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If he won he said "it was wonderful, it was a wonderful game." and if he lost to his grandfather he said "well, you know, it was not much to talk about." fiercely competitive even with his granddaughter. >> some grand dads let the granddaughters win. >> no. no. >> he went for the jugular. my dad never asked me at the dinner table about my strategic vision. this good is incredible. you talk about the longevity that dr. brezezinski had from lbj through barack obama and those are a series of very d...

To perhaps the shortcomings of other presidential candidates, but as he was not specific, i assume he was talking about some of the other candidates and not about me. >> with his ego bruised, johnson gets personal. >> lbj began to disparage joe kennedy sr. as being an appeaser back there with hitler in the pre-war era. >> johnson not only smears jacks family, he also attempts to expose jacks deepest secret. >> the day before the vote, the johnson people put under the hotel room doors of every de...

Impressive figure. >> i went to the convention with my parents. my father was the democratic national committeeman from maryland. the excitement of it was great because my father had been a big supporter. >> jack kennedys main rival for the democratic nomination is lbj. >> i move here and now to solicit the votes of every delegate present in this room or the sound of my voice. >> lyndon johnson, the majority leader of the united states senate, senator from texas, thinks kennedy is sort of a ligh...

Candidate, in a way, is lbj. >> what did you and senator johnson talk about? >> well, i thanked him for his very generous message he sent me. >> johnson is a southern democrat. jack kennedy needs the southern vote. >> did you talk to him about the vice presidency? >> in a general way, thats right. >> jack kennedy never liked lyndon johnson. bobby kennedy despised lyndon johnson. they were like dogs with the hair standing up on the back of their neck. >> joe kennedy didnt feel that way. he was lo...

Before he launched the saturday night massacre. >> i think we are. i dont think thats hyperbolic. when you have a president who is basically engaging the justice department at this level of political detail and calling on investigating his predecessors. one nixonian element is both nixon and trump have an ongoing obsession with their former opponents in a way that i think shapes what they do in deleterious ways at least. nixon justified the taping is fdr had done it, lbj had done it. he was alwa...

Successful president in their lifetimes. today trump took it a step further. the president tweets that despite the disgusting and unwarranted witch hunt, we have had the most successful administrations in u.s. history by far! sore to the fake news media and haters but thats the way it is. trump is comparing himself top president lose made monumental achievements. true man ended world war ii, lbj passed the civil rights bill. ip trumps achievements have been his judicial nominations and the tax c...

And doing things her own way means if you have something wrong medically, and have to have surgery, you are going to mention it after it is done and not give detail. >> this kind of rings my bell about is when woodrow wilson came in and his wife had chronic kidney problems and she was 54-years old and ended up doing out of only you know, a year and a half in office. the difference is that was 1914. today with modern medicine, these kinds of procedures like melania trump is going through is commo...

A half in office. the difference is that was 1914. today with modern medicine, these kinds of procedures like melania trump is going through is commonplace. i recall and you probably do, lbj got his gallbladder removed and he would show people his big scar. it was like a dramatic surgery. and people go in and out on things like gallbladder surgery and the same with removing a kidney tumor that is benign. nevertheless, woodrow wilson, back then got pressure that my wife is sick. it distracted him...

Lbj sends for clark figure, clinton sent for want somebody to come in and settle things down. george w. bush sends for bob gates. what has trump done? trump sent for a fellow brawler. if anything that tells us what the next x number of months will be like. >> well, there are new questions about michael cohens role as donald trumps fixer and whether he maintained a secret slush fund to make damaging stories disappear during the election. according to "the wall street journal," cohen gained access...

Conway is saying, at the time that the payment was made and he was being asked what does he know now and hes still misleading the public. >> theres a sense that everybodys just trying to scramble to get things back on track, and im curious what a traditional white house chief of staff would be doing in a situation like this when they seem to have gotten out of control. >> this is what happens when you have a president that is under the delusion that he can run the white house by himself. hes rep...