is one of the pillars of democracy. and here we are, at a time when the president of the united states is calling the press the enemy of the people, saying it's fake news, and the job of the press is always, and there's a, quote, in that same speech which is by the way, john wolcot said those things to his reporters in the "newsroom." he said, and i think the most important line in the film is when the government says something, you as reporters only have one question to ask, is it true? and that really is where we are now. the press is under attack like never before. you've got a presidency that is essentially backed up by a big swath of media, which you could arguably called state-run media with fox and sinclare and "breitbart" and alex jones and so on. it's even more difficult now for the press to break through with the truth. so it's more

texas gave birth to lyndon johnson who produced a great society.back when molly was writing the legislature. it was largely democrat. when george bush got elected. they were remembered the lieutenant governor and the speaker. could've covertly there was always a negotiation. yesterday was a lot of fighting. it wasn't until the republican takeover. it was the redistricting that took place and time delay. it was the majority whip he and craddock begin to rearrange the districts. i live in austin the most liberal city in the southern .tier we now had six congres representing t second of artful creation that rendered the votes pointless. and then i think one of several reasons why texas they don't vote. >> this is asked especially true of hispanic voters. the future of so much of america. we both head about0% hispanic population in california they vote. texas they don't. if you just subtract the question who doesn't vote. the real difference i think is the absence of the inspiring candidates. but they don't actually offer themselves. as can be very dif

lyndoned, i don't want johnson listening for my heart beat every morning. there is the feeling that they are always just waiting there for something bad to happen, because that is how they become president. the drama of this assassination is that it was very difficult, and johnson tried so hard. there's a picture of this pony that he gave the kennedys. it's incredible, he gave them a pony named tex. , at really didn't want it first. he was constantly trying to ingratiate himself and win their love and respect, and he never really got it. he was kind of a laughingstock. the kennedy people call him uncle corn pone. they made fun of him for being kind of aruba -- kind of a rube from texas. thisn his mind, they were group of elitists and johnson never belonged host:. that kennedyn would have dropped johnson in 1964? guest: there's a lot of conflicting evidence about that. secretary wrote a memoir in which he was absolutely going to drop him. i don't know if that would have happened. jackie kennedy talks about that as a possibility, in her oral history and inter

one of the things in thek book two of the first books about lyndon johnson a kv are becoming the biggest construction company in the k world with dick cheney who was the it is hard to hold people like that accountable on the way that is satisfied so i'm afraid it is a trickier proposition the more they know the better the chances. courts are important but the attitude about these is changed so dramatically that the jurisprudence has been changed. if that is something that you care about. >> so by the way t5 is still flying. over in afghanistan to get artificial intelligence but what has been the reaction? so when you write a book like this what are you hoping? >> i think i am just hoping that people get interested and it is something that it is taken away by the story there is no policyt i'm trying to change but i'm hoping to try to put it into context that people can read and it gives that deeper texture so when they look at things, the image that i have is when people read a book i wanthe them to get into sharper focus. >> i can say that also for me in my regular work as well to look a

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he gives that speech, lyndon johnson comes to .peech here on memorial day lyndon johnson gives a speech and says everything that eisenhower should have said about gettysburg. he talks about martin luther king's letter from a birmingham jail, the slow change of pace on patients --s, and patients was no longer good enough. as we maintain the vigil of , we must keep this in our streets and schools and the lives of all of our people, that those who died here on native soil should not in vain. 100 years ago, the slave was freed. 100 years ago, the -- 100 years later, the knee grow -- negro maintains the bondage of his skin. eisenhower had nothing to say about this in july. but he redeems himself a bit later on. this is one time he met with black leaders in 1958. this is ike in november -- i'm closing this. i was invited to give the speech here in gettysburg on november 19, 1963. and everyone knows he made a different decision about where he was going to spend his time in november. he was going off to texas. when kennedy declined, eisenhower was pressed into service to be the main speaker on

lyndon johnson would have moved heaven and earth to keep robert kennedy from many nominated at that convention in august. and he knew it, he ran anybody. and the other thing is that he was warned if you run for president, you will be doing so at great physical risk. which of course in the end cost him his life. >> to this david ignatius, i want to ask michael eric dyson a question. michael, your book is about the unfinished conversation on race. that involves robert kennedy. involves all of us, really. i want to ask you, if we can imagine this remarkable man alive today, and joining that conversation on race, in 2018, what would that conversation be today? >> the first thing he would do would be listen. unlike contemporary leaders and the present potus this man had a yen, a yearning, a desire to hear the other side. not just pro forma, not just for the sake of argument, but to engage in a listening tour across this country. not only the south, but up north as well. he went to bedford stuyvesant, after martin luther king jr.'s murder in atlanta, he even met with many of his aides and the fresh

lyndon johnson pulled out of the race. >> i will not accept the nomination of my party for another terms the your president. >> just four days after that. >> martin luther king was shot and killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> finally, a few minutes after midnight, june 5, 1968, america faced the murder of yet another kennedy. >> thank you >> pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. five shots. >> journalist pete hamil helped subdue the assassin. says the wound that america suffered that night has yet to heal. >> a story of what might have been. not about what happened. but what we lost when it ed >> what did we lose? >> hope. >> i want the democratic party and the united states of america to stand for hope. instead of despair. >> my father gave people hope. he lifted them up. >> kathleen kennedy townsend the oldest of robert and ethel kennedy's 11 children. she says people found that hope in the questions her father was asking. >> we have this great wealth, $800 billion ape year. we have all this military power. yet how do we to it? what do we do with it? >> how do we make moral choices? how do we

brother in no it was robert kennedy doing what he thought was the best thing to do when president lyndon johnson decided to not run for reelection i shall not seek and i will not accept. the nomination of my party for another term as your president kennedy entered the race i am announcing today my candidacy. for the presidency of the united states among his opposition to the law and order candidate richard nixon and senator eugene mccarthy who opposed vietnam it took a chat with a mccarthy supporter to make kennedy more willing to mildly call for an end to the war he said i'm getting all of for eternity boys who make scenes and and mccarthy is getting all the a students i want to know why that's true moreover kennedy's popularity soared because people believed he understood their struggles my thanks to all of you and now it's on to chicago and life with. but then a gunman shot kennedy on june fifth at a campaign rally his presidency would never be what i think is that that sense. of love primarily certainly and and the quest for social justice as an expression. on this or robert francis kennedy

because they would come home and talk and be articulate about it and the senator who ran against lyndon johnson eugene mccarthy used to talk recently about maybe mcnamara wanted to change the color of the corpses but in this village they were brief this this company that hadn't seen the enemy they had been sniped at and they'd fallen into pits with sticks pool of poison they'd lost about twenty or thirty people have their hundred and they want to pay back and they were told by the cia official contract employ bad intelligence some are you going to go into a village and you going to see the enemy there so they got ready to go to their credit to be kill or be killed for america right they had seen no combat really and they fly in and there's nothing there woman making five hundred fifty sixty men women no one no men old men women children and they began to round them up and executed what i could write about the they did things like throwing up babies and catching them alive on bayonets i mean and raping like crazy i didn't. so much trouble that story because i didn't know what i was getting into

lyndon johnson once to be -- he needsident the support of white southern democrats.er is helping organize the mississippi freedom democratic party and they want alternative elections because they are not allowed to vote in the white elections because they can't register to vote. -- theyand alternative could to democratic national convention, do you remember that? in atlantic city new jersey, they took a bus three days to get there. she has been put on national television to testify about what andappening in mississippi she calls out, is this america where our lives are threatened daily because we want to vote and we want to live as human beings? lyndon johnson interrupts, because he does not want this uneducated black woman who won't follow her leaders for her voice to be heard. they lose at the democratic national convention, they are not seated, the white delegation walks out anyway. is according to the ofes an elected member congress by the mississippi freedom party and she goes to congress in 1965 as the lawfully elected representative from mississippi and congre

sports teams have been going to the white house since the johnson administration, not lyndon johnson, andrew johnson. it goes back to 165. yet, you have never seen a team on political grounds, 75% of the team it was looking like saying they weren't going to show up. they were clear about their reasons. these are reasons that donald trump does not want to confront. sn't want to have the discussion about the reasons they're putting forward. they're talking about trump's racism what, doesn't kef referred to. they talk about his sexism as tory smith has. they talk about immigration, about criminal justice. these are the discussions they want to have. donald trump won't talk about those issues unless it's to fan their flames. weather does is i diverts the discussion, deem conditionizes and if is the rhetoric with deceit. >> the first african-american president according to donald trump for a couple of years was an illegal immigrant. then he starred saying well, he learned his anti-colonial, british attitudes from his father who he never really met. the lies that trump told about barack oba

. >> it would be nominated by the people who controlled the levers of power, and that was lyndon johnson the beneficiary. >> nevertheless, if mccarthy, kennedy amassed enough delegates through the primary process, they might be able to put pressure on the democratic machinery. >> and the may 7th primary is critical to the kennedy strategy of demonstrating to party leaders across the country that he is the one democratic candidate who can win big. >> in the end it is going to be decided who is going to be the nominee for the democratic party and therefore who is going to be the next president of the united states. >> mccarthy couldn't get any black vote. bobby kennedy managed to get black vote and also get a lot of the established democrats. so his support looked very broad. >> well, senator robert kennedy has won the first primary test in his attempt to secure the democratic nomination for the presidency. >> my father really focused on the people in this country. his appeal was to really the most disenfranchised classes, people who lived in appalachia, blacks who lived in the delta, peop