lyndon johnson was.ctions we had in 2000 and 2004 showed increasingly the outcome of an election depends on money. it would be impossible now for anybody to be the candidate of the democratic or republican party that didn't raise $100 million in advance. $200 million. we have not stigma on ourselves but opportunities to improve in the future. it requires some thoughts that are independent and innovative. and i would say idealistic. and it is going to be the next generation that has to bring this about. >> what would you say about your term? >> i think a lot of people would say i only served one term. got defeated. that is not my preference. [laughter] i would like people to remember that i kept the peace and promoted human-rights. almost without hesitation and without much equivocation. we had some leaders on earth there were not true democrats. i would say peace and human rights, that's my preference. >> before we came on stage, tom johnson said that jimmy carter is one of my heroes. i can say without e

i would say lyndon johnson, harry truman.here were boycotts against my business but i never had a trip to my life, like others have had. anyway, to teach the history of what has been done in the past. we could all, just within our own families, exalt those who were so heroic in the past, brought about changes, but also point out that their hievemts have not been perpetuated because of the natural tendency of everyone of us to feel superior to everybody else. we all have an element of pride ingrained within us. at least i am better than somebody else. at least i am better than a drug addict, alcoholic, prisoner. i am at least better than a black person. i am at least better than a woman. we have these misconceptions that we are better than somebody else. we need to guard them against that. i think that can be done better in a home, obviously, and to some degree in the school. >> there are yellow cards in your program, so we will have people collect those so we can grab the questions and get them on the air. we are webcasting,

lyndon johnson. now our party was built out of the sweatshops of the old law east side. the dark mills of new hampshire, the blazing horse of illinois, the coal mines of pennsylvania. the hardscrabble farms, the southern plains, and the iron limited frontiers of america. ours is a party that welcomed generations of immigrants. the --, the irish, the italians the poles and the other, and enlisted them in its rank and fought the political battles that bring them into the american mainstream. and they have shaped the character of our party that is our heritage. our party is not been perfect. we made mistakes and we paid for them. but ours is a tradition of leadership and compassion and progress. our leaders have fought for every piece of progressive legislation from rfd and rca to social security and civil rights in times of need. the democrats were there. but in recent years our nation has seen a failure. the we've been hurt and we've been disillusioned. we've seen a wall go up that separates from our own government. we've lost some precious things that historically have b

. >> five days after the assassination, the new president, lyndon b. johnsontle where jfk left off. >> no memorial or eulogy could more eloquently honor president kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought for all along. >> it was not going to be easy. >> i remember distinctly watching the demonstrations in the south on the civil rights movement. and the terror that the sheriffs and the police unleashed on people. no. there was something that was completely wrong. it made no sense. >> i grew up in buffalo, new york, during the 1950s. while i was a graduate student at berkeley, i became engaged in the civil rights movement. and, as i became more and more aware of jim crow in the south, it really disturbed me. >> it is difficult for anyone who witnesses that to go back to the way things were before. it inspires people all across the country to make a commitment in that moment to getting involved in a movement. >> after spending the summer standing shoulder to shoulder with civil rights activists in the south,

announcer: president lyndon johnson in 1965 -- >> i will lead, and i will do the best i can.: announcer: and president richard nixon in 1969. >> our world can be transferred from the destruction of war abroad, to the urgent needs of our people at home. announcer: once historic inaugural speeches on saturdays at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span to. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including wow. >> in the world has changed. today, a fast, reliable internet connection is something no one can live without. so wow is there for our customers, with speed, reliability, value, and choice. now more than ever, it all starts with great internet. wow. ♪ announcer: wow supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front-row seat to democracy. ♪ announcer: president jimmy carter delivered an address on the 1979 energy crisis from the white house in which he expressed alarm about the crisis of confidence towards the government and american democracy. this runs about 30 minutes. p

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which i think lyndon johnson had done so well with head start. >> you deregulated the airlines. s one of the most remarkable things that we did during the four years that has not yet been. i'm pleased that you have done it. i was a businessman in fact, i was the outstanding young business man of georgia. once i left my background and i deregulated, we deregulate the airlines and the railroads and trucking we directed the banks and banking. we deregulated deregulated communications, television, radio. we direct oil and gas. in effect, we brought freedom to almost every aspect of the economic structure of america that never had been known before. and then consequences of that. i now accept it as routine. but. but they were revolutionary character. why do you think people weren't paid much attention to it now? people take for granted that that airlines have to compete with each other and it truckers have to compete with each other and that banks can merge or the banks can offer savings, own or even insurance capable. it is all that the price of oil and gas is not is not ordained fr

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and according to bill moiers who was a special assistant to lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson had to be dragged into signing this 1966 freedom of information law. he hated it with every fiber of his being, according to bill moyers and believed that government secrecy was entitlement. he finally did sign it. on the other hand president gerald ford vetoed the 1974 amendment and those are the good old days. the house and senate overwhelmingly overrode his veto with republicans and democrats participating. i can only wish that the strengthening of these amendments in the coming months and years who would be so overwhelming. let me just conclude on this note, the lobby for the '74 amendment was not just done by me and a few other civic advocates, some other groups, but we had young lawyers, many of them right out of law school, who became so proficient in this subject that they were asked to testify before congressional hearings. morrison, rubin roberts, joan clayborne was another, ron of course was another, and harrison wellford and robert vaughan who was later to b

is a 50th anniversary celebration, i want to highlight the moment in that that excerpt where lyndon johnson appears look into the future, as if if you up here in the morning by fate like i did. no, you don't know all the answers that captures i think maybe all of us the kind of joy that we get out of this, the joy of discovery when you have a moment that you encounter that for first time and the recordings or for my oral history colleagues when you're in you're in an interview and you you've just produced a comment that's new knowledge and that along with the substance of that conversation i just want to that because it's part of why we all love what do here at the miller center so i'm glad we can share that excitement with you this morning but to the point of why for you also see that in the conversation. the two words that johnson says, dignity and decency and that's the core of why ford is selected. and it's personal, but it's also the personal is nixon and ford have been friends for a quarter century going back to their early days in the house of representatives they were both navy vete

lyndon johnson driven out of office. richard nixon had to resign gerald ford couldn't get reelected. jimmy carter couldn't get reelected, and so forth. there's a lot of bad things that can happen to people who become president, yet people still want this job. why? because i think they think it's the best way to help their country. it's the highest calling of mankind. i've said because in the end, when you're the president of united states, you are the most powerful person in the world when? when woodrow wilson went to paris to try to resolve world war i and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people came cheering him like like caesar returning to rome. why do people cheer him so much? because he was the man who could resolve the problems of the world and ever since that time, people have said the president of the united states is the most powerful person in the world. and i think even with the rise of china, xi jinping is incredibly powerful, but not quite as powerful in my view, as the president. united states. >> whe

lyndon johnson. now our party was built out of the sweatshops of the old law. east side, the dark mills of new hampshire, the blazing horse of illinois, the coal mines of pennsylvania. the hardscrabble farms of the southern coastal plains. and the unlimited frontiers of america. ours is a party that welcomed generations of immigrants. the --, the irish, italians, the poles, and all the other, and listed them in its ranks and fought the political battles that helped bring them into the american mainstream and they have shaped the character of our party. that is our heritage. our party has not been perfect. we made mistakes and we paid for them. but ours is a tradition of leadership and compassion and progress. our leaders have fought for every piece of progressive legislation from our fda and rca to social security and civil rights in times of need. the democrats were there. but in recent years, our nation has seen a failure of leadership. we've been hurt and we've been disillusioned. we've seen a wall go up that separates us from our own government. we've lost

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 systems evolved since then, but even today, student loans are easy to get, often just one click away. many older borrowers are borrowing for their ownto scho'e 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. after a while. you become very defeated and you ask yourself, is it all worth it? why did i do this in horsham, pennsylvania? i'm joey chen, for matter of fact ahead on matter of fact feeling the impacts of inflation. what the irs is doing to potentially help ease the burden for some families. and these cargo ships now have giant sails. could they help make the industry a bit

so there was a sense, i think, you know, lyndon johnson used to say he wanted to go back to the home, to the place where they know when you are sick and they care when you die. um, that's something that i think carter wanted to do to go back in that modesty. i visited him in that home when i interviewed him in 1976. it's a very simple, lovely home. and the people knew him, and he walked around the streets and and he really went back. it's almost like full circle to where it all began meeting as we were just hearing, you know, meeting little rosalynn carter as a tiny baby. the first date they had, he knew he wanted to marry her and what a marriage they had. >> it is incredible to think now, you know, when you think about, i mean, how he kind of redefined what a president might do once they left office. and it wasn't just, you know, lots of presidents have libraries and make speeches and sit on boards. but, i mean, he rolled up his sleeves. i mean, it was an extraordinary post-presidency, obviously. he went on for 43 years. so he certainly had a lot of time to, to to work on it. >> i ha

i mean, he was very close to lyndon johnson. he would stay up late at night in the johnson white house talking to johnson. in fact, at one point he runs into mrs. johnson when when wasserman is leaving, lbj bedroom and he thinks going to yell at him and he apologizes for keeping the president up so late. and she says, oh, no, you don't understand. he lives for these conversations because this concept of the loneliness of leadership, ceos and presidents really have no peer sometimes, and they feel like there's no one they can talk to but they can talk to each other. so wasserman really had these rules about how to deal with in business. he applied them to washington, and i think they were pretty effective for. now, of course, some ceo and presidential interactions ethical boundaries. well, we'll put it that way. which way does causality run? do corrupt politicians or do politicians corrupt ceos. well, it obviously could go both. but in my book, the of the money, i intensely trying not to pick people who unethical or who went to ja

you know, lyndon johnson was railed once with speaker rayburn, talking about the animated who are the republicans? and speaker rayburn said no, sir, they're not our enemies. there are opponents. the senate is the enemy. but but not taking it personal, i think is is really important. gingrich turned on its head and then there was, you know, tom delay was his whip, where they tried to stop companies from hiring democrats, which the that can the tone and tenor of the debates around here and knowing anything that was said could be used against you. and that was before we had the internal at wikipedia social media, which is even more corrosive. i mean, there are people here who have staff that is only promoting their political agenda. they don't do policy. i, i, i find that breathtaking. but i count it. starting with what gingrich did and then continuing with the weaponization of this. and frankly, democrats occasionally game as good as they got. it's not any one group or individual. but i put the turning point with what happened with with gingrich turning this into open warfare. what woul

enough, much that happen around civil rights happened because of president lyndonjohnson, another lyndon johnsonndonjohnson, another southerner. certainly, because of president bill clinton and the southerner.— the southerner. martin, of pleasure — the southerner. martin, of pleasure to _ the southerner. martin, of pleasure to talk _ the southerner. martin, of pleasure to talk to - the southerner. martin, of pleasure to talk to and - the southerner. martin, of. pleasure to talk to and thank you very much indeed. thank ou. in what it describes as a major incident, the us treasury says it's been hacked by chinese state—sponsored actors, gaining access to staff workstations. a spokesperson said unclassified documents were also compromised in the attack earlier this month. the treasury said the compromised service had been taken offline and there's no indication the hackers have continued to access its information. 0ur correspondent rowan bridge has more. what appears to have happened is that these hackers got hold of the security key which gave them access to a cloud computing service used by the t

president, first democratic president, since lyndon johnson, to just really not be addressing this in in a party where this has been such a main point. it's been such a political struggle. and where african-americans are still such an incredibly important constitu civil rights activists are, still part of the broader party coalition. and there's things they're but carter's carter's ideas on race are about opportunities. they're about support for historically black colleges, universities. and that's exactly the kind of like nixon's they're very of based on economic opportunity. and that's that's not nothing that's not to say those things are bad necessarily good. but but it's different than having a more comprehensive plan about federal involvement and equal opportunity about bolstering voting and these things were important to the administration. and there there's plenty of evidence that carter was carter was in these ideas. he agreed with these ideas that even as a as a person in the south, he had actually borne personal cost as a business person, not joining these kind of reactive s

but lyndon johnson. macarthur in 1950. and so he called them lots of vile and profane names. only lyndon johnson could and he directed policy precluded us from going either into north vietnam or cambodia allows we could argue the rest of the day whether that was a good decision or not, but it was his decision it was his prerogative. so even the national level, it is the commander, the intelligence professionals that are responsible for those decisions. so if i do write a book about this and i'm thinking about it, i'm going to call it ike's intelligence failure the battle of the bulge, and we'll see where that goes. but it's no what it comes out, definitely. i get a copy that. they can read it. open up the floor to questions here. i'm sure there's a ton. i thank you for a fascinating discussion here. this has been a great i think prelude what we're talking about the rest of the day. let's go to the let's go to the floor for some questions. please raise your hand and i will come with the microphone. any question. we have one in the front. thank you very much, colonel. so i thin

. >> one of the things i found most interesting was, so we put out, if you go back and read lyndon johnsonally cared a lot about poverty but also world very informed smart things about it and if you go back and look at the war on poverty that he declared and try to come up with a scorecard on how we are doing the official poverty numbers are not much help and it looks like we haven't made any progress all but the numbers exclude like all of our poverty programs. imagine if you're trying to track how were we doing with poverty and your measure to poverty doesn't account for this fact that they are -- so we went back and came up with a poverty measure that included a poverty program and found this was the sentence in their study because so much controversy in the warm party is over and if you look at lyndon johnson's own metrics of fully out to accomplish in the war on poverty we have done that but the war on self-sufficiency is the next thing that next thing the way up to focus on because it's one thing to lift people up with poverty but to let them be self-sufficient and to help them to be

lyndon johnson is vietnam, i mean that is his legacy, and i'm guessing that barden, who's that who is it, i've been having a more progressive domestic policy than many of us. it disappeared when he, when he ran for a for office and in 2020, that the guy that is going to very much hang on his legacy as well. i was going back to the vietnam analogy though. one thing that was really striking in 1969 nixon's 1st year in office, you suddenly saw a lot of democrats in congress and allowed a more liberal main stream that had supported the vietnam war when, when johnson was president, when it was a democratic, more and we're finally felt like they could speak out against it. and there was a huge shift during that year and from a newspaper editorials, you know, to the, to the sense of the democratic caucus in congress to come out. and because they felt free to speak out, they did not though they talking comfortable about criticizing a president their own party, particularly in the election year. and at this point they, they felt more free to got to listen to the broad public opinion, which is

[cheers and applause] we are the party of a great leader, lyndon johnson. [cheers and applause] we are the party of a great man who should have been president and would have been one of the greatest presidents in history,. a great man who epitomized the spirit of the democratic party. we are also the party of governor jerry brown and secretary edward kennedy. stephanie: --[cheers and applause] i would like to say a personal word to senator kennedy. you are a tough competitor and a superb campaigner and i can attest to that. before the convention, a magnificent segment of the democratic party is before the people of this country and what a democratic victory has done this year. i reach out to you tonight in your valiant passionate campaign. i need you. [cheers and applause] and i need your idealism and your dedication working for us. there is no doubt that great struggle lies ahead of you. we are grateful to you. to have your strong partnership. i thank you for your support. we will make great progress this fall in whipping the republicans. [cheers and appla

but the budget deficit was under lyndon johnson in 1967 the percentage of gdp. this is really alarming six or 7% deficit during peacetime. the bynum's administration knows what they're doing. they are two very different choices for america. the top-down mindset going back to the 60s or 70s show revisited. i was at yale when james tobin was there. he was janet yellen's phd advisor. i thought we had put all of this on the scrap heap of history, but it is back. it's not working any better this time. i would argue probably worse. so, i think we are confronted with that choice may be we will get into my view of what we want to call it, inflation, and sometimes they call biden -itis. it's almost like an acute disease. that's always there you don't know what is going to flare up. so -- i think on the other side we see from trump won .0 is not a strict adherence a pretty good 21st century adaptation and it really works for everybody. i'll bring it back to number three. igniting the private sector and the kind of balanced across all income distribution and per capita and

the problem with with head start is that like other programs from lyndon johnson in the 1960's it's meant to address generational poverty. here in flemington, new jersey, 90% of the students in head start are first generation. there is almost no african-americans, no native americans, and no of the poorest white americans who are from places like appalachia, etc. we can debate that all we want. secondly, what republicans and democrats could agree on regarding head start is getting rid of the community action programs that exploit the workers. these community action programs around the country take in billions of dollars in grants. they are never monitored. here in new jersey the run that -- one that runs in flemington have executives that live comfortably. and they have subpoverty wages for the workers in head start. i wish republicans and democrats would look at how these community action programs like the one that runs head start here treat their frontline workers and how they decide what to pay themselves. we can debate all we want who should receive the services, but it is wrong what

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lyndon johnson care about poverty and wrote very informed, smart things about it and then come up with a scorecard, they are not much help and haven't made any progress federal. and this was our study. the war on self-sufficiency the next thing to focus on. to let them be self-sufficient and something lyndon johnson to focus our ellipses on and we are not doing a good job of that for right now they are this requirement so the welfare goes to all who are able-bodied and they are more fulfilling for them in the independent to self-sufficient. any a humane way. >> there is misery everywhere and seems to be high demand but is not what we see in the data. >> that was kevin hasek at the national review institute summit in 2019. to discuss the state of the economy and the economic policies different from the biden's economic agenda. [laughter] >> i hope everyone is good so far. here with kevin hasek. kevin was an advisor more in due course. and it was so many things and they are for limbaugh. teacher and he was remarkable and will teach until the day he dies. in a remarkable man for free mark