and top of that, lyndon johnson has to be looked at as part of a cover up. that's not to say he was enrolled the assassination because we can prove that. but then johnson was about to be fired as vice president, that we know. and he wanted this thing to go away. he didn't, he said, we don't want to war with russia. we don't want to accuse russia that was kind of an excuse to, to a point and a point, the warren commission, they wanted a peaceful transition. that's what they, that was amiss. johnson would take over and continue kennedy's policies. by the way, you mentioned them, all right, but we go into that in a little section where kennedy is, is praised by martin luther king for his advances on the civil rights front getting those students a negro students into colleges in the south, which is quite a feat with george wallace in alabama. wallace was an enemy of kennedy and vowed that he would bring, bring them down, that he would say he would, he would effect abode in 60 for chinese and a lot more than is recognized. and this is wrong. it's really wrong that

president by for lyndon johnson, it wasn't bad. in in case, he is not lamenting the los of cronkite. he's not in front of the television to watch the program. he's in austin, texas. johnson remained publicly hawkish about the war in vietnam. he continued to call for a national effort to win the war in vietnam, which is hardly the reaction you would expect if he had been muched moved by cronkite's program. in the days and weeks after the program when the influence of the cronkite moment should have been most strong, lyndon johnson is calling for a renewed national effort to win the war. another element is public opinion against the war had already begun shifting many months before the cronkite show. do you think the united states made a mistake by sending troops to fight in vietnam? the first time the question was asked was in the summer of 1965. at that time, three in five responded. 60% of the respondents said no. it had not opinion a mistake to send u.s. troops the fight in vietnam. gallup continued to ask the question periodicall

and that came as a sharp surprise to lyndon johnson. so the so the wise men and their council effectively turn johnson's thinking against the war. and he announced on the 31st of march. 1968 that he was not going to seek re-election. so these wise men these informal informal advisors really turned johnson against the war be it on it and to meet courage to change his his view his war effort his war policy. so in wrapping up our discussion about the cronkite moments, i'd like to ask for your views your opinions your impressions as to what makes war a particularly fertile time for media, mythmaking we've discussed the yellow journalism and the spanish-american war period and here's another example of a media myth. related to war the war in vietnam and lyndon johnson's decision not to seek re-election and cronkite moment. what are some of the reasons why that in your view war is such a fertile time for myth making why does war give rise to media myths? fox comments observations a lot, please. you know, i think that war. wartime you don't get

only thing worse and anything bad that comes out of the state, anything bad that we hear in lyndon b. johnson's comments would have been a in lyndon b. johnson's view, to have been forgotten. this has kept him so relevant and yet so intimate the experiences of listening to these conversations. mark: melanie in these podcasts that you debuted last you use the conversation extensively in your project, what was it that made the so valuable. melody: a couple of things, one i'll step back for a second it cannot answer that question through the lens of my experience as a staff person so having been ted kennedy's chief counsel and having been obama's domestic policy advisor, is much as happened in the room estimate happens in the fall. in written material can't capture that. but a memo looks like by the time it that it gets to a senator or a president, is often been edited and reedited lots of people put their opinions and and they said things back in scribbles and notes. it will tell you something but when you have the conversations, you get the nuance commute in the tone of voice and you get the hum

that is what texan called johnson president lyndon b johnson in 1965 that made sure we had the right to vote. in those rights were not going to be infringed r upon. but this legislature may have changed the messiah, jesus is drunk but i haven't. [laughter] and i'm going to make sure that everything i can do, my constituents will not be taken from them for what they believe in the lie. trump lost the election he needs to tell the people of this country the truth. if they won't i am going too. [cheering] [applause] >> handed back her members of congress that's going to be difficult act to follow with all due respect. >> chris thank you very much miss thompson thank you very much. when i think about miss thompson she did not tell you her entire story paid we served in the state legislature together. when she was elected the state legislature and once elected county wide the just gettingf rid of poll taxes makes it harder for people to vote. it is a shame that were revisiting the past. that's exactly what we are doing. anybody can do that that's not that big of a deal. it wouldn't do thi

president lyndon b. johnson in 1965 fought so that we had the right to vote. this legislature may have changed the messiah from jesus to trump, but i haven't, and i'm going to make sure that everything that i can do, that my constituents' rights are stripped from them because of what they believe, the lie, that -- they believe, the lie. trump lost the election. [applause] >> let me hand it back to our members of congress. that is going to be a difficult act to follow, with all due respect, congressmen. >> chris, think you very much. when i think about ms. thompson, she doesn't tell you the entire story. we served in the state legislator together. when she was elected to the state legislature, it was really after the civil rights bills of the 1960's were passed. we were just getting rid of poll taxes. the barriers that made it harder for people to vote. and it is a shame that today, in 2021, that we are revisiting the past. that is exact we what we are doing. if they tell you otherwise, they are like, anybody can do that, that is not that big of a deal, it is.

he turns on the sitting president of the united states, the head of his party, lyndon johnson and says i will run against johnson, i will stand as an anti-war candidate. and he shocks the punditry and probably most voters in the united states by almost defeating lyndon johnson in the first democratic primary in new hampshire in early 1968. he doesn't quite win, but he almost wins. suddenly it's like, huh, even in conservative new hampshire, people don't like the war in vietnam. not protesters, not radicals, not passivistings not new lefters. not black people -- i don't know if there were any black people in new hampshire in 1968, but kind of just regular folks don't like this war. well, into the fray jumps the junior but very well known senator from new york. bobby kennedy. the dead president's brother, who also says i, too, will stand against this war in vietnam, i, too, will challenge the seated president of the united states. johnson is horrified at what he sees as detrayal by his own party's senatorial representatives, and you know, it's a real moment of truth for him. johnson is n

and as was mentioned, what would re--- what we really need today is a lyndon johnson moment. we need the power of the presidency. a great op-ed in yesterday's post about other things president biden will do, we need the president and the vice president, and every democrat in the senate working together to preserve american democracy. there has seldom been more at stake, that is why they are here. we need to see in the administration and in the senate , the same courage that these texans have demonstrated. that lyndon johnson moment, remember how difficult it was to passover objection of the voting rights act of 1965? lucy page johnson was one of our most powerful speakers, talking about standing at the desk when president johnson signed that voting rights act. we want to be standing there with a new voting rights act that's their and their rights that were struggled in so many lives taken with so much courage demonstrated are preserved once again. i turn it back over to you for the questions and, thank you very much for all of you and all of your colleagues for being here tod

it wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been from lyndon johnson.ho came from the south, from texas. but he did the right thing. taking a place here in america. segregation and jim crow, having simpson all rights, which we had never had. anything with those other presidents before him. and he did. that is why he is my favorite president. host: that is our viewer diane. lyndon johnson coming in at 24 for this ranking on the category of oral authority. lyndon johnson coming in on that category. -- of moral authority. lyndon johnson coming in on that category. when it comes to moral authority, ideas from historians. again, abraham lincoln topping that list, as he tops many others on our survey. george washington and franklin roosevelt and white arrows in our -- dwight eisenhower following suit. theodore roosevelt coming in and were five, president obama at number six, president jimmy carter coming in at number seven on the topic of moral authority. john adams at number eight, harry truman at 9, john quincy adams coming in at number 10. that is just the

how did he view lyndon johnson's work on the bill? mr. tchie: when johnson was vice president he was writing columns saying johnson is speaking out on civil-rights, chairing the commission on civil rights at the time and looking at hiring equal opportunity. johnson was talking about the issue well kennedy was not. as president, he was trying to downplay the civil rights issue. in 1963, kennedy gave three speeches in the south in which he did not mention civil-rights. pearson thought johnson would come up with a more forthright program on civil-rights. he was right and bills and voting rights acts passed because of johnson. pearson gave him credit for that. johnson wanted that kind of credit and cultivated pearson. he was criticized a lot as a senator but determines the column would be on his side when president. host: richard nixon was the final president he covered. let's watch pearson talking about the reputation in washington. >> are people fearful of you in washington? >> they shouldn't be. some of them are, i guess. >> in a room, if t

phone conversations are available -- 650 hours on lyndon johnson's phone conversations are available. find out what they reveal about his presidency. and on lectures in history, university of north carolina at chapel hill professor looks at civil military relations during the korean war, including delta miss arthur's -- douglas macarthur's removal. find a schedule from your program and watch any time on c-span.org/history. >> president biden spoke at a campaign rally for the democr n

and quite pointedly lyndon johnson unleashes an air war. on now the enemy an american air war on north vietnam an operation rolling thunder as it's called begins in which massive amounts of bombs from us airplanes flown by us pilots begin to be unleashed. on north vietnam now, these are targeted bombs. they're not wholesale destructions of cities. they're aimed at troop movements. they're aimed at munition supplies at factories that are building war material. they're targeted bombs. they're not terror bombing. they're not like what happened in the end of world war ii? but the bombs are intense 600,000 tons. of bombs will be dropped on north vietnam in this operation rolling thunder. large-scale support at this point so it is there any critique at this point beyond those very few voices that i discussed earlier? yeah, there are some americans. who from the get-go from the gulf of tonkin resolution right through the playku incident the death of eight marines the launching days later by lyndon johnson of operation rolling thunder who do protes

it wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been from lyndon johnson.e from the south, from texas. but he did the right thing. taking a place here in america. segregation and jim crow, having simpson all rights, which we had never had. anything with those other presidents before him. and he did. that is why he is my favorite president. host: that is our viewer diane. lyndon johnson coming in at 24 for this ranking on the category of oral authority. lyndon johnson coming in on that category. -- of moral authority. lyndon johnson coming in on that category. when it comes to moral authority, ideas from historians. again, abraham lincoln topping that list, as he tops many others on our survey. george washington and franklin roosevelt and white arrows in our -- dwight eisenhower following suit. theodore roosevelt coming in and were five, president obama at number six, president jimmy carter coming in at number seven on the topic of moral authority. john adams at number eight, harry truman at 9, john quincy adams coming in at number 10. that is just the moral

[laughter] chester arthur or lyndon johnson? >> grover cleveland. kennedy: no. >> lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson is correct. full name was claudia -- johnson. also known as lady bird. all right, spike. who was america's shortest president? was it gary coleman, john quincy adams, james madison, jimmy carter or danny devito? >> james madison was a tiny, tiny boy. he was like 5-foot three and 100 pounds or something. kennedy: he was 5-foot four and you are correct. now time for contestants to t track their luck. double or nothing. double your points get a whole lot of nothing. here you go. >> i can double my.on the barometric g petrick the day jfk got shot. this is exciting. [laughter] kennedy: george washington was elected president with one 100% of the popular vote. he was elected with a 0%second-highest percentage? thomas jefferson, james monroe, ronald reagan or joe biden? would you like to press your luck? >> i would and it's ronald reagan. kennedy: you are at zero now. it was james monroe. 80.61%. [laughter] >> ridiculous. kennedy: jessica. >> the first time you answered with s

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for instance, let's say that lyndon johnson's vietnam war had ended in victory in late 66 would we be a great war leader and someone who did this in the right way? >> you are the historian. it seems to me that i don't know who said it but wars are a series of catastrophes ended by success or victory. they are untightened. they're difficult. they're hard. the enemy has a brain. eisenhower i think said the plan is worthless. planning is everything. and the plan is worthless. because the enemy -- >> that's one of the rules too. >> when i say rumsfeld's rules, it is a rule that i quote from someone more intelligent than i am. >> with full credit i want to get in. >> indeed. but it is true. every time you try to do something, for every offense there's a defense. for every defense, there's an offense. there's a constant change that takes place on the battlefield. i think that at the -- we are unlikely for a period of time to end up with the kind of clarity we had in world war ii because of the nature of the world we're living in. it is asymmetric. it is not symmetric. it is ever changing. a

phone conversations are available -- 650 hours on lyndon johnson's phone conversations are available. find out what they reveal about his presidency. and on lectures in history, university of north carolina at chapel hill professor looks at civil military relations during the korean war, including delta miss arthur's -- douglas macarthur's removal. find a schedule from your program and watch any time on c-span.org/history. >> president biden spoke at a campaign rally for the democratic nominee for virginia governor. the president praised the elf -- outgoing governor. >> want to thank the chairperson of my campaign. i want to say this now, on behalf of all of us, i want to give a shout an offer of thanks to our great governor, ralph northam. thank you for everything you have done for the commonwealth of virginia. we have our great attorney general who is going to keep virginia moving forward. i think him for the leadership. virginia democrats are going to deliver for our commonwealth the amazing team we have in place. let me say to all of you today, thank you. i can't think of a bette

kennedy, i'm sorry, lyndon johnson and john f. kennedy, three democrats he served under. policy wise he supported defense and foreign aid programs, aimed at combatting communism and security. he endorsed the war in vietnam, but he fell johnson should have relied more on air and nafl support and less on ground troops. he was less supportive of social programs, believed in encouraging people to rely on federal assistance rather than pull themselves up without government help. because of his loyalty to the republican party, ford sometimes had to take the positions differently than he had previously. and this especially became the case after he became a minority leader in 1965, that i'll say more about in a minute. for instance, ford had opposed lyndon johnson's great society programs, believing he encouraged people to live off government assistance, yet he endorsed richard nixon's family assistance plan even though that would increase the number of people on the welfare rolls. as another example, ford adopted a hard line to communist china as a member of congress, but he end

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the war had been started primarily by president lyndon johnson back in 1965. johnson was in some ways run out of the white house by the growing antiwar sentiment in the country. richard nixon was elected in 1968. one of the reasons he was elected was his promise to end the war. rather than ending the war, he was expanding it geographically. in 1971, in february, troops were sent south. that triggered another run of the movement, which was in the spring of 1971. we have dozens of antiwar groups who came together in this chaotic choreography, starting in mid april of 1971 and going through mid-may. they were designed to bolster support. the finale of this protest was to be the most audacious one, which was the blockade of the street and bridges. that is why they were camped, getting ready for protest. the nixon administration was increasingly worried about the effect of all the protests, so they secretly revoked the permit on saturday and sunday morning, they sent in the police to clear out the park, in the hopes that the people who would come in would disperse

here's president lyndon johnson. sorry it's such a big quote. here's president lyndon johnson speaking at the signing ceremony for the 1964 civil rights act, a ceremony that took place not coincidentally on july 2nd. the anniversary of the date when the constitutional congress had declared independence. this is lyndon johnson. 188 years ago, a small band of valiant men began a long struggle for freedom. they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor not only to found a nation but to forge an ideal of freak, not only for political independence but for personal liberty, not only to eliminate foreign rule but to establish the rule of justice in the affairs of men. we believe that all men are created equal. yet many are denied equal treatment. we believe that all men have certain unalienable rights. yet still many americans do not enjoy those rights. we believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. yet still millions are being deprived of those blessings not because of their own failures but because of the color of

probably affected the outcome of elections in the past, historically, including the election of lyndon johnson to the senate in 1948, and perhaps the election of others over time. with those sites, from the left and right, have some objectives which they espouse which are very much in common in terms of how we can have election integrity, and i wish that our public discourse about this was less political and more factually precise today, because the more we have politicians out there questioning the integrity of the electoral process, the more doubt we are sowing in the minds of the american public, which is the pernicious thing. host: if i may ask, did you have any role in the 2020 election when it came to recounts? guest: i did not. i came to represent the candidates and the republican senate campaign committee in the run-up to the georgia recount, trying to get some procedures in terms of the georgia mail-in ballot review changed, in order to make them more equal in terms of the judgment of signatures. but the whole mail-in ballot thing is a mess, to be honest with you. the idea that we are

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the war had been started primarily by president lyndon johnson back in 1965, the true u.s. involvement, and then johnson was in some ways kind of run out of the white house by the growing anti-war sentiment in the country. and then richard nixon was elected in 1968, and one of the reasons he was elected was his promise to wind down the war, to end the war. but rather than ending the war, he was expanding it geographically. it had -- troops had gone over the border in 1970 into cambodia, and in 1971, in february, troops had been sent, mostly south vietnamese troops, and with u.s. support, into laos. that had triggered another run of movement which was in the spring of 1971. so we had dozens of anti-war groups that all came together in this kind of chaotic choreography starting in mid-april of '71 and going through may in a series of demonstrations that were designed to bolster public support for the anti-war movement. and the finale of this protest was to be this most audacious one, which was the blockade of the streets and bridges of washington. and that's why these folks w

being denied jobs and housing and people were being denied education, at some point, and yes lyndon johnson and vice president hubert humphrey, understood this. they said at some point, the federal government stepped in. that is their job. so i don't know how much clear you can than to have them -- clearer you can than to have them actually come to the place where it is there only point of salvation because their governor is not going to do it for their people. >> we are handing the baton to our senate colleague to finish this race for us. >> we are often occupied to work on policy but what really makes an impact is when people are on the front lines and coming here to the capital to share their experience. that is what the texas legislators have done and i'm so proud they have come to share the exact provisions that in texas are designed to rip up their vote, including attacking registration, attacking early voting, attacking vote by mail. we led the country in voting, but do you know who else did? utah, a republican state. it has served well every citizen of the country to have their voic

lyndon johnson plucked two members of congress the sit on that commission. two members of the house of representatives. one was gerald ford. it was largely because he had that reputation of being able to work together with people of differing ideas, and to make reasonable conclusions. and he became one of the seven warren commission commissioners. he and another guy named jackstyljack styles worked together on the portrait of the assassination, and it is not the portrait of an assassin, because we believed firmly there was no evidence that was brought to the commission that would refute that finding. he remained open to other evidence that might prove otherwise that might counter that commission's contention, but during his lifetime, he never saw any that was, that could conclusively show that it was alone that would have him act for his identity. what he is known for is being able to move legislation on capitol hill, and to be able to craft the coalitions and it is that reputation that moves him forward in conversations about leadership. so in 1964, ford mo

lyndon johnson, wow, lyndon johnson, the best friend i ever had.put that shuffle on me. >> ainsley: he loved you and you loved him. jim brown done for that organization. >> and you know, when you say something about muhammed ali, george foreman, few of us, even joe frazier, it was the police who started the pal, police athletic league. they taught us how to box. they would travel from one state to the other to see that we won this golden gloves tournament. sent us off to the olympics. i have this fond memory and love for this country and the people in this country. nobody will ever be able to talk me out of that. that's love. love. >> brian: the tweet on july 4th proved it to me. a picture of you, the one we just showed holding the flag after winning the gold while, you know, tomi smith and john carlos helped put up the fist black power. and you put up the tweet out you said 54 years, 50 plus years people are trying to get me to stop with praising america. who are these people trying to get you to stop? >> just people in yen. every year there is a

lyndon johnson called august 6th, 1965 the day he signed that law, a triumph for freedom, as huge astory that has ever been won on any battlefield. he said the heart of the act is plain. wherever by clear and objective standards, states and counties use regulations or laws or tests to deny the right to vote, then they will be struck down. well, that's our job. to do what president johnson thought was accomplished when he signed the voting rights act, to strike down regulations, laws, or tests, designed to deny the right to vote, to targeted groups of americans across this country. so let's do our jobs. put this bill on the floor and get it passed. thank you, mr. president. >> mr. president. >> the senator from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. president. before i begin my remarks, i do want to respond to my colleague and his comments about the

lyndon johnson called august 6, 1965, the day he signed that law, a triumph for freedom, as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield. he said, the heart of the act is plain. wherever by clear and objective standards states and counties use regulations or laws or tests to deny the right to vote, then they will be struck down. well, that's our job. to do what president johnson thought was accomplished when he signed the voting rights act -- to strike down regulations, laws, or tests designed to deny the right to vote to targeted groups of americans across this country. so let's do our job. put this bill on the floor and get it passed. thank you, mr. president. mrs. blackburn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. begin i before my remarks, i do want to respond to my colleagues and his comments about the for the people act. which the democratic party is continuing to push. now, i will say that i am pleased to learn that many of my democratic colleagues are standing up against the jim crow era policie

american history nonfiction books, i'm reckon history tv on the presidency, 650 hours a president lyndon b. johnson white house phone conversations are available on the website created by the johnson presidential library and the university of virginia, find out with the case reveals about lbj's' presidency with historian michael beschloss university scholar melody barnes and msnbc news brian williams and lectures in history university of north carolina and chapel professor joseph looks at civil military relations during the korean war including general macarthur's removal from command by truman. watch mark in history tv every weekend and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime cspan.org/history. >> good evening. i'm associate professor and chair of the presidency program at the university virgini

and i really, actually, like that she brought up lyndon johnson, who along with vice president hubert humphrey, pushed hard to get legislation through to protect civil rights in the '60s. when you have a concerted effort, across the country, not just in texas, but in georgia and in other places, dozens, states have passed voter-suppression laws to limit people's freedom to vote. then, you know the answer should be in washington. where the constitution, clearly, says the congress has the right to make or alter laws, regarding federal elections. and i don't know what cause is greater than doing that right now. this is the moment to get it done. >> i want to read something that "politico's" reporting from congressman jim clyburn. it says, biden could pick up the phone and tell joe manchin, hey, we should do a carve out, clyburn said, referring to the centrist west virginia democrat who has resisted filibuster reform. i don't care whether he does it in a microphone or on the telephone. just do it. so, there's jim clyburn saying, to joe biden, just do it. you have to get this -- this rule