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[dramatic music] narrator: youre the accidental president... ♪ ♪ leader of a nation in mourning... ♪ ♪ now youve got to make the tough calls, confront your demons... ♪ ♪ outwit your enemies... ♪ ♪ and prove youve got what it takes... ♪ ♪ to be the leader of the free world. ♪ ♪ - presidents car now turning onto elm street, and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the trade mart. it--it-- it appears as though something has happened in the motor...

At princeton told him -- >> youre never going to achieve what you want to achieve, mr. caro, unless you stop thinking with your fingers. i knew exactly what he meant. it was so easy for me to write. i didnt think things through. chris: which brings us back to his final book on lbj which is about a third written. caro took us into his office. >> this is the outline of the rest of my last volume, from here to there, to end of the book over there. chris: he writes several drafts in longhand. again,...

At princeton told him -- >> youre never going to achieve what you want to achieve, mr. caro, unless you stop thinking with your fingers. i knew exactly what he meant. it was so easy for me to write. i didnt think things through. chris: which brings us back to his final book on lbj which is about a third written. caro took us into his office. >> this is the outline of the rest of my last volume, from here to there, to end of the book over there. chris: he writes several drafts in longhand. again,...

To get him reelected. chris: up next, our power player of the week. a biographer who has captured the essence of power, how to get it and use it in his award-winning books on lbj. ♪ ♪ lost my life. my doctors again ordered me to take aspirin, and i do. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. listen to the doctor. take it seriously. the first survivor of alzis out there.ase and the alzheimers association is going to make it happen. but we wont get there without you...

Pages. thats the only time the i felt like turning around and going home. chris: caro says he has one big rule when interviewing. your notebooks are filled with a notation -- [laughter] >> yeah. chris: what does that mean? >> shut up. [laughter] people have a desire, a need to fill in silences. if you could just make yourself shut up, often theyll tell you what you want to know. chris: then theres writing. caro remembers what a professor at princeton told him. >> youre never going to achieve wha...

Into resistance even amongst people of his own party on the hill. but i think hes recognized what hes been doing is not going to work politically -- >> this is all about 2020, laying down a marker so he can say i have put forward an immigration plan and use it against whichever democrat emergings from this gigantic field. >> one of the great frustrations -- chris: you know what? save that thought. [laughter] >> thank you. chris: up next, our power player of the week. a biographer who has capture...

Pages. thats the only time the i felt like turning around and going home. chris: caro says he has one big rule when interviewing. your notebooks are filled with a notation -- [laughter] >> yeah. chris: what does that mean? >> shut up. [laughter] people have a desire, a need to fill in silences. if you could just make yourself shut up, often theyll tell you what you want to know. chris: then theres writing. caro remembers what a professor at princeton told him. >> youre never going to achieve wha...

Into resistance even amongst people of his own party on the hill. but i think hes recognized what hes been doing is not going to work politically -- >> this is all about 2020, laying down a marker so he can say i have put forward an immigration plan and use it against whichever democrat emergings from this gigantic field. >> one of the great frustrations -- chris: you know what? save that thought. [laughter] >> thank you. chris: up next, our power player of the week. a biographer who has capture...

>> oh, and -- and then it hit me, i thought, oh, my god, she was acting. that is brilliant. i completely bought into it. i felt firsthand the power of being able to be moved to believing certain things. i thought, wow, if im going to do this, i need to see if i can become good at it. >> i wasnt making out with you on lbj, but i got that power and feeling like i was in the 1960s oval office learning a lot of nuances of history i didnt know had existed. when you come back, if you can stay. >> yes....