mcnamara. robert mcnamara wrote a famous book in the mid 1990s, the burden of the book is essentially, don't blame me for vietnam. i was only secretary of defense. blame president johnson who was gung ho for going into the war in vietnam. that shows one of the benefits of these tapes. unlucky for mcnamara, about a year or two later came out a lot of tapes on vietnam with lbj talking to mcnamara. far from telling lbj that vietnam has got a lot of problems that you should consider, mcnamara is there saying, i was president -- i can tell you he would have done this. i can tell you, essentially that it is necessary for us to win in vietnam in order for us to prevail or survive in the cold war. i would like to think also, i think this is probably true, that lbj knew that making tapes of these conversations would protect him against opportunistic advisers like mcnamara who tried to claim later on that they gave him advice that they actually did not give him. that was the basic inspiration that richar

swanson and mcnamara and loki gallagher. special thanks to all the firms who are part of this effort. on behalf of all of us we look forward to working with the other members to support reproductive rights. thank you . [applause] >> thank you teresa and i want to thank each and everyone of you for being here , for standing up when it really matters . our final speaker today i will introduce in the following way it's not everyday lawyers and doctors come together on an issue . but the san francisco marin medical society has been on the forefront of leading important progressive issues and i'm very grateful to the leadership of the medical society for stepping in immediately. we are looking forward to working with our healthcare professionals around the region, around the state and around the country to protect the important work they do every day. here representingthe medical society is president phd doctor michael schrader . [applause] >> thank you david for that generous introduction. so my name is doctor michael schrader a

swanson and mcnamara and loki gallagher. special thanks to all the firms who are part of this effort. on behalf of all of us we look forward to working with the other members to support reproductive rights. thank you . [applause] >> thank you teresa and i want to thank each and everyone of you for being here , for standing up when it really matters . our final speaker today i will introduce in the following way it's not everyday lawyers and doctors come together on an issue . but the san francisco marin medical society has been on the forefront of leading important progressive issues and i'm very grateful to the leadership of the medical society for stepping in immediately. we are looking forward to working with our healthcare professionals around the region, around the state and around the country to protect the important work they do every day. here representingthe medical society is president phd doctor michael schrader . [applause] >> thank you david for that generous introduction. so my name is doctor michael schrader a

mcnamara. far from telling lbj that vietnam has got a lot of problems that you should consider, mcnamara is there saying, i was president -- i can tell you he would have done this. i can tell you, essentially that it is necessary for us to win in vietnam in order for us to prevail or survive in the cold war. so i would like to think also, and i think this is probably true, that lbj knew that making tapes of these conversations would protect him against opportunistic advisers like mcnamara who tried to claim later on that they gave him advice that they actually did not give him. that was the basic inspiration that richard nixon has, as brian and i have talked about in doing his own tapes. he was worried that henry kissinger would claim credit for the opening with china, the dÉtente with the soviet union, and the settlements in vietnam. nixon wanted tapes to make sure that the actual story would be shown on a real record, and i can't help but think lbj did too. the >> the tapes allow us a lot to

he stayed the course for a while, then, all of a sudden, pentagon papers come out, then now we see mcnamara lied, johnson lied, all these liberals who were running the show lied. richard nixon should never have resigned. he started to bring down the military movement in vietnam, and then they come out and impeached him. before they could remove him from office, he resigned. he should have never resigned. now, today, you talk about the washington post has done everything it could to get into all the crap that went on with donald trump and the fbi? all the crap that went on with donald trump and the fbi? that is a falsehood. >> he was right there was a lot of lying. he decided he needed to get out of vietnam. vietnam had torn the country apart and that we were in a situation that was essentially not -- a war. and he were to try to de-escalate the war. that is separate from the things that ultimately brought him down. i think we have to be able to look at the totality of the presidency. whether it is lyndon johnson's presidency, if you read robert's -- volumes on lyndon johnson, he see the ful

lisa: paul mcnamara who's been in the market for decades noted on twitter, for people younger than me, 1998, the last time we saw the yen at this level, it bounced back 22% in three months. that required policy intervention. do we end up with the same kind of policy intervention, what will it take to get there? tom: liz ann saunders with a great chart showing the price decreases in housing have sped up. at least price and decrease growth in housing. kevin book is with us, clearview energy partners. weaker yen and the import ramifications of japan and others. research over the weekend on what russia is doing with their hydrocarbons. they are moving it to india. maybe to japan, i will not speak to that, china, whatever. what part of the russian oil movement has your attention with clearview energy's global perspective? kevin: good morning. first of all, the amount that china is buying, that really shelters russia right now. second is that the products and not necessarily have the same home. those are big refining destinations, china and india. crude is fine, but they have some products

swanson and mcnamara and loki gallagher. special thanks to all the firms who are part of this effort. on behalf of all of us we look forward to working with the other members to support reproductive rights. thank you . [applause] >> thank you teresa and i want to thank each and everyone of you for being here , for standing up when it really matters . our final speaker today i will introduce in the following way it's not everyday lawyers and doctors come together on an issue . but the san francisco marin medical society has been on the forefront of leading important progressive issues and i'm very grateful to the leadership of the medical society for stepping in immediately. we are looking forward to working with our healthcare professionals around the region, around the state and around the country to protect the important work they do every day. here representingthe medical society is president phd doctor michael schrader . [applause] >> thank you david for that generous introduction. so my name is doctor michael schrader a

swanson and mcnamara and loki gallagher. special thanks to all the firms who are part of this effort. on behalf of all of us we look forward to working with the other members to support reproductive rights. thank you . [applause] >> thank you teresa and i want to thank each and everyone of you for being here , for standing up when it really matters . our final speaker today i will introduce in the following way it's not everyday lawyers and doctors come together on an issue . but the san francisco marin medical society has been on the forefront of leading important progressive issues and i'm very grateful to the leadership of the medical society for stepping in immediately. we are looking forward to working with our healthcare professionals around the region, around the state and around the country to protect the important work they do every day. here representingthe medical society is president phd doctor michael schrader . [applause] >> thank you david for that generous introduction. so my name is doctor michael schrader a

swanson and mcnamara and loki gallagher. special thanks to all the firms who are part of this effort. on behalf of all of us we look forward to working with the other members to support reproductive rights. thank you . [applause] >> thank you teresa and i want to thank each and everyone of you for being here , for standing up when it really matters . our final speaker today i will introduce in the following way it's not everyday lawyers and doctors come together on an issue . but the san francisco marin medical society has been on the forefront of leading important progressive issues and i'm very grateful to the leadership of the medical society for stepping in immediately. we are looking forward to working with our healthcare professionals around the region, around the state and around the country to protect the important work they do every day. here representingthe medical society is president phd doctor michael schrader . [applause] >> thank you david for that generous introduction. so my name is doctor michael schrader a

knew the making tapes of these conversations would protect him against opportunistic advisors like mcnamara try to claim later on they give them advice that he actually didn't give him and that's the basic inspiration richard nixon has as right and i have talked about in doing his own tapes because he was worried and henry kissinger when plan credit for the opening of china and it the soviet union and the settlement vietnam and nixon wanted tapes to make sure that the actual story would be shown on a real record i can't help but to think that lbj did as well. melody: if the tapes show us or allow us to hear something that we often talk about which is the loneliness of this job. we talk about it a lot, the famous kennedy reported he is kind of looking down and get the sense of the burden of the office this gives you the sense of it in real time with real policy. mike had awakened out and not sure how we got in. and all of the issues that surround this in quite frankly, staff person tells him that we should pray on this. and i'm a person of faith to believe in the power of prayer but i also k

one person at the time, i think it was, it might have been robert mcnamara, and he, case where we were eyeball to eyeball. the other fellow blinked. sometimes, events, in retrospect seemed to have been less serious than they appeared at the time. the cuban missile crisis was just the opposite. various documents since uncovered and subsequent testimonies from various participants indicated the launching of a nuclear attack on the united states was even more likely then believed at that time. i think it is true that the commanders of those sites had been authorized under certain conditions to actually fired missiles. well, in any case, the afterglow of this apparent success, kennedy was widely praised or having stood up boldly to the russians and having forced them to back down. almost everybody looked around this is a great trial for kennedy. however, subsequent historians have questioned that actions, and suggested that he was wrong, dangerously wrong, and taking an action with so directly threaten the russians and enforcing khrushchev to bite down and that's lose faith. the key to thi

the possibility exists in a report robert mcnamara's team pulled together that the man to wield presidential authority and dire emergencies might be selected by a single field grade military officer. in the decades ahead the system got a little bit better, but not much. as late as the reagan administration the pentagon and fema realized that they needed to institute more elaborate mechanisms to ensure a successor's legitimacy. their plan called for special coded communications that could prove a successor's identity and establish the highest ranking official still alive within the us government the system that still exists today still overseeing by fema and today that encompasses a secret combination of gps trackers cell phones and secure communication systems. at the same time though. there was still a great deal of concern if people have raised a couple of times over the course of today about what what what and how you prepare a so-called lesser or minor cabinet official step into the presidency. and so in the reagan years they answered this with a unique. highly secret program known as th

he stayed the course for a while, then, all of a sudden, pentagon papers come out, then now we see mcnamara lied, johnson lied, all these liberals who were running the show lied. richard nixon should never have resigned. he started to bring down the military movement in vietnam, and then they come out and impeached him. before they could remove him from office, he resigned. he should have never resigned. now, today, you talk about the washington post has done everything it could to get into all the crap that went on with donald trump and the fbi. that is a falsehood. host: let me give you a chance to respond. guest: there is a lot in that set of observations. there was a lot of lying during vietnam under the presidency of lyndon johnson. nixon decided he need to get out of vietnam, that vietnam had torn the country apart and that we were in a situation that was not winnable. he worked to try to de-escalate the war. that is separate from the things that ultimately brought him down. we have to look at the totality of a presidency, whether lyndon johnson's -- if you read robert caro's magnific