and he got it. >> host: march 30, lbj announces, april 4, martin luther king's killed engine six, i believe rfk is assassinated, what was going on on the republican side? >> guest: think about what you just recited their. anyone of those events in any other presidential election would be the single visit-- biggest event inside that presidential election. the incumbent president drops out and decides not to run in the mill of the campaign. that would have been historically the biggest events that happened in the presidential campaign and is so one of the fears that i had when i was approaching the writing of this book is boy, the republican side is boring. what am i going to do? they are boring guys in a boring story. only if you were a high school kid in 1968, watching you think that. now,-- that's what i was. now that i have gone back and found out what was really going on on the republican side it was a very dramatic standalone story all by itself. the books first sentence is, richard nixon meeting roger ailes in the makeup chair of the mike douglas show, which changes our politic

i love reading those books. we've had different ones from lbj and andrew jackson but one of the books i want to read now is the geography of genius. why is that important? as an example why is it that you have the 21st century silicon valley separated by thousands of miles but also thousands of years apart so you have this innovation creativity and now you look at the silicon valley also and have this innovation creativity so it looks into what happens and what is the catalyst in certain areas, so it is not only athyn and silicon valley but you have different cities and different continents and that's what's interesting to me. >> to focus on reading history books or do you have any other interest when you read the? >> i love history and i am also i have to say a sci-fi fan from reading the princess of mars many years ago to of course not only reading the books but also think they turned it into the movie john parker to star trek and some of the other science-fiction but i love history and i know back in high school and college to me it was important because you look at it the wh

from lbj to recently andrew jackson. one of the books i want to read now is one called the geography of jen -- genius. why do you have silicone valley and acceptbrated by thousands of miles and years apart? what is it you had this innovation, creativity in athens many years ago and now you look at silicone valley also and you have this innovation creativity so it looks into what happens? what is the catalyst in certain areas. it is not only athens, silicone valley, but you have different places across time in different cities and continents and that is what is interesting to me. >> your main focus is on reading history book? or do you have any other interests when you read? >> i love history. i love also self-improvement. but i have to say i am a science fiction fan from reading "the princess to mars" many years ago to reading the book and i think they turned it into movies. john carter from star trek and the other science fiction. i love history. i know that back in high school and back even in college some of my classmates didn't like history but it was important to me. if you look at

records that were left behind by jack kennedy and lbj and the great society. it was the era before the computer key pad, by the way. the computer key pad took away one of the great fun of writing speeches. it noose noise to it. ... .... >> royalty, fidelities or ideas and personal conviction. we enjoy the path and when we are here, pat and shelly would visit and the old man would be so happy to have pat there and the room was full of laughter and all the political gossip it would bring from washington and battles they had and stories tay worked on, the inside and the president would ask pat what was going on and share stories. was a lot of fun to watch their intersection but we have fun and it wasn't all work and that's because of pat's humor and joy of why he made it so-so pat welcome to the left coast especially glad to have you -- especially glad to have you back in the house. with the old man's name on it and maybe we can suit up and turn this country around. huh? [applause] [music] [music] >>> thank you. thank you very much ken. i can still remember him coming down through columbi

social unrest and vietnam war and frankly the wreckage that was left behind by jack kennedy and lbj and the great society. it was it era before the computer key pad by the way. computer key pad took away one of the great fun of writing speeches. computer key pad had had no noise to it. we had ibm typewriters back then. ibm typewriters made a lot of noise. and some of the speech writers like ray price we could headache the type sing when pat was working he could make the typewriter smoke. [laughter] i can remember because i shared the office with him the last year and a half, and i can remember next door when he was working on a speech, because he had his speeches always ones that were a little more on the attack side. that rat-a-tat when he was wielding the strongest weapon in the world, his word, and i was always trying to emulate that. but to hear that ibm typewriter just boom, boom, boom just knew that he was ponging out something that was going to be very important. he left his mark of loyalty to the man on this building but equally important -- he leaves loyalty to ideas and pe

and the vietnam war and frankly the wreckage that was left behind by jack kennedy and lbj and the great society. it was the year before the computer keypad, by the way. of the computer keypad took away one of the great fun of writing speeches. the computer keypad has no noise to it. we had ibm typewriters back then. ibm typewriters made a lot of noise and some of the speechwriters like ray price could make the typewriter singh. when pat was working he could make the typewriter smoke. [laughter] >> i can remember because i shared the office with him the last year and a half and i can remember next door when he was working on a speech because he had his speeches were always the one that were on the attack aside, that rat attack when he was building the strongest weapon in the world, his words. i was always trying to do more-- emulate that, but to hear that typewriter boom, boom, boom, you just knew pat was pounding out something i would be important. he left his mark of loyalty to the man whose name is on this building, deeply important he leaves loyalty and fidelity to ideas and pe

house. but then when lbj came in and he hired this gay guy named yoshioka moto, a civilian who really was the first one to document for history everything that johnson did area and he set the bar so high, okay moto did that i think everyone has been trying to reach his level ever sense. >> how do you get a gig like that? >> i think it's different for each photographer. for me, i got to meet then senator obama. actually his first day in the senate. i was working for the chicago tribune, his own newspaper based in dc and got this assignment that documented his first year in the senate. so i got to know him, he got to know me, he like my pictures, you like the way i work. i used a small footprint, try not to stir disturbed what was taking place. so when he was elected president, he asked me to become his white house photographer. >> how many pictures in the eight years you take up president obama? >> i kind of know. >>. >> i just don't know if i would've had a guess. i would've said 300,000, 400,000. so just under 2 million. but when you add up, there's sometimes seven days a week. and i

lbj and andrew jackson that one of the books i want to read now is one called the geography of genius by eric wiener. for an example you have the century celebrated by thousands of miles and also thousands of years apart so we have this innovation creativity many years ago and now we look at silicon valley also inhabit this innovation and creativity so what is the catalyst in certain areas. because different places in different cities and different continents and that is what is interesting to me. >> do you focus on reading the history books or do you have any other interest when you read a. >> from reading the princess of mars to the princess of mars and john carter, star trac and of tf course some of the other science fiction i love history. back in high school to me it was most important. it's a matter of rearranging things. it's all a matter of rearranging things. if you look at history there is a lot of ideas that you can look now, create a new niche and come up with a new idea therefore you spark and innovation and creativity. it will give you the summaries of books and you can

fdr. either nixon nor lbj were particularly will sony and, you are quite right. and in the book i do have reservations for this people. on the other hand, nobody talked so stridently against, in other words they would engage in open economies worldwide. >> it's shocking. he has begun to reverse himself. good. just like the fleet to going towards north korea reversed itself and headed towards australia. [laughter] 's event my second quickest question is, could you define the difference between capitalism and corporatism and give us some idea of how it the fact-- affects democracy and how we live today? >> that is a hard question. i would say the capitalism can be of many different tugs in many different countries. there can be small capitalism and there can be corporate corporate capitalism has the capacity to go multinational, to be global. that is the point to begin to find the cheapest resources. if they pollute, that's up to the local people. to pay the lowest wages, well it's not unionized. if they park their profits abroad because bringing it home means tax it is for the corpora

back to the capital. they got out of the race and then began what they called crazy march. lbj didn't even have his name on the ballot. then after that happened to be one of course the landslide and after that happened, bobby kennedy in the senate went through the same senate room where jack kennedy declared for president declared for the nomination around march 17 a few days after new hampshire and then richard nixon had me at the end of march waiting at an airport in laguardia to report on what lyndon johnson said on the speech in vietnam and i'm waiting in that limousine and listening to a. of the nation's capital on the steps of the capitol itself. this is what was going on in that spring. then came oregon, presidents nixon. so reagan didn't get in. so there was a convention hotel that night was may 28 we went to celebrate because we won big and early. the interesting thing of that night is the first he'd been beaten in the first race since world war ii and bobby kennedy was coming up from california. we went down to the front of the bench hotel. when an aide of mine called

what you want them to do. >> dr. king and lbj when its came to the voting rights act. when you say activism is an necessity when you think about this democracy, we saw young people out there, we saw young people take to the streets. the new activism, the new, guess, civil rights for this -- when its came to issues of the injustice, when we saw black boys and black girls killed on the streets in some of the cities like baltimore, ferguson, north charleston, that -- so many different places. we're not seeing the activism we saw a few -- it's only been 100-plus days. we're not seeing that today. what is going on? >> a few elements to this, and i think first is, let's not get twisted -- not that the police have stopped killing people. not problems that are were solved and we're not seeing it. the "washington post" keeps a database in real time of people who are killed by the police because the government fails to track that data accurately. and i believe, if i remember correctly today we recorded our 399th person shot and killed by the police in 2017. on average between two and three p

but you have to make them do what you want them to do. >> dr. king with lbj when it dime the voting rights act. when you saw, activism is a necessity when you think about this democracy, we saw young people take to the streets. the new activism, the new civil rights for this day when it came to issues of the engines when we sauer our black boys and black girls killed on the streets in cities like baltimore, like ferguson, north charleston. baton rouge. so many different places. what is happening now? because we're not seeing the activism we saw just a few -- it's only been 100 plus days. we're not seeing that today. what's going on? >> of course there are few elements to this. think first is, let's not get twisted. it's not that the police have stopped killing people. not as if these were problem that were solved and we're not seeing it. we are -- my colleagues and i at the "washington post" keep a database in real time of people who are killed by police because the government fails to track that dat accurately. i believe, if i remember crequely, earlier today we recorded our 399th

the author, and i love reading those books. we haven't ones from lbj, and andrew jackson. one of the books i want to read now is one called the geography of genius, by eric weiner, why is that important? why its that you have ancient athens, and the 21st century silicon valley? they were separated by not only thousands of miles but also thousands of years apart. so what is it that you have the innovation, creativity, in athens many years ago and now you look at silicon valley also and you have this innovation creativity, so it looks into what happens, what sparks, what's the catalyst. so not only athens, silicon valley but you have different places across time and different cities and different continents and that's what is interesting to me. >> your main focus on reading history books or do you have any other interests when you read? >> i love history. i love also -- i'm a sci-fi fan. from reading the princes of mars many years ago, to of course, not only reading the book but also the princes of mars, they turned it into a movie, john carter, and of course, "star trek" and some of t

different ones from lbj and jackson and so one is the geography of genius. why is that important? why is it in ancient athens in the 21st century silicon valley? not only separated by thousands of miles but thousands of years? with creation and creativity but now you look at silicon valley with this innovation and creativity. so what is that catalyst and that certain area? so you have different places across time and that is what is interesting to me. >> you have history books?. >> i love history i also love harriet tubman but i am a fan for reading maya princess a few years ago of course, the books the princess of mars they turned that into a movie but i love history and back it high-school and even in college to me it was important because if you look at that it was of matter to rearrange things it was always a matter of rearranging things looking at history there is a lot of ideas to create a new niche and a new idea with a new innovation in your creativity. >> so what's he doing too bad reading into your schedule?. >> i love thee ipad with different paths so i look at what is out the