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wayses, and the exciting thing that i ve 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 we ve 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 presidential historian. she is a pulitzer prize-winning author. his first book lyndon johnson and the american dream was publicked way ....
wayses, and the exciting thing that i ve 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 we ve 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 presidential historian. she is a pulitzer prize-winning author. his first book lyndon johnson and the american dream was publicked way ....
this is part of our sin tennuce activities. i m executive director of the john f. kennedy library foundation. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the library, we are thrilled all of you are here. you are in for a special, special treat tonight. before i talk about the book, a few other quick things first. first, to thank our sponsors for tonight and for the forum series, the bank of america, the lowell institute, media sponsors, the boston globe, xfinity and ber. in addition to tonight, on your chair is a brochure of different activities. as you know, a week from today is the actual centennial birthday for john f. kennedy. we have a variety of things. we hope you come back to some or all of these as your schedule permits. we also want to welcome those that are watching this streaming or those on c-span. we appreciate their participation as well. after the presentation tonight, our authors have kindly agreed to sign books. if you don t have them, they re also availabl ....
are my grandchildren. there comes a point in life whether your 20 or 70 and you have to leave it a better place than when you entered it. i wanted them to learn lessons from my public life. second, as i had been running and holding office and losing for office and running uphill races, i was struck by two comments that framed my opinion. a famed conductor said a liberal is someone who believes in a bright infinite future. a conservative is someone who stands up for history yelling stop. that s a famous quote. that s it. a progressive leads in congress and as fdr said in his convention speech, look, government can air and help people but better to make mistakes in the interest of helping people s lives than being frozen in the ice of and indifference. they tried things the republicans want to go back to the 1950 and 1850 and got only knows. it framed the theme of the book which is that the arc of my public life from the 60s to 16 tracked progressive majority in america. ....
from the residential quarters of the white house state or, where guests were0 waiting. betty: it was a very important day for the john s. johnsons. her daughter was getting married. the first two years were wine and roses, and the last were pure hell. this was the middle of what was a devastating. devastating period. i want to get the reader into her story, before talking about her troubled childhood. brian: what else was there about the wedding, you said, that was important? betty: for me, what stood out was she said in her unpublished diaries that as lyndon walked birdthe aisle, lady was not looking at her daughter, but lyndon. she noticed his hair was grayer. patent forenormous her to make, that her eyes were not on the daughter, but the husband. brian: what was the symbolism that is a johnson left the reception the flight to texas fly to texas? betty: i found that very hard to explain, how a father could leave her daughter s reception at his daughter s recepti ....