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Immigration reform came shortly after. and then a fair housing act. >> there was also medicare and medicaid, major components of the social safety net we know today, pushed through congress and signed by johnson. the great society is what he called his domestic program. for a few years in the 1960s it felt like lbj could do no wrong. his popularity would never sink and influence with congress would never wane. decades of bottled up progress finally uncorked with a president with a magic touch. of course, the good times did stop for lbj. the final years of his presidency were defined by a civil...

Of thought in democratic circles outside the white house, particularly, that the president cannot afford to back down twice, two times in a row in the face of republican opposition. a group of former military and foreign policy officials in support of chuck hagel are circulating a letter today and trying to counteract this republican conservative criticism. >> conversely i would expect no opposition, nothing significant to john kerry. he is one of the old establishment members of foreign policy in washington. >> talk about that for a moment. he was born to this literally. his father was a dipl...

Serving in that war that he supported or any other war. romney men don't go to war. mitt romney's father didn't, mitt romney didn't, and his sons didn't. in august of 2007 in a defensive response as to why his sons did not serve in the military in the iraq war, mitt romney said one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected. he actually said that. romney men support war. they support wars that other people have to fight. mitt romney's father was in favor of the vietnam war before he was against it, after having claimed famously to have been brainwashed by ...

I really don't recall thinking about the political positions when i was knocking at the door in france. there were anti-vietnam war protests in france while mitt romney was there. the french fought the vietnam war before we did. we took over from the french. the vietnam war was covered by the french news media every single day that mitt romney was in france. and romney went on to say, i was supportive of my country. i longed in many respects to actually be in vietnam and be representing our country there. there was not a single able-bodied man who in any respect longed to be in vietnam

Bowling alley. and three killed. >> orangeburg is a story that's not much of america remembers and forgotten by history. and happened at a time when there were a lot of deadly forced used against african-americans. it was the year that martin luther king was assassinated. it was a year, i think, bobby kennedy was assassinated. it was the year that we had war protests going on. and deadly force was used here in orangeburg, i think, because of a lack of respect of human life and especially african-american human life. >> so your entire life through your civil rights struggle was one of triumph, ...