like richard ben cramer, robert caro would spend years. he lived in texas to discover where lbj came from. he lived in washington dc, all over the place. he uncovered fascinating information. >> there is one more to go. >> this will be about the johnson presidency. it is amazing that he has spent 30, 40 years, researching these books. he has just barely got into the presidency. the last book was really the first six weeks or so of the lbj presidency after the jfk assassination. speaking of which, one other book, about the jfk assassination. larry sabato's book which came out last fall. he didn't just recount the events, which has been done countless times. he looked at all the subsequent presidents and saw how the jfk legacy affected their governance and how they tried to present themselves to the public. >> we have 11 seconds of archive. [video clip] >> i don't want to offend anyone here. >> i don't mean to offend anyone. >> i don't want to offend anybody. >> [laughter] they say, i don't want to offend anybody, and they go on to do precis

iron emir i went to see richard ben cramer who had written what it takes, sadly we lost in the last coupleof years, and should've been here. is tremendous force for this generation but someone had gotten to know and to get to know much better, though i really admired more than any other ride of the day works on politics but i told richard, i want to do the book and no one thinks it's a good idea. richard said to me, essentially he said the first thing he said was you don't want my advice to you on my permission, which was true. he said, you don't write a great book by giving people the book they are claiming to read the details in the story they need. i believe this is a story that we as a country need to hear. i will go to in all the details of what that story is obviously. decent sized book and i love you to read it but i'll talk about the characters to at the heart of the store and sometimes it gets discussed in my frustration, i'm glad it is being discussed but it gets an argument and it's not. it is at its core a story, of how this moment reverberated but it's also a story about this