had gone on as originally planned, i think bobobby would d have bebeen nominatated instead of lyndon johnsonon, kennnnedy now hahas no choice but toto throw hisis suppot behindnd lbj. - same e efforts, the same e energy, anand the sameme dedicatioin ththat was giviven to p president j john f. keney must be e given to presidedent lyndon n johns. [c[cheers and d applause]] narrator: : lyndon johohnson mut defeatat barry gololdwater to shake o off the tagag of " "the accidedental presis" and d to do thatat, he'l'll get his s hands dirt. - one. two. three. four. five. - on september 7, 1964, the johnson campaign releases an explosive new ad. - there's probably 50 million people watching television that night. - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. [loud explosion] - it is the most stark, the most dramatic, and the most fear-mongering ad. it only ever runs once. it's really controversial. - the cuban missile crisis was just about a year and a half before that. so the american public was frightened to death of a nuclear holocaust. so we did a commercial that addressed that situation. - these are t

lyndon johnson. it fulfills lbj, his primary goal that, the racist national origin system should be set aside that you can't have each country's should have equal terms in terms of the numbers of people that can legally immigrate to the united. there was there is this kind of surface equality. but what fegan has also added is that to qualify legal immigration, you only three options family reunification, you have to have fairly close family member. what called skilled employment and then also refugees. it's actually a very narrow door and the laws really emphasize family reunification and this was fegan strategy for trying to ensure that immigration continue to be predominantly the same as the majority population in the united states of course hasn't worked out right we know that the law has transformative and you know and lbj it what has also been transformative in that law and this criteria was added at the very last minute was that it also under the claim that. well be fully equal. we also have to

and that's that's lyndon johnson. our sense that the government has constructive role to play in the life of the nation. yes, of course a lot of that is fdr johnson trying to out fdr fdr but it's lbj himself and that battle that we talk about with the conservative movement that you've described that is contesting, you know, those those very points. and it is that push and pull and the wrestling that's that's taking place around that. and, you know, nikki, i'm wondering if you can pick up on some of that that mark was just talking about. you know, the low stock of johnson when he dies 50 years ago in 1973 and this new moment that seems to be happening for for lyndon johnson right now and why you you think that's occurring, particularly early? because there was such an effort to use him as the the target the poster child for all that wrong with government for for many of the reasons that you described i think conservatives have a big role to play in why lyndon johnson is so popular these days or why gained in reputation

i do not think lyndon johnson knew about that. at a certain point, johnson is no longer in control of his own staff. if you are a young staffer in washington, you work with the proximity of power. your kids go to a nice school, you live in a nice neighborhood are the last thing you want to do is go home and tell your wife we have to move and we don't know what's coming next and we have six weeks to move out of town. there is a great sense of inertia to keep things going. if you work for johnson, you want to work for humphrey and you will get promoted probably in the next democratic administration. a lot of that began driving the peace talks the closer it got to the election and it really was not about peace. >> one of those you mentioned, george ball, actually went to go run humphrey's campaign. >> he had a brief stint as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. he had been influential near the president johnson and kennedy prior to him. to go to new york, you have separation from power. you know we don't have the president year the way we used

who was lyndon johnson? lyndon johnson, a masterful politician. he was every bit richard nixon's match on the democratic side of the aisle. and if he had run in 68 against nixon, that would have been the battle of the titans. i mean, there would be no greater election in modern history. i mean, these were unparalleled, you know, leaders of their parties who were had similar political careers who had who had sort of leapfrogged each other at different times. i mean nixon made it first to the vice presidency. johnson made it first to the presidency. i mean, they they were very competitive when they were they because they often faced each other on a ballot. and i think what they came to realize and 68 is not facing each other on the ballot anymore, that they actually had a lot in common. i think really we have our luci baines johnson said, you know, johnson's daughter, youngest daughter, very different people, different politically different to policy and management. she's like, but it was there. it it was call it rivals shared enemies that brought t

quote, "when it comes to capitol land grabbing, no one will ever surpass lyndon johnson. ty leader, johnson occupied several hideaways along with a grand leadership suite. he had so many rooms, in fact, that they collectively became known as the johnson east ranch." betty: yeah. lyndon johnson was the master of real estate on capitol hill. particularly when he became majority leader in the 1950's, he gained every space he could get. he had his personal office, his leadership office, his hideaway office, then it just kept growing and growing. in fact to the point where as majority leader, he gained what we now call the lyndon johnson room on the second floor, one of the prettiest rooms in the capitol. . he took that space over and that became his leadership office. but he did not relinquish any of the other spaces. . when he became vice president in 1961, he also got the vice president's's office in the capitol, but he didn't relinquish the lbj room. so with each step he moved up the ladder, he got more space. he finally got to give some of it but he became president. host:

>> lyndon johnson was a masterful politician. he was every bit richard nixon's match on the democratic side of the aisle. if he had run in 1960 against nixon that would've been the battle of the titans. these were unparallel, the leaders of their parties who had similar political careers. they leap frog each other at times. nixon made it first to the vice presidency. johnson made it first to the presidency. they were very competitive because they often faced each other on the ballot. they came to realize in 1968, not facing each other on the ballot anymore, they had a lot in common. lucy johnson said, johnson's youngest daughter, very different people. politically different approaches the policy and management. call it rivals or shared enemies, and brought them together by the end of their careers. each were aware they did not go to school. they did not go to the best colleges. johnson went to texas state. they both felt looked down upon by the elite, the establishment in both parties, they had certain under curtains between them

the setting is the 60th anniversary to the day of president kennedy:n■ university with lyndon johnsonng behind him. after the sovietus with sputnikn surprid again with the first human to orbit the earth before we could even get alan orbit, kennedy made a bold decision. w, johnson h ground. as majority leader, he had really shaped the future by passing in 1958 the nasa bill that set up nasa. course johnson was quite concerned with what the soviets were doing and he was all over that. bu kennedy to make that clarion call that we are going to the moon and return safely before the end of the decade. he did that after alan shepard hadwe were way behind. the soviets have the high ground and kennedy made this decision before we ever put john glenn into orbit. this was in the spring of 1961 after yuri guard darren had flown. i will tell you a secret that is no longer secret, but it was a secret because the soviets kept successful spaceflight was to orbit and then to land. but the soviets were afraid we would beat them. they went ahead and launched a herculean effort. he went into orbit but he

lyndon johnson, 1968 meant vietnam.hat war brought protests from all over, peace activists, civil rights organizations and leaders from martin luther king jr. young people and students, many of whom face the prospect of being drafted to fight and die halfway across the globe. ultimately, johnson decided not to run for president again. for joe biden, who is seeking a second term, it's american support and financial backing of israel's on going war against hamas. in which more than 24,000 people have been killed in gaza since the war began. including more than 10,000 children. there are no american forces on the ground in this war and no draft. but it is backed by billions of american taxpayer dollars and perpetrated with the help of american 2000 pound bombs. and it's caung a new generation of young people to turn against a democratic president over a war they object to, with some even weighing sitting out this election rather than choosing between donald trump and joe biden. back with me is jelani cobb. a guest on the s

that didn't turn out so well for lyndon johnson.e wound up winning the primary but it was by such a small margin that the national political media said this shows how the democratic party is tearing itself apart over the vietnam war. lbj leaves the race and says he's not going to run for reelection. i think today, especially if there is not much of a story on the republican side, the national political media will take a long, hard look at how well joeen does, what percentage of the vote does he get on the democratic side, how many people will take the effort to write in joe biden's name. the standard for write-in write-in a for new hampshire is pret■rty forgiving. if they happen to spell his last name with two i's the official will look at the intent of the voter as best they can. something unusual that voters don't usually have to do and they write-in the name of the bottom of the ballot. i'm curious how that plays out. host: was it lyndon johnson that set the bar the joe biden has to be today? guest:■g i would put the bar somewher

but i think you're right, john, it still requires the efforts of lyndon johnson, heroic efforts. he's benefiting from the fact that he's following a martyred president. and but but nevertheless, role in 64 is critical. but i believe, as i'm going to argue in the second volume, the actions john f kennedy and his brother robert in three and others who are involved in this, including john, of course, paved the way for what happens in 64. and so that needs to be acknowledged in any discussion of the 1964 act. kathleen, i want to get you to comment on the in the context of other events, fred talked about the galvanizing importance for john f kennedy and perhaps father of those violent incidents, which became a spur to. how would you situate the march on washington and its influence on the ultimate success of the movement with the murder? the three civil rights movement workers in june of 1964. immediately the passage of the of the civil rights act, which occurred in july, and then the following year, the passage of the voting rights bill after the selma march and the violence that too

not too long after that, lyndon johnson, the president of the united states, who was expected to run for reelection, did not and all because he won a state by far less than most thought. that was then, hard to say what happens now. all right, it's all about the perception, isn't it? welcome back to cavuto live, we're in new hampshire where we're three days out and voters will get their say finally and not prompter readers, in the first of the nation primary. a lot of the republican candidates certainly, this is the last minute rush, if you will, before the big day. now, you heard from ron desantis a short time ago and we'll be talking to nikki haley what she thinks about that and comments the frontrunner, donald trump was saying about her. hey, alexis. >> neil, welcome to town in new hampshire when you say with the accent, i can't do with my chicago accent so i won't try. and former president donald trump has lots of activity on the ground and expected to have a pretty good rally in a number of hours telling his supporters, hey, i feel confident here, but telling them they still need

the income that president with the writing got 48% by mamarch 31, 1968 lyndon johnson was out of theace, i'm not saying we're going to see something similar but there is a real risk a real risk to joe biden if his vote totals against two candidates with limited disability is not well above 16. >> it is fascinating. i just grew there over the weekend to see the magnitude, that could be a stunning development. we will follow it closely. that to you and expectations, a lot of people think that nikki haley has to come in a close second. i don't see her going anywhere, she's a fallback candidate only fallback candidate republicans have in case something happens to donald trump, how do you see it, what are people telling you. >> let me ask you this what can happen to donald trump what could conceivably go wrong this is a black spot primary, whoever is standing after this thing is done, if there is someone standing, i think republicans need to wait and see, look at the entry polls in iowa, two thirds of republicans said that they did not care the trump been indicted but a third said if he w

'his name was lyndon b. johnson, 'the senate majority leader from texas.'ation for himself, and he's prepared to play dirty. lyndon johnson's allies and friends, at the convention, begin to talk abot kennedy's health problem. kennedy had serious health problems. addison's disease. he had a hormonal deficiency that could have killed him. 'in fact, his father put medicine' in safe deposit vaults all over the united states so that kenney would never run short. so, what johnson does is he makes it a campaign issue. the kennedy forces denied it vociferously and have doctors come out and say that he was above average in health and energy and vitality and he had never had so-called addison's disease and they lied through their teeth. kennedy's illness is never mentioned again. it's a victory for jfk's team, if not for truth. had the american public known just how sick jack kennedy was, he probably could not have been a presidential candidate. now they work the convention floor. john f. kennedy! to win the nomination, they must get an outright majority. kennedy had

lyndon johnson didn't run for reelection because -- neil: he barely won and opted out in 1968. that is a good way you framed that because some are interpreting that as another johnson moment in march of that year 1968 that lbj said he was stepping out of the race because of that poor performance. i'm wondering whether president biden risks the same counterattack, opting not to participate at all. >> i think he does. part of that goes to his health and questions about his health, his ability to campaign and not coming to new hampshire doing any retail at all, makes people question whether or not he's up to the job. so i think it is going to hurt him in november should he be on the ballot but are predictors in new hampshire, don't think he will be on the ballot. they think it is in the planning to have him replaced. it makes sense if he's not going to play in the primary. we will see what happens. it's a long way from now to november. that is our prediction, president biden will not be on the ballot. however the republican is will be running against the ghost of joe biden. neil: u

, how when the margin was a victory that lyndon johnson won the senate race in texas the year he first entered the senate or how john f kennedy won the presidency advanced richard nixon by a paper thin margin from a bunch of votes from illinois. we have to know this stuff because otherwise we are not going to get one step closer to the perfect union than we had in the late. in the late 1700s. and i think this why wouldn't we why would anybody who essentially likes to read history books for pleasure not wade into that and simply say, i got to say, man, that is so wrong. the whole idea of saying, no, no, no, you must not read books based on our history is some degree of it's like living in the bizarro world from an old superman comic book which which jeffrey and i know an awful lot about old superman. come about. and i just want to say real quickly, when i first met tom, that comes up his focus on a more perfect union in the constitution was really interesting to me because it is as it is and acknowledge by the people who wrote the constitution and hey, we're not getting this th

lyndon johnson adopted it. it basically says if you are getting federal money or doing business with the federal government you have to adopt toxic racial and gender quota systems. i would eliminate that. i think we should get jobs based on merit in this country. that's part of how we get this toxic knew form of reverse racism in america. end it. the best way to stop discrimination based on race is stop discriminating on the basis of race. it's not that complicated. i push prior republican presidents and administrations on why they didn't do it. they say it's a political hill we didn't want to die on. i'm not afraid of dying on political hills park that's how we win at the top of the political hills. by standing for principal. that's an example of one of many past executive orders we will resend one by one. it will take a president who knows what he is doing to actually navigate that. >> that's the one i thought he would pick, the one from lyndon johnson. it's in my notes. dane peterson asks a pretty good quest

lyndon johnson helped kennedy win texas. he might not have won texas without lyndon johnson.ince then it hasn't helped a lot. dan quayle didn't have george w. bush anything. it would be good to balance that off with a republican ticket includes a male as a nominee and female as the vice president, or a female as the nominee and a male as the vice president and what would the best combination of that be? okay, let's say for example donald trump wins the nomination. does he take nikki haley popular south carolina governor who knows how to thread the needle in controversial issues and has modicum of support with republicans we see in the granite state with numbers being high, or is she as steve bannon put it quote viper for the maga crowd, she would never make it in terms of getting their vote. and then donald trump goes with maybe kristi noem from south dakota? i think what you're probably going to find, larry, i don't know who it will be at this point, i don't think it will be kim reynolds, but donald trump was not happy with her. if donald trump wins the nominee i think almos

and according to the testimony of lyndon johnson’s secretary, after this meeting he left the office,there, no one... knows, since the recording is not was carried out, but when he left the office , he said the phrase that in a day these kennedys would no longer interfere with me in anything, and johnson’s relationship with kennedy was very, very, very strained, that is , the customers were on the side, and oswalt is apparently not a executor, let’s say, according to the official version of the oron commission, naturally he was the only executor, the only shooter, at his own personal request, yes, but... one customer, and this customer is committee 300, well, look, i don’t know about committee 300, but that the cia was connected, yes, with both the assassination attempt on kenneda and the murder of maldumor, this is considered to be a generally accepted fact, as it was connected, aldemora kidnapped representatives of those same red brigades, these were such pro-socialist revolutionaries in italy, yes, but the investigation that after this... the republic, and before that in 1909, sash

if a list of other books include one on lyndon johnson, woodrow wilson, andrew jackson, u.s. grant, abraham lincoln and many others. we're going to talk with dr. bill brand about these and his newest offering about hamilton, madison, jefferson and john adams in a book called "founding partisan." >> henry william brands jr. with his book "founding partisans" on this episode of book notes+, available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more including buckeye broadband with. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> buckeye broadband supports c-span as a pluck service along with -- public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> welcome to today's "washington journal." we'll start with the latest on that which is from ax a owes with this headline -- axios, late night if vote sends historic mayorkas impeachment vote to house floor. it says that the house homeland security republicans approved two articles of impeachment against

in 1968 another minnesota lawmaker, eugene mccarthy, challenged another incumbent president, lyndon johnson, who only ran a write-in campaign. johnson didn't campaign in new hampshire and barely won. just days later -- >> good evening, my fellow americans. >> reporter: -- johnson dropped out. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> reporter: now, we're not expecting something like that to happen this time, but it was president biden who said new hampshire should no longer go first for democrats, arguing south carolina and its more diverse, predominantly black democratic voter base should get a chance to weigh in first, especially because they've been so loyal to democrats through the years. we'll see if new hampshire holds that against the president on tuesday, when democrats and republicans go to the polls. republicans go to the polls. >> that was ed o'keefe reporting why are force factor vitamins so popular at walmart? force factor uses the highest quality ingredients to deliver powerful, healthy results from delicious an

unfortunately, i'm old enough to remember lyndon johnson had to get out of the race. this is not a particularly -- if biden -- if biden had a contested primary or caucus and he got 51, it would be the end of days, it really would and just like it would be the end of days for lyndon johnson. so you made the point i got seven texts last night even on this network this morning and joe scarborough made the same point, and i think that's a relevant point. >> yeah. let's share the credit. joe mentioned it and he's got a history as a republican. you are known as a -- i'm generalizing, but you're more a centrist democrat than a super leftist democrat and lawrence o'donnell who talked about his progressive experience and everyone around this is thinking about it because you're supposed to do better than that and trump is the most famous, oversaturated, controversial, endlessly in the press right wing. those folks are tuned into that and 41% of the red states say i'm still looking. i'm still looking for something else. that doesn't mean that he'll stop them in the primary. it j

if a list of other books include one on lyndon johnson, woodrow wilson, andrew jackson, u.s. abraham lincoln and many others. we're going to talk with dr. bill brand about these and his newest offering about hamilton, madison, jefferson and john adams in a book called "founding partisan." >> henry william brands jr. with his book "founding partisans" on this episode of book notes+, available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more including buckeye broadband with. ♪ ♪

lyndon johnson drops out a month later. it's not going to be that close. for phillips the real question about whether there is some there there would've been -- looking more like either 1968 or 1992 when pat buchanan came in a close second but to an incumbent president holding george h w bush to 53%. that hasn't happened either. he's on the ballot in south carolina. the south carolina democratic party primary is coming up on february 3. this is where we can do an apples to apples comparison. part of the reason new hampshire was upset with joe biden was because they changed the calendar. south carolina is first. let's see what that looks like. joe biden is not going to lose the vote in south carolina but let's see if the enthusiasm was there. let's see if lisa's source was correct that the turnout on the democratic side ends up being stronger-than-expected. geoff: returning to the ap voter survey there is a question they asked. regardless of who you support, which candidate do you think will win? 68% of those surveyed said donald trump, 28% said nikki haley

a couple weeks later, lyndon johnson decided not to seek a full term, so that is part of the game herewhat is the number that president biden needs to get as a right and candid on tuesday, before democrats start to raise questions again about whether he should lead to the ticket. that is going to be part of what we are watching here on tuesday -- >> all right in concord, mike -- nice to see you, thank you so much sir. all right, about that security clearance. next, we will talk about a new defense tactic donald trump's legal team is considering in his classified documents case. congressman jason crow, a member of the house intelligence committee, will weigh in. , will weigh in as the world keeps moving, help prevent covid-19 from breaking your momentum. you may have already been vaccinated against the flu, but don't forget this season's updated covid-19 shot too. (vo) explore the world the viking way from the quiet comfort of elegant small ships with no children and no casinos. we actually have reinvented ocean voyages, designing all-inclusive experiences for the thinking person. vikin

nobody has accomplished more since lyndon johnson or franklin roosevelt. whether it is the rescue package to rescue our country from covid and the rest, whether it is our infrastructure bill to build the country with good-paying jobs, whether it is the science and chips initiative to take us into the future. whether it is ira, which is just remarkable to recognize the challenge of the climate crisis and to address it in a bigger way than we ever have, but recognizing more needs to be done. and at the same time, recognizing our men and women in uniform and our commitment to them. francine: speaker, is it frustrating that he has achieved a lot on paper but he does not seem to get recognition from voters? rep. pelosi: it is hard to understand but we do not agonize, we organize. francine: but why? rep. pelosi: this is it -- please understand what he has accomplished, what it means to you at your kitchen table. and people -- most people i am realizing are not thinking about politics that much. they are thinking about their own challenges and the rest and we hav

that was exactly the onepick i thought he would pick, the one from lyndon johnson.t's in my notes. yeah, i had it in my notes. peterson asked a pretty good question. this is this is a to me, i feel this as he does. you didn't hit donald trump's si presidency, but you've also said you're the better choice te because moving the country forward requires fresh legs. what do you mean by that? and how does how does it differ what trump is offering? >> it's a good question because it it's like, what can you do that trump can't? sure. so i'll give you an answer to that. e you an answe thing going on right now that we need to talk about. i ha i can do that trump can't is two things. one is i have a deeper understanding of the constitution. soof i'm going to be duped whenw i shut down agencies and fire a large number of bureaucrats. n when i use our military on our southern border, not just build the wallsouthe when i actually d birthright citizenship for the kids of illegals to whom it doesn't require apply. the swamp gave trump all kindsthings. of reasons why he couldn't do

nobody has accomplished more since lyndon johnson or franklin roosevelt.hether it's our rescue package to rescue our country from the covid and the rest, whether it's our infrastructure bill to build the country with good paying jobs, whether it's the science and chips initiative to take us into the future, whether it's ira, which is just remarkable to recognize the challenge of the climate crisis and to address it significantly in a bigger way than we ever have, a bigger way than anyone ever has. but recognizing more needs to be done, and at the same time, recognizing our men and women in uniform and our commitment to them. francine: speaker, is it frustrating actually that he has achieved a lot on paper, but he doesn't always seem to get the recognition from voters? mrs. pelosi: it is. it's sometimes hard to understand, but we don't agonize we organize. we just said this is -- please understand, what is accomplished, what it means to you at your kitchen table. and people, most people, i'm realizing, aren't thinking about politics that much, they™re thin