he tried to project an image because he was running a big and important country. trump doesn t have any sense of that. we ve checked and lindyndon johnson never flushed 10 to 15 times as president. this next bit was a name that must have triggered trump back to an age where in a tough school you d make fun of kids names that were beyond the ordinary. this became a name trigger that ended up making fun of a guy that served in the house from 1955 to 2015. dingell, dingell. you know dingell from michigan? debbie dingell, that s a real beauty. so she calls me up like eight months ago. her husband was there a long time, but i didn t give him the b treatment. i didn t give him the c or the d. i could have. nobody would have i gave the a plus treatment. she calls me up. it s the nicest thing that s ever happened. thank you so much.
empathy is something that his supporters say, we re just piling on, but it bells. it tells. character will out. and i think that many of us hoped that president trump would grow in office. and i think that we ve had now nine months or so of being frustrated, hoping for something that has not come to pass. in 60 seconds of brilliance, are we judging him by a different standard, different set of grades? no. no we re not. you just showed the record. this is not a bunch of liberal yapping. it s is record. the only thing franklin roosevelt said in public on d-day, 1944, was to read a prayer of his own composition. lindyndon johnson went to new orleans and walked around with a flashlight and said, this is your president, and i m here to help. they don t get it right all the time, these are human beings, they re imperfect.
lindyndon johnson. the s&p 500 jumped 6%. the second best gain in the president s first month in office came after jfk inaugurated in 1961. trump is in third place with a 3.8% gain so far. he is happy about it. he tweeted about it first thing yesterday morning. stock hits new high with longest winning streak in decades. great confidence before tax plan rollout. merps s americans are takin on more debt. $12.5 trillion at the end of last year. it is now less than 1% below the peak debt total the economy hit in 2008 in the third quarter on the eve of the great recession. this is according to the new york federal reserve data. these numbers look alarming. there were differences between now and 2008.
response or is it too little? would president kennedy come out with a response like this? lindyndon johnson or even ronal reagan? interference with the american election? you are right, joe. a lot of democrats are saying the same thing. it sure would have been better to happen three months or twice as strong. compared to what we are getting in the next separatiadministrats may be as tough as it gets. fascinating maneuver. just like the novel that you wrote. thank you, ellis. after five years of war, a new cease-fire in effect in syria this morning. can the assad regime and rebel groups build any real hope for peace? more live from the middle east coming up. it s that time of ye. when you realize you still didn t get quite what you wanted. that s why verizon has the best deals of the year on the best network. like a free smartphone when you add a line or switch. no trade-in required.
leader, edward dirksen. johnson told senator hubert humphrey, the bill s floor leader, you get in there to see dirksen, you drink with him, you talk with him and listen to him. in the end, johnson got his vote in exchange for some pork, by the way, a flood control project in dirksen s state. what s the total cost? the total cost of the project i think is 30 some million dollars. now, it s in that area of illinois that s let me call you back. it passed the senate 73-37. johnson signed the civil rights bill into law, a bill he predicted would change the political landscape. my fellow citizens, we ve come now to a time of testing. we must not fail. let us close the springs of racial poison. let us pray for wise and