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he basically says if you elect me i will bring electricity. well, they elected him. let me just go back and lyndon johnson was a political genius and he gears his campaign to the women and what he said the line that he uses is if you elect me you won't look like your mother does. they elect him, but no one really believes that he can bring electricity. i mean, there is no dam, no source of dam in the hill country and a dam has been started at the edge of the hill country, but it's the depression. it's 1937. the company that was doing it has run out of money to do it, so the dam is st...

let me just go back and lyndon johnson was a political genius and he gears his campaign to the women and what he said the line that he usees is if you elect me you won't look like your mother does. they elect him, but no one really believes that he can bring electricity. i mean, there is no dam, no source of dam in the hill country and a dam has been started at the edge of the hill country, but it's the depression. it's 1937. the company that was doing it has run out of money to do it, and even if you build a dam how will you get electricity out to the scattered farms, isolated farms...

this is about 50 minutes. thank you. it is altogether appropriate that this conference be held at hunter college and at roosevelt house where we will convene tomorrow lyndon johnson served his president when this president was first elected to congress in 1946. a dealer by background and at heart believed in fdr and his vision for america. in many way, the seeds of lbj's great society were planted in the field, and as johnson often said to his aides during his administration, i intend to finish franklin roosevelt's revolution, but lbj's passion for social justice came well before f...

>> guest: well, i spent a lot of years on this. and a lot of those years, a lot of months in those years, i spent in the lyndon johnson library. you call up these boxes. it's actually an estimated number, cause they have the exact number of boxes and i called for, whatever is in there, 787 or something. c-span: that's right. >> guest: and they said that in a full box, you have 800 pages, so you just sit there. you know, when i was a newspaper reporter, just starting out, i was 20, and i had this editor who told me, "turn every page, never assume anything." and, with his early life at...

he's not the only one with a birthday today. you have a birthday today, willie. >> i do. >> happy birthday, willie. >> thank you, thank you. me and the late great james brown, the godfather of soul, may 3. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ you're so vain ♪ you probably think this song is about you ♪ . >> this afternoon, an announcement from the one-time front-runner for the presidential nomination. >> today i'm suspending my campaign. >> well, there you have it. he is suspending it, like what we all had to do to our disbelief when he thought he was going to be president. >> but...