that would be senator lyndon johnson, vice president lyndon johnson. now, everyone involved in this plot has their own motive. the caa is upset about the bay of pigs. the bay of pigs invasion in which president kennedy has failed to order air support for the cuban rebels storming the shores of cuba. hundreds of men are arrested. hundreds more are killed. it's a fiasco. they are also upset about the cuban missile crisis. i know you can go to this bookstore and you'll find books that tell you how brave jack kennedy face the russians down and he blinked and they removed our missiles in cuba. it was the closest this nation and this world has ever, come we came to the brink of nuclear armageddon. the problem with that is it's not true. 40 years later we learned that the kennedy brothers gave up u.s. missiles in turkey and italy, changing the balance of power in the european theater. and that fact was kept from the american people for 40 years. if ronald reagan did that they would've impeached him for that secret was kept from us. the generals know it. the c

>> well, you know, lyndon johnson, sort of asked questions himself. three nights after he became president after kennedy's assassination, his advisers were writing his first speech, and they advised him not to take on civil rights because it was a lost cause, a noble cause but a lost cause. you know what he said? he said, "what the hell is the presidency for then?" you know? and he took on that cause. so i think you have, you know, basically there is a spectrum. you have some presidents who want to be president so they can say they were president. you have some presidents who want to change the world. and i think in the last 100 years, we have seen that whole range of presidents. >> exactly right. because for some people, it is just the next step in their ambition. >> but the ambition cannot be entirely on display. i once in public -- i said something about lyndon johnson wanting to always be president, which i got to some extent from bob's great biography, and i saw the lady bird johnson not long after that, and she said, "you're absolutely wrong. he

the other part of vietnam is that lyndon johnson did not read a lot of books. for domestic policy, that does not hurt, and he was good with domestic policy. is going on.what how do you learn about the 3000 year of vietnam and all of the invaders? how do you do that if you do not read books? >> and with reagan, doing a movie. >> even at one point, he was talking about lincoln. he says, you do not want to be like old abe lincoln, when he retired and went back to his home in springfield, missouri, human really says that he knew more, but he was the architect of one of the worst historical not make this up, charlie. let me finish just one thing. one thing more consequential, and that is that he used history in a pretty negatively consequential way, which is to say the metaphor for vietnam is munich. we have to stand up to the communist bloc. it is a test. one thing a president learns from history is what metaphors are accurate and which ones are not. >> it was not just him. it was a whole generation that was thinking that way, but it is heartbreaking to go back to

you know, lyndon johnson sort of asked your question to himself three nights after he became president, after kennedy's assassination, his advisors were writing his first speech and advised him not to take on civil rights because it was a lost cause, a noble cause but a lost cause you know what he said? what the hell is the presidency for, then? and he took on that cause. so i think you have, you know, basically there is a spectrum, you have some presidents who want to be president so they can say they were president. you have some presidents who want to change the world, and i think in the last 100 years we have seen that whole range of presidents. >> rose: yes. exactly right because you think some people -- it is just the next step in their ambition. >> but the ambition cannot be entirely on display, i said something about lyndon johnson wanting to have always been -- always wanted to be president, which i got to some extent from bob's great biography and i saw ladybird johnson not long after that and she said you are absolutely wrong he never wanted to be president, and she knew tha

i know he went on to serve lyndon johnson. let's listen to this and put him in perspective. , i said it would be a long war. what should i say to the enemy, we are losing? by the way, my report to the said in the i summer of 65 to him, there is only a one in three chance that we can win. that was my report. should i have said that publicly? what do you think? what does your audience think? this is a terrible dilemma. so -- i want to tell you that i was in a very -- i felt like saying i was right. we were winning then and as i suggested, some people think we were winning. that was baloney. >> your book is full of american leaders and generals going to vietnam and coming back and saying we are winning. ,o one came back ever and said we are not winning. what do you think of that? >> i knew mcnamara a little bit. i interviewed him a couple times. the first time i began by asking about vietnam. he said, i am not going to talk about that. this was in 1998. within 15 minutes, all he could talk about was the amount. he was profoundly

the state of the union address was this week and i mean lyndon johnson came out and declared a war on poverty franklin roosevelt declared. that if radical transformation in america barack obama proposed iras that my are a that when they reach fifteen thousand dollars you are required to hand over to wall street that they have to become private. but what's happened to our country

i know he went on to serve lyndon johnson. let's listen to this and put him in perspective. >> november, 65, i said it would be a long war. what should i say to the enemy we are losing? by the way, my report to the president -- i said in the summer of '65 to him, there is only a one in three chance that we can win. that was my report. should i have said that publicly? what do you think? what does your audience think? this is a terrible dilemma. particularly so -- i want to tell you that i was in a very -- i am not saying that i was right . other people felt then and still felt today that we were winning then and as i suggested, some people think we were winning. that was baloney. >> your book is full of american leaders and generals going to vietnam and coming back and saying we are winning. no one came back ever and said we are not winning. what do you think of that? >> i knew mcnamara a little bit. i interviewed him a couple times. the first time i began by asking about vietnam. he said, i am not going to talk about that. th

what's the difference between your take on lyndon johnson and obert carol's? my attempt was to strike some kind of balance. i feel that way still about johnson. this poll i cited before where kennedy had 94% approval rating. johnson has only a 39% approval rating. they're coming up to the anniversary on the war on poverty, the great society, johnson did some extraordinary constructive things for this country. sure, we didn't abolish poverty as he wanted to, but he certainly eased the plight of people and he certainly took another step forward where the new deal and franklin roosevelt were and the new american industrialized system. he was ruined by vietnam. and that's the shadow that continues to hang over his reputation. i don't know what mr. carroll's going to say about the johnson presidency, you see? he's just reaching that point and writing about the johnson presidency. but i think carroll has evolved in time over his picture of johnson. you know, in the beginning there were some very, very critical writing about johnson particularly when he ran against s

lyndon johnson had a dream of a great society. this administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in america. lbj began to build his great society. but the big budget item wasn't the war on poverty. it was the war in vietnam. the defense department said it spent a billion dollars a month. as we found out later, it was costing more. between two and three times more. we were not fully aware, not even as economic advisors in washington, let alone the outside consultants, how much vietnam was going to cost. we were taken unawares for several months. but by december of 1965, still early in the game, i urged him to go for a sizeable tax increase. he said, "walter, i've checked both houses of congress. i couldn't get a dozen votes." the problem stemmed from the kind of war this was. it was never declared a war. one main problem was the idea we would run it on the cheap. lyndon johnson wanted to run the war without letting people know we're at war, a silent, invisible war. therefore, he didn't want to raise tax

you know, lyndon johnson picked up his dog by the ears. well, a lot of people thought that was evil. he claimed that it made them healthy, but he also had the guts to have a war on poverty. he was the author of most of the civil rights legislation, so we can't expect perfection but, gosh, we batter our presidents. in a merciless way the present one is certainly -- i've never seen as cruel a press as we have today. c-span: what's behind it? >> guest: who knows? i think some better assignment editors at radio and tv stations would help because there's too much focus on one story. that's where the cameras go, and they pick it to death. they pick a president to death, and all the time that he's struggling to try to make peace in one part of the world, they're criticizing him in another. it's a merciless time in politics, and one of the things that i think is evil is the growing number of what i call hired guns, the people who don't really have any intimacy or association by birth or state with public figures and who are contracted for to come

lyndon johnson wanted short memos. he said, "write lengthy memos. "he'll be interested. just put in some humor." kennedy took office as the country was beginning its recovery from the recession of 1960, but unemployment remained distressingly high. kennedy's advisers began to realize the recovery contained seeds of its own demise. the government soon took in more than it spent. that surplus would stop economic growth well short of full employment. that could be corrected in two ways-- by tax cuts or by increased expenditure. i felt our social programs, particularly those on behalf of the poor, were in need of more support, that we had a commitment to people in need and that was how the money should be used. [schoumacher] kennedy's new economic adviser had different ideas. [heller] there wn't as much disagreement as it's often made out to be. i wanted a tax cut, but as a package including spending increases. kennedy went to the hill and got knocked down on the programs. to stimulate the economy, we had to have it primarily on the tax side. throughout 1961, the economy con

and it was lyndon johnson who on july 2, 1964, signed the civil rights act. now, this civil rights act of 1964 is one that brought great benefits to persons of my generation. because it dealt with public accommodations and it integrated or desegregated blic accommodations, hotels, restaurants, places that we frequent now and we take for granted the opportunity to go into these places. in my lifetime we could not enter the front door of places that we now take for granted that these things have always been this way, many do, not all, but those of us who are of my il, we remember what it was like -- ilk, we remember what it was like. and i can remember when we would travel across country, mr. speaker. we knew that there were certain places that we could stop and we knew that there were certain places that we dare not stop under any circumstances at all. and we would make sure that we had enough fuel to make it from one stop to the next and we knew that there were certain places that we could eat and there were places where we would have to go to the back door.

you know i mean like you know lyndon johnson would do this nobody think twice about it you know but but when the when obama did it drudge runs this headline obama goes street showing the darkened picture of our first african-american president so he has a unique situation when it comes to taking on. you know being playing political hardball on the other hand he has a big bully pulpit any could be speaking out a lot more on a lot of really important issues that you know so i understand your sentiment i'm not sure that the strategy is to imitate harry truman i would like to see a little more lyndon johnson a little more behind the scenes arm twisting and a little more jack kennedy a little lot more out front saying here's what we want to aspire to although he has been doing a fair amount of that lately it's just the media doesn't cover it richard in los angeles hey richard what's up. it's not tom is it true that if the keystone pipeline is ok to give him the ok to build. it can be an oil company will be given and a domain to take away land from the american people yeah it's already happen

you know i mean like you know lyndon johnson would do this nobody think twice about it you know but but when the when obama did it drudge runs this headline obama goes street showing the darkened picture of our first african-american president so he has a unique situation when it comes to taking on. you know being playing political hardball on the other hand he has a big bully pulpit any could be speaking out a lot more on a lot of really important issues that you know so i understand your sentiment i'm not sure that the strategy is to imitate harry truman i would like to see a little more lyndon johnson a little more behind the scenes arm twisting and a little more jack kennedy a little lot more out front saying here's what we want to aspire to although he has been doing a fair amount of that lately i just the media doesn't cover it richard in los angeles hey richard what's up. tom is it true that if the keystone pipeline is ok if given the ok to build it can be an oil company will be given and it don't mean to take away lamb from the american people yeah it's already happened it's alr

is it lyndon johnson? >> lyndon johnson is the most informative by far. he is not a template, we don't -- we're not trying to create a parallel with lyndon johnson and certainly books are endlessly informative in terms of the complexity of the political soul but in l.b.j. you see someone who came from nothing, you see someone who had to fight every step of the way in order to get where he was. you saw someone who was absolutely determineed to achieve what he said his mind to and you saw someone who really felt more comfortable, i feel, behind the scenes in the shadows than in the spotlight all of those things are applicable to frank underwood. >> rose: that's where his gifts were. >> i'm sorry? >> rose: that's where his gifts were, behind the scene rather than the spotlight. >> and we see francis struggle with that. he is a contradiction, as we all are. his contradiction and paradoxs are writ large. but here's someone who wants power and power tends to put you at the center of the chess board and yet he feels most comfortable at the edges. so how do those

lyndon johnson behind him. they got stuff done. if it wasn't for that, the african-americans would be as far as they are today. .ost: all right greg is on the line for republicans. caller: yeah, hi. host: hi there. caller: my favorite president is ronald reagan, ronald reagan because he had -- he believed in the people instead of the government. he believed in smaller government. he had biblical principles. he did a lot for the american people. the worst president by far, are is obama. none, i've never seen anything like this in my lifetime. just watching his -- listening to him, watching his actions come his agenda, he is about as anti-biblical as can be. he saysti-jewish, things and does things to wear he puts himself across as even being anti-american but he is very pro-muslim and pro-islam. host: headline in this morning's "washington post." "our verdict in the city of jacksonville, florida, is again raising the issue of self-defense and race in florida. 47, a software developer, could face 60 years in prison after his convicti

is it lyndon johnson? >> lyndon johnson is the most informative, by far. he is not a template. we are not trying to create a parallel. the books are endlessly -- >> informative. >> informative in terms of the complexity of the lyrical soul. in lbj, you see someone who came from nothing. you see someone who had to fight every step the way to get where he was. you saw someone who was absolutely determined to achieve what he set his mind to. and you saw someone who really felt more comfortable, i feel, behind the scenes, in the shadows, then in the spotlight. all of those things are applicable to frank underwood. >> that is where his gifts were. >> that's right. we see francis struggle with that. he is a contradiction. here is someone who wants power, and power tends to put you at the center of the chessboard. yet, he feels most comfortable at the edges. how do those two things mesh? that is one of the big things we ask in season two and beyond. >> thank you. back in a moment. ♪ >> we are in good condition and i feel that one of my theories is that, to get our players in better

is it lyndon johnson? >> lyndon johnson is the most informative, by far. he is not a template. we are not trying to create a parallel. the books are endlessly -- >> informative. >> informative in terms of the complexity of the lyrical soul. in lbj, you see someone who came from nothing. you see someone who had a fight every step the way to get where he was. you saw someone who was absolutely determined to achieve what he set his mind to. and you saw someone who really felt more comfortable, i feel, behind the scenes, in the shadows, then in the spotlight. all of those things are applicable to frank underwood. >> that is where his gifts were. >> that's right. we see francis struggle with that. he is a contradiction. here is someone who wants power, and power tends to put you at the center of the chessboard. yet, he feels most comfortable at the edges. how do those two things mash? that is one of the big things we ask in season two and beyond. >> thank you. back in a moment. ♪ >> we are in good condition and i feel him a one of my theories is that, to get our players in better

is it lyndon johnson? >> lyndon johnson is the most informative, by far. he is not a template. we are not trying to create a parallel. the books are endlessly -- >> informative. >> informative in terms of the complexity of the lyrical soul. in lbj, you see someone who came from nothing. fighte someone who had a every step the way to get where he was. you saw someone who was absolutely determined to achieve what he set his mind to. someone who really felt more comfortable, i feel, behind the scenes, in the shadows, then in the spotlight. all of those things are applicable to frank underwood. >> that is where his gifts were. >> that's right. we see france's struggle with that. -- francis struggle with that. he is a contradiction. power, someone who wants and power tends to put you at the center of the chessboard. yet, he feels most comfortable at the edges. how do those two things mash? things wee of the big ask in season two and beyond. >> thank you. back in a moment. ♪ we are in good condition and i feel him a one of my theories is that, to get our players in better condition

lyndon johnson faced we're moral issues. we have a situation here where half the people in america want more social services to be paid for by the other half and the other half of the american people are the people paying for this. sometimes, i cannot remember which cap i am in. i am 66. half the time, i am a medicare plan d for scripture and drug beneficiary. the other half of the time, it is april 15. i myself get confused by this. you are right. the baby boom has not shown the genius for be able to work these things out. tavis: as a result of that, -- e issues appear to be >> they will not be forever. we are going to get a ronald reagan and a tip o'neill. they will be very different looking. but they will get together. they probably will not get together and drink, but this will work out. tavis: i love the way you described it with the baby boom generation, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors. >> that was fun to do. i had 75 million people. they are not all the same. how do you define them? you cannot define them by ge

and lyndon johnson has entered the race at the last minute. he's the senate majority leader, and johnson still thinks he has a chance to derail kennedy's nomination, so they had this joint appearance before johnson's delegation. so john johnson, you know, starts citing all of his legislative achievements and just says -- they passed a civil rights bill in '57 and also they're working on another one in 1960 and he was talking about all the work he was doing on that, he had to fight filibusters, and we had quorum call after quorum call, and some weren't here answering the quorum call, but i was. you know, clear reference to ken key. so kennedy comes up and says lyndon johnson does a great job answering core run calls. he's your guy. but that's not what a president does, and he said i think lyndon johnson's a good leader, and i think he should stay as the senate majority leader. in a kabooky sort of way he sort of turned johnson's experience and gravitas against him, and it became almost a liability as opposed to an asset. >> you can watch and ot

we had the official lunch in the lbj room and there we are with the major portrait of lyndon johnson looming above us and i went and got a salad and a cup of soup and i am ready to dive in and patty murray is at my table, 10 senators and she gets up and runs are on the table and grabs my arm and says you just took the entire bowl of thousand island dressing and you are about to eat it. i looked at her and said that is what we do in minnesota, we the thousand island dressing. it was an example of the women coming to each other's rescue. it was a hard adjustment for me and for my family. in our saturn with the shower curtain from college. i got to make some very good friends here. i love my work and being on the commerce committee, i did a lot of consumer work which felt somewhat like the prosecutor work i had done before, not just i got to manage an office of 400 people which was very fulfilling. i had worked on legislation in that area. i did that and i did agriculture which i was interested in. and later joined the judiciary committee. >> why did you decide to run for the senate in

johnson is massive victory in the sixty four presidential race and it kept republicans out of power in the house of representatives one hundred fifty five until nine hundred ninety five as long as the democratic party actually like santa claus it will win elections because republicans with their core oppose the social safety net and up looking like scrooge in comparison just a fact and republicans know that's that's why they came up with the santa clause strategy of their own it was first outlined in one thousand nine hundred seventy six in an article by conservative strategist jude one in ski republican santa claus strategy is quite straightforward instead of giving people the gift of health care or the gift of retirement savings republicans would give them the gift of tax cuts if the republican party could successfully be called the santa clause of tax reduction when is it could shrug off the scrooge wreck because reputation of the party had been haunted by since the roosevelt days and once again they could start winning elections today it's pretty obvious that the republicans hav

that president obama is somehow lyndon johnson, that he is some sort of guy who stretches his arms and makes people do stuff? he sort of takes you in the back room and beats you and gets his way. what is this, this notion of him? this president has been a mild mannered ceo as president of this country. and the idea that he is some sort of imperial presidency, i guess they're really playing to their base with that kind of talk. >> well, they are. obviously it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. look at the number of executive orders out there. look at how the two strategies of playing to the base actually stack up against each other not in terms of size of the base, but whether you can reach someone who is persuadable in the suburban bases where the mid terms are going to get decided, and what you have. you have an imperial presidency charge against the minimum wage rise. which one is going to have more populace reach, not just for your core voters, but for some of those fringer, more infrequent ones who are smaller than a presidential cycle, but can still make the difference. i don't think t

johnson is massive victory in the sixty four presidential race and it kept republicans out of power in the house of representatives one hundred fifty five until nine hundred ninety five as long as the democratic party actually like santa claus it will win elections because republicans with their core oppose the social safety net and up looking like scrooge in comparison just a fact and republicans know that's that's why they came up with the santa clause strategy of their own it was first outlined in one thousand nine hundred seventy six in an article by conservative strategist jude one in ski republican santa claus strategy is quite straightforward instead of giving people the gift of health care or the gift of retirement savings republicans would give them the gift of tax cuts if the republican party could successfully become the santa clause of tax reduction when is it could shrug off the scrooge wreck because reputation of the party had been haunted by since the roosevelt days and once again they could start winning elections today it's pretty obvious that the republicans have r

he had butted heads with every american president since lyndon johnson. sy hersh showed us otherwise. richard nixon said that otherwise. gerald ford said that they were not spying on american citizens and he showed us otherwise. ronald reagan's head of the central intelligence we threatened to throw her in jail for a book that he wrote about the downing of korean airliner by the soviet union. reagan backed off. dick cheney later to become vice president brenda brave into his house and have him thrown into jail because he was writing stories that the ford administration did not like about activities in america. george w. bush will refuse of taking gifts after world war i, needless to say the bush family never talk to seymour hersh again. george w. bush called him and abject liar. the obama administration, soon after obama was dead set call your man off and tell them to stop and he did not understand it he said there's something wrong with that man. undoubtably his state of the union speech tonight included so many names and that he cannot be trusted and he

neil: people come back and say whether it was security or lyndon johnson with medicare, they change the provisions in the requirements and this is nothing new. >> i would say that it's not just the number of executive orders but the size and scope and i think he has a executive order metastasizing. and honestly -- isn't he doubled down on his mistake of waving us. and he canceled a lot as a congress of one. so let's face the reality that are like it official have earned the right to have a voice in the law. >> he was planning for this at the beginning of the year and then out of the blue he would spend a lot of money preparing for the administrative situation and everything they plan for when down. so that is really the genesis of this. >> at the lava lmp. >> you were prepari for it and the president pulled the r out from under you. i think the president should lead by example and respect the law themselves. and he often says let me be clear. do you have the right to change the line he has shied away from this light. neil: i think john boehn just neil: i think john boehn just got ted cr

johnson probably was in his you know one more liberal and he yeah i don't disagree with that but i did the progressive the room willing to step into the race matter let me answer the question of your record is the question. my question is really simple is the republican party actually making a commitment to repudiating the kind of things that reagan and nixon did the race baiting or are they just giving lip service to. if you have ever had a water cannon hosed in your face if the governor of your state has ever told you you can't come to this school who are go to this university if ballots were destroyed and the elected officials told you they were doing it because of your race congratulations you are meeting a democrat now if they don't have anything to repudiate i don't see anything about the noble history of the republican party which was the form on abolition and by the way not a single one of these notable racist bigots from the democratic party ever was forced out of the throne agency or did they ever sit down in fact they got promoted in samara urban was your watergate king thre

the state of the union address was this week and i mean lyndon johnson came out and declared a war on poverty franklin roosevelt declared. if radical transformation in america barack obama proposed iras. are a that when they reach fifteen thousand dollars you are required to hand over to wall street that they have to become private. what's happened to to our country well some of that reflects you know a divided city roosevelt had massive democratic majorities in a crisis johnson had massive democratic majorities and you know post kennedy assassination so they had opportunity that obama had in his first couple of years where he did big things and hasn't had since and so this state of the union i think reflected a very diminished presidency and a very different mission vision from the battles of the last years and a divided congress because he knows nothing is going to get out of this congress. what was interesting to me is the president's speech was that in the run up there was a lot of talk about inequality we're going to focus on this this is this is going to be the populist speech w

the state of the union address was this week and i mean lyndon johnson came out and declared a war on poverty franklin roosevelt declared. that if radical transformation in america barack obama proposed iras that my are a that when they reach fifteen thousand dollars you are required to hand over to wall street that they have to become private. but what's happened to our country well some of that reflects you know a divided city roosevelt had massive democratic majorities in a crisis johnson had massive democratic majorities and you know post kennedy assassination so they had opportunity that obama had in his first couple of years where he did big things and hasn't had since and so this state of the union i think reflected a very diminished presidency and a very different vision from the battles of the last years and a divided congress because he knows nothing's going to get out of this congress. what was interesting to me is the president's speech was in the run up there was a lot of talk about inequality we're going to focus on this this this is going to be the populist speech we're

neil: people come back and say whether it was security or lyndon johnson with medicare, they change the provisions in the requirements and this is nothing new. >> i would say that it's not just the number of executive orders but the size and scope and i think he has a executive order metastasizing. and honestly -- isn't he doubled down on his mistake of waving us. and he canceled a lot as a congress of one. so let's face the reality that are like it official have earned the right to have a voice in the law. >> he was planning for this at the beginning of the year and then out of the blue he would spend a lot of money preparing for the administrative situation and everything they plan for when down. so that is really the genesis of this. >> at the lava lamp. >> you were preparing for it and the president pulled the rug out from under you. i think the president should lead by example and respect the law themselves. and he often says let me be clear. do you have the right to change the line he has shied away from this light. neil: i think john boehner just got ted cruz upset. so ally bank

that president obama is somehow lyndon johnson, that he is some sort of guy who stretches his arms and makes people do stuff? he sort of takes you in the back room and beats you and gets his way. what is this, this notion of him? this president has been a mild mannered ceo of this country and the idea that he's some sort of imperial presidency, i don't know, i guess they're really playing to their base with that kind of talk. >> well, they are. obviously it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. look at the number of executive orders out there. it's a matter of interpretation. look at how the two strategies of playing to the base actually stack up against each other not in terms of size of the base, but whether you can reach someone who is persuadable in the suburban places where these midterms are actually going to get decided. and what you have. you have an imperial presidency charge against the minimum wage rise. which one is going to have more populace reach, not just for your core voters, but for some of those fringer, more infrequent ones who are smaller than a presidential cycle, but can

[laughter] [applause] the youngest boreman the last year when anybody felt that it was hip to like lyndon johnson are turning 50, and we would be sad about getting old if we more or not remarrying younger wives and reviving children and prescription drugs that keep us from being signed, and we will never retire. we can't. and it serves us right because we are the generation that insisted. still it's an import a moment for us to tell the what we have added to the existence. we have reached the age of accountability. we are the generation that has an excuse for everything. one of our greatest contributions modern life but it's still a matter of power and privilege. whenever anything happens anywhere, some matteo for 50 signed the bill for it. hearing generation x and the millennials all say check please [applause] i chose a couple of paragraphs tesco you to read of. this is near the end of the book and you can see sort of where p.j. cost lands. >> we are the best generation in the world to show history stinks' but the least we are fabulous by historical standards. beebee boom will say condu

i can't imagine 550,000 american soldiers fighting a gradualist war under anyone except lyndon johnson. >> i'll agree with you by then, by that point, yes. but 1961, i think, would have played out quite differently had richard nixon been president. >> fortunately -- [laughter] >> we have the history that we have. >> we do. >> now, you think that the kennedy assassination is a major turning point for richard nixon. >> i do. i think in many ways it was the worst thing that ever happened to richard nixon. he had had a really -- as we talked about, a traumatic loss in 1960. he ran for governor this 1962 with the urging of eisenhower among others. terrible mistake on his part. nixon had written a long, detailed memo with the pros and cons, should i run, should i not run. the cons clearly won the argument, but you could see the temptation. okay, rockefeller's governor of the biggest state, rockefeller was his chief rival in 1960. i could be 2k3w06 of the second biggest state. everyone said he couldn't lose, and he lost. he lost in a big way. but in many ways people say it wasn't that big a d

lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... gerri: should preschoolers be forced to get a flu shot? gerri: a debate is brewing on the set right site right now about whether preschoolers in rhode island should be right to get an annual flu immunization shot. joinings for a fair and balanced debate is built from 10 and lis wiehl. a fox news legal analyst. i will start with you first. and your child will be first flu shot? >> you cannot force a parent to get a flu shot. if they want to do it, that is fine, but the state or federal government, you must do this or else, that's something that they cannot say. >> under the police power that is given to the stes by the constitution. >> wait, you're talking about a police power for this? >> giving the state the right to regulate health and political subdivisions and ultimately they feel that it is better for health care workers. and the flu can be srious. >> there is no indication, frankly, that the flu shot is really going to help thm not get the flu. gerri: parents are willingly vacci

we had the official lunch in the lbj room and there we are with the major portrait of lyndon johnson looming above us and i went and got a salad and a cup of soup and i am ready to dive in and patty murray is at my table, 10 senators and she gets up and runs are on the table and grabs my arm and says you just took the entire bowl of thousand island dressing and you are about to eat it. i looked at her and said that is what we do in minnesota, we the thousand island dressing. it was an example of the women coming to each other's rescue. it was a hard adjustment for me and for my family. in our saturn with the shower curtain from college. i got to make some very good friends here. i love my work and being on the commerce committee, i did a lot of consumer work which felt somewhat like the prosecutor work i had done before, not just i got to manage an office of 400 people which was very fulfilling. i had worked on legislation in that area. i did that and i did agriculture which i was interested in. and later joined the judiciary committee. >> why did you decide to run for the senate in

johnson probably was in his no one more liberal than he yeah i don't disagree with that but i did the progressive the room willing to step into the race matter let me answer the question of your record is the question that my question is really simple is the republican party actually making a commitment to repudiating the kind of things that reagan and nixon. did the race baiting or are they just giving lip service to. if you have ever had a water cannon hosed in your face if the governor of your state has ever told you you can't come to this school are go to this university if ballots were destroyed and the elected officials told you they were doing it because of your race congratulations you are meeting a democrat now if they don't have anything to repudiate i don't see anything about the noble history of the republican party which was the form on abolition and by the way not a single one of these notable racist bigots from the democratic party ever was forced out of the throne agency or did they ever sit down in fact they got promoted in samara urban was your watergate king three t

johnson, are turning 50 years old. and we would be sad about getting old if we weren't busy remarrying younger wives with children arriving and renewing prescriptions for drugs to keep us alive. we will never retire, we can't. the mortgages underwater and we are in dead up to the was new and it serves us right. because we are the generation who insisted the passion for living should replace working for one. and so it is an appropriate moment for us to weigh and tally will we we have added to and subtracted from existence and reached the age of accountability and the world is our fault. we are the generation that has an excuse of excuse for everything. but the world is still our fault in a matter of power and privilege and demography. whenever anything happens everywhere, someone over 50 years old signed the bill for it. the baby boom, it's even as we are at the head of lies table is here with the millennial as they're all saying check, please. [applause] >> wonderful. >> i actually, just a couple of paragraphs, do you

if you depend on the public schools, the urchins won't know lyndon johnson from andrew johnson. killing kennedy on dvd. killing lincoln is also on dvd. well worth your time and strap the kids into the chair and make them watch it. that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website, different from billo'reilly.com. o'reilly@foxnews.com, name and town if you wish to opine. don't be a nebbish when writing to the factor. also on thursday, we have our mad as hell segment. every thursday. i'm just giving you the segment. thanks for watching us tonight. miss megyn will be next. i am bill o'reilly, please always remember, the spin stops we're definitely looking out for you. >>> i'm megyn kelly live in new york city. tonight, five years ago the president made a promise. >> i believe in the constitution and i will owe buy the constitution of the united states. >> lawmakers and legal experts say that promise is broken beyond repair. and we have breaking news on a plan to push back. >>> i've decided to follow my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any of the ques

if you depend on the public schools, the urchins won't know lyndon johnson from andrew johnson. killing kennedy on dvd. killing lincoln is also on dvd. well worth your time and strap the kids into the chair and make them watch it. that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website, different from billo'reilly.com. o'reilly@foxnews.com, name and town if you wish to opine. don't be a nebbish when writing to the factor. also on thursday, we have our mad as hell segment. every thursday. i'm just giving you the segment. thanks for watching us tonight. miss megyn will be next. i am bill o'reilly, please always remember, the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. >>> i'm megyn kelly live in new york city. tonight, five years ago the president made a promise. >> i believe in the constitution and i will owe buy the constitution of the united states. >> lawmakers and legal experts say that promise is broken beyond repair. and we have breaking news on a plan to push back. >>> i've decided to follow my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any of th

as congressman jordan has already said, president lyndon johnson very rightly said he wanted to attack the causes of poverty, not the symptoms. that's a very noble intention. but how is it born out? well, today that war on poverty comprises 80 different programs to provide cash, food, housing, medical assistance and targeted social assistance to poor and low-income americans and we're spending at all levels of the government nearly $1 trillion per year. a total price tag over the years of $20 trillion. if we were going to win this war on poverty by spending we would have done it a long time ago. we have to look more deeply at the things bob is calling us to look at. the incentive strictures within the welfare program. incentives matter. in the same time period, the unwed childbearing rate has gone from single digit to 40% overall. we have markers that we need to this be aware of but then get very focused on the success stories that bob is talking about. that's what congressman jordan's legislation will do. it brings a food stamp work ethic into the problem. that's just one problem. in

this begins the change of 1964, but still in 1966, you have lyndon johnson representing an expansion of the new deal. running against gold water who is promised effectively what mitt romney promises in 2012. he loses in a crushing landslide. except in the deep south. he's been running on rational appeal. he's promising he's going to come out in favor of state right. the right to resist integration. he's been promising he's going respect, quote, freedom of association, which understands as the freedom of business owners to exclude african-american. in the south, he wins white majority in ten former confederate states and five states outright. it's a warning bell. what it is warning is conservativism might triumph if it can gift wrapped in racial animosity. that's one. two, goldwater is also teaching that racial animosity needs to be coded. state right, freedom of association, these are terms we can understand as racial but which goldwater deny had any racial meaning. they seem like presence. about libertarianism. fast forward to 1972. in the meantime nixon has been elected in 1968. he

>> no, i don't think so, because -- you think of the guests, lyndon johnson hid his brother, by most accounts, he'd secreted him somewhere in the white house because they did not dare to have him out and about, talking to the press. i don't know about that, but harry truman's mother-in-law came to stay at the white house, and truman threatened to make her sleep in the lincoln bedroom. she said she would sleep on the floor first. she was an unreconstructed southerner. there are all the stories about extended families. for example, remember the controversy in the clinton presidency about the lincoln bedroom? i think that instinct of the media to keep an eagle's eye on who is going in and out of the white house, if nothing out -- remember who was in the roosevelt white house. it had the makings of a great sitcom. francis from greece -- harriet hopkins who was deputy president at times. if you are mirror the old play, the hotel baltimore, it was a re-creation. i don't think it's going to happen again. >> even in wartime when you had restrictions on the media. >> we have a two-hour progra

she invited them in, and that is the beginning of their formal or chip in 1910. >> after lyndon johnson became president, the rent was dubbed the texas white house. the johnsons returned home 74 times during johnson's five years as president. mrs. johnson love the texas hill country in her home. >> the president and mrs. corder grew up. in the 20's and 30's. if we were to take away this asphalt street in front of the doors and have a dirt road in front of them, it would look similar to a photograph of lanes in 1925. >> a look back at some of the many dozens of places we have visited with our cameras during our first lady's and image series, and again, all of those individuals are on our website. a special thanks to the many people at these institutions who have opened up their doors and their archives to us to let you have a first-hand look at some of the american history they have collected. later we will meet some the people involved in the series. there are lots of people behind the scenes. almost all of those visits in the series were done by one person, who is our first ladies vide

because don't think so, -- you think of the guests, lyndon johnson hit his brother, by most accounts, he's secretive him somewhere in the white house because they did not dare to have him out and about talking to the press. i don't know about that, but harry truman's mother-in-law came to stay at the white house, and truman threatened to make her sleep in the lincoln bedroom. she said she would sleep on the floor first. she was an unreconstructed southerner. there are all the stories about extended families. for example, remember the controversy in the clinton presidency about the lincoln bedroom? i think that instinct of the media to keep an eagle's eye on who is going in and out of the --te house, if nothing out remember who was in the roosevelt white house. it had the makings of a great sitcom. francis from greece -- harriet hopkins who was deputy president at times. if you are mirror the old play, the hotel baltimore, it was a re-creation. i don't think it's going to happen again. even in wartime when you had restrictions on the media. >> we have a two-hour program tonight to wrap

rather than lyndon johnson as their ally it is reluctant. they don't care anymore about lobbying. they don't care about appealing to the national conference, they are much more concerned about developing the leaders of the grassroots organizing so they don't have defined themselves by the idea of the march. by the same they recognize an opportunity because they have done the most organizing on the black population particularly in the delta city urged the diversion into the mississippi delta and into some of the largest communities in the state of mississippi where they have really made their name and they have a lot of connections. so they have the grassroots organizing at the same time that is the slogan of the power. that is what catapults them into the celebrity. by the end of march he has considered died the year before. he's a charismatic speaker and has a gift for talking to local people and connecting to summon a different audiences whether that is in our love are the mississippi delta. he is charismatic and powerful and it's almost like he makes it a point not even when he

." ♪ lyndon johnson said, there's america, there's the south, and then there is mississippi. >> it was the mississippi spy agency during the civil rights movement. wanted tomissioner know who the activists were in the black community. they were out to stop covert efforts of immigration. it is state government itself. we're not just talking about some rednecks on the street, this is defiance at its highest levels. >> we knew we were being followed. i knew my life was in danger. >> this is still the united states of america, and you don't treat american citizens this way. crossing legal lines, i think it is accurate to say they crossed them all the time. ♪ >> that is the trailer for "spies of mississippi." it is a new film that exposes how the 1950's and 1960's, little-known state agency called the mississippi sovereignty commission hired spies to infiltrate the several rights movement and squash attempts to desegregate the state and register african-americans to vote. some of the spies were themselves african-american. the commission generated more than 160 thousand pages of reports,