lyndon johnson, neh, nea. you just go across the spectrum, lyndon johnson had a significant impact. probably not exceeded by fdr, but in the contemporary since 1933 it's there. and i would argue -- even ronald reagan made this point. he said i'm not against fdr, but i hate the great society. i didn't like lyndon johnson, but he accepts some elements of fdr given that he was a new dealer. but you listen to the debates today, we're still debating lyndon johnson's legacy whether we recognize head start, again, across the spectrum. and that's the point i make in the book. i talk about the pueblo. we've been dealing with the north koreans for a while, you know? we're dealing with supreme court nominations. the argument against homer thornbeforely was a lame tuck -- thornberry was a lame duck president should not be able to make that decision. so everything has a continuity there. and again, i think that's what makes it so important to understand this period, understand the johnson presidency, and i'm going to make this argument very strongly both as director, but the 1960s are going to b

, and -- lyndon johnson, you might relate how you actually came to know lyndon johnson and how you almost lost your job on an article you wrote. >> guest: true. when i was chosen as a white house fellow i was 24 years old and we had a big dance, a fabulous program, the white house fell -- colin pawing, leslie clark, we had a big dance at the white house and he danced with me that night. not that peculiar, only three win out of the 16 white house fellows put he whispered he wented me to be assigned directly to him any house but that not a simple. in the months leading up to my selection, like many young people, was a graduate student in harvard i had been active in the anti-vietnam war movement and had written an article against lbj and came out two days the dance in the white house, and the title of the article was how to remove lyndon johnson from power. so i was certain he would kick me out of the program. but surprisingly he said bring her down here for a year if i can't win her over, no one can so i worked for him at the white house and i was the most extraordinary experience, the mor

why did lyndon johnson feel it was important to fight the war in vietnam? >> there was a treaty committing us to the defense of south vietnam, and also johnson was told by his secretary of defense, robert mcnamara, who i feel is one of the great villains in american history, i don't use word like that lightly, i've been studying this for 20 years, he told it was necessary to fight the war in vietnam in order to win the cold war and told him had john kennedy been president this is what he would have done and mcnamara late in life tried to deny he had ever given johnson that advice. and for history lbj kept at that tape recording running and mcnamara did a bad thing which i think he should be condemned by history. >> there's a little known chapter which the new york times wrote about as this book was breaking. talk about that chapter in thewoman war as relates to the possibility of a nuclear war. >> you know, lyndon johnson made serious mistakes in vietnam and i write about them. 1964 and privately he's saying what does vietnam mean to me? he's talking to his

>> johnson never expressed regret about anything, okay? that wasn't in lyndon johnson's repertoire. it was okay. it was okay when it opened the johnson library, humphrey came and spoke and delivered a speech about what a great civil rights proponent he was, et cetera. it was a cool relationship. it was cool. humphrey knew he had been stabbed in the back, undercut, undermined, but humphrey was forgiving and lbj was lbj, you know? if you were to listen to me, you know. not so. >> thank you so much for this book. excuse my confusion but what you think is the major reason that johnson did that what humphrey to be president? >> vietnam. he was afraid, as you said, can't put over a man like this. he was afraid that humphrey would end the war sooner than nixon who was pursuing the hard line. vietnam was the dividing line. >> who on the current political scene is most like hubert humphrey, if anyone? >> i don't know that there's anybody as amiable. i will tell you though there's some people on the political scene, look, i come from massachusetts, okay? , okay? my candidate is elizabeth warr

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when i was working with lyndon johnson everything was going great. i knew he had a womanizing reputation but i was costly talking to about boyfriends a1 had no boyfriends at all. [laughter] everything was going great until one time he wanted to discuss our relationship which sounded ominous. he had wine and cheese and all the romantic things. then he showed up yours, more than any other woman -- that he said you remind me of my mother. [laughter] it was pretty embarrassing given what was going on in my mind. but i guess somehow i was at harvard, i was intellectual and he was w his mother. but the interesting thing is that even though he had the talents when he was young, all he really wanted was to be following his father. even after while he would only want to read books you say is it really is about someone history? he didn't want to read fiction. he wants to go with the father on the campaign trail. he wanted to go with him to the state legislators and politics became his love. in the father and the mother never got along very well so choosing one

lyndon johnson fuels nixon's worst fear. >> who is that speaking? dick, is that you? >> yeah, i'm on. >> hubert, are you on? >> in a kroconference call, lbj updates the candidates confident live on a breakthrough. north vietnam at last is willing to talk with south vietnam. >> this is an absolute cause with us. any speeches or any comments referring to the substance of these matters will be injurious to your countries. >> after all this work all year, johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would accept, and he was selling to it the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress toward peace, and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. after a rally in ohio, nixon makes a late-night call to his top lieutenant, h.r. haldeman, and he orders him to pull the trigger on their scheme. and how do we know this? >> we have the notes taken by nixon's campaign chief of staff, h.r. haldeman. >> it's definitely a smoking gun as regards richard nixon's direct involvement and actions. >> nixon is

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for a lot of things lyndon johnson thing was not four. the two men never got along. once kennedy entered the race johnson knew that was it. and he stepped aside. the image we see here is a time cover that appeared right after in los's assassination angeles. kennedy of course was a peace candidate, doing very well. he won the california primary. thathing i remember about was the train. the train that left new york city to come to washington dc. there were just crowds. journey from new york city. the image height of the center here is of robert kennedy. wifeesar chavez and his helen. kennedy went to california to support chavez. he was ending a 25 day fast in support of the pickers of california. -- the great growers and pickers of california. grape growers and pickers of california. kennedy arrives and that picture you see is of them breaking bread, sharing a piece of bread. the photograph of kennedy is one of time magazine's most iconic .mage covers it was titled the gun in america. thereery cover time did was a cover story. with two assassinations, martin it wasd ro

air force one and splayed on the bed, feet up on it, is this big texan lyndon johnson. and that moment made apparent to her in a way that the kennedys would tend to resent johnson for forever that he had already taken over and that jackie was yesterday's first lady. >> eager to be sworn in, lbj calls attorney general bobby kennedy for the precise wording of the oath of office. >> and he wants to seize the reins of power and show the world that he's in charge. to bobby this is hasty to the point of obscene. >> and bobby kennedy, as the blood is still cooling in his brother's veins, begins to recite those words that he had heard last on january 20, 1961. >> i john fitzgerald kennedy do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> bobby's voice breaks down. and it's too much for him. >> here is a picture of the swearing in of the 36th president of the united states, lyndon baines johnson. >> president johnson wants jackie to stand next to him for his inauguration. she insists on wearing her blood-stained clothes. >> by putt

imagine president lyndon johnson . he had a bad year in 1967. in 1964, he was man of the year, but that was a good thing. things were going well in vietnam. things were not going well in vietnam. in the country, there were peace demonstrations all over. johnson as lyndon the person of the year. his problem was vietnam. you see in antiwar poster, bring the troops home now. began -- this became a slogan. bring the troops home now. from january to march. the massacre that involved lieutenant william. of coverse a number in this exhibition. 10.e might be as many as this is a cover that actually appeared a year later. he would be convicted of a number of murders. in 1974 by pardoned richard nixon. here, this is a photograph of president lyndon first lady, lady bird johnson. they are watching tv's reins in the oval office. johnson has just given a national address. with two surprises. the one surprise was that he was prepared to accept a peace in be in all instead of outright victory. was heond supply announced he was no longer a candidate for the pre

bobby kennedy despised lyndon johnson. they were like dogs with the hair standing up on the back of their neck. >> joe kennedy didn't feel that way. he was looking in strategic terms at the map and realized that his son needed texas. >> so the two brothers tapped lyndon johnson to be jack's vice presidential running mate. and they did that for one reason. they were going to do anything it took to get jack elected president. >> first kennedy must beat one of the most experienced politicians in america, republican nominee and sitting vice president richard nixon. once i started looking for it was a no-brainer. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. the geico app makes it easy to manage my policy. i can pay my bill, add a new driver, or even file a claim. woo, hey now! that's a win-win. thank you! switch to geico®. it's a win-win. mopping robotthe from irobot. its precision jet spray and vibrating cleaning head loosen and scrub stains. all while navigating kitchens, bat

lyndon johnson strikes back. the president calls senate's top republican, everett dirkson with a message for dick nixon. nixon's people, he says are treading on dangerous ground and the president has the goods to burn agent anna chennault. >> and here the latest information we got, the agent says that she's just talked to the boss and he says just hold on until after the election. >> when you hear johnson talking to dirkson, you hear in johnson this master politician who's used threatening tactics throughout the course of his political career to achieve his political ends. >> it's classic johnson. it's classic, you know, get ahead of the republican party to try and get nixon to do this. >> i'm reading everett, i don't want to get this in the campaign, and they ought not to be doing this. this is treason. they're contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war. and it's a damn bad mistake. you just tell them their people are messing around in this thing, if they don't want it on the front pages they better quit

bobby kennedy despised lyndon johnson. they were like dogs with the hair standing up on the back of their neck. >> joe kennedy didn't feel that way. he was looking in strategic terms at the map and realized that his son needed texas. >> so the two brothers tapped lyndon johnson to be jack's vice presidential running mate. and they did that for one reason. they were going to do anything it took to get jack elected president. >> first kennedy must beat one of the most experienced politicians in america, republican nominee and sitting vice president richard nixon. ♪ bum-bum-bum-bum-bum t-mobile believes it's better to give than to receive. some may disagree. (scream) no! others won't believe it. no! no! and some just won't have the words. (laugh) join t-mobile and get the samsung galaxy s9 free. we look forward to your reactions. (scream) ♪ bum-bum-bum-bum-bum >>> six weeks before election day democratic candidate jack kennedy and vice president richard nixon are in a dead heat. >> the critical moment in the entire electi

in which she focuses on president abraham lincoln, theodore roosevelt, and lyndon b. johnson. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. newsan editor at bloomberg , and i am the 111th president of the national press club. before we get started, i would like to ask you to please silence her cell phone if you have not already. if you are on twitter, we do encourage you to tweet during #nccrogram and use the live. d.c.andle is press club for our c-span and public radio for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware that members of the general public are here in the audience with us today, so any reaction that you might hear is not necessarily from the working press. now, i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. we have barbara cochran, and if you would like to stand, who is the president of the board of the national journalism is did and the curtis b hurley chair in public journalism at the missouri school of journalism. [applause] we have sergius alfa group from the

. >> in 1967, president lyndon johnson established a commission to study the causes of recent to avoid future incidents be her, fred harris talks about the origins of the commission and the impact of the years after its release. the university of minnesota's humphrey school of public affairs hosted this event. it is just under an hour. i am glad to see you all here and i am so happy that the particularly the center under the leadership of dr. meyer's is partnering with the the lone foundation and especially the wilder school to bring this conference to fruition. . forwardong been looking to this. i think they have done a remarkable job and we should give them a round of applause. i am also pleased to see journalists and academics, and a numberials of concerned citizens from all walks of life for many generations. it is important to me particularly in 2018 only have a to look at soity many things that happened in 1968, important that we do things in a multigenerational way. it makes me think about one of my favorite words of wisdom from an educational theorist, which is my background. i

but what it took from him and from fdr, lyndon johnson, more complicated, what it took was that since of confidence that you could be criticized by the press and that the not mean that the press was your enemy. on the contrary, even went teddy roosevelt was younger and he wrote a memoir about his experiences in the aanish-american war, and famous journalist writing critique of it, and he said, teddy made himself the center of every action of every battle of that war that he should have called the book "alone in cuba." and everybody is laughing at him, making fun of him. i regret to tell you that my wife and intimate friends absolutely adore your your review of my book. always wanted to begin so the journalist was not sure he could come to see teddy because he knew how charismatic he was, but he decided that he would take a chance and be able to criticize him. he became friends with teddy. when i think about fdr, just imagine two press conferences a week. he said those press conferences educated him, they made him get up today on things, he called them by the first name. there was one

on lectures in history, university of arizona history professor kyle longley on lyndon johnson and the vietnam war in 1968. >> he has transformed the country, for better or for worse, giving up power to search for peace. that's pretty big. a major step. and it all relates to what? ? what is the issue? vietnam. >> sunday at 8:00 p.m., the relationship with pope john paul ii. >> you had two people, both leaders, one in the secular and one in the religious world, with parallel interest. when those parallel interests were obvious, as what happened in poland, where they were under attack, if you will, it was logical than for ronald reagan, particularly with his ideas about defeating communism, to cooperate. >> and next weekend on american history tv, the world war i centennial. american history tv airs every weekend on c-span3. >> this weekend, american history tv is joining our out these cable partners to showcase the city of lake have a sioux city, arizona. to learn more about the cities on our tour, go to c-span.org/citiestour. we continue noth

lyndon johnson and the civil rights act of 64 the first thing he says is we just lost the south for the rest of my lifetime, maybe more. he understood the purpose of a consensus tangent down but we are not treating everybody the same. part of the reason everybody could get along in congress in 1957 or 1965 was there were not any women there to say what you guys are doing is stupid. [applause] [laughter] [cheering] the women show up and they start questioning things and suddenly men are kind of uncomfortable. changes to consensus. that is the same with lg dt issues. within the united states, we have a whole range of issues that were not being addressed as they come up with a healthy thing. they couldn't be buried and suddenly that consensus was comfortable. when it comes to the economy, what happens is the globalization had a consensus between bill clinton, george h. w. bush, george w. bush and certainly elements of my administration. the world was doing better because of globalization and there were folks whose factories were being closed and you have a winner take all economy back in 1

then 1964, lyndon johnson says to congress there's been an unprovoked attack in the gulf. a couple of later they pass the resolution, johnson realizes there was no such incident. based on this flimsy resolution the whole vietnam wars, killing almost 60,000 americans was waged by the americans would cricry. >> host: has this been the first experience with james polk? i. >> michael: this is my first experience, and watching him on television he basically allowed later presidents that our founder would be horrified by. >> host: speaking of which, what was the founders original vision? >> michael: sometimes they have to go to war but it's rare and make sure congress supports it and the american people did to. because as a i write, war of 1812, madison got us involved in that what was the first war we lost? i would say it's the war of 1812, not vietnam. what was the most unpopular war, i would say 1812, not vietnam, almost half the congress was against it, new englieutenant almost receded because new englanders were so angry about this and the war was spun as a great secretary,

lyndon johnson had shown us. incessant lying about vietnam. and then followed by watergate took a toll on the country. we were a more cynical country. >> out of a fog of mistrust emerged a brave new voice. >> our public servants have to be charged with a higher duty than merely staying out of jail. they must attempt, as much as humanly possible, to embody the highest values of this nation's society. >> gary hart was the original new democrat. his slogan was, new ideas for a new generation. >> people believed in gary hart. they were willing to sacrifice for him and the greater good. >> gary hart started his climb in 1971. when senator george mcgovern tapped the 34-year-old yale lawyer to run his presidential campaign against incumbent richard nixon. >> he represented a new generation of hip, smart, and ambitious young democrats. he was going to go out and upset the conventional rules. he was a guerrilla fighter in a way. >> we have the votes from california. we want that challenge to be brought up tonight. we are prepared to stay here all night

but mccarthy did, and he got 42% of the vote in new hampshire to the 49% of lyndon johnson. a tremendous moral victory for him. lyndon johnson wasn't even on the ballot. this was political malpractice of an extraordinary order. johnson won as a write in candidate in new hampshire as president of the united states. it with inexpressible, but the excitement and the enthusiasm almost blocked out the fact that nixon himself and people looked at it and if they looked at it closely, nixon got a lot of writings in the democratic primary thanks to a little subterfuge that we had going and he beat bobby kennedy 4-1 in the democratic primary. the people did not look at it in the enthusiasm of maccarthy, and the bows exceeded all of the candidates in each party. everyone. so nixon was really off to a tremendous start. just four days after new hampshire, and let's leave it here, four days, bobby kennedy seeing an opportunity and seeing what maccarthy had done and left the race, and bobby kennedy frankly, we saw the 50th anniversary of his death, but he was a complete opportunity just as

what it took from him and from fdr, lyndon johnson or comp get it but what it took was that sense of confidence that you could be criticized by the press and that did not mean the press was your enemy. on the contrary even when teddy roosevelt was younger and wrote a memoir about his experiences in the spanish-american war and famous journalist wrote a critique of it and said teddy, he made himself the center of every action and every battle i wore the nation called the book alone in cuba. everybody is laughing in the country making fun of him that he write a letter to the journalist and it then becomes public never get to tell you my wife and good friends adore you review my book. now you owe me something. i've always wanted to meet you. the journalist wasn't sure he could come to see teddy because he knew how charismatic he was but he decided to take a chance and still be able to criticize him. they did become friends and he still criticize them but teddy still accepted that relationship. then when i think about fdr imagine to press, does a week. he said those press compasses educa

lyndon johnson, of course, in that photo would be sworn in as president later that day. michael beschloss remains with us. in addition to a president, what did this nation lose on that day 55 years ago? >> well, one thing, brian, was our certainty that unlike nations in europe, for instance, our politics was not rocked by strange things like assassinations. that really ended at that point. and another one was a huge effort by all of our people to look for explanations that are deeper than perhaps seemed on the surface. a lot of people questioned the official explanation of his assassination that was done by a lone gunman. a lot of people question that still, and from that day onward a lot of people have had a lot of questions about other decisions that our government has made from vietnam through iraq and afghanistan. >> think of that day in our history, we didn't know what else there might be. we didn't know if this was part of something else. lyndon johnson arrives at love field and orders the window shades lowered on the plane and later told an interviewer i wondered

and an arizona state university professor on president lyndon johnson and the vietnam war. johnson transformed the conflict for better or for worse, giving up power in the search for peace. pretty big. a major step. it led to what? vietnam. eastern, at 8 p.m. ronald reagan's attorney general talks about president reagan's views on communism and his relationship with pope john paul ii. >> there are relationships between these leaders, in the secular and religious world, with parallel interests. these interests were obvious in terms of what happened in poland, where they were under attack. reaganlogical for ronald to cooperate. >> and the world war i centennial. american history television airs every weekend on c-span3. launched our longest running and most successful community outreach program ever 25 years ago. program hasus visited teachers and students in all 50 states. bus has promoted television programs and c-span educational resources and highlighted cable and public service offerings. we thank teachers and students for allowing us to open our doors across the country

. >> at 8 pm, on lectures of history, arizona state university professor kyle longley on president lyndon johnson and the vietnam war in 1958. >> here's one of the most present -- powerful presidents in history that is transform the country for better and for worse giving up power to search for peace. it is pretty big. major step. it all relates to what? what is the issue? vietnam. >> sunday at 8 pm eastern on the presidency point ronald reagan's attorney general talks about president reagan's view on communism and his relationship with pope john paul ii. >> you had two people, both leaders, one of the secondary -- religious world with parallel interests. when those interests were obvious as to what happened in poland there where they were under attack if you will, then it was logical that ronald reagan particularly with his ideas about defeating communism would cooperate. >> next weekend on american history tv, the world war i centennial. american history tv airs every weekend on c-span 3. >> which party will control the house and senate? watch c-span's election night coverage starting t

i met him a few times to lyndon johnson and is just an extraordinarily warm character. much like joe biden i think, a natural politician who really liked being with people. i think he would've been a good leader. i bet you we could find half a dozen. somebody has written a book which i haven't read yet but about these losing candidates. it's an interesting idea to know why they lost and whether it was something particular at the moment of whether they had the qualities that might been fit for yes, the next time around. i will think more about that. we have lots more to talk about. we can't stop. >> we have so much more to talk about and help perhaps you'll consider coming back to talk to us more at some point in the very near future. before we wrap up by a just a couple housekeeping items. first, if you like to have doors and find your book please light up over here coming around this way after i count the luncheon out. second i like to take a moment to let our audience know about some upcoming event here at the club. this coming friday on november 9 with secretary of v

nobody believed lyndon johnson was going to give up a chance to secure another term in office, did they? only a few people so close to him. and they weren't sure. and yet, here is one of the most powerful presidents in american history that has transformed the country for better and for worse, giving up power to search for peace. it's pretty big. major step. and it all relates to what? what's the issue? vietnam. he didn't say because of civil rights, did he? he didn't say because he was worried about the balanced budget. he said he was there -- it was vietnam. again, this period from january to march of 19 -- end of march of 1968 is one of the most intense and most important in u.s. history. because it's going to set the country now down a different path. and that path is going to be about negotiation. negotiating our way out and really going right full circle to what cronkite said. negotiating as an honorable people. and here are just some of the pictures. in the book, don't you love that picture of lucy sitting right behind him and just -- i don't have this one. but she's right over h

doris kearns goodwin, you worked for lyndon johnson. abraham lincoln who you profiled, big republican. the country was at war then. what is the precedent. let me quote this from abraham lincoln. from 1861. though passion may have strained it, it must not break our bonds of affection. the mystic cords -- living heart and half stone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the union when surely they will be by the angels of our nature. it smelounds so great and too quaint for today. can we find our better angels. >> well it has to. we had a divide that was so deep that it led to that civil war. it wasn't just a political divide, it was a cultural divide. the southern congressman hit the northern senator over the head with a cane, he was made a hero in the south. and in the north it bolstered the movement. if people on the other side of the regions or issues or parties see each other as the other rather than fell low americans. i think the fever is going to break. the overwhelming majority of people want to see this as an end.

lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... . >>> good evening. if you pitch to him, he will ruin a baseball. that was the quote from sparky anderson years ago about the late willie mccuffy who passed away today. aperrinely of an infection that had spread. he had countless surgeries. the players gave out the willie mac award. willie had talked about what the award meant to him. >> all these guys up here are great giants, and -- and we are family. and to be voted the willie mac award means you're in the giants family. >> you think of him as a jeptle giant. he was big and imposing and feared as a hitter. soft and cuddly as a person. his mobility was limited. his heart was there. his spirit was never limited. >> the giants say there will be a public celebration scheduled at a later date. on to the games. the warriors play the pelicans. obstacles galore. klay thompson came dressed for succe success. he said he was channelling jackie moon from the movie "semipro". andre iguodala has the buzzer beater to end the first quarter. another 40--point quarter.

lyndon johnson once said the first rule of politics is that its practitioners need to be able to count, when you ta ke need to be able to count, when you take away the dup and the hired core brexit supporters, that makes it incredibly difficult for the prime minister, in this conversation she's having with the european leaders this afternoon are they saying we are not reopening this but is there in the bottom drawer somewhere another bit of tinsel? there might be some small things but i don't think much, qualifications and so forth, do this on do they suddenly wa nt to forth, do this on do they suddenly want tojump the forth, do this on do they suddenly want to jump the irish backstop and you've seen after months of negotiation that they do not, and that on the tory right is a hot button issue, with the other 27 want to open that? i don't think they will, we have negotiated for a long time and it's been very difficult. nobody particularly loves this deal, people coming and seeing thinking it's a good deal, do they mean it? the dutch prime minister said he hated it! yes, but i think the

we haven't seen a level that low is lyndon johnson. but the president himself admitted this week, it's boring to talk about the economy. he would rather gin people up and talk about immigration. and that's really difficult for a republican like corbello in a swing district. >> dickerson: that's why he said, that caravan really ginned up our base. mike kaufman, sixth district of colorado, another tough seat. one of his strategist says in the last week the president has behaved like a guy trying to build a political majority in the ozarks. the purposeful provocation makes an already grim situation in the suburbs even more difficult. is this a president running in a save the senate strategy which hurts in suburban districts that shawna was talking about? >> absolutely. that's because the senate matters more to the president than a lot of these different house members, many of whom he doesn't know. he doesn't have a relationship with them. he knows who jon tester. is he knows who heidi heitkamp is, and he knows who claire mccaskill is and

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>> johnson. >> that's right. lyndon johnson. he persuaded justice tom clark to retire after nominating his son to be the attorney general. >> next question. which president generally regarded as one of the least effective presidents holds the record for the most failed supreme court nominations? >> fillmore. >> that is incorrect. team jefferson, would you like to steal the question? >> buchanan. >> that is incorrect. it is tyler with eight nominations that either were rejected by the senate or otherwise withdrawn in a year and a half. [laughter] >> next question. back to team jefferson. >> all right. which future justice asked his uncle, the president, for the coveted job of u.s. attorney for virginia only to have his uncle turned him down because he was opposed to nepotism? he has quite a name. >> washington. >> bushrod washington. very good. e could notice -- h persuade his uncle, george washington, to name him u.s. attorney for virginia. bushrod turned out ok. president john adams nominated the 36-year-old, bushrod washington

johnson's hand. >> anthony: lyndon johnson declared his war on poverty. a good thing, yes? the press tour portraying the people here as incapable and bewildered helpless mass. the pride and the self-reliant core of the people here. that damage is lasting. >> when you come in and keep telling us how poor and fat and all these things are, we felt at some point changed. >> anthony: what do people don't know that they are not getting? >> it has been said but not hit home. it is how much that people in this area have been exploited? >> the land agency came in and bought all the mineral rod. the coal and timber company started extracting taking everybody's rights. >> who is the miner in this group? who is it? stand up. you are all standing up anyway. 9 million pills. one pharmacy. >> there were some political figures that comes through. >> by and large, the industry does not really want that? why would they? if somebody can live here and make a similar living wage and not having to risk their lives, they're not going to. democrats are not understanding the problem here. >> i want

>> congress says in recent times behaved almost like lap dogs, lyndon johnson when he was waging the vietnam war, sometimes people forget this, he was getting almost hourly criticism from -- >> and that was best-selling historian michael bescloss from the texas book festival in october and we are live from the miami book festival and he joins us here, special for your times. >> have you ever gotten anyone complaining about being in the miami book fair? >> not when it's -- >> no, tremendous. >> in your talk there in texas you were talking about the fact that we have invested a lot of power in the president of the united states and that can affect war judgment? >> yeah, that's for sure and that's what our founders were terrified of because they were really worried that our presidents might become like kings of england which was what they were trying to get away from. what they specifically wanted was to make sure that no president could get us into a war single handily or almost overnight and over200 years that's sort of the story of my whole book, i tell the story of 8 or 9 guy who is

>> johnson. sheldon: that's right. lyndon johnson. he successfully persuaded justice tom clark to retire after nominating his son to be the attorney general. elizabeth: all right. next question. which president generally regarded as one of the least effective presidents holds the record for the most failed supreme court nominations? >> fillmore. elizabeth: that is incorrect. team jefferson, would you like to steal the question? >> buchanan. elizabeth: that is incorrect. it is john tyler with eight nominations that either were rejected by the senate or otherwise withdrawn in a year and a half. [laughter] next question. it goes back to team jefferson. sheldon: all right, team jefferson. which future justice asked his uncle, the president, for the coveted job of u.s. attorney for virginia only to have his uncle turn him down because he was opposed to nepotism? elizabeth: he has quite a name. >> washington. sheldon: that's right. bushrod washington. very good. according to a former justice coming he could not persuade his uncle, george wa

lyndon b. johnson was not on twitter. he isn't the most eloquent at some of the things he says, but he's transparent. he is telling people "i don't agree with this." he saying "maybe they did, maybe they didn't." not necessarily the words i would've chosen. >> arthel: what is it, does he disagree or approve of it? >> nicole: i'm curious what they? >> nicole: i'm curious what they will do. are they going to come back to president trump saying "all right, well --" >> dagen: to paraphrase the editorial, that the crown prince has been reckless in his prosecution of the war in yemen, among other problems in the middle east. and it's not just your foreign allies. you need to worry about your domestic allies in pushing forward your foreign policy agenda. with that statement, did the president alienate even in a small way a lindsey graham or even the incoming senator met romney? >> steve: that remains to be seen. ultimately, what we have heard from the president is that they don't really have 100% accurate proof. so, i'm done. th

he saw lyndon johnson over on the senate side and he saw sam on the house side. as one of his colleagues in the house said, jack burns was always there. he said the delegates to congress from hawaii before, they were more like a diplomat. jack burns, he was there even when it did not make any difference. he wasn't going to be able to vote, but he was down there on the floor. he would show up. and he was such a nice guy. wantedw, if jack something and he wanted statehood, that is what he went after. think that that is where he really learned politics. legislative politics, governing politics. he learned from two of the best in the history of the united states -- in the 20th century -- sam rayburn and lyndon johnson. one of the things was the state of alaska was -- was that alaska was going for statehood, too. the question was who should go first? said, jack, there are a lot of people who will vote for you because, he said, you are ready for statehood. you have a population, they vote well, you've got things to support your economy. but alaska wants in, too. they a

this was the most powerful uncanny politician who ever occupied the presidency, and no one expected lyndon johnson to give up and not run until the moment he actually spoke the words, that he was giving up and not running for re-election. the trump model following the lbj model is not inconceivable. >> no, and i would say, you know, if i were a house republican i would really ask myself is donald trump helpful to my prospects if i'm not just in the most rural part of this country or is he helpful? and is it helpful to have him on the ticket for us to get to the top of the majority or harmful? and the reality is republicans made their bed with the devil over the last two years. mitch mcconnell and former speaker ryan made a deal with they basically looked away, were no check on trump. basically said yes to every single thing he did. and the country rose up in opposition. i'm definitely not an advisor to the republican party, but i have to say they have to ask themselves who is actually going to help them in the long-term be a majority party? they are not a majority party today. they are jus

by president lyndon johnson about his commitment to the war. some of you like blondes, redheads are some don't like at all in that dead weight goal and to emphasize the planes. we can sit down and talk. we were preparing to leave. i want to ask if any of you feel different from anything you've read or heard about me before you came. for the disaster of people in china at which the tragedy was overlaid. it is the documents fromem both sides of the recount a miniscule incident such as repeated 10,000 times. they were sitting silent on the brick wall off a house holding a wicker basket, her eyes straight ahead. now i am asked why she lingered in the midst of a battlefield and she remained silent. a soldier motioned to go away and pulled her back but instead began to unbuttoned her plots. the young man was deeply embarrassed and had read his rejection of the property. they would scream and this was a woman who recognized the. she stopped as if she was trying to summon up a memory. they describe are walking away from the water like a person this is

unlike selma the earlier, which lyndon johnson used as a vehicle to help pass the voting rights act. more radical groups like snick and core are hostile towards johnson so he doesn't get political benefit from the march unless he's willing to have a federal presence on the march itself. they arrive in canton, minimums, it's one of the mast major stops before you hit jackson and the marchers decide they want to camp on the ground of the black elementary school. and so after a big rally at the canton courthouse they march through the streets of cant b and arrive at the elementary school and there are no law enforcement officials there so they take to field and start to put up their tents. and the next thing that happens is that all of a sudden all these police cars roll up. car after car after car and police emerge. state police and they put on riot gear, and they shoot tear gas, they don't shoot it to spread people away, they shoot it to punish the marchers, into the crowd, in every direction, they are attacking people with tear gas canisters. it's a gruesome as scene as you can imagi

that is why when lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964, the first thing he says is -- we just lost the south for the rest of my lifetime, maybe more. because he understood that part of that old consensus had tamped down this big contradiction which is, we talk a lot about democracy, but we are not treating everybody the same. reason-- what are the everybody could get along pretty good in congress in a 1957 or 1965 was that there weren't any women there to a -- what you guys are doing -- women there to say: "what you guys are doing is stupid!" [laughter] [applause] fmr. president obama: suddenly women show up in the start questioning things, and suddenly men are uncomfortable. it changes consensus. same with lgbt issues. so within the united dates, we had a whole range of issues that were not being addressed as they come up, which is a healthy thing. it can be varied -- they could not be buried. suddenly, that consensus felt uncomfortable. when it comes to the economy, part of what happens is that the -- where you actually had a consensus between bill clinton, george h.w.

. >> maybe since lyndon johnson. by all accounts, he is about to face a shelac when it comes to the house. >> the senate map is a trump mab and the house is not. he is focusing on ensuring that disaster doesn't strike the republican party and they lose both chambers on tuesday. we don't expect that to happen. possibly they can add a seat or two and the house is so difficult for all the reasons we have been discussing. that's why he is not focusing on that going into the suburban districts. they need to hold the seats that hillary clinton won and the two dozen or so. if trump were to rally the guys, that's not helpful. >> one observation, not to contradict and i could be out on a limb here, if you think back to 2006, another cycle where democrats won congress back, it wasn't until the very end that the senate came online. democrats won in montana with jon tester and jim webb in virginia. i think it's unlikely that the democrats take back the house -- i'm sorry, the senate. thank you. i don't think it's impossible that

johnson and the vietnam war in 1968. >> here is one of the most powerful presidents in american history that has transformed the country for better or for worse giving up power to search for peace. that is pretty big. a major step and it all relates to what. what is the issue? vietnam. >> on sunday on the presidency. ronald reagan's attorney general talks about president reagan's news on communism and his relationship with pope john paul ii. >> you have two people both leaders one of the secular world and one in the religious world with parallel interests. when those parallel interests were obvious as what happened in poland when they were under attack if you will it was logical for ronald reagan particularly with his ideas about defeating communism to cooperate. >> next weekend the world war i centennial. airs every weekend on c-span three. >>> more about how the fashion choices of betty ford influenced culture. this talk was one of a series. the richard nixon foundation hosted this event. >> ladies and gentlemen i am honored to introduce today's speaker. the nixon library has presente

. >> nearly 50 years after president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act into law, a key provision of the landmark legislation was struck down. >> i am deeply disappointed, deeply disappointed with the court's decision in this matter. >> this decision restores an important constitutional order. >> edward bloom is a conservative legal strategist behind the shelby county lawsuit and dozens of other lawsuits challenging race related laws across the country. >> there will always be racism in this country. the question is, how do we diminish it. if you tell me the way to diminish racism is to grant preferences to those who have suffered, i'm telling you, that's the wrong answer. >> in the shelby county case, bloom took aim at section 5 of the voting rights act, the provision which gave the federal government authority tort oversee election laws in a handful of states, states with the long histories of racism and voter discrimination. >> section 5 was a product of 1965. it is no longer 165. african-americans participate in the polls. the nation changed. politics changed. but that statute