dr. kennedy. as one involved with discrimination and education, are you aware of anyone looking into the fact that all higher education, from what i experienced, higher education, when you are accepted as a student, it is not a contractual agreement. you can complete all requirements for a degree the entire syllabus with a 4.0 average, have paid all your tuition, perhaps through government grants and they can choose whether they feel like giving you your diploma or not. you may not get your diploma. you have no legal recourse. it was not a contractual agreement. so that students have no antidiscrimination protection for graduation and getting a diploma. therefore, they can't -- >> whoa do you ask that question? >> caller: it happened to me. and, therefore, i could not go out, get a job in my field, and pay back my government loan so that all these pop up -- i went to a very prominent university in philadelphia for a masters to become a teacher for a second career. and old white women are not favor

dr. randall kennedy this morning. i just had a question. can you hear me? >> host: go ahead. >> caller: yes i wanted to ask, do you believe that affirmative action in great measure to leveling the playing field and americans to begin with for african-americans each of those were turned affirmative action and do you think americans will ever see steep restitution? if not or if so, why? >> guest: in my view affirmative action is at least in part a type of reparations. i mean, i think there're bunch of reasons and good reasons to support affirmative action. but i think reparations is one of them. reparative justice. i think this is one way -- we don't color preparations, but i think it has been a type of reparations and it is entirely justifiable. >> host: how do you think president obama has been on the issue of race? >> guest: well he has been a very tough position as the first black president. and i think that being the first black president, he has felt inhibited. i think he is keenly attuned to the feared allegation that he is showing racial favoritism to

dr. king's reply, only a few human hearts. one of the hearts was apparently john kennedy's. >> i would like to say that he was moved by dr. king's words and example in the movement. after birmingham, demonstrations spread over to 200 cities like wildfire. president kennedy said there were even demonstrations on military bases overseas. we are your going to -- we are either going to put it out one at a time or bite the bullet. i think the sympathetic demonstrations that spread from birmingham created the pressure that pushed kennedy to give that speech. on the other hand, that speech ought to be much more iconic than it is. to say we are confronted primarily with a moral issue as old as the scriptures and as clear as the u.s. constitution was just what dr. king had been asking him to say. that was a shining moment. that was the peak, an isolated moment. he decided to do it that afternoon and was still writing. it was impromptu. in some sense, it came from the heart. that is one of the best things you can say about that. the pressures were severe. he was cutting loose from the democratic southern base that had anchored democ

. >> and i would like you to contrast president kennedy's relationship with dr. king. it was said they had a prickly relationship that kennedy thought he was preachy and starchy and they didn't relate at the point of human discourse. it seems that it might have served them well in a way. >> it's just being southern. [laughter] >> is that earth thinkness? [laughter] >> president kennedy as you say really did not understand the south or our race. and president johnson understood it all too well. and dr. king would say when i talk to president kennedy he asked questions for an hour but when i go to see president johnson he talks for an hour. [laughter] he said he knows what he wants to do and he knows what -- he said, i don't have to convince him of anything, but i think their only tension was i think johnson would have liked to have taken the poverty program aid to education all of those issues first and then come back to voting. and that was one point of tension. we didn't really have that choice. i mean we didn't like the sit-ins, you know? we didn't like the back of th

while researching kennedy i got to know dr. king fairly well.k i'm qualified to say he would be fairly disgusted with what's going on race wise in america today. dr. king valued a person's character above all. he did not want americans divided by race. dr. king wanted equality, compassion and opportunity. america's not a perfect country, but we do offer more opportunity than any other nation on earth. our laws strive for equality. again, no system is perfect but the laws are there. finally, compassion, here is where we all fall down. too many of us of all colors are interested only in ourselves. the world is becoming more selfish by the day. and dr. king would have been deeply disappointed to see that. "the factor" tip of the day. and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website which is different from billoreilly.com. also we would like you to spout off about "the factor." o'reilly@foxnews.com. name and town if you wish to opine. word of the day, no invective when writing to "the factor." again, thanks for watching to

dr. marty west, an associate professor of education at the harvard graduate school of education, and deputy director of the harvard kennedy school program on education policy and governance. dr. west cut his education policy and reform and its impact on student learning and develop it. he has authored many articles on the subject, including many pieces on no child left behind. last year dr. west worked for this committee a senior education policy advisor to chairman alexander. i know there are areas where we agree and areas where we disagree but i'm always very happy to welcome the witnesses from massachusetts to testify before this committee. so thank you doctor west for being here today. >> senator bennet. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i often say that if we had a rally to get no child left behind the same on the capitol steps from gaza and the person in the country that would come to that. we are eight years overdue. we are long overdue. i'm honored to introduce my friend tom boasberg superintendent of the denver public school. no, joined dps as the chief operations officer in 2000 superintendent and then was appointed s

kennedy camp to mrs. martin luther king in 1960 at the time that dr. king had been arrested, expressing their concern while nixon remained conspicuously silent. >> which is not to say the kennedys were so progressive or enlightened but -- >> superheated atmosphere. our own henry caddell lodge who nixon put on his ticket that year, and with all due respect may be the only demonstrable example of a modern vice presidential candidate who wound up costing his ticket votes, and but for good reason. he went up to harlem and the promise that there would be an african-american in the cabinet if richard nixon became president, which immediately through the nixon campaign into a tailspin which was systematic of their problem. the republican platform in 1960 contained the strongest civil rights plight in the history of the party, but guess what. richard nixon went to atlanta and 125,000 people turned out. he could taste republican victory in the south. and in the end he couldn't decide whether he wanted to be henry cabell launch or strom thurmond. >> to some exten

dr. marty west, an associate professor of education at the harvard graduate school of education and deputy director of the harvard kennedyool's program on education policy and governance. dr. west studies education policy and reform and impact on student learning and development. he has authored many articles on the subject including many pieces on no child left behind. last year dr. west worked for this committee as senior education policy adviser. i know there are areas where we agree and areas where we disagree but i am always very happy to welcome witnesses from massachusetts to testify before this committee. thank you dr. west for being here today. >> senator bennett. >> thank you, mr. chairman and i want to thank you and ranking member for holding this hearing. i often say that if we had a rally to keep no child left behind the same on the capitol steps not a single person in the country would come to that. we are eight years overdue. i am honored to introduce my friend the superintendent of the denver public schools. tom joined as chief operations officer in 2007 while i was superintendent and then was unanimously

kennedy would be alive to see. >> just a point about the business of perhaps having addressed dr. kaiser's point about to track. governments are always pursuing 2, 3, 4 tracks. the fact that you can document something was being done doesn't mean something else wasn't being done at the same time. >> mcgeorge bundy told me he had a word for it, and multi-tracking, something similar to that. he acknowledged they were looking at cia operations. truth be told, they were limited. it was supposed to distance the cia and let them go off and do their own thing so that we would be less involved. the fault is that kennedy wanted to explore a different route. that was under serious exploration at the moment he was killed. >> can i ask one question? >> sorry. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> each week, american history tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. british and american naval forces clashed for two and a half hours i

dr. king. >> yes, mr. president. how are you today? >> reporter: during his time in the white house, johnson recorded nearly a dozen phone calls with king. he commented on the death of president kennedy tell you how worthy i am going to try to be of all your hopes. >> well thank you very much. i'm so happy to hear that. >> reporter: a year later as tensions over voting rights began to boil in the south, johnson can be heard encouraging king to bring more attention to injustices. >> if you can find the worst condition that you run into and get it on radio and get it on television and get it every place you can, pretty soon the fellow that didn't do anything but follow drive a tractor will say that's not right. that's not fair. >> reporter: in one recording, though, johnson tells his press secretary to downplay his collaboration with king. >> if they ask you if i've seen him, you tell them i don't know. don't get in there that i'm in continuous touch with him. >> reporter: historians say johnson and king had to appear independent of each other in order to reach their common goal, the right to vote for all americans. professor ken germany helped transcribe the tapes. >> johnson needed k

dr. martin luther king would have looked at this community and let them know they have a civic duty, in other words, organize the kennedys and participate -- organize the communities and participate in the electoral process. host: thank you. that brings up the question when communities get these grants and apply as part of your program does part of it have to go toward hiring officers that are more reflective of the communities being policed? host: the grants are competitive and we also have focused areas agencies will kick whether it is building trust reducing violent crime and we always encourage they focus on diversity. we have a program that also focuses on hiring veterans coming back from serving our country. sharing with them the best practices of how you diversify and organization. the benefit of such diversity. but it doesn't require there's a certain percentage. when with a good hiring for a purpose or the spirit of service, a part of that is in fact diversity. we make sure the hiring practices do not violate any discrimination laws. we make sure their hiring process is open and welcoming to everyone who was to

dr. phil fill he left his guying wife for another women. >> mr. kennedy> did she pass as well. >> my dad told he me he received a phone call from heaven. >> from heaven. >> right. help me out here. >> you're supposed to help me out. >> or is it all a game. >> she was not that. >> on the family kennedy tree there's no misty kennedy. >> the search. >> i trised this. >> for his missing fiancee. >> we were shocked to find out the truth. >> uncover. >> this girl does exist

dr. king? what the heck is he talking about. if he need more clarification go on camera take his finger out of creampuff as kennedy mentioned and it on play. apparently we're getting all wrong. >> mlk was killed by a sniper from across the street. that is the kind of sniper he and most americans think of not "american sniper." very convenient. it is very clever. >> actually very perverse and very demented. putting a criminal and a killer who killed someone, so wonderful as martin luther king on the same moral equivalency as an american hero who covers the backs of his fellow soldiers so that they can go and kill terrorists. if you talk to these guys they're going door-to-door in some of the most dangerous players and who has their back? who allows them to find terrorists we're releasing from gitmo by the way? snipers like chris kyle who gave them cover. who sat on rooftops as kennedy points out alone isolated. they have courage, a lot of things. they have everything michael moore doesn't have. >> to the veterans came afterwards what is most frustrating him he has never been close to being in the situation. >> because they don't

dr. who is young and really naÏve and idealistic. ten years later in 1978 four years later, ten years after bobby kennedy was killed try to save the worldbut my parents had. i have learned a few things along the way. saving the world is a lot harder than it sounds. it does not happen with a flash of lightning or a cup of thunder command it does not flow from inspirational speeches. robert kennedy was inspirational but i have absolutely no idea whether he would have been a good or effective president. to achieve what robert kennedy dreamed would have taken a lot of hard, unglamorous work in the trenches making compromises dealing with egos balancing egos, balancing conflicting agendas, being patient and tenacious in the face of setbacks showing up hanging in there not giving up. the role of government is not to fix things but to create a space where people can fix things for themselves and you cannot advance the common good from salem but only by engaging people where they live and showing them that they have a stake in the problem in some sense of ownership in the solution. we are doing that every day here throughout regional solutions

president kennedys kennedy's assassination but that didn't take away from the fact the denial of voting rights. >> it was a very real problem in the south and couldn't be put off and dr and the were quite right in pushing for this it was a big ask still for johnson. i think in -- >> rose: president johnson said to him you have one big thing, i have 100 big things. >> right. and i think as a result, dr. king was always going to have a layered and conflicted relationship with any president, because politicians are there to compromise. they are there to try and please everyone, for him, it is a much more black and white thing and when those forces butt heads there is going to be fireworks as there was between king and johnson. >> rose: take a look at this. it is in the front of the congregation demanding the vote. here it is. >> as long as i am unable to exercise my constitutional right to vote, i do not have command of my own life. i cannot determine my own destiny, when it is determined for me who people who would rather see me suffer than success. those that have gone before us say, no more no more! >> no more! >> that means protests, that means marches that means di

kennedy school of management at harvard. she was the first academic to do research and automatic enrollment 401(k) programs. our fifth witness is dr. andrew biggs. he lives in oregon. i told center stop now -- senator stabbedenow that i am wearing my duck tie and i have not worn it for two weeks. i could not hold off any longer. >> i am glad the fight is between two democrats this time. >> welcome. we look forward to your presentation. mr. brown will begin the questioning. >> my career began more than 63 years ago. in 1974i founded the vanguard group, a new company on the mutual fund seen. now we manage $3 trillion for the other peoples money and have become in the largest funds in the world. the principal reason for that success is since 2008 the single firm has accounted for almost one half of the entire cash flow . it was founded with a single focus, to serve mutual fund investors. the vanguard group is not owned by managers or the public nor by u.s. or foreign insurance companies. we are owned by our mutual funds which in turn our owned -- are owned by our shareholders. we are uniquely a mutual mutual fund complex. we operate

kennedy. she is the editor of the new york times on the presidency and the coeditor of several volumes in presidency studies. drbose is also the third author in the last several editions of a very popular textbook on american government called american government institution and policies. her current research focuses on u.s. presidential leadership in the united nations. dr. bose was active in our nonpartisan courses sponsored by the washington center in connection with the 2012 national political party conventions in both tampa and charlotte. and she was our faculty director for this seminar last year. in addition to hofstra, she has taught for six years of the u.s. military academy at west point where she also served as director of american politics in 2006. dr. bose received her b.a. international politics from penn state university and her m.a. and phd from princeton university. please welcome dr. bose. [applause] >> good morning. i have never -- thank you for that warm introduction -- i have never been called before that i should be cloned. i just watched attack of the clones with my young son. i cannot te

kennedy. she is the editor of the new york times on the presidency and the coeditor of several volumes in presidency studies. dr. bose is also the third author in the last several editions of a very popular textbook on american government called american government institution and policies. her current research focuses on u.s. presidential leadership in the united nations. dr. bose was active in our nonpartisan courses sponsored by the washington center in connection with the 2012 national political party conventions in both tampa and charlotte. and she was our faculty director for this seminar last year. in addition to hofstra, she has taught for six years of the u.s. military academy at west point where she also served as director of american politics in 2006. dr. bose received her b.a. in international politics from penn state university and her m.a. and phd from princeton university. please welcome, dr. bose. >> good morning. i have never -- thank you for that warm introduction. i have never been called before that i should be cloned. i just watched attack of the clones with my young son. i cannot tell you