Medicare was literally a life-saver for the elderly in this country. My Dad told a story about how in 1962 my grandfather was rushed to the hospital with a bleeding ulcer. He needed immediate blood transfusions and a operation. Before the doctor would do anything, he asked the family "how are you going to pay for this?" My dad had to rush to the bank for an emergency loan, and lay down the cash. Before they would do anything for my grandfather. That's what it was like in the pre-Medicare days. LBJ had plans to follow-up Medicare for the elderly, with a Medicare-for-all program. But the AMA's opposition to Medicare for seniors had been so virulent, that LBJ new a Medicare for all program would never make it.

Another way LBJ shaped history was when he left his tape recorder still hooked up in the desk drawer for his successor

My favorite fact about Lyndon Johnson: he was a teacher.

Vietnam Really Overshadowed Him

Bryan Cranston is such a great actor. Loved him in Malcolm in the middle and Breaking Bad. Would loved to have seen this.

If LBJ pulled out of the war at least in 1966 or 1967 he would have been a better president

LBJ was the perennial politician. also the epitome of a Greek tragedy.

I admire Lincoln the most of any president but LBJ and Nixon were by far the most fascinating men to hold the office. So much good mixed with so much bad. You can find yourself admiring them in one breath before finding them deplorable in the next.

It confirms what I've been saying all along- Johnson was one of the greatest presidents, so sad he could not drop the Vietnam war.

It’s shocking how many Americans have no idea, or desire to know how awesome LBJ really was.

I read some comments here. Some are credible but some are plain conspiracy theories.

Hollywood will always try to replicate the southern accent but they will always look foolish trying.

LBJ nearly passed on running for the 1964 election. Many of his advisors questioned his mental health. I believe he was manic depressive, claiming all was lost at the end of the day and in the morning acting as though nothing happened.

In a weird way, maybe what we need is a congressional insider to become President again. They'd actually be able to get things passed!

Rip John Lewis

Wow, I did NOT see Cranston there. I honestly thought that LBJ had lived longer than I thought.

We can learn a lot from LBJ's great achievements - and his mistakes. But he was right about the really big things and a much bigger man than today's leaders: "It is wrong… deadly wrong to deny any of your fellows Americans the right to vote in this country.”

Lyndon Baines Johnson was business partner, friends, and political Ally with David Harold Bryd who owned the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building on November 22, 1963. David Harold Bryd was a big financial supporter of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Bryd made a lot of money off the Vienam War.

Tom Hanks need to do a President Johnson movie!!!

Every president does a fair share of good, bad, and ugly during their terms. This applies to the current president. 36 and 45 were and are men who enjoy power but lack self-restraint. To them power was a drug that they can not get enough of, but one that destroys a person from within and the people around them. A great lesson to teach our kids to not be.

I just saw one of his campaign ads with Daisy. It was shocking lol. It really showed his intense character.

Cranston does about as good a job of physically resembling LBJ, as anyone could. His voice & mannerisms aren't quite there, though.

I was neutral on whether or not LBJ was a great man and president, but after studying 5 books which the authors knew Johnson and knew him very well, I'm finding that very hard to do.

For those who want to give JFK credit for the formation of the 1964 Civil Rights legislation, and cast LBJ as a a bigot, consider this. Between Reconstruction and 1964, there were three civil rights bills with any teeth that were not killed in committee or not allowed for a vote on the floor of Congress -- 1957, 1960, and 1964. In all three cases, it was LBJ, as one of the leaders of the Senate and then as President, who spearheaded the legislation, twisted the arms, counted the votes, and overcame the alliance of Southern Democrats and some conservative Republicans who has successfully opposed such efforts for almost 100 years. By doing so, he faced the wrath of his fellow Democrats, and greatly hindered his chances for election to national office. In the case of the first two bills, JFK was not a factor, as he authored little legislation as a Senator. LBJ was not a bigot, or he never would have made these efforts. In 1964, he could have just let the bill slide, as virtually everyone else had. He used immense amounts of political capital to get the bill passed. A bigot, indeed.

I'll trade you one civil right for one flood prevention.

He knew he couldn’t win Vietnam, yet continued to let young Americans die.

Everybody criticized him for his handling of the Vietnam War, but besides that, he was a mighty president. He’s even 10 on the official list of greatest presidents. He signed the civil rights act, he did much more, he was great. Stop talking about his handling of the war.

The number of coincidences between JFK and Abraham Lincoln is extraordinary. The fact that both were replaced by Southern Democrats of the surname Johnson after assassination is just the tip of the iceberg

Lyndon B. Johnson is Literally 100 years older than me

say what you will, but LBJ was like most of us, in the sense that he tried to do his best, his intentions were good, he used every mean that was disposable to him, but is that so different from what each of us would do?

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Saw Cranston in the movie,would love to see him in another about the rest of LBJ's presidency/life (but it would probably be agonizing to portray)

How far we've sank...

LBJ gets harsh treatment for the Vietnam war, which was definitely wrong thing to do, but he did so much good maybe one day we'll remember the good over the bad

He is the last sitting President who did not seek reelection. That's the tragedy...

He did what Kennedy got credit for!

People don't know what LBJ really thought about blacks.

I think LBJ would easily be top 5 presidents if Vietnam didn’t happen

LBJ was a Horse Trader, traded his soul for the Voting Rights Act. The Brown & Root Bros got their contracts in Military base construction projects in Southeast Asia..... But Johnson demonstrated that he understood precisely how Horses were traded in the Senate...... After all that, the Appropriations Committee was out of funds, for fighting a War on Poverty...... Still a mess of poor folks in West Texas.....

the war on poverty was also a Kennedy program.

Today, LBJ ranks quite high among presidential studies - averaging between 15th and 17th - somewhere on par with Clinton, Reagan and Obama (source- wikipedia presidential rankings) Had it not been for the disaster of Vietnam and the urban violence, I reckon he would be in the Top 10 I am British and read the excellent Robert Dallek biography at university - Johnson is definitely one of the most interesting US Presidents Of course we have our own Johnson now

brilliant deal-maker and arm-twister. less than ideal chief executive

Ah LBJ, Kennedy's failed second term!

Vietnam was a terrible blight on LBJ's legacy. It however does not negate all the good that was done by him. I think that he gets a raw deal. He was a very intelligent and savvy president. The Vietnam conflict was inherited from the Kennedy administration. It was upgraded to a full blown war during his. I really think it became a huge mess that he wasn't sure how to get out of without America losing face and creating another communist enemy. The things done during that conflict still haunt America today. I don't think anyone behaved well in regards to the war. Not the citizenry of the US or the government. It is a scar on our history all the way around. I don't think that the lessons of that conflict have been learned. tje war in Iraq anf Afganistan is a perfect example. American lives lost for no real gain. We could use someone like Johnson in the White House now especially when you consider the idiot thats there now.

Oh wow

A bit like Tony Blair and Iraq. Blair was a great Premier - very smart, significant domestic achievements - but his legacy will always be overshadowed by Iraq

Who knew!!! I sure as heck didn’t know this about LBJ!!! He is amazing!!

You know Bryan does actually kinda look like LBJ but I can only see him as Heisenberg lol

On balance, a great and significant president.

Did he repeat?

I like Johnson, warts and all. He did his best.

The shame and surprise when I heard the story of one of his racist outbursts directed at his black driver. And LBJ was in or is in the top 5-6 most consequential presidents. Unfortunately, so is Trump

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We live right next to the Knightsbridge in Thames we sail and get our own bread because parents were Old. He knows most Americans men feels like Old.

Those Signs should never been there in the first place

Have to believe this was a good man who was a prisoner to behind the scenes power. He knew the war was wrong but anti poverty and Civil Rights were good things. So with the bitter we take the sweet. Was a great time to grow up ,seeing history unfold on b&w TV.

Correct me if I am wrong. Didn’t LBJ create HUD ? The agency that funded Housing Projects ? I’ve seen plenty of such buildings erected in the 50’s that were meant for Housing Projects. Who hot it started ?

First guy kinda sounds like forest gump

Our grandchildren are going to be watching documentaries on Trump in 60 years. We're living in a unique time right now

His First banch

I thought the Voting Rights Act only affected a few number of areas (mainly deep south) none of which went to Obama?

I wish he wouldn't of dove into vietnam 😔 god be with him. I always had a little suspicion that he might of been inn on the Kennedy assassination but that might be untrue.

He nailed it! --although Dumbo would've looked more the part. Every time I look at LBJ I'm fixated on those ears.

He looks more like Bush Senior

If JFKs last words were How could anyone mistake me for LBJ...

God bless them soul's 😎🌍😇

How was this man freinds with j edgar hoover?

LBJ did what he had to do as president. He was like a clown at a rodeo riding a bull. It finally knocked him off.

There are a lot of stories with regards to the suppression of the 1st amendment of WW II & Korean War veterans, when he basically started the Vietnam War,

We are Texans too. My grandparents remembered how he cussin’ a lot ha! Lady Bird was very gracious and she have cleaned up America. It was so eyesore with bunch of highway billboards. Cars junkyard was showing. Dirty rivers and more. It looks so much better than before. The Johnsons have visited people in distress with hungry kids. And got them immediately assistance and jobs in their region. And Vietnam war was very unpopular and U.S. government had no right to draft young men. If Vietnam wants to be a communist country. It’s their business not ours until 1973 Nixon pulled everybody out and discontinued in 1975. It resulted lot of unnecessary deaths including citizens of Vietnam. And LBJ had three heart attacks and died in San Antonio when his plane landed for local hospital.

1) Decolonization of Africa in the 1960s, Caribean crisis, growing discontent of the nations made literally the half of the world Soviet, so the participation of States in Vietnam war was unavoidable as part of the cold war, the thing is that the increase of troops should be stopped at some point, when it was clear that the war can't be won 2) Paid medicine is still an issue in the USA, going to a dentist or just calling an ambulance to deliver you to the hospital can cost you third of the average american salary. Having this as a real problem for all the Americans, some people draw their attention to some extra radical feminists, BLM and LGBT rights, it looks to me as a disguise from real problems to the country

Lyndon Baines Johnson 27/08/1908 22/01/1973

onviously no one read Roger Stone bio gave his friends defense contracrts and escalated vietnam lnj

Everyone should be aware of what good work he did and realize Nam was not caused by him

the real Lyndon Baines Johnson was a damn monster

Plus side: Civil rights. Minus side: Vietnam War.

John Lewis looks like Levar Burton

Rest in peace John Lewis

Why he was cross sectioned into the civil rights movement he had no choice but to yield

Why are non southerners always cast to play southerners? It’s always cartoonish and takes me out of the performance

Very #OverActory ...Sorry, #BryanCranston You are no #LBJ

8:49: I totally agree

Kennedy s civil rights bill would have passed anyway but I think it would have taken a little longer but I love LBJ for passing Kennedy s programs.

Imagine what LBJ could have done if not for the war.

Bobby asked him once why he killed J.F.K.. Don't know his reply. A marine once told me our troops weren't allowed to bomb the oil fields in Nam. After he was sworn in on the plane he turned to Jackie and asked her to move out of the WH right away.

N I >< O N

we all know who had to die with help from lbj people do not forget

Supporting civil rights on one hand while putting into motion the mechanisms that created the welfare system. Two-faced.

Might As Well Search For Neville Chamberlain

I only wish the Vietnam War wasn't a taint on his legacy. He was such a great President the likes of Teddy Roosevelt and FDR. The fact that he was able to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the Republicans help was a milestone. I don't care what anyone says he will be regarded as one of the best Presidents in American history despite his flaws.

Bro I wish he would stop hanging his mouth wide open when he talked like that like he was extremely confused and his mind was gone when the real lbj obviously didn't talk like that

Johnson's "War on Poverty" destroyed the black family.

This stuff is great and all, but the black poverty rate was completely stunted by Johnson's policies and since the 1964 civil rights act black single motherhood has gone from below 20% to near 75%. I would have liked a less politically biased approach to this one.

He express with FBI and then greatest mistake of his life

What a rehab job...

President Kennedy could have done all that if u ask me i think those were Kennedy idea's

Johnson was a greater president than he's been given credit for. Ending segregation was no small feat, and you add to that Medicare & Medicaid, and the voting rights act. LBJ did a lot to help millions of people.

LBJ was Hamlet and MacBeth rolled into one with predictable outcome.

my favourite president. noone would have handled vietnam well. it was, well, a mess. he did so much good for america

Johnson a great president !