over themselves. they fought in the civil war. when lincoln was called a liberator, he said don t call me a liberator. it was the anti-slavery movement and union soldiers that did it all. what about the civil rights movement in the 60s? what about the courage and bravery that took? what about the people out in the settlement houses and progressive eras? there were eras where the people were willing to put something larger so that wars against a time like ours where you have the feeling where is the ambition? where are.in both parties who are willing to sacrifice something for what they believe in and let themselves not get elected the next time around? let me ask you, doris, when you look at periods like the civil rights period, your late husband wrote some of the most extraordinary speeches johnson gave, it now looks through the warm lens of nostalgia, it all looks much easier. it was there were deep divisions then. there were people who thought johnson was destroying the america
when lincoln was called a liberator, he said don t call me a liberator. it was the anti-slavery movement and union soldiers that did it all. what about the civil rights movement in the 60s? what about the courage and bravery that took? what about the people out in the settlement houses in the progressive eras? there were eras where the people were willing to put something larger so that wars against a time like ours where you have the feeling where is the ambition? where are the people in both parties who are willing to sacrifice something for what they believe in and let themselves not get elected the next time around? let me ask you, doris, when you look at periods like the civil rights period, your late husband wrote some of the most extraordinary speeches johnson gave, it now looks through the warm lens of nostalgia, it all looks much easier. it was there were deep divisions then. there were people who thought johnson was destroying the america they knew.
worrying about inside was if there is a piece of information that says oswald was acting as an agent for cuba or the soviet union if killing john kennedy, americans will demand we go to war against the soviet union and might kill 40 million people. nobody knew it on the 23rd of november 50 years ago, that s what was going through his head. he was also terrified politically in even in 64. i wonder because that brings us to the first major legislative pushes in advance, that was civil rights, how much of that was because lbj s reputation before was the conservative southern senator. 1948. he had run almost with white supreme cyst language. exactly. so much of his push was this was
anyone would think that. i don t think vice presidents should come down from anything. only two officers in the land were elected by all the people, the president and the vice president i have never known any majority or senator willing to serve as vice president if his people are willing to elect him. nobody thought johnson was the sending most powerful man then. life magazine quoted the no. 2 man in washington talking about the president s brother, robert kennedy, perhaps lbj s most bitter rival in all of washington. in all of politics. of course, to call them rivals suggested in the days before fate made him president, lbj was in the same league as bobby kennedy when it came to power, clout, significance. when it came to having a political future. that would have been a gross distortion of the concept of a rivalry. months later safely ensconced in the white house, lbj smoke e spoke of the misery he had felt