and the story of lyndon johnson picking up where kennedy left off and quite frankly, where kennedy had kind of washed out little bit on civil rights and johnson, you know, in some respects was an unlikely of civil rights. he was a southerner in an era where the southerners were the ones blocking civil rights legislation. and for him to assume the presidency and immediately say this is going to be the priority and, i'm going to put myself on the line and get it through. there's there's is there's a great story behind it. and i think civil rights is something that everyone can really understand. it's not an obscure topic matt blumberg mentioned. you're an amateur historian. when did your love of history start? i believe my parents would tell you that i fell in love with american presidency when i was. four and my mom will tell you that i used to be able to recite the names of every president from washington through. i guess it would have been nixon or ford at the time and very young age. and in fact, when i was a kid, there was a series of of kids books called meet the presidents, sort o

lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act.e 1990's, a backlash that emerged over affirmative action. voters in california, washington , michigan, and arizona banned its use in a public education and employment. racial justice was back in the conscience. companies began ending these initiatives after the supreme court banned affirmative action in college admissions. the roots run deep in american history. anchor: earlier i spoke to a professor at usc. >> i think this is a very particular moment in which those three letters are being scapegoated, the last. everything is being blamed on those three letters. most polling shows that americans believe that diversity is a good thing. they ought to be inclusive environments. the broader ideals remain at the core of america. anchor: why has it become so politicized? >> let's rewind almost five years ago when george floyd was murdered. we saw it play out on video footage. that forest a reckoning. that was a conversations that most americans did not care to have. what we saw after that w

lyndon johnson. lyndon johnson dropped it down to 67%, but we were all good with that 67%. and is what this was that camp. that's why people only ceos only took 30 times the lyndon johnson the jimmy carter administration. i mean, it was just like, you know, throughout all this, all this time, republic and democrats alike were like, yeah, we should have a high top tax. and and now there's like all this, oh, well, we've got to cut taxes and quite, quite quick and i've talked too long as it is just, just one last thing about are okay. are we doing okay. yeah. okay. one last thing about taxes. the thing that most americans, most middle class americans don't understand is that if you are income taxes, go up now, this rule does not apply to rich people. but if the average person's income taxes go up over a period of time, typically 3 to 5 years, their wages go up, and if your income taxes go down over a period of time, typically 3 to 5 years, your wages will go down. we've had a series of actually middle class cuts, along with rich tax cuts since the reagan era and what has happe

frankly, it's as relevant to me if someone asking if lyndon johnson had done a bombing freeze with hubert humphrey born in 1968 are both equally irrelevant. reporter: no, they're not. because if you model a candidate like joe biden. mr. boyle: that's a different question. >> he could have won and what we're saying is a white working man that came from that state, working class vibes and we get someone like that on on the democratic ticket, could he have won? mr. boyle: to be clear, i don't think someone necessarily has to have my same skin color in order to do well in those areas. >> what if he's from pennsylvania? mr. boyle: case in point, barack obama in 2012 did so much better since then in those areas i talked about, erie county, northampton county, no, people are interesting. think about this, 11% of pennsylvania voters voted for barack obama twice and then voted for donald trump at least once. trying to understand that is part of what makes politics interesting, fun, and also sometimes maddening trying to figure out what's going on there. we always try to look on paper just like spo

lyndon "bananas" johnson. ladies and gentlemen. remember the first rule of conspiracies. follow the monkey. turns out, trump isn't the first president to release info on jfk's assassination. biden also declassified some documents, though many remained redacted. for example, this one, which reads: "president kennedy -redacted- room full of pan-am stewardess trainees -redacted- baby pool of strawberry jam." we'll never know. one of the reasons that they have kept these files secret for so long is that intelligence agencies say the threat to national security outweighs public interest. yes, we can't afford to have our 60 year old secrets fall into soviet hands. "sir, look at this! apparently the americans are close to developing something called 'fax machine.' it will allow us to send borscht recipe with push of button!" if trump's executive orders are upsetting you, you're not alone. he's pissing off people on a global scale. thursday, he zoomed in to the world economic forum in davos switzerland. you know their slogan, you're too poor to hear our slogan. in a rambling addr

years in the senate, so much so that tackett says he's the most impactful senate leader since lyndon johnsont line from what he did to shape the courts to the overturning of roe vs. wade to the overturning of achltive action. by changing the court, changing the composition of the court, he changed american life. >> reporter: but his job became more difficult as his party became more maga, and even worse after president trump used a racial slur against his second wife, elaine chao. >> did you ever confront him about what he said about your wife, elaine? >> no. i chose not to engage with him. >> and today? you feel okay about that? >> no, i don't feel okay about it. >> how would you describe your relationship with president trump? >> well, we haven't spoken for quite a while. i was very upset about what happened january 6. >> you had to be evacuated from the senate along with other leaders. your staff was in your office. the rioters were banging on your door. someone with a flagpole broke a window into your office. >> well, my staff in the capitol was putting furniture up against the doors. >>

know, if anyone predicted that not only would trump rescind biden's dui executive orders, but lyndon johnson's affirmative action executive, i mean, go take that to stock market, that prognostication skill. so so you know but but you mere orders is not enough you see lots institutions merely their offices are moving people around are not really changing things you see, especially in higher ed, there's you know, massive resistance to these kinds of changes. and it'll take enforcement by the education department, by the. department of justice, civil rights division, state attorneys general. you know, in texas, texas, florida, we're one of the early adopters of abolishing dui bureaucracies. again, nothing to do with professors or professors saying class or what courses they teach. but just these non-teaching things. and yet a lot schools have just kind of played shuffling game. so it's, you know, the price of liberty sanity in this case is eternal vigilance. vigilance or two. to quote churchill, this isn't the end. it's not even the beginning of the end. it might be the end of the beginning. so i

he wrote lyndon johnson's address on civil rights where he said shall overcome. and he was married. doris kearns goodwin, the historian, they came to chicago and they took me and jon favreau to lunch. and adam frankel, who was the other speechwriter, you know, -- goodwin sat there at lunch and just told us stories, you know, and it kind of blew us away. and then ted sorensen, who was john f kennedy speechwriter, he met with us and then when obama was elected, there's actually a society of former speechwriters where you're not supposed to talk very often, but it's called the judson. well of our society, because that's actually that said, too much already that no one's supposed to know about this. this is the first presidential speechwriter and he's saying everything, the first presidential speechwriter history's got him. judson welliver, who is like, i don't know, warren g. harding, speechwriter. and he had a good name. but actually, i think he was kind of a problematic individual, you know, hard negative on twitter here today. but anyway, we had a dinner with like peggy noonan, rona

testimony from another cia official that remains heavily redacted and letters jackie kennedy wrote to lyndon johnsono a historian. >> jackie kennedy and bobby kennedy are known to have privately not believed the official story of the assassination. >> reporter: for decades fueling conspiracy after conspiracy, even though the vast majority have been public. was the cia involved? did lee harvey oswald take his orders from a foreign government? theories believed to this day, even though multiple investigations and the warren commission concluded oswald acted alone. >> everything will be revealed. >> reporter: president trump signed an executive order releaguesing the files on all three of the assassinations that rocked the country in the 1960s. president kennedy, his brother robert and martin luther king jr. but it is the shooting of jfk and speculation about what is to be revealed generating the most interest. >> it is long timeverdue for transparency. >> reporter: investigative journalist gerald posner disagrees what remains will be revelatory. >> we have 515 files that are withheld in full. so every

it was created back in 1965 and was a key part of president lyndon johnson's war on poverty. >> how willhe funding mechanism related to things like title? title one right, which was instituted to make sure that that we are looking after and supporting our neediest students. how will those funding mechanisms continue to play out in the absence, potentially, of a department of education? and i think that's that's really what remains to be seen. >> now, president trump says he wants to let the states fund and run their own public education programs. his supporters claim the department of education is wasting taxpayers money. president trump has signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women's sports. that order authorizes the department of education to penalize schools that get public funding if they allow trans athletes to compete. supporters say that that safeguards competitions and their outcomes. >> we're defending the rights and safety and pride of the american people, including our great, great, great female athletes. >> now, critics of the order say trans people wh

it was credited and created in 1965, and was a key part of president lyndon b johnson's war on poverty how will the funding mechanism related to things like title? title one right, which was instituted to make sure that that we are looking after and supporting our neediest students. how will those funding mechanisms continue to play out in the absence, potentially, of a department of education? and i think that's that's really what remains to be seen. >> president trump says he wants to let the states fund and run their own public education programs. his supporters claim the department of education wastes taxpayer money. a live look now at the white house this afternoon. a federal judge has blocked president trump's plan, offering incentives for federal workers to resign. the push was part of elon musk's plan as the head of the department of government efficiency. fox's caroline shively has more from washington. as street protests erupt around the country to call for musk's ouster. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> protesters from la to philadelphia want elon musk gone. thursday

years on national and international affairs, he also received presidential medal of freedom by lyndon johnson in 1960. more for his impact on journalism political thought in public life later in life. some of the other things that is known for. he wrote columns against white imperialism in east asia by western powers, and it was in the washington post he promoted respecting the soviet sphere of influence, which wasn't necessarily at the time, and disapproved of the containment strategy that was used at the time. he retired from his home in 1967 and he passed away, as you said, in 1974. we do have a quote that someone that a professor of journalism at boston university gave about lippman saying that he may have been the most influential american of the 20th century to never have held elected office. so he's something to keep in mind. so he credited with the term cold, but he didn't invent it. it was invented by a guy named swope, who was a journalist in that during world war one, actually, and was the editor of the new york world where where? lippmann worked for a while as an editorial page wr

lyndon johnson in 1964 won by 22.6%. ronald reagan won by 18.2%. those are landslides. why does it matter? because facts matter. the truth matters. and we cannot survive in our democracy without respect and much more respect for the truth. it's also really important because when one goes whether you're running for the u.s. senate or the presidency of the united states, when one goes from candidate for office to the president or the u.s. senator in office, the responsibility that we have is to all the people in our district and certainly for the president of the united st states, a responsibility to all the people in the united states. we serve all whether they voted for us or against us. but what has been happening with the assertion that this was this massive landslide is that it has become a justification for narrow policies that completely d disrespect the reality that so many other americans need to be represented and heard and also is so narrow that even among those who voted for president trump for a variety of reasons are not getting policies they thought would b

but i do want to say that lyndon and ladybird love letters are also completely beautiful and the the the johnson is coming out with a book just of their love letters that i'm going to write the foreword. and similarly, just really the way they formed a bond and it's during war two also before and after and it's it continues throughout their life and it just a tremendous set of window into what drew these two people together and. so so i think the love letters i mean it's funny it's a little bit girly right to talk about the love letters but i think incredibly important to to understand how a first couple derives power, how a president derives power from their spouse spouse. last question to you. i think nobody else has questions here. we've gone of our time, although signaled to me, if you do, what's your next book? well, that is a good question. i would like to do something having to do with journalism. i've actually talked to some ladies in this room about that women in journalism. i am, but also involving a male journalist. i might something a little different. there but it's for me it's stil