in the 1960's, we had lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson had a dislike for robert kennedy that was enormous. robert kennedy seems to have reciprocated. it was very destructive for the democratic party and the senate to have the two most influential people in the party dislike each other so much. yet, on the issues there wasn't , that much difference between them on some -- not many. how can you explain this deep-seated dislike these people had? john: i think when it comes to the issues, bobby thought lyndon was telling people in december 1963 johnson is much more can -- much more conservative than you think. he was proven wrong. he was later complaining johnson was getting too much credit for what jfk had started. there is a through line and that his criticism of lyndon johnson. he didn't like him. they had, he didn't trust him. he lied too much. he also didn't, i believe, like his criticism of his father he had offered in 1960 during the convention. he didn't -- he wanted someone i think to be with the kennedy legacy, and ly

so his -- there's a through line there and that's criticism of lyndon johnson. he just didn't like him. conservative than you think. and he was proven wrong on that. he was still, he was later complaining that johnson was getting too much credit for what jfk had started. so his -- there's a through line there and that's criticism of lyndon johnson. he just didn't like him. he didn't trust him. he thought he lied too much. and really, he also didn't believe like his criticism of his father, that he had offered in 1960, during the convention. he wanted someone i think just to be with the kennedy legacy and lyndon johnson wanted a johnson administration. something he would say in later 1964. he was very open in in a johnson doesn't want me to be part of this administration, because i'm a kennedy and because he wants to be elected in his own right. and it was very true. >> beyond that, it was the obviously question that lyndon johnson became his brother's vice president. bobby resented that. and never really forgot it. and in fact there's a very good and well-known s

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but in the 1960s we had lyndon johnson and lyndon johnson had a dislike for robert kennedy that was enormous and robert kennedy seems to have reciprocated. and it was very destructive for the democratic party and for the government to have the two most influential people in the party to dislike each other so much. and yet, on the issues, there wasn't that much difference between them. on some. but not on many. how can you explain this deep-seated dislike that these two people seemed to have had? >> i think initially when it comes to the issues, bobby thought that lyndon, he was telling people in december of 1963 that johnson is much more conservative than you think. and he was proven wrong on that. he was still, he was later complaining that johnson was getting too much credit for what jfk had started. so his -- there's a through line there and that's criticism of lyndon johnson. he just didn't like him. he didn't trust him. he thought he lied too much. and really, he also didn't believe like his criticism of his father, that he had offered in 1960, during the convention. he wanted someone i

it starts with lyndon johnson, john f. kennedy's vice president, bobby kennedy was atty. gen. and treated lbj very poorly when he was vice president. that is a euphemism, they hated each other, despised each other, johnson becomes president when pres. kennedy is assassinated, bobby kennedy as his atty. gen. for period of time but friction is tense between them. interestingly when you look at the archives bobby kennedy even then was giving interviews to the kennedy library not to be released for many years and starts ripping on lyndon johnson, a horrible guy, while he was doing that he was trying to maneuver himself, the presidential running mate in 1964, lbj gave serious thought to be on the ticket for one reason, he was afraid of nelson rockefeller got the republican nomination he was going to have to reach out to kennedy supporters and put him on the ticket. once barry goldwater got the nomination johnson told his reporters i don't need you anymore, he didn't want to say publicly i don't want bobby kennedy to be my vice president, he said i have decided that none of my cabine

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

lyndon johnson, president lyndon johnson, gave a televised address to the nation and his subject was the vietnam war. by this point, vietnam had escalated into a bloody conflict involving over half a million american soldiers, so a war that had gradually started as a small engagement against communist -- potential communist aggression in southeast asia in the 1950s had escalated into a major conflict that was tearing america apart. so, johnson gives the speech about the war. he's -- he looks tired. he looks old. the glare of the television lights did not help matters. and at the very end, he lands this bombshell. "because of the importance of resolving the war in vietnam, avietnam," and peace talks were already ongoing with the north vietnamese. he said, "i do not believe that i should devote an hour or day of my time to any personal partisan causes. accordingly, i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president." so, how did we get here? how did lyndon johnson, who had been elected in a land slide victory less than four years earlie

story at the convention when john kennedy decided for various reasons that he needed or wanted lyndon johnson as his running mate. bobby kennedy went down to convey information to johnson did his best to try to get johnson to not to take the vice presidency. that was always remembered in that relationship between johnson and bobby kennedy. >> all of that sort of spelled out in 1965, 661 people from the kennedy term started writing a book. so you had a sitting president and a senator from new york basically fighting over where you're supposed to be president or were you in accidental president? this was never supposed to happen is a quote. of that particular time. we can't talk about the 1960s. and what ways do you think the vietnam war contributed to that between these two.>> bobby kennedy you are seeing him give johnson advice about the vietnam war in which he said it is a political solution and not a military solution. johnson has the opposite reaction. and one phone conversation with bobby and another one with the senator saying we need someone with stars as in a general to sort out the si

lyndon johnson knew how to run a campaign.ruthless politician who was very, very effective. - how did yourorad decide to run president? - he was drafted. pure and simple. - it really was only a very impassioned speech by one of his friends in the senate that finally convinced him that he had to do this as his patriotic duty, that liberalism was destroying the country and he could not let it advance any further. - what happened was that young conservativelike myself got together and said, "we might be able to take over and make this republican party a conservative party." - young americans for freedom waded and the idea was that a conservative youth group would be formed to influence the next generation of young people that were rising in the 1960s. so just as you had the well-known leftist groups on campus--students for a democratic society, young socialists, that kind of thi-- young americans for freedom was the counterpart on the right. - the pressure was on to find a candidate, . so as not to disappoint all those supporters

at '68, lyndon johnson had an opportunity to choose the supreme court justice. he was not going to pick not just any justice, he'll get to pick a chief justice. johnson decided he'll elevate somebody that was already on the bench and already on the supreme court as an associate justice. it was a dias i can. he was actual lyanne old frielyf lyndon johnson. republicans put up the wall. slow walk the nomination hearings and when the hearing finally did take place, senators learned that not only judge fortes have been hanging around the white house of meetings and they learned that he had been taking money from a local university to teach a course. he's been moonlighting and putting 40% of his salary on the court. >> democrats started taking back their support one by one and he had to withdraw from consideration to be chief justice. he went back to his old job being a regular judge on the court. that meant president johnson had to withdraw the nomination. that meant that is president johnson in 1998 out going lyndon johnson went from having two chances to name two ne

story at the convention when john kennedy decided for various reasons that he needed or wanted lyndon johnson as his running mate. bobby kennedy went down to convey information to johnson did his best to try to get johnson to not to take the vice presidency. that was always remembered in that relationship between johnson and bobby kennedy. >> all of that sort of spelled out in 1965, 661 people from the kennedy term started writing a book. so you had a sitting president and a senator from new york basically fighting over where you're supposed to be president or were you in accidental president? this was never supposed to happen is a quote. of that particular time. we can't talk about the 1960s. and what ways do you think the vietnam war contributed to that between these two.>> bobby kennedy you are seeing him give johnson advice about the vietnam war in which he said it is a political solution and not a military solution. johnson has the opposite reaction. and one phone conversation with bobby and another one with the senator saying we need someone with stars as in a general to sort out the si

that convention where lyndon johnson was nominated in 1964, i think at that moment bobby kennedy had no interest but johnson was too paranoid. they had agents check out what was going on in the kennedy camp and be stationed at the convention and report back to him if they picked up any -- anything. the best speech at the convention was at the speech that bobby kennedy delivered. it was, depending on who's count you use it was the -- as long as 17 minutes of interruptions of and paul's -- applause. they talked about the loss of his brother jack. the end of the speech was the most rousing endorsement of lbj. bobby kennedy was three things. he was a catholic, he was joe kennedy and rose kennedy son and loyal to the kennedy family and the third, the pillar that he stood on was he was a democrat and he was going to support even though he detested lbj, he was going to support him in 1964. we have microphones. people have questions they would like to ask. maybe you can get the microphones over there. do you want me to pass it? >> right here. >> weber kennedy was thinking of running for pres

sincerely, lyndon johnson. you can see tonight is not the first, but only the latest chapter in the relationship between the mccain family and the johnson family. you will hear more about it, it is now more -- now might privilege to introduce the longtime friend of senator john mccain. ben barnes. [applause] ben: thank you, larry. on memorial day, i watched the premiere of hbo's illuminating documentary on senator john mccain. titled, for whom the bells toll. it shares the same title of senator mccain's novel by ernest hemingway. it tells the story of robert jordan, a young american who enlisted in the fight of the spanish war after leaving his career in this country as a teacher. during his journey, he met a peasant woman who symbolized strength and wisdom. perhaps one of her greatest quotes is a rhetorical question. for what are we born if not to aid one another? tonight, we have an opportunity to honor the legacy of a man who is dedicated his entire life to aiding others. a man who has served his country and

because lyndon johnson asked governor lawrence of pennsylvania to check out something he thinks bill green was saying. >> and so you know. >> that at the, 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 mayor noid that he asked the j. edgar hover 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, a draft kennedy movement. and the truth was, that the best speech at that convention was a speech that bobby kennedy delivered. there was depending on who's count you use, it was as long as 17 minutes of interruption, applause during bobby kennedy's speech. it was a speech that lbj thought was a critical speech about him. he talked about a garish son and the loss of his brother, jack. in truth the end of that speech was the most rousing endorsement of lbj. bobby kennedy was, he was three things. he was a catholic, he was

it was ahighest levels of government, lyndon johnson sent a special message to congress in 1965 that discussed the problem so the idea that we have only understood it in recent years is one of the worst examples we have of the cultural amnesia of this country and especially around this issue. >> sreenivasan: one of the meetings you describe in great detail starts t get to the same changes we, challenges we have, you see people trying to water down language, not wanting to make a decision today, leave the decision for others. >> there istill a basic discomfort with trying to propose a drastic transformation or immediate trfsformation the -- of our whole energy economy which is to say our economy, so even folks who agree on every aspect of the issue, the science and the politics still we are not able to a netiate even the most basic statement of purse and i think that we still see that problem today, frankly. >> sreivasan: author nathaniel rich writing for "the new york times" magazine, thanks for joininfus. >> thank having me. >> sreenivasan: the report is called "losing earth", it wi

the united states, one of the reasons that lyndon johnson tried to avoid mobilizing the economy is that he was aware of how serious things had gotten at the end of world war ii and he was a young congressman at this point, and so i think that there is a similarity in that the way that the wars seem to grind on with no, you know, definite outcome or the desirable outcome in view is similarity, and we tend to think of vietnam in that respect, but i don't believe it was. >> and there were half a million troops around and the highest number ever in that war, and in the time, and it was 1963 and it was the request of another 200,000 troops, and of course, that did not happen, and those troops were not sent, and you can imagine how expensive that was, and meanwhile back in philadelphia the war is being seen in the increasingly critical way of course, and i don't know if people are fully aware that the city was a hot bed of activism, and the next panel is going to be looking closely at protest, but it is important to think of protests s s particularly aroun this the issue of war that we are ta

cover the activities of president lyndon b. johnson.>> senator robert kennedy in the midst of victory in the presidential primary was shot and critically wounded by an assassin. the day of the senator's death president johnson sent letters which urgently implored congress to enact a meaningful and effective gun control law. in june, much of the attention was centered on the paris peace talks. early in the month negotiators returned to washington to report on an apparent impasse at the meetings . from vietnam the reports from far -- or far from optimistic instead of a slow down the communist launched a massive new wave of assaults throughout the south. averting resolve on the home front and heightened leverage. at a news conference hundred 26, the president announced that the supreme court chief justice was retiring. and making his third and fourth appointments to the high court the president knew the choices would affect the destiny of the nation's after he himself left office.>> watch it real america this weekend on america history on

. >>> up next on american history trv tv, president lyndon johnson's -- tv, lyndon johnson's speech to the nation announcing steps to limit the war in vietnam. and his decision not to run for re-election. this is courtesy of the lbj library. >> good evening my fellow americans. tonight i want to speak to you of peace in vietnam and southeast asia. no other question so preoccupies our people. no other dream so absorbs the 250 million human human beings who live in that part of the world. no other goal motivates american policy in southeast ais that. -- asia. for years representatives of our governments and others have traveled the world. seeking to find the basis for peace talks. since last september they have carried the offer that i made public in san antonio. and that offer was this, that the united states would stop its bombardment of north vietnam when that would lead promptly to productive discussions. and then we would assume that north vietnam would not take military advantage of our restraint. i denounced the offer privately and publicly. even while the search for peace was goi

like lyndon johnson, had incredible power. and then he's made subservient. >> host: did the trump plane have legitimate problems that forced donald trump to spend the night in indianapolis that led in part to the selection of mike pence? >> guest: we will never know the real answer to that. i know that paul manafort or played a large role in mike pence's selection along with melania, which i thought was more surprising. >> host: tell the story. >> guest: well, that they were in indiana, eric trump and donald trump were there campaigning in indiana with mike pence. there was a problem with the plane. stay overnight. because of that, they had dinner with karen pence, mike pence's wife, and mike peps. the next morning they had breakfast at the governor's mansion. the children, ivanka, donald trump jr., flew in that night, so the next morning they all had breakfast together, and it's kind of an amazing scene where they're all sitting at the breakfast table at the governor's mansion in indiana, and is mike pence and karen pence ser

lyndon johnson reference his head offensive when he resigns. if you listen to that speech. so when the president of the united states is talking about it and then 20 minutes later he's saying i'm not going to run again. i think that shows the importance in american politics. >> here then to the back there. >> a follow up to the agent orange issue. i did some work in the local state prison and a number of the people who have been sentenced to life imprisonment are asking under state or federal law to have a sentencing rehearing bringing into account the issues if they were vietnam veterans, even if the underlying crime was murdering a spouse years later. there's a public policy issue like agent orange that relates to the cost we are paying as taxpayers of anybody who's serving a life sentence in prison. >> i didn't know that. >> we have one more right here and then back to the back there. >> the survey that 07% of americans -- 70% of americans said they were against the war, although they wouldn't demonstrate, was that taken in 1968? >> 1990. they did a retrospective on viet

>>> the lyndon b. johnson presidential library has given its liberties and justice for all award to senator john mccain. his daughter megan mccain accepted his award on his behalf. we also hear from senator mccain's presidential campaign manager, rick davis. >> i am larry temple, it is my privilege to welcome all of you to the presentation of the obj liberty and justice for all award. lyndon johnson's basic creed was epitomized in the following simple but insightful statement from his 1965 voting rights speech, in which he said, our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country. to right wrongs, to do justice, and to serve man. lyndon johnson at his core belief that every citizen of this country should have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits and to receive the protections that are fundamental to our democracy. that is what motivated him to pursue the passage in the 1965 voting rights act, and the 1965 housing act. that is why he championed medicare and medicaid. that is why he established

at some point restrained in fact by lyndon johnson but we now know that the fbi had an informant within the ku klux klan from the mid-50s and the fbi knew everything that the alabama klan was going to do before they ever did it. they knew in advance that there would be an attack on the freedom writers, when viola greg was murdered at the end of the march from selma to montgomery, gary rowe was in the car from which she was shot. the fbi knew the next day what had happened and who had done it because they had an informant right there in the car. there is even a suggestion that rowe himself was the person who fired the shot. very clearly j edgar hoover was in bed with the ku klux klan and was an absolute opponent of the movement. with respect to and of course as director of the fbi, he was reported to robert kennedy. often did not pass along the information. of the justice department didn't know half of what hoover knew. with respect to the labor movement, again ambivalent legacy. there were moments when the labor movement was supportive of the civil rights movement but again we have to a

lyndon johnson had established the d.c. crime commission. he had a national crime commission. it wasn't invented by nixon. it was real. it was serious but what was causing it? why was it going up? the economy was going very well. the unemployment was down in the district of columbia at that time. and that's where i got into the picture. because in the summer of 1969 working in the department of corrections, i did drug testing of everybody coming into the d.c. jail. and i identified of 44% of the people coming in were heroin addicts. and then i asked the question what year did you first start using heroin? and i put a graph together of when that was and with the d.c. crime rate and that tracked perfectly. that was the moment -- that was idely reported right away. and what it did was refocus the attention on the drug but this me on heroin, not only -- on l.s.d. and marijuana and on crime. and that became an entirely different way of thinking about it. and this was nixson's priority. he had started with a major increase in the police force. but then the question is what do you do

at 68, lyndon johnson suddenly has the opportunity to choose a supreme court justice a few months before the presidential election. he wasn't going to get to pick not just any justice, he would get to pick a chief justice. johnson decided to elevate somebody already on the bench, already on the supreme court as an associate justice. it was a complete disaster. abe fortis had been on the supreme court a couple years, a friend of president johnson. when he said he wanted to elevate him from from a regular seat to the chief justice, republicans did a slow walk and when the nomination took place, senators learned not only had the justice been hanging around the white house for meetings and pressuring certain senators who opposed the vietnam wall something they're not supposed to involve themselves in, they learned fortas had been receiving money teaching a court, moonlighting paying him a stipend worth 40% of his salary on the court. soon, democrats started taking back their support one by one and ultimately fortis had to withdraw from the justice nomination and went back to being a regular

lyndon johnson once said, going to use the uncensored version, gerald ford is so dumb he cannot walknd fart at the same time. in other words, ford was a vacuous klutz. what i would suggest, what i think the nation came to see during ford's tenure, was not someone who was physically and intellectually vibrant. not somebody who had played football, gone to law school, slam and skied. instead, what they saw was somebody physically unsteady. that became tied to intellectual unsteadiness that led ford to make bad decisions. his lack of a vision, his refusal to clarify himself, the pardon of nixon, his inability to solve the economic downturn, his failure to recognize the reagan challenged, all of these you things tied in with this image of a president who was not physically steady, who was not intellectually steady, and who made bad decisions. and that is why he ultimately lost. ford now leaves the white house. yet, as he once said, old habits die hard. carter's jimmy inauguration, ford moved to california with his wife. they had friends there. ford could play golf. they thought the weath

at 68, lyndon johnson suddenly has the opportunity to choose a supreme court justice a few months before presidential election. he wasn't going to get to pick not just any justice, he would get to pick a chief justice. johnson decided to elevate somebody already on the bench, already on the supreme court as an associate justice. it was a complete disaster. abe fortis had been on the supreme court a couple years, a friend of president johnson. when he said he wanted to elevatery from from a regular seat to the chief justice, republicans did a slow walk and when the nomination took place, senators learned not only had the justice been hanging around the white house for meetings and pressuring certain senators who opposed the vietnam wall something they're not supposed to involve themselves in, they learned fortas had been receiving money teaching a court, moonlighting paying him a stipend worth 40% of his salary on the court. soon, democrats started taking back their support one by one and ultimately fortis had to withdraw from the justice nomination and went back to being a regular justic

brinkley talking, i believe to tom brokaw, and he was encouraged to tell about the story he heard lyndon johnson tell. he said, you know, back then, before watergate, reporters were close, big buddies with the president and he would come down sometimes and sit in the press room. prop his boots up on a desk. scratching his belly and having a beer. and told a story in essence of when he ran for congress, he was out in the cemetery with his campaign manager before the election late at night. they were writing down the ninals tomb stovepbs people that would be voting in his election. and they came to one that was just so -- such a mess, moss and all kinds of crud on the tombstone, campaign manager said, come on, lyndon, let's just move to the next one , he grabbed his campaign manager and said, no, sir, man has every bit as much right to vote as anybody else in this cemetery. well, everybody laughed. except if you read about what happened in duval county during his election, you begin to think that perhaps was a firsthand true story. but whether humorous or not, there are so many examples of fraudul

president, we're told, since harry truman with the exception of lyndon johnson. don't know why lyndon johnson couldn't find a meeting with her majesty, but he's the only one in recent memory who has not met with her. donald trump, of course, has been eager for this moment. this is the queen's favorite stomping grounds. she is often at buckingham palace for business during weekdays, but this is her favorite place and has been since she has been queen. president of the united states arriving there right now. he will be having tea with the queen. melania with him. let's see if we can pick up anything. [background sounds] neil: this really is, i think, ashley and stuart, we're getting into this. this really is a stunning piece of architecture, windsor castle. it's 500,000 square feet, covers 13 acres, considered, as i said, the queen's favorite residence. it's not too far from windsor's st. george chapel, of course, that's where prince harry and meghan markle got married. let's watch. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> [inaudible] [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [background sounds] [drum

lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... [female narrator] foods rich in folic acid like white bread and leafy greens can help prevent some birth defects before you even know you're pregnant. >>> police are on the look out for four men who went on a 20-second robbery spree in fresno. they rushed in and ripped out iphones and laptops. customers got out of their way including a group of teenage girls who huddled in the mid. boys said they took 26 items worth $27,000. they believe the robbery could be connected to other store thefts. >> new at 11:00, a santa clara mother is desperate to get her possessions back after someone stole the family's u-haul truck. inside mementos and her children's artwork. you can't replace that obviously. abc7 news katie udis spoke with the victim and has more on how you can help. >> reporter: santa clara resident denise hall said she didn't know where to turn so she called abc7. >> i have never been so devastated and so disappointed in humanity. >> reporter: last week her family loaded this u-haul

camera lens of the white house naval photographic unit as a cover the activities of president lyndon b. johnson. it covers the assassination and ,uneral of robert f kennedy lbj's push for tighter regulations, vietnam war peace earl warren's retirement announcement. this film from the lbj presidential library is a half hour. ♪ >> the evening of june 4 was warm and clear in washington. the president retire just before midnight to the family living quarters of the white house after the state reception

doesn't want to get involved in i mean cheri i mean he's old enough to know what happened to lyndon johnson for example or. george bush jr with a rock he doesn't want to have that around his collar but james you know using sanctions to intimidate friends and foes not to import a rainy unoiled i mean again you know you know and you look at the american allies in the region saudi arabia and israel which would love to see some kind of regime change or instability that's probably their first priority i mean this seems the kind of go counter what trump pianism is all about when it comes when it goes to foreign policy james. absolutely clearly and i think peter is right absolutely it's in america first policy i wouldn't call it isolation ism i would simply call it a sovereigntists policy however there is one big fat exception and that is the middle east we don't have an america first policy in the middle east we have a saudi arabia and israel first policy in the middle east i don't know whether that represents where mr trump really wants to go or whether it is like i said an analogy to the pentag

another great moment in american history and july second one nine hundred sixty four president lyndon johnson signed into law the civil rights act a certain quote if government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves this came after years of sweat blood and protest by a black american seeking to overturn hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination both legally and socially following the end of the civil war and slavery the historic act representing the biggest changes to civil rights laws in the united states since the post civil war reconstruction era as politico recaps the agd outlawed racial discrimination in employment education and housing barbara szell segregation and all state sponsored public places such as schools buses parks and swimming pools and outlawed discrimination based on race color religion or national origin in hotels motels restaurants theaters and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce exempting only private clubs without defining the term private but now fifty for you. years later the fight

there's a lot more to appalachia than that. >> anthony: in 1964, lyndon johnson declared his war on povertyildered helpless masse, missed the basic essential character -- the pride and the self-reliant core of the people here. that damage is lasting. >> elaine: when you come in and keep telling us how poor, fat -- how all these things are -- i think we've all felt it at some point. shame. >> anthony: what should people know about this area that they don't know, that they're not getting? >> nick: it's just how much that people in this area have been exploited. [ bells ringing ] [ machines whirring ] >> nick: the land agents who came in and bought up all the mineral rights. the coal and timber companies that started extracting and taking everybody's labor rights. >> man: i can't fight a big coal company, they got too much money. >> elaine: politicians from dc that can make a quick day trip down here and get a good sound bite. >> trump: who is a miner in this group? who is -- stand up. you're all standing up anyway. >> anthony: the drug companies? >> elaine: nine million pills in kermit, west

at some points, in fact, restrained by lyndon johnson, but we now know that the fbi had an informant within the ku klux klan from the mid-'50s. and the fbi knew what they were going to do if they did it. they knew of the attack on the freedom riders in 1965. when viola greg was murdered at the end of the march. gary row was in the car from which she was shot. and the fbi knew the next day what had happened and who had done it because they had an informant right there in the car. and even the suggestion that row himself was the person who fired the shot. so very clearly jay edgar hoover was in bed with the ku klux klan and an absolute opponent with the movement, with respect to, and of course, as director of the fbi, he reported to robert kennedy. but often did not pass along the information, so the justice didn't know know half of what hoover knew. with respect to the labor movement, it is an ambivalent legacy. there were moments when the labor movement was supportive of the civil rights movement, but again, we have to add the sister leadership or the sister rank in file. one of the

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doesn't want to get involved in i mean cheri i mean he's old enough to know what happened to lyndon johnson for example or george bush jr with iraq he doesn't want to have that around his collar but james you know using sanctions to intimidate friends and foes not to import a rainy unoiled i mean i again you know you and you look at the american allies in the region saudi arabia and israel which would love to see some kind of regime change or instability that's probably their first priority i mean this seems to kind of go counter what trump in islam is all about when it comes when it goes to foreign policy james. absolutely clearly and i think peter is right absolutely it's america first policy i wouldn't call it isolationism i would simply call it a sovereigntists policy however there is one big fat exception and that is the middle east we don't have an america first policy in the middle east we have a saudi arabia and israel first policy in the middle east i don't know whether that represents where mr trump really wants to go or whether it is like i said an analogy to the pentagon whether

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 me that 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 in the pits with sticks pull of poison they'd lost about twenty or thirty people of their hundred and they want to pay back and they were told by the cia official contract employ bad intelligence some are going to go into a village and are 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 man woman children and they began to round him 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 int

>> the queen has met all 11 presidents apart from lyndon johnson. she's met them all. she get on very well with them all. this is a very short visit. because there is no basket. it's a small team visit. we won't see william and kate there. you won't see howie and megan there. it may be the queen and the duke of edinburgh, maybe not. she has met many people who are very unsavory, president mcgarvey, for example. certainly, perhaps the most controversial and it will probably be one of her last visits with an american president. she is, of course, coming towards 100. >> i see. kate, i am going to ask you this question meghan markle, has she adopted a british accent? there are people that think she has? >> all over twitter, how she got her british accent. it's not british yet. it's not. it is on the way. i think she is slowing down her language, enunciateing more as royals try to do so people can understand them. >> this is what people listen for themselves, let them see what they think yeah, kate, to be honest, i don't hear that much. he's the one that really wants this p

vietnam was started by lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson was a texan.ast five wars have been started by texans. we've been at war for 20 years. clear channel radio had 1500 am radio stations during the bush administration. at&t comes out of the state of texas. georgia had cnn and time warner loaded with military bases. the east coast, connecticut,your liberals, loaded with the treasury, federal reserve, silicon valley. susan: i am going to stop this because you are taking us in a much broader sense than the case. i'm going to move on to john in westlake village, california. caller: my question is, the model that is being proposed is this american model arising from the constitution. my question is, the british of her prior restraint law, they of the state secrets law, they have this very strict libel law. they seem to have a pretty rigorous, fair press. maybe even better than ours. why is the model that mr.abrams is proposing better than the other model? susan: thank you. >> i don't really agree that they have a better press or i've had for many years a