In an interview filmed ten days before his death, former President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses with Walter Cronkite his commitment to civil rights and his achievements in this area: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Equal Housing Law of 1968
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Because of LBJ's war (Vietnam) my dad was killed less than a year after I was born in Vietnam. I will never forget LBJ escalating the war and sending thousands of young men to their deaths one of which was my father.
Actually, Ho Chi Minh looked up to the US founding fathers and asked the US to help them get full independence from France but colonialism/racism wouldn’t allow the US to support that. Many chances to have avoided that war
@@vivahernando1 yup. all done for money. he was a power mad coward sociopath. if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo. watch the Bronson film on where his car was vs the limo on Elm.
@@justthink5854 lol can't cosign on all your conspiracy no sense .... sorry
@@vivahernando1 what is incorrect?
Wow. Its definitely deeper than we know.
Met him when I was about 6 years old. He was running to become the Vice President. One distinct memory, my Dad was taller than most men in our town, but LBJ, with his big white hat, towered over my Dad. He got down on his haunches and looked me right in the eye and shook my hand.
Flew into town in a Helicopter while campaigning for US Senator in 1948. I was 13 and rode my bicycle over to the park to hear him speak. He was slender at the time, and he stood on a small platform while speaking. I was about twenty feet away. Thirteen at the time. My impression? A salesman, not very likable And drew not much applause from the small crowd there. His opponent got more votes by far on Election day. Yet he was elected by a famous margin of less than 100 statewide. The next time I saw him up close was in the commons at UT Austin. when he was Vice President. Heavier and more solemn. Gave a good speech. Went to a reception Room. I was a gofer for Ralph Yarborough , a liberal Democrat who did not get along with Johnson. So i got in the room and watched him meet with VIPs, Amazing to watch him work. His face was as mobile as a great character actor’s . No doubting his stage presence.
That's pretty cool to have met a president.
That's very cool
that is the way LBJ operated, face to face
Johnson was also directly involved in the Kennedy Assassination. How did it feel to look into the eyes of a murder?
LBJ lived 10 more days, Walter Cronkite lived over 35 more years.
The way he aged in ten years was unreal.
Well, those were ten crazy ass years... and he, rightly or wrongly, took the blame for a lot of it.
@@thadtuiol1717 Rightly for sure, and deserves more than hes gotten. He was a murderous POS
Probably connected to his declining health
If you had on your conscience what that man had,most would have dropped dead.He was a poor excuse for a human being,in my humble opinion.I dint judge,I am just stating the facts.He was less than a bum.I loved the fact he was eating nitro every 5 min.GOD was waiting for him.
@@thadtuiol1717 he was a warmonger and thousands of dead in vietnam on his hands!
Opening theme performed by four 6th grade trumpet players. Thanks for giving the kids a chance.
Yeah messing with my head I found people are less harassed as Pansy's then they act.
Quiet simpathizers in a terrorist organization that had no choice to calm down. My kids. Are always my next at anything. May I have the racist equal rights off my ass. It's easier to spread things out . Know what people are used for.its why we get it. Everytime.. cause are military through blood has help divid it . In different groups. I'm not trusting them ether sir. With my guys rights.or there's.
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Of course you're joking. It's distorted audio.
At 64 he looked like he was 84, and probably felt like 104.
Yes my mother is 64 and looks alot younger stress of office and heavy smoking and drinking aged him.
People aged faster in his generation.
@@mitchelllevine5664 they died younger few made it to 70 so yes. Living to 80 is a very modern phenomenon.
@@sallydavies9253 Sally, that is a bit of an exaggeration. Yes, longer life is a more modern thing, but that really started in the 1940s post-war America. All of my grandparents and great grandparents died in their early 80s over the course of the mid 20th century. It is a lifestyle and education issue. LBJ did not take care of himself, had an inherent heart problem, and he took on the burdens of the world, not to mention directly living thru a Presidential assassination. He was not the normal person of that age.
@@sallydavies9253 He also had a bad heart condition from his early years.
LBJ was worth $500 million at the time of his death (1973 dollars) .Politics really pays well.
Him and Billy Saul Estes did well
His wife was a very competent businesswoman who owned two radio stations
@@mansakhanlv8487 she inherited them… and she was a woman who was cool with her husband abusing and rapping women all over the country. She was well aware her husband would pull his p….. r out in his office to humiliate his male counter parts. He made people’s wives sleep with him to prove how week their husbands were. Bad bad dude
@@mansakhanlv8487 That is a cover story you fell for as did many others. Dig a little deeper.
@@JackOutLoud LBJ was a genuine SOB. He was the catalyst for the assassination of JFK and perpetrated the Vietnam War. He was a murderer, sadist, corrupt politician, a bully and a physical coward. No way will I listen to this interview. He was the worst President in American history and FJB is still a close second, thus far.
Tthank you for posting this interview on KZhead!
I love the distortion that an old tape recording gives to the music LOL
This interview happened when Joe Biden was in the US Senate XD
This is why he'll make the best president. Can't say he hasn't had years of political experience.
@@glw5166 shitty years that’s why he’ll be the worst you don’t know anything
@@Blessedtech_ I know that Biden and any president after him will be better than the clown that is leaving office.
Fuck Biden and LBJ
He was sworn in SIX YEARS before Ron DeSantis was even born
64 years old there…….still smoking and died from his third heart attack. Can’t imagine the weight on his shoulders and what he carried even until the end of his life. Great interview and of course Walter Cronkite. 👍
the weight was his awful policies: Vietnam, welfare, immigration excluding whites. Real awful progressive.
Well, murdering your boss would probably weigh heavily on you, especially if you have the slightest bit of conscience left, which I suspect he did.
@@highplains7777 who knows.
Didn't he have children with A black mistress!? ..or two??
1966....fauci developed covid virus. .it was very well documented at the time.
Watching him speak was like listening to my grandfather talk to me back in the 60’s and 70’s. 😊
😊I think that I know precisely what you mean. Apart from video footage, I simply cannot hear anyone at all, really, who speaks as my dear Gran did. The accent and the idioms. Gone.
Bobby Kennedy said that Johnson would lie about everything , for no reason , he would never tell the truth , a real psycho !
Lucky you 😫 🤒 😷 scary
LBJ looks 76, but it’s wild he passed at 64
That's what happens when you do alot of drinking and smoking
@@ohso41 and have a hand in you predecessors demise along with the quagmire of Vietnam
@@michaelwallbrown3726 I don't believe in conspiracy theories but he always looked old. I've yet to meet a smoker who looks younger than their stated age..
Smoking, drinking maybe, but being President is also hugely stressful.
@@michaelwallbrown3726 - YES, INDEED! You are WOKE!
the trumpet music is the top10 funniest things Ive ever heard in my life, its perfect comedy.
It does sound like a Texas drawl.
Someone said it was sixth graders - not sure if they were joking.
If anything exemplifies the spirit of the 60s, it's not letting the fact that you can't play an instrument deter you from trying.
I thought I was the only one who thinks the music is a little 'odd'. LOL
The music is fucked up, you assholes, because this is a FILM that was being played on a MOVIE PROJECTOR that had a SOUND DRUM that the film passed over while it was showing. That film drum was the sound pick up device on those old 16 mm Sound movie projectors. They would bob up and down slightly while the movie film was being dragged over them. Inconsistency in the tension of the film on the drum was a result of the load being put on the film projector's DRIVE MOTOR that ran the whole process. The end result: The sound WARBLED a little bit. Did you learn something ? Fuck you stupid assholes.
Why he escalated the USAs involvement in the Vietnam war in the manner he did is mind boggling. Complicated for sure, but mind boggling.
In 1973 I worked at Opa Locka airport a general aviation airport in South Florida, one day we were told to help load luggage into a corporate jet on the tarmac, the tag's on the luggage said LBJ RANCH, a short time later a ambulance showed up and took him out on a stretcher (we couldn't believe our eye's) and loaded him on the jet. A short time later we heard he had died.
Thanks for showing this historic footage. He seemed in good health for someone who passed away 10 days after this interview.
i thought same thing
Read the Robert Caro books about LBJ. He was a complicated, yet awesome president. As for his health: "Arteriosclerosis struck President Johnson in 1955 when he was 46 and Senate majority floor leader. That heart attack proved nearly fatal when his blood pressure fell virtually to zero."
@@Austin8thGenTexan Hey Austin, I was referring to the liberals. Not African americans, aka our nation's best & brightest.
@@villagemagician1320 I'm a Democrat but I'm a moderate. As for FOX Entertainment News, scapegoating drag queens is not my thing. I'm armed to the teeth, and hunt all over my ranch in East Texas. One thing's for sure: I don't know what the hell a conservative or Republican is anymore (except backwards people). None of them would even know who Barry Goldwater or William f Buckley Jr was. Also know that labels are getting to be really tiresome... 😸
Thank the Good Lord he was Able to Express His Solid Ideals ,,,. B4. He Was Called Away!!!!+++
I find his openness about the fact that he wasn't born having the understanding of the plight of black and brown citizens of this country. Yet, he explains that over the course of his life and career that what he saw and learned changed his views. Honestly I cannot imagine another person during that time who had the privilege and bullheaded even bullying ability to push the changes through that he was able to do. He definitely did more than ask the Congress, he cornered and maneuvered and forced through the changes that he wanted. Respect for a man who used his force of nature to try and do good in our country.
Simultaneously he's highly intelligent, very plain-spoken, cool-calm-collected, always with that super-heavy southern accent. I feel like I can trust everything he says because he means everything that he says Personally, I love the dude. maybe because he's Southern.. like me :)
bs. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
@@verystablegenius8398 then you've been conned. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
@@justthink5854 Everyone knows Jackie had LBJ shot so she could marry Onasis.
@@mdarrenu LBJ didn't get shot dummy except in your "mind"
I'm sorry, but his manipulation keeping us in Vietnam and assisting in the death of JFK is something I"d NEVER forgive him for. This just paints a picture as if he was some kind of saint. Far from it.
Exactly.
Being president really does age you… he’s 64 here - if you would have said he was 75, I would have believed you.
It wasn't just from aging in office, LBJ had also basically been passively killing himself since the moment he left the White House
"Hey, what should the intro music be?" "Well, how about I just throw the brass section down the garbage disposal? That'd sound good, yeah?"
They should have let the group Earth, Wind and Fire played the intro, lol 😁. Instead of the third grade class 😂😂 😂😂 😂😂 😂
Yea lets fart in 4 trumpets and record it! The president will like that
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The musical piece is called W.T.F.
It's audio distortion. In all likelihood this was on an old video tape.
When he announced that he wouldn't run for president again, everyone in my barracks day room cheered.
Sorry to hear that. Nixon fucking sucked.
@@aFrench88channel Nixon didn't get us deep into the Viet Nam war.
@@MidsierramusingBlogspot LBJ. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. kzhead.info/sun/lpyenbJ9eoudoJ8/bejne.html
@MidsierramusingBlogspot Actually, Nixon DID get us deeper. Into Cambodia and Laos. So.
@marksolomonify I didn't miss the point, as I wasn't replying to you. That means you need to keep up, you missed the point.
And notice if you will, he never talked about the war he perpetrated on the American public. All the damage and scars he caused are not mentioned at all. Deceit was his game.
He didn't start the war, but he should have ended it.
He was a great president domestically. Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act…He would have been remembered as a hero, like his mentor FDR, if it wasn’t for that war.
Why aren't things like this shown in high school.....
He's a Democrat, that's why...
@@carlosreyes5371 He was a war criminal.
The real reason is because half the class would just be asleep or not paying attention :P . Not because it's LBJ, but because long videos seem to do that to some peeps.
@@WinginWolf I agree. Most teenagers would not be in the least interested in political history. Most teenagers would probably not know who LBJ was.
At least in my experience, high school history classes only get to WWII at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Anything past 1945 is sped through so fast that you don't learn much more about those years then you already know.
i thought i was having a stroke when that trumpet music came on. either that or the players had recently had strokes themselves, perhaps during recording.
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He was also intrumental in assassinating the President John F. Kennedy.
Rubbish.
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@@walterhageman940 , rubbish, no proof, might as well have been some Southern White Supremacist doing it as JFK was Anti Segregation.
Not a huge fan of LBJ. Yet, I appreciate his forthrightness in answering the questions. Modern politicians would be advised to follow his example.
Nixon gave speeches till 90s.
He's a liar
Quite interesting and informative. His recounting conversations with future supreme court justice thurgood marshall was a golden nugget. He appeared resigned that we shall overcome was but a step in our nations history. I believe that if he had a crystal ball perspective of america in 2023, he would be morally and historically appalled at our regression. Yet the attempt to create a great society was a signature achievement, despite continuing determination to curtail its progress. Thank you for a candid look back.
People aged like hell during these times, he was only 64.
M Pa that’s a hard 64.
White folks age fast!
It's not people, it's the Presidency.
I gotta think the high percentage of cigartette smokers across the demographic board at that time played a significant role in speeding up the aging process. LBJ clocked in @ 3 packs/day.
@@threerings1345 Right. Also environmental pollution, like lead, and drinking water, alcohol...we are living in much better times in regard to health, yet people always hearken back to the "good old days".
Never was a fan of Johnson, but being a native Texan I was always curious to know what made him tick. When he died I recall thinking he was so old and had lived a long life before he died. I’m now 4 yrs older than he was when he died, and I now realize he wasn’t old, but I believe his life he led and time as President took a toll on his life.
Or genes
@@oneseeker2 Smoking 60 cigarettes a day would do it, good genes or not.
Other than inheriting the Vietnam War, I think that he was an awesome president. What's not to like about civil rights and voters rights? (We all know which party fought those ideas). I'm almost 66, and was thinking about the same thing reading about my Delano cousin, FDR. He looked awful when he died at age 63. Texans seem to forget about his bringing rural electricity to our state. Or social security for the elderly. As for LBJ's health: Arteriosclerosis struck President Johnson in 1955 when he was 46 and Senate majority floor leader. That heart attack proved nearly fatal when his blood pressure fell virtually to zero. It finally got him in 1973. 🥀
@@thomasnc I bet itching for a smoke at the time of the interview after going almost an hour without one
Read Robert A. Caro’s Pulitzer Prize winning biographies on him. You’ll learn a great deal.
we take so many things for granted... This is the kind of stuff that separates us from the rest of the world. Our country is not perfect, but we never stop trying.
Looks like you really need to do some research and develop the wherewithal to question authority? He was a drunken psychopath who hired his own henchman Malcolm Wallace to partake in the JFK assassination plot.
I've always looked upon this final interview with LBJ as a man at total peace with himself. I don't know who were all the former colleagues and friends that stayed loyal and by his side right up to the end, but I'm sure Lady Bird was all he needed. If I had been one of his aids I'd simply have echoed what Horatio said over Hamlet; "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet Prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest".
Yeah, your right. He was at peace with himself knowing that he killed 68 thousand Americans in a BS war that he escalated along with innocent Vietnamese civilians including women and children. He’s entire career was built on lies. He even had JFK killed in Dallas, along with other people in his past including his own sister. He had a practice of walking around the White House naked in front of his staff and taking a dump while demanding his staff to come into the bathroom while he was taking a bowel movement just to screw with them. And here’s something else you didn’t know about him, he was the biggest racist in the state of Texas. He just got civil rights past to promote his legacy for future generations. In this interview, he comes off as a Saint. I did all this because I love black people! Give me a break!
How beautiful. Thank you for that.
KZhead is filled with useless - misinformation. The is a gem amongst the weeds. Thank you for posting.
True
Thank you.
LBJ HAD JFK ASSASSINATED! He was a scumbag!
his wife owned a large chunk of the military vehicles manufacturers he contracted to supply the warm in Vietnam
@@big_slurp4603 research Eisenhower warned about the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!
It would be 21 years before the next former President would die, Nixon 1994.
Then Reagan 10 years later in 2004, then Gerald Ford in 2006, then VP turned President George HW Bush 12 years later in 2018, which means since 1969 we’ve had just 7 Presidents die in 51 years. When Clinton was Inaugurated there were 5 former Presidents, same for Obama.
Eve O’Neill dang you’re right, which just goes to show how long jimmy carter has been kicking around for
@@JSwift_ Jimmy Carter has been out of office for 40 years, longer than any U.S. President Not many U.S. Presidents live 40yrs after leaving the WH.
Mick Funny yes
@@eveoneill2767 John Adams lived 25 years after leaving office, lived to age 90, which in 1826 was probably just as impressive as Carter is today. Teddy Roosevelt was only 50 when he left office, died at age 60 of a blood clot in 1919. I’ve always thought had had he survived the blood clot he could’ve lived another 20 or more years. Donald Trump, 74, imo, will not make it to age 80. Obama, OTOH short of a health crises like cancer, should easily live another 30+ yrs.
Great interview. I just finished the 4-volume work by Robert Caro - The Years of Lyndon Johnson - and eagerly await his 5th - which he is still writing. Lyndon Johnson was a fascinating, complicated, imperfect man and his life story is so interesting - I learned SO MUCH and could not put these books down.
Charles Bowden has some interesting insights on LBJ in Jericho and others.
Glad you ( and I ) enjoyed Caro's great work. As such, you'll be sure to enjoy seeing a more playful side of LBJ by watching an episode, here on youtube, of America's Untold Stories. Here is the link. kzhead.info/sun/lc5vlJiqj4V6nY0/bejne.html
Lyndon B. Johnson was a truly evil and vile man... There are no redeeming qualities, about him... You really need to start looking a lot closer, in order to get the truth... That's if you actually want the truth, that is.
@@ALIENDNA14 The tapes show otherwise and that Nixon was far worse.
Great books. Caro’s deep dives are priceless. One thing I might add is that with Caro’s “doorstop sized” books you also get remarkable mini-biographies of remarkable people you might not otherwise bother to learn about. In the case of the Johnson biographies, people like Coke Stevenson, Leland Olds and Sam Rayburn are just 3 examples. I fear he may not live long enough to finish #5.
I think his presidency is an object lesson in history; no matter how many great things you do, war can bring down any leader.
I will say, that despite his physical condition, he was still remarkably articulate when he went out. That, I believe, is the way to go.
@Shannon Massena lier lieing
Wtf does this mean?
Yeah right, he was removed for war crimes to save his name just like the Bushes and Mc Cain trator.
You can remove these people in the site of American public, it would be to much for the public to handle, that's way they just go away, Obama you time is coming and you know it.fuc you
@@kennethwood713 Vietnam destroyed LBJ's presidency and nearly cancelled out his positive legacies but by your standard EVERY US president is a war criminal, including Donald Trump.
So much of this interview remains as relevant today as it was then, the work that has been accomplished is much, but that with remain unfinished is much greater....
It was amazing that I just learned how bad he was and now I have learned how good he was. For the things he did help change were things that needed to change at that time.
It would have been better for America if land owners were the only ones to vote. "Equality Laws" got rid of the Meritocracy which made America great.
I guess that is one way of keeping the 1% in power.@@MikeM-qy9zz
18:31 "We hit while the iron was hot" profound statement that we need to remember to help get things done.
I love these types of viewing because I am always seeking out knowledge of all kinds. This is one heck of an interview.
Same here I’m young and I wanna learn of the legends and people who came before me
Thanks for sharing..?
@@alejandroperez-yy9ymyou really want to learn something? I'm 60 years old and have been doing serious research for about 10 years now. LBJ was a drunken psychopath who hired his own henchman, Malcolm Wallace to partake in the JFK assassination plot. You need to develop the wherewithal to question authority if you really want to learn the reality of the situation. That is...everything from the Central Bank, to JFK to 9/11 is a rich man's trick. You probably don't even realize that the Gulf of Tonkin incident that LBJ here made up to get us war with Vietnam was a lie. 58,000 dead GI'S. Heard of the USS Liberty attack? Under LBJs watch. No accident.
@Riogi and everyone else looking for the truth and expanding your knowledge of all things, thank you, the world needs you. Please, make sure you dig deep and ask "why" a lot.
Ten days later, at approximately 3:39 p.m. Central Time on January 22, 1973, Johnson suffered a massive heart attack in his bedroom. He managed to telephone the Secret Service agents on the ranch, who found him still holding the telephone receiver, unconscious and not breathing. Johnson was airlifted in one of his planes to San Antonio and taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, where cardiologist and Army colonel Dr. George McGranahan pronounced him dead on arrival. He was 64 years old
the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
I didn't realize how young he was. He looked ten years older. Plenty of sun and more.
@@CerceifyPeople also didn’t age well back in the day.
He is now in a very warm place.
Lol yes 😈
Lyndon and Henry Kissenger
may he continue to burn in hell
Keep in mind he was lied to.
LBJ was up to his neck in the Kennedy killing.
Which one?
I was stationed in Korea in the US Army in 1966 when President Johnson was scheduled to visit the troops. I was assigned to a Signal Corp Unit in Yongsan Base. We were instructed by superiors to prepare for his visit by getting the motor pool readied for possible inspection. I don't recall if he actually visited our location, but it was both an honor & a nervous time for all of us. Little did we realize at the time that the Vietnam War would escalate to the degree that it did. It took a tremendous toll on Johnson, as this interview indicates.
he was a power mad coward sociopath. if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
Try giving some of that sympathy to the victims of that war.
The Vietnam War was always going to escalate when your wife, lady bird Johnson had big investments in the instruments of war that was at the disposal of the United States of America, and a husband who happens to be the president of the United States.
His lifestyle took a tremendous toll on his health.
Johnson had JFK killed and became our Murderous president and continued his ways in Vietnam-
Horn section were out partying with the secret service at Jack Ruby's club the night before.
Very vigorous for 10 days before his death.
I remember seeing it just after he died, and thought he had been having difficulty breathing and talking. He knew heart trouble ran in his family. Always worked too hard, smoked, drank. Got little thanks. I really loved that man!
I’m a Japanese. I wonder whether I can express my opinion exactly. As I know L. Johnson only by the book “Personal History of Katharin Graham”, I’m so impressed to come across this interview and come to know his another side of his personality. Thank you very much.
Great English expressed very well 👌
Seems like lbj took part in the 70s grow your hair trend
At the time I heard that he grew his hair, turned against the Vietnam War, and became something of a hermit. It was hearsay, but who knows?
@@playnejayne5550 So...he turned into a damn dirty hippie?? 😂 Lol
@@scottmoore1614 Couldn't beat them so he decidedd to join them.
It wasn't that long...just a bit fuller...
@@HelloooThere Like someone with hippyish tendencies who needed to hold down a "straight" job.
That trumpet in the beginning makes me hurl🤣
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@@tealx2014 I can't hear it?
@@piusx8317 Watch the whole thing!
@@piusx8317 4:35
Didn't this guy used to sit on his toilet with the door open, and give orders to his staff?
He was 64 here - but looked and sounded 80.
As much as I want to dislike President Johnson, I cannot. His "war on property" provided my elderly grandparents (grandfather was blind).in Appalachia with an indoor bathroom and upgrades. A personal blessing. They had a picture of John L. Lewis on the wall.
And his war in Vietnam killed 58000 Americans....we now know tgat he kept it going to protect his own reputation
The war of property was Kennedy's look it up lbj didn't do shit fuck him him and Obama wasn't presidents
War on Poverty, NOT property.
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@@redshead2369 “A Kennedy legislative recommendation has about as much impact as a snowflake on the bottom of the Potomac” - Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen On the other hand, President Johnson got 226 of his 252 Great Society Initiatives legislated in Congress and signed into law. Which President exactly was the one that did nothing?
Thanks for this. I was trying to discover his motivation for signing the Civil Rights Act.
It what the party wanted when kennedy fell in dallas. It was the shared goal eventually.
VOTES. That's always the motivation for democrats.
Wow. That's pretty cynical. Says more about you than him.@@jimkeskey
Says EVERYTHING about his piece of garbage. Funny thing is, Biden is even worse than this loser. I have a feeling you voted for both!@@johnbanach3875
he was quoted as saying , ' this bill will have those " negras" voting Dem. for the next 100 years !
A very interesting and articulate interview, i'm glad i took the time to watch. LBJ always seemed so uneasy in front of a camera or crowd, his words were always clipped and so obvious he was reading his speech word by word. But this interview showed another side, unrehearsed answers to questions by America's foremost news commentator. Civil Rights was by far his swan song during his tenure, however his reluctance to stand up against his Generals in the armed forces and de-escalate the Vietnam debacle would be his downfall. Between his Generals, and the Defense Contractors, they pressured him to escalate the actions there rather than slowly retreat. It was a Catch 22 for LBJ i know, but if he had stood up to these people here as vehemently, as he fought for his Civil Rights program, he may not have failed in his efforts in the war. It will forever remain a stain on his entire political career and moreover, his Presidency. Listening to the brainiac McNamara was LBJ's biggest fault when it came to Vietnam. McNamara's book "In Retrospect" that he penned in the 1990s fully apologized for his actions during these turbulent 60s, he admitted he was 180 degrees wrong on the entire theme. He guided LBJ and was trusted to make the right decisions, and he failed miserably. McNamara's ice cold calculations, reducing human lives of our boys to mere numbers and statistics was his exact theme and modus operandii whilst he was at Ford. Henry II was very glad to rid himself of McNamara and pawned him off to the JFK administration just days after JFK won in Nov 1960. All in all i am glad i watched this interview, it gave me a new insight into a President that i always reviled, but now i come away with a bit more flexible views about him.
You can blame LBJ for the memo he signed 4 days after JFKs death. JFK has signed a memo to have 1000 advisors in Vietnam brought home by Dec '63 and the rest by '65. LBJ was the one committing our troops to Vietnam and I would suggest Brown and Root had LBJs ear much more than McNamara. As far as the civil rights legislation, that was already written by Kennedy. He was in the process of getting it signed into law before his death. Not to mention his involvement in the assassination and cover up.
He may not have been comfortable in crowds or on camera, but he was MORE than comfortable one on one.
This is an interesting interview. I’m on the latest published Robert Caro book on the years of Johnson, titled the passage of power. It’s also interesting to consider that in 1973 Robert Caro was writing the power broker book on Robert Moses.
He probably knew he could die at any moment as his heart was as fragile as an egg so he gave the interview.
And he was only sixty four. Not old.
Mz Mrs Mr(Other) Fensler, to put it mildly, Mr Johnson was an asshole.
Agreed
He actually passed away 10 days after this interview took place. Not only that, he claimed the men in his family died of heart trouble before 65. He was 64.
@@jonchaney It's old enough at the standard of that period
I'm reading "Bearing the Cross," by David Garrow right now, and in it I recently learned that Johnson's "We shall overcome" speech was one of the only times anyone ever saw Dr. King shed tears.
he was a power mad coward sociopath. if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo. he also had his decades long good buddy Hoover smear MLK.
@Joseph Russo it's the truth, not spam. learn.
@@drdrfloydok. Does this statement make you feel better about your life ?
this dude killed kennedy
A lot of blood on that man’s hands,and it consumed him until his last breath.
I encourage you to visit that library. It has many sacred relics of the era. And it's much like a moseleum
where you can find the draft of his exec order reversing JFK's get out of Nam. the draft was written BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
WHY honor that murderer, he was an accessory before and after the fact in the murder of President Kennedy
@@justthink5854 No, LBJ wanted Yarborough to ride with him in his Limo but apparently Yarborough thought Johnson had slighted him in some way in Austin and was mad about it didn't want to ride with LBJ.
@@trevorn9381 lol
What an intro theme. Legendary.....
Attended my sister-in-laws PhD degree graduation ceremonies at University of Michigan, May 22, 1964. LBJ had agreed to give the graduation speech when he was vice-president, in 1963, and he did not cancel upon becoming president. His speech was memorable. It was the first introduction of The Great Society. My family was impressed and was certain it was the start of his running for president and his platform to move the U.S. forward for all citizens.
Interesting how he almost slipped and said " I want to control.."
Incredible interview. Still relevant today.
I think LBJ knew that death was just around the corner and thus he wanted the country to know his thoughts and feelings on certain topics before that happened...who better than with “Uncle Walter”...
@Uni BlackSister Explain not rant..please.
I as a 10 year old child,and my dad was just elected a ca.county commissioner aka supervisor after a recent 68' campaign almost upsetting Cohen a ca.( R) Berkeley, must have been ⛹🏽♂️🛌🏽🛀🏼🧗🏻♀️🚴🏽♂️ because I was unaware of all these major presidential deaths Kennedy/Johnson but I recall visiting my Grandaddy and mommy in GA. And watching CA's Nixon resign on TV. 📺
It was LBJ who said that ‘if (he) lost Cronkite he’d lost Middle America’. Says a lot that he chose to sit down for this interview with him that he had to know might well be his last.
My grandma once said that she had the opportunity to meet LBJ and Jumbo.
26:27 Huge moment, in my mind. With just about 200 hours left to live, he checks the time. Unaware how precious each hour would be. He was only 63 when he passed. Think about it...
"only 63"? This is already pretty senior age, especially for a male.
@@Quarequieus what age did FDR set for retirement in the 30s?
@@ewade244 What retirement has to do with it?
Where can I get a copy of that trumpet music It cured My depression, I absolutely could not stop laughing... And then it made me vomit, and I need to lose weight so that's good thing.
Are you 6 years old?
When you leave out a zero on the intro music budget
🤣 🤣
Uh oh m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3890024814375019&id=100001026151518
He didn’t deserve any better
Lmao I thought so too
No mention of what he said after signing the civil rights act. Shows the true character of the man, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a another beauty. This man was the cause of so much death and hardship, and it is not taught or the truth never spoken of him.
He was a great actor, as most liars are.
Deep down inside, he was a rotten person. I think at the end of his life, all of his guilt was catching up with him.
You should go look up his calls with Jacklyn Kennedy, he makes a very funny lie in one of the calls that's impossible to detect unless you know the history, it's very interesting because I knew he was lying but I was like damn he tells a good story.
got a link to it? @@apolloforabetterfuture4814
Lol. True
@@Warrior99980 He's trying to take claim on championing civil rights, but MLK Jr. and Malcom X forced his hand. Politicians take credit for every great achievement in their wake, stuff they never did.
4:35 the most important moment in the clip
😂😂💀
Sorry, I'm laughing so hard right now !
Great watch with some great messages that still ring home today.
By his own words; he was afraid he would die in office of his 2nd term. He saw a psychologist/psychiatrist and a priest weekly as well as on a list of prescribed medications due to his fears of going to hell when he passed away into death.
Where did you get this information? I have never heard this about LBJ. Thank you.
And the beat goes on.
5:00 Ladies & gentlemen: Unconfirmed insipiration for the Yoshi's Island soundtrack
Yea man. It's a well known fact that the Japanese go bonkers over LBJ so the composer totally must have seen this LBJ documentary from the 70s.
Watching this I just learned more about LBJ than I ever learned in school. Until now I didn't realize that I was proud of many of his achievements. The job of President is unenviable at best and perhaps he could have done better. But he fought for racial equality and he did some good there. I'm pleased to see that he fought for minorities as much as he did. Reading between the lines he seems sad that he wasn't able to do more. I wonder what he would be fighting for in today's climate. We still have far to go but I'm grateful that he was able to help push forward the amount he did.
*Lol.*
You forgot to mention the lie to get troops into Vietnam...and the rest is history
You know the civil rights act of 64 was just a distraction so the US could jump into the genocide of Vietnam right? There were previous civil rights acts that had absolutely nothing to do with LBJ, Jumbo, or war; 1957 and 1960 come to mind.
Wow what a great wonderful man so sweet to have these old interviews now why can't we have someone like that now🇺🇸🙏 instead of this clown freak Show we got!!!????👿👿👿👿👿👿👿
In today's political arena he'd be fighting to line his pockets with more GOLD. Johnson entered politics as a broke ex schoolteacher and when he left the presidency he and Lady Void had over ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. You may now resume your previous North Korea type brainwashed programming.
I still remember watching this interview with LBJ. I was 2 years old. I was struck at the time, his appearance was modern when it was still not in fashion. Besides Nixon, this is a vivid memory..
fascinating interview but holy shit the atonal trumpets at 4:34 have me in stitches
It's a shame Gene Hackman never played LBJ.
Hackman would have had LBJ down to a tee.
Bryan Cranston did a good LBJ.
Think more Walter Matthau.
Better than Buddy Harrelson!!
Facts! He looks just like him!
A timeless interview, relevant to our own day no less than the year of LBJ's death.
he was a power mad coward sociopath. if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
You need to pay closer attention, this was only about a week before his death.
@@frankpaya690 what is wrong wit people these days? its like they barely see and barely hear..or its selective..
@@playitstrange129 This culture has given God the middle finger 🖕. That’s what’s wrong.
Young people today- I'm 56- was less that a year old when this man resigned. I always reviled him because of Vietnam. But I do have to say that I am crying silently watching this. He did horrible things- and I am NOT overlooking them- but yet somehow, someway, in some manner I DO feel that he was the right man who came in at the wrong time. Also, I honestly, truly feel that he changed when out of office, and became filled w/regret over the terrible policies he enacted, but did at least enjoy a small measure of pride over the good ones (and there WERE good ones). Seeing him just before he died humanized him in a way I had never imagined possible, as I'd never seen this Interview. People: this time piece is GOLD.
U can dress up 💩anyway you want but it's still 💩people have a funny way of thinking death dosent pertain to them
I revile him because he was a POS who pretended to be a "civil rights reformer". Reme.ber his quote to jeep Democrats I power for the next 300 years? Hell Republicans past that bill.
I bet his donors loved cashing in that Halliburton stock as he passed the War torch down to Cheney. Felt bad my ass. That SOB was as nasty as they come 10 times meaner then Cheney.
Crocodile tears
He didn't resign. He simply completed his term and decided not to run for re-election coz he knew the public was dissatisfied with his conduct in Vietnam.
Curious if Vietnam was discussed and edited out because the Paris Accords were signed right before this was broadcast.
Thanks for posting! I watched the whole thing. Interesting, interesting guy. He used to have bed-side meetings with FDR as a congressman. He said FDR was the only man he ever met that wasn't afraid. I feel like domesticly, it was Eleanor who he ultimately did proud.
he was a power mad coward sociopath. if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo. watch the Bronson film on where his car was vs the limo on Elm.
Johnson got the US into an escalation of the Vietnam war. His wife profited from it. According to the Wall Street Journal in 1971, her holdings in COSCO were as a major stockholder and she received money for every item shipped to Vietnam. She also had major shares given to her in Bell Helicopter after an initial purchase.
The guilt got him in the end
I agree, guilt from pushing the Vietnam War into happening and for covering up for those responsible for the assassination of JFK.
Guilt about what he did more for defeating segregation and prejudice than any president of the 20th century
Cranston as LBJ in the biopic ALL THE WAY does a terrific impersonation.
Ten days prior to his death and he spoke of the work left to be done to make humans equal in America.
This important piece of history spirals into even greater importance today.
Yes, because we as black people have it worse today in 2021 than our forefathers did 60 years ago, smh. This is what happens when journalism becomes partisan, how unfortunate.
@@Emk315 What?? Stop it.
@@Emk315 he was a power mad coward sociopath. if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo. watch the Bronson film on where his car was vs the limo on Elm.
I recall the announcement of his death over the major media. In each case, the speaker emphasized lauding LBJ for his outstanding social achievements and the enormous flurry of legislation which was passed during his Administration as opposed to commenting about anything negative such as his mishandling of the Vietnam War, etc. At the time I thought that was very telling of the way people generally felt about his political accomplishments as compared to the downsides.
Johnson’s EGO, lack of military understanding and extremely poor military advice caused the problems of Vietnam; the thing I don’t understand is that Nixon undermined the peace process because he knew if LBJ reached a peace settlement he would never be elected president. So he was elected in 68 and didn’t settle the war until 73 shortly after LBJs death and yet nobody calls it Nixons war!!!
It's called spin.
We struggle to do that today: it's just angel or devil. When did we as a society ever dare think that our fellow human beings could be so crassly defined? I am imperfect, LBJ was imperfect, but he did some amazing things.
Guess that's what leads to things like a video I saw a couple years ago in which over half the college students asked thought the Vietnam War began under Nixon. Fake news even back then
I was 12 years old and my aunt took me to The White House for a state ceremony with President Johnson welcoming Keith Holyoake, the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Beforehand we were given little U.S. and New Zealand flags to wave during the ceremony. The big moment came when LBJ and the Prime Minister passed by us as they reviewed the honor guards. This ceremony would be one of his last as LBJ declined to run for a second term and Richard Nixon would be sworn in January 1969.
I'm so happy to have found this.
Love LBJ or hate him, this is an amazing historical document. The forthright, intelligent discussion of his policies and legacy with a journalist like Cronkite seems so quaint in context of our current political discourse. Fascinating discussion of systemic racism starting aroud 37:00 is as relevant today as it was then. LBJ totally got it.
he was a power mad coward sociopath. if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
Put me in the "hate him" column, thanks.
@@justthink5854 don't forget to add MLK to that list also
He is easily the best president post fdr
@@Anthonycheesman33 You’re delusional
this should be mandatory viewing for all high school students
Mandatory propaganda. He was a drunken psychopath who hired his own henchman Malcolm Wallace to partake in the JFK assassination plot.
Who the hell did the introduction music at 5 minutes? Absolutly horrible! 😂 interesting stuff anyway! Thank you for sharing !
😂😂😂😂😂
As bad as President Johnson might have looked to some during this interview, he clearly does not seem like a person that is 10 days away from their death. His presidency was a perfect example of a presidency that both accomplished significant achievements, but also experienced significant failures. In researching his political career, I would like to say his heart was in the right place. Like so many politicians, politics far too often effect decisions they make.
if you take time to research the party line vote you may be surprised.
Your assessment is right on target. Some of Viet Nam was due to feeling pressured by the Kennedy Cabinet that he felt he had to keep (David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest). He was not Foreign Policy focused and wanted to be the greatest domestic President. He was once described as "last Soldier of the New Deal".
if they told the truth, the kids would be riveted with history. the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
@@justthink5854history is boring Bc history is written by the “victors.”
@Peter Wolman rubbish...he lied the US into the vietnam war!
I wonder why LBJ has not been celebrated more as a civil rights warrior. Is it merely because he was a Southerner? The man had a solid record of standing up for and enacting civil rights. What a shame he hasn't been more celebrated for it.
LBJ's image is conflicted. Yes he was a great President on domestic policy but his dragging the USA into Vietnam tainted that.
LBJ’s mixed record with him supporting the Vietnam War, along with the War on Poverty’s mixed effects have soured his legacy quite a bit. Most people though would still likely put him somewhere within the top 10-20 Presidents nonetheless I think.
@@andrewnessari8969 Absolutely!
Vietnam. Also when they finally made a movie about MLK the movie makers inecspiliably lied about what happened and made LBJ into the villain.
the pig who knew about, and covered up the CIA/military assassination of JFK, caused the huge escalation of Nam from JFK's 16,000 and the first 1,000 to be sent back Dec 63, to the 500,000 when LBJ left office with the country torn apart, drugs pouring in, and finally policies that had lead to the no black fathers in the home for decades fiasco. btw there was a big argument in Ft Worth that morning between JFK and LBJ about LBJ wanting Yarborough riding with JFK in the ill fated limo.
Was that cornel west at 0:55?
No I don't think so sadly.
The term 'magnificent bastard' comes to mind....
Second only to Lincoln as far as African Americans are concerned. For a white man from Texas (or anywhere) to have his moral courage in relation to racism was extraordinary. RIP Mr. President
no. the blacks are finally waking up.
You've got to be kidding me