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This effort to bring justice and hope to all our people and to bring peace to our own. >> that was president lyndon baines johnson talking about the civil rights act of 1964. and joining us now the director of the presidential library and museum in austin, texas, mark is the author of the new book just out it indomitable will," and he's here to talk about that book. it looks fantastic. >> thank you. >> i can't wait to read it. you say in the book that he is largely misunderstood. let's start there. >> well, he is. he's one of the fascinating personalities ever to hold the oval office. and i th...

Campaign and the second track is going to be covering obama versus obama. really what will determine the next four years is which obama is going to get elected. is it going to be the obama of the speeches, you know, who inspires, challenges the status quo? or is it going to be the obama who has governed the way he has governed which is basically settling for what he could do, settling for the easiest, and basically forgetting everything he said himself. remember, the fierce urgency of now. remember the greatest risk you can take is going to washington, playing the same games with the same play...

I think if he got up on the stage and looked folks in the eye and go, you know, things are tough right now. >> and i know your state. >> i know your state. i know your people. and it's not about grits and not about calling y'all. it's about calling americans who are living through tough times. that's a different conversation than the one we've seen him have up until now. >> the weakness romney is running up against is pressuring him in ways. they're not pressuring him to talk about issues because they're barely doing it and they have no policy operations or much creativity on those issues. eve...

Frustrated. and we hear about this all the time about lack of access they have to senior aides. the reporters on the romney bus tell us that part of the reason there were so many stories about that bad event at ford field in detroit where there was a small mitt romney on a huge stadium was that there were no economic advisers or officials to talk to him about the policy speech he was given. if they read a tweet the campaign doesn't like, they get a complaint. so in the last few days, top aides have been out talking to reporters, promising to be more accessible, even having a happy hour with th...

And i do appreciate that these men are continuing to duke it out in the arena of ideas and are allowing themselves to be vetted. thank you, gentlemen, who are running on the gop ticket. staying in there allowing yourselves to be vetted by the media because they didn't do it when barack obama ran. >> good morning, it's friday, march 9th. welcome to "morning joe." with us here in washington, msnbc "time" magazine senior analyst and the star of the red carpet, mark haleprin, also political editor and white house correspondent for the "huffington post" sam stein. katty kay and the great willie gei...