Hey, oh, I'm still in my work clothes. Oh my God, how did I not put my slippers on? Slippers is another one priority to do when I get home, but I didn't put them on. Now they're on. Holy moly, guacamole. Hey, hey there, dude. Squad is looking at a good, and I'm looking and I'm back at it again with another. Ah, I cringed at myself. Did you cringe at me? Let me know. But it's turned off. Okay, let's do this. Hey, hey there, dude. Squad is looking at a good, and I'm looking at a reaction video. Now, today we're gonna be reacting to IU again. We're gonna be reacting to some more funny, cute moments from her. And this time is from 2017, yeah. I swear, man, I love IU so much. Her music just brings me, like, just so much emotions. It brings me joy, it brings me sadness. It just makes me go on a rollercoaster. Come on, IU, why are you doing this to me? Now, I'm sorry that I sound a bit stuffy. I got a thing called a blocked nose, so that means I'm stuffy when I speak. I'm sorry. Now, if we do this, I'm gonna sound like this. So, this is what I feel like I could sound like with a stuffy nose. Yes, hello. But I don't really. But, yeah, I'm gonna let this get straightened to this. I'm freaking excited to see what IU got and stuck for us today. And, yeah, I'm gonna let this get straightened to this. Wait, did I just say that? Okay, so whilst I was watching this video, I realized that it had a lot of clips from the previous one that I reacted to last week. So, I'm just assuming that someone just downloaded that person's video or someone, like, one of them did it and then they just re-entered it because it was the exact same clips, like, the exact same. So, I decided to browse through and find a new one and here it is. Do you want me to try it? I'm gonna try it. Yeah, give it a try. Yeah, try it, baby. You better draw IU. This is IU based video. Better. Oops. Surprise! Oh! Of course you look all right. You are IU! Ending scene. Great music video. Oh, she's just so adorable, man. She looks like she wants to kill him. She's got a good voice. She's got a really good voice. I was about to join her, but no one did it. I think I've edited this since. Ah, it's always about to do it. I am! Don't worry. Me too. Oh, dude! Don't worry, I'm your fan, IU. And red velvet. I don't know how to do that dance. I don't know how to do that dance. I don't know how to dance, okay? Oh! Where did IU go? Oh, she went clubbing. I don't mind you though. I go clubbing as well. What? What did you say? What? I said I'd go clubbing. You are not going to be a snob? I'm going to go clubbing. Me? Are you a snob? I'm a snob. Are you a snob? Give me the mic. You're sitting over here! You're sitting over here! You're sitting over here! You're sitting over here! You're so cool! It's a bit weird. Ayu's crew seems to be amazing, so I got a stuffy nose. I thought that Muscat was going to fall down the stairs. Ayu's crew seems to be amazing, so I got a stuffy nose. Their crew is amazing. Ayu's crew seems to be amazing, so I got a stuffy nose. I am a... I am a... What the? I swear I'm not... Oh, yo that was really well edited. I am definitely subscribed, but I just subscribed. You guys just saw me failing to subscribe a few times. Then I subscribed, but I'm going to watch videos on this channel. Because this was really well edited. I enjoyed it a lot. The person knows how to make it entertaining. With the edits, the music, all that stuff. That person's good, man. Real good. But yeah man, those Ayu moments are so freaking amazing. I enjoyed them a lot. They're adorable, they're cute, they're funny. They're just Ayu moments, okay? And that's it. But yeah guys, that's it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you guys did, don't forget to like, and also comment down below what you freaking love Ayu. And also subscribe if you guys are new to the channel. There's a lot more Ayu content coming to you guys next week. So subscribe for that. I'm sorry, I'm struggling to breathe because my block knows. And yeah, I hope you guys have a great day. And just keep on smiling, man. I'll see you soon. Squaw.


QuickBooks Online 2024, pay bills form, get ready and pack some trail mix because we're hiking on QuickBooks Online, our audit trail to success. Here we are online in our browser searching for QuickBooks Online Test Drive. The primary tool we'll be using for the first part of the course looking for a result that has Intuit.com and the URL Intuit being the owner of QuickBooks, selecting the United States version of the QuickBooks Online Test Drive and confirming that we're not a robot. We're going to duplicate some tabs to put reports in like we do every time. Right-click it on the tab up top so we can duplicate it. As that tab is thinking, I will right-click again and duplicate again. As that tab is thinking, I'm going back to the middle tab, down to the reports on the left, open up one of the favorites, the balance sheet, and then we're going to tab to the right, down to the reports on the left again, and this time open up the other favorite report, the income statement or profit and loss report. That's the setup process we do every time. The first tab is where we're going to be doing our data input and then we'll check the results on the financial statements, which is one of the end goals of our bookkeeping process, the generation, the preparation, the creation of the financial statements and related reports. If I select the dropdown here, you'll recall that we've been focusing in on the vendor cycle. So we have the entire accounting cycle. First, a word from our sponsor. Yeah, actually, we're sponsoring ourselves on this one because apparently the merchandisers, they don't want to be seen with us.  Like our crunching numbers is my cardio product line. Now, I'm not saying that subscribing to this channel, crunching numbers with us, will make you thin, fit, and healthy or anything. However, it does seem like it worked for her. Just saying. So subscribe, hit the bell thing and buy some merchandise so you can make the world a better place by sharing your accounting instruction exercise routine. If you would like a commercial free experience, consider subscribing to our website at accounting instruction.com or accounting instruction.thinkific.com that goes around in a circular type of fashion once everything has been set up. And then we can think of the internal cycles within that accounting cycle, one of those being the vendor cycle. You'll recall that if we have a very easy vendor cycle. And just before I get into that, remember that the vendor represents someone that we are paying a vendor in general terms could mean anybody that sells stuff, we could be a vendor. But from the accounting term, we have to think about which side of the table these terms are defining. And for QuickBooks, vendor means that the money is ultimately going out from us to other people that are selling stuff to us. And we're going to be using those goods and services to help us generate revenue is the general idea. So when we're paying for things, then the easiest process would be to use an expense form and electronic payment mainly because you can connect that to the bank feeds these days. And it would be a very quick transaction. And we could possibly rely on the bank feeds to actually record the transaction, which we'll talk more about in future presentations, a still a cashed based system. But one that's a little bit more complex is one that we actually write the checks when we have when they come do with an actual physical check. The reason that's more complicated, even though it's still a cash based system is because it takes more time for the check to clear. So generally, we would not want to rely on the bank feeds, but rather we would want to enter the checks as we write them so we can track the outstanding checks. We are now looking at the accrual process first, which means we entered a bill, we focused on the bill last time, recalling that a bill form is different than an expense form in that the bill form will be increasing accounts payable. That's what a bill form means within QuickBooks. In common parlance, in common terminology, you might call a bill anything that you receive from the phone company or any any other vendor that gives it to you. But unless you pay it with an actual bill form or unless you enter it into QuickBooks with a bill form, then it's not really a bill form for QuickBooks, you would just pay it with a check or you would pay it with an expense form. And remember that the form that you actually receive might say invoice on it, because this is another one of those terms that's interchangeable in normal common language. But with regards to QuickBooks, it's one side of the table. So if the other company, if the utility company was using QuickBooks, they would send us an invoice. The bill that we get would say invoice on it. But to us, it would be a bill. And more specifically, it would not be a bill to us, a bill form. If we paid it off with an expense or check form, it would only be a bill form if we entered it in our system as a bill, which would increase the accounts payable. Once we increase the accounts payable, we then have to track the bills and then pay off the bills. And that's where we are here with a pay bills form. Now you might be thinking, wait a second, isn't this all the same? It's just money coming out of the checking account. We have three forms now showing basically the same thing, an expense form, a check form and a pay bills form are all decreases to the checking account. That's what they do. But they have specific things related to them. The expense form means that it's an electronic transfer and it's probably going to the other side, it's going to go to an expense, most likely a check form has a check number field in it. And then the pay bills forms means it's a decrease to the checking account, but it's also telling you just by the form itself that it's going to be decreasing the accounts payable rather than going to some other expense. Like it's not going to be going to the telephone expense because you hit the telephone expense when we entered the bill and now we're going to be paying off the bill. So it's going to be going to accounts payable. So if we go into, let's go to the balance sheet and I'm going to close the hamburger and let's scroll up a little bit. I'm at 150 on the scrolling and if I go down to the accounts payable and click on it, we can see the detail in the accounts payable. And so now we have what's happening here. It goes up when we enter a bill and it goes down with the pay, the bill payment, which is a pay bill form in essence, which is still a check, but it's a special check which decreases the debt back down. Notice the accounts payable is a much more easy account to track than cash. For example, when we go into the detail, like the general ledger, which this is basically a general ledger, the transaction report, because it only goes up with bills and it goes down with the pay bill. So we should be able to kind of check everything off like this and tie everything out. Let's go back. We also are going to have another report that ties into accounts payable and let's find that I'm going to go to the tab to the right. I'm going to right click on this tab and duplicate it again and then we'll go into the reports again on the left hand side and let's close up the hand boogie and then go down. We're looking who owes you know we're looking for what you owe. And so I'm going to go to the vendor balance detail over here and this will give us the information by vendor. So these are basically the open bills and the point is that the bottom line of that the 1660267 should tie out to what's on the balance sheet. And we can also see that internally if I'm checking these outstanding bills, if I'm going to be using in other words this pay bill form, normally I probably wouldn't just go directly into the pay bill form here, but I might instead be looking for the bills I need to pay in another way first because I might for example close this out and go into my expenses and then I could search for the bills that are open by going to the expenses tab here. I could search here by hitting the drop down and search for my bills and then I could filter and search for status as open so the bills that are open and we're going to say okay and so now we just have the open bills. So I probably might go in here and search the open bills first and get an idea of what I want to do or we might go into the vendors here and we could do a similar process by going into the unpaid items and then we can kind of search by status and we could search by due date and then we could also go into the vendors center and we could see that the we have the overpaid items and then we have all of the open bills. Now when we actually go into the bill the pay bill form however you'll note that we we do have if I hit this plus button and I go to the pay bills we could select multiple bills that we want to pay at one time from this field right so we so that's a great tool because then we can go in here we could sort the bills that need to be paid and pay multiple of them off at one time. Let's first enter a couple bills so that we can see the whole cycle happening so I'm going to say do you want to leave I'm going to say yes. So let's go up to the x the new button and let's enter an expense or I'm sorry a bill let's first start off with a bill and we'll pay off the bills that we actually create here. So once again I'm going to call it vendor one or you can call it like vendor five remember that the this file starts over every time because with every new presentation it's going to delete what I did before because I'm going to read go into the file so if you already have the information from last time you might want to log out and then log back in so that you're back to the starting point so our numbers should match then. So here's our vendor vendor number five let's put it once again in 2024 010424 let's say and then let's say the due date is 0106 let's give it that and no tags and we're going to say that we're going to be purchasing let's just say let's just say the the category that we're going to be putting this into will be let's just call it expense one I'm just going to make a generic expense account and normally when we enter the bill we're going to be paying for some kind of expense like the telephone bill the utility bill and so on and so forth although as we saw before we could be purchasing inventory or we could be purchasing a fixed asset I'm just going to call it other business expense and I'm not going to make it any kind of sub-account if I did versus purchase inventory I'd have to use the items which we talked about last time that's not going to have an impact on the pay bill prop part of the process so I'm not going to focus on that now and let's say this was for 120 we're not going to say it's billable no tax no customer because I'm not thinking about pulling it over into an invoice that's a whole nother kind of thing that we might think about at a future time over we will take a look at it at a future time but that would be if you wanted to pull this over into the invoice so there we have that and so what's this going to do it's going to increase the accounts payable and the other side's going to go to this expense account if I saw that in a journal entry let's just make this was 120 this is just what we did last time it would look like this right so we're going to say okay the fixed the expense it's going to be an expense down here to do and then boom and then accounts payable so accounts payable goes up expenses go up net income is going down I have a negative net income because I have nothing on the income side of the income statement we just have that expense so let's record it and say let's check that out so we'll say save and close save and close it let's go to the balance sheet scroll in a bit and then if I change the date let's bring the dates up to 0 1 0 1 2 4 12 3 1 2 4 and run it to refresh it and then we're going to go down to the AP accounts payable and there is our bill form once again let's go back the other side's on the income statement going to the income statement closing the hand boogie changing the range in 0 1 0 1 2 4 tab 12 31 2 4 tab run it to refresh it there's our expense if I go into the expense I once again see the bill okay let's go back if I go to the tab to the right then refresh this we should see then our our vendor number five and our update of the 1007 2267 tying into what's on the balance sheet 1007 2267 internally if I go to the tab to the left I'm going to scroll down a bit 125 on the zoom in if I go into my expenses here then I can track this by going to my bills tab and I can say okay here's one of the new bill that I put in place we can also see if I go to my vendors over here and I should have then that vendor number five and if I go into vendor number five I see the bill I'm going to close up the hamburger now to pay the bill we could schedule the payment note that if you're going to schedule the payment then you're going to have to set up a payment method pay with bank or card schedule payment using the bank transfer fee and so on and so forth so you'd have to basically set set that up to schedule the payment but we would generally be paying them with the pay bill form notice once again in QuickBooks when I go back I'm not going to use the back arrow usually I'm going to use this item right here which allows us to go back to the vendors and so now we're back into the vendors let's enter another one so that we can just pay a couple of them at the same time so I'll hit the drop down and we're going to go to another bill and I'll just call this vendor vendor number six tab setting it up and then boom boom let's make this on the sixth and let's tab on down and let's just call that item or I just called it expense we'll put that to expense one again and let's say this was for 200 dollars just to change it up we're not going to make it billable and let's do one more and we're going to say save and new this time save and new and we'll call this vendor seven tab enter it boom boom boom and notice when I'm in this bill I'm tabbing through I'm gonna hit the plus button that's a little bit easier hitting the plus button to increase the date I'm tabbing through instead because that'll help me to see every field makes it less likely I skip one expense one I'm using the down arrow to find that trying to do less stuff on the mouse more on the keyboard because that's more like geeky which is the way to this which is usually faster the geeky ways to faster way and so we're going to then say save and close it here and let's check those out so if I go to the balance sheet now and run it to refresh it going into the a to the p a to the p accounts payable there's our three bills going back let's go to the profit and loss run it to refresh it and there's our three expenses are now in this one account because we put them all to that one expense account there's the three bills that are making up that 320 which have already impacted the income statement even though we haven't yet paid it that's why it's an accrual system not a cash based system here the accounts payable by the way is an accrual account if you have an accounts payable you're doing an accrual thing we have deviated from a cash based system so if I go to the tab to the right and run it and then so there's going to be our vendors within here and the total is at 192267 and that ties out to what's on the balance sheet if I go to the tab to the left and I go into my expenses we can we could sort the bills now once again I'm going to close up the hamburger and we can see the outstanding items here and then we could we could pay them so let's actually go to the pay pay bills now so there's multiple ways we can get in there we have the drop down here the pay bills we have this item so we can go into the pay bills we might be able to select by the way if I close that out and I go back in here I'm going to go into my hamburger expenses if you were to group if I wanted to pay these two for example and then I go into my pay bills then yeah I thought it might check them off it doesn't check them off but we still have them within here as well so notice this is another screen that's basically sorting all of the bills that have been entered that have not yet been paid so when we look at this pay bills form this is basically a pay bill data input screen which will actually create or could create multiple pay bill forms because each one of these that we select are going to be another bill that we're going to be paying so let's let's say that we paid if we want to pay these two for example then we can choose the method up top so oftentimes for many people it'd be coming out of the checking account but we could have the savings account or a credit card type of account that it might be paying through let's say the date of payment for us so we're going to put it in the future again so sometime in after these dates let's make it the one nine and then if there are check numbers then we're going to enter the check number here and we'll have to actually print the checks if there are no check numbers then you might not have the check number if you needed the check number to be printed out or you can say print later and then we can go into that area where we saw earlier which was to print which would be to print the checks now to physically print checks you have to actually buy the checks physical checks you can't just print them on a blank piece of paper and put them into the system but oftentimes people might be doing electronic transfers these days so you might be using an electronic transfer when we enter this what's this going to do it's going to be decreasing the checking account that's what a pay bill does and the other side will specifically not be going to any other account other than accounts payable the screen means the other side is going to accounts payable so it's like a check form or it's going to be multiple check forms or expense forms similar right but they're going to be the other side's not going to go to any other account other than accounts payable decrease the checking account the other side goes to accounts payable so if we did it here if I said this was a pay bill form it's basically a check form what would that do from a journal entry standpoint we'd say that it's going to be accounts payable going down and the cash is is going down and these are debits and credits so if you if you and I'll just use the 120 in our example so the cash there's nothing in the cash so in our case cash is going negative and the accounts payable I'm going to say f2 and then say let's do f2 and accounts payable goes back down notice that there was no impact on the income statement any of these accounts in that second transaction so no impact the 120 has already been included and now we're just taking accounts payable back down and cash is going down although it's a little bit more complex over here because we also have the sub ledger we have to deal with meaning tracking the sub ledger by vendor so let's save it and check it check it well hold on a second okay I have saved it let's go ahead and close it now and let's see what happened let's see what happened k-passo what happened let's go to the balance sheet remember to run it to refresh it and then we're going to scroll on down and see what happened we're in the ap the accounts payable and we can see here we entered these bills let's make the if i scroll down a little bit make this little bit wider we entered these bills and then we paid off two of the bills this last one i didn't put a dollar amount in it that's why it was weird i didn't add any dollar amount but any case notice how you can take and tag these off right that's what the accounts payable account will generally look like although it can be quite complex when you have a whole lot of transactions going in and out of the accounts payable you can also see that pattern of it ticking and tying off when we go to the uh the detail account by vendor running to refresh it we can see well here we're only showing the outstanding bills in this particular account we could customize this to see if we can get the uh all of the activity of it increasing and decreasing but let's not dive into that right now let's first go and see the activity by going to the first tab open up the hamburger and then scrolling down to the expenses and then here if i close up the hamburger it was in unpaid and now those items should have moved over to paid now right so now they've moved over to paid that makes sense if we go to the expenses tab note that you could search for this items before we searched for the bills and then the open bills they're no longer in the open bills if i clear that filter then you're going to now that are back here in all bills i could look at the drop down and look at the pay bills form the ones that we paid and there's the pay bills there we can also look at it by vendor and we could sort for the overdue and open items but the ones that we have just paid off we have the paid in the last 30 days it should be in there as well but let's clear the filters and let's look for our vendors here we go let's just look at vendor five we could see the activity so if we talk to the vendor of course we can say there's they're going to say did you pay us we're going to say yeah we entered the bill here and it was paid the pay bill happened at at this time right and if it was a if it was a check then we'd have to see if it cleared or not to see if it cleared the bank feeds but if it was an electronic transfer we could still see if it cleared but it should clear a lot faster that way now just know when you enter the bill another way that you might do this if i if i hit the plus button if we enter a bill here you might think well what happens with the bank feeds what if i what if i'm like pay the bill with the bank feeds and then i just match the the payment uh the payment that comes through the bank uh to the bill form so you could possibly be able to do that it wouldn't be it's not normally the full service bookkeeping system in other words in other words if you're using accounts payable then usually you're going to enter the bill and then pay the bill and use the bank feeds to double check help you with the reconciliation process but you might think it's possible to enter the bill and then you you might search through here and say okay which bills do i need to pay uh the unpaid bills and pay them with an electronic transfer right pay them electronically and then allow the electronic payment to go through the bank feeds right and once that goes through the bank feeds you'll see them in the bank transactions so we'll talk more about this later but you could then go to the transactions and and if i went into my checking account i might see the payment going through here money going out and when i see the money going out i might be able to find a match and see if i can match it up basically to a bill so you could see the bills forms here are one of the things that you can match it to and if you were to do that then you would think QuickBooks would basically enter the transaction of doing the pay bill form so we'll talk more about that when we get to the the bank feed area but again if you're using accounts payable then you're probably going to go through the whole process of bill pay the bill and then match the bill do the bank feeds or use the bank reconciliation process so we'll continue on with more of our journey through the forms and following presentations


I think it was a great performance. Everybody contributed. Had their moments that helped us get the win. They made some plays, some live ball turnovers and threes in the fourth quarter. Otherwise, their defense was really good for the most part. And guys battled and played hard. And I thought moved the ball and played well offensively as well, so it was a good team effort.  Does he look more locked in during this stretch, the way he's playing for you guys right now, or is it typical Kevin? Somewhere between typical and more locked in. I don't want to say that he's not always competing at a high level, but he was terrific tonight. Obviously, scoring the ball, distributing the ball, defending, rebounding, so total effort from Kevin. We needed it, and he was incredible. Steve, the last eight games you guys have shot, at least 49%. And some of those games you've had, Kai, some not. And obviously, Kevin drives a lot of that. But as far as the group overall, you've seen them at a different level offensively? Offensively. I think we're growing. We're learning. We're getting some cohesion.  I think tonight, 31 assists, 14 turnovers. A few were late, and otherwise, I thought, a very efficient offensive game.  Was there anything else you thought changed that allowed that? I thought our defense was really good. We held them down to 24 in the third, really second and third. We held them to 47. So that was a key stretch in the game. They gave us that separation. And do you have any update on Seth? And if he'll go with you guys to Memphis, Miami? No update yet. Obviously, we hope it's not too bad. But we'll probably see you and no more tomorrow. Steve, how much concern is there, given that it's the same ankle issues that he's been dealing with for a while now? Yeah, I think we would be concerned. We'll see what it's like tomorrow. But speaking to him at halftime, it didn't sound like he thought it was doom and gloom. So hopefully, it's a quick recovery. But we never know. You never know how these things respond if they balloon up overnight or how he feels. But it was different to the previous one, but the same ankle, but different. And so I think he feels optimistic that it's not too bad. Just want to ask about Nick. You talked about him a little bit before the game. But obviously, with Andre out, you really needed something from him tonight. What did you see about the way he delivered for you? Yeah, I mean, Nick, he really can add a lot to our team with his athleticism. Defensively, he's so versatile.  He plays with pace, so he was great. And we got to give a big shout out to Blake as well. Blake was outstanding tonight and really gave us a lift in really important minutes.


Welcome to the Civil Rights Summit as we welcome the president and first lady of the United States We shall overcome That song became an anthem for the civil rights movement And for those who fought against racial injustice Those words have special meaning on March 7th, 1965 John Lewis helped to lead a protest march for voting rights From Selma, Alabama to the state's capital Montgomery The march was brutally thwarted by Alabama state troopers in a day of infamy that became known as Bloody Sunday President Lyndon Johnson was never one to let a good crisis go to waste a Week later he used Bloody Sunday to show the need to pass the Voting Rights Act that he had proposed but that had stalled in the halls of Congress in A plea before Congress and the nation he said it is all of us Who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice? And we shall overcome John Lewis watched that speech in Selma with his mentor Dr. Martin Luther King at his side As President Johnson said those words, Mr. Lewis saw Dr. King cry for the first time We will march from Selma to Montgomery. Dr. King said with tears in his eyes The Voting Rights Act will pass Dr. King and Mr. Lewis made their march from Selma to Montgomery and President Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act if we have overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice it is largely because of the courage and fortitude of those like Lyndon Johnson Martin Luther King and John Lewis Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming to this stage Congressman John Lewis. Thank You Mark and the staff of the Lyndon Bain Johnson library my beloved friends My sisters and brothers I Have the special honor To introduce the keynote speaker for this 50 anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 It is so fitting and so appropriate That President Barack Obama would join us today To honor the legacy of President Lyndon Johnson Now President Barack Obama was born into a dangerous and difficult time in American history a time when people Were arrested and taken to jail Just for sitting beside each other on a bus It was against the law For black and white people to ride in the same taxicab or stay in the same hotel People homes were bombed Their lives were threatened for taking a simple drink from the same water water fountain for sharing the same table in a restaurant or at a lunch counter There were signs everywhere They said white and colored and they imposed an unholy order on the lives of the average American citizen When President Johnson used his political power and the force of his will to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and later the voting rights of 1965 All of those signs came turning down And you will not see those signs our children will not see those signs except in a museum in a book or on a video President Lyndon Johnson This man from Texas Liberated not just a people But an intonation from the humanity a legalized segregation without the leadership a president Lyndon Johnson an Involvement of hundreds and thousands and millions of people in the civil rights movement There will be no president Jimmy Carter. No president Bill Clinton. No president Barack Obama Lyndon Johnson Using his skills and his power made it possible and when people said nothing that changed I said come and walk in my shoes and I will show you change when president Barack Obama Walked through the doors of the White House. He ushered in a time of great hope Silent prayers and deep aspiration as a nation We felt we may have finally realized the vision president Johnson had for all of us to live the idea of freedom and Eliminate injustice from our beloved country We use the liberty we gained from Johnson's legacy to elect a man with the raw courage and Intonacity to do all he could to make our society a better place And move us closer to the beloved community. I know this man This president The rock Obama You see the progress remade as a nation That he understand there's much more work to do To redeem the soul of America That is fine as president He has set his shoulders to the fly to bring about meaningful change in America by ending two wars and passing Comprehensive healthcare reform that is said. Thank you, Mr. President now my dear friends It is my great honor and pleasure To present our friend our president President Barack Obama and the first lady Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you Thank you very much Please please have a seat. Thank you. Thank you very much Please please What a singular honor it is for me to be here today. I want to thank first and foremost the Johnson family For giving us this opportunity and the graciousness with which Michelle and I have been received We came down a little bit late because we were upstairs looking at some of the exhibits and some of the private offices that Were used by President Johnson and Miss Johnson and Michelle was in particular interested to a recording in which Lady Bird is critiquing President Johnson's performance and she said come come you need to listen to this and she pressed the button and Not at her head Some things do not change Even 50 years later to all the members of Congress the Warriors for justice the elected officials and Community leaders who are here today. I want to thank you They're four days into his sudden presidency and the night before he would address a joint session of the Congress in which he once served Lyndon Johnson sat around a table with his closest advisors preparing his remarks to a shattered and grieving nation he wanted to call on senators and representatives To pass a civil rights bill the most sweeping since reconstruction most of his staff Counseled him against it. They said it was hopeless that it would anger powerful Southern Democrats and committee chairmen that at risk derailing the rest of his domestic agenda In one particularly bold aid said he did not believe a president should spend his time and power on lost causes However worthy they might be to which it is said President Johnson replied Well, what the hell's the presidency for? What the hell's the presidency for if not to fight for causes you believe in Today as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act we honor the men and women who made it possible Some of them are here today We celebrate Giants like John Lewis And Andrew Young and Julian Bond. We recall the countless unheralded Americans black and white students and scholars preachers and housekeepers Whose names are etched not on monuments, but in the hearts of their loved ones and In the fabric of the country that they helped to change But we also gather here Deep in the heart of the state that shaped him To recall one giant man's remarkable efforts To make real the promise of our family We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created to be those of us who've had the singular privilege to hold The office of the presidency know well that progress in this country can be hard and it can be slow Frustrated and sometimes you're stymied The office humbles you You're reminded daily that in this great democracy you are but a relay swimmer in the currents of history bound by Decisions made by those who came before Reliant on the efforts of those who will follow To fully vindicate your vision But the presidency also affords a unique opportunity to bend those currents by shaping our laws and by shaping our debates By working within the confines of the world as it is but also by reimagining The world as it should be this was president Johnson's genius as a master of politics and legislative process He grasped like few others The power of government to bring about change LBJ was nothing if not a realist. He was well aware that the law alone Isn't enough to change hearts and minds a full century after Lincoln's time He said until justice is blind to color until education is unaware of race Until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins emancipation will be a proclamation But not a fact he understood laws Couldn't accomplish everything But he also knew that only the law could anchor change and Set hearts and minds on a different course and a lot of Americans needed the laws most Basic protections at that time as dr. King said at the time it may be true that the law can't make a man love me But it can keep him from lynching me and I think that's pretty important and passing laws was what lbj knew how to do no one knew politics and No one loved legislating More than president Johnson. He was charming when he needed to be Ruthless when required he could wear you down with logic and argument He could horse trade And he could flatter you come with me on this bill He would reportedly tell a key Republican leader from my home state during the fight for the civil rights bill and 200 years from now school children will know only two names Abraham Lincoln and Everdurks And he knew that senators would believe things like that President Johnson liked power He liked the feel of it The wielding of it, but that hunger was harnessed and redeemed By a deeper understanding of the human condition by a sympathy for the underdog For the downtrodden for the outcast and it was a sympathy rooted in his own experience As a young boy growing up in the Texas Hill country Johnson knew what being poor felt like Poverty was so common. He would later say we didn't even know it had a name the family home didn't have electricity Or indoor plumbing Everybody worked hard Including the children President Johnson had known the metallic taste of hunger the feel of a mother's callous hands rubbed raw from washing and cleaning and Holding the household together his cousin Eva remembered Sweltering days spent on her hands and knees in the cotton fields with linden linden whispering beside her Boy, there's got to be a better way to make a living than this There's got to be a better way It wasn't until years later when he was teaching at a so-called Mexican school In a tiny town in Texas that he came to understand how much worse the persistent pain of poverty could be for other races In a Jim Crow south Oftentimes his students would show up to class hunger and when he'd visit their homes He'd meet fathers who were paid slave wages by the farmers they worked for Those children were taught he would later say that the end of life is in a beat role a spinach field or a cotton patch Deprivation and discrimination these were not abstractions To Linden Baines Johnson He knew the poverty and injustice are as inseparable as opportunity injustice are joined So that was in him from an early age now like any of us. He was not a perfect man His experiences in rural Texas may have stretched his moral imagination But he was ambitious Very ambitious a young man in a hurry to plot his own escape from poverty and To chart his own political career and in the Jim Crow south that meant not challenging convention During his first 20 years in Congress. He opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote Once calling the push for federal legislation of farce and ashamed He was chosen as a vice presidential nominee in part because of his affinity with an ability to deliver that southern white vote and At the beginning of the Kennedy administration. He shared with President Kennedy a caution Towards racial controversy, but marchers kept marching four little girls were killed in a church Bloody Sunday happen the winds of change blew and when the time came When lbj stood in the oval office, I picture him standing there taking up the entire door frame Looking out over the south lawn In a quiet moment and asked himself what the true purpose of his office was for What was the end point of his ambitions? He would reach back in his own memory and he'd remember his own Experience with want and he knew that he had a unique capacity There's the most powerful white politician from the south To not merely challenge the convention That had crushed the dreams of so many But to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation He's the only guy who could do it and he knew there'd be a cost famously saying Democratic Party may have lost the South For a generation that's what his presidency was full That's where he meets his moment and possessed with an iron will possessed with those skills that he had honed so many ears in Congress Pushed and supported by a movement of those willing to sacrifice everything for their own liberation President Johnson fought for and argued and horse-traded and bullied and Persuaded until ultimately he signed the Civil Rights Act into law and he didn't stop there Even though his advisors again told him to wait Again told him let the dust settle Let the country absorb This momentous decision He shook them off The meat in the coconut as president Johnson would put it Was the voting rights act so he fought for and passed that as well immigration reform came shortly after and Then a fair housing act and then a health care law that opponents described as socialized medicine that would curtail America's freedom But ultimately freed millions of seniors from the fear that illness could rob them of dignity and security in their golden years Which we now know today as Medicare What president Johnson understood? Was that equality required more than the absence of oppression it required the presence of economic opportunity He wouldn't be as eloquent as dr. King would be in describing that linkage as dr. King moved into Mobilizing Sanitation workers and poor people's movement, but he understood that connection because he had lived it a decent job decent wages Healthcare Those two were civil rights worth fighting for an economy where hard work is rewarded and success is shared That was his goal and he knew as someone who had seen the New Deal transformed the landscape of his Texas childhood who had seen the difference electricity had made because of the Tennessee Valley Authority the transformation Concretely day in and day out in the life of his own family He understood that government had a role to play in Broadening prosperity to all those who would strive for it. We want to open the gates to opportunity president Johnson said We're also going to give all our people black and white The help they need to walk through those gates now some of this sounds familiar It's because today we remain locked in this same great debate about equality and opportunity And the role of government in ensuring each as was true 50 years ago There are those who dismiss the great society as a failed experiment and an encroachment on liberty Who argue the government has become the true source of all that ails us and that poverty is due to the moral failings of Those who suffer from it. There are also those who argue John That nothing's changed racism is so Embedded in our DNA that there's no use trying politics The game is rigged but such theories ignore history Yes, it's true that despite laws like the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and Medicare Our society is still racked with division and poverty Yes, race still colors our political debates and There have been government programs that have fallen short in a time when cynicism is too often passed off as wisdom It's perhaps easy to conclude that there are limits to change That we are trapped by our own history and politics is a fool's errand and We'd be better off if we roll back big chunks of LBJ's legacy Or at least if we don't put too much of our hope Invest too much of our hope in our government. I reject such thinking not just because Medicare Not just because Medicare and Medicaid have lifted millions from suffering Not just because the poverty rate in this nation would be far worse without food stamps and head start and all the great society Programs that survived to this day. I reject such cynicism because I have lived out the promise of LBJ's efforts because Michelle has lived out the Legacy of those efforts because my daughters have lived out the legacy of those efforts because I and millions of my generation We're in a position to take the baton that he handed to us because Because of the civil rights movement because of the laws president Johnson signed New doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody not all at once, but but they swung open not just blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos and Asians and Native Americans and gay Americans and Americans with a disability They swung open for you and they swung open for me That's why I'm standing here today because of those efforts because of that legacy Means we've got a debt to pay That means we can't afford to be cynical Half a century later the laws LBJ passed are now as fundamental to our conception of ourselves and our democracy as the Constitution And the Bill of Rights They are foundational an essential piece of the American character But we are here today because we know we cannot be complacent for history travels not only forwards history can travel backwards history can travel sideways and Securing the gains this country has made Requires the vigilance of its citizens our rights our Freedoms they are not given They must be won they must be nurtured through struggle and discipline and persistence and faith and one concern I have sometimes during these moments The celebration of the signing of the Civil Rights Act the march on Washington from a distance sometimes these commemorations seem inevitable They seem easy all the pain and difficulty and struggle and doubt All that's rubbed away and we look at ourselves and we say all things are just too different now We couldn't possibly do what was done then These giants what they accomplished And yet they were men and women too It wasn't easy then It wasn't certain then the story of America is a story of progress however slow however incomplete However harshly challenged at each point on our journey however flawed our leaders However many times we have to take a quarter of a loaf for half a loaf The story of America is a story of progress and that's true because of men like president Lyndon Baines Johnson in so many ways he embodied America With all our gifts and all our flaws In all our restlessness and all our big dreams this man Born into poverty weaned in a world full of racial hatred somehow found within himself the ability To connect his experience with the brown child in a small, Texas town the white child in Appalachia The black child in Watts as powerful as he became in that Oval Office He understood them he understood what it meant to be on the outside And he believed that their plight was his plight too That his freedom ultimately was wrapped up in theirs And that making their lives better was what the hell the presidency was for and those children were on his mind when they strode to the podium that night in the house chamber When he called for the vote on the civil rights law it never occurred to me He said in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students that he had taught so many years ago and Help people like them all over this country But now I do have that chance And I'll let you in on a secret I Mean to use it And I hope that you will use it with me That was LBJ's greatness That's why we remember him and if there is one thing that he and this year's anniversary should teach us if there's one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learned from this day It's that with enough effort and enough empathy and enough perseverance and enough courage People who love their country can change it in his final year President Johnson stood on this stage racked with pain battered by the controversies of Vietnam Looking far older than his 64 years And he delivered what would be his final public speech We have proved that great progress is possible. He said we know how much still remains to be done and if our efforts continue and If our will is strong and if our hearts are right and if courage remains our constant companion Then my fellow Americans. I am confident we shall overcome we Shall overcome the citizens of the United States Like Dr. King Like Abraham Lincoln Like countless citizens who have driven this country inexorably forward President Johnson knew that ours in the end is a story of optimism The story of achievement and constant striving that is unique upon this earth He knew because he had lived that story He believed that together we can build an America that is more fair more equal And more free than the one we inherited He believed we make our own destiny and in part because of him We must believe it as well Thank you. God bless you. God bless the United States of America