Note: While Wilson and Eisenhower were each born in the South (Virginia and Texas respectively), they were both mainly associated with other areas of the country and weren't considered Southern politicians.

Yo,suggestion:A video on the rise and fall and rise of Harry Truman,how he was a nobody,became president,made the most difficult decisions,got blamed for the Korean war,was so unpopular when he left office,yet his legacy rehabilitated and he is known as one of the best presidents

The Movie All The Way with Bryan Cranston is a perfect representation of LBJ and the civil rights movement. Highly recommend.

A friend of mine once said, "The Johnson who said the n word did more for African-American rights than the one who didn't."

I personaly think of nixon as the most interesting post WW2 president. He's trurly a real life figure of a tragic play, man chasing ambition and wanting to build a lasting legacy, who flights to close to the sun and suffers the worst and most poetic fall out of the moder president.

Just discovered you!!! I am SO GLAD someone can cover late 20th century political history in such an objective and easily digestable way!!! You've earned a sub!!!!!

LBJ is truly a fascinating man. Although his racism and personal demeanor really suck sometimes, some of his ideals are really noble. His quote “it is not just Negreos but all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry”, really says something about him. I think he understood his biases and always wanted to be better than them, a principle we can all live up to.

Congratulations on the first sponsor!!! The video was amazing as is every video. Lbj is just a titan of American politics

One of the lessons of Caro’s books on LBJ is that the vast majority of politicians are not interested in politics. In LbJ’s time and now. … We shall overcome.

Note: I didn't add that terrifying music on the Antebellum South clip. That was already there (rightfully so).

Footnote: There was a 2/3rds rule that was in place for the Democratic Conventions from 1832 to 1932. This rule required a Presidential Nominee for the Democratic President to have the support of 2/3rds of the delegates. This rule forced the Democrats to essentially choose "compromise candidates", someone who can appeal (or not be too offensive) to both the Northern Liberals and the Southern Conservatives. Sometimes, there were compromises or concessions made to get a faction to support a nominee. For example, promising a candidate a Cabinet Post or maybe even Vice President. Cleveland, Wilson, and FDR were the only Presidents from 1869 to 1932, that were from the Democratic Party. FDR eliminated the rule in 1936, which made his nomination for a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th term easier. Truman won the Presidential Nomination in 1948, because of his incumbency. Stevenson won the nomination in 1952 because he was Truman's choice for a successor. 1960, showed JFK winning the nomination, by winning the primaries. LBJ ascended to the Presidency, through "the back door".

My favorite president. His policies are eternal. A giant of history. He did many mistakes, but also did great things for America and for the world.

Just discovered this channel and I have to say this is amazing content . The telling of unbiased US history and political history is something that is sorely lacking these days! Well deserved follow and keep it up to a million subs !

This is important stuff, André. You're doing work that generations have toiled to teach nationally. Keep it up, son.

Great video dude, he's such an important figure who still touches our lives today.

Yours is an excellent channel. I hope the growth continues. Young people should learn about this stuff through the lens you provide

Such a great video! Greetings from a fellow Brazilian :)

I can't wait for the final LBJ book, I think it's likely to completely rewrite the popular understanding of Johnson's presidency.

“My boy has a sponsor”, looks like he’s slowly crawling his way towards the upper echelon of youtube, mrbeast better start preparing his farewell speech, we’re coming for you 😅

Amazing video. I’m a political commentator/creator and I’m also a big history buff. I really enjoy your videos and they inspire me to make more political videos and even sometimes history videos. Keep up the good work brother.

you're now my favorite history channel. Even better than History Channel circa 2005

Please keep doing this series, it’s fantastic.

Loving the content!

This was so good I immediately replayed it as soon as it finished the first time.

I love your stuff! Your very underrated. Your editing, the way you explain it is awesome!

Been binging your video lately and i've enjoyed each one. Look forward to more videos like these!

Just found this channel a few days ago and it is becoming one of my favorite on KZfaq! Your videos (especially this one) are really well put together.

The quality and perspective your videos provide are immense. Keep up the hard and good work and you'll achieve great things!

The algorithm recommend your channel to me last week and I’m so glad it did! Top tier research and production quality. I’ve been watching a lot of your videos since then. Glad to see you gaining subscribers! Keep up the great work!!

I can't help but feel your channel will continue to be on the up and up. Incredibly well put together doccumentaries which include such a clear demonstration of knowledge and care. This video perfectly illustrates why Johnson is my favourite President. Many percieve it as a negative but I love seeing ambition unchained and shrewd maneuvering in politicians - people who know what there is to be done and how to achieve it. He's such a fascinating figure, and if it wasn't for the major (and impossible to ignore) blemish which is the Vietnam War I think LBJ would be the universal exemplar of a President. Playing for time and patience seems to be so under appreciated in a contemporary setting but I see it as the marker of someone who knows how to achieve what they need.

One of the most interesting presidents we’ve had

love your vids, keep up your passion!

Loving your videos on presidents

I discovered your channel this week and I've already watched several videos. You certainly have a great future as a video producer, you have the ability to transmit knowledge with good timing, without exaggeration, being funny, a great soundtrack in the background, images, information. Congratulations André, much love from Brazil.

good job bro, keep doing it

I have to give you all the respect in the world and say you are an unbelievable content creator. Wishing you nothing but success in the future and you deserve every view and subscriber coming your way!

Fantastic video!

God I cant wait for the next Caro book. Great video.

You have made some great videos including this. Would have liked to see the exact changes after the civil rights act, and the reaction to it tho.

Great video, and great music!

While John F. Kennedy was known for his speeches, Johnson was known for his actual policy results. What Johnson lacked in terms of Kennedy's polish, he made up for with devastating political instincts. Johnson's domineering, non-compassionate persona combined with his legislative know-how enabled him to implement a policy record the scope of which rivaled FDR's New Deal. Kennedy gave us timeless quotes, but Johnson gave us new laws in the statute books.

Just found this channel from the recommended fucking love the videos been a while since I've seen a channel this bingeable.

Great video, really inspiring me to read Caro's LBJ volumes

These videos are actually incredibly interesting and really well put together! I’d agree that Johnson is one of the most complex characters in American history, and I’d love to more videos on other interesting presidents, specifically James Garfield, who I think had potential to be a great president had he not been shot.

I personally never gave Lyndon Johnson enough credit, and had no idea of his upbringing and personal challenges he faced and overcame to get to where he was by 1960. Truly an American story, the 1960 presidential ticket, the young, clean cut, calculated, Northern John F. Kennedy and experienced, ambitious, Southern Lyndon B. Johnson coming together to unite the Democratic Party (for the most part) many things were done during the Kennedy administration’s time in office. What followed Kennedy’s assassination in November, 1963 and Johnson’s election as president in 1964 was truly remarkable, his passing of the Civil Rights Act that year fundamentally changed the lives of millions facing racial segregation in the South. While the battle to demolish the old racist antebellum ways was slow going, it’s thanks to 36th President Lyndon Johnson for the laying of the important groundwork. His courage and commitment to upholding his predecessor’s legacy by passing that very act, I often wonder if this important moment would’ve been squandered had it been another politician in his shoes. It is very sad that his legacy was significantly tarnished by his administration’s rather poor handling of the conflict in Vietnam in the years that followed. Also I was just curious where this full clip came from at 3:02-3:08

Glad to have subscribed early on. This will one day be a million subs channel.

You make great videos, its honestly a surprise that you don't have as many subs and views! I know you will!! Also make a video about Eisenhower, people tend to overlook him despite all the good he did. He's almost like the Korean War of Presidents...

I really enjoy your channel

Awesome video, keep it up

These videos are like crack

Love the channel man, your gunna blow up for sure, keep up the work 👍

Such a great and informative video man, I’m definitely going to buy that series of books. I can imagine they’d be so interesting and informative. 😁

Channel deserves 100 MILLION FOLLOWERS

Dude i love this channel you’re get to a million subs one day

Amazing video. I've always wanted to read the Caro series on LBJ but the sheer length of it is a bit intimidating. This may have given me the push I needed to pick up the first volume.

I'm a history buff and love your vids...LBJ was fascinating, would love to see you do more Nixon or a Nixon/Kissinger thing.

Great Video. Have visited any of the presidential libraries in the US before?

Hey Andre, I doubt you read this comment, but I just wanted to say that you make great content and I am excited to see you grow

I recommend watching all the way if you haven’t already. It’s incredibly accurate and really good.

Dude I was suprised to see you only have 7k subscribers Your channel has the quality of a million

Keep the lbj videos coming!!!!! You are truly talented.

I've always meant to read Caro's series.

Recently found your channel. Please do continue the LBJ series. Perhaps even make a video on how the books changed your view of history and politics, maybe you already have and I haven't seen it lol.

DUDE! I was literally watching a video of you talking about LBJ at 3:30 a.m. this morning thinking to myself, he really needs to do a full video on LBJ... AND TO MY SURPRISE!! :) I love your channel bro!

Have you thought about making a video about Huey Long? That would be very fascinating

Finding a political channel this factual and fair is so rare for me. Think it'll justifiably grow quicker over time

You should read “The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937-1989.” One of my professors in college wrote it and I think you’d really enjoy!

You should do videos on Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale two of the most important political figures of the mid twentieth century who get relatively little attention

Please make a video about Eisenhower

You deserve the heavy academic support a graduate program could provide. U.S. Political History is calling you!

banger and good for research ngl; ima try to do something similar on haya de la torre, but lbj is nezt babyy!! all the way!!!!!!

I love Caro’s books too, but I do wonder at the wisdom of using them as the only source for a biographical micro-doc.

2:10 correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Woodrow Wilson from the south?

This video almost made me like Johnson. (It didn’t work, i still hate him)

Do Calvin Coolidge Next

Do a Huey Long video

If you ever get around to doing Vice Presidents, I think you should do Henry Wallace. Not enough people know about him and his story!

Very interested video but just as a slight correction Woodrow Wilson was from the south (virginia) he could remember when he was 5 and union soldiers occupied his town at the end of the Civil war

Certainly one of my favorite presidents imo.

My most interesting president would be Nixon: A man who climbed to the top with the lowest of blows but was brought down by that same ruthlessness, a conservative moralist in public but vulgar and insecure in private, an ardent anti-Communist who sought Cold War rapprochement, and a Commander-in-chief who oversaw both the pullout from Vietnam AND the bombing of Cambodia and Hanoi.

Make a video about eisenhower

Oohh!!

You can sum up the entire Johnson presidency as "The one good thing he did, he did it for himself, because it would make his side look good"

Love your video ! I know LBJ is a great statesman, but overall an amazing politician (who knew how things work) but I had never heard the part about his sympathy for minorities due to personal experience. His legacy, like Nixon with Watergate, is tainted by the Vietnam War but while I’m currently reading a book about FDR, I don’t know who was the greatest politician in his day. Btw I’m sure it’s a pure coincidence (especially since the main story and thesis are different) but this is somewhat like a sequel to the video by William C. Fox about Truman ‘s civil rights law.

The two most fascinating presidents to me are Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon. The accomplishments they both achieved were instrumental in the development of today’s world. Yet they both were so deeply flawed to say the least and made colossal mistakes near the end of their terms that marred their legacies. Both were incredibly bright, politically savvy and forward thinking, yet dark legacies on racial issues with the southern strategy and the segregation of the federal government. Both are profoundly interesting. I also love the oft-underrated John Adams!

Lore of The Civil Rights President momentum 100

love that man

Normalize bullying within congress

Wasn't Woodrow Wilson from Virginia despite being the governor from New Jersey?

Love the music, added well to LBJ’s rise to the top. Will also read the book series too

LBJ was one of the biggest kissasses to rise to the Presidency. Professional Son to Vinson, Rayburn, and Russell. He was the #1 person Eisenhower turned to in passing legislation. He was JFK's Vice President. However, LBJ was also one of the most powerful of Presidents. He acted like a "coach", teaching the liberal wing of the Senate, certain parliamentary tactics to out-manuver the Southern Democratic Wing. (For example, always having members present for a quorum call.) He was bribing legislators, by offering them (and their allies) key government offices. He had J.Edgar Hoover, as a prime source of information . At one time, LBJ had a file on every single US Senator..what their likes are, dislike, etc.... And of course, he used the JFK assassination as a rallying cry... (Lets do it for Jack!)

One of the reasons I'm a Republican is due to how progressive we were and seeing how democrats actively striped rights from minorities disgusted me

Liked this video faster than you can finish this sentence

Fun fact the 13th amendment only semi-abolished slavery Slavery in America didn’t end until 1942. FDRs answer to Japan attacking us in their policy of Asia for Asians

The most interesting President, in my opinion, is one of my favorite people to ever live, Ulysses S Grant.

Why does Lyndon look like Alexander Kerensky in the thumbnail?

2:07 Weren't Wilson and Eisenhower southerners?

Wow

Suggestion: a video on Robert F Kennedy

It’s a real shame that LBJ’s legacy turned out the way it did. The political legacy of “big government liberalism” that started with FDR may very well have continued to today if Vietnam never happened. New deal democrats fundamentally changed the way people view the role of government. On the brighter side of things, democrats today definitely seem less afraid to “tell it like it is” about current institutions, especially SCOTUS who FDR scolded and started the whole idea of court packing.