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robert kennedy is this 27 year olds one for a senator joseph. how do we know what happened the first time? they told me the same story. he had breakfast every morning. joe mccarthy had a big round table near the register or he would do its. johnson walks in. mccarthy is there with 45. mccarthy jumps upper. all the others there get up. johnson walks over. he sees that bobby kennedy is not getting up. he stands there. he is forcing him. he does. george is his press secretary. he says there was no reason for it you see two dogs coming into the room. it is a low growl. it is something be...

well the first time they met is fascinating. lyndon johnson the great powerful majority leader. robert is this new senator to joseph maccarthy. how do we know what happened the first time they met. two of johnson's staff people told me the same story. they told me he had breakfast every morning and joe maccarthy around the roundtable and register where he would it is with his staffers and maccarthy is there for four or five including bobby kennedy. had some kind of a confrontation? >> the next time the action had a conversation was probably at the democratic convention in 1960, where...

nomination, he has been the senate majority leader for six years. he is in the greatest majority leader in history. he made the senate work. he introduced his own bills. it was the center of governmental and ingenuity and energy in washington. he was the most powerful democrat in the country. they called him the second most powerful man in the country, second to president eisenhower. for the last two years he had been running his brothers. presidential campaign, robert kennedy. why? >> well, he left mccarthy's committee eventually. there was a time, and he is frank to admit it, when ...

some lessons from f.d.r., he's learned lessons from the do-nothing congress of harry truman that you see flight this campaign. i think the most important thing jim fallows talked about in the great "atlantic" piece was his ability to learn from mistakes and change as time goes by and if he does gate second term that ability, which made f.d.r. a much better president the second term than the first, made lincoln a better mt. the second than the first, will have a chance to play out. >> rose: the american presidency when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our ...

theodore roosevelt, he's learned some lessons from f.d.r., he's learned lessons from the do-nothing congress of harry truman that you see flight this campaign. i think the most important thing jim fallows talked about in the great "atlantic" piece was his ability to learn from mistakes and change as time goes by and if he does gate second term that ability, which made f.d.r. a much better president the second term than the first, made lincoln a better mt. the second than the first, will have a chance to play out. >> rose: the american presidency when we continue. captioning sponsored...