31 Burst results for "President Johnson"
Bloomberg Radio New York
"president johnson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Latest edition of our Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with Seth, Carpenter, Morgan Stanley's chief global economist So I'd say the world goes in lots of cycles. There are very famous episodes back in the late 60s and into the 70s and the interactions between president Johnson and the fed chair and whether it was appropriate to tighten policy while the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam. So I think there have been periods where there's more politicization there are periods where there's a bit less. I think the main thing from my personal experience is that the people inside the fed tend to be very, very focused on what their mandate is and they try to block out the political noise to the degree humanly possible. The mandate being to really bring inflation down to that 2% target. And that mandate is getting harder to wrap your head around right now because we don't understand the contours of inflation. If Jay Powell were having his fed press conference right now, do you think that he would mention disinflation as John was mentioning earlier as many times as he did during that press conference? I have to say the last data print does make things a little challenging to read exactly. The fundamental story of some disinflation from core goods and some hopefully coming disinflation from housing. That's generally in still intact and you never want to fully change your worldview based on one month's worth of data. But there have been some surprises and it wasn't just one data series, the non farm payrolls report for January was strong The CPI report had some surprises. The retail sales report was strong. All of those have to make you wonder, is there more resilience underlying resilience for the U.S.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"president johnson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Our Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with Seth, Carpenter, Morgan Stanley's chief global economist. So I'd say the world goes in lots of cycles. There are very famous episodes back in the late 60s and into the 70s and the interactions between president Johnson and the fed chair and whether it was appropriate to tighten policy while the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam. So I think there have been periods where there's more politicization, there are periods where there's a bit less. I think the main thing from my personal experience is that the people inside the fed tend to be very, very focused on what their mandate is and they try to block out the political noise to the degree humanly possible. The mandate being to really bring inflation down to that 2% target. And that mandate is getting harder to wrap your head around right now because we don't understand the contours of inflation. If Jay Powell were having his fed press conference right now, do you think that he would mention disinflation as John was mentioning earlier? As many times as he did during that press conference. I have to say the last data print does make things a little challenging to read exactly. The fundamental story of some disinflation from core goods and some hopefully coming disinflation from housing. That's generally in still intact. And you never want to fully change your worldview based on one month's worth of data. But there have been some surprises and it wasn't just one data series. The non farm payrolls report for January was strong. The CPI report had some surprises. The retail sales report was strong. All of those have to make you wonder, is there more resilience underlying resilience for the U.S. economy? Get more of
Bloomberg Radio New York
"president johnson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"With Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley's chief global economist. So I'd say the world goes in lots of cycles. There are very famous episodes back in the late 60s and into the 70s and the interactions between president Johnson and the fed chair and whether it was appropriate to tighten policy while the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam. So I think there have been periods where there's more politicization, there are periods where there's a bit less. I think the main thing from my personal experience is that the people inside the fed tend to be very, very focused on what their mandate is and they try to block out the political noise to the degree humanly possible. The mandate being to really bring inflation down to that 2% target. And that mandate is getting harder to wrap your head around right now because we don't understand the contours of inflation. If Jay Powell were having his fed press conference right now, do you think that he would mention disinflation as John was mentioning earlier? As many times as he did during that press conference. I have to say the last data print does make things a little challenging to read exactly The fundamental story of some disinflation from core goods and some hopefully coming disinflation from housing. That's generally in still intact. And you never want to fully change your worldview based on one month's worth of data. But there have been some surprises and it wasn't just one data series, the non farm payrolls report for January was strong. The CPI report had some surprises. The retail sales report was strong. All of those have to make you wonder, is there more resilience underlying resilience for the U.S. economy
Bloomberg Radio New York
"president johnson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is asking employees to work from the office at least three days a week. The story on that from Bloomberg's Charlie pellet. It is scrapping a prior policy that had left such decisions to senior managers. In a memo to employees, CEO Andy jassy said the mandate will take effect on May 1st, chassis says there will be exceptions, including for some sales and customer support jobs, but that will be a small minority. Charlie pellet, Bloomberg radio. From Home Depot, Walmart, the biggest U.S. retailers are about to grab the earnings spotlight. These numbers that will come in next week are going to provide investors some crucial insight into consumer demand. The direction of economic growth and corporate America's profitability. Global news, 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I'm Susanna Palmer. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast feed. On the latest edition of our Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley's chief global economist. So I'd say the world goes in lots of cycles. There are very famous episodes back in the late 60s and into the 70s and the interactions between president Johnson and the fed chair and whether it was appropriate to tighten policy while the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam. So I think there have been periods where there's more politicization, there are periods where there's a bit less. I think the main thing from my personal experience is that the people inside the fed tend to be very, very focused on what their mandate is and they try to block out the political noise that a degree humanly possible. The mandate being to really bring inflation down to that 2% target. And that mandate is getting harder to wrap your head around right now because we don't understand the contours of inflation. If Jay Powell were having his fed press conference right now, do you think that he would mention disinflation as John was mentioning earlier? As many times as he did during that press conference. I have to say the last data print does make things a little challenging to read exactly. The fundamental story of some disinflation from core goods and some hopefully coming disinflation from housing. That's generally in still intact. And you never want to fully change your worldview based on one month's worth of data. But there have been some surprises and it wasn't just one data series, the non farm payrolls report for January was strong. The CPI report had some surprises. The retail sales report was strong. All of those have to make you wonder, is there more resilience underlying resilience for the U.S. economy
Bloomberg Radio New York
"president johnson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Latest edition of our Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley's chief global economist. So I'd say the world goes in lots of cycles. There are very famous episodes back in the late 60s and into the 70s and the interactions between president Johnson and the fed chair and whether it was appropriate to tighten policy while the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam. So I think there have been periods where there's more politicization, there are periods where there's a bit less. I think the main thing from my personal experience is that the people inside the fed tend to be very, very focused on what their mandate is and they try to block out the political noise to the degree humanly possible. The mandate being to really bring inflation down to that 2% target. And that mandate is getting harder to wrap your head around right now because we don't understand the contours of inflation. If Jay Powell were having his fed press conference right now, do you think that he would mention disinflation as John was mentioning earlier as many times as he did during that press conference? I have to say the last data print does make things a little challenging to read exactly. The fundamental story of some disinflation from core goods and some hopefully coming disinflation from housing. That's generally in still intact. You never want to fully change your worldview based on one month's worth of data. But there have been some surprises and it wasn't just one data series, the non farm payrolls report for January was strong. The CPI report had some surprises. The retail sales report was strong. All of those have to make you wonder, is there more resilience underlying resilience for the U.S.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"president johnson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In lots of cycles that are very famous episodes back in the late 60s and into the 70s and the interactions between president Johnson and the fed chair and whether it was appropriate to tighten policy while the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam. So I think there have been periods where there's more politicization there are periods where there's a bit less. I think the main thing from my personal experience is that the people inside the fed tend to be very, very focused on what their mandate is and they try to block out the political noise to the degree humanly possible. The mandate being to really bring inflation down to that 2% target. And that mandate is getting harder to wrap your head around right now because we don't understand the contours of inflation. If Jay Powell were having his fed press conference right now, do you think that he would mention disinflation as John was mentioning earlier as many times as he did during that press conference? I had to say the last data print does make things a little challenging to read exactly. The fundamental story of some disinflation from core goods and some hopefully coming disinflation from housing. That's generally in still intact. And you never want to fully change your worldview based on one month's worth of data. But there have been some surprises and it wasn't just one data series. The non farm payrolls report for January was strong. The CPI report had some surprises. The retail sales report was strong. All of those have to make you wonder, is there more resilience underlying resilience for the U.S. economy? Get more of
Vote-Voiced Podcast
"president johnson" Discussed on Vote-Voiced Podcast
"Publish a podcast, well, I just want to cover the fact that vote boys had a wonderful national voter registration day. We were out there with the public it felt so good. You know, we've had so many years of COVID restrictions and it was the first time that boat boys was out there with other people we were in a beautiful location, heritage park in Taylor, Michigan. And it was wonderful to get out there and meet everyone and say hello and remind everyone of the importance of registering to vote and voting. Now briefly, I want you to listen to common explain the importance and history of voting in America. Hey, some comment that I'm here to give you a breakdown. The importance of the Voting Rights Act. You see that was a time in our history when African Americans weren't allowed to vote. And these not until after the Civil War in 1870, when Congress added the Fifteenth Amendment to our constitution. This gave everyone the right to vote, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. But still, in many places all over the south, that didn't happen. Election officials did everything they could to keep African Americans from voting. They did so for the next 95 years until one fateful day in March. 1965, it tried to be struck with peaceful voting rights protests in Selma, Alabama. In the wake of that attack, president Johnson moved swiftly to create the landmark Voting Rights Act. And soon, all Americans, regardless of gender or race, were guaranteed the right to vote in peace with no worries and no hassles. They say voting is a choice. But when you look back at all the generations of hard work and pain and suffering that happened, just so that we can vote. For me, it's not a choice. It's more than that. That is why I hope.
Mark Levin
Randy E. Barnett Explains the Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment
"The original meeting of the Fourteenth Amendment tell us a thumbnail sketch What's in the Fourteenth Amendment And what did the drafters intend Right Well after the Civil War the Republicans in Congress prohibited slavery in the Thirteenth Amendment and they had every reason to believe that once slavery was abolished then the freed men and the Republican allies in the south would be able to go about their business But that of course is not what happened What happened instead was the imposition on African Americans of the black codes which were discriminatory set of laws that basically reduced our freed men to something close to slavery as close to slavery as they could get And white Republicans in the south were also being put upon by militiamen and other armed terrorists and everybody there especially African Americans were the subject of massacres and other sorts of abuses And so in response to this white supremacy this movement is organized terrorism on behalf of white supremacy The Republicans and Congress did a lot to fight back They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which protected fundamental rights but it was vetoed by president Johnson who said they didn't have the authority to pass it Most Republicans thought they did They overwhelmingly approved it over the retail But just to be sure and to make sure that the law wouldn't be repealed when the Democrats came back they enacted the Fourteenth Amendment So the Fourteenth Amendment goes beyond the Thirteenth Amendment to protect the fundamental rights of each and every one of us as citizens of the United States from being abused by our government So every time the members of your audience have heard about a First Amendment challenge to the states or a Second Amendment challenge to the states they are really actually hearing about a Fourteenth Amendment challenge as you know Mark Although they're doing the challenges are happening under the wrong
Bloomberg Radio New York
"president johnson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Bloomberg best I'm Denny's Pellegrini Inflation continues to be just a huge focus at the fed right now And that may have even more dovish thinkers at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere thinking that may be the fed should take some liquidity off the table fast And we had a chance to ask former Richmond fed president Jeffrey lacquer about it and he tells Bloomberg's Tom Keane and Lisa bromo he's not surprised to see doves or even moderates adopt a more hawkish view It's certainly striking that a number of people that you would historically think of is on the dovish way to come around to this But in a way it's not surprising And I think it's because of how far out of bounds of historical pattern The fed's reaction to this inflation surge has been People forget that the reason we got inflation under control teamed it and then brought it down to 2% It was by reacting with alacrity to inflation scarce Little blips in the bond market that signaled the possibility of increased inflation expectations Instead this fed seems to be willing to let him run and Jeffrey Let's take a Jeffrey right now to the immediate debate at hand and I do this in honor of Thomas Humphrey of course and all the history you've done Paul krugman has gone back to the history of 1947 the post World War II spike down we came with massive disinflation Eisenhower deflation and then there's the late 60s which was a little bit different You basically suggest mister krugman may be off and mister lacquer may be on with a more pernicious inflation of the late 60s discuss Well I can see why the 47 48 episode is attractive for those who are sanguine about the surge But for me it seems like the 1960s and early 70s is the more apt comparison Inflation is ultimately about fiscal and monetary policy And at that time period you had two very significant shifts a shift in fiscal policy with president Johnson running a great society program but also running an escalation in the war in Vietnam that busted budgets And then on the monitoring policy side you had the gradual and then sudden abandonment of the bretton Woods system which tied the value of the dollar However loosely but in the long run to gold and tied down longer run inflation expectations In addition you had the subservience of fed chairman William McKesson Martin and Arthur burns to prevailing political wins a subservience that tilted them in the direction of reducing unemployment and setting inflation pressures aside Today now we obviously have a very striking and large change in the fiscal outlook It's a period over the last couple of years And on the monetary policy side the fed rewrote its framework it rewrote its philosophy last year And again it tilted towards greater concern about employment and less of a concern about inflation more of a willingness to let it run Just do you agree Do you agree then that the remedy is going to be a very quick series of rate hikes or perhaps a jump or we could get three to 4% up and policy rates or peak policy rates in the cycle Three to 4% wouldn't surprise me Really Yeah I think they're on track to a major policy blunder And recovering from that realizing they've waited too long It's going to cause them to have necessity raise rates sharply and try and engineer a cooling of the labor market And that very rarely turns out well It's Bill Dudley's pointed this out publicly that and others as well that the fed rarely is able to get the unemployment rate to go back up a little bit without it filling up a fairly large amount It's very hard to calibrate just how much to take out of the system and it seems to me plausible that we get to three and a half 4% And in addition that we pushed the economy into a recession Yeah well that's exactly where I was going to go with this Jeff and I are looking at the average high yield bond yield The average junk bond yield in the United States is currently at 4.23% That is all inclusive You get the overnight rate at three and a half to 4% What does that do to the valuations of these securities What kind of recession are we looking at and won't the fed be reluctant to move in that kind of manner because of the torpedoing effect on markets Yeah I think they're in a situation where they need to avoid an error They need to pivot recalibrate pretty rapidly Accelerate the taper get rate increases started earlier next year in the first half And they're going to need some good luck And I think a lot of markets seem to me priced for a lot of good luck I want to take the freshwater heritage here of the wonderful Marvin good friend and of course his mentor Alan Meltzer and Carnegie Mellon Alan melzer lectured me like you lectured me We've got to look all in at the macro data in America as an entirety Or are we so polarized now that the president's studying inflation has to look at it as two chords The haves and the have nots It's a good question We typically have it don't have a lot of data on inflation rates by cohorts I think more broadly differential effects of inflation translated into different political implications for the fed different levels of political system dissatisfaction for the fed On the employment side I think the fed's redefined maximum employment has brought an inclusive that's all well and good but it's really hard to measure and by adding more essentially more goals you sort of weaken your attachment to any of them and it raises serious questions I think the fed has been A slave to a deeply flawed and outmoded conception of maximum employment And I think they missed an opportunity to update that Jeff one last question because you're gonna throw me off air Who is closer to the flawed concept Governor brainard or chairman Powell I don't see much daylight between them on this I think that they're both strongly aligned with the house view that the word staff and others in the system promulgate If you use maximum employment as this timeless parameter that we get to at the very end of.
Bro History
"president johnson" Discussed on Bro History
"I mean we've talked about it excessively okay so this is an example. I found for what i feel. Like you know is like the cia as real charter or at least what they should have been doing. Which is intelligence gathering and analysis right And so. I got this article from the brookings dot edu which is basically organization exact. Exactly so. I definitely want to make that clear like i had to find. You know positive. Very pro national security state. Yeah the i a organization into very hawkish neo liberal internationalist organization that is basically a now piece for this for the cia. Yup very very clear on that point But you know. I it was interesting and you take it with a grain of salt but Here's some interesting stuff that that i learned from it. So in the lead up to the sixty seven war in israel Which was a were between israel and like everyone else around them all of their neighbors And the office of current intelligence the ci they basically created a task force to monitor the situation between israel and its neighbors And the day after egypt ends up closing the straits of tehran. That was on may twenty third in that same year President johnson asked richard helms who is the director of central intelligence To put together like a like an immediate assessment on you know what would the outcome of the world be like And he actually came through with it and just a couple of hours I don't know if this is more you know talking mouthpiece. I don't know if it only took a couple of hours or what but as the story goes but anyway helps comes back to johnson with this report. That stated pretty clearly that israel could probably take on all the arabs. No problem like any combination of them. he also noted that he could probably even do an offensive in grab more land and the main reason why they came to this conclusion. Was israel's air superiority like they believe that they had the know the the edge militarily because they had just so much better air like warplanes And so two days. Later israel comes to johnson and their government provides Our government with Their own assessment of the situation was totally different They claim to be in grave danger..
Chapo Trap House
"president johnson" Discussed on Chapo Trap House
"That's another that's another choice revenue stream. Well moving on from tony blair. I think round out in the show today. We have a choice reading series about afghanistan from one of its most Sage profits scribes. Of course. I am returning once again to Thomas friedman friedman the guy who in november two thousand one wrote that the taliban was gone forever and that were has now come out today. And like the this. This article by thomas friedman. We've covered him a lot on this show but i think like him really like suffering some sort of mental break. He's going crazy in the booth. He's a spasm on the mike here and is it. I mean is it like as our empire grinds down now comes face comes tooth and claw against like the real harsh reality of what it means to be a fading failed empire having to you know retreat in disgrace and he billion after being defeated round after twenty years of spending all that money and trying so hard to in. I don't know make afghanistan a country that could orderly process heroin and minerals that. We need This this is thomas. Friedman now who is just retreated entirely into his mind palace. This is his opinion column from last thursday. With some how i did not get this article before we recorded but here it is now three people. I would interview about afghanistan this entire column. Just a play that he wrote in his head about him talking to having imaginary conversations. It's like you know it's like when you're in a shower when you're in the shower like the day after you you had your at a bar or something and you come up with his zinger that you should have said and you do it yourself in the shower and you're like fuck. I wish i had a time machine. This is his version of that. Thomas friedman's best columns are like they're like the nausea songs. That are stupid like i can. Yeah it's like it's like the nozzle where it's like. Oh i'm going to wrap from the perspective of a gun. Wouldn't this be cool all right. So this is thomas. Friedman writing the new york times as i watch events in afghanistan unfold. I find myself trying to ignore all the commentary and longing instead to interview. Three people. President lyndon johnson chinese president xi jinping and mohammed zahir shah the last king of afghanistan. I love right here. He's just like as the events unfolding afghantistan. I find myself shutting out all of the news and commentary about what's actually going on. That may lead me to face up to my role in all of it instead. Here's an imaginary conversation. I have with three people. One of whom has been dead for thirty years. Thomas friedman is plural game. He has made. So i up. Is this written like dialogue. So i love. Is friedman president johnson to these people have been dead for quite a long time president johnson. What did you think of joe. Biden's speech about quitting afghanistan president. Johnson where i say. Now i say i'll sit president and you've never seen a cock this big and then i slapped him with it. Put it out of my pants in the face with it would jumbo because president. Johnson i listened to it and i have to say that i choked up if i had the guts to give that speech on april seventh. Nineteen sixty five about america's involvement in vietnam. The war that i inherited and then expanded with that speech. Promise me one thing. You won't linked to that speech. Sorry mr president. But i already did the dock with president johnson. He's he shares a leonard jones beach about vietnam so johnson replies. Yes mr friedmann. I wish i had said what biden did. And what his predecessors never would how many more generations of americans daughters and sons would you have me sent to fight afghanistan civil war when afghan troops will not. I mean that's funny. Because that's exactly what johnson said right before he sent a shit load of american jobs vietnam so he basically did already say that that is how a man with the huge comically. Huge dick is cursed is always curse to do it so as to do the dangerous thing. A man with joe biden's dick which i assume you know probably normal like they'll come on the width of like with the jewel. Let's say he's like no man. Okay that was that was president johnson. Now moving onto president. Gee presidency what do you think of. All of the american commentators proclaiming china winner biden's withdrawal of us sources from afghanistan. Oh my these are what we call useful idiots. What planet are these people living on. I love z's voice so perfectly jelly yeah all the great figures of history all to sound exactly. What planner do these people living on. We had a perfect situation. Going before biden came along america was hemorrhaging lives money energy and focus in afghanistan and its presence was making the country just safe enough chinese multinationals stu exploit the metallurgical corporation of china and zhongjie copper at a contract to develop a copper mine in china natural petroleum corporation was working on a field in the north of the country and the americans refunding the overall security. That is our idea of perfection. Alas neither of these projects got off the ground because of the craziness in kabul government but afghanistan is hugely rich in minerals. We need who protect our investors. After the americans have stopped doing it for free. Not me freedman. How about the taliban the taliban you think that we trust them have you noticed what their brothers and the pakistani taliban have been doing to our investments in pakistan just read this wall street journal from july twenty eighth cares because pakistan cannot even keep a safe from its own taliban and ballack separatists in their own country and we own pakistan..
Bro History
"president johnson" Discussed on Bro History
"Because i do want to actually talk about that cam. But your here's a i have a quote from murray rothbart and some of you guys who listened to listen to the. Oh gals are Kinda weirdo libertarians. Like myself I kinda keep it a little private but sometimes it does come out. But i have a a quote that i felt was pretty strong from him. The period of the first world war was a watershed and the evolution of the corporate liberal welfare warfare state. It's all beginning. Not only of the government business alliance and industry and american militarism in globalism but also of the ideology and apparatus of the national security state in the years in crisis a their threats civil liberties would be systemized as as the latest depredations by the cia fbi and other federal agencies. Show these have far from disappear. Which i think is very fair Not only prediction but analysis of that administration and how it impacts the world. Today i think he wrote this in one thousand nine hundred eighty s now Going back to like world war one. No basically all wars are by deception in some way there's always a campaign to sell wars Despite the bush administration license. War in iraq Just like about how. Every president lied us into war in vietnam going back. The harry truman. But i guess most notably you know the most agreed just lies re probably told by President johnson and robert mcnamara. But you know. The modern memory of the us rushing into the war just before the british and the french were about the fold to quote unquote save. Democracy doesn't really reflect reality nor even does it reflect public opinion at the time or at least public opinion after the war in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirty s. A lot of americans believe that entering this war had been a huge mistake. I just think about the damage that took place a hundred fifteen thousand soldiers. American soldiers died hundreds of thousands more were wounded and that was only two hundred days of combat nuts. These guys were getting just slaughtered because a lot of the soldiers going into the war for green. A lot of the american soldiers were going to. They're fighting these grizzled combat fats. Who had been fighting.
AP News Radio
Hundreds March to Texas Capitol in Protest of GOP Elections Bills
"Country music legend Willie Nelson performed at a voting rights rally at the Texas state capitol in Austin on Saturday seeking his vote amount song if you the action in a statement Nelson says laws making it more difficult for people to vote are unamerican intended to punish poor people people of color the elderly and disabled Lyndon Baines Johnson whose father President Johnson signed the nineteen sixty five voting rights act told the crowd her father would be proud of today's activists access to the ball well liberty and justice for all the rally in Austin was the end of a March that started Wednesday twenty seven miles away in George town against tighter voting laws Texas Republicans are pushing I'm Julie Walker
KQED Radio
"president johnson" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Everyone was waiting for the hammer to drop Robert Rosy, Rosenthal remembers wondering with the FBI swoop in and confiscate the documents. Would they all get arrested? Nothing happened that Sunday. I remember being in the Hilton with machine all the reporters Sunday, New York Times and nothing was happening and they were bummed. We were all bummed. You might expect that at the White House, Nixon was below owing his stack over this You'd be wrong. Thanks to all those secret recordings Nixon made. We know exactly what he was thinking. Here. He is talking on the phone that Sunday to General Alexander Haig. Just a note. There's some salty language and some of these tapes, okay? Nothing else of interest in the world's very significant this Goddamn New York Times expose of the most highly classified documents of the war. All that. I see that I didn't read the story. But you mean that was leaked out of the Pentagon? This is a devastating security breach of the greatest magnitude of anything. I have seen. What? What's being done about it then? I mean, I didn't actually we know this is coming out. No, we did not sure. Now I just start right at the top and fire some people. I mean, whoever whatever department came out of the fire the top guy, so no, he's not happy. But for Nixon, this is more than a little tame and what do you hear is next is interesting, but it's something that is a mixed bag. It says a tough attack on Kennedy. It shows that the genesis of the war really occurred. 61 sound that's Clifford Icy, and it's brutal on President Johnson. They're gonna end up in a massive gut fight in the Democratic Party on this thing. See Nixon kind of likes the idea that the New York Times is giving the Democrats trouble. This next call is from Monday morning after the Times ran another section of the Pentagon papers. It's Nixon with one of his White House aides. Hello, It's Mr Ehrlich man calling it Hello, Mr President. The attorney general's called a couple times about these New York Times stories. And he's advised by his people that unless he puts the times on notice, he's probably gonna waive any right of prosecution against the newspaper. And he is going out to see if you would approve his putting them on notice before their first edition for tomorrow comes out. I can't realize her negatives to this in terms of the Vote on the hill. Yeah. You mean to prosecute the time's right? Hell, I wouldn't prosecute the times. My view is to prosecute the goddamn said David told out if you can find out who that is, and I know I mean, could the times be prosecuted? Apparently so. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Well, could you wait one more day they have they have one more day after that. I don't know. I don't know next. Nixon calls Attorney General John Mitchell. Mitchell wants to put the times on legal notice that they're violating the law by possessing or publishing the papers. Nixon finally agrees. Well, look, as far as the time does concern. Hell, there are enemies. I think we just ought to do it in any way. As Rosie told me and Pentagon papers whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg The Times was about to learn that they had the White House's full attention Monday Stories came out and got some more attention but exploded when Attorney General John Mitchell We asked the times not to publish..
On The Media
How Three Women Re-Wrote the Story of War
"Before the vietnam war there was a law that banned women from reporting on the front lines of any war for the us. When president johnson refused to officially declare a state of war in vietnam in opening appeared no ban a handful of pioneering women bought one way tickets into the battlefield they had no editors no health insurance and little or no formal training reporter elizabeth becker former washington post war correspondent in cambodia and then npr's foreign editor and then national security correspondent for the new york. Times has just published. You don't belong here. How three women rewrote the story of war. Chronicling catherine lewa a french. Photojournalist franky fitzgerald an american long form journalist and author and kate webb in australian combat reporter elizabeth. Welcome to on the media will thank. You broke his great to be with you. I wanna start with where you started. You give your initial experience very short shrift. When asked why did you cross the ocean to cover a war. When you're so young you said the short answer was a nightmare. I was all too keen to leave behind. My masters adviser had rejected my thesis on the bangladesh war of independence after. I refused to sleep with him and he said one wasn't related to the other. Just tell me what happened. This was nineteen seventy two and there weren't that many women in graduate school and he made a move. And i said no. He pressed on and i said no he rejected. The thesis. said. I had to work harder on it. Then resisted any idea that one related to the other. That even made a pass at me. So you know you're young enough that you think that you have your whole life ahead of you and wary enough that i said i'm not leaving my life in this guy's
Biz Talk Radio
"president johnson" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Are back with Christian ago fiend show half past the hour in a very busy real estate market. Who better to join us than the fine gent to my right? John Herriot, a k a Dad. Thanks for joining us again, sir. We were talking in your local segment here in Philadelphia. About that. Cool. Maybe the first moon landing with Ryan Gosling. The first man first man, watch out with Victor. But, yes, indeed. Heralding a great day in American history. My first birthday, which also coincidentally happens to be Day they landed on, you know, right? It was a Sunday Sunday July 20th 1969. We were having a little birthday party for Chrissy and Green Bay, Wisconsin, where we lived with the time with some of your you know, one year old give or take a little bit buddies Scooter ring around the house and some other some other friends of ours from the community, and we watched Neil Armstrong lands on them. And by the way for Chrissy Chrissy alluded to this movie. Ryan Gosling, the first man, I think it is out on demand Right now it is. It's probably on demand. I don't know that it's on Netflix yet, but it got it got what I thought was a bad rap. When I first came out, somebody said, Well, my God, when they show the landing on the moon, they didn't show the American flag being planted. They've got their knickers in a twist, and I thought, Well, that's kind of kind of weird. And then then they shouldn't I thought, Well, maybe it was somebody who's got the little agenda a little agenda and doesn't want to give the United States because there are a lot of Surprising to me because I know we live in the greatest country on the face of the earth, and whenever I've had a chance to live in other countries, I come back and want to kiss the ground doesn't make it all the airplane because I read some other reviews. That is really, really great man and folks, it's a great movie. It is a marvelous, marvelous movie. It talks mostly about the relationship. Between Neil Armstrong and his family because he was a career air Force guy. I believe And he and his wife really went through some tough, tough Knox 567 years before the moon landing, and he was in one or two other assignments that failed, not because of him. Because that it just wasn't thought out as well. Is that a swell as it should have been? God? He survived them, and he was pretty low for a for a lot of years, So it focused on that particular piece. Of the of the story and just just very, very well done. So you get a chance. See that on demand when it comes on Netflix or who little were voted or the Amazon prime? There's so many streaming services. Now that Lots and lots of options. And I would really recommend that you look at that. Just a just a marvelous, marvelous make movies, good stuff and what we're talking about that there's another miniseries that your mom and I saw got two or three years ago when streaming first came into our house, and I think this one was on Amazon Prime, but the was called the Astronaut Wives Club. I did hear about that one. I loved from the Earth to the moon. That was like, almost 20 years ago, the Tom Hanks one That was great. They had a briefing on the wives, but I knew that they had a whole syriza on the wife. That's what you're talking about that got rave reviews. It was It was great. It really was great. But it was told from the perspective of the of the wives a little focus on the astronauts, but mostly was soft by focus on the wise. It was one segment. They're gonna take another minute and talk about this. That was just really, really amazing. John. Glen's wife. I forget her name. Annie. Annie was very, very shy. I and stuttered a lot had a real speech impediment and later on. She overcame that. And she helped John Glenn in his Senate campaigns. And that was that was an effective campaigner. But back when he was in the astronaut program. Glenn had just begun become, I think the first American astronaut to orbit the earth. I think Alan Shepard went up sub orbital flight came back down to Earth. And Glenn was the first one and this would have been in early early. 1962 because I had just gone into the Army is a brand new second. Lieutenant and Glenn orbited the Earth two or three times. Certainly after that. Vice President Johnson was visiting the astronauts and he came to he came to work. Len was living and but he wanted to come in and talk to Mrs Glenn Live on the radio and was alive on the radio, so yeah, and she was just terrified that I don't want I want I want so she called her husband. Who's gonna the time and hey, said, Annie, do you want to let the president vice president and and she said no right, And he said Well, then, but so on, so on the phone, and I'll tell him no, that's it. And that was it. And I thought Well, now, Glenn, for whatever political persuasion, he was, he was a gutsy guy in that respect, and I have always I've always loved that story. He was willing to tell the Vice president United States No, because it was going to make his wife uncomfortable. LBJ. LBJ is not my not my favorite president is many people's paper, not my favorite president. Anyway. What's it going to be costing to buy The house right now is opposed to wait until next year. Okay? I get that question a lot, because, you know, should I buy now or wait till next year? Well, January, people are thinking about it. What do you think The answer is by now or wait till next year? Based on your expert tutelage? Definitely diving Now, guys, That's right. No Interest rates right now about 4.5%. Okay, anything down? They came down. They came down about three. Transport 10 7%. Pretty next year. They're predicted to be 5.1%. If you're looking to take out a mortgage of $250,000 next year, this time if home prices appreciate as predicted, you're probably going to need a mortgage with by $262,000, which.
KTRH
"president johnson" Discussed on KTRH
"Barrett here, along with Sheriff Fryer. We are going to be carrying the president's remarks Live. He's going to be well. He has landed now. Joint base. Andrews and the helicopter is on its way of taxing towards the stage area. Always unusual for me to say that about a helicopter. You think this is going straight down? Well, protocols, don't you know exactly what is really? It really is a sight when you see Marine one Marine to and usually there's more than one helicopter. You know, Decoy helicopters flying about But he's pulling up within walking. Very close walking distance of Air Force One right now, There is a small group there. Um, at joint base. Andrews, it least on the tarmac there right on the proper. Hey, there's a podium and a microphone and so he will be able to address and you can see his pilot down. A lot of kids. Apparently outside the fences. I would think so, You know, I'm sure there are a lot of you know, Regardless of your political affiliation. You would like to think that any time a president is leaving office any time there's a change of administration. It is historical by nature that we are seeing is his family, His kids and his grandchildren. Now who are there that that's what the camera is on. As they're waiting for him to deplane. He will deplane he will hit the stage. He will be playing a helicopter. Why not know disembark? I don't know, Theofanis. A word is either way works as you says family is there and there's some supporters of their vice president. Pence is not there because he will be attending. The swearing in ceremony of Joe Biden and Kamila Harris around 11 A.m. this morning and I don't know if he's there because they felt the logistics didn't work out or or if he has a personal reason not to be there. This kind of not important at this point. What we're looking at is is the peaceful transfer power is we've been looking at this. I'm kind of struck Shera Bhai all the times we were told over the last couple of years that they'd have to take in kicking and screaming from the White House forcibly remove him his gracious farewell speech as well as that of the first lady. I mean, they Look at their acts. You know, there was something that was really interesting when Lyndon Johnson returned to Texas newly elected Congressman George Bush 41 George H. W. Bush Did not attend the inaugural. Instead, he went To the Air Force base in order to welcome President Johnson home. As a fellow Texan. Thank God. I wonder if anybody in Florida is going to do that for Donald Trump. Hard to say, you know, most most of stories. Unfortunately, that we've seen coming out of Florida is all the all the people who live around Mar a Lago who don't want him coming there. Yeah, but you know that just his home that's where he lives. Um are those his official residence as I understand it now he gave up. He will remain president there until Joe Biden was sworn in. Which is the way we do it, which is another 3.5 hours away. All right. Here comes his secret service off the helicopter now. Mast up. I might add. Yeah, they all have mass care. They're wearing the mask. Marines in uniform wearing masks. Yeah, it's good. It's still kind of a strange sight, isn't it? This is used to wearing masses. We all similarly have gotten. It still looks a little out of place. In these types of ceremonies. I'm guessing the president will not be wearing a mask. I can't imagine going on stage wearing one at this particular point time. Well, that this is exactly military precision, You know, except the schedule we were given was coming from Fox because they're gonna be taking the fox coverage live. A soon as we've got some sound and something for you to be able to hear so well, who's there with us? While we we hear something we feel for you? We can listen, because there will be an inauguration later today, and we're still waiting for the president. Get off. Get off the helicopter down. Crenshaw was on Fox just a few minutes ago, and he was talking about what he expected or what he wanted to hear from Joe Biden today. I wanna hear some action behind this all this talk of unity, especially from by them. Okay, so I won't bite into act with a sense of humility and acknowledge of a key factor, Which is that Ah lot of Americans who voted for him or not voting for him because of his radical policy agenda. Okay, That's not what they were looking for. Actually like being left alone. All right. We actually like saying, you know what we want to keep more of our money. We want our borders secure. We don't want to acquiesce to China destroy Texas energy sector Detroit to destroy American energy independence. And give everything the Chinese want. Okay, That's not what we want. When we want you to acknowledge that, Okay, so secure our borders don't kill our small businesses by raising the minimum wage. That's a That's and Crenshaw. Yeah, let's let's go ahead and join the coverage. They.
KQED Radio
"president johnson" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Dillard. Joe McConnell for KQED. Good morning, I'm Dave frame and it ate 43 with a Monday morning perspective on Martin Luther King Jr Day. Lee Me L Love It remembers how the civil rights movement left a legacy of a more diverse America. When I was six, a girl visiting from my native Taiwan admonished me for smiling at another child because she was black. Even at six. I could not understand this blatant racism. My response. In hindsight, we wouldn't even be in the country if not for the civil rights movement. The first Chinese exclusion acts emerged and 18 eighties. The time I was born in the 19 sixties, the U. S have fully reopened the doors to Chinese immigrants and my father arrived, is a graduate student in that first wave of Asian immigration. On Martin Luther King Jr Day I celebrate the civil rights movement that helped foster the historic opening of immigration laws. Then President Johnson spoke of lifting the bars of discrimination against immigrants. Vice President Hubert Humphrey was more explicit. Urging us to bring our immigration law into line with the spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The following year, the heart seller Act opened the doors to people coming from China, India, Brazil, Pakistan all over Lifting the ethnic bands and quotas in place for over 40 years. During my college years, Stanford with not in the into the forces around the world, agitating for change in 1989, Our Rainbow Coalition of student groups staged a sit in demanding that our studies and professors mirror our diversity. As police Busses rolled in this made national news coming from a scrappy, isolated upbringing in Chinatown, I began to understand the power of collective action. My sophomore year credit. Scott King spoke of her husband's legacy to an auditorium of wrapped students. When I took the stage is no longer about just representing my people. Our diversity carried a common message that our humanity has made whole when could is airlifted walls torn down? Privilege in politics can isolate us. We don't need more walls today is reminder that those of us who came to this country or build our lives on the sweat of immigrants should count the leaders of the civil rights movement among our kin. With a perspective I'm Lee. Now Love it. Leave me I love it is an educator in San Francisco..
KQED Radio
"president johnson" Discussed on KQED Radio
"McConnell for KQED, and I'm Dave Freeman on KQED. It's 6 43 with a Monday morning perspective. Good morning. On Martin Luther King Jr Day Lee Me our Love. It remembers how the civil rights movement left a legacy of a more diverse America. When I was six, a girl visiting from my native Taiwan, admonished me for smiling at another child because she was black. Even at six. I could not understand this blatant racism. My response. In hindsight, we wouldn't even be in the country if not for the civil rights movement. The first Chinese exclusion acts emerged in the 18 eighties. By the time I was born in the 19 sixties, the U. S had fully reopened the doors to Chinese immigrants, and my father arrived as a graduate student in that first wave of Asian immigration. On Martin Luther King Jr Day I celebrate the civil rights movement that helped foster the historic opening of immigration laws. Then President Johnson spoke of lifting the bars of discrimination against immigrants. Vice President Hubert Humphrey was more explicit, urging us to bring our immigration law into line with the spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The following year, the heart seller Act opened the doors to people coming from China, India, Brazil, Pakistan all over Lifting the ethnic bands and quotas in place for over 40 years. During my college years, Stanford was not immune to the forces around the world. Agitating for change in 1989, our Rainbow Coalition of student groups staged a sit in demanding better studies and professors mirror our diversity. As police Busses rolled in this made national news coming from a scrappy, isolated up bring in Chinatown, I began to understand the power of collective action. My sophomore year credit. Scott King spoke of her husband's legacy to an auditory nerve wrapped students. When I took the stage is no longer about just representing my people. Our diversity carried a common message that our humanity is made whole when could is airlifted walls torn down? Privilege in politics can isolate us. We don't need more walls today is reminder that those of us who came to this country or build our lives on the sweat of immigrants should count the leaders of the civil rights movement among our kin. With a perspective I'm Lee now. Love it. Lee me. I love it is an educator in San Francisco..
KTOK
"president johnson" Discussed on KTOK
"And will be sworn in As the 46, president of the United States. One person who will not be in attendance. The 45th President Donald Trump, Mr Trump will be the first commander in chief to skip the inaugural. And more than 150 years. The last time was 18 69. Going Chief executive Andrew Johnson. He tested the incoming president Ulysses S. Grant, and the feeling was mutual. If you dated back to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. That promoted Johnson to the presidency. Now, Andrew Johnson's racist views offended Grant, who ran the Army. In February. 18 68 Johnson became the first president ever impeached by the House. Grant supported the removal. He and Johnson accused each other of being liars, cheats and frauds. Senate ultimately acquitted Andrew Johnson by just one vote. President Johnson was so unpopular during his tenure that the Democrats refuse to nominate him for a second term. Republicans ran grad who won easily now the two foes would be together for a transition. Grants reaction upon his election quote. I will not occupy the same carriage with Mr Johnson going to and from the capital. Putting the White House records, Johnson told his cabinet quote. We owed it to ourselves to take the ground that we could not with proper self respect. Witness the inauguration of a man whom we knew To be untruthful, faithless and false unquote. As his successor was about to be sworn in. Andrew Johnson stayed inside the White House. At noon, he stood up shook hands with his Cabinet members headed out the door saying, Quote I fancy. I can already smell the sweet mountain air of Tennessee. And that's where he returned to, and here's something else you might not know. In interviews later in life, Johnson repeatedly used the following line when asked why he refused to attend the inauguration quote..
All In with Chris Hayes
'Better America': Biden's Campaign Launches New National Ad
"In one thousand, nine, sixty, four Lyndon Johnson ran a now iconic campaign ad against Barry Goldwater where a little girl counts daisy pedals until her counting becomes the countdown to nuclear explosion idea being present goldwater has become elected and started a nuclear war because he's a madman. said. It. there. Is, are, the stakes. You'll make a world in which all of God's children can live. Aren't to go into the dark room, we must either love each other. Or we must die. Vote for President Johnson on November third, the stakes are too high for you to stay home. The stakes are that you're adorable daughter gets nuked. Now. Even though we're not living through a nuclear winter, we are living through a version of disaster. I mean a a national disaster resulting in thousands and thousands of deaths day after day after day and a new Joe Biden goes against the grain in many ways the opposite of the grand life and death scale the daisy at. The new the biden relates what a bummer. This current disastrous doesn't focus deaths, evictions, closed schools. It says, this virus is ruining the little things like seeing your grandkids. have been gifted with two beautiful grandchildren. We try to see them as often as possible and it's been six months. And it's way too long. And while I don't blame Donald Trump for the virus, I blame him for his lack of action and because of that, we're sitting here zooming or facetime ing with our grandchildren instead of hugging and kissing them. And that's hard. Joe Biden knows every moment is precious I trust you Biden to get this virus under control? I'm Joe Biden and I approve this message. Seems like a really real smart relatable ad for a portion of the population that Joe Biden is trying to focus on. This is for all the people who were sold on idea that there was some normal around the Ben. During the trump years because there is no normal during trump that was false join me. Now for more on the different approaches, the two campaigns are taking is Adrian Shropshire. She's a veteran democratic strategist and executive director of black pack had a lot of experience in politics community organizing and ads as well and I just I was so struck by this ad agent because it's so understood in. So many ways given how terrible things are and given the kind of micro targeted median voter. He's trying to reach you know elderly couple or senior citizen couple in Florida. Yeah I mean the reality is that. Voters understand where we are. They understand the crisis that we're in. They do not. WanNa see campaign after campaign ad reminding them of our national. Right. I've said he focused move after folks. And what? The message that voters say that they want to hear is one of national unity. They WanNa hear message about a path forward how this mess is going to get fixed and I think the brilliant thing about that ad is that. while. It appears to be targeted at one segment of the electorate. The reality is that that is all of us, right? That is my entire family every Sunday night sitting zoom call, right so it is it is. There is a moment where the multipronged crisis that are facing the country are literally touching every single one of us and what's brilliant about the ad is that. You know it's it leads toward that unifying message right? It is it in every message quite frankly every ad I would hope to see that comes out of the campaign on is a way to unify to tell a message to tell a story that connects people about the moment that we're in. It's really if you think about it in this in this way having a national unity being a campaign strategy all by itself.
Iroquois History and Legends
Ely Parker The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
"Hello and welcome to era KOI history and legends. I'm Andrew. And I am Caleb, and welcome back to our third installment on Ellie Parker. In May of eighteen, sixty, five, ely parker returned to Washington. DC, and he and grant met with the president again. President Johnson this time Parker was still very angry about the death of Lincoln and is said to have said at a military parade. He white men are Christians, and you may forgive murder. The I'm of a race never forgives the murder of a friend which I find this quote kind of interesting because he was a Christian. He his father was a preacher, and he was a member of a of an Anglican church later in his life. So that I think it's the point is getting across that he really harbored some bitterness towards the the confederates. If you remember from our. Our last episode couple of weeks before this when Abraham Lincoln is talking to him on how he wants to help his people think Parker was really excited to have a president that actually cared about the Indians, and I think he believed honesty when he said that this must have been a you know on top of him considering Abraham Lincoln a friend, but also all of a sudden. His plans for the future for his people have just been crushed with the death of Abraham Lincoln, and we don't know what would have been head Lincoln been able to finish his second term. Lincoln definitely had some very. Questionable tactics dealing with a Western tribes during the civil war. He or some people to do some some bad stuff that being said I think that Lincoln really did have an appreciation for the the Iroquois nations, and really did want to to help them in the following months Parker remained at grant side, he helped shield him from the the masses for a word. We would use today. The Paparazzi the general was the hero of the war. He's the one that got lead to surrender. Everywhere. He went. People mobbed him. They literally had to beat people away when grant was trying to get some sleep on a train. People were breaking windows. Just try to get in and shake his hand. They said the grants hand was. Crippled because so many people wanted to shake in talk to them as they toured the North Grant, and his family came to Niagara Falls to rest and recuperate and Parker said I'll take your kids, and which is always great when somebody offers to do that, he just takes the kids and take some to the tunnel under reservation for some days to stay at his sister's house. In the fall of that year he was appointed to a commission to serve on a board to help with negotiating with a dozen or so native American nations that adjoined the confederates. We even have a chance to talk about this, but there were all these indigenous nations in the south. Many of them head slaves as well, and they were really sympathetic to the southern 'cause they were intertwined. and politically so here's a little history tidbit fact for Caleb. Do you know who the last general to surrender in the confederacy was? No idea neither did I, but I put it in the notes so I would remember. He was a Cherokee brigadier general named stand. Wadey must be the southward a little more lenient with their commissions. Yeah really, but he he commanded hundreds of troops and lead people around on a wild goose chase, refusing to surrender, even after the confederacy had surrendered, but like this is June twenty third. This is a full two or three months after a everything has wound down, it also kind of sets the stage for you know because we all know about like the the Indian wars in. In the eighteen eighties and stuff like that in the old western kind of see how a Lotta that this conflict never really ended this Cherokee general with America like eventually make some sort of peace, but you can tell it. It's GONNA be a shallow peace, and that will be trouble for the next several decades in eighteen, sixty, six one of grant's top officers colonel, bowers. was killed tragically by train, and why it's so tragic is he was a close friend of Parker in grand. You know he's one of the general. Staff and they were all on a train and grant got on the train and realized he left something back at the hotel. Something completely, not important handkerchief a book, a letter from his mom something like that. and. He just said Oh darn. I accidentally left that back there. Oh well. And bowers without saying anything to grant slipped away, and he was gonNA. Run back and grab it. Is. He was trying to be a good a good friend and a good underlying to the general in doing so he ended up. If you can picture, all these train tracks with all the trains going every which way he got trapped in between trains going different directions than he was killed crushed. So grant talks to this man a couple of minutes before, and then you know, he slips away. Grant never told him to go back and get it, and then people say a man was killed on tracks. He says Oh. That's terrible, and then it comes in that. It was his friend. It had fought with him through the whole civil war, and he was dead, just like that grant was so depressed that he told Parker that he was not going to be able to attend the funeral. Lots of people say things like that, and then the funeral date comes and guess who is there. A Grant Parker and all the staff were there for Colonel Bowers and his family
The Opening Bell
Washington - White House butler who served 11 presidents died of coronavirus
"Wanted to mention so today passed away but a remarkable person you may have heard of Wilson German in the past he was a Butler at the White House who served eleven presidents history was sort of cold in the the movie the bottler with forest Whitaker in Oprah and not so many other big names pretty good movie from a few years back but this gentleman Wilson German started working in the White House as a cleaner in nineteen fifty seven under Dwight D. Eisenhower and then worked for John F. Kennedy was promoted to Butler under JFK but also worked for Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson liked him so much that when Mister Germans wife was very ill he sent that President Johnson sent his personal positions to treat her to to take care of her and then the worked for president Nixon and president Ford and I mean the the the list goes on and on Jimmy Carter George W. bush said that he was a lovely man he was the first person that we saw in the in the white house every morning the last person we saw when we returned at night he worked for president Obama and of course took a great deal of pride in working for president Obama being African American himself that the there was an African American president but a a rather remarkable man who served as a cleaner A. and and elevator operator at the White House apparently they haven't put in the automatic elevators at the White House for at the time at least did not and then ultimately bottler which is you know I I guess quite a prestigious position there he died of coronavirus sadly age ninety is
Cultivating Place
Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Women Working in the World of Plants
"We continue cultivating places. Women's history month interviews. Were joined this week by Andrea Delong Amaya director of horticulture for the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas. At Austin it is also the botanic garden for the State of Texas Andrea has been on staff for over twenty years and has more than thirty years of experience in horticulture. She Guides fifteen staff members in the design and management of nine acres of Native Plant Gardens. Two hundred and seventy five acres of natural areas and in native plant nursery. She teaches classes in native plant horticulture and writes and presents on her passion for the field widely. She spoke with US late. Last autumn to share more about the history and work of the centre including it. Being the legacy of another extraordinary woman ladybird Johnson Andrea shares. Her own enthusiasm for this field of work. Welcome Andrea Hi. How you doing? I'm great how are you wonderful? I'd love for you to start by describing describe the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center as visually as you can for listeners. Who may not have been there. And then we'll talk a little bit about your specific work there Andrea Sherr so we are in a South Austin and in the middle of Texas. We're in a part of the state that we refer to as Texas El country or the Edwards Plateau which is a beautiful beautiful part of the state. Of course Texans will say every part of the state is beautiful but I WANNA say text. The central Texas area is particularly beautiful especially in the spring were really renowned for having excellent wildflower displays including the Texas blue on it which occurs all over the state but the central Texas areas particularly flora for us in the spring. And so we are like I said in Austin and the site that were on is a public garden where about two hundred and eighty five acres. I think we actually added a little bit more In the last year or so and it's a public garden where we feature plants that are native to the state of Texas. That's the site now. The organization is bigger than that But the gardens here. We're demonstrating hell different. Native plants can be used in different kinds of landscapes different kinds of styles. We have collections of plants. From different parts of the State we are the Botanic Garden Texas. So we're trying to increase our collections to represent other parts of the state as well as the central Texas area so we have about nine acres of cultivated gardens and then we have a sixteen Acre Texas Arboretum of trees So those are the horticultural areas in then. We have natural areas in The other parts of the the property And that the natural areas also include some research areas. We have some Areas where we're doing Land Management prescribed fire treatments and different kinds of land-management to see how that influences the vegetation. Yeah we can talk more about that. If you're if you like definitely definitely I will i. I would love to get into some of the specifics of each of those areas you just described but before we get there. Describe your your your job there what it entails and may be the trajectory of your twenty years there. Andrea. Yeah well. I started as a gardener appropriately and really enjoy working outside. I mean I've always been interested in being outdoors and that goes way back to my childhood is probably most people who have an affinity for the natural world That usually starts childhood so I grew up doing things outdoors with my parents particularly with my dad. We'd go camping or canoeing. And I remember having a field guide of of wildflowers weeds that surrounded our area where we lived and that was great. Fun everything from astronomy to birds and lizards and insects. Just everything is so interesting And I just find that the more I learn about things the more I'm fascinated and in awe of the natural world so that's just started early but it's just been a long a lifelong interest in learning more and observing more. I mean I laugh. We have a big picture window at our dining room table. And that's our TV. We don't have an actual electronics of the Inter House. It's overlooking a garden and pond and we just sit there and watch the animal antics and what's blooming and it's great fun and it's a nice way to slow down in our fast paced world That's a that's a big part of what I think. Nature does for me and for a lot of people So you started as a gardener. What year was that Andrea and then tell us about the progression of your rules at the Center Which clearly you progressed in because of your deepening curiosity and ever expanding knowledge base. Yes so I started in December of nine hundred ninety eight and Worked as a gardener I've guarded in most of the areas that we have in Under cultivation over the years and at some point we had Position of gardens manager was available so I moved into that and then I don't know maybe fifteen years ago I transitioned into the direct report culture and Unfortunately that means a little bit less guarding than I used to do. But it also gets me in a higher level of designing decision making which is very exciting and allows me to have more influence over some of the bigger picture things that are happening And then overseeing the natural areas arboretum and the nurseries also been pretty pretty fun and adds different interest to what what I'm looking at. Yeah so talk about Before we get into the specifics of some of the programmatic areas and display areas there and then the research give listeners. A history of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center when it started what it's original mission in scope was of course the wonderful woman for whom it is named and by whom it was founded in its original iteration and So that that people have an understanding of just how much bigger is then. A Garden appreciating wildflowers. Because that is a fabulous mission but it's it is much bigger than that so we're very blessed to have had the visionary Labor Johnson as founder. She founded the wildflower center. Initially as the wildflower research center. The National Welfare Research Center and that was an endeavor that she took on with her friend and actress. Helen Hayes which a lot of people don't remember that part of of the history but it's Kinda Funny Mrs Johnson didn't feel like she had enough name. Recognition Systems of Helen Hayes. And so her mission right from the beginning was to really try to understand an unlocked the secrets of wildfires in native plants and understand how they grow and that was the original research. The the wildflower center did at that time and so that was a nineteen eighty two so the organization started back. Then we moved to our current site as a public garden Before it was more just a research site with some portables but it didn't really have botanical garden kind of exhibits. Someone moved to Our current site in one thousand nine hundred ninety five that was really a big focus of making the space Amenable to guests and having exhibits that people can interact with and having educational programming and really elaborating on that when she first started it. Why we'll just remind listeners? She was of course the first lady of the United States and she Had A as firstly. She had some remarkable initiatives to beautify. I think was the word that was used then. roads and highways across the country and she was taken by the wildflower diversity there in her home state for good reason. Because it's a pretty remarkable native flora. Will you talk a little bit about that? And and why people thought this was not just a pretty project but was worthy of deep research. Even at that time so yeah. Mrs Johnson grew up in a rural setting and without siblings so she was a long time so her best friend is. A child was outside Just the outdoors and I think that was what what instilled upon in her the scrape passion for the for the natural world and then as she became first lady She really had a great influence on President Johnson in terms of Passing legislation one of the things he's known for is the beautification. Act The highway beautification. Act and getting billboards off of the roadsides and cleaning up roadsides and planting wildflowers and the way I understand it you know we talk about it is being beautification and she knew at the time. She was very savvy that at the time. She knew that that was a word that would engage people. The public secretly I. I've heard that she felt like that was actually kind of a word and that it is she. I think she understood. It was deeper than just beautification was away to connect people with the idea that she
Overnight re-air of day's programming
Comparing the impeachment trials of President Clinton and President Trump
"Right now on Capitol Hill ahead of the one PM eastern resumption of the Senate impeachment trial of president trump some Senate Republicans are holding a news conference led by Lindsey Graham South Carolina chair of the Judiciary Committee thank you all very much observations about yesterday it was a long day but that's okay a lot of Americans have long days a couple things I've been involved into impeachment trials this is the second one I just want to make an observation here what the house managers were proposing yesterday is basically destroy the institution of the presidency as we know it make it make it when it comes to the partisan impeachment not have a venue to go to court and litigate privileges at the end of an exercise our prior presence when it comes to Donald Trump willing to destroy the institution of the office in the name of getting him so bottom line the Clinton impeachment was conducted by outside counsel there's not here Ken Starr spent five years investigating the president before we took up the matter in the house the president was allowed to cross examining Ken Starr at the house Judiciary Committee he recommended eleven grounds for impeachment and president Clinton utilize the court's extensively on his behalf Robert Mull was an outside counsel appointed to investigate this press I want the public to note that this president cooperated with Mister Miller he turned over million documents his lawyer testified for thirty hours and after two years of investigation with nineteen lawyers forty F. B. I. agents two thousand subpoenas and five hundred search warrants they decided to take no action they said there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the Russian government when it came to obstruction of justice they did not recommend any action I thought that would be the end of actually introduce legislation to say that Robert Muller cannot be removed accept the call because the president felt like the motor investigation was of which I did not the present was frustrated because he said he did nothing wrong I can understand that but it was important for me to make sure that the country would have somebody to look at these allegations Ross are very serious and I supported Mahler's ability to look any work for a long time and I thought it would be over Mr Shipp said yesterday what they did in the house was just like what we did with Clint that is absolutely untrue from the time they authorized impeachment it took forty eight days not two years with Mahler not five years like Clint the forty eight days the fact finding process was done in the Intel committee now the Judiciary Committee the present was denied the right to cancel the Intel committee and could not request with they spent one day in the Judiciary Committee go back and look at the tapes of how long can start testified before the Senate excuse me the house Judiciary Committee of which I was a far what we've done for the first time in American history isn't Peter president without outside counsel and all in a forty eight day period well here's what struck me the most where the house manager said reason we didn't go to court we don't want to go through the courts is that we can engage in before the election they withdrew from the Cumberland cover of the dead the national security adviser case where the dead the national security adviser what course to tell me what to do judge the house actually withdrew the subpoena because they didn't want the court process to stop the impeachment trial they would have the United States Senate create an impeachment process where the president would not be allowed to go to article three court to argue privileges that have been argued in every other impeachment trial and have been argued by president since George Washington that would destroy the institution of the presidency as we know it what would it do it would allow a handful any three hundred plus million country people all along partisan lines ten PH a president without independent judiciary the before I came here I used to try cases we have a lot of good lawyers in this body all I can say is that when the court date was set and if I showed up and asked for a bunch of subpoenas and documents to be produced on the day of trial that I had not pursued before the trial in any serious way how to get tossed out what do we do yesterday exactly what happened in the Clinton impeachment trial we're going to hear the house's gate the president's response we're going to ask questions then we'll decide among ourselves do we want to know anything yesterday was about eleven hours of them telling us how bad their case was in my view they did not pursue these witnesses because they knew the president what's the judiciary very us and it literally would stop them impeaching him before the election so the only thing I can tell the American people when it comes to replacing those present nine months plus from the election you got an up hill battle with me because I really do believe that the best person group of people to pick a president are the voters not a bunch of partisan politicians senator Lindsey Graham every day we're here doing this is a day were taken away from doing things that really matter so when they say it was like Clinton no when they say the court's really have no place in impeachment that's all going to be done by the house and the Senate without any independent judicial review god help us all center Steve Daines of Montana we had a lot of time last night thank some twelve hours on the floor of the US Senate is the first impeachment trial I've been through senator Graham is the experience that is his prior political life it reminded me of when I went to high school in Bozeman Montana if I turned in a term paper he was half complete my teacher toss it back to me they didn't get it done is incomplete probably give it up and say it's a complete try yeah that's why I felt like we saw last night was an incomplete case I have not done a complete homework you're my enemy what Nancy posted back in two thousand ten on the Obama care is that first we got a pass to find out was it it feels like what happened last night they had a rush this through the house just get over to the Senate we'll find out what's really in try to fix a fair let me remind you remind all of us in two hundred forty four years of history of this great country United States Senate has never remove a president from office never you look at the two trials for presence but we have had in the Senate over the course of our history President Johnson eighteen sixty of course president Clinton nineteen ninety nine what's unique about this impeachment trial versus the other two the other two both had crimes alleged in the impeachment articles president trump does not the other two impeachment trials had bipartisan support coming out of the house president trump impeachment coming out of the house did not first time I've ever seen there were many things that I agreed with with with a German never said last night but he did say some and I hope everybody hurts actually back to the Clinton days was it and I will paraphrase it and god help us if we ever purely partisan basis numbers work back then were wives and I hope you would see them today this is the most hardest impeachment process ever seen a history of this great country no crimes alleged in the trunk articles not bipartisan in a very important final point is if you look for the Democrats are asking United States Senate to do is to remove president trump from office and to bar him from ever holding office again was also unique about this trial versus president when this is done in an election it's really big the fundamental question as well is to the United States Senate the side the two thousand twenty election and overturn a two thousand sixteen election by removing this president from office I put the trust in the voters of this country they should have that say not the nicest
WSJ What's News
Fed Considers Rate Cut as Political Pressure Mounts
"Now, our main story this morning, just how President Trump's repeated hectoring of the Federal Reserve has complicated interest rate decisions. Here's what the president had to say to CNBC yesterday in response to a question about whether he thought the fed had listened to him. Listen to me, and get a we have people, it's more than just Jay Powell. We have people on the fed really weren't, you know, they're not might people. So how has this changed the environment in which the fed must determine whether economic conditions warrant a rate cut are fed reporter, Nick Tim Roche has been speaking to Charlie Turner from Washington. Well, let's be up front about this Nick has any fed chief ever faced such pressure before, from a president actually, yes, you could probably say that this is something fed cheers in the postwar period, have faced, what's different about President Trump? Is that his criticism has been much more public of the fed? So just to. Go back in time in the nineteen sixties, the fed chairman by the name of William mcchesney Morgan was very unpopular with president Johnson recall Johnson was trying to boost domestic spending while fighting the Vietnam war, and he did not like the fact that the fed was raising borrowing costs to limit inflation. And so he was very critical privately of Martin. There's a story about how he pushed him up against the wall said my boys are dying in Vietnam. And you won't give me the money I need. So there is a history of presidents putting pressure usually in private on the fed chair. What's different about this president is that he does it pretty often in public via Twitter via interviews or off the cuff statements to reporters on his way to Marine One helicopter. And so it creates a perception problem for the fed because the fed doesn't want to be seen by the markets is responding to anything but the economic and financial. Data that they analyze that could change the way investors. Think about inflation, and bond yields, and so forth. You described three challenges fed chair pal is navigating at this point. What are they so the fed has to set the right interest rate of the right time? The fed has to explain clearly, what they're doing and why they're doing it, and those are two challenges that every fed leader faces, but the third one is unique as we've talked about. And that is he has to deal with this public pressure, campaign, very loud, criticism from the president something that we haven't seen since the early nineteen nineties President George Bush senior was the last president who even said publicly what he thought the fed should be doing President Clinton and his two successors Bush, and Obama maintained this rule where they were not going to comment on the fed, and Clinton's advisers convinced him. This was a good policy for them because they had seen how President Bush. This is a first President Bush had called on Greenspan to lower rates. And Greenspan didn't go along with it. And so Clinton's advisers told him, look, you really don't have anything to gain by pressuring the fed. They're going to do what they think they need to do. And you putting pressure on them isn't gonna make their life any easier. They may feel like they have to do the opposite to to, you know, to look independent so Clinton and then Bush forty three and Obama never said anything about the fed, and that was a tradition that continued up until about a year and a half into Donald Trump's presidency doesn't fed chairman pal. Face pressure to cut rates for the rest of the year, including at the June meeting. So the Fed's next meeting is in less than two weeks on June.
Ben Shapiro
As China Trade Talks Stall, Xi Faces a Dilemma: Fold? Or Double Down?
"So the Chinese are being pushed by President Trump. And now the question becomes are they going to fold and do the right thing? Or are they going to double down? And are we going to trade war? Then you're at times reports that now president, gee is facing a dilemma should he fold or should he double down? And this is where the good side of President Trump's push could be right. If you were using the leverage point and not as natural policy case for that. Here's your time says as Chinese and American officials to reach a trade deal. President Johnson ping faces a painful possibly damaging choice to try to protect his or of in Zometa -bility or retreat after President Trump accused China of reneging on the terms of a draft agreement and threatened to raise tariffs the stakes rose sharply for the Chinese leader this week after Mr. Trump and his chief Trade Representative Robert lighthizer publicly accused China of backing down on commitments the sticking point appeared to be late decision by Mr. g reject Americans man's that trying to change was constraining American businesses when from onto Twitter to complain. It was. A public rebuke. The put g in a tight spot. She is China's most powerful leader in decades. He guards his images of visionary statesman guiding his country greatness, China's relationship of the United States is it's most important relationship. If ties between the countries are mismanage that could damage China's economy and tarnish, she's image trade talks just last week close to fruition have abruptly become a flash point in the rocky relationship g now faces questions at home over whether he miscalculated from resolve domestic rumblings could grow if the United States forces you to make concessions or if the talks break down, according to Paul Henley, a former Trenin director on the national Security Council who now runs the Carnegie Shinwa center for global policy in Beijing z. She is walking tight rope. His going to be the one that has to make the most concessions, and that makes us all the more difficult for him. On Thursday short shortly before the trade talks set to resume, of course, North Korea shot a short range missiles United States have been pushing China to get involved. Even if the timing of launches a coincidence, perhaps that puts pressure on the United States to point out that that China needs to be a partner. Leo, he is China's chief negotiator. He said, quote, I come bearing sincerity hoping the current special circumstances till the reason Frank exchange views with the US side. China believes that increasing tariffs will it solve problems won't benefit China or the United States, nor will benefit the global economy. China had been willing to protect intellectual property and open its markets to American business. But the Trump administration wanted the agreements specify that some of those changes actually be made in Chinese law. Apparently China didn't want to do that they wanted to make an informal policy and Trump was saying no, you need to change your law. So that formerly you cannot renege on this agreement.
60 Minutes
The climate change lawsuit that could stop the US government from supporting fossil fuels
"Than Juliana versus the United States to quote, one federal judge. This is no ordinary lawsuit. It was filed back in two thousand fifteen on behalf of a group of kids who were trying to get the courts to block the US government from continuing the use of fossil fuels they say it's causing climate change endangering their future in violating their constitutional rights to life liberty and property when the lawsuit began hardly anyone took it seriously, including the government's lawyers who have sensed watched the supreme court rejected two of their motions to delay or dismissed the case for years in it is still very much alive in part because the plaintiff. So the master body of evidence that will surprise even the skeptics in a force the governor. To admit that the crisis is real. The case was born here in Eugene, Oregon, a tree huggers paradise and one of the cradles of environmental activism in the United States. The lead plaintiff university of Oregon student. Kelsey Juliana was only five weeks old winter parents took her to her first rally to protect spotted owls today. Her main concern is climate change drought and the growing threat of wildfires in the surrounding cascade mountains there has wildfire season. That was so intense. We advised not to go outside that particular matter in the smoke was literally off the charts. I mean, it was so bad. It was it was passed severe in terms of danger health in new that's because of plummet change. That's what scientists tell me. It's not just scientists even the federal government. Now knowledge is in its response to the lawsuit that the effects of. Climate change are already happening and likely to get worse, especially for young people who will have to deal with them for the long term important as this case to you. This case is everything this is the climate case, we have everything to lose if we don't act on climate change right now my generation and all the generations to come. Okay. She was keen when the lawsuit was filed and the oldest of Twenty-one plaintiffs. They come from ten different states all claim to be affected or threatened by the consequences of climate change. The youngest Levi dre Heim is in sixth grade here eleven years old and you're suing the United States government. That's not what most eleven year olds do, right. He's lived most of his life on the beaches of a barrier island in Florida. That's a mile wide in barely above sea limb. What's your biggest fear about this aisle? I fear that I won't have a home here in the future that the island will be going. Yeah. That the island will be underwater because of change. So you feel like you've got a stake in this. Yes. That department of Justice will were recruited from environmental groups across the country by Julia Olsen, an Oregon lawyer and the executive director of a nonprofit legal organization called our children's trust. She began constructing the case eight years ago out of the Spartan space now dominated by this paper diorama that winds its way through the office to what is this. This is a time line that we put together documents what in win past US administration's knew about the connection between. Clean fossil fuels and climate change. The time line goes back fifty years beginning with the presidency of Lyndon Johnson during president Johnson's administration. They issued a report nineteen sixty five that talked about climate change being a catastrophic threat, whether it was a democrat or a Republican office Olsen says there was an awareness of the potential dangers of carbon dioxide emissions. Every president knew that burning fossil fuels was causing climate change. Fifty years of evidence has been a mass by Olson enter team thirty six thousand pages
Second Opinion
Why are people afraid to sign up for government programs meant to protect them?
"The December is Casey us season of giving back. What are you grateful for breaking news, award-winning, cultural, coverage, eclectic music, free events, and concerts, and how about truth connection and community a KCRW? It's all possible. Because of you you give because it matters your dollars. Make the biggest impact this month. Thanks to generous challenge grants. So cross us off your list this season with a tax deductible donation at KCRW dot com slash join. In eighteen sixty three in the Gettysburg address. Abraham LINCOLN proclaimed that the government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth. This is Dr Michael Wilks with a second opinion one hundred years later in nineteen sixty four our federal government began its war on poverty as a program for the people following president Johnson's lead the federal government began the food stamp program. The Medicaid program head start and job corps. The goals of all of these programs were to promote health prevent hunger and give every person a chance to pursue the American dream the same dream that are relatives pursue generations ago. Well, over the past few weeks, the American public Health Association and other health organizations report that these same programs have seen a precipitous drop in enrollment p. People are even asking that their names be removed from their rosters, certainly hunger and access to healthcare remain critical problems. So what's going on? Dr John Troy till a public health expert explains why people on government assistance, like food stamps are not signing up. If somebody is here legally, and is according to the government excessively dependent on government support for their day-to-day needs. Then the government may decide that they should not stay here in the United States. So some of the most vulnerable people in society who are trying to integrate with our culture are left wondering if using public health benefits, like food stamps could cost them a chance for a green card. Well, federal policy hasn't yet changed fear of deportation targeting legal immigrants who use these. Benefits is already being felt the effects of this proposed legislation is not just on the immigrants. The impact may be greatest on those who already US citizens or have green cards you see in mixed status families where you have a US legal citizen living with family members. Who are not yet citizens? You can have a chilling effect. They are definitely afraid then they pull out they withdraw all the members of the family from these programs actually, the chilling effect affects more people than the direct effect. In addition. The proposed new rules would hardly be cost effective at best. They are penny wise and pound foolish. These are essential services that people need to maintain their health and to be able to function productively in our society today's immigrants do not. Come here to take advantage of our government programs immigrants want the same American dream that we all want if we create policies that engender fear among the twenty three million non-citizens, we are going to see hungry children people avoiding emergency rooms, we could have outbreaks of communicable diseases children, not getting vaccinated and a lack of prenatal care. It is time to stop this right now before there are real human consequences. This is Dr Michael Wilks with a second opinion this podcast was made by public radio station. KCRW our status, a nonprofit enables us to make bold and unusual programs. But we need your support to keep it that way donate or become a member at KCRW dot com slash join. And thanks.
Business Wars Daily
Forget Millennials. Applebees Wants Stress Eaters
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Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder
Bill Clinton gets defensive about Monica Lewinsky in interview
"This and i bet you don't even know them this was litigated twenty years ago two thirds of the american people sided with me they were not insensitive i had a sexual harassment policy when i was governor eighties you are giving one side and omitting faster president i i'm not i'm not trying to present aside no that the sorrow i feel is genuine first and most important my family monica lewinsky and her family but you didn't apologize to her i have not talked to her apollo i do i do not i never talked to her but i did say publicly on more than one occasion that i was sorry that's very different the bulgy was public you don't think private apology so i think this thing has been it's twenty years ago come on but tuck jfk james patterson china lbj stop already i don't think president frozen kennedy should resign do you believe president johnson should on and ask you these questions because of the way you formulate the questions are dealt with it twenty years ago plus and the american people twothirds of with me and i've tried to good job since then with my wife and with my work that's all i have to say about that how about that can ask bill clinton about monica lewinsky it's totally on point and he has no business being defensive and if he is going to be defensive he's got no business being innocent down interview that interview was well done that was well done what's interesting is it rings to president trump's fake news and you're twisting the story giving all the fat just sound like it does sound almost trumpian it also sounds clinton it depends on what the definition of is his did apologize but when i apologized apologize to everybody the american people the people on saturn the whole universe includes ms lewinsky here's the thing should you pick up the phone and said hey monica remember my and then should he the apologized to her literally said im's he did publicly when he was on tv sat policy to miss lewinsky i think that's different than her watching it on tv and her having a phone conversation or face to face i don't know why he didn't may maybe he feels like he's got nothing to apologize for it was consensual i'm not sure hillary wanted him to ever talk to her again which he says he hasn't but wow i think wherever bill clinton is on your ladder and for me he's actually been up there i don't think about him a lot but i think he was a good president and i think he's a brilliant guy and i want my presidents to be brilliant guys i want them to be better in their personal conduct than him but anyway wherever he is on your ladder he just went down like two steps for me weirdly for violeta he just went up three steps which i i have no explanation for still has that accent she likes the voice it's one forty three i am interested in presidential pardons i'm also interested in a couple of other stories in the news that have nothing to do with the president's and i'm interested in a tweet that i saw today by one jamal do you go buy something other than jamal coal on twitter and social media everything's just four my block f o r my block everything i do is for my block democracy starts a block level was something simple you can do for your block so for my block and everything we discovered you a lot of us did when you organize to snow shoveling campaign what happened i live in chatham on the south side of chicago and challenges state of mind the represents community organizer and seventy percent of the seventy percent of the population of chadema singers and they got overwhelmed because snowstorm a lot of them had neuropathy in their wrists taylor oxygen tanks have walker so some of them had doctor's appointments i needed help so i just tweeted out kogyo hey i need ten people in meet me on seventy ninth street red line station i got shovels i got hoodies azam hot chocolate come through and i woke up the next day was sixty thousand tweets and it was people not just from the neighborhood but people from the suburbs it was white people black people it was told people that were