Johnson and the great society. Hundreds of hours of phone calls. Trove isof a research it for you and other historians . You get a real feel for how Lyndon Johnson tried to lobby and put together coalitions for legislation. Also, people he was working with not just him. Have they tried to work the president , place pressure on the white house. It is unfortunate we do not have that after richard nixon. It is a treasure for those of us who study american politics. Is this a good time to assess his time in the white house . Absolutely. With the enormity of everything he accomplished, we are looking of theth appreciation fact that so much legislation came out of congress within a half. Year and legislation that remains with us today. Medicare, civil rights sex, education policy. It is a good time to try to accomplished,t we and how we accomplished it. It is also the relationship between president and congress. Right now we are in gridlock and people are wondering why cant president s do mo
You get a real flavor for how Lyndon Johnson lobbies and puts together legislation. It allows you to hr the people he was working with and how they tried to put pressure on the white house. We are looking at president johnson and the Voting Rights act and the civil rights act. Is it a good time to reassess his five and a half years in the white house . Absolutely. There are many reasons. One is the enormity of everything that was accomplished then. I think that we are looking back on it with appreciation. Whatever side of the spectrum you are on, just the fact that so much legislation came out of congress within a year and a half. The legislation that remains with us today. I think it is a good time to figure out what we accomplished and how we accomplished it. And i think the other reason we are interested is because of the relationship between president and congress. Right now we are in a period where there is gridlock and people wonder why president s cant seem to do more, whether i
Now at eight. With a second bart strike looming. Kron four checks in on the negotiations. Three days is a very long time. Pam checks up on public opinion. Gonna have to get to work pam and checks out the best strategies to beat the gridlock. Reporter how much for a ride from fremont to San Francisco . Gonna be 100 to 110. Pam happening right now bart unions and management. Are still at the negotiating table. Trying to work out a deal and stave off a second cripple the bay area. We begin our Team Coverage stone. He is live in oakland with details on where the talks stand right now. Jr . Reporter the talks are just wrapped up. Every time we are at their we are trying to work hard. We are trying to work as much as we can as a settlement. We are far apart on it pension, medical, and retirement. Even if we do not have a deal struck on midnight there are a lot of avenues that can be pursued that do not have to end in a strike. We can continue talking we do not need to strike. We can continue
Well, good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. I am claudine wong. I am Eric Rasmussen in for mike mibach. We will go to rosemary and see what we can expect for the work week. The fog. And patchy drizzle out there. Sound familiar . It should. It is partly cloudy skies and there is a trend that we will continue as we get into the business week. I will have the extended forecast and the numbers for today coming up. Time is running out. This is a possible bart strike and it is a little under 17 hours. Bart and its unions have the rest of today to negotiate a deal and try to avoid a strike on monday morning. We have live coverage for you. We have more on the options in case there is a strike. We go to alex savidge who is in oakland monitoring the negotiations. It stretched late into the night. Alex . Reporter no one wants to characterize how close the sides are. But there are encouraging signs. Union representatives and bart representatives met for more than 13 hours here at the cal trans b
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