i don't know why he wrote to rufus. >> jr, last word?> we are acting like this is a devastating bad thing for -- to even accuse him up. it's a fine situation. it's fine. you are not going to get me past the point. social security drinks a direct come -- there is a direct thing between his friend and old maid. i don't know how many words didn't mean the same that long ago. >> it's not like it was in greek. it's in english. >> but it was in an english we don't use any more. >> it doesn't matter. we have lost. even though we have 3 to 2 here, jerry is the special chief justice today. he made his ruling. i was on appeal. >> is there any point at which this matters? >>> thank you, your honor. >> why do i want it on my show. if you want relevancy, tune in every day. >> tomorrow, we revisit the 1860s. all right. no, seriously, to your point, let's do an issue that is relevant today. >> yes. >> which is: which is. . did obama switch his, you know, position on gay marriage because of the funding? and here, you are seeing 1 in 6 of his bundlers ha

so, too was rufus. >> you can see where he took pretty serious shrapnel wounds. >> reporter: but lifed since then. >> we got home and about six months later with help from the warriors we got him back home. now he's living in georgia with me. >> reporter: how is he doing? >> fantastic. >> reporter: now rufus, too, is in the nation's capital being recognized for what he did in the war. bob barnard, fox 5 news. >>> almost everyone wants to turn back the clock, look and feel young. some people claim a new pill can reverse the effects of aging. just how effective is it? fox 5 investigates next. >>> this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >>> another case of flesh eating bacteria in georgia. doctors believe they will have to amputate paul bale's leg below the knee. his family hopes that will be enough to stop the infection. the 67-year-old is usually a busy restaurant owner and grandfather. what began as a small cut on his leg didn't seem to be a big deal. >> he slipped on the boat ramp that goes into the water and cut his leg when he fell. >> reporter: how deep was the cut? >> very fall. as a matter

so one of the great unknown features is that ben cameron is modeled on rufus bratton from south carolina. and rufus is the defendant in a case called united states which is the first case under the 14th amendment to reach the united states supreme court in 1872. and in a very, very telling moment the supreme court ducks the question entirely, manages in the case of the man who will be the model to avoid saying anything about the 14th amendment. this is unknown because the case is av have i because bratton comes after avery, so it goes unnoticed but it really from the very beginning the political project of telling the story of the lost cause has had this political project around the constitutional amendments. >> the theme of what's the appeal of the lost cause is coming up. and i think, i agree with everything that's been said. and much of it is probably boils down to sort of code for racism. no question about it. but on the other hand we have folks up here, out there, the stories of losers have an appeal. stories about suffering have an appeal. the story of black suffering was repressed

they have a nickname for him in the kennedy white house, rufus cornhole or uncle rufus. out of power completely for almost three years. >> and he and bobby kennedy particularly really hate each other. describe the first time they -- the meeting you describe. >> well, you say why did -- as a historian, you hate to use words as strong as hate, but it's not too strong to describe the feeling between lyndon johnson and bobby kennedy, and there were other reasons for it, but part of it was just chemistry. >> and then bobby kennedy becomes the second most powerful man in america, and is treating lyndon johnson, the vice president, as a nothing. >> as a nothing. johnson literally has to ask kennedy's permission every time he wants to use a plane for a trip. every word and every speech that he gives has to be cleared by the white house. really by robert kennedy. he is humiliate -- one of his secretaries said the kennedys, they made you feel that they were in and you weren't. so in many ways, johnson is just -- these are the terrible years of his life, you know? someone said it w

as you say, they called him rufus cornpone. they looked down on him.oke in georgetown was, whatever happened to lyndon johnson? because they thought they had put him out to pasture. >> and it's really stunning to read that in parkland hospital, after the assassination, we know now that the president was already dead. >> yes. >> the vice president was standing alone in a corridor. nobody was paying any attention to him. nobody gave him the courtesy of giving him updates. and you write that "as johnson stood in front of that blank wall, a carnation still in his buttonhole, there was a stillness about him, an immobility, a composure that hadn't been seen very much during the past three years. though he had been for those years restless, unable to sit still, unable to keep his mind on one subject, unable to stop talking, he wasn't restless in that little room." and then finally, i guess it was kenny o'donnell who came and told him that he was going to be the president. >> yes, yes. think of what led up to that. you're in the motorcade. johnson is two cars

unknown features of american constitutional history is that ben cameron is modeled on a guy named rufus bratton from up country, south carolina. and rufus bratton is the defendant in a case called united states versus aimsly, which is the first case under the 14th amendment to reach the united states supreme court. in early 1872 it gets argued. and in a very, very telling moment the united states supreme court ducks the question entirely, manages in the case of the man who will be the model for the klansman and the film "birth of a nation" to avoid saying anything about the 14th amendment. this is unknown because the case is united states versus avery because bratton comes alphabetically after avery. so it just goes unnoticed. but really from the very beginning the political project of telling the story of the lost cause has had this political project around the constitutional amendments. >> just -- the sense of this theme of what's the appeal of the lost cause is coming up. i agree with everything that's been said. and much of it is -- probably boils down to a sort of code for racism.

>> among other things, uncle rufus. -- rufus corn pone. >> why? >> they are mocking the fact that he has a southern accent and that he is a southerner. that he is corny. to be on that, they said why did they treat him with a meanness and cruelty? i tried to explain that in the book. they were afraid of him among other things. they had watched lyndon johnson. they had seen his incredible energy and drive. they watched him run washington when he was majority leader byrdone night johnson was walking out of his one light building. -- burning in the capital and that was lyndon johnson's office andhe turns to his aid and says, but nobody out works lyndon. they were afraid that if you let him walk a very tight least, he will start to build up his own power in washington. >> if i count right, including the index in notes in your book, 3206 the pages. what happened? you're going to have four books and that was it. you have a fifth one coming. at i divided them. >>that is such a good question. the last half of this book is the assassination of what happens

many of the kennedy people was "rufus corn phone." or "uncle corn phone poen." they called him and lady bird uncle corn pone and little pork chop. he has to make them to follow him. he has to keep them with him and make them follow him and he does it, it's remarkable. >> rose: so he reaches out to different cabinet members. mcnamara. >> and rusk. >> rose: secretary of defense and state. >> correct. but also to the people like larry o'brien and even sorensen and ken o'donnell and says "i need you more than he needed you." >> rose: and then you had him bringing his own people in. boil moyers comes in, jenkins is there. george reedy is there. all those people that have served him some had gone on, like moyers, but others had been working as vice president >> yes, but he needed... but a small staff. i mean, he... the reality and what he says in his memoirs is "i knew i had to keep them with me." and they laughed among themselves they said he says to everybody i need you more than he needed you. but what they didn't realize was that this was a genius. he tailored tha

they made the kennedy people call lyndon johnson "rufus" and "uncle cornpone" on the rare occasion that lyndon ethel would put him at the losers table. it is hard to believe two of the coming up. they ignore him. and walked away. united states." the other one basically says, i cannot say it. you'd have to bleep it out. stock. any aspect? political power. i started doing these because i they vote. they have the power. the more they understand about how the political process really works, the better therefore our democracy would have to be. my books try to explain political power. kids reading paperbacks of the win an award or something, though they make you happy? they do of course. >> you have dedicated your book how old are your grandkids? >> 23, 22, and 20. do they read the books? >> that is a bad question. every word several times. larry is going into politics. he has read every word. i think the others have read some of them. the years of lyndon johnson." the fourth book is "passage of power." warrantwe thank you very much. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning

great unknown features of american constitutional history is ben cameron is modelled by a guy named rufus bratton, which is the first case under the 14th amendment to reach the united states supreme court. in early 1872, it gets argued. n in a very, very telling moment, the supreme court ducks the question entirely, a man who will be a model in "birth of a nation" to avoid saying anything about the 14th amendment. this is unknown because bratton comes alphabetically after avery. but from the very beginning, the political project of telling the story of the lost cause has had this political project around the constitutional amendments. >> this sense of theme of what is the appeal of the lost cause is coming up. i agree with everything that's been said. most of it probably boils down to a sort of code for racism, no question about it. on the other hand, we got some literary folks up here and plenty out there. the stories of losers have an appeal. stories about suffering have an appeal. now, the story of black suffering was repressed and suppressed and kept invisible in our history for a ver

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. >> reporter: and obama's finance director rufus gifford, who is open bee gay, sent out an e-mail to campaign supporters that says, "i am just so happy. if you're proud of our president, this is a great time to make a donation to the campaign." we've also learned the president had planned to make his announcement public next monday, one day before an important gay and lesbian fund-raiser with singer ricky martin in new york, and then another fund-raiser on june 6 in los angeles with rock star pink. >> i expect now you're going to see some of these events selling out more quickly. you certainly see some people that were withholding funds now jumping on in full force support, supporting this president. >> reporter: and, scott, another interesting detail we've learned tonight that vice president biden walked into the oval office yesterday and apologized. the president accepted, and told biden he knew it came from the heart. >> pelley: norah, thank you very much. overseas today, the hunt for al qaeda terrorists continued in yemen. u.s. drones hit two towns in the south. officials say at

. >> it is not just that they called him rufus, they call them ladybird and the little porkchop. mean, horrible things were he was invited out to one of his own dinner parties, he would put him at the losers table. >> he continues on lbj and the passage of power. >> behind him being a laughing stock was the fear that they knew what he could say and what he might do. >> sunday night, may 20. >> in a few moments, british prime minister david cameron response to questions from parliament this week about his ties to news corp. and allegations that his culture secretary in gauged in inappropriate dealings with the news agency. and activists discussed the ability for clean energy and fossil fuels. bank the moon will be at the center for strategic and international studies to talk about the u.n. and pose conflict situations. if you could watch live coverage starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern. the house budget committee is marking up a bill to replace a $600 billion in mandatory defense cuts. they are required by law as part of last summer to raise the debt ceiling. it begins at 2:00 p.m. ea

>> greg: i didn't talk to rufus in a while. we got in a fight and we were vacationing.etimes after a few days -- >> dana: falling out. >> greg: yeah. it came back on my own on a bus. >> dana: >> could we turn this. it played pro-baseball, started businesses, been on board of directors on companies but been okay on tv but i learned timing is everything. tell us about the timing of the "washington post" piece today. the hit piece on mitt romney about something that happened i guess in 1965. today? >> greg: concerns a prank of which he cut the air of a student. now interestingly enough it comes out. he's presumed homosexual, plays in with whole thing with president obama coming out. the timing itself is strange. it read the article. as i was reading i was going boy, i really don't like mitt romney. but then i started thinking if i read an article about me in high school, or an article about bob i'd probably go i don't like bob, i don't like myself. i think in high school for a long time, for many times you're a jerk. >> eric: what about an article about president obama? >>

they made the kennedy people call lyndon johnson "rufus" and "uncle cornpone" mean, horrible things.n the rare occasion that lyndon johnson would be invited out, ethel would put him at the losers table. he knew he was at the losers table. it is hard to believe two of the kennedy people are having a conversation at a cocktail party. they know this a third person coming up. they ignore him. after a while, he turns around and walked away. one says, "i think we just insulted the vice president of united states." the other one basically says, i cannot say it. you'd have to bleep it out. they knew he was a laughing stock. behind that was their fear of him. they let him walk a tight leash. they knew what he could do. >> we do not have but a minute or two left. what has been the best to use in your opinion of your four books so far by either educators or any aspect? >> there is only one thing that is the best use. that is to teach kids about political power. i started doing these because i felt in a democracy power comes from us, from the readers. they vote. they have the power. the more the

. >> also, being honored, a dog named rufus. there's rufus.ray whose barking broke up a suicide bomb attack. that got him the award. fantastic. congratulations. >> wounded warriors are needed now more than ever because so many of our troops are coming home. if they don't have apparent injuries, there's ptsd and things they're doing are incredible and i don't know if you saw the show friday, saturday, not on sunday. we had five different events from the tough mudder which is taking over this country. most of the proceeds from the tough mudder contests and these -- they're not competitions, they're events. >> challenge. >> going into the event they had $3 million raised. >> take a look. there's brian kilmeade going up over the wall. he's the first one. tough mudder has donated $3 million to the wounded warriors foundation. >> wounded warriors made a lot of money as a result of tough mudder coming to "fox & friends." take a look at this. $42,210 collected on friday. that's over $81,000 from tough mudder here at "fox & friends" going to wounded wa