Texas. Mr. Caro is the author of a four volume biography of the 36th president. Here is the 2003 tour of the lbj library. First time i came here, i was looking for the papers and came around the corner like this. This is what i saw. The only moment in my life, the moment in my life when i felt my quitting. I was really overwhelmed. What you are looking at here the papers of Lyndon Baines johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Pulitzer prize winning author robert caro has been sifting through the millions of papers of Lyndon Johnson for 26 years. Recently booktv joined mr. Caro to learn how he conducts research for his multivolume biography, the years of Lyndon Johnson. During our visit robert caro also spoke at the lbj library for the first time. Over the next two hours youll see parts of thats beach interspersed with abof that speech interspersed with a id be happy to take questions if anybody has a question they would like to ask. Keto is how you came to write about Lyndon
Publishing . When you write a book, hopefully the book indoors. Sometimes youre given a lecture you say was worth it because things about lectures, the moment they are over, they are over. They disappear. So when audible said, could we record your lectures . I said great. [laughter] audible. Com for people who dont know it. They can subscribe to that and get this out, hour and 42 minutes. It was the 100th anniversary last september so the Foundation Sponsored a celebration at harvard and they asked me to give a talk. I put some work into that talk and i said i wish this wouldnt disappear. Someone came up and said it was a very moving talk. He said how would you feel about having it recorded . I said id like that. Then they did it, they transcribed it. They said it was only about for seven minutes, wasnt long enough. He said are you getting any lectures . I was giving one for next week on the subject of political power from another angle of the Historical Society so basically took down
Delighted to welcome back robert caro the last time he we visited was 2002. It was unforgettable. The storiess of dead johnson political machine painted the picture of the powerbroker extraordinaire. Like his subject he has no fear. He has spoiled us with a portrait to treat us to the narrative and the diversions of bystanders so rich in detail they might form the basis of future studies in and of themselves. His book as a companion piece to the moses book and today in 2019 more resonant than ever power used for good and against the greater good. As he gives a deep background into the why he does what he does. Why he take so long to crank out the next volume and with every sheet of paper with every file with that essence of political power and with political power the latenight comedy beats to its own drum and without question as one of the funniest guys on the planet. And an armchair president ial scholar and also a robert caro devotee a. He sent regrets and calls the johnson series o
The court. His class is about 75 minutes. All right, today we are going to be looking at is the development of Controversial Supreme Court nominations in the late sixties and early seventies. We are looking at the war in court, this increasing surge of controversial decisions from the court. Theres basically two basic principles. This idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support, whether it was atheist, Civil Rights Activists, or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. Second, the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called rightsrelated liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily for the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, that is if youre going to be governing, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices and as we will see this becomes a froth prospect for liberals. The backdrop, london be joh
My colleagues the status of where we are in regards to the professions in the cares act that relate to Small Businesses. First i want to make it clear that our top priority for americas businesses, whether they be Small Businesses or large businesses, is to get this covid19 behind us, to stop the spread of this deadly disease, to give confidence back to the American People that its safe to pursue their economic desires and, therefore, to have businesses be able to go back to a situation where they have customers and they can be open for business. We have appropriated significant resources in order to make sure we do whats right financially to deal with this deadly disease. And we have provided the tools to to protect our economy. So let me talk a little bit about the attention to Small Business. Im pleased and proud to be the ranking democrat in the Small Business and entrepreneurship committee. I serve with senator rubio, who is the chairman of the committee. And we have worked togeth