and the next thing you knew, he became main speechwriter for lyndon johnson. and that really did become the most important moments in his life in. johnson's live collaboration together and for the country because so much happened this president that the kennedys never thought would amount to very much. but he certainly did. he certainly did. so you mentioned swimming pool at the of the conversation and we come to one of the great swimming pool moments in american history. tell us about the of the great society. this is going to be embarrassing, but will so what happened is that one morning, about a month or so after -- in there, so it would have been in like april 64, bill moyers said johnson wants to talk to us about own program. he wants to have his own legislative agenda. he had already gotten the tax bill through was kennedy's the civil rights bill was moving through the congress. and so -- said away meeting in the oval and bill said, no, we're going to the white house pool. so they get to the white house pool and there's johnson already the pool stark nake

lyndon johnson, ladybird johnson may god bless whole family. ladies and gentlemen, may god protect our troops. thank you for listening.

lyndon johnson was a man of intense emotion. rage, animus, pride, all of those things. e of the reasons why history has made mcnamara the equal of johnson in carrying the blame for vietnam because mcnamara looked and sounded like a man who was really sure of himself. his public posture sounded full of confidence. even when privately he had his reservations and doubts. those really strong in 1967 in 1968 came along. by the time that the mayor left, johnson was saying that he was a schoolboy. but he never turned on him publicly. >> let's go back to our program from 1995. robert mcnamara. >> one of the things i have learned in life is you cannot compartmentalize your audience. when i was asked in saigon what i had found i was speaking not only to the american people but to the enemy. the chinese, the soviets, the vietcong. the question is, how candid can you be? i don't know the answer to the. at times i tried to shade it with false optimism. other times i was very candid indeed. i said the situation in south vietnam is worsening. i said it would be a long war. what can i s

the final say in the delegate selection was in the hands of the party bosses and lyndon johnson. - someonet worry about hubert. i've got his pecker in my pocket." - earlier this year, top u.s. leaders vowed that the marine outpost at khe sahn would be defended at all cost. but today, the u.s. command in vietnam announced that the marines are pulling out of khe sahn. - that's the last bunker on this base. now that the american troops have blown it up, there's nothing to protect them from enemy artillery. so now it's time for the final departure from khe sahn. - "why did we fight so hard to keep it if we were going to give it up like this?" was the question some asked themselves. others were relieved, because they privately believed khe sahn was of marginal strategic importance anyway. - khe sahn revealed the futility of the war. what was the goal? there was no clear goal, if the end result is abandonment. - khe sahn symbolizes the frustration of this kind of war. a few must remember their comrades, who are among the 2,500 khe sahn casualties. - i think khe sahn stands as a symbol of the who

it helped that lyndon johnson was vice president at the time. it definitely helped, although i would say albert thomas, who was chair of the appropriations committee, had a larger role than lyndon johnson did at the time, because, of course, he held the purse strings. and he was also an alumni from rice university. and so that had a huge impact. rice university ended up giving the federal government about a thousand acres of land to build the space center. so that had a huge influence as well, very much. now, you've mentioned oral histories a couple of times. what makes an effective oral history? i think preparation. we do a lot of prep before we do an oral history interview. we do not show up and say, hey, you worked at nasa. that's pretty cool. what did you do? so we do a lot of research into what an individual was involved in the years that they worked at nasa, trying to figure out what offices they worked for, what projects they were working on, what was happening at that point to get a better sense of the type of questions that we want to a

but then i was lyndon johnson. you said he was lonely because he. he'd been kicked out. really? i mean, he had he had withdrawn, but it was really because he had to withdraw. yeah. and it was so sad because he knew that he had extraordinary he had done extraordinary things. i mean medicare, medicaid, aid to education immigration reform, voting rights, pbs desegregating the south. i aid to the cities. extraordinary but the vietnam war had cut it all into and he just needed to feel like he'd be remembered somehow. i think it's that of all of us to somehow be remembered. and and he chose me somehow because i was there and maybe because i was young. and maybe because i was going to be an historian or. he thought i might be to tell the stories, too. and so they they became the foundation of the first book. and luckily the book did well. so that me to become a writer because i would, i would have been a teacher and maybe a professor, even, but not a writer by profession. it was listening to you tell these these origin stories. i'm well, one person here, robbie, is, is known for his fi

it was difficult for lyndon johnson to go into the south after the passage of the civil rights bill. but lady bird, who had southern roots and who had family from alabama and used to spend much of her childhood there, summers said she would take it on, and she gave some pretty dramatic speeches that made it very clear what her position was. she said in one speech, i know that many of you do not agree with the civil rights bill or the president's support of it. it would be a bottomless tragedy for our country to be racial divided. this is not a challenge only in the south. it is a national challenge. this was such a dangerous trip that they were bomb threats. they had to run an empty engine ahead of her train just because of bomb threats on the tracks. she was also heckled, but she showed great poise and grace and made it clear that they had their right to speak. but she also did. lady bird. beautiful nation program was a lot more than billboards and cleaning up highways. she also worked as head on wilson and some of the neighborhoods in washington where minorities were living and did

that accounts for his legislative successes, which really have been unmatched, at least since lyndon johnson. he would take perhaps more time to make a consequential decision . he might revisit it and come back to it from different angles and different perspectives. once he made a decision, he was all in and completely committed to it or to put this in the present tense, he is all in and committed to it. but there were times when he would say, this is something i want to do, but now is not the right time. it took me a while to understand how he was thinking. he was really sequencing the landing of the planes that he wanted to ensure were issues or actions that got completed, but he had a sense of how it had to be sequenced to maximize success in the aggregate, not just on the issue that he might be working on. in a sense, three really different leaders, but wonderful presidents, each of them, and i feel so lucky to have gotten to learn from them. ryan: you are the first person in history truly broke the national security council and the domestic policy council. if i can be slightly mischievo

we had not had systematic police reform in the united states of america since lyndon baines johnson great society legislation in the 1960's. we thought after rodney killed -- rodney king was brutalized in the >> we really thought we were at a turning point that we were going to get systematic police reform in america that had eluded us for decades. we had not had systematic police reform in the united states of america since lyndon baines johnson great society legislation in the 1960's. get systematic police reform in america. it did not happen. we thought certainly after george floyd was tortured to death on video during a pandemic and everybody saw it. we thought we were going to get police reform in america. it did not happen. after tyre nichols was brutally beaten by five police officers, we thought we would get systematic police reform. it did not happen. i can only fathom have we gotten the reform, how many families up here like sonya massey and others would have been spared their loved one becoming another hash tag. it is an urgent call. how many more exhibits do we have to give yo

had that happened, there would have never been a president, lyndon johnson, and then no anti vietnam war movement. that means that there probably wouldn't have been a president, richard nixon and without nixon. there would have been no watergate scandal without water di jimmy carter would have never been press.

present time and the past, here is an amazing video, i want to show you all now, a video that lyndon johnsonion campaign, after kennedy's assassination he ran for president of the united states, kennedy's brother was there too, but he ran, but robert kennedy was killed, and lyndon johnson, he, in principle, like kennedy. was perfectly aware of that cuban missile crisis, which he managed to overcome, and he realized what the consequences could be after a thermonuclear war, he used an amazing method of influencing american minds through the eyes of a child, and it worked, here's how it was, the four. five, seven, six, six, eight, nine, nine, 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, th, two, one, these are the stakes, to make a world either love or die, election campaign technology will not work if the leader of the state has no children, for example, in germany after unification not a single one the chancellor doesn't have his own children, period, so it won't work, when you look at other people's children, you don't care, you don't have any heirs, i want to remind you of two things, excuse me

>> pete: definitely b lyndon johnson the guy who loves the unions also. >> emily: is it b lyndon b. hnson? that was easy one. question 3. how many hot dogs were americans consume between memorial day and labor day? a 7 millions, b 2000000000. or c 15000000. >> emily: at least 6 million of that are me because i love hot dogs. >> pete: 2 billion. >> emily: a good brat. that's your third b guess in a row. >> pete: i'm going b i did c on the first one. am i crazy? 2 billion? >> emily: come up too soon? >> pete: my level of hot dog consumption it would be 2 billion. >> lawrence: that's true. >> pete: 30 million people times. >> lawrence: that's true. >> pete: eight hot dogs. >> emily: labor day weekend is end of summer what is the actual date a september 18th. b september 20th. or c september 22nd. >> lawrence: 22nd. >> pete: i'm going to go yeaheither b or c i'm going to say b. >> emily: b and c and the answer is september 22nd. lawrence. and those are your headlines and that's very important. >> lawrence: finish off strong. >> emily: so who won? let's call it a tie. a tie for being awes

would say albert thomas who was the chair of the appropriations committee had a larger role than lyndon johnson did at the time because of course he helped the pursestrings and he was also an alumni for the university so that had a huge impact and gave about a thousand acres of land toto build the space center so that had a huge influence as wel', very much. >> you mentioned oral history a couple of times. what makes an effective oral history? >> i think preparation. we do a lot of prep. we do not show up and say you work for nasa, that's pretty cool. so we do a lot of research into what an individual was involved in, the years that they worked in that to try to figure out what offices they worked for, what project, what was happening at that point to get a better sense of the type of questions we want to ask people because we try to target our interviews when we do them. a lot of people appreciate that when we interviewem them because they feel like we care and we do but we do a lot of research on them and their careers so they feel like it is a special moment forr them. >> where are those sto

one version says that the conspirators even secured the tacit support of vice president lyndon johnson, who became head of the white house after the assassination. but harrison also failed to prove anything. his main suspect was also quickly killed. there are many versions, including the involvement of mafia clans in attempts to redistribute the oil business. five years later, john's brother, robert francis kennedy, who at that time won the primary with the democratic party. on september 24, 1989, pope john paul i rehabilitated the scientist galileo galilei, acknowledging the erroneous verdict of the inquisition, issued almost 4 centuries ago. the pope apologized and expressed condolences, and declared that galileo had been right back in the 17th century , and restored his right to be a legitimate son of the church. the italian scientist, risking his life, fiercely defended nicholas's theory of the world order. his books were banned, although the trial only contributed to the popularity of his latest book, which the inquisition banned it, and in freer protestant countries it was transl

the main beneficiary is lyndon johnson and a number of others, who, of course, absolutely, moreover, provide amazing data, next time i will, i will bring this book so that you can see, because this needs to be shown, before the real specialists came who were supposed to determine what happened, a team worked under the leadership of these... yes, we really don’t know what exactly happened, we know who this person is, but we don’t fully understand his contacts, we didn’t talk about his contacts in washington, where he also says, he held several people had a meeting in congress in other politically influential places, but we know one thing: we know, first, that this is a very serious event. portrayed as a miracle of democracy, this is a society that does not truly believe in its own procedures or in the integrity of its citizens. it was a big game, we will meet tomorrow on the air. lies fly to people in the elevator, here is the truth going up the stairs, facts against fakes, truth against lies, this is the anti-fake program, and as always we are leading here own fight against fakes and

knowing that because the israeli zionists and uh it's uh their their controlled politicians, lyndon johnson and kenned and uh uh uh nixon allowed this cover up and americans didn't know anything about the uss liberty nor did americans know about uh the war on terrorism that netanyahu wrote in a book to shift the uh entire american political uh impatus against the middle east in the 1980s, and then again we've seen the great false flag event of 911 where the jewish israeli telmudic government and masad were directly implicated through larry silversteen, the owner of the world trade center buildings, the five dancing israelis that were masad. agents that were there to document the event which they admitted to when they return to israel, the project for new american century were dougfith and dov zackheim and numerous numerous other zionists, paul wolfovit, all conspired with dick cheney to create this false flag impossibility of taking down the twin towers and using that to serve as the pearl harbor that would launch an american jugger not across the middle east and do what is is trying to do

it's not just simply that lyndon johnson started the great society in the 1960's. and everything's been downhill since then. that might have been a contributing factor. but we have to ask why it hit us so much harder than the rest are of the nation. lucas: i'll just answer real quickly. but aim not an expert in this so i'll defer to those who would speak to it. lyndon johnson was helped by martin luther king jr. on that one. martin luther king jr. through 1963 was making the argument what was most important for black people was character not color. he shifted. in 1964 he wrote a book called "why we can't wait." and then a book in 1967 which he wrote up in the suburb of chicago when he was frustrated that his movement and his nonviolent approach to promoting civil and political progress was not working north of the mason-dixon line. he quote a book where do we go from here, chaos or communities. his message radically shifted. color became more prominent in king's rhetoric and speeches than character. he did not trump it -- trup pet the middle class values that enabl

for anyone for better or worse, i can tell you what the budget deficit was under lyndon johnson in 1967. this is really alarming in terms of the 7 % deficit during a non-recessionary time. i think the biden administration knows what they are doing. they are two very different choices for america. they have central planning top- down mindset. the 1960s and 1970s show revisited. i was at yale when james tobin was there. janet yellen's phd adviser. i thought we had put all this on the scrap of history but it's back. it's not working any better this time. i would argue probably worse. i think we are confronted with that choice. maybe we will get into my view of bidenomics or biden inflation or this acute disease that's always there or when it will flare up. when i'm in a bad mood, i'm in bad mood i call it other things. i think of the other side. we see from trump 1.0 it's not a strict adherence but pretty good -- it really worked for everyone. years that we are going to have to have some kind of a global economic >> i think we are at a unique moment geopolitically and i can see in the next

instead of the most transformational president set at least lyndon johnson and fdr.orking out angst about feeling like the obama administration he did not back me for president by going to gettr back at obama and clinton by saying i'm more transformational than any of these and administration. but, do not kid yourself. there will be people who drag themselves over broken glass in order to vote for donald trump. the only way she is going to be able to beat them is to articulate a vision. hid in her calm for tomorrow. this is empty versus angry. she did a masterful and i agree with david, prosecutor, attorney general growing up single mom. this was a masterfully done democratic convention and a terrific rollout. but in presidential campaigns or might be a moment where you need to change. were you played that for a while knight got to play another stanza. with the philadelphia tv local anchor got a question about the economy. when you finish reading the answer or listening to the answer you're not really clear what she is doing she grew up in a middle-class household an

had that happened, there would have never been a president, lyndon johnson, and then no anti vietnam war movement. that means that there probably wouldn't have been a president, richard nixon and without nixon, there would have been no watergate scandal without water date. jimmy carter would have never been president, and without carter, there would have never been the so called reagan revolution of 1980. those are the only ways in which history would have been different. and john kennedy's wasn't the only murder that had an impact on history. i'm john kerry onto welcome to the whistle blowers the . 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 we're going to tell you today about one of the most fascinating and so. busy murders in modern american history, and it's one that most americans know nothing about. i want to try to lay out the characters in the story. one is john f kennedy himself, you know all about him. another is cord meyer. he was a school friend of kennedy's, and many of their mutual friends said that they were best friends, indeed, best friends until the end of kennedy's life. kornmeier also became

still, the best guarantee of future earnings in 1965, lyndon johnson signed legislation that guaranteed federal backing for student loans, so that even when students defaulted, banks wouldn't lose money and therefore willingly lent more. the system's evolved since then, but even today, student loans are easy to get. often just one click away. anybody can get a student loan, and in fact, many older borrowers are borrowing for their own education. they go to school and they're hoping to make more money so they can pay off their student loan. and that's they have no collateral. they're just betting on the future. new america's research found 4 in 10 older borrowers have been trying to pay their debt back for more than 20 years. an added fear the government can garnish irs checks, even social security payments from borrowers who default can't you just declare bankruptcy? you can, but then you won't get your student loans forgiven. don't student loans get discharged after 20 years, 25 years, 30 years? no, i mean, the reality is your loans only really discharge when you die, which can be real

and lyndon johnson when they were young, then young people can see them making mistakes acknowledging those mistakes, growing as leaders. you can see the curiosity's they had when they were young and maybe there's some that you are similar to for example, teddy roosevelt loved birds even when he was young and he becomes the great conservation president. franklin roosevelt loved stamps and he maps and he becomes president and that becomes so important in world war ii. you see whether they had empathy when they were young. lincoln have probably had it from birth. he carried a bird that had fallen out of its nest into a nest because he couldn't bear to think of the bird being hurt. there was a friend of his who was making fun of stuttering person and he went and defended the person and they started stopped bullying him as a result, you see characteristics and the young people that need to be developed an expanded. and maybe by not seeing these presidents as icons, not seeing that among mount rushmore, but seeing them as they can identify which which qualities do they have, which qualitie

course ugh ugh i would vote there were times when i wouldn't have voted i would have voted for lyndon johnson goldorter but i would have voted for richard nixon over john f. kennedy, you see, i would have voted for dwight isenhower, he was a republican, but not for him, who was there, i was already for... i was his democratic opponent, that is, there were some rare situations in the american history of the 20th century, when i would vote for democracy, for roosevelt, that is, for johnson, and probably for clinton, but it would be personal sympathy, it would be an emotion, such emotions for barack obama, i will say, i don't have and i think that both mccain and romney are much more serious strategic thinking politicians for me than barack obama, although i recognize the personality of barack obama, he is a great personality from the political point of view, what are you saying, so am i i understand why he was there twice president of the united states, i don't have any questions, i'm just talking about myself, so what, so why am i telling you about this in such detail, something the republican

had that happened, there would have never been a president, lyndon johnson, and then no anti vietnam war movement. that means.

had that happened, there would have never been a president, lyndon johnson, and then no anti vietnam war movement. that means that there probably wouldn't have been a president richard nixon. and without mixing, it would have been no. what are the scandal without water d? jimmy carter would have never been president, and without carter, they would have never been the so called reagan revolution of 1980. those are the only ways in which history would have been different. and john kennedy's wasn't the only murder that had an impact on history. i'm john kerry onto welcome to the whistle blowers the . 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 we're going to tell you today about one of the most fascinating and so. busy murders in modern american history and it's one that most americans know nothing about. i want to try to lay out the care.

i would vote, there were times when i wouldn't vote, i would vote for lyndon johnson over bally goldor, but i would vote for richard nixon over jfk, you know? i would vote for dwight esenhower, he was also a republican, but not for him, who was there, i already forgot his democratic opponent, that is, there were some rare situations in the american history of the 20th century. if i would vote for democracy, for roosevelt, yes johnson, and probably for clinton, but it would be personal sympathy, it would be an emotion, i will say that we do not have such emotions for barack obama, and i believe that both mccain and romney are much more serious, thoughtful, strategically thinking politicians for me , than barack obama, although i recognize the personality of barack obama, he is a great personality from the point of view of political, what... to say, and i understand why he was the president of the united states twice, i have no questions, i'm just talking about myself, so what, so why am i telling you about it like this in detail, something the republicans have done that makes my three m