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Story for most of his career. whats going on here? the citizens, the people who live here and deal with this every day, where do they put this on their list of concerns? >> in 2018, in a very place where lbj declared war on poverty, 50 years ago, water is our number one issue. thats hard to imagine. >> reporter: you declare war on poverty. 54 years later, come back there and cant even reliably get clean water. what progress have we made? >> like a third world country here as far as water. we let...

>> reporter: left hope workman with no other choice. twice a week, hope and her daughter drive up this dirt path on the side of a mountain. >> this is what we go through. to get water. >> reporter: 20 years ago, she placed this 3.5 foot long pipe into the hillside to tap a spring to collect clean drinking water because, obviously, no one drinks the water here. >> do you drink it? >> no, no, no way i drink it. >> reporter: gary ball is the editor in chief of the weekly local paper "the mountain c...

John kennedy had a relationship with an east german spy. john kennedy had sex with an intern in the white house pool. i mean, so many examples, l.b.j. was said to be worse than john kennedy. i can go on and on and on. now media will sayay well, thats a diversification. i will tell you whats a diversion. the media have ignored the rogue activity the highest levels of the fbi. the media have ignored russians influence in the election. we now know that the obama administration knew about it, susan ...

Relationship with an east german spy. john kennedy had sex with an intern in the white house pool. i mean, so many examples, l.b.j. was said to be worse than john kennedy. i can go on and on and on. enough to out media will say well, thats a diversification. i will tell you whats a diversion. the media have ignored the rogue activity the highest levels of the fbi. the media russians influence in the election. fbi knew about it, susan rice knew about it told the people to stand down. we got these...

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 looking in strategic terms at the map and realized that his son needed texas. >> so the two brothers tapped lyndon johnson to be jacks vice presidential running mate. and they did that for one reason. they were going to do anything it took to get jack elected president. >> first kennedy must beat one of the most experienced pol...

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 lightweight. >> some talk about how we ought to do it, and when we g...

>> 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 delegate a yellow sheet of paper saying that kennedy had addisons disease. >> for bobby kennedy, that was absolutely verboten. from that point forward he considered lbj ...

Responds almost immediately. >> bobby rallies the doctors to lie, to say that jack is healthy as can be. >> will bobbys damage control pay off? >> climactic moments of the democratic convention. before the first ballot is completed, wyoming clinches the kennedy triumph with the deciding votes. >> john f. kennedy fights off strong opposition to win the nomination. he is now the democratic partys presidential candidate. >> we will carry the fight to the people in the fall, and we shall win. >> jac...

Here, author and presidential historians, michael besla. around when the chief of staff is to start, that is to say what president looked at the work flow and the pressure of the job and says this is way more than i can handle. >> the one we remember most is richard nixon. well, he wound up in prison. well, presidents really going back to fdr have had one person who really was first among equals. one of the amazing things in that nbc story that you mentioned, brian, was astounded to hear that do...

Door of the oval office, and lyndon johnson had an ex-marine named marvin watson who was even tougher. those two presidents would be astounded to hear that they were acting as their own chief of staff. >> a massachusetts irishman for kennedy and a texan for lyndon johnson. can you imagine a functioning west wing with, as bannon said, five or six direct reports, a very loosey-goosey style like trump tower, a much smaller family business than running the united states? >> it would be completely ch...