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with former secretary of state hillary clinton who joined us to talk about the 2024 election and the threat that her 2016 opponent, donald trump, poses to the future of american democracy. how do people manage, especially people who really love this democracy, who take it seriously, who take the words you just said on our show very seriously, that you can t just sit back and let democracy come to you, that this is, every day, something we all must work on together, what do you say when people ask you about the former president, these trials, these delays, and the fear that they feel about the upcoming election? well, mika, i m happy to go to therapy with you any time let s do it. clearly, the pressure and the stress on our system, our country, our constitution, our future is so intense. for those of us who understand what s at stake and i don t mean that in a, you know, derogatory way to others no. but if you ve been in this world as you and i have, you ve s
Host it will be 50 years ago this august that president Lyndon Johnson passed the civil rights voting act. We will be talking to experts as well as going behind the scenes with white house telephone recordings. Lets introduce our experts. Joining us in washington, d. C. Kent germany. He is a history professor at the university of South Carolina but also the editor of the lyndon b. Johnson project at the university of virginia. Thanks for joining us. Mr. Germany it is my pleasure. Host our next guest was the secretary of health, education and welfare, and he was the author of the triumph and tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. Thank you for joining us. Mr. Califano nice to be with you. Host before we starts, a little bit about your perspectives. Mr. Germany, the lbj project what is that . Mr. Germany it is a goldmining project. It is trying to get all of the recordings transcribed, edited annotated, anything you would need to know to understand what is going on in a conversation. The editors are
Wayses, and the exciting thing that ive been a part of is to watch in one single day as we voted on american amendments in one day of this year than we did in all of 2014. Right now if you look at i think the numbers weve passed over 60 bills, most of which were bipartisan. 25 of which have been signed into law. Rose Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lyndon Johnson a new documentary about william f. Buckley jr. And gore vidal and al hunt on the story with colorado senator cory gardner. All of that when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Doris Kearns Goodwin is here. She is a president ial historian. She is a pulitzer prizewinning author. His first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream was publicked way back in 1977. The biography is now bei
Voting rights act in 1965. It are outward together, we will learn how lbj got the Voting Rights bill passed in congress and we will also talk to experts and also be going behind the scenes with white house telephone recordings. Lets introduce our experts. Joining us in washington, d. C. Kent germany. He is a history professor at the university of south carolina. Thank you for joining us. Mr. Germany thank you. It is my pleasure. Host our next guest was the secretary of health, education and welfare, and he was the author of the triumph and tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. The white house years. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for joining us. Guest nice to be with you. Host mr. Germany, the lbj project, what is that . Mr. Germany it is trying to get all of the recordings transcribed, edited, annotated anything you would need to know to understand what is going on in a conversation. The editors are there. We are trying to put everything out from the assassination.