she gave jack and jackie kennedy a dinner at buckingham palace, which was the first time the president had dined there when woodrow wilson was entertained by the queen's grandfather, king george five. yet, the 31-year-old first lady was surprisingly critical ..as not impressed by the flowers were the furnishings at buckingham palace. or by the queens evening gown and what she described as her flat hairstyle. jackie said that when she also complained about the pressure of being on tour, the queen gave her a glance of and advice that one gets classy with time. when the president was assassinated in 1963, she was prevented from her doctors from attending the memorial service at the intensity was the beetle. yet she insisted on having her own memorial service at st. george's chapel windsor and she invited 400 american service men to attend the service and have a floor of windsor castle afterwards. when winston churchill died in january of 1965 the queen gave him the supreme honor of a full state funeral. lyndon johnson desperately wanted to be there to represent his country but he was in h

a royal flush when buckingham palace was short of clean as that word many rushing to fill the vacancy would tell you why after the break. things are just getting too expensive in london many families just can't afford to live in the city anymore so because of upcoming welfare cuts the government is buying or rented property to relocate people outside of the city the maximum housing allowance for welfare will go down to four hundred pounds a month which is peanuts compared to the one thousand two hundred fifty pounds the had to pay for the average three room apartment expelling the poor from london seems a bit fishy to me so instead of say regulating prices are god forbid using the money from the welfare cuts to create jobs so people can earn a living for themselves rather than rely on handouts london has decided to make itself some official get to. what is to call a place where everyone from a certain economic classes forcibly shove to although this may sound like some sort of help from the government it seems to me like a means to get rid of the poor rather than trying to make the po

royalty thing because that's a big waste of money they've got just don't leverage buyout of buckingham palace do all the leverage buyout of the queen and all the spode of the queen and the duke and get get rid of this debt put them over stamp put them on a floor but get rid of almost as physical entities because our must get up to code to me as soon as you threaten that of course there will be a genuine old fashioned do you believe the queen will say i do think. it is good k.k. our queen listen to me when elizabeth thanks they are is in your backyard threatening you and claire did you blame for this country and drive the snakes of can't get out of the private equity groups out of britain do your country a favor queen elizabeth drive out the snakes and call them crab or some robert. again though this is the end result of financialization here you have the banks there's. derivatives products fraud fraud fraud out of the city of london and the office for national statistics figures showed a near ten percent fall in corporation tax receipts so there is nothing else left in the economy other than

these bonds ok che are they going to sell the tower of london for ten cents on the dollar so buckingham palace for fifty billion dollars and let's get over this whole royalty thing because that's a big waste of money they've got just don't leverage buyout of buckingham palace don't leverage buyout of the queen and all the spawn of the queen and the duke and get get rid of this debt put a load a stamp put on a flag get rid of all as physical entities because they're muck it up the economy as soon as you threaten that of course there will be a genuine old fashioned do you believe the queen will say i do think. it is good k.k. are you know queen listen to me playing elizabeth thank you they are is in your backyard threatening you claire did you blame for this country and drive the snakes of kin. another private equity groups out of britain do your country a favor queen elizabeth drive out the snakes and call them crab or some robert. again though this is the end result of financialization here you have the banks. derivatives products fraud fraud fraud out of the city of london and the office for

it's a tricky one really i mean i speak to people outside buckingham palace some people are going to work some people who are kind of early bird tourists and opinions of really kind of divided about this because of course we want the queen to be generous and we expect actually we expect people like the queen to set an example to employers but we also want her to be frugal because all of this stuff all of this money that she's paying out is coming from taxpayers do we want her to be frugal at the expense of low paid staff like cleaners i think the us is probably no i think she's entitled to do that she can do it but obviously you get what you pay for it. difficult. they should match whatever policy should be. as far as general salaries are concerned we've got some figures to show you we're talking about salaries since two thousand and six they've risen by about eleven percent across the board which doesn't sound too bad none of this sounds too bad so some example social workers they got seventeen percent more in their wage packet teaches eleven percent chartered accountants have done

it's a tricky one really i mean i speak to people outside buckingham palace some people who came to work some people who had a kind of early but and opinions of really kind of divided about this because of course we want the queen to be generous and we expect actually we expect people like the queen to sesame sample to employers but we also want her to be frugal because all of this stuff all of this money that she's paying out is coming from taxpayers ultimately but do we want her to be frugal at the expense of low pay well at a time at a time when i know it is i mean i suppose or at a time also when in the past twenty four hours we've had what is said to be the biggest protests and demonstrations across a struggling eurozone of course not england but the eurozone a massive massive protests let's say let's talk about the recent trends in salary growth floor the quite disturbing i will kind of example the other employees in the situation we've got some stats to show that you can discuss further. we have i can't see this graphic so you have to bear with me but i know that we're talking abo

the queen and prince philip are keeping the celebration simple and private at buckingham palace. >>>y birthday, mr. vice president. that was the message sent with president obama's twitter feed today. he is 70 today and all kinds of present suggestions have been popping up on line. one of our favorites, an amtrak conductor's hat for the vice president who is a regular on the train from washington, d.c. to his home state of delaware. >>> and with the president overseas, the vice president holding down the fort at home he spent his birthday with his family. we want to hear what captures your imagination every day, so tweet us your thoughts for instant index @dianesawyer. >>> and coming up, does pumpkin pie mix with potato chips? what's the weirdest holiday flavor you can think of? cool. you found it. wow. nice place. yeah. [ chuckles ] the family thinks i'm out shipping these. smooth move. you used priority mail flat rate boxes. if it fits, it ships for a low, flat rate. paid for postage online and arranged a free pickup. and i'm gonna track them online, too. nice. between those boxes

outside the buckingham palace she was incredibly proud. she told the queen, acting is secondary to one of on her accomplishments and the queen agreed. >> i thought that was just wonderful. >> she has a daughter and a son. she starred in titanic. she dressed for the occasion in in a fitted black jacket and skirt designed by alexander mcqueen. >> there is new plane that could make your next flight a lot smoother. the boeing 787 offers better seating and even mood lightning. >> the plastic composite plane has finally reached domestic routes this holiday season. >> this is really generational progress. >> the dream liner is a hot seller. it's carbon fiber rather than metal gives it lighter weight allowing it to fly farther. 800 have been sold but united is the first domestic carrier. >> it's smooth and quiet. >> see what is the fuss. "good morning america" visited the boeing assembly planted and took the controls in a flight simulator in houston where pilots train to fly. >> hold it like this. beautiful. >> here is front landing. >> it was goo

i was invited to buckingham palace.d because the potential pitter patter of little feet because andrew lloyd webber is getting another knighthood, so, they are -- >> jimmy: the drummer, it's like he took the night off. >> honest to god. no, no, she's very -- >> jimmy: can we go backwards for a second? is this a vacation or are you summoned by the queen? >> my christmas gift last christmas to my three children was, because two of them are graduates of notre dame university. >> jimmy: ah, nice. >> so, for the first time, notre dame was playing navy, but the first time ever they were playing in a stadium in dublin, so, i flew the family over, we went to the game, 50-10, notre dame over navy. and then we went to ireland and over to england. >> jimmy: that's a good trip. >> being a legendary canadian, i am knighted by canada and, but then i want to hear about you. and then i was invited to, and it's amazing. she's completely different than you think. >> jimmy: in what way? >> pick cockney accent. don't put your feet on my ta

. >> i'm not sure she'll be invited to buckingham palace saying things like that but could the americanbe in jeopardy if no deal is reached? >> you know, that's a little strong. i mean, there are many people who think the fiscal cliff is, of course, really the fiscal slope or the fiscal curve or the fiscal sandbox. i think that, you know, if we cut the budget, if we cut the deficit and raise taxes, i don't think that's the worst thing in the world. as warren buffett has been saying for the last 24 hours, are you really going to turn down a good investment opportunity just because the tax rates are a little higher in we're talking about a minor 4 percentage point increase in the upper end of the tax rate here. it's not life or death. you know, cutting the deficit and raising taxes, if they can't agree, which congress has shown themselves inability to agree. if they're not going to agree, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world for tax rates to go up and for the deficit to be cut. i think that could result in a big economic boom. >> wow. >> and then, let's say two weeks after we go ov

he received the knighthood during a ceremony at buckingham palace yesterday.is a native of northern ireland and is best known for directing and starring in big screen adaptations of shakespeare, like hamlet and henry v. he also directed the recent super hero flick thor. >>> the celebration of the queen's jubilee is making its way to australia this morning. prince charles and his wife camilla are touring the town today and were greeted by australia's prime minister and helped unveil a street sign renamed for queen elizabeth. the royal couple will also visit new zealand as part of the trip. >>> a former firefighter could spend a year behind bars for getting a little too close to madonna. a jury found robert linhart guilty of evading arrest. police say he parked his suv outside her apartment and started writing her messages. officers tried to arrest him but say he started flailing his arms. his lawyer says he plans to appeal the verdict. >>> a woman is recovering this morning after falling into a river near niagara falls. she was walking along the niagara gorge w

she much prefers it than to being in buckingham palace which is right in the middle of london.light line. can't have everything. >> always good to see you. we like him, charlie. his humor is so fantastic. eyewitness testimony send a california man to prison for murder. the convicted man and his son says the witness was wrong. we'll show you what they are ,,, ♪ >>> tomorrow night "48 hours" focus on a father, a son and a murder case. frank o'connell promised he would always be there for his son nick but that was tough to do from a prison cell. as troy roberts the son always felt his father was innocent, the question, though, was could he prove it? >> reporter: when nick o'connell was 4 years old his father was sentenced 25 years to life for first degree murder but frank o'connell has always maintained his innocence. and nick has always believed him. >> every day for 27 years i wake up knowing a good, innocent man is being punished again today. >> i don't deserve this. i wasn't a thug in the community that they need to sweep up and get up off the streets. >> reporter: in 1984 l.a

started listening to the beatles, and she thought she was taking me to go and look at, you know, buckingham palaceo abbey road right now. so all these pictures of us standing outside of paul mccartney's house. [laughter] but it started this lifelong love of london and the u.k. and you see, i mean, i've written disproportionately about british people, basically, in all my books. it's this very funny thing. ghost map was entirely set there, most of invex of air is in the -- invention of air is in the u.k. there are a lot of brits in good ideas. so she started me on that path of being a little bit of an anglo file. >> host: do you remember our friend david from eugene, oregon, who suggested the update to "in depth" in our new open source format and we forgot his first point? someone else has tweeted in his first point. the worst question was along the lines, what steps can an individual take to help advance progress. >> guest: oh, great. i'm glad we're back to that. so part of it is, um, kind of widening your network of influence which is to say you've got your job, and you've got your family. you ha

. >> keir simmons from buckingham palace, thanks, keir. >>> and two weeks aer the presidential election to disneyland, people post pictures romney as he goes about his daily business as a private citizen. >>> and this clip fromtuesday's "tonight show with jay leno" is popular online. guest star lindsay lohan's attitude apparentl rubbed off on another gut. >> what a diva we have on the show tonight. >> hey, lindsay, you look great. >> thanks for coming. >> o of course, everyone i so nice here. >> appreciate you being here. >> tnks. >> everything okay, mr. ggory? >> yeah, yeah, it's all right, jay. can i get a little more milk and butter, please. >> that, of course, was david gregory, moderator of nbc's "meet the press" w we can actually report has absolutely no diva teencies. >>> and this video spiking on youtube sws why you should skip the trust fall when your family gets together for the holiday. well, we like to say nobody got hurt but not so sure. some bruises maybe. 05 right now. let's go back outside to matt and savannah. don't y that one this ar. >> not too smart. >> i'm never goi