This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

Continuing with Professor William Taubman, Bill Taubman,

of Amherst College with his brother Philip Taubman, and published aman, of Amherst College, with his brother Philip Taubman,

have published a new book about McNamaran War.

It's revelatory, however, of the whole of the catastrophe of Vietnam.

In addition, it tells us a deal about the Kennedy administration and the Johnson administration

that this poor reader has never seen before, and I believe

there is information here that no one's seen before about the relationship of the

cognoscenti, the elite of the Kennedy years and the Johnson years, which tend to have

overlaps.

We begin, however, with the man at the center now, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who never expected to be president.

He was morose as vice president because his job he thought in his life was to be number one.

He's born to a man named Sam and a mother named Rebecca.

That relationship, Rebecca and Sam, are something that is inside Lyndon and Baines Johnson,

so he recognizes the astute learning as a good thing.

His mother had that.

And he also recognizes people who push hard. His father had that. But something happened

on the way to the rich house. They wound up in a poor house. Why, Bill? Continuing the story

of McNamara, we have to explore Lyndon Johnson. Why did the Johnson family lose its money? How did it

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