. >> jimmy: next one was sent in by betsy mccormack in albany, new york. hey, albany. she was watching her local news and is saw this guy getting interviewed here. is name is hugh johnson, chairman of huge johnson advisers. [ laughter ] >> steve: hugh johnson. >> jimmy: he's got a great financial package. >> steve: yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: if you want to hear. >> steve: oh my gosh. >> jimmy: if you're open to hear it. >> steve: his staff is fantastic. yeah. [ laughter ] hugh johnson. >> jimmy: hugh johnson. >> steve: hugh g. johnson. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: next one was sent in

speaker mccormack came up with an ingenious solution, the 21 day rule.hich is if you do not get the , bill out of the rules committee in 21 days, it is passed. so, what lbj did, by the depth of his parliamentary knowledge to move away the legal and political obstacles to moving a bill through. remember, you have to introduce a bill, have hearings, it has to be marked up and come out of the committee, then it has to go to the floor. then the senate has to do the same thing. lbj, by his mastery of the political machinery in the house , was able to remove the obstacles. and one final note, he wanted to put a signature around the medicare bill. he called it hr-1 and s-1 to show the priority of the bill. bob: i love hearing these stories. we are so used to now, washington just doesn't seem to work anymore. and it doesn't. one of the reasons it does not is because johnson said, had such an intimate knowledge of the senate. he knew every member. and not just the ones on his side. i have always thought that one of his great strength was he , could not only expla

speaker mccormack came up with an ingenious solution, the 21 day rule.f you do not get the bill out of the rules committee in 21 days, it is passed. so what lbj did by the e depth of his knowledge, to move away the legal and political obstacles to moving a bill through. introduce a bill, have hearings, it has to be marked up and come out of the committee then it has to go to the floor. then the senate has to do the same thing. lbj, by his mastery of the political machinery in the house was able to remove the obstacles. and one final note, he wanted to put a signature around the medicare bill. he called it hr-1 and s-1 to show the priority of the bill. bob: i love hearing these stories. we are so used to now washington just doesn't seem to work anymore. it doesn't. one of the reasons it does not is because johnson said, had such an intimate knowledge of the senate. hew - -- he knew every member. not just the ones on his side. he could not only explain to someone why they should be with him, he could explain in ways they would understand why it was not a g

well speaker mccormack came up , with an ingenious solution the 21 day rule.hich is if you do not get the bill out of the rules committee in 21 days, it is gone. it is passed. so, what lbj did, by the depth of his knowledge, parliament really, as you know, chairman to , move away the legal and political obstacles to moving a bill through. remember you have got to introduce a bill first, and then you have to have hearings. then it has to be marked up and come out of the committee, then it has to go to the floor. then the senate has to do the same thing. lbj, by his mastery of the political machinery in the house , was able to remove the obstacles. and one final note on that, just to end it he wanted to put a , signature around the medicare bill. and he called it hr-1 and s-1 to show the priority of the bill. bob: you know i love hearing , these stories. because, you know, we are so used to now that nobody -- that washington just doesn't seem to work anymore. and it doesn't. you know one of the reasons it , does not is because johnson had such an intimate knowle

"action news" reporter annie mccormack is live at police headquarters and you had a chance to talk to regina brunner will holmes two sons tonight, what have you learned. >> reporter: jim they shared fond memories and they shared several messages they have, and one of those messages is to the public. they are hoping anybody who sees this story thinks about their mother and if they have any information they will reach out to police. eight five-year old regina brunner holmes death was a 180 from the type of life she led. police discovered her monday with her throat slit, and she was badly beaten inside of her east mt. airy home. her car was gone and discovered a day later in north philadelphia. detectives believe that robbery was the motive. >> the people who murdered our mom, treated an eight five-year old, frail woman like she was a stack of beans. man handled her body like she was an in adamant object. >> for everything that she did in her life she did to help other people. that is who she was and very much was what she wanted to do with life. >> reporter: holmes two sons sat down wit

[applause] and we are doing that under the great leadership of men like john mccormack, our speaker; carl albert, our majority leader; our very able and beloved majority leader of the senate, mike mansfield; and distinguished members of the ways and means and finance committees of the house and senate--of both parties, democratic and republican. because the need for this action is plain; and it is so clear indeed that we marvel not simply at the passage of this bill, but what we marvel at is that it took so many years to pass it. and i am so glad that aime forand is here to see it finally passed and signed, one of the first authors. [applause] there are more than 18 million americans over the age of 65. most of them have low incomes. most of them are threatened by illness and medical expenses that they cannot afford. and through this new law, mr. president, every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age. this insurance will help pay for care in hospitals, in skilled nursing homes, or in the home.

no are you asking how did colonel mccormack end up with the 1st tuition?at i know of. i'll tell you colonel mccormack's journey into the 1st division was individual. he was very much a citizen-soldier, wanted to go over there and volunteered immediately. of course, he was already a commissioned officer and i believe, a major at the time. and started as, i believe an intelligence officer and then ended up being assigned to the field artillery early before they got into cantigny. >> thank you for an excellent presentation. one question would be did you run across any records of the german opinion of u.s. fighting capability and opinion of appreciation? >> yes. the best ones i saw were from the german prisoners, and they might have been, you know, flavoring what they said at the time. but the if you read the german operations documents which they were -- after war the army, i believe it was the army war college, but the army translated all the german planning documents and then the after-action reports. and you can read what the germans attributed the loss of

. >> jimmy: next one was sent in by betsy mccormack in albany, new york. hey, albany.ching her local news and is saw this guy getting interviewed here. is name is hugh johnson, chairman of huge johnson advisers. [ laughter ] >> steve: hugh johnson. >> jimmy: he's got a great financial package. >> steve: yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: if you want to hear. >> steve: oh my gosh. >> jimmy: if you're open to hear it. >> steve: his staff is fantastic. yeah. [ laughter ] hugh johnson. >> jimmy: hugh johnson. >> steve: hugh g. johnson. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: next one was sent in by julia martin in chilliwack, british columbia. she was looking through movies on netflix. let's see what she found here. i guess elmo's got a dark side. [ laughter ] elmo has two bullets. how many times did elmo shoot? [ laughter ] i can't count so good. oh, sorry. elmo. sorry man. >> steve: get some. >> jimmy: elmo gonna get some. gonna get some? >> steve: that's good. >> jimmy: finally, this last screen grab was sent in to us by amanda bader from right here in new york city. she was using a dat

means committee approves a new medicare measure, and we hear about that in a call from lbj to john mccormack. you also hear majority leader carl albert, wilbur mills, and assistant secretary wilbur colin, who speaks first. >> i think that's a great bill. pres. johnson: is that right? >> you got everything you wanted, but a lot more. it's a real -- bill. pres. johnson: how much does this cost my budget over what we estimated? >> it would be around $450 million more than what you estimated for the cost of the supplement program. pres. johnson: what do they do under that? how is that handled? >> generally speaking, it is physician services. pres. johnson: physicians? my doctor pumps my stomach out that physician? any medical services. >> any md services. pres. johnson: does he charge what he wants to? >> no, because this has been put in a separate fund, and the secretary of hew would have to make an agreement with someone like blue shield, and it would be their responsibility that they would regulate the fees of the backer. what he tried to do is be sure the government wasn't regulating fees di

biographies, one by john jenkins, which was done maybe 40, 50 years after his death another by eugene mccormack which came in the `30s. and then charles sellers had a two-volume biography but stopped before he got to the presidency i`m so sorry he didn`t do the third volume because... c-span: sellers. >> guest: ... sellers -- because i relied on it very heavily. at times, came to different conclusions than all three. but i found -- i found that in the research, it was a chance to know a lot about people i never had looked at very closely people who made our country what it is. and it was necessary to read biographies of tyler and van buren and buchanan and others in order to fill in the foundation on which the biography had to stand. i mean, you couldn`t very well write a biography about polk who had almost routine conflicts with his secretary of state, without finding out something about that secretary of state. the same is true... c-span: james buchanan. >> guest: james buchanan. c-span: were you -- well, what was your reaction when you saw how much they fought? could you do that today? >> gu