Mr. President he said isnt there a phone in there . [laughter] and she said that. He said put a phone in there. So i came out, and peggy, and she said the president wanted for and about. I said forget about it. We forgot about it. The next morning same time im in the same place, the same call come and he shouts at peggy. He said, i told you to put a phone in there. And she said, yes, mr. President by the time i got out of the bathroom they were to Army Signal Corps guys standing in my office, and the phone was installed. That was whe what he wanted youl the time. I mean, i just come and secondly, he saw, he saw things always a way to do something we did a lot of needed some help. One of my kids, i was in hospital in virginia and washington, my son joe had swallowed a bottle of aspirin and the president called and, of course, you, i just ran. I didnt leave a phone number. And, finally, he gives me at the hospital and he said what are you doing of what the hell are you doing there . I said, well, my son swallowed a bottle of aspirin. Hes two years old. He said, thats terrible. Table. You know, we shouldnt have, we should make these people have these bottles so the little kids cant open them. And thats why most of us in this room have trouble opening our medicine. [laughter] spirit its called the child safety act. Backing you had to take care of you. Elementary and secondary education. For use with and trying, have been on the democratic platform to a federal a telemetry and secondary education. Before schools couldnt get it. The problem was the catholics were able to block it unless you provided aid to parochial schools, and evangelicals and the urban secular jews were able to block it if it did provide a to of schools. And it could make any progress and johnson started working on and working on a. It got more complicated with the Civil Rights Act in 1964 because now then weve got discharged that it was going to be more money for blacks. And Adam Clayton Powell, harlem congressman, was chairman of the house education committee, and president johnson finally says, adam, youve got to leave town. Youve got to turn this over to somebody else. Some of you may remember thats what Adam Clayton Powell left if you never quite got back. [laughter] and he said, he wanted a congressman from brooklyn to try to put the deal together. Kerry was in a district in brooklyn that orthodox jews, roman catholics, this over if an incredible clinton area. The fact that johnson is that was incredible. Kerry came up with the idea of leasing books to parochial schools. Johnson started selling it. Theres a wonderful meeting with Cardinal Spellman from new york, billy graham, and Arthur Goldberg stand astride the white house pool. They were in their clothes. That is the hottest room on gods earth, the hottest new. And johnson, and is working on it. In the background i think is do more in me i have in my office because he was so hot into a you could see the sweat through the cardinals he worked on and work on any font agreed, contested the he got the bill passed and then he said to John Mccormick of the speaker of the house, he said hold the bill. Is a good ability to and you dont sign it within 10 days, its a pocket veto. Hold the bill for a month. And mccormack said why . And johnson said, because i want to signed it on kerrys birthday. We wouldnt have this bill without them, and he decided on kerrys birthday. That kind of thing. How did you know so much about so many people . Im told that he had the phone number and the name of every member of congress on his desk in the oval office with little notes about what they might need might want. How did he come how did he assemble all this . With tv get all this information speak with key accumulated a. It was just absolutely stunning. And it was invaluable to him. I think, he loved politicians. He spent time with them. He knew when they were sick. He knew in their kids were sick or when they had a problem our didnt. And he knew what would move them. It wasnt always hugs and kisses incidentally. We need to raise the debt limit ones, and in the course of hearing if we lost the vote, we lost six liberal democrats voted against reagan and the debt limit and with this meeting and johnson used a these long sheets, probably remember, of everybodys name into account those go for or against, and decided. We have the six congressmen and were ing through, and one of them from westchester county, a very lovely county in new york, said simply the war was taking money away from people who need it. People need housing. And, for housing. And johnson says, joe, call him up. You tell him we are going to put the biggest damn Public Housing project in the history of this country in the middle of his fancy westchester district. [laughter] we will show him is plenty of money for housing. I did and we did get his vote. [laughter] you can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And on august 28 and in researching where katrina o. In the pecking order of ntu