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Lyndon johnson. the announcement that there was going to be a bombing hall was a huge boost to humphrey. and had the president not dragged his feet and made johnson look foolish, it's quite possible that hew better humphrey would have won that year and that history would have been changed dramatically. >> it's amazing to think about all these alternate histories. we think of the close elections you know, 2000 is one, what if al gore, what the supreme court had been different? but '68 is one, i mean you just think of the that year and that difference. the difference between a nixon and a humphr...

And study iing his life and watching to exercise power and see what a president can really do. >> robert carol has spend half his life telling the story of lbj. he's a student of power, how you get it aen what you do with it. and johnson, he says, was a genius at both. >> how long did you think it was going to take? (laughter) >> about ten years. >> now we're what, 36 years into this? >> something like that. >> and the breadth and depth of the work is stunning. since 1976 he has written four books, 3400 pages, winning almost every award there is starting with a pulitzer and he's not yet to joh...

The state department, i do think that senator johnson and secretary clinton were talking past each other. i understand the point she was making. certainly understand the emotions of the american people who feel like they have been misled and in fact americans were misled in the beginning about what happened around benghazi. >> chris: senator corker and senator durbin, i'm going to have to thieve there. leave this there. thank you both for coming. >> chris: the president issues an inaugural call to arms for his liberal agenda and suffers a big defeat in court. our sunday group breaks it down wh...

Since 1976, caro has written four books, 3400 pages, winning almost every award there is starting with the pulitzer and not yet to johnson and vietnam. why has it taken so long? when caro looked at how johnson was first elec elected so the e in 1948 by 40 votes he wrote a book about it. >> nobody has ever looked and said this is what a stolen election it. >> chris: and the late evangelicals tells how johnson succeeded john kennedy and saved his agenda. >> he takes legislation that wasn't going to pass civil rights, the tax cut bill and in an in tant johnson gets it moving towards passage. >> t...

Four books, 3400 pages, winning almost every award there is starting with the pulitzer and not yet to johnson and vietnam. why has it taken so long? when caro looked at how johnson was first elec elected so the e in 1948 by 40 votes he wrote a book about it. >> nobody has ever looked and said this is what a stolen election it. >> chris: and the late evangelicals tells how johnson succeeded john kennedy and saved his agenda. >> he takes legislation that wasn't going to pass civil rights, the tax cut bill and in an in tant johnson gets it moving towards passage. >> thank you very, very, very muc...