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Or winning. this was wrong. i realize we have the capacity to get the president some power. if we started a voting rights march in selma, we could get the president some power. >> beginning in january of 1965, the world began to come into my parents home, in a house that was occupied with a mother, a father and little girl. the world knew dr. king as martin luther king, i knew him as uncle martin. he and my parents became friends in the 1950s, and they talked about life and the challenges, parti...

Texas, in a small, mexican-american school. few of them could speak english and i couldnt speak much spanish. >> its a very interesting thing to me that lyndon johnson left school and went to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. elementary kids in catula texas, that shows something about him as a human being which i dont think anybody talks about very much. >> he had the personal experience of seeing and teaching the young, suffering students of catula texas. >> my students were poor, and they often...

Terminal in la guardia airport. for the next 3 1/2 hours, almost 4 hours, we discussed what was the meaning of the consequences of this assassination. in our discussion, we never used these words, because it would be so cruel. but we saw the assassination of kennedy as a god-given opportunity for us in civil rights. not that we wanted president k kennedy assassinated. we had to deal with the cards we had been dealt. we looked at those cards and said, this is reality now. we got a white man from ...

>> all of a sudden people from all over the united states as well as the world came here to met with dr. king. >> by marching from selma to montgomery, we were not only taking the movement to the cradle of the confederacy, we were taking it to george wallaces doorstep. >> the planning of the march, of course, involved washington very heavily, and president johnson, even though president johnson never came to this house, he would call into my parents home on a regular basis. >> i think its very i...

Depend upon nature for much of his success. >> his father went from rags to riches to rags to riches to rags. lbj i think felt the scorn in town when his father found himself to be poor. the stature of the johnsons fell overnight with the fall of cotton prices. >> he understood what it felt like to be poor. it was not an easy life. >> once 8 or 10 had a shoe shining job. he put an ad in the paper. best shine in town. >> he picked ed cotton until h fingers would bleed. he knew what it was like to...

Legislation. thats not a lot of time. >> we listened to that with dr. king at the home of dr. and ms. sullivan jackson. >> everybody was waiting on the president. nobody knew what was going to be said, but there was an air in the house that night that was very helpful. hopeful. >> i speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. at times history and fate meet at a single time, in a single place, to shape a turning point in mans unending search for freedom. what happened in se...

Every signor had an obligation. spompl -- responsibility to come to the aide of any country attacked. >> a war had already been taking place for four years between vietnamese parties. of course growing american involvement under kennedy. >> kennedy sent 20,000 troops into vietnam. >> we were fighting in vietnam. >> thats all the commitment and all the statements that kennedy made, bobby kennedy made, and i would be the first american president to put my tail between my legs and run out. didnt ha...

>> the election is a landslide. >> lyndon johnsons victory is a breath to behold. all the standards in measurement in politics, thats a landslide. >> louisiana is a bunch of crooks and mississippi is too ignorant to know any better and alabama is the same way, but georgia knows better. >> you did awfully well. were proud of you. i dont see any way it could have been improved. you campaigned well and carried the election. >> no question, somebody that craved appear raw investigation would be rati...

I think at that time he was received or recognized as being the most knowledgeable, effective, impactful majority leader the senate had ever had. >> johnson was a man who was capable of making congress begin to function during those eisenhower years, i dare say congress would have been at a complete standstill if it hadnt been for johnson. >> i think it was pretty apparent in the 1950s that he was looking for a higher office. >> senator kennedy offered lbj the vice presidency because he believed...

And they contradicted the image of the united states that most americans had. >> it showed what the opposition to democracy was. in alabama. people would stop what they were doing and came to selma, so we knew we had to march. >> the biggest problem we have is communicating with george wallace. they are going to have another march tomorrow and as we see it its going to go from bad to worse. do you think you have that much standing with him? >> my relationship with george has been very good, but ...