english jurist, that the heir to the crown in england, the head of the church of england, the lord high chancellor would all be required to testify and respond to a subpoena and leave their responsibilities and duties aside to be a witness. back in 1974, the supreme court actually acted relatively quickly when confronted with this. was sometime in the spring of 64. i m not sure i have all my facts right, but i believe it was the subpoena was before the u.s. district court. it went to the supreme court. let s just listen to nbc news reporting from july of 1964 on this. president nixon has not yet responded to the sledge hammer decision of the supreme court today which ruled that he must immediately turnover tapes of 64 presidential conversations. the court said the president s claim of absolute privilege would upset the constitutional balance of a workable government. it said its ruling was only that the president had to give way in
never been recognized with statues in the united states. veter veteran journalist bill moyers is a son of the south. he worked in politics and government serving both in the kennedy and johnson administrations. he was a special assistant to lyndon johnson. when the president signed the civil rights act in july of 1964. on the day donald trump was inaugurated, bill moyers said this about donald trump s original political lie, the lie about president obama s birth. he rode to power on the wings of a dark lie, one of the most malignant and ugly lies in american history. we must never forget it. joining us now, bill moyers, peabody award-winning journalist. he served as president johnson s press secretary. bill, there are so many things i want to cover with you. you re someone who had that job,
you can learn from it. robert e. lee, stonewall jackson, who s next? washington, jefferson, so foolish. also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns, and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced. of course, every confederate statue could be replaced by a statue to a soldier or a distinguished general who actually fought in battle for the united states of america instead of against the united states of america. there are hundreds of war heroes on the union side of the civil war or world war ii who have never been recognized with statues in the united states. veteran journalist bill moyers is a son of the south. he was born in oklahoma and grew up in marshall, texas. he later worked in politics and government, serving both in the kennedy and johnson administrations. he was a special assistant to president lyndon johnson. when the president signed the civil rights act in july of 1964. on the day donald trump was
civil rights act in july of 1964. on the day donald trump was inaugurated, bill moyers said this about donald trump s original political lie, the lie about president obama s birth. he rode to power on the wings of a dark lie, one of the most malignant and ugly lies in american history. we must never forget it. joining us now, bill moyers, peabody award-winning journalist. he served as president johnson s press secretary from 1965 to 1967. bill, there are so many things i want to cover with you, but i want to just start with you re someone who had that job, press secretary. you stood at that podium in that briefing room. what is it like for you when you watch what happens in that room now, that room that was a sacred place for you? well, it was a sacred place, but we committed a lot of sins in that sacred place. we were not perfect. now, i was not a perfect press
before his death. but it was president johnson who devoted extraordinary energy to ensuring the act of 1964 became law. johnson did not shy away from using the memory of the slain president as a weapon in the fight. ensuring that his predecessor would end up being the one remembered as the great civil rights leader, he said no memorial or eulogy could honor president kennedy s memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. in july of 1964, johnson signed the bill that outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, made possible by a slain president. another assassination gave johnson what he needed to pass his final critical piece of civil rights legislation four years later in 1968. the day after reverend dr. martin luther king jr. was assassinated on a memphis balcony, johnson sent a leet leather to speaker of the house of representatives that read in part, when the nation so urgently needs a healing balm of unity, a brew wall wound