many african-americans blamed lyndon johnson and founded theories as to why lyndon johnson was likelyn president kennedy's assassination because he appeared to have the most to gain. letters came into mrs. kennedy condolence letters that would make this point from black letterwriters and telegram senders would essentially say they believed lyndon johnson was involved in john kennedy's death. this is the state of things when lyndon johnson becomes president. now he does everything he can in order to try to reassure black voters. he realizes he needs to win them over because from the very beginning, lyndon johnson is well aware the election is coming up one year from just under one year from the moment he is sworn in as president. he is looking to build coalitions and reassure liberals and african-american voters. he calls people like martin luther king, the southern christian leadership council conference he calls young of the urban league he calls roy wilson of the naacp to try to reassure these folks pretty goes to congress five days after present case ssa tells congress and the worl

but he is always light lyndon johnson. so johnson tricks him and asks him to come down to the white house for some meeting in the cabinet and doesn't tell harry byrd the television cameras will be there. and with the cameras running, he turns to harry and says, this is my version. is not exactly right, so when the bill comes over from the house, is there any reason you cannot start the hearings right away? and harry says, flustered, not that i know of. and lyndon says he will have the hearings right away? and they will be expeditious hearings? and harry says yes in front of the television cameras. because he is so fond of lyndon johnson reporters ask him what he thinks about it and he says if i had known i was going to be on television i would have want to better suit. [laughter] and he holds the hearings. and johnson's relations with harry are probably summed up by what happens the very next year when harry burns wife dies. johnson goes to the funeral and after the funeral harry's car is driving away, the president of the

the diploma actually means for people. >> and i think it's important the program started when lyndon johnson program got started in 1965, congress and president johnson would say they want to modest income people to have their education covid by grants. this idea that everyone should have a huge loan. the intent but what ended up happening to cover students education with grants from congress thought it was too expensive so loans became the easy option. we have this goal but when the rubber hits the road and they look how much it would cost frm us just loans. that happened more and more and it happened now. every year for every time they reauthorize, they talk about pell grants which are intended be scholarship money that doesn't have to be repaid for modest but they never increased the health rent for time. they did but it wasn't nearly as quickly schools increasing prices so there was a growing cap with the pell grant covers for modest income families ability to pay it so loans became the easy option. >> is fair to note, it's hard to subsidize your self our institutions and brought higher

diploma means for people. >> i do think this is important.when the program got started and when lyndon johnson program got started in 1965, congress and president johnson would say that they wanted more people, modest income people to have their education covered by grants. this idea that everyone should have a huge loan was not part of the program but again what ended up happening is to cover students education with grants congress but it was too expensive so loans became the easy option. it was like we have this goal when the rubber hits the road and they look at how much it costs, that happened more and more. and it happens now. so every year or every time they would offer higher education they talk about tell grants which are intended to be a scholarship money that doesn't have to be repaid or modest income students but congress never increase the programs over time. they did but it didn't happen nearly as quickly as schools were increasing their prices so there had been this growing gap in what the telegraph covers and what modest income family ability pays. so loans just became the easy

and when you look at his achievement lyndon johnson piece and then how you've written bob about the power and the presidents also, what is your reflection lbj in american history and what was the johnson's presidency and the perils of his presidency. >> is easier to describe the creation of the universe. and as robert caro's trump finding out because there are many times in many many of sort them out and up to date and what is the real, what you and i were talking the other day, you can ask the question of a historian or a journalist, how good is history. and the answer is often, said it's best when it is too late, the words out of the presidency, he is deceased and in this internet age, of impatience and speed, the gift ask the question of how good his history but when his history and when will you be available to people i think the sooner the better, no one can match robert caro this going back and back and refining his understandings. >> you thank you so the perfect combination for so many journals become a historian particular political reporters covering the presidents for a while bu

does anybody think that the president as time goes on that we will that. >> i think that lyndon johnson is undergoing this reputation i think that will continue. especially given that congress is so polarized and so dysfunctional, i think a lot of people revere his legislative skills and able to get a lot done so i think so long as the government continues to be divided and polarized. >> i think obama's one right now obviously his presidency is going on is heartbreaking and greatness yet. so i think the situation that he adopted when he became president all that he has in his first year or whatever else he has done socially, i think he's accomplished a lot for what he had to deal with in time and he has been president so i think that is maybe one and will look back and be less critical of its we realize all that he has accomplished and faced. >> and potential in the future all the presidents recently will undergo this in some circumstances considering now we have just what has happened immediately after as time goes on we may see these issues are not as drastic as they once were. for in

that is just the structure and lyndon johnson in his years. it is really a book at the way the investigative profile as a way to write about everything. it's to write about history and power and character and influence and the impact. but the thing about a person. people are so interesting to us that it creates a form that will drive readers through. so often when i'm trying to think how i can get somebody to read like campaign finance which is so boring. i thought what about these billionaires who were really benefiting and shaping the system. maybe i could get american readers to care about how money works in american politics. the format of the characters is one of the things he shown to do this in the most ambitious possible way. among the other thing so many things that i learned from him. among other things as bob woodward said. go to the hard targets and don't get stopped by the roadblocks. there is so many times were bob caro who was told were not talking to you. it's robert moses. two years they were gonna lock up, everybody knows the

lyndon johnson deserved tremendous credit for his legislative achievement. that's a broader group of folks involved. in the chamber itself it's important to point out lyndon johnson was very clear. the pill had to be bipartisan and had to bring along a majority of the republican members. it's a bipartisan bill with dirkson directly involved. the renewal of the bill in '82, dole was one of the clear players in enacting the bill. bush signed the bill. they were bipartisan efforts. bipartisan is the only approach that you can deal with election law changes where you can help bank the fire or president lack of confidence in some areas. that is mistake. our process worked pretty well, not perfect. we have a system that was not designed by god nor administered by angels. on the whole it works well. we're looking at changes that are not being adopted in a serious bipartisan effort. describing the changes in the law in the last year at the local level has the return to jim crow is ridiculous. i think any fair minded person really looking at what jim crow was like in

president lyndon johnson's daughter mary's u.s. marine captain charles roth. december 9, 1967.10 p.m. president nixon's daughter mary's on june 12, 1971 in the first rose garden wedding. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this >> mr. gorbachev. tear down thisll wall. foundatin and institute hosts a look back at the evolution of president reagan's "tear down this wall" speech and its importance more than three decades later. the white house speechwriter behind the address participated in the event. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org/history. >> next, we visit plimoth patuxet and plymouth, massachusetts, to explore the re-created 17th century colonial village and talk to interpreters about daily life. the you depicted is 1627, seven ye

lyndon johnson deserves credit for the achievement but there was a broader group of votes involved. martin lutherking, the selma heroes marching for legislation, all important. but in the actual chamber itself it's important to point out that lyndon johnson was very clear and expressed it to any number of people that the bill had to be bipartisan and everett dirksen had to abrie to the bill and had to bring along a majority of the republican members in the senate. the renewal of the bill in 1982, dole was one of the big players. bush signed the renewal, the house and senate were in favor of it. they were bipartisan efforts. bipartisan is in fact the only approach that you can deal with election law changes where you can help bank the fire for present lack of confidence in some areas. but that's not what we're looking at here. we're looking at a process that would fundamentally move most of election administration, which is principally at state and local levels, into a much more regulated federal process. and that is in my opinion fundamentally a mistake. our process works pretty wel

[music] [applause] >> season one focuses on the presidency of lyndon johnson. you'll hear about the 1964 presidential campaign, gulf of tonkinincident , march on selma and war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly johnson's secretaries new because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact they were the ones who made sure the conversations were taped as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and there's. >> you all. talk. >> i want a report of the number of people assigned to kennedy and the number assigned to me now if my are not less than i want less liquid. in fact i may never know go to the bathroom. i promise you i won't go anywhere. i'll stayright behind these gates . >> presidential recordings by then on the c-span now mobile or wherever you get your podcast. >> next a discussion with former us ambassador to israel martin in dagon the us role in the middle east. he spoke at an event hosted by the chicago council of global affairs. >> i'm evil, president of the chica

i, even lyndon johnson was suspicious of and he knew something had happened each. your 1st thing he said was where they shooting at me. they everyone says they in this regard. they knew something had happened. johnson was trying to tamp it all down with the warren commission. and pretending was a once one low, not a would, and there was no, nothing behind it. that's the whole reason that he went out of the way it with his lauren commission, which in our film we go out of our way to take a shot at because it's very important. understand that the warranty mission was crooked from the beginning, and pretty much everybody knew that in washington. certainly, bobby kennedy. it voices why your fellow j. f. k. bad. created waves on, on the hill itself, all the stern. i'll stop you there. more from the oscar winning director out of the sprague join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. and i'll be speaking the guess of the world politics. sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. with welcome back on the eve of the 5 year anniversary of the death of fid

. >> season one focuses on lyndon johnson.ou will hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the march on selma and the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly, johnson's secretaries knew because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact they were the ones who made sure the conversations were taped as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office on theirs. >> you would hear someone talk. -- some blunt talk. >> how many were assigned the day kennedy died? [indiscernible] i promise you i won't go anywhere. >> presidential recordings. find it on the c-span mobile app. >> get c-span on the go. live or on-demand anytime. c-span now. listen with c-span radio. download c-span now today. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including nato. -- nitco. ♪ >> nitco supports c-span as a public service, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> up next, a virtual discussion on how technology i

i, even lyndon johnson was suspicious of it. he knew something had happened. the 1st thing he said was where they shooting at me. they everyone says they in this regard . they knew something had happened. johnson was trying to tamp it all down with the warren commission and pretending was a once one low. not it would, and there was no nothing behind it. that's the whole reason that he went out of the way it with his lauren commission, which in our film we go out of our way to take a shot at because it's very important. understand that the warren commission was crooked from the beginning and pretty much everybody knew that in washington. certainly, bobby kennedy it. which is why your film j of k by created waves on, on the hill itself, all the soon i'll stop you there. more from the oscar winning director out of the sprague look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except when such orders at conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artif

i, even lyndon johnson was suspicious of it. he knew something had happened. the 1st thing he said was where they shooting at me. they, everyone says they in this regard. they knew something had happened. johnson was trying to tamp it all down with the warren commission and pretend it was a once one low. not it was and there was no nothing behind it. that's the whole reason that he went out of the way it with his lauren commission, which in our film we go out of our way to take a shot at because it's very important. understand that the warren commission was crooked from the beginning and pretty much everybody knew that in washington. certainly, bobby kennedy hit, which is why your fellow j. f. k. bad created waves on, on the hill itself, on the stone. i'll stop you there. more from the oscar winning director off in the spring with ah ah, the ah sure don't seem inefficient. mister fisher from light at the, from the tech hockey, with some dinner washed them with especially want to hear the phone yet the nekisha posted in the flesh to follow them having here, besi

lyndon johnson one with 61 percent what is biden even thinking putting himself in a category?nd barely got a majority of the popular vote. democrats have eight more seats in the house. and then to link the bills to centralize power with bureaucracy all because of his vanity. biden is a complete narcissist all he has ever wanted is to be president hardly anybody else agreed. biden has zero authority. in the primaries for and then visit new hampshire he only survived because of clyburn he did not persuade anyone or inspire anyone he just had ted not be bernie sanders so they all fell in line even know they knew how decrepit he was in the general election biden did make an argument just a vacuum i'm not bernie and i'm not trump can anybody remember a single substantive thing biden said he's never seen such an empty presidential campaign with a big bunch of nothing from the non- entity and now we have even less as everyone can see how he is failing and fading physically and mentally. >> and what am i doing here? steve: good question that brings us to the third finding of the biden

[applause] why many americans hated thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, roosevelt, lyndon johnson andhard nixon. >> should we talk about what was happening in the 1920s and 30s as white evangelicals were growing in power and prominence and i tend to use the terms they use for themselves so in the 20s and 30s they called themselves fundamentalists and then evangelicals, but the same people from the 1930s to the 1950s. what they believed is the way they were reading their bibles goals and that you could see the bible had laid out the series of events that would tell us when we were living near the lives of the antichrist and apocalypse and some of them were hard to track, like the rise of suffrage [inaudible] and prohibition wasn't being enforced but far bmore important and more interesting to me they were closely watching events, students in foreign affairs. they understood what was happening in europe, asia, africa. it laid out a number of expectations that they were preaching and preaching in the 19 tens, 20s and 30s. one of these important ones was the rise of the historic empire. w

." >> season one focuses on the presidency of lyndon johnson.hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the 1964 presidential campaign, the gulf of tonkin incident, the march on salma and the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly, johnson's secretaries knew because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact, they were the ones who made sure that the conversations were taped as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and theirs. >> you'll also hear some blunt talk. >> jim. >> yes, sir. mr. president johnson: i want to know how many people assigned to president kennedy the day he died and mine.

association panel why many americans hated thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, franklin roosevelt, lyndon johnsonhard nixon. >> let me talk about as the white evangelicals were i'll try to watch my language, i'll probably use fundamentalist interchangeable. in 1920's and 30's, they called themselves fundamentalists, and now evangelical. and the same people, traced from the 1930's to the 1950. what they believed, the way they were reading our bible, they thought they could see signs the baseball laid out, especially old testament, but that we were living near the anti-christ and the epoch apocalypse. >> they were worried about women's suffrage and worried in the 1920, they were worried that prohibition wasn't being enforced. for more interesting to me. this were closely watching the world events. they were good students, almost better, they were understanding what has happening in asia, africa and around the world. in 1980's and 1890, and they were preaching, preaching, preaching. and in the 1920's they began to see some of these fulfilled. one of those was new restored roman empire. they believe

. >> season one focuses on lyndon johnson. you will hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the presidential campaign come the gulf of tonkin incident, the march on selma, and the war on vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly the secretaries new. they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. they were the ones who made sure the conversations were taped. johnson would signal to them between their offices. >> you will also get some blunt talk. >> i want a report of the number of people. if i can't ever go to the bathroom, i will not go. i will stay right behind you. >> presidential recordings. find it on the. -- app. >> cyber monday, the sale you have been waiting for, starts today. shop today and tuesday. there is something for everyone for the holidays. every purchase helps support our nonprofit operation. >>

at 2:00 p.m., president lyndon johnson's daughter linda marries u.s. marine captain charles robb.then at 3:10 p.m., president nixon's daughter tricia marries on june 12, 1971 in the first rose garden wedding. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> and at 5:25 p.m., the hoover institution and the ronald reagan presidential foundation and stult look back at the evolution of president reagan's tear down this wall speech, it's important more than three decades later. the white house speechwriter behind the address peter robinson participated in the event. it forms the american story, watch american history tv saturday on c-span 2. and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime hat c-span.org/history. ♪ >> sunday night on queuing day, in his latest book, edward, professor of philosophy at the university of british columbia looks at the purpose of intoxication and the role that drinking has played throughout history. >> alcohol makes it harder to lie. it also makes us better at detecting lies. humans are not over focusing consciously on detecting lies. we do n

. >> season one focus on the presidency of lyndon johnson. you'll hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the 1954 presidential campaign, the gulf of tonkin incident, the march on selma and the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly johnson's secretaries knew because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact, they were the ones who made make sure that the conversations were taped, as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and there's. >> you all hear some blunt talk. >> i want a report of number of people assigned to kennedy the day he died, , the number assigd to me now and if they are not blessed with the blessed right quick. if i ever can't go to the bathroom i won't go. i promise you i will go anywhere. i'll stay right behind this. >> presidential recordings on c-span now mobile app or whatever you get your podcasts. >> congress returns this week facing a friday midnight deadline on government funding. both the house and senate must-pass legislation

you know, lyndon johnson in the 1960's, he commissioned a study, where they found that race was the flashpoint for a lot of the issues that we were having in the united states. bill clinton in the 1990's revisited the commission and found out we were just as segregated. and two years ago, the fbi just came out with a study that said, you know, the greatest threat to the united states is not drugs. it is not muslim extremism, but it is a white supremacy. when you have white supremacy for so long being a push factor, critical race theory is a way to analyze that. thank you. host: go ahead, andrew. guest: sure. maybe an example of what the caller was talking about would be helpful here. maybe an example that is related. oklahoma, as i think you mentioned, greta, has passed sort of one of these laws restricting sexism and racism on how they classify students and talk about students, and one of the things that some teachers brought up is, well, you know, the state requires us to teach, among other things, about the tulsa race massacre, which occurred 100 years ago. brutal, horrific instances of rac

." >> season one focuses on lyndon johnson.ear about the civil rights act, the 1964 presidential campaign, the gulf of tonkin incident, can the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly johnson's secretary's new, because they were tasked with transcribing many conversations. they were the ones who made sure the conversations were taped as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and there's. -- theirs. >> you will hear blunt talk. >> i want to know the number of people assigned to kennedy the day he died. >> yes, sir. >> i promise you i will not go anywhere. i will stay right behind these black gates. >> presidential recordings. find it on the c-span now mobile apps or wherever you get your podcasts. >> washington journal continues. ho:

institute, 1965 meeting president and frank occurred announces to industry leader as the president, lyndon johnson council of scientific advisors, has found the continued fossil fuel use would cause climate change by the year, 2000, resulting in serious global impacts. the report says, the pollution from internal combustion engines is so serious and is growing so fast that an alternative, non polluting means of powering automobiles, busted and trucks is likely to become a national necessity. oh is it? it ha, maybe we could have powered everything with the bulls spraying out of big oil executives faces. i mean it's kind of hydro electric and maybe they just drop a generator page. one of their mouse was maybe would have the added effect of burning their faces off. 2 birds, one, stone, moving on to 1968, the petroleum institute commission, a private study on pollution, and it binds man of now engage in a vast geophysical experiment with his environment. the earth, significant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year 2000 and these could bring about play magic changes on vast z o ph

there's a lot more to appalachia than that. >> anthony: in 1964, lyndon johnson declared his war on povertye and bewildered 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? >> 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, we

for 36 years, only lyndon johnson's 1964 landslide broke the string; even southerners jimmy carter anduldn't win there. but over time, a steady migration of college-educated white-collar voters moved into northern virginia, changing the demographics of the state. when barack obama comfortably won the state in 2008, it marked the beginning of an unbroken run of democratic wins. the “red wall” had crumbled. that's just one of a host of examples where the certainties of past election seasons erode and then vanish. california was once one of the most reliably republican states. from 1952 through 1988, it went to democrats only once in ten presidential elections; and put republicans into the statehouse and the u.s. senate regularly. then bill clinton won california in 1992, a shift away from republicans' anti-immigration views and an increase in liberal-minded, college-educated voters triggered a collapse of the republican party. hillary clinton carried the ate by more than four million votes; joe biden by more than five million votes. republicans do not hold a single statewide office. but

lyndon johnson liked to browbeat business and labor to urge them, "keep your wages and prices down." nixon, a free market conservative, imposed national wage and price controls in 1971 as inflation was raging, but it's like stopping a leak with a rag-- when you pull the rag out, the leak continues. and gerald ford in 1974 decided on a p.r. campaign to "whip inflation now," complete with win buttons. but no, the opec oil embargo kept going and inflation kept moving. so, those different tactics didn't really do much at all. >> sreenivasan: jeff, it wasn't a president, ultimately, that had probably the most consequential impact in regards to the response to inflation. >> absolutely. paul volcker, who jimmy carter appointed as chair of the federal reserve board, looked at the inflation rate that was out of sight, double digits, and said, "i've got to take drastic action." and he basically dried up credit, pushed interest rates up to more than 20%. that resulted in the worst recession since the great depression, four million people out of work. and it was one of the reasons jimmy carter w

lyndon johnson, deserves tremendous credit, but a course that is a broader group involved. you had martin was there king, the heroes marching for registration they all are important. and ever. had read the bill and had to bring, along the majority of republicans. , we know. the clear, player and acting, bill renewal push signed a renewal. republican leadership in the house that, were in favor they were by far. bipartisan. he is in fact the only approached ceo selection washington just where you how fire president lack of, in some areas on. . i would say into a, month for regulating federal and. that might, fundamentally, our pretty. well we have, the, was not designed by god minister, find how vaccine, well i've. no real lead approaches here would in fact no interest distance. work pretty well. and we're looking at changes that are not stopping in a series five nap. disquieting the changes no law in the last year's congress has the return jim's, because as i. think any fair minded person really looking at jim crow fight would rest now reasonable mind disagree. of any histor