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i am democrat all the way. when i got to washington, there was a sense that i had that many of the white guys who were in charge of running civil rights present company excluded -- [ laughter ] >> really weren't steeped deeply in it and how deep and nasty and hard and mean the racism in this country still was. and pretty words weren't going to fix it. that made it impossible for me to first of all continue as a lawyer who was going to make some money, which it turns out i didn't do, to my wife's unhappy dismay. but you couldn't -- you couldn't live in this society, this heated racial...

oh, oh, no, oh, no, and so part of what you see going through when you go through the document in the truman library, folks are like, you know, truman, you're going to have to die. you're going to have to go. we're going to have to get rid of you some way or another. you're going to have to go. for the southern democrats, the politicians themselves were saying, unless you get back on this track, we're going to bury you. you will not see the white house again. you see this then in the democratic national convention in philadelphia in 1948 in july where when hubert humphry gets up and ...

of john f. kennedy and lyndon baines johnson, typically regarded by people who think of the modern civil rights movement as two presidents that were very much associated with civil rights. and the question on the program is to ask how legislation was moved forward. what were the forces that inspired the legislative process by these two presidents to advance actual civil rights legislation. and we certainly have the panel to do that. so let's start with -- because i like a little context. after we leave eisenhower and now it's john f. kennedy's time, what was happening in the country ...