students and teachers, you could call this classroom the background of change and the foreground is vernon johnsonhe has been teaching for almost 16 years. the last three here at kipp san francisco college prep. >> and they see that he's black, so that is cool, and he is a math teacher, you don't see that very often. >> he is one of three black male teachers , knowing they are underrepresented, mr. johnson works hard building bonds with every single one of his students, but some are just naturally stronger. >> bonding is crucial, if they don't like you, they are going to not work with you. >> that is a bond that jaron will never forget. >> it feels good, i finally found somebody that can understand who i can be, because we don't have very many people of color representing us, so to have somebody be my educator , it really helped me. >> he has been more successful academically because of mr. johnson and feels like he can connect with him even outside of the classroom. >> he was a really supportive teacher, if he really thought you needed help, he would help. and we just worked with him, i feel like

this classroom the background of change , and that the foreground is high school math teacher, vernon johnson. he has been teaching for almost 16 years. the last three, here at k ipp san francisco print . >> is a math teacher. that's different. i don't really like math, but i like him. >> reporter: johnson grew up in detroit, where most of his teachers look like him, but that's not reality for his students. he is one of three black male teachers . knowing they are underrepresented, mr. johnson works hard building bonds with every single one of his students, but some bonds are just naturally stronger. >> bonding is crucial. if they don't like you, they are going to do any work whatsoever. >> reporter: it's a bond high school junior, darien warren, will never forget. >> it felt good. i felt like i could finally be represented and understood who i could be. like you said, we don't really have many people of color or men of color representing us , me. >> reporter: darian says he has been more successful academically because of mr. johnson and feels like he can connect with him, even outside of th

. >> reporter: is heiskell teacher vernon johnson. he has been teaching for years, the lesser here at kipp san francisco college prep. >> they say are black. okay. that is kind of cool. he is a met teacher that is different. i do not really like math, but i like him. >> reporter: johnson grew up in detroit where most of his teachers looked like him. but that is not reality for his students. he is one of three black male teachers at kipp. knowing they are underrepresented, mr. johnson works hard building bonds with every single one of his students. but some bonds are just naturally stronger. >> bonding is crucial. if they do not like you, they are not going to do any work whatsoever. >> reporter: it is a bond that high school junior darien warren will never forget. >> it felt good. it felt like i could finally be represented and understand who i could be. like you said, we do not have many people of color are men of color representing us instead of having the my educator. it really help me. >> reporter: terion says, he has been more su

>> the x plus two, the math teacher vernon johnson who has been teaching for almost 16 years. the last three here at san francisco college prep. >> they see you're black and they're like okay, that's kind of cool. he's a math teacher, okay. i don't like math, but i like him. >> reporter: johnson grew up in detroit where most of his teachers, they look like him. but that's not reality for his students. he's one of three black male teachers knowing they're underrepresented. he works hard building bonds with every single one of his students. but some bonds, they are just naturally stronger. >> if they don't like you, they won't do the work whatsoever. you have to build that bond with them. >> reporter: it's a bond that darian warren will never forget. >> it felt good. it felt like i could finally be represented and understand who i could be. we don't have too many people or men of color representing us. it really helped me. >> reporter: he says he has been more successful because of mr. johnson and feels like he could connect with him even outside of the classroom. >> he was a re

. >> is the high school math teacher vernon johnson. he's been teaching for almost 16 years.ast three? here at san francisco college prep. >> they see that you're black and they're like okay, that's kind of cool. he's a math teacher. okay, that's different. i don't really like math, but i like him. >> reporter: johnson grew up in detroit where most of his teachers, they look like him. he's one of three black male teachers, knowing they are underrepresented. >> the bonding is crucial. if they don't like you, they won't do any work whatsoever. >> reporter: it's a bond darian warren will never forget. >> it felt good and it felt like i could finally be represented. like you said, we don't have too many people of color or men of color representing us. to have somebody be my educator, it really helped me. >> reporter: he says he has been more successful academically because of mr. johnson and feels like he could connect with him even outside of the classroom. >> he was a really supportive teacher. if anybody needed help, he would help. we just work really well together. i feel lik

it's a sunday and actually is on the potomac with president johnson going down the potomac river to mount vernon. and susan, who at this point is, what, maybe ten years old, along with the housekeeper, clara powell, remarkable woman in her own right right. is there alone in the house when mrs. ford has what you and i would call a nervous breakdown. and it must have been just a horrifying thing for for any child to see of their parent. and they managed to get a hold of congressman ford and alert him and. you know, one thing led to another, but. it was clearly a situation where it wasn't only mrs. ford who was paying a price, but the kids, you know, they are at the age, you know, you want to know it is. true, to be fair to ford, he would have his secretary mark off every football that jack or, mike or steve played in and those were sacrosanct those weekends he would stay home and you know, cheer his boys. but but those were exceptions. so anyway. by 1972, that was going to be the year. remember, richard nixon carried every state but one. my home state of massachusetts and what nobody knew and i di