the day that vietnam ended the the presidency of lyndon b. johnson. >> gosh, this is hard to read, jim. you have no idea. >> on that last evening in march, tv cameras rolled into the oval office. even president's staff had no idea how their world was about to change as johnson spoke live to an anxious nation. >> tonight, i want to speak to you of peace in vietnam and southeast asia. there is no need to delay the talks that could bring an end to this long and this bloody war. >> johnson was desperately trying to end the war on his watch. he had it in his head the hope that somehow, some way, he could get the north vietnamese to the negotiating table and end the war. >> i renew the offer i made last august to stop the bombardment of north vietnam in the hope that this action will lead to early talks. >> lbj offers to stop the bombing, but only if the north agrees to talk peace with south vietnam. then johnson plays one last card. >> we worked together on this speech. we went over march 28th two or three days before the president was going to deliver it

kennedy, lyndon b. johnson and richard nixon. among the stories she tells is her father's actions on november 22, 1963 when he was protecting vice president johnson and jfk's dallas motorcade. the jimmy carter presidential library and museum hosted this event. >> good evening. i'm tony clark from the carter library. we are really glad you all are here. i have really been looking forward to this talk tonight because rufus youngblood, i've known the name, i've known who he is for a very long time. and i'm just delighted that we can have his family here. we've got members of rufus youngblood's family here. we appreciate that. we also have tom johnson who was an aide to lyndon johnson who is the man that rufus youngblood protected and we are really glad you are here as well, tom. he knew rufus youngblood very well. rufus was a secret service agent. he's known for his actions on november 22, 1963, when shots rang out in dallas, texas, and he leaped over the seat and protected lyndon johnson. and continued to protect him. johnson was o

this next video is from 1965, it is at ellis island, lyndon johnson signing a major bill.video clip] >> those who contribute most to this country, its growth, its strength, its spirit, will be the first admitted to this land. the fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied. yet the fact is that for over four decades, the immigration policy of the united states has been twisted and distorted by the harsh injustice of the national origins quota system. under that system, the ability of new immigrants come to america depended upon the country of their birth. only three countries were allowed to supply 70% of all of the immigrants. families were kept apart because a husband or wife or child had been born in the wrong place. men of needed skill and talent were denied entrance because they came from southern or eastern europe or one of the developing continents. this system violated the basic principle of american democracy, a principal that values and rewards each man on the basis of his merit as a man. susan: i think

lbj, lyndon johnson became the 36th president on air force one. dad stood next to the photographer so he is not in this photo. and i think of all the material in this book, i think chapter eight,, the flight home was one of the most profound things for me. it was very insightful. he talks about how hot it was on the plane. because they didn't have the air on and how stuffy and how depressing. he said when misses kennedy walked on and her bloodstained -- in her bloodstained suit, there was a moment of utter sadness. this is upon their arrival at andrews air force base and this is the speech that president johnson gave. interestingly, there was a marked speech already in the lbj library but i found this when i was going through these papers. about a quarter page. it was all wadded up. i think it was possibly the one he actually read from. you know, just handed over, dad probably didn't think much of it. i did donate that to the lbj library, tom. my sisters on my brother and i did. they had already been around the world and spent a horrible day toget

in one part of the speech, lyndon johnson says this legislation not change much but he could not haveeen more wrong. it changed everything. it opened the door for folks who had been unable to get to the united states before and it changed the flow of immigration to the united states and created the current problem we talk about a great deal, and that is how do we treat and how should we envelop all of those who are unauthorized in our midst? susan: the policy debate from the 1980's forward focuses on undocumented or illegal immigrants as a policy issue. dr. kraut: it is certainly one of the major issues of confrontation and engagement in the policy world, no question. susan: let's move to 1986 when ronald reagan and congress tried to create legislation to address some of the issues surrounding that. this was the so-called simpson mazzoli bill. and mazzoliyoming from kentucky. let's watch. [video clip] >> this bill that i will sign in a few minutes is the most comprehensive reform of our immigration laws since 1952. it is the product of one of the longest and most difficult legislative

. >> without question, lyndon johnson, he had all the moves. he knew how to use power. uasive. and then when the war began to escalate and johnson didn't know what to do about it, he just started to flail around, and everything that he tried seemed to crumble in his hands. >> vietnam! hey! hey! >> low-key minnesota democrat senator eugene mccarthy entered the race against his party's incumbent president with the express purpose of giving the voters a voice in the vietnam debate. >> campaign '68, the new hampshire primary. the big surprise of the first primary of campaign '68 has been the strength of senator eugene mccarthy. the volume with which new hampshire's voters today endorsed his effort signals trouble for president johnson's yet undeclared re-election bid. on the republican side, richard nixon entered the race to shed that loser's image he acquired in 1962 and '62. >> seems to be quite apparent from the early returns that we won't have to have a recount tonight. >> nixon, the only active campaigner, ran far in front, even farther than expected, with 81%. >> mr. n

thunder was famous -- you guys will have heard of this -- lyndon johnson sitting with his advisers and picking targets. a lot of things. one of the things he really hated was to do anything that would be compared to johnson as they were later. targeting was generally delegated to commanders with restrictions. the most important thing out of all of this is you have got where johnson was a reluctant war president, his heart was in his domestic program. nixon loved being a war president. at least to the extent of being able to pump energy into the operation. there is a presidential sense of urgency that is more important than the technical -- tactical changes. nixon says i'm going to watch this every morning and every night. sure enough, he does. he gets up every morning and every night. when he goes to moscow in may, givinges a long letter direction. basically it is not to back off on the bombing. that period.during he wanted to be strong in that meeting with gorbachev. sorry brezhnev. you have all these advantages in it isr campaign, but ironic in a sensor you have this wonderful advanc

maybe like a lyndon johnson or very strong guy. he is to develop the republican version of a central bank. he goes and consults the committee, hires experts, they go over the u.s., they go all over europe and they me with english and the bankers and german central bankers in the french central bankers. they take those long time about this. as you read about it, it looks like they had thought they had forever to come up with something. because they been in power since the civil war and that they were going to be in power for the next hundred years. there was no rush. in 1911, baldridge releases his plan. it calls for a national bank and a very powerful national bank single bank, probably to be located in new york and is to be run by private bankers and owned and run by private banks. it is a typical conservative old-fashioned good old republican bank. i thank if he had put it in 1908 or 1909 or maybe 19 and ten, aldrich would've been the figueroa. enactment of the bank but he waited is it too long. i miss an opportunity because it w

president lyndon johnson says at the university on june 4th 1965 at the very famous howard universityommencement speech where he says that he can have two runners and that's been shackled and you expect in the run the race equally. and you see president johnson talks about outcomes and not just equality an opportunity and it involves outcomes. the moral claim in the citizenship unprepared citizenship and what were preparing is the crime as racial slavery is another century of racial segregation and anti black violence. it continues even post 1965. when you think about 19 seventies and eighties one of the things that ronald waters really challenges in a community on this is that the rhetoric coming from the united states from both republicans and democrats is a rhetoric that is abandoning this idea of black citizenship. way towards bill clinton and robert smith talks about jimmy carter and a man of the black community. jimmy carter with the nobel prize did not have black folks when he is president of the united states. the convergence of a republican racism started in the 19 sixties an

in a course our opponents lyndon johnson or others, all said extremism it's not like that.hat's gold water. >> winning the nomination was a fight for the republican party was in it. >> was in the beginning. the beginning of the transformation of the republican party into the conservative party which is what it isg tod. so began in 1964, george will had a pretty funny line about that staying. go pray goldwater was right, 16 years is it too early clause of course in 1980, ronald reagan won the presidency with essentially the same platform. in the same policies the very goldwater was recommending inth 1964. especially why not victory. >> this is the question you ask your books, can conservatives govern. >> i think they can. i think the two best examples and we've only talked about one. bob taft and the so-called do-nothing congress. that's a republican congress did all of the smaller marvelous things. cut taxes and spending put down the building blocks of the policy of containment, but stopu the soviets. in 1980, we had ronald reagan. one of the great presidents and not only i

kennedy, lyndon b. johnson and richard nixon. among the stories she tells is her father's actions on november 22, 1963 when he was protecting vice president johnson and jfk's dallas motorcade. the jimmy carter presidential library and museum hosted this event. >> good evening. i'm tony clark from the carter library. re

kennedy, lyndon b. johnson and richard nixon. the stories she tells is her father's actions on november 22, 1963 when he was protecting vice president johnson and jfk's dallas motorcade. the jimmy carter presidential library and museum hosted this event. evening. i'm tony clark from the carter library. we are really glad you all are here. i have really been looking forward to this talk tonight rufus youngblood, i've known the name, i've known who long time. very and i'm just delighted that we can

kennedy there was lyndon johnson there was president richard nixon before he left office there was gerald ford and then there was george w. bush of course and most recently was barack obama who threw that pitch 1st pitch standing on the pitcher's mound. you could assume that the current president donald trump with make america great again would want to make sure to throw out as many 1st pitches as possible and if you are assuming that well i have to tell you you are striking out you see donald trump's presidency since day one has been about clashing with convention and breaking the rules and that applies to baseball so for the 1st time in 109 years the u.s. president will not be throwing out the 1st pitch at any gay on sunday trump and the 1st lady were spotted in a protective viewing box at the game between the washington nationals and the houston astros now this is what happened when fans in the stands heard the announcement that the president was among them. all right that's the 1st wave of booing. that came. and then it was followed by some chanting and you're going to hear it in just

every seriously this has been as a player while nonsense stop it and mark ruffalo i think it was lyndon johnson who said when you've lost mark well follow you've lost middle america oh come on well you know it's interesting about where the outrage comes because when i look at this i look no one can make her own decisions at the same time i think people are allowed to quit. sizer decisions and i think when you when she sits up there next to george bush was a divisive figure who i believe is a war criminal i believe that the acts that him and dick cheney pulled off and lying to get us into the iraq war and the 1000000 people that died as a result of it do constitute severe criticism if not charges but we won't do that because well you know he's an ex-president we only do that on popular presidents but there's also the element of where she's sitting she's watching a football game no one's brought up the fact that and i'll go to you steve the n.f.l. doesn't exactly have a great history in terms of like you know the things that she stood up for like l g b t q rights and things like that you know vio

the story of modern american immigration in 1965 lyndon johnson signed a new law that was racially discriminatory quotas for four decades immigration was very low and very white and the civil rights context he designed a law that change that c but he did so in a way that promised nothing would change the migrants would change so those are two profoundly wrong traditions instead the share foreign-born americans went to a record high to put the country on a course to be a minority majority country between 80 or 95 percent come from the developing world for a long time philippines was second only to mexico now mexico india china in the next is vietnam and el salvador over the past decade you might be surprised to hear asians have outnumbered latinos. there is a growing difference when they are becoming more asian and more educated. >> going backk about johnson it is a story of unintended consequences but the fact it happened at the same time of the civil rights movement gave america an advantage that australia doesn't have in terms of emigrating if you are back to 65 wayne johnson said i will sign t

as senator helms used to say when he would quote lyndon johnson, people that you may have disagreed with walked out arm and arm at the end of the day. he used that in his eulogy of his very good friend and one of the great americans of the second half. herb are on free. they came together in one regard and that was a love of country, and they believe that the security of the united states meant that the world had hoped to be free. amongst those who stood in this place, don kyle, marco rubio. the ambassador to the united states and now the conservative member of the united states parliament. this is about them. this is about the legacy of senator helms, as brian said so so eloquently. i want to go back to the 1970s. not in this country but in the united kingdom. the aircraft carrier of freedom. the place where democratic representatives of government began. in the 1970s. when sandra helms came to the united states senate, the united kingdom was on the eve of destruction. i saw it, as a young american who was stationed on the british military base. what we now know as the sylvie in, the we

and i had knowledge firsthand knowledge in the white house that the president, lyndon johnson, was violatingath of office by lying and sending us to a wrongful war and i was violating my oath along with him by keeping my mouth shut about that. but most of what i put out of the 7,000 top secret pages were not my firsthand knowledge. it was documentary evidence. and that wasn't the last word either. but it was good information. it had nothing to do with firsthand knowledge. the point is that there has to be an examination of that evidence as to whether the president has, in fact, violated their oath of office. and i would say that every person who listened in on that phone call and heard the president committing a crime with 12 persons listening in and every one of them who kept their mouths shut about that who ordered that information locked up was violating their oath of office and is impeachable as a result. that applies to secretary of state mike pompeo to start with. >> we thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >>> up next, the trump hotel in washington, d.c. is a favorite spot

. >> also in attendance that night -- president lyndon johnson, ladybird johnson, and businessman welcomen, all watching from the judge's private suite. >> mickey mantle, and he's back -- one of the big [indistinct] wynn backs up. >> we beat the new york yankees, for heaven sakes. >> it's a home run! >> mantle, he hit a home run, but we still beat 'em. >> was it the first indoor home run? >> yeah. >> the crowd must have been electric. >> absolutely. no doubt about that. >> in that crowd, far away from the judge's box, is 12-year-old robert harper, who's watching the game with his family. >> it was probably one of the best days of my life. i can't describe what the feeling was. i mean, it was so big and so bright that it was almost unimaginable. they called it "the eighth wonder of the world," and it truly was. ♪ >> but the dome is not without issues. after outfielders begin losing sight of fly balls in the glare coming off the dome's translucent roof panels, hofheinz paints over a large portion of the roof. >> ...acrylic coating to cut down the glare. >> did it work? >> it worked. but the

war, or any kind of war, misleading and lying them into war, as i heard my president, president lyndon johnson august 1964. what should they do? that is not an easy one to answer, actually. what i did was not the best response. it was like all the other thousands who knew we were going to war when the president said we were not. that was to keep my mouth shut and royally obey the president, however wrongful or misleading his policy. that was wrong, and that is what all the people who heard this , trump, commit a crime on the phone with more than a dozen people listening in, not one of them so far as we know yet informed and outside authority, outside the white house authority like the justice department even, let alone congress, about that. that was wrong. david: we are talking with daniel ellsberg, the former rand researcher and the whistleblower with the pentagon papers. who gets to decide what the people needs to know? when you were operating, you went to the new york times and had editors who looked at this and said yes, the people need to know this. the supreme court sided with them. now

he was a fierce critic of the vietnam war that led to a clash with president lyndon johnson. it even won him a spot on president richard nixon's eni list. it's interesting to have this conversation today because as i saw , congresswoman, i this on tv, he played an important role in the impeachment proceedings. i want to let you know i saw that on my black and white tv. once again, we are building on the back of the work that he and other members did in 1973 and 1974. the chairman, we should thank the leading role in creating the federal holiday that honors dr. marlin -- martin luther king. he introduced a bill four days after dr. king was murdered. so when congressman lewis talks about that, he knows what he's talking about. the fight took 15 years but he succeeded. the chairman also played a leading role in another long fight, the struggle to end apartheid. in south africa. with a congressman from pennsylvania by the name of william gray. recall, mr. speaker, meeting president mandela. i say all these things because there is a connection to all of us who are here today. and

rolling thunder was famous, you guys will have heard of this, linden it -- lyndon johnson sitting with advisors at lunch and picking targets. nixon hated a lot of things, but one thing he really hated was doing anything and getting it compared to johnson as a war leader. so targeting was generally delegated to commanders in theater with fewer restrictions on the air campaign. but the most important thing out where johnsont, was a reluctant war president, his heart was in his domestic program, nixon loved being a war president, at least to the extent of being able to pump energy into this operation. there is a presidential sense of urgency that is more important than technical or tactical changes. nixon tells more, i am going to watch this every morning and every night, sure enough he dies. moscow in late may, he leaves a long letter to al haig, giving him direction on what he wants done when he is away. he does not back off on the bombing for diplomatic purposes, it is to intensified during that period, because he wanted to be strong in that meeting with brezhnev. so you have all these

you will have heard of this with lyndon johnson sitting with his advisors and picking targets. things, buta lot of one of the things he really hated was to do anything compared to johnson as a war leader. targeting was delegated to commanders with fewer restrictions on the air campaign. the most important thing out of all of this is that you've got, where johnson was a really hisctant war president, heart was in his domestic program. nixon loved being a war president, at least being able to pump energy into the operation. there is a sense of urgency that is more important than the tactical changes. will watch this every morning and every night and he does. he gets updates every morning and night. when he goes to moscow in may he leaves a long letter about giving directions about what he wants done when he is away. it is not to back up on the bombing for diplomatic purposes, it is to intensify it during that time because he wanted to be strong in that meeting with gorbachev. not gorbachev, sorry, russian of -- breshnev. you have all of these advantages in the air campaign. you ha

and lyndon johnson passed away. awful lot of news in three days in those days. >> talk about the president's standing going into what appears to be an impeachment process. and we haven't had this happen that much in american society. what are the benchmarks you look for, and what are the caveats as we look at polling prior to anything formal on impeachment. >> well, you showed a little bit earlier in the broadcast, brian, a line where people are somewhat more supportive of impeachment. but i think there's a difference between this and the period of richard nixon. richard nixon in 1974, his gallup poll approval rating plunged. the senate was in democratic hands, and among the republicans, there were liberals, moderates, and conservatives. they never had the kind of support for richard nixon that donald trump now has over the republican party among voters, which is reflected in the intensity of support that you still see in the senate despite the fact that you've seen some criticism of the syria decision this week. >>

from the beginning, this guy charles koch who has been ceo since that time, he became ceo when lyndon johnson was president. he is been in control for 50 years. i know of no other corporation in america has been so shaped by a single person in a single personality. from the very beginning he had a very clear idea of how corporation out of iran. one of the key elements as long-term strategic thinking. it takes on the horizon of two, five, ten years tops. at the same time, they operate the secrecy and i talked about that we talk about the theory of trading. that charles knew he wanted to remain private and remain control and wanted to think not in terms of quarter to quarter to quarter at 70 corporations do, he wanted to think long-term. as you say the bigger scheme to wichita from j.p. morgan and said take the company public you have all access to all this capital and all this money. you charles koch will get by million dollars tonight. and he sent them packing. i got the memo that he wrote when he got home. they were bringing their heads against the desk and said charles koch does not want th

those who might have had differing views, but as senator helms used to say when he would quote lyndon johnson, people that you may have disagreed with in the morning but walked out arm in arm at the end of the day." he used that in his eulogy of his very good friend and one of the great americans of the second half of the 20th century, hubert humphrey. two people who you could have not found on more polar opposites but came together in within one regard, their love of country and their belief that the security of the united states meant that the world had a hope to be free. so, amongst those who have stood in this place, jon kyl, marco rubio, john bolton, mike lee, ted cruz, my friend, the ambassador to the united states from the state of israel, ron dermer and nile gardner's friend, daniel hadden, conservative member of the european parliament. so this is about them and this is about the legacy of senator helms, as brian said so eloquently. but i'm going to go back to the 1970s, not in this country, but in the united kingdom. the aircraft carrier freedom, the place where democratic represent

. >> neil: you're looking for lyndon johnson-type moment. we know what happened.took himself out of the running. bobby kennedy entered the race. different year, different time. are you looking for that? >> i'm looking for 50%, not 40%. buchanan knocked people out. i have in mind super tuesday, which comes after new hampshire. that's massachusetts and vermont and wisconsin and virginia and other states that could be very interesting. >> governor, the president's people always come back to say, you impeach me, you impeach this bull market, you impeach this strong economy, record low unemployment. if you want to do that, have at it. what do you say? >> what i about them, he cares about himself. that's a safe statement. and they back him up and all the terrible evidence comes in in the trial, my -- i won't even say my belief. my fear for the republican party is those senators that stick with him and go through the draining exercise of defending the indefensible are going to lose their seats, which is what happened to the house members in the nixon impeachment in the 7

he became ceo when lyndon johnson was president. for 50 years. i know of no other corporation in america that is been the ceo by single personality for that long. from the very beginning, he had a very clear idea how a corporation to be run. one of the key elements of the dna, is long-term strategic thinking. this is an organization that on the horizon, of two and five and ten years out. headed same time, they operate the secrecy and they talked about that when i talk this whole theory of training. charles koch knew that he wanted to remain private and retain control and he wanted to be able to not only turn the quarter to quarter to quarter as so many corporations do today, he wanted to be able to thank more long-term. as you say, these bankers came to wichita from j.p. morgan said take it public. you have access to all this money and everything. and you personally will get $25 million tonight. it was a no-brainer. and he sent him packing. the memo that the rope living at home and you just see, they were banging their heads against the desk beca

and i've interviewed every white house chief of staff going back to lyndon johnson, and i can tell yous at lbj's side. >> but not absent without leave, uninvited. >> and that makes it even worse. obama -- >> let me play devil's advocate here. there is another train of thought that says, you know what? this is just trump being trump. trump doesn't think about, what's my overall strategy? his only thought was, we're going to do this, i'm going to watch it and then i'm going to go out and tell the american people. he sort of does everything, so maybe we shouldn't be surprised he was left out. >> we're lucky it ended well. you have to be prepared for every eventuality. during the bin laden raid, the chief of staff was involved in every step, to the day of the mission when bill daly got up and put on his best sunday suit, because as he put it, he knew it would either be the end of the obama presidency or a day to celebrate for america. you've got to be prepared for every eventualty, and they had speeches ready for any eventuality in that case. you just don't see any planning in this white h

bobby, working at the university, you're working closely with the lyndon johnson public school of public affairs. but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. mary made a great case earlier about a federal domestic terrorism statute and what it should include. what are the dangers in legislation that are, perhaps, rushed through, even though that's hard to imagine when we've debated it this long, but what harm could come from an ill-advised federal domestic terrorism statute? >> when you started off with an lbj quote i was a little nervous because some are a little off-color. >> yeah, yeah. >> but that was all right. so, i think what mary's talking about, not surprisingly, is very sensible and well considered. but that doesn't mean that's what would get enacted. if we want to forecast what could go wrong at the federal level, a couple possibilities. i will channel some of the feedback i sometimes get when i talk about the same ideas. you'll hear pushback from various quarters. one concern in federalism, as we've pointed out. we're no

snaps, what happens almost immediately after that will indeed immediately when the talks and lyndon johnson continued to escalate the war in vietnam which is something that my father always says is the biggest difference between the generations when he was in college and when he was a young man off he thought about was getting drafted. there was a darkness that settles that i don't think we could have gotten rid of that comes out of this time in vietnam. and so there is -- it's just one second about the interpretation. experiencing this and all of a sudden 30 years later it seemed normal there was a new masterpiece and it's so exciting, but that excitement becomes a nightmare .. >> and she was very far from being the only one and she is really struggling reconcile the vietnam that she's wrote about in "the new york times" which is a metaphor which is a description narrative and place and finding that she doesn't really know what people are talk about. >> exactly. >> she doesn't understand the language, all looks the same to her, do i look the same to them? in america people see that i'm dif

bobby, working at the university, working closely with a johnson school of affairs, lyndon johnson said you do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered but in light of the wrongs it would do and harms it would cause if improperly administered . mary made a great case earlier for a federal domestic terrorism that you and what it should include. what are the dangers in legislation that is perhaps rushed through, even though that's hard to imagine when we debated it this long but legislation that is pushed through, what harm could come from an ill-advised federal domestic terrorism statute? >> when you started off with an lbj quote i was a little nervous because he was a little offcolor but that's all right . i think what marries talking about, not surprisingly is very well considered but that doesn't mean that's what we get enacted so if we want to forecast what could go wrong at the federal level, a couple of possibilities and here i will channel some of the feedback that i sometimes get when i talk about the same ideas and you'll hear

living on the hills of accomplishment civil rights like clarence mitchell at the top advisor for lyndon johnson and being a beneficiary of that night and 64 civil rights act and wanting to go forward and carry the banner. talk to me about your friend. >> emanuel: he did carry the banner. i had him in kansas city not long ago speaking. and in my introduction, he mentioned some of the things he accomplished. but more than that, just a good, decent man. he and i often talked about this, and i said this when i introduced him in kansas city, he has dominic has a law degree by theta kappa, and a theology but i accused him of being a bog preacher. every time i turn around, he has somewhere starting out as a lecturer and ended up as a preacher. he did that in kansas city at one of my -- his mother was a preacher. and he up in a neighborhood and still lived in the neighborhood. and i bet there's not a single member here in congress, particularly that came from an urban area that lives in the heart of the urban core. elijah cummings would not move. it was a very dangerous neighborhood. they created a tv

what happens almost immediately after that, lyndon johnson becomes president and he continues and escalates the war in vietnam. something that my father always says is the biggest difference between my generation in his. when he was in college and when he was a young man, all he thought about was getting drafted. there is a darkness that nettles over america that i don't think we have ever really gotten rid of that comes out of that time in vietnam. just one second about the interpretation. she is experiencing all this sensual art. she said it seemed normal that there was a new masterpiece every week. that excitement becomes a nightmare, really. >> you are in the height of the vietnam war. you know, you talk about that book. i am not so sure that people are familiar with it. it was a big deal at the time. sort of up there with jane fonda >> ken burns documentary about vietnam. twenty-four hours long. >> i did not watch it. >> it is okay. it was fascinating to see that degree of detail. you know there was this horrible massacre war that went on and on and on and. you feel the anxiety of it.

. >>> in november 1964 lyndon johnson won and the great society tells us about what happened next. second in a pair. brian cranston did the first one. i thought they had the wrong brian. >> where do we pick up president johnson? we pick up at his high point. he won by a huge landslide. i think reagan beat him by a similar landslide but it was astonishing. and it starts the downhill tread from there on. which is tragic. i think he was one of the truly tragic figures in -- >> why is that? >> he did so much. he did the most amazing things. he got civil rights, voting rights, education. poverty bills in a way -- it all started under kennedy, but he didn't have the influence that johnson had. and he was a good old boy, and he came from relatively poor circumstances. there is a speech when he talks about getting electricity to his part of the country. and the problem -- and it is a common american fault, international sense of what is going on in the rest of the world and he didn't understand about vietnam, and he was lead in a particular way. >>. >> it was a washington and it remains a

of justice got dropped out in the minds of people and of course our opponents whether it was lyndon johnson. >> winning that nomination was a fight for the republican party. >> it was the beginning of the transformation of the republican party into the conservative party, which is what it is today. it began in 1964. george had a funny line about that thing well, barry goldwater was right. he was just 16 years too early. in 1980, ronald reagan won the presidency with essentially, the same platform. and the same policies that barry goldwater was recommending in 1964. especially, why not victory. >> this is a question you ask in your books, can conservatives - - [indiscernible] >> i think they can. the so-called do-nothing congress, did all those wonderful things. cut taxes, cut spending. of course in 1980, we had ronald reagan. one of the great presidents. not only of the 20th century but in american history. that did extraordinary things. restoring americans confidence in themselves. sparking a period of economic prosperity, the like of which we had not seen before in peace time. winning the

. >> who is on braupdwayway playing lyndon johnson. >> so much to discuss with him i'll be tuning inivot back to markets. jobs number the key focus. >> certainly the key focus i think expectations are pretty low. the formal estimates are low the gm strike is going to have the impact i think it might be a little bit of a test of just somehow sensitive the market is to something that looks weak. it's not really i think at the heart of what people are worried about right now. but the bond market rallied. i wonder how it gets asum lehto alim sited into the market story. >> there was a little bit of chicago pmi. >> chicago pmi disappointing and the national ism that crystalized doubts about the industrial sector. some expect aches you get some traction on that coming into the next report. weal see. >> chinese pmi was weak as well we should mention that in terms of the market nice rally into the close whether month end or not took us well off the lows >> bouncing oft old highs from july up didn't go back to the previous trading range, which probably is a net invite you can't really talk ab

he was a fierce critic of the vietnam war that led to a clash with president lyndon johnson. it even won him a spot on president richard nixon's eni list. it's interesting to have this conversation today because as i saw , congresswoman, i this on tv, he played an important role in the impeachment proceedings. i want to let you know i saw that on my black and white tv. once again, we are building on the back of the work that he and other members did in 1973 and 1974. the chairman, we should thank the leading role in creating the federal holiday that honors dr. marlin -- martin luther king. he introduced a bill four days after dr. king was murdered. so when congressman lewis talks about that, he knows what he's talking about. the fight took 15 years but he succeeded. the chairman also played a leading role in another long fight, the struggle to end apartheid. in south africa. with a congressman from pennsylvania by the name of william gray. recall, mr. speaker, meeting president mandela. i say all these things because there is a connection to all of us who are here today. and