lyndon johnson's last budget. it was after he passed the tax surcharge and i think as we got towards the end we had more inflation. but by and large, those were incredibly prosperous years, which was very important, historically in terms of the great society. remember, we were able to enact all those programs in health and education, urban mass transit systems that were built. all of that because the economy was growing so fast with the tax cut that johnson pressed it for in 1964. we have more and more money going into the federal government. nobody had to pay extra taxes to pay for those programs. >> jefferson, texas. and as we listen to this, lyn nuj cent going to walk down the hallway of the house and join us next in his grandfather's bedroom. >> caller: good morning. i just thought i'd comment that the fact that mr. johnson's dead now makes everybody think he might have been some kind of a saint. i wonder if we remembered when he had those votes coming off of cemetery lots down in south texas and farr, texas w

lyndon johnson by the same office on the same day. it was, as lady bird says in one of the interviews, it was electric going from the first minute. love letters, which are just the courtship letters, released by the library last valentine's day, everyone should read them online. search lbj courtship letters, and you can read the transcript . they were conducting a hot and heavy courtship. >> and fast. he was not going to waste any time. she was either going to marry him or not. >> he was, at the time, a congressional aide. >> you could be an aide and not run, but he clearly had ambitions. she was for those ambitions. >> he called it whirlwind but he wanted it from the get-go. >> she says, hold on here. she says, are you going to marry me or not? she finally said, ok. but thoughtlyndon it was too fast. the and certainly thought it was too fast. the woman who introduced them and the father thought it was too fast. against really all of the family council, she went ahead. what she said when she got in the car, that saturday morning and t

the new president is president lyndon johnson. the memories of all of us are flashing back to that warm, april spring day of 1945 moment lost franklin d. roosevelt. this is the second time around that we've been through one of these crises. the last shooting incident, not fatal, occurred in 1950. the white house was being renovated at that time. you may recall that two puerto rican nationalists tried to run their way into the house and assassinate president truman who was taking a nap at the time. that is the story. the president of united states is dead. the new president of the united states is lyndon johnson. mrs. kennedy is still at the hospital. she was not hurt. the white house spokesman refused to comment on her condition. president johnson is under heavy guard and was taken away from the hospital by white house officials. president kennedy was shot in the right temple. it was a simple matter of a bullet right to the head, said the white house doctor. >> for additional information, we go to station wbat-tv and news man char

the fact that lyndon johnson, whom you studied now in four volumes, that lyndon johnson didn't -- he was focused on the continuity of government, the possibility of conspiracy, on big things but he also did not realize how that call would be received by bobby kennedy. his focus was so much on his own relationship with kennedye empathizing with what bobby kennedy would be feeling only a half hour after his brother had been killed. >> you don't really know what the human motives are that impelled lyndon johnson to make the call to robert kennedy. we don't really know what's in a man's mind. we only know this was a relationship where each man tried over and over to humiliate the other. when jack kennedy picks lyndon johnson as his vice presidential nominee three times that day robert kennedy comes down from the kennedy suite, which is 9333 in the biltmore hotel in los angeles to johnson's suite which is 7333. he comes down the back stairs three times to try to get lyndon johnson to withdraw from the ticket. it's the most humiliating -- it's a day of utter humiliation for lyndon johnson.

lyndon johnson said -- yes, go ahead. mrs. lyndon johnson, who just emerge from the area where the president has been taking, said that the vice president, her husband, is fine. she would not say anything about the condition of president kennedy, however. she appeared to be in a state of shock and was herded away by white house personnel. kennedy, however. she appeared to be in a state of shock and was herded away by white house personnel. the hospital staff appear to be preparing a blood transfusion. for both the president and governor connally. bob is telling me that the latest he knows at the moment is that the president's condition is serious and uncertain. we do not know exactly where he was struck, nor how many times. was struck, nor how many times. >> but he was carried into the hospital. >> but he was carried into the hospital unconscious and bleeding. and last rites of the church had been administered. that is all for the moment, frank. they did not specifically mentions senator goldwater by name. in a world of comple

car made one hundred twenty degree turn into dealey plaza lyndon johnson before the first shot has been fired is on the floor of his car he hits the deck there's photographic evidence that proves this so i would say both before during and after the assassination lyndon johnson's actions betray the fact that he is in fact the man yoking a conspiracy or in this case a plot that includes the cia organized crime and big oil oil texas. a lot of people have written books alleging that l g b b j was behind the assassination what makes your book different i have a lot of first hand information meaning i had the opportunity to spend substantial amount of time with president richard nixon to ask him about his views of the kennedy assassination he was of course in dallas he has recorded on the white house tapes the watergate tapes the saying the warren commission was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated he told me directly. lyndon johnson and i both wanted to be president the difference was i wasn't willing to kill for it additionally have confirmations from embassador john davis lodge who was the b

lyndon johnson gave mrs. johnson a camera for her wedding gift and she became quite a photojournalist. she had an eight-millimeter camera to capture home movies as well as a recorder here where mrs. johnson every night at the white house would record her daily observations. and this became the basis for the book, "white house diary," which is a very inciteful chronicling of the tumultuous 1960s. mrs. johnson loved to sit here at this desk to keep up with her correspondence and all of her activities as a very active former first lady. also in this space we have mrs. johnson's closet with all of the clothing. her formalwear, the ranch clothing with the boots and the hats, a lot of her colorful outfits and her shoes. one of my favorites, the straw hat with the bluebonnets painted on top and then her private bathroom that is, again, very reflective of the importance of family with all of the photographs of those who mattered so much to her and to her grandchildren and great grandchildren she was known as nene, a

car made one hundred twenty degree turn into dealey plaza lyndon johnson before the first shot has been fired is on the floor of his car he hits the deck there's photographic evidence that proves this so i would say both before during and after the assassination lyndon johnson's actions betray the fact that he is in fact the man yoking a conspiracy or in this case a plot that includes the cia organized crime and big oil oil texas. a lot of people have written books alleging that l g b b j was behind the assassination what makes your book different i have a lot of first hand information meaning i had the opportunity to spend substantial amount of time with president richard nixon to ask him about his views of the kennedy assassination he was of course in dallas he has recorded on the white house tapes the watergate tapes the saying the warren commission was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated he told me directly. lyndon johnson and i both wanted to be president the difference was i wasn't willing to kill for it additionally have confirmations from embassador john davis lodge who was the b

who bore him illegitimate son said that lyndon johnson told her on the eve of the assassination after tomorrow i won't have to deal with those kennedy s.o.b.'s no more and then lastly i think when the presidential motorcade pulled into dealey plaza in dallas when vice president johnson's car made one hundred twenty degree turn into dealey plaza lyndon johnson before the first shot has been fired is on the floor of his car he hits the deck there's photographic evidence that proves this so i would say both before during and after the assassination lyndon johnson's actions betray the fact that he is in fact the man yoking a conspiracy or in this case a plot that includes the cia organized crime and big oil oil texas. a lot of people have written books alleging that l g b b j was behind the assassination what makes your book different i have a lot of first hand information meaning i had the opportunity to spend substantial amount of time with president richard nixon to ask him about his views of the kennedy assassination he was of course in dallas he has recorded on the white house tapes

there was a daily diary that she recorded herself in the lyndon johnson phone tapes which many people who love political history are aware of and then there was also naval television clue that documented it. is this new to this administration or had this been going on for a while with president's? >> guest: the amount of documentation is new. she didn't record every day because some days were just too full but she would have a little recording machine and on days that were too busy she would stuff brown envelopes with menus or lists of people she had seen and then she would get an hour or so so those recordings are still being transcribed. they are wonderful. her white house daree which people may have read is i think 800 pages but that's only one-eighth to what she has the most tapes. so we are waiting for the rest of it to come out. >> guest: their work before this recorded -- recordings. louisa catherine adams, john quincy adams wife wrote when she was first lady the autobiography of the nobody which tells you something about her state of mind at the time. i think that most first c

could not have beat lyndon johnson. once again, flip of what richard russell said. we chief beaten kennedy on civil rights but we can't beat johnson. i do think eventually -- i'm not discounting social forces -- that the civil rights movement would have triumphed. simply as everett dirkson, an idea whose time has come, but would have happened less quickly and less successfully. on the domestic side, i believe there would have been no great society program, because that's not how john kennedy thought. that was johnson. who dreamt of being the second fdr and who had grandiose notions what use could do with legislation, and kennedy was more detached in that sense, too. we're going to have medicare and have demonstration programs, but i think it would have been acutely aware, for instance 0, the political dangers of a great society program with big city mayors at odds with community based organizations, fighting for money. kennedys were from boston. they understood the black-white conflict in terms of white working class and schools. johnson saw it as the north and the

lyndon johnson. his reply is no, i'm not leaving this hospital without mrs. kennedy. they said well mrs. kennedy won't leave without her husband's body. johnson says well then we will go back to air force one and i'll wait there for her and the body. but i'm not leaving dallas without her. and when she gets back to the plane, he really wants her to be standing next to him in that famous photo, when he's taking the oath of office, as a symbol of continuity, as a symbol of stability. >> rose: so he goes to the plane. he knows that she is going to come with the body. what is the first communication, direct communication between the first lady and the new president? >> johnson wants to make a private telephone call to robert kennedy. and to make this private call he goes with his secretary maria familiarer into the president's bedroom. shuts the door and makes this call to washington to robert kennedy. and as he's doing that, the coffin comes on board, followed by mrs. kennedy. and the kennedy aides. the

lyndon johnson was very lucky to help them with that. and when to to say say. >> what did she do during those first weeks? >> she said she was on skates. in fact, it would be hard to find a first lady that is repaired and she was. she merely started taking notes. notes while she was still in planning to hear it president kennedy had died. started making plans me for putting her radio station line draw to some kind of line trust so they would not be used in marketing. she really took over fast. a quick study. theest she could play off idea of and for taking notes. this was an history with document itself defensively as you. there was a daily dialer -- diary. there were also lyndon johnson phone things. this hates. there was also a television crew that followed and documented. is this new to the administration? had this been going on for a allowing collects the of documentation was new. she did not report everything. some were just too full. she would have a remote machine and on days that were too busy, she would stuff brown envelopes wit

details on the swearing in of lyndon johnson. the oath was administered in dallas at 1:38 central standard time, roughly an hour and 20 minutes ago, by a federal district judge him a sarah t. hughes. president johnson took the oath of board up residential plane at love field in dallas as he prepared to fly to washington to take over the presidency. this is the oath that was administered to mr. johnson. i solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will do the best of my ability to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. that is all we know about lyndon johnson being sworn in. -- kennedy's art assessor predecessor general eisenhower has issued a statement. i share the sense of stock -- shock and dismay that americans feel into the specific dish in the despicable act that resulted in the death of the united states. we express our personal grief and prayerful concern to mrs. kennedy and all other members of the family. the statement issued on half of gen

at first we had forgotten that lyndon johnson was even on the plane. we knew he had gone back to love field but we were sure he'd gone on air force one or was on air force two. well, he was on air force one. apparently he had been talking to somebody in washington and the decision had been made that he needed to be sworn in while we were still on the ground in dallas. but that required a federal judge, they said. so we had to locate a federal judge and they located vair hughes who was a dallas resident apparently, and a federal judge. she came on board and she was about to administer the oath to vice president johnson. >> rose: and lyndon johnson wanted mrs. kennedy there. >> he did. he thought it would be appropriate for her to be there when he was sworn in. >> rose: and she made the decision that it was appropriate, in the country's interest. >> yes. >> rose: you didn't. >> well, i didn't know if it was appropriate or not because of her -- i was concerned about her well-being. her state of mind. i knew she was in a state of shock. i mean, the the pho

johnson did, because johnson was the guy that pressed the flesh, and somebody said when lyndon backed you into a corner and breathing into your mouth you knew you were finished. so, i'm very -- a very, very difficult style, and i think obama is a lot more like kennedy than compared to johnson. >> there are differences, though? both appointed experts, the best and the brightest, the green team, the all harvard and rhodes scholars but kennedy learned to stop deferring to them and exercising leadership by making a bold move on his own. has obama been similarly bold? >> jeff, i think obama's problem in a sense is that he has already been there a long time as presidential administrations go. he is the 44th president, and what always startles people is that there had been only 18 of the 44 presidents, only 18 who had been elected to a second term. pretty astonishing. and there's been only 13 who served eight years or more. franklin roosevelt served for 12, but three of them never got to the second term. lincoln assassinated. mckinley assassinated, and nixon, forced to resign. obama will be

the first consequence is the political death of vice president lyndon johnson. why is that? because, we have a realm of fact, very moment john kennedy was driving, there were two investigations underway, one by life magazine and one by a senate committee within the financial affairs of lyndon johnson and how did these men on the public payroll occur this way and the crew this network? we begin with a very well-heeled crowd right here. the senate committee was looking into credible evidence and johnson have gotten a kickback for buying a life insurance policy and as soon as kennedy was killed in real life, but the investigation stopped for obvious reasons. who is going to impose upon the new president on these traumatized conditions in the country might not have been okay with this. so then the investigations take on a very different look. there is a guy a heartbeat away from the presidency who may be a crook? so within a couple months after lyndon johnson is visited with lawyers who tell him that it's not going to work. so he's not there. and the vice presidency, as it was i

lyndon johnson wants the report out so it doesn't interfere with the election in november. >> warren left for dallas because he was a man who had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see if this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggestions ruby had killed oswald to silence him. so he wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time than was anticipated. this may be a two to three-month operation to the conception that it will probably take six months. >> the hour glass of time was running out on them. >> can you say if you still think it was one man? >> i think we'd better not get into that area, you know. the report will cover all of that in great detail. >> this committee labored ten months, then brought forth a document close to 1,000 pages. president johnsoce

lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, and a lot of people disliked him greatly, some even hated him, would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that we swear by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> my fellow americans, all i have i would have given gladly not to be standing here today. >> johnson knows he has to show the country that the ship of state is sailing on under a new captain. but at the same time, he can't appear to be too anxious to assume power. and he has to keep the kennedy people on board with him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. [ applause ] >> the people of europe just cannot believe it a lone avenger made his way into a police station and killed without difficulty the most infamous criminal in the united states. >> one of the most important things that happened after oswald's murder was that we were forever denied the why. i mean, people at the time beli

i'll tell you that. >> lyndon johnson was known as the greatest salesman one-on-one who ever lived. so he meets first with warren and says, if i asked you to put on your uniform and fight for america you'd do it. i'm asking you to fight for america in a different way. then johnson has to get richard russell. >> mr. president, please now. >> no, it's already done. it's been announced. >> you mean you've -- >> yes, sir, the announcement. it's already in the papers. you're on it. >> i think you did wrong getting warren. i know damn well you did wrong getting me. i'll do the best you can. >> that's what you do. that's the kind of american both of you are. i have a 401k retirement plan. i started part-time, now i'm a manager. my employer matches my charitable giving. really. i get bonuses even working part-time. where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. healthcare starting under $40 a month. i got education benefits. i work at walmart. i'm a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. there's more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. that's the

johnson did, because johnson was the guy that pressed the flesh, and somebody said when lyndon backed you into a corner and breathing into your mouth you knew you were finished. so, i'm very -- a very, very difficult style, and i think obama is a lot more like kennedy than compared to johnson. >> there are differences, though? both appointed experts, the best and the brightest, the green team, the all harvard and rhodes scholars but kennedy learned to stop deferring to them and exercising leadership by making a bold move on his own. has obama been similarly bold? >> jeff, i think obama's problem in a sense is that he has already been there a long time as presidential administrations go. he is the 44th president, and what always startles people is that there had been only 18 of the 44 presidents, only 18 who had been elected to a second term. pretty astonishing. and there's been only 13 who served eight years or more. franklin roosevelt served for 12, but three of them never got to the second term. lincoln assassinated. mckinley assassinated, and nixon, forced to resign. obama will be

lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, and a lot of people disliked him greatly, some even hated him, would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that we swear by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> my fellow americans, all i have i would have given gladly not to be standing here today. >> johnson knows he has to show the country that the ship of state is sailing on under a new captain. but at the same time, he can't appear to be too anxious to assume power. and he has to keep the kennedy people on board with him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. [ applause ] >> the people of europe just cannot believe that a lone avenger made his way into a major police station and killed without difficulty the most celebrated and infamous criminal in the united states. >> one of the most important things that happened after oswald's murder was that we were forever denied the why. people a

see, that's the difference between lyndon johnson johnson n f. kennedy, so, no, i don't believe he would have dope what johnson did in vietnam, though he would have continued some level of involvement in vietnam. i don't believe for a minute he was going to withdraw all the troops after reelection. >> host: you're saying he woif pursued anti-communist policies, but done it differently? >> guest: to a lesser extent using the caution gained through the bay of pigs disaster and the victory in the cuban missile crisis. he learned the hard way on the job, and he was an internationally minded person. that's the contrast with johnson. johnson was a domestic politician. kennedy had been because of the family and time in britain and world war ii. he was more internationally focused. i think he understood the world better. john kennedy, because of the military background and undoubted military heroism in world war ii, had greater respect for the joint chiefs than maybe lbj did because johnson was trying to direct the war picking targets and things like tha

lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, a lot of people disliked him greatly, some hated him would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and the root of law. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> my fellow americans, all i have, i would have given gladly not to be standing here today. >> johnson knows he has to show the country that the ship of state is sailing on under the new captain. but at the same time, he can't appear to be too anxious to assume power. and he has to keep the kennedy people on board with him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. [ applause ] >> the people of europe just cannot believe that a lone avenger made his way into a major police station and killed without difficulty the most celebrated and infamous criminal in the united states. >> one of the most important things that happened after oswald's murder was that we were forever denied the why. i mean, people at the time believ

lyndon johnson in predallas was in serious political trouble. a scandal, secretary of the senate's office was unfolding, one that involved, lbj's protege, bobby baker, graft, sex, influence peddling. and sparked new interest that johnson amassed a fortune of millions after 30 years of government salary. in november 1963, the powder keg was about to blow. november 22nd, the presidential motorcade rolling through dallas, editors of "life" magazine were meeting to delegate assignments and their investigation into a project, lyndon johnson's money. the senate began sniffing around the baek erbaker controversy. shelf life was expiring. talk was beginning johnson would be bounced from the 1964 ticket by kennedy. that life story ran once all that dirty laundry was aired in the senate hearing. a no brainer then. during that senate hearing into the baker affair, with the documen documents, invoices and checks linking the vice president to illicit behavior. during the hearing, some one burst in to say the president had been shot. the shot changed lyndon j

i'll tell you that. >> lyndon johnson was known as the greatest salesman one-on-one who ever lived. so he meets first with warren and says, if i asked you to put on your uniform and fight for america you'd do it. i'm asking you to fight for america in a different way. then johnson has to get richard russell. >> mr. president, please now. >> no, it's already done. it's been announced. >> you mean you've -- >> yes, sir, the announcement. it's already in the papers. you're on it. >> i think you did wrong getting warren. i know damn well you did wrong getting me. i'll do the best you can. >> that's what you do. that's the kind of american both of you are. side-by-side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. that's one smart board -- what else does it do, reverse gravity? [ laughs ] split atoms? [ flo chuckles ] [ whirring ] hey, how's that atom-splitting thing going? oh! a smarter way to shop around -- now that's progressive. call or click today. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> produced by nbc news which is solely responsible for its content. >> the warren commission app

in 1964, after lyndon johnson denied him the chance to be his vice president, bobby resigned as attorney general and ran for the senate from new york. he hadn't lived in the state since he was a boy, but the kennedys were never ones to play by the rule book or wait their turn. >> no one committed to participating in public life can sit on the sidelines with so much at stake. >> yet, facing taunts that he was a carpetbagger and haunted by the suspicion that the cheers were not for him but for his lost brother, bobby had trouble finding his political footing. >> what's the largest minority of hecklers you've ever had? >> i don't know. >> he didn't want to trade on his brother's name. on the other hand, he didn't quite know what to say on behalf of himself. >> kennedy ended up defeating the popular incumbent senator ken keating by riding on lyndon johnson's long presidential coattails. but even as the new senator joined his younger brother ted on the hill, he was poised for higher office, and everyone knew it. >> the feeling of most of those who watched him was that his presidential years w

hugh coverage continues sunday with lyndon johnson's november 27 address to congress, and your questions live with lbj biographer robert caro and presidential historian naftali. oflowed with coverage resident kennedy's state funeral. remembering jfk this weekend on c-span3. >> the senate earlier today voted to change the filibuster rules concerning judicial and executive nominees. following that vote, we heard from the republican leaders just outside the senate floor. >> good afternoon. this is not a very proud day in the history of the senate.

and the came out and told us that we would have to help remove the remains into a casket. >> lyndon johnson had ordered that the body be brought immediately to air force one. so there was a little tug-of-war. it almost shook the crucifix off of the top of the coffin as the were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. >> took him out and put him into the hearse. and one of the secret servicemen, about two or three of them got into the hearse and just drove off and left the rest of us standing there. >> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation's capitol. >> not everyone realized that johnson was already the president because he in fact had taken the oath in january '61, the same oath the president takes. >> johnson wanted to show the american people that the government was functioning without interruption. and also perhaps he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon baines johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government, at which time

[laughter] there is a tape of lyndon johnson and i can't for the life of me understand why he made it. nixon had voice-activated tapes. kennedy and johnson would turn the machine on or johnson would get a phonecall and go like this to his secretary. run the tape. there's a tape of johnson talking. talking to the president if hacker slacks. he said are you the fellow that makes hacker slacks? you made five pairs of pants last summer. i need five more pairs of pants. you have to give me more room in the because those pants the president of the united states, a white house tape. these tapes, we love it. >> kennedy comes off better in private than nixon or johnson. he didn't seem to let his guard down and he was this profane. was he just a more buttoned up her snout they. >> i think he was more

lyndon johnson is president of the united states. >> nbc news from november 22nd, 1963. just over six hours after the shots were fired from the building here behind us, meaning this place and this city and our country would never be the same. the cold and wind and rain here in dallas today was a sharp contrast to the bright sunshine of 50 years ago, weather beautiful enough to ride in an open car. today, one half century later, thousands turned out to remember john f. kennedy. >> the people of this city have been felled with a sense of industry born of tragedy. >> the place is little changed since that day 50 years ago. thousands were here then, too. people lined the motorcade route, the final critical moments captured by the film camera of abraham zapruder. >> hi, sir. how are you? >> across the street that day was pierce almon, then 29 years old, a local broadcaster. he heard the shots, heard mrs. kennedy cry out, in fact. he ran into the book depository building. in the doorway he passed and spoke to oswald not knowing he was the assassin. inside he used the only avai

that's the difference between lyndon johnson and john f. kennedy. so, no i don't believe that he would have done what johnson did i-india, although he would have continued some level of involvement. i do not believe for a minute that he was going to withdraw all of them. >> host: so he would have done it differently? >> guest: to a different extent using the caution he had gained through the bay of pigs disaster and the triumph in the cuban missile crisis. he learned the hard way on the job and he was an internationally minded person. that's a contrast with johnson he was a domestic publication. kennedy had always been because of his family and his time in britain and world war ii. he was more internationally focused. i think that he understood the world better. >> host: he had a greater respect for the joint chiefs and maybe lbj because lyndon johnson was trying to take things like that. was it macarthur who begged johnson in 1964 don't get involved in a land war in southeast asia and johnson didn't listen to him. i always wondered if kennedy would

we are also told that an assistant to vice president lyndon johnson has also arrived at the white house, torch -- george reedy. there is not a lot of word coming from the white house press office. pressrst word was that a officer was asking to enter. the mood there was one of utter shock, utter disbelief. the press house come at the white house press office is

lyndon johnson assumed that role even before air force one returned to washington from dallas. and he began by trying to console the president's family. that is our "face the nation" flashback. >> it's one of the most icon in this case photographs in american history. johnson being sworn in aboard air force one with jacqueline kennedy at his side. after the plane departed dallas he called the late president's mother, rose kennedy. >> mrs. kennedy. i wish to god there were something that i could say to you. >> schieffer: in the weeks that followed johnson reached tout to many members of the kennedy family but the kennedy who showed up most often on the new president's call sheet was jackie. this conversation took place ten days after the assassination. >> i just wanted you to know that you are loved by so many and so much. let's take a walk. let's walk around the back yard. let me tell you how much you mean to all of us. >> schieffer: johnson offered similar words of comfort to the american people in a thanksgiving address he called upon the country to honor kennedy through forw

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and there were 94 lyndon johnson wants the report out so that it doesn't interfere with the election in november. >> warren spent his early career as a prosecutor. he understood the crime scene. he wanted to stand at the window and see if this was a shot a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there was all these suggestions that ruby had killed oswald to silence him. >> the commission realized they would have to invest a lot more time than was anticipated. it was maybe a two to three-month operation to the concession it would probably take six months. >> the hourglass of time was running out on them. >> can you still say if you think it's one man? >> i think we should probably not get in that area, you know. the report will cover all that in great detail. >> labor ten months. then brought forth a document close to 1,000 pages. lyndon johnson received that report today. >> what the public understood and what i understood was these were very honorable men. they thought that the commission had done a good job and they would come up with an answer.

you think more colorful than lyndon johnson? >> well, i will say i didn't know teddy roosevelt when i was 24 years old and didn't go down to his ranch, so johnson wins in that regard. >> rose: have you written everything you are going to write about that? >> i don't know, i feel so strongly still about lbj and, you know, i think maybe as i get older i would like to think about it, not as a 30-year old when i wrote it, right after knowing him, and feeling that sense of friendship, but as a historian, so many years later, yeah i think so-so. >> rose: you really should, i don't know, if any 24 years old had a relationship with a president in terms of how he actually -- he was crazy about you because of your brain and experience and -- >> , no it was my physical being. (laughter.) >> rose: i was hoping you would say that. (laughter.). >> rose: i wanted you to lead me into that. >> squabble i did that. >> rose: i am so lucky. jack welch wait until this moment. >> anyway -- >> rose: you can't get out now. >> i will always be grateful