This was an administration that documented itself stand sadly extensively. There was the Lyndon Johnson phone tapes. People who love political history were very aware of. Is this new to the administration . Had this been going on for a while. She did not record every day. But she had a little recording machine. On days that were busy, she would stuff brown envelopes with menus, and she would get an hour one day and record. Those recordings are still being transcribed. They are wonderful. Her white house diary is, i think, 800 pages, but that is think, 800 pages, but that is only 1 8 of what she has on those pages. There were recordings before this. We have some kennedy recordings. We have roosevelt recordings. John quincy adamss wife wrote when she was first lady, the autobiography of a nobody. I think that most first couples have an awareness of the magnitude of the job. Lady bird johnson had such a sense of history that she understood. She said she dared herself to be productive. Thr
Its the only place where republicans can win. Speeding out even though its phenomenal to be in orange Orange County and he loved being here the Nixon Library, a lot of conservatives shy away from president nixon because after all he was impeached for having the nsa spy on our citizenry. [laughter] for sticking the irs on his political opponents and for dan denning diplomats abroad. And for telling ad buy to the American People. If you like your health care insurance, you can keep your insurance. [applause] now, i know, its like the standards of treason. I am a lawyer and so you look at precedence and if you look at what people have been tried for treason for you now tokyo rose, gosh we have a lot of people i think you ma want to try for treason over the past few years but apparently we have just dropped for example jane fonda. Apparently with jane fonda we dropped any prosecutions for treason and the same thing for impeachment. One of the articles of impeachment for nixon who wasnt imp
Signature issue as first lady. Campaigner,tural successful businesswoman and husband,tner to her Lyndon Johnson. You the storytell of Claudia Taylor johnson known ourady bird, the wife of 36th president. Here to tell her story are Cokie Roberts, political commentary for abc news and npr, also the books, founding mothers and ladies of liberty. Curly is an expert of working on a biography Lady Bird Johnson. I want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 week, this is an administration birthed in national tragedy. The immediate challenges for the brand new the firstle in terrible days after the assassination of kennedy. It was enormous. Nobody knew if it was a widespread plot so the country was in terror for a period of had to be both taking over and making sure that peaceful transition of power without seeming to take the image ofof kennedys out the of the way so they had to be very, very careful in how they handled it and Lyndon Johnson birdery lucky he had lady to help him with t
Congress be doing about immigration . As always, you can join in on the conversation to social media, send us a tweet at http twitter. Com cspanwj, send us an email, journal cspan. Org , or join us on facebook. We will focus on immigration this morning. Profiles in caution is a cover story on cq weekly. What does it mean into the future of any bipartisan deal this year in congress . Insight on the issue of immigration. There is this jane te last year, john boehner addressed the , talking about taking a piecemeal rather than comprehensive. [video clip] the American People are skeptical of comprehensive bills, frankly, they should be. The only way to make sure that these work this time is to address these complicated issues one step at a time. By doing so we give the American People confidence that we are dealing with these issues in a thoughtful way and a deliberative way. Makeconfident that we can progress on this important issue. That was the speaker of the house, late last year. The
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