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The American Presidency: Pivotal Elections - Jon Ward
Americans will go to the polls in a few months to vote in what innumerable commentators are calling a pivotal presidential election, even one of the most consequential in American history. But it’s hardly the first time such claims have been made. Across the last 250 years, many presidential races have featured sharply contrasting agendas, political outlooks, and personal styles, with dire predictions about the nation’s future if one candidate or the other prevailed. How did these races unfold? How did presidential races encapsulate profound cleavages running through the nation? How did the outcomes shape the nation’s future? Looking back at elections from the nation’s past may provide perspective on our own moment.
This six-part virtual series explores these and other questions through lively conversations with eminent historians of American politics and the presidency. Each session will begin with a moderated discussion led by LBJ Library Director Mark Lawrence but will allow ample time for questions from the audience. Over six weeks leading up to President’s Day, we will sweep across American political history by delving into the elections of 1860, 1896, 1948, 1964, 1968, and 1980. We will examine presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan, exploring the races that elevated them to the Oval Office and the implications of the races they won.
About the speaker:
On February 15, 2024, Jon Ward joined us to talk about the election of 1980.
Jon Ward is senior political correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation (Brazos Press, 2023) and Camelot's End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Twelve Books, 2019), and host of “The Long Game” podcast. His Substack newsletter is called "Border Stalkers."
Jon has covered American politics and culture for two decades, as a city desk reporter in Washington D.C., as a White House correspondent who traveled aboard Air Force One to Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and as a national affairs correspondent who has traveled the country to write about two presidential campaigns and the ideas and people animating our times. He has been published in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Politico Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Times.
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[LBJ Future Forum] From Tragedy Comes Change: Community Action in the Wake of Gun Violence
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February 27th, 2024 - The LBJ Future Forum hosted a discussion of how communities can come together in the wake of tragedy. Speakers explored how coalition building, community activism, and working with different stakeholders can lead to meaningful change. Speakers: Jamal Alsaffar, Lead attorney representing the families in the 2017 Sutherland Springs shooting and the 2022 Robb Elementary Schoo...
The American Presidency: Pivotal Elections - Karl Rove
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Americans will go to the polls in a few months to vote in what innumerable commentators are calling a pivotal presidential election, even one of the most consequential in American history. But it’s hardly the first time such claims have been made. Across the last 250 years, many presidential races have featured sharply contrasting agendas, political outlooks, and personal styles, with dire pred...
An Evening With Jonathan Eig & Peniel Joseph
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Join us for an evening with bestselling author Jonathan Eig, whose recent book King: A Life was hailed as the definitive biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by The New York Times, and Dr. Peniel Joseph, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin L...
The American Presidency: Pivotal Elections - Nancy Beck Young
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Americans will go to the polls in a few months to vote in what innumerable commentators are calling a pivotal presidential election, even one of the most consequential in American history. But it’s hardly the first time such claims have been made. Across the last 250 years, many presidential races have featured sharply contrasting agendas, political outlooks, and personal styles, with dire pred...
The American Presidency: Pivotal Elections - Edward Achorn
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Americans will go to the polls in a few months to vote in what innumerable commentators are calling a pivotal presidential election, even one of the most consequential in American history. But it’s hardly the first time such claims have been made. Across the last 250 years, many presidential races have featured sharply contrasting agendas, political outlooks, and personal styles, with dire pred...
The American Presidency: Pivotal Elections - Luke Nichter
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Americans will go to the polls in a few months to vote in what innumerable commentators are calling a pivotal presidential election, even one of the most consequential in American history. But it’s hardly the first time such claims have been made. Across the last 250 years, many presidential races have featured sharply contrasting agendas, political outlooks, and personal styles, with dire pred...
The American Presidency: Pivotal Elections - A.J. Baime
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Americans will go to the polls in a few months to vote in what innumerable commentators are calling a pivotal presidential election, even one of the most consequential in American history. But it’s hardly the first time such claims have been made. Across the last 250 years, many presidential races have featured sharply contrasting agendas, political outlooks, and personal styles, with dire pred...
An Evening With Bill Nelson
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Jan 10, 2023 - The head of NASA, former Senator Bill Nelson, addressed the future of American space exploration including the Artemis program, partnerships with private companies, the impending retirement of the International Space Station; and more. Former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a NASA Advisory Council member, moderated the conversation. About the Speakers: Senator Bill Nelson was sworn...
[LBJ Future Forum] Seeking Truth in an AI World: Surviving Deepfakes, Deception & Discrimination
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How can people, companies, schools, and governments navigate what is true and what is false in a world with artificial intelligence able to create deepfakes; fake articles, schoolwork, or even military intelligence; and discriminate in the process? Speakers include: Chelsea Collier, Founder of Digi.City, Editor-At-Large for Smart Cities Connect, research assistant for Good Systems Doreen Lorenz...
An Evening With Dr. Robert Gates
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Nov 14, 2023 - Former Secretary of Defense for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and CIA Director for George H.W. Bush, Dr. Robert M. Gates joined us to speak on subjects ranging from the Israel-Hamas war, the expansion of NATO, war in Ukraine, China’s increased aggression, and the state of democracy in the U.S. This event was hosted in partnership with the George and Barbara Bush Foun...
[Future Forum] Women in Leadership: Confronting Gender Based Violence Together
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Each year the Future Forum hosts a discussion on “Women in Leadership,” a series which has explored a variety of topics including building diverse and inclusive teams; the competing professional and personal demands women may face; women in government, featuring a conversation with Madeleine Albright; the historic mobilization of women in politics the last election cycle; and the next generatio...
LBJ's America Panel - Civil Rights, Race Relations and Immigration
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On November 2, the LBJ Library and LBJ Foundation hosted a discussion on LBJ’s sweeping legacy by some of our nation’s top scholars to mark the publication of LBJ’s America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson. The second examined President Johnson’s achievements in the areas of civil rights, race relations, and immigration. Dr. Mark Lawrence, Director of the LBJ Presidential Library...
LBJ's America Panel - Johnson's Legacy in the 21st Century
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LBJ's America Panel - Johnson's Legacy in the 21st Century
An Evening With Heather Cox Richardson
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An Evening With Heather Cox Richardson
The Lady Bird Diaries Post Screening Conversation
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The Lady Bird Diaries Post Screening Conversation
An Evening With Jake Tapper
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An Evening With Jake Tapper
Ben Barnes & Luci Baines Johnson Speak at the Ceremony for LBJ's 115th Birthday
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Ben Barnes & Luci Baines Johnson Speak at the Ceremony for LBJ's 115th Birthday
An Evening With Admiral William McRaven
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An Evening With Admiral William McRaven
[LBJ Future Forum] Who is Austin For? A Conversation on Growth, Class and Affordability
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[LBJ Future Forum] Who is Austin For? A Conversation on Growth, Class and Affordability
A Conversation with Willie Nelson at the 2023 LBJ Liberty & Justice For All Awards
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A Conversation with Willie Nelson at the 2023 LBJ Liberty & Justice For All Awards
An Evening with Richard Norton Smith & Susan Ford Bales
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An Evening with Richard Norton Smith & Susan Ford Bales
[LBJ Future Forum] The Art of Diplomacy: Consuls General of the US & Mexico
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[LBJ Future Forum] The Art of Diplomacy: Consuls General of the US & Mexico
The American Presidency: The End of the Cold War
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The American Presidency: The End of the Cold War
[LBJ Future Forum] Inside the Texas Legislative Session
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[LBJ Future Forum] Inside the Texas Legislative Session
The American Presidency: Escalation in Vietnam with Marc Selverstone
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The American Presidency: Escalation in Vietnam with Marc Selverstone
An Evening With John Avlon and Chris Whipple
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An Evening With John Avlon and Chris Whipple
The American Presidency: Peacemaking After the Civil War with Elizabeth Varon
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The American Presidency: Peacemaking After the Civil War with Elizabeth Varon
Bringing Lincoln to Life: A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin and Ivan Schwartz
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Bringing Lincoln to Life: A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin and Ivan Schwartz
An Evening With Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines
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An Evening With Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines

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  • @paulanddianathomas3376
    @paulanddianathomas3376 3 місяці тому

    Paul Gregory has to go along with the lone nut story. Why? Just ask him what he and his father were involved in in 1963. Also, ask him why James Martin or his cohort confronted him about Marina in 1964. This guy is so freakin narcissistic and self righteous and the public doesn’t know the half of it about him. Confirmed liar.

  • @gingergeezer3685
    @gingergeezer3685 4 місяці тому

    Lady Bird had a college degree in Journalism, so that explains the excellent news hires.

  • @stlbusker3025
    @stlbusker3025 5 місяців тому

    After all these years I didn't think anything new would be added to this story but low and behold here is a whole different way of looking at those events of Novembe 22, 1963 by this man's story. Had his story gotten more publicity in 1963 I'm fairly certain that many people would be looking at the assassination in a different light.

  • @lloydgreen4242
    @lloydgreen4242 7 місяців тому

    What is Vietnam today? Are the people better off ? Who really lost? I

  • @michaelirizarry2276
    @michaelirizarry2276 9 місяців тому

    Vietnam was a beat down,that was given down.

  • @daviddelaney9885
    @daviddelaney9885 9 місяців тому

    He should know well about lying, he having done so constantly and without the slightest hesitation or regret. Johnson was unfit for the office. He seemed to enjoy playing a type role he thought a President should perform. There was something fundamentally unsound about the man.

  • @cqholland
    @cqholland 9 місяців тому

    Constant propaganda. Make bad presidents good presidents, Good presidents bad presidents. That's what you get with intellectuals Twisted facts Dominated by their opinion.

  • @cqholland
    @cqholland 9 місяців тому

    Constant propaganda. Make bad presidents good presidents, Good presidents bad presidents. That's what you get with intellectuals Twisted facts Dominated by their opinion.

  • @132indo
    @132indo 10 місяців тому

    LBJ was with a lady during this call. Listen carefully

  • @davidhickey1972
    @davidhickey1972 10 місяців тому

    HE WAS A DRUNK AND AMURDERE WOW

  • @jalbert222
    @jalbert222 11 місяців тому

    Nicole Hemmer, is, in my opinion a joke. She blindly espouses about that which she knows nothing. Today, 6/9/23, at the CNN website, she gave a 'history' of Pat Robertson, upon his passing. Everything about it was slanted and just plain wrong. She does not have a clue about who or what Pat Robertson was. She was not even alive, or maybe was in grade school', when he became popular. She sees him as a televangelist who brought in million of viewers and dollars, which is not what Pat was about. her background indicates solely that she is anti-conservative, which is her right. But she is not an historian. She is a propagandist. And she taught at U of Miami. Which says a lot about her. I am very familiar with U of M, and hiring experts and visionaries is not what UofM is about.

  • @vanpaul147
    @vanpaul147 11 місяців тому

    The biggest amount of bullshit in a single speech i have ever heard. Beside Hitler's equal bullshit

  • @Buckoux
    @Buckoux 11 місяців тому

    Oswald; The mother of all mass shooters. Their profiles are the same, white male, under 25 and mentally challenged. The exceptions prove the rule.

  • @lhsouthern1988
    @lhsouthern1988 11 місяців тому

    What about the channault papers at the lbj library

  • @filmsage007
    @filmsage007 Рік тому

    I’m still for The Great Society but less for Gulf on Tonkin

  • @tanhpham825
    @tanhpham825 Рік тому

    BBC ( chuyện nhà ho đừng nhân về mình)

  • @tanhpham825
    @tanhpham825 Рік тому

    BBC (chuyện nhà ho đừng nhân về mình)

  • @robertpolityka8464
    @robertpolityka8464 Рік тому

    Both Truman and LBJ chose "not to seek reelection" (1952 and 1968, respectively).. and they died less than a month apart.

  • @davidmoss4280
    @davidmoss4280 Рік тому

    Lee Harvey Oswald was such a loner, starting from early life when his brothers had left home and his mother was working, he was left to his own devices, playing truant, as a young adult he didn’t get along with people, his work colleagues, his mother and even his wife, Marina, whom he would constantly argue with and beat up. He was unhappy with life and couldn’t settle anywhere and wasn’t afraid to let people who stood in his way know.

    • @paulanddianathomas3376
      @paulanddianathomas3376 3 місяці тому

      You are so wrong about Oswald.

    • @davidmoss4280
      @davidmoss4280 3 місяці тому

      @@paulanddianathomas3376 You can’t say somebody is wrong about a subject without supportive evidence, and I can assure you that anything I say about Oswald can be substantiated, my information is from sworn testimony given by official figures and key witnesses. Most people haven’t got a clue about Oswald’s personality, his antisocial behaviour, his attempt to murder General Walker, his wife beating, he utters the words “I’m just a patsy” and people say “poor Oswald has been framed”, well the evidence tells a different story. Whilst in New York as a 13 year old he was remanded in Youth House , a psychiatric observation unit for continued truancy , the chief psychiatrist Dr Renatus Hartogs described him in his testimony as, emotionally disturbed, cold, detached, passive aggressive,withdrawn, anxious, awkward and the product of a broken home, other staff in the home gave similar reports. His wife Marina tells her story of her beatings and bullying from Oswald in her book “Marina and Lee” (pricilla Johnson mcmillan) which is well worth reading, and many friends from the Russian community in the US testified to seeing his bullying and seeing the bruises on her face. His work colleagues even testified that he was a loner and didn’t have 2 words to say, and so anything I say about him is not my opinion it is from the people who knew him , reliable sources, and certainly not from a conspiracy book.

  • @bwanna23
    @bwanna23 Рік тому

    Before there was a North and South Vietnam, there was just Vietnam. Once the fall of South Vietnam happened there was once again just Vietnam.

    • @debbiebrantley61
      @debbiebrantley61 10 місяців тому

      Yeah abs the south was always gonna fall bc most of them sympathized with the north,of course our military was way more powerful,but you can’t change people beliefs & mindsets that way.even if the north had been completely wiped out the south would’ve fell as soon as we left

  • @briandillon8041
    @briandillon8041 Рік тому

    What a crock of shit

  • @adusabubeker2611
    @adusabubeker2611 Рік тому

    Minutes To Minutes Hour To Hour DAY To Day Week To Week Mounth To Month YEAR To YEAR Unendelss Promise

  • @Cullark
    @Cullark Рік тому

    While there have been 46 Presidencies, there have only been 45 "individuals" to be POTUS---which I am reluctantly including the asterisk to history between the 44th & 46th POTUS.

  • @TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy
    @TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy Рік тому

    This from the library of a guy who Divided a young wife and Mother Permanently from her husband. Shameful

  • @kennypool
    @kennypool Рік тому

    If you want political biased reports listen to this. All Trump all evil all the time. Funny how the border was closed the economy was great no wars killing millions

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas6335 Рік тому

    Frank has a lot of interesting things to say, although they'd be better delivered if he'd slow down and deliver them in a less breathless and frantic manner.

  • @Eddie-In-Las-Vegas
    @Eddie-In-Las-Vegas Рік тому

    Biden and his campaign for the run of U.S. presidency was corrupt by inception. The Hunter Biden laptop information clearly exposes the Bidens in corrupt dealings with foreign countries while Joe Biden was serving his term as Vice President under Obama. These findings were then muddied up by former 3 letter alphabet agency members voicing their OPINIONS as fact stating the laptop recovery and its information inside of it was part of a Russian planted disinformation campaign against Biden. This is clearly a cover up and cleanup operation done by Joe.Biden.and his campaign to fool the voting public and.steer their attention away from the laptop discovery and the details it contained within. Censoring of this subject was then carried out by the social media technocrats who have a secret allegiance and unspoken oath towards the Democrat party.

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas6335 Рік тому

    Enlightening and informative talk. Very interesting! It does leave out one simple analysis of the Kennedy men - they were just irresistibly, fatally glamorous.

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas6335 Рік тому

    Terrific interview. Califano is a wonderful storyteller and a valuable insight into the enigma that was Johnson. I'd like to see Califano and Robert Caro together in an interview - or hear Califano's interpretation of Caro's books. That would really be interesting. Schieffer is a delight as always.

  • @BellyBoy86
    @BellyBoy86 Рік тому

    LBJ only 47 years old here

  • @richardrosenthal7241
    @richardrosenthal7241 Рік тому

    Thank you Lyndon

  • @fleipeg
    @fleipeg Рік тому

    Just came across this video and really enjoyed it. Thank you.

  • @dstorm7752
    @dstorm7752 Рік тому

    Sure, there was corruption in the Nixon Administration, but nothing like working with Twitter to suppress a laptop scandal in order to interfere with the 2020 election.

  • @jacobstopper3804
    @jacobstopper3804 Рік тому

    First

  • @deborahrhoades1577
    @deborahrhoades1577 Рік тому

    He never got the credit he deserved in aiding in the end of the Cold War. Reagan could not have been as successful if Gorbachev had not been the leader of the USSR at the time.

  • @XanaduAsia
    @XanaduAsia Рік тому

    When you lose credibility, you can't get it back. Nobody believed the administration after 1967. So needless...

  • @dariduprey7572
    @dariduprey7572 Рік тому

    Very powerful

  • @TheStobb50
    @TheStobb50 Рік тому

    Probably one of the most important politicians of the second half of the 20th century the man had a wisdom and he was right about Putin

  • @aekpdx105
    @aekpdx105 Рік тому

    There will come a day when history will stand by Gorbachev as one of the most important personalities of the twentieth century who loved his people and loved humanity. I would not expect small-minded people to comprehend the ideas of this great man until a disaster occurred.

  • @metu5818
    @metu5818 Рік тому

    This made me cry, for Jackie and JFK’s aides. 😢

  • @shovelhead4558
    @shovelhead4558 Рік тому

    A great man will never forget his setting his people amazing.

  • @kennypool
    @kennypool Рік тому

    This guy's hatred for Trump, is a real disappointment. His book is obviously biased

    • @oscodains
      @oscodains Рік тому

      If you can’t accept any criticism of trump, at all, it’s time to reassess. People are not perfect, people are not gods. EVERYONE has bias. As former director of the Richard Nixon Library, I’d say they have a solid perspective of the issues. And this is the Lyndon B Johnson Library. Johnson was perhaps the definition of the modern democratic party.

    • @kennypool
      @kennypool Рік тому

      @@oscodains You don't have a clue about Johnson if you think he was part of "the modern democratic party". Try reading a book or two.

    • @oscodains
      @oscodains Рік тому

      @@kennypool i’ve read the books and listened to hours of tapes. Today’s party started with LBJ.

    • @kennypool
      @kennypool Рік тому

      @@oscodains Educate yourself and enjoy several great videos by Robert Caro on LBJ. These are absolutely fabulous, Caro knows more about LBJ than anyone on the planet.

    • @oscodains
      @oscodains Рік тому

      @@kennypool Ive read his books.

  • @pierrecabot
    @pierrecabot Рік тому

    You have to indicate the date of the conversation, this is common sense

  • @richarddiffley796
    @richarddiffley796 Рік тому

    Remember what a bully he was!

  • @wano2363
    @wano2363 Рік тому

    So the president didn't watch it till hours later?

  • @mustafadollar6528
    @mustafadollar6528 Рік тому

    ❤️❤️❤️😊

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 Рік тому

    Fantastic president.

  • @tony84.
    @tony84. Рік тому

    12:59, The Johnson treatment in full force!

  • @stephencarter7266
    @stephencarter7266 Рік тому

    Very soothing voice.

  • @roscomeon3965
    @roscomeon3965 Рік тому

    My favourite historian. Her book a Team of Rivals is just overwhelming in its study of Lincoln and his government. An outstanding book.