eyewitness to these things. i shall not seek and will not accept. we had those words memorized standly, everyone in the country, when lbj said that. no one knew he was going to say it. almost no one in the white house knew. the one person who definitely did know was lady bird, and he had a hand signal with her. he told her he wasn t decided whether he was because it was right at the end of the speech, after he gave a speech about vietnam policy and how he s going to try to change things and try to depoliticize, as he put it, vietnam policy. he s not going to run. and he had a hand signal that he gave to lady bird warning her, i m going to do it. i m going to drop out. and the fascinating thing that i discovered only in working on the book is, yes, he dropped out. it was over. lbj had been dumped, in effect, by the dump johnson movement. but as the convention was approaching, it wasn t over in his head. he was still thinking after the bobby kennedy assassination, maybe i can go into c
towns, 50,000 people. 100,000 people even more affected it s not that they weren t prepared for it. they didn t know the path would head in their direction and it would stay that long. ainsley: also when katrina hit louisiana or new orleans in that area is a lot smaller than houston. it would make sense that money would go toward houston. it s the fourth largest city in the country. brian: louisiana is going to get hit too. that levee had breaches. some of the other networks saying why is the president talking about tax reform it s insensitive. if you watch the speech. he started the speech talking about the people of texas and the individual things and inspiring rescues and yesterday he tweeted out, too. we are with you today. we are with you tomorrow. and we will be with you every single day to restore, recover, and rebuild. you talk about a positive use of twitter. he is con standly say saying i m there. constantly calling. vice president today. he comes on saturday. as he gets clos
beast in the capitalistic world that we live in. and when the market s telling you you should open in chicago, open in chicago. what tends to happen with small business owners is this. we need something we say, hey, you could work with us couldn t you? and they say, sure and we start something up and six months later, seven months later, we re trying to knit this thing to the. so working ripples, rather than chess moves. and listen to the market. is the market telling you to do it? customers you ll never go wrong listening to customers. that s what he is saying. think of it almost like you re starting your company again. i do not want to be one of those irritating people sending their newsletters out done standly. my sense is we moved some years ago away from being really of any utility in getting new customers.
they will not be guarding her can standly. and it has been reported or at least speculated that casey anthony will be leaving town and so they will not be required to guard casey. lillian luciano, thank you. the midwest and the southern central states, you re engulfed in a dangerous heat wave in a month that s seen its share of hot weather. 182 highs broken in july and that trend likely to continue. bill karins will join us later with more on the hot weather. good saturday morning to you, richard, heat wave is going to be a massive one. let me show you what s happening first with our drought. this is with the big story out there in oklahoma, texas, now portions of kansas, new mexico and down along the gulf states. we have been exceptionally dry and this is one of the worst droughts we have seen in the
campbell. no one s in charge. the buck stops nowhere. it is agonizing. i think if it was more organized, i think if the feds would have attacked this quicker, local officials, too. i m not going to say it is strictly the feds. and obviously, bp, woe see less damage on the coast, less oil on the coast and not as much wildlife getting crushed by this oil. very unorganized, very disapointed. let me go to you, chris, you are one of those local officials, in a way. why do you think there has not been a i guess that coordination across lines between bp, between the feds, between local officials in order to try to address this better? campbell, very similar to the hurricanes and dealing with fema, we have had people rotate in and out on standly, you meet with some folks, you make , you show up at the next meeting it is not the same fair, you are starting back over at point a. it is a very frustrating process. we are almost two weeks now beyond the date when we were