bobby and lbj always hated each other. bobby kennedy thought lbj was a bully. lbj thought bobby was an annoying runt. a bad match. the kennedys need the big texan to carry the south. and appease voters uncomfortable with electing a catholic. there will be some non-catholics who will vote against senator kennedy because of his religion. the governor of the state of north carolina said he felt that this problem or difficulty would cost us maybe 200,000 votes in the state of north carolina. it feels so silly. it feels so remote. but it really wasn t that remote in the grand scheme of things. it s not that long ago. john is facing an opponent who has had eight years of experience on the world stage. there s one thing nixon lacks, the kennedy charisma. the story is told, who knows if it s true or not, that one of the nixon people at the first debate in chicago said to rfk,
against vice presidential candidate, lyndon johnson. bobby and lbj always hated each other. bobby kennedy thought lbj was a big bully. lbj thought bobby was an annoying little runt. a bad match. the kennedys need the big texan to carry the south. and appease voters uncomfortable with electing a catholic. there will be some non-catholics who will vote against senator kennedy because of his religion. the governor of the state of north carolina said he felt that this problem or difficulty would cost us maybe 200,000 votes in the state of north carolina. it feels so silly. it feels so remote. but it really wasn t that remote in the grand scheme of things. it s not that long ago. in vice president richard nixon, john is facing an opponent who has had eight years of experience on the world stage. but there s one thing that nixon lacks, the kennedy charisma. the story is told, who knows
each other. bobby kennedy thought lbj was a bully. lbj thought bobby was an annoying runt. a bad match. the kennedys need the big texan to carry the south. and appease voters uncomfortable with electing a catholic. there will be some non-catholics who will vote against senator kennedy because of his religion. the governor of the state of north carolina said he felt that this problem or difficulty would cost us maybe 200,000 votes in the state of north carolina. it feels so silly. it feels so remote. but it really wasn t that remote in the grand scheme of things. it s not that long ago. john is facing an opponent who has had eight years of experience on the world stage. there s one thing nixon lacks, the kennedy charisma. the story is told, who knows if it s true or not, that one of the nixon people at the first debate in chicago said to rfk, does nixon look okay in his
back, is having something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. two days later, professor julian, he thinks it will be difficult to convince america that oswald is a lone assassin, which by the way, has to be before he knew he was the lone assassin. this is the height of the cold war. instantly lbj is scrambling to figure out what was happening. there are all kinds of theories out there. did the soviets do it. did cuba do it. we see this in the documents that right wing in america that was in dallas that time was also responsible. so part of the effort was to find out what happened. but part of it was to contain what the response would be. we learned in one document that the soviets are very worried that some general is going to unleash on the soviets after this happened. so that s part of the scramble that you re seeing. the president is is assassinated at the height of the cold war.
we have files fbi files, cia files that are sort of scraps of information, rumors, completely unconfirmed. one document was released saying that some notion that lbj was part of the ku klux klan. if you know his politics, he was anything but that. can we make the most awkward segue and talk about something else that happened at the white house, a public health emergency. not a national emergency which means there is no new federal funding for it. but it will refocus and shine a spotlight on it. that s right. it s not nothing. the people who are complaining that, well, there should be billions of dollars. we should be able to raid fema and take away from the rebuilding of houston or puerto rico to apply it to this might be a little bit misguided. federal funds will go to fight