lyndon johnson had to be dried, kicking and screaming coming to sending the bill. the bill said, any person, not just a citizen, by request to get out of the government and he records the government held as long as they weren't damaging to national security or law or toement investigation personal privacy, basically. lbj was reluctant because everyone of his federal agencies thought this was a nightmare. you think -- you mean people will be rummaging through our files? no, you can't do that. but bill moyers helped, the especially,itors marshall it. one of the things we found is that bill moyers had actually written a really nice statement for president johnson. moyers had this ringing language. , they must have access to the policies and rules. government officials should be able to pull curtains of secrecy. good government functions best in the full light of day. was great about that is we now own dailylbj's schedule that, on the telephone, johnson called moyers and said cut that out. come on. and moyers has to exclude this ringing declaration about freedom of inf

after kennedy's death, lyndon johnson moved forward in the cubic centimeter of chance. he knew that we had a nation that was reeling over the loss of the beloved young president. he reached out to those in congress who were obstructing the civil rights bill and he used this argument. look, we all need to do something major, historic to preserve the important legacy and memory of our departed john f. kennedy. let's make him the murder for the cause of -- the martyr for the cause of civil rights. the civil rights bill came out of the committee onto the floor. and busted the filibuster passed into law. said, thele conventional wisdom suggested, why did he not wait until november after he had been elected before taking on such a highly controversial bill? then, itr was, by would be too late, and we would have lost the public momentum to recognize the beloved former president. lbj did the same thing with voting rights. nothing, nothing was happening. selma,ame bloody sunday, alabama. police troops started beating up unarmed african americans who were trying to march to montg

after kennedy's death, lyndon johnson moved forward in the cubic centimeter of chance. he knew that we had a nation that was reeling over the loss of the beloved young president. he reached out to those in congress who were obstructing the civil rights bill and he used this argument. look, we all need to do something major, historic to preserve the important legacy and memory of our departed john f. kennedy. let's make him the martyr for the cause of civil rights. the civil rights bill came out of the committee onto the floor. they busted the filibuster and passed into law. larry temple said, the conventional wisdom suggested, why did he not wait until november after he had been elected before taking on such a highly controversial bill? the answer was, by then, it would be too late, and we would have lost the public momentum to recognize the beloved former president. lbj did the same thing with voting rights. nothing, nothing was happening. along came bloody sunday, selma, alabama. police troops started beating up unarmed african americans who were trying to march to mo

announcer: on october 11, 1966, president lyndon johnson signed the child nutrition act, expanding the school lunch program to include breakfast for low income schools. next on real america, from 1966, "it happens every noon," a 15 minute agricultural film which promotes the value of the school lunch program. ♪ announcer: here are the children. tomorrow's adults on their way to school. tomorrow's doctors and nurses, writers and lawyers, tomorrow's spacemen. this school could be in your community. maybe you passed it on your way to work. your neighbor's child may be here, maybe your own. attendance at this school is high, and so are the grades. and one reason could very well be a noon-day lunch in the national school lunch program. ♪ [bell rings] announcer: it happens every noon monday through friday in this school, in all schools that take part in the national school lunch program. it happens every noon for the pupil who takes advantage of the lunch program. lunches are planned by a local school manager, whose menus have taste appeal and day-to-day variety. a good lunch provides fr

[applause] on october 11, 1966, president lyndon johnson signed at the child nutrition act, expanding the school lunch program to include breakfast for low income schools. next on railamerica, from 1966, it happens every noon, a 15 minute agricultural film which promotes the value of the school lunch program. announcer: here are the children. tomorrow's adults on their way to school. tomorrow's doctors and nurses, writers and lawyers, tomorrow's spacemen. this school could be in your community. maybe you passed it on your way to work. your neighbor's child may be here, maybe your own. attendance at this school is high, and so are the grades. and one reason could very well be a noon-day lunch in the national school lunch program. ♪ [bell rings] announcer: it happens every noon monday through friday in this school, in all schools that take part in the national school lunch program. it happens every noon for the pupil who takes advantage of the lunch program. lunches are planned by a local school manager, whose menus have taste appeal and day-to-day variety. a good lunch provides from

when president lyndon johnson signed the national preservation act in 1966 to help us save the special places throughout our nation, it is probably what we have here, and of the ideas he had in mind. whereisioned a future people could experience the buildings and places that defined our country, and union station is one of those. i am truly grateful that the work to preserve places like this is continuing throughout the entire u.s., and i know that our children and the next generations will be very grateful for all the work we have accomplished, not just here but throughout the entire country. i do want to say thanks to all of you for being here and for all of you who helped us move this forward. i appreciate your efforts at that. i am going to turn this over to the president and ceo of the national trust for historic preservation, stephanie meeks. thank you very much. [applause] stephanie: thank you. wonderful to be with you theght, and in addition to 50th anniversary of the national historic preservation act, we are also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the national transportation

kennedy, lyndon johnson, richard nixon. there are none in the dirksen building but there is one here that's a plaque indicating barack obama held that office while he was u.s. senator. a letter was september to one of the senators in this building that contained a large amount of anthrax, a very deadly anthrax. >> about 10:30 this morning my office opened a suspicious package. we can't go into the details because this is an ongoing investigation just as soon as it became clear there was a suspicious substance in the envelope we contacted the capital police and the capital physician, i'll have more to say about our own circumstances in the office after dan nichols of the capital police and dr. john isold, our capital physician, speak to questions directly as to the letter itself. >> lieutenant dan nichols, spokesman of the united states capital police. approximately 10:30, a letter was received in the hart senate office building which contained a powdery substance. there was an exposure when the letter was opened. following

not only did the historic preservation act, signed by lyndon johnson, of course, require federal agencies to evaluate -- to fully evaluate historic properties, but it also created the national register of historic places and our partner for today, the president's advisory council on historic preservation. i'm delighted to be able to serve on this council. i also currently chair the federal agency committee's programs, so thank you to the advisory council for being our partner today, and a great partner your -- you are. i know all of you love history, as do i, and it is my duty and honor as architect of the of our to preserve much history here on capitol hill for future generations. i assure you, it is a labor of love. that is not a job, it is a passion that excites me every single day as i come to work. thank you for joining us for this daylong event to highlight our stewardship role, the importance of place, and how we work every day to inspire those 17 million people that the best climates talked about that come through that front door every year, inspiring them about the work that we d

not only did the historic preservation act, signed by lyndon johnson, of course, require federal agencies to evaluate and fully evaluate historic properties, but it also created the national register of historic places, and our partner for today, the president's advisory council on historic preservation. and i'm delighted to be able to serve on this council. and i also currently chair the federal agency committees program. so thank you to the advisory council for being our partner today. and a great partner you are. i know all of you love history, as i do i. and it's my duty and my honor as architect of the capitol to preserve much of our history here on capitol hill for future generations. and i assure you it's a labor of love. it's not a job. it's a passion that excites me every single day as i come to work. so thank you for joining us for this day-long event to highlight our stewardship role, the importance of place. and how we work every day to inspire those 17 million people that beth plemmons talked about, that come through that front door every year, inspiring them about the work t

not only did the historic preservation act, signed by lyndon johnson, of course, require federal agencies to fully evaluate historic properties, but it also created the national register of historic places and our partner for today, the president's advisory council on historic preservation. i'm delighted to be able to serve on this council. i also currently chair the federal agency committee's programs, so thank you to the advisory council for being our partner today, and a great partner you are. i know all of you love history, as do i, and it is my duty and my honor as architect of the capitol to preserve much of our history here on capitol hill for future generations. i assure you, it is a labor of love. it is not a job, it is a passion that excites me every single day as i come to work. so thank you for joining us for this daylong event to highlight our stewardship role, the importance of place, and how we work every day to inspire those 17 million people that beth talked about that come through that front door every year, inspiring them about the work that we do and about this great p

not only did the historic preservation act, signed by lyndon johnson, of course, require federal agencies to evaluate and fully evaluate historic properties, but it also created the national register of historic places, and our partner for today, the president's advisory council on historic preservation. and i'm delighted to be able to serve on this council. and i also currently chair the federal agency committees program. so thank you to the advisory council for being our partner today. and a great partner you are. i know all of you love history, as i do i. and it's my duty and my honor as architect of the capitol to preserve much of our history here on capitol hill for future generations. and i assure you it's a labor of love. it's not a job. it's a excites me every single day as i come to work. so thank you for joining us for this day-long event to highlight our stewardship role, the importance of place. and how we work every day to inspire those 17 million people that beth plemmons talked about, that come through that front door every year, inspiring them about the work that we do and

announcer: on october 11, 1966, president lyndon johnson signed the child nutrition act, expanding the school lunch program to include breakfast for low income schools. next on real america, from 1966, "it happens every noon," a 15 minute agricultural film which promotes the value of the school lunch program.

[applause] on october 11, 1966, president lyndon johnson signed at the child nutrition act, expanding the school lunch program to include breakfast for low income schools. next on railamerica, from 1966, it happens every noon, a 15 minute agricultural film which promotes the value of the school lunch program.

. >> lyndon johnson and dragged kicking and screaming into signing the bill because the bill said any person not just a citizen. by rewest could get out of their government. any records the government held as long as they weren't damaging national security or law enforcement investigation or personal privacy basically. >> every one of the federal agencies is going to be rummaging through our files. we can't do that. helped the newspaper editors especially. to marshall their arguments about how really in favor of government. one of the fascinating things we found is that he had actually written a really nice signing statement for president johnson. he has this ringing language. this legislation springs from our most essential principles, democracy works best when people know what their government is doing. and shouldn't be able to pull curtains of secrecy. we now know that on the telephone johnson called him and said cut that out. come on. and he has to x through this ringing declaration about freedom of information and puts in there and we have the final version, final version just sa

on your desktop, phone or tablet. 50 years ago on october 15, 1966, president lyndon johnson printed -- signed a bill crating the u.s. department of transportation. "xt on american history tvs real america" a look at transportation history. 1953 ford motor company documentary, showing the development of their first car, and goes on to detail the creation of the assembly line. this film also shows the gradual improvement of roads from early 20th century muddy lanes to the highways of the 1950's. ♪ >> the old road was not only a road, it was a way of life, slow and often rough. ♪ >> if you lived way out in the country

, and particularly at the start of the great society with lyndon johnson. he is chairman of the committee and its pushes through 50 different measures related to education reforms. so a very substantive legislator in addition to being flamboyant., very interesting, those two aspects. there is a part where he is known as mr. civil rights and he is very willing to champion civil rights on all levels, both legislatively and into the life of the house. i remember you telling me once about even something as minor as sitting in the house chamber and where you sit in the house chamber, that came up for him. matt: there is another story that one of his biographers tells. seating in the house chamber is open as long as you respect the party block tradition. democrats, this speaker, the republicans to the left. but when powell came in, there was a prominent southern number -- member who told the press, this man was a chairman of a committee and said, i refuse to sit next to a black man on the house floor. so what powell did was follow him around on the floor and he s

on october 15,, lyndon johnson added an executive level position. a look at transportation history. in 1953ican road is ford motor company developed of its first car, then 1890 six 1896er cycle -- quadricycle. muddyarly 20th century lanes to the highways of the 1950's. ♪ >> the old road was not only a road, it

it had been deemed by president lyndon johnson to respond to the rights it had take a place all over the u.s. in 1967 in the report, they had famously said the nation was basically being cleaved into and that there were two nations, one black and one white and they were separate and unequal. you had this report and the specter of all of these problems in the country and the rioting and you have this variety of people come and say we should do this, this could be something that can lead to better understanding, that could lead to unity and young african-americans boys and grows in men and women to feel like a sense of being a part of the country and like they are being respected and understood and everyone from james baldwin to jackie robinson had taken over his organization. all of them were in favor of doing this. but it goes nowhere. the next movement, phase of the movement, comes in the mid-1980's and this time, the goal of the movement is squarely to create a national museum that will be in the national mall and washington, d.c. mickey leland, a congressman from texas, and congre

senator lyndon johnson is from texas which many political leaders feel is in doubt. are hopingin texas that the rates will not be cut. it refers to inequitable allowance being conspicuous loopholes. do you consider the 27.5% allowance in equitable's and allow it to be cut? mr. kennedy: there are 104 commodities that have some kind of allowance, including oil. i believe all of those should be gone over in detail to make sure no one is getting a tax break, to make sure no one is getting away from paying the taxes they ought to pay which includes oil and all kinds of minerals. everything within the range of taxation. it includes oil abroad. it should be treated differently than here at home. the oil industry has hit hard times. i can assure you that if i am elected president, the full spectrum will be gone through carefully. if there are any inequities, i will vote to close that loophole. i have voted in the past to reduce the balance for the largest producers. those $5 million down maintain 27.5%. we should study this and other allowances to make a determination of how

back in 1967,, president lyndon johnson commission a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial unrest in america. the commission's findings criticized whiteford moving to the suburbs. they issued the famous conclusion, "our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." since then there have been great gains for african-americans in many areas of american life, including sports, entertainment, business, politics. despite these gains racial segregation has remained largely in place. >> watch the entire lecture tonight at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern time here on american history tv. tv, on american history eric burns talks about his book "the golden lad: the haunting story of quentin and theodore roosevelt.." he explores the relationships the roosevelt had with his children and specifically with his youngest son, quentin, it was shot down and killed by enemy german pilots during world war i.

it is not happened since lyndon johnson in 1964. we pulled every night both in 2002 and 2006, the general election. if any democrat said yes to one of two questions, a democrat, that they were either pro-gun or pro-life, we did not count them as a democrat. rendell won his first election by 350,000 votes and i forget how big a second election was. ats" whothose "democr live in allegheny and these places, they are registered democrat but they do not vote democratic. they still have majority democratic registration. but they vote republican in a national election as you know they are still -- my parents , theyfrom philadelphia were told they had to register. my parents, liberal, roosevelt democrats, were told if you want to have your trash picked up you had to register republican. [laughter] that is how they still do it in delaware county. [laughter] true. the most corrupt county in pennsylvania. delaware county makes philadelphia look like madison, wisconsin. that is how had the republicans are. this is the under of the philadelphia

now your running mate, senator lyndon johnson, is from texas, an oil-producing state and one that many political leaders feel is in doubt in this election year. and reports from there say that oil men in texas are seeking assurance from senator johnson that the oil depletion allowance will not be cut. the democratic platform pledges to plug holes in the tax laws and refers to inequitable depletion allowance as being conspicuous loopholes. my question is, do you consider the twenty-seven and a half per cent depletion allowance inequitable, and would you ask that it be cut? mr. kennedy: mr. mcgee, there are about a hundred and four commodities that have some kind of depletion allowance different kind of minerals, including oil. i believe all of those should be gone over in detail to make sure that no one is getting a tax break; to make sure that no one is getting away from paying the taxes he ought to pay. that includes oil; it includes all kinds of minerals; it includes everything within the range of taxation. we want to be sure it's fair and equitable. it includes oil abroad. perhaps t

johnson had to beat him over the head on why the seemingly perverse principle that defense is bad and defense is destabilizing is a critical way of or is critical to the u.s. position for a long time that we had to limit our antiballistic missile systems. and the soviets bought that. and i think, while president reagan sincerely believed that was either out of date or just plain wrong, many of his advisors including some who were there with him just didn't believe a that sdi would be stabilizing and b that it would wo work. >> my sense is the russians were concerned in that they tried to head off the southern appearance of an sdi system. their concern was what was really in the mind of the americans at this point. it's interesting. i mentioned before afghanistan, taking place at roughly the same time. russia was at that point losing the war that was obvious to the russians and the rest of the world and what if the u.s. do at that point? make it easy for the russians to lose? or make it more difficult? the latter, an investment in $10 billion to build up who today as you all know are a

back in 1967, president lyndon b. johnson commissioned a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial unrest in america. the commission's findings criticized whites for fleeing the cities and moving to the suburbs. the report issued the famous conclusion -- "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." but since then, there have been great gains for african-americans in many areas of american life, including sports, entertainment, business, and politics. despite these gains, racial segregation has remained largely in place. it is true that in the aggregate, many metropolitan areas have become more ethnically and racially diverse. however, according to a recent study, people in these metropolitan areas still usually live in neighborhoods that are either mostly white or mostly black. and there is evidence that people in america are taking into consideration is use such as race -- into consideration issues such as race when moving from one part of the co

johnson commissioned a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial unrest in america. findingsssion's criticized whites for fleeing the cities and moving to the suburbs. the report issued the famous conclusion -- "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." but since then, there have been great gains for african-americans in many areas of american life, including sports, entertainment, business, and politics. despite these gains, racial segregation has remained largely in place. it is true that in the aggregate, many metropolitan areas have become more ethnically and racially diverse. however, according to a recent study, people in these metropolitan areas still usually live in neighborhoods that are either mostly white or mostly black. and there is evidence that people in america are taking into consideration is use such -- into consideration issues such as race when moving from one part of the country to another. one scholar observed the demographic changes have affected the population of all major groups in americ

and in particular, the escalation of the war of -- the war by lyndon johnson. it actually dated back to 1965. kissinger started visiting vietnam, really to inform himself, but he was trying to advise the then-ambassador, one of the most extraordinary documents in the entire book is the report he wrote back from his first trip to vietnam, a trip which did not involve merely sitting in saigon, as most visitors from the u.s. intended to, but involves some pretty hair-rising flying around into war zones. this report is devastating as a critique of the way the war was being waged. kissinger concluded that there was absolutely no way the united states would achieve a victory. it would need a diplomatic settlement, 1965. so i promised you a third helping. and the helping i'm going to conclude with is the four lessons of henry i, because i think it's important for us historians to explain to people who don't really feel excited by history that it has lessons that are applicable across time. and i think these four lessons are. i've moved recently from harvard to stanfor

but i remember a statement of lyndon johnson's when he was looking around, why his party people weren't supporting him, and he said, hey, they painted their tails white and they ran with the antelopes. there's a lot of democratic white tails running with the antelopes. not one single democrat has introduced the mondale tax bill into the congress. of course i support the president's economic program and i support him in everything else. and i'm not sure, because of my concept of the vice presidency, that if i didn't, i'd go doing what mr. mondale has done with jimmy carter, jump away from him. i couldn't do that to ronald reagan, now, next year or any other time. i have too much trust in him. i have too much friendship for him. and i'd feel very uncomfortable doing that. mashek: well some republicans have criticized mr. mondale for now claiming he disagreed privately with jimmy carter's decision to impose the grain embargo. have you ever disagreed with any decision of the reagan administration and its inner circles? and in following that up, where in your judgment does loyalty end and pr

. >> you write about utah which has not voted for a democrat since 1964 when lyndon johnson defeated barry goldwater. right now the polls showing a tight race with an independent potentially picking up the state the first time since 1968. evan mcmullin, what can you tell us about that race? >> it is tight. polls tend to show mcmullen and trump neck and neck with hillary clinton not far behind. clinton is sending more staffers to the state deploying resources there late. privately republican operatives think mcmullen is actually the favorite here. so we could see this conservative mormon independent picking up those electoral votes. any time that you're a republican and doubt for you, it's a sign not just of trouble but potential catastrophe. >> another state where democrats are deploying more resources in new hampshire where kelly ayotte republican senator tough re-election battle against democratic governor for that seat, what do the polls see in that race? >> polls have been neck and neck earlier this month. if anything giving a slight advantage to ayotte. she has struggled with he

this is a state that's not voted for a democrat since 1964 when lyndon johnson won in a landslide. are you worried about utah? >> we want to make sure -- mr. mullen, the independent candidate does not win utah. he's running for president but he spends an awful lot of time there. the never trumpers that put him in that position want to choke off the trump-pence path to 270 through utah which has been a very red state. as you say, if you get a candidate who shares a lot in the state with people to bring in the state almost exclusively, you can get him up to 31, 32, in a true three-way race, anybody can win. so it's also a state where governor pence has a friend in senator lee and where he recently talked in the education reform senate. he's on his way to colorado and nevada as well. he's stopping in utah. i also take nothing for granted. that's my job. and my job also not to chase every good promising statewide poll and go and deploy our best resources there, meaning governor pence and mr. trump. we're trying to do a tighter electoral map than candidates have done in the past. i look

. >> you write about utah which has not voted for a democrat since 1964 when lyndon johnson defeated barry goldwater. right now the polls showing a tight race with an independent potentially picking up the state the first time since 1968. evan mcmullin. what can you tell us about that race? >> it is tight. polls tend to show mcmullen and trump neck and neck with hillary clinton not far behind. clinton is sending more staffers to the state, deploying resources there late. privately republican operatives think mcmullen is actually the favorite here. so we could see this conservative mormon independent picking up those electoral votes. any time that you're a republican and utah is in doubt for you it is a sign of not just trouble, but potential catastrophe. >> another state where democrats are deploying more resources in new hampshire where kelly ayotte republican senator tough re-election battle against democratic governor for that seat, what do the polls see iay that race? >> polls have been neck and neck earlier this month. if anything giving a slight advantage to ayotte. she has str

this is a state that's not voted for a democrat since 1946 when lyndon johnson won in a landslide. are you worried about utah? >> we want to make sure -- ms. mu mr. mull len, the independent candidate does not win utah. he's running for president but he spends an awful lot of time there. the never trumpers that put him in that position want to choke off the trump-pence path to 270 through utah which has been a very red state. as you say, if you get a candidate who shares a lot in the state with people to brun in the state almost exclusively, you can get him up to 31, 32, in a true three-way raid, anybody can win. so it's also a state where governor pence has a friend in senator lee and where he recently talked in the education reform senate. he's on his way to colorado and nevada as well. he's stopping in utah. i also take nothing for granted. that's my job. and my job also is not to chase every good promising statewide poll and go and deploy our best resources there, meaning governor pencend mr. trump. we're trying to do a tighter electoral map than candidates have done in the pas

johnson had to beat him over the head on why the seemingly perverse principle that defense is bad and defense is destabilizing is a critical way of or is critical to the u.s. position for a long time that we had to limit our antiballistic missile systems. and the soviets bought that. and i think, while president reagan sincerely believed that was either out of date or just plain wrong, many of his advisors including some who were there with him just didn't believe a that sdi would be stabilizing and b that it would wo work. >> my sense is the russians were concerned in that they tried to head off the southern appearance of an sdi system. their concern was what was really in the mind of the americans at this point. it's interesting. i mentioned before afghanistan, taking place at roughly the same time. russia was at that point losing the war that was obvious to the russians and the rest of the world and what if the u.s. do at that point? make it easy for the russians to lose? or make it more difficult? the latter, an investment in $10 billion to build up who today as you all know are a