Page 231 - Lbj News Today

Difficult cultural issues. he eulogized reverend pinckney earlier this week. we saw him break out into song. this is a very different president obama that we have seen in the past. and a lot of people his constituents welcoming this more personal side to the president. in terms of whats happening here at the white house, steve, nothing on the schedule. i will tell you, its a beautiful day here. the president likes to play golf on the weekends. and if ever there was a day to play golf this might ...

Big wrandsbrands? for bill stelg and dawnette smith, the answer was to form a single four-person agency. did you feel you have to merge in order to keep with some of the other stuff happening in aspen aspen? >> yes. >> it was time. >> we needed to figure out ways we could operate with a critical scale that saved us money and by merging enabled us to do that. we get more bang for our buck in the promotion. >> they share office speeds and share leads on buyers and houses and say together theyre ea...

Voting rights act of 1965 signed by president lyndon johnson put an end to those practices and appointed federal examiners to oversee voter registration where voting rights were endangered. it was a law that many died for and fought for and marched for. a crown jewel of the civil rights legacy president obama mentioned yesterday in his eulogy in charleston south carolina. >> he was the progeny of a long line of the faithful. a family of preachers who spread gods word a family of protesters who s...

That you are smart and beautiful and that your life matters. it is hard for me to imagine arriving where i am today as an adult having not been raised in the black church. >> i wanted to also -- for me there was an lbj-like moment as one aspect and that invitation to "amazing grace" felt not unlike president johnsons "we shall overcome." he was standing in a position of whiteness and using the civil rights movement but for president obama to use "amazing grace" in that way felt like an invitatio...

>> made something better but hasnt helped other things. >> more money. >> no, not more money. >> no no. its a euphemism for criminal justice reform. euphemism for incentivizing companies to not just hire people -- im sorry? >> hold on guys. >> julie, theyve been saying that since the day -- >> they havent been saying that. >> we were just talking about this. since the war on poverty, i dont care what number you want to use, $5 trillion, $11 trillion all the money has been poured into this. its n...

Barely an interruption has been run by democrats and progressive policies since lbj have driven the place into the ground. its failed. its time to change course. and choose new policies free market approaches that dependence on government hasnt worked. the city is a disaster. you need to do a 180 pull out of this. >> rand paul was saying this that the failure of the war on poverty created a culture of violence and put police in a nearly impossible situation. a little more forthright from rand pa...

Hopelessness got us to where we were in baltimore. the war on poverty started by lbj in 1957 decreased poverty in this country from 26% in 1967 to just about 12% now. its still a huge number. >> according to what poll? >> thats from economists at columbia university. >> here is the thing, guys. we have put more and more money into these cities. i think baltimore, the public schools there, 15,000 plus per student a year. its the third most costly city for public schools. look whats happening. we ...

Unemployed and disconnected from society. we want to focus on those intervention points. >> tell us about brotherhood sister soul. >> these are the issues weve been working on for 20 years now. we were created in 1995, were based here in new york city, but were a national model now helping people around the country to look at what comprehensive services look like for young people. what we know is that you need a multilayered approach to help young people transform their lives, to break cycles of...

Omalley the former governor who may also run. in 1968 he ran against lbj. nobody gave him a chance. but he did well enough that robert kennedy knocked lbj out and robert kennedy got in because he was a more plausible president. could that similar scenario happen this time? >> its totally possible. because while elizabeth warren continues to maintain that she is not running, what you have and i mentioned these groups out there, they are setting up this vast network in support of it, this sort of ...

Could not join it because of the cuts that these people face. >> the millions we spend on poverty -- >> one by one by one we need to look at these programs. how does a city like baltimore get to a place where a third of young african-american men have no prospects for jobs? >> after spending trillions to make sure that wouldnt happen. >> well we need to readjust how that trillion is being spent because -- >> fair enough. >> spending it on the criminal industrial system is not working anymore. >>...