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Doris kearns goodwin, presidential historian and author, written best sellers about roosevelt, lbj, lincoln. her latest work, leadership in turbulent times. as you know, we call this broadcast "the 11th hour." here is the question. if life is a clock face and democracy runs out at midnight, where do you reckon clock is right about now? >> i think what history can tell us is that clock is not as close to running out as it was in 1861 when 11 states had seceded from the union and the civil war was...

Know -- written about. what kind of advise? >> the first thing old abraham lincoln would say is public sentiment has more power. that means you have to educate the public about why voting rights is not a partisan battle. lbj would contribute to that by saying as he did in selma with the joint session of congress speech of the right to vote not a southern rights or states rights. its absolutely wrong to deny your fellow americans the right to vote. you got to create the public sentiment. thats an...

>> i think its really important for him to recognize that these weeks and months ahead are absolutely critical. going back to lyndon johnson, he won by 15 million votes, and then he told his white house staff in the days that followed, you better get your asses off the ground and get my bills through because this probably is only a certain amount of time i will lose votes. and what happened? in those nine months, he got everything through, including voting rights, and then the democrats in the n...

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Hard that can backfire. theyre not twisting arms in the way that lbj did back in the 60s and other presidents have in the past. they want to try to, you know, sweet talk him there in effect by saying, you know, were all on board on most of these things. lets get to where we need to get to. obvious big differences include things like family leave and a few other big ticket items that need to be resolved. but youre right, the president getting it done this year, if its at all possible is a huge pr...

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Say american cooking as opposed to european, chances are that food was grown, gathered, produced and prepared by african slaves. chef b.j. dennis has made it a personal mission to celebrate and protect the culinary traditions his ancestors passed down to him. >> b.j.: so this is, um, some local blue crab, fresh in season. this is a play on some garlic crabs, but this is shrimp butter instead of garlic butter, and then you have that play of, you know, the french influence into the cuisine right h...

Traditional gullah cooking? >> ashley: well, i think what happens is you change the location of the people, but you do not change who the people were. you did not change the information that they came with, with their traditions. >> sean: if you look at the history of american food and youll -- youll quickly see that this is -- this is one of the first true cuisines of america. >> anthony: oh whats that? what is this? it looks good. >> b.j.: were going back to west africa. >> ashley: all right. ...