i would like to say a word about jackie kennedy and her role. she was very much engaged in all these events at the white house. the postmortem of the staff to see a something could have been done better but she had a tremendous impact on the white arhouse and over the course of my research with this book i came to have a distinct appreciation for what she had done she was like the white house curator established the committee which was a group of artist who : the country try to get the furnishings back to the white house with a were originally placed and then she was the hostess that evening and on that night restored to the administration for those that were actually purchased by monroe and launch the white house historical association and then gave the tour of the white house ebs the first woman, she gotten any law -- in any for the presentation but the first woman to be featured in a documentary on television.hm that was a great accomplishment for mrs. kennedy in terms of her work with the white house and this dinner as well. the most controv

the kennedy brothers have made many enemies. >> president kennedy was shot in dallas at 12:25. >> as catastrophic events devastate the family, jackie is determined to shape jfk's legacy. a reluctant new leader emerges. >> robert kennedy. >> to keep the kennedy dream alive. ♪ ♪ >>> several thousand enthusiastic texans are on hand to give the president and mrs. kennedy a warm welcome. >> in november 1963 president kennedy arrives in dallas to campaign for re-election. >> he probably, as he was coming down those steps, felt pretty confident about his political prospec prospects. >> his health is better. his marriage is better. he's a very confident leader. he is a person recognized as having enormous potential for his second term. >> jackie was very happy to be with her husband during her trip to dallas. and it was really the happiest time of her marriage. >> the president's car now turning onto elm street and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the piedmo piedmont. >> bobby kennedy is at home with his family and close colleagues. >> attorney general kennedy is in his back yard, having lunch with robert morgenthau

jackie lost jack. >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m.ay, june 6, 1968. >> in the morning my brother joe came in and said, you know, he's gone. and that afternoon we took him. >> the piercing wine of the engine subside as the airplane stops. the casket now about halfway out of the door of the airplane. >> the great tragedy of this moment is that we actually never get to see what bobby kennedy would have been able to accomplish. >> he would have been one of the the american presidency since its founding. >> jacqueline kennedy, behind her mrs. edward kennedy. >> it's like the pin in the balloon. it's gone. ckages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ no bars. oh no! when i got unlimited, they told me they were all the same. well, ve

behind it, you have the house where jack and jackie kennedy live. his compound is the center of the world. this was the realization, the dynastic dream of joseph p. and rose kennedy. you. >> next, the kennedys. >> ask what you can do for your country. >> jack believed in the promise of america. >> kennedy was walking into an ambush and he had no idea. >> turns out to be an unmitigated disaster. >> jack needed someone to watch his back. >> i am pleased to accept the position of the attorney generalship. >> he says, grab your balls, let's go. >>> i, john fitzgerald kennedy, do solemnly swear -- >> just over 100 years after his family first set foot in the country, john f. kennedy becomes president of the united states of america. the kennedys have achieved their dream. but in his first year in the white house, jfk learns winning power is one thing, wielding it is another. engulfed by violence at home and conflict around the world, he turns to those he trusts the

jack kennedy was just consumed with grief. jackiell to attend the funeral. it was so tragic. jackie never had a chance to hold him. >> the president comes back and visits her with the children. john jr. was a little too young to understand what was happening. but caroline did. and she had so looked forward to having a baby brother or sister. after a week or so, mrs. kennedy leaves the hospital. the president at her side, holding her hand, which was something that he didn't do very often in public. he holds her so gently. it's very touching, very moving to see. >> jackie compared herself and her husband to two icebergs. and i think they both operated in that way. they had very complicated feelings and emotions that they kept to themselves. >> when patrick died, this changed everything. >> something like that can either drive a couple apart or bring them together. >> by this time jackie has proven herself in so many ways. she's been there when he's had affairs. she's a wonderful mother to his two children. she's done everything for him

kennedy to end 1961. >> as jack and jackie pose for the cameras, the mood in the white house is anythingly what president kennedy was thinking at the end of his first year, when he was approached by an author who said, i'm going to be writing a book on the first year of your presidency, the president's response was, why would anyone want to read a book about this first year? >> in 1961, the kennedys came out of the white house cocky. confident. bright. by the end of 1961, they're chastened. bullied by khrushchev, humiliated by castro. the mob is threatening. they've made more enemies than friends and some of those enemies are truly dangerous. >> next on "american dynasties: the kennedys" -- >> jackie smiled for the camera, but there was sadness behind that smile. >> he had a reckless streak. >> sinatra goes absolutely berserk and just starts destroying things. >> aggressive conduct ultimately leads to war. >> she said, i'd rather die with you than live without you. >>> the american people have entrusted the power of the white house to john f. kennedy. since then, there has been one polit

rajini: it is, and the role of the first lady hasvolved from the days of jackie kennedy, whose cause was to open up the howhite to the public and introduce tours and make it a more livable place, to recent years where policy has driven the causes. we are talking about people like rst lady barbara bush and over bush, laura bush after her, who focused on lureracy and ening reading in children. and then you had nancy reahen, focused onar on drugs, very much in step with her husband's policies at the time. someone like hillary clinton was sitting on her husband's health care panel and try to push through legislation, which she trieand failed. war recently, michelle obama and more recentlye -- come michelle obama and her "let's move" campaign. tsoe more of a backseat. it will be interesting to see which way melania trump goes. t i susp will be more of a backseat role. taken so los it for her to establish her own voice and as you say, take this back seat? rajini: she was in new york for the first six month id the trump prcy. with a lot of as things come this presidency is very different. s

that's a great thing about jackie kennedy.she saw the white house as a living museum and also as a salon of sorts and i don't think there's anything negative about the white house being a symbol of america and also saying that these are people who really have made tremendous contributions and we want everybody to know about them. also i would add that the opportunity for these people to mingle, to interact with one another is -- is significant. yes. >> thank you so much for your talk and your book. you mentioned the person who discovered streomiacin. which other sciencives or researchers were at the dinner? >> there were primarily scientists and interestingly many were associated with the university of california at berkeley and, in fact, president kennedy had been -- had been at berkeley, had been at berkeley months before and had spoken there and in his speech he said, which was accurate that there are as many nobel prize winners of this institution at berkeley than have been produced by nearest rival the soviet union. so th

she ended up being jackie kennedy's social secretary. she had come just set of wellesley. henry came. henry studiously tried not to interfere beca he had opinions on everythinguse. they loved each other very much. she became very close to his sons. i'm at with henry, the sun of henry the get his permission. the library of congress is filled with boxes of letters between clare and the stepsons. they were very close. she lost her own little girl at a young age. it was a devastating thing for her. therere both either hunting lodges south carolina. they went to see it for the dear friend. to that shows that order? they were silent, but we got to have a tour. we saw the graves of claire and henry and a couple of other from the family. it is so beautifully done. it was challenging after difficult at times, but they loved each other. when he passed away suddenly many years before her, she really missed him. >> dishy have other children besides the 19-year-old that died? >> she had one child with the first husband, george brokaw. that marriage was very difficult because of him. i'

. >> before melania, the last first lady to raise a boy in the white house, was jackie kennedy. >> it'sre's so little privacy, i don't mind for myself, but i think it's very hard with them. >> reporter: on the plus side, there's a lot of space for entertaining. >> lots of slumber parties, lots of, you know, special occasion parties here and just all the time we could, we spent with her friends, up in the second and third floor, which are the personal, private family parts of the house. >> reporter: and although this first family is used to a lavish lifestyle, growing up amidst 18 acres of history is special. >> we love to live in washington. >> former first lady laura bush spoke about the example she tried to provide for her daughters. >> i think if we want our children to have healthy lifestyles, we need to show them how to do it so they can imitate our lives. >> reporter: and melania introduced a program that helps children -- >> when they're using their voices, they must use their words wisely and have respect. >> thank you, jake. >>> all right, we have got so much more ahead in the

. >> before melania the last first lady to raise a boy in the white house was jackie kennedy. >> it isather hard with children. there's so little privacy. i don't mind for myself, but i think it's very hard with them. >> on the plus side, there's a lot of space for entertaining. >> lots of slumber parties. lots of special occasion parties here. and just all the time we could, we spent with her friends up in the second and third floor, which are the personal private family parts of the house. >> and although this first family is used to a lavish lifestyle, growing up amidst 18 acres of history is special. >> we love to live in washington. >> former first lady laura bush spoke about the example she tried to provide for her daughters. >> i think if we want our children to have healthy lifestyles, we need to show them how to do it so they can really imitate our lives. >> and melania has recently introduced a platform, which includes teaching children kindness. >> and it is our responsibility as adults to educate and remind that when they are using their voices, they must choose their words

. >> melania would you like to answer one big question, the only person i can imagine putting jackie kennedy to shame. melania, would you like to be first lady? >> yes, it would be an honor to be a first lady. yes. >> thank you. ? that same 1999 interview trump said his top concern is commander in chief would be to stop nuclear proliferation and in particular preventing a conflict on the korean peninsula. 20 years later trump finds him grappling with a now nuclear north korea. >> define the great age of trump. what would it be like? >> i think the nirvana would be cleaning up the world of nuclear missiles. out matly we have ourselves a really big problem. these young folks in this room are incredible. they are going to have a bigger problem than me or you or anybody else. frankly you have north korea loading up with nuclear war heads. you have other countries -- china -- russia has them and they don't even know who is controlling them. i think it's singly the biggest issue out there somebody has to talk about it. i brought it up. people don't like mentioning it but that really has to be done

the only persony imagine putting jackie kennedy to shame. melania, would you like to be first lady? >> yes, it would be an honor to be a first lady. [ applause ] >> in that same 1999 interview, trump said his top concern as commander in chief would be to stop nuclear proliferation, and in particular preventing a conflict on the korean peninsula. and now nearly 20 years later, trump finds himself grappling with a nuclear north korea. let's watch. >> if you get to be president, define the nirvana, the great age of trump. what would it be like? >> i think the nirvana would be cleaning up the world from nuclear missiles, because ultimately we have got ourselves a big problem. and these young folks in this room, and they're incredible, these people are going to have themselves a bigger problem than me or you or anybody else. frankly you have north korea that is loading up with nuclear warheads. you have other countries, china. russia has them and they don't even know who is controlling them. i think it's singly the biggest issue out there, and somebody has to talk about it. now i brought

the only person i can imagine putting jackie kennedy to shame. melania, would you like to be first lady? >> yes, it would be an honor to be a first lady. yes. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> in that same 1999 interview, trump said his top concern as commander in chief would be to stop nuclear proliferation, and in particular preventing a conflict on the korean peninsula. and now nearly 20 years later, trump finds himself grappling with a nuclear north korea. let's watch. >> if you get to be president, define the nirvana, the great age of trump. what would it be like? >> i think the nirvana would be cleaning up the world from nuclear missiles, because ultimately we have got ourselves a big problem. and these young folks in this room, and they're incredible, these people are going to have themselves a bigger problem than me or you or anybody else. i mean, framg -- frankly, you have north korea that is loading up on nuclear warheads. you have other countries, china. russia has them and they don't even know who is controlling them. i think it's singly

we watch the jackie kennedy character. >> your majesty. >> no curtsy. >> no curtsy. >> is it an internationalbsolutely. a unicorn dies. princess loses their sparkle. the first thing, actually, the best manners is to -- if someone gets it wrong, let it go. if someone came up and said, how do you do? how would you reply? >> i would say, fine. how are you? >> very well. how are you? >> being british, that's actually wrong. >> oh. >> we don't like it direct. how do you do is a statement. if i said, how do you do? you say, how do you do back. >> how do you do? >> thank you. >> there's no, i'm good or, oh, my mom isn't well, none of that? >> you don't want to know how we do. >> first test up, you have a skro scone there. how are you going to cut it? >> you're the queen. i'd do that and not switch my fingers. like that. >> that actually was a perfect use of knife and fork. except it is a trick question. it is a scone. scones, you only ever use your hands. >> oh. that's easy. >> you just -- >> break it with your hands. >> interesting. >> how about the drinking of the tea. it is a biggie. >> hold it a

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as you look at some photographs, you'll look at jackie kennedy or audrey hepburn or what have you.ears into the future. diana, as much as we love her, it was an '80s dress. >> i think this one is really going to stand the test of time. just the same way you're going to wear it five decades from now. it's not going to date or age in quite the same way. that diana's did or fergies did in the same way. >> not to say it wasn't beautiful. >> it was '80s. >> so '80s. >> there was a lot of fabric. who didn't love the '80s, but it was very '80s. what can we expect from her going forward in terms of -- will she continue to make sort of slightly bold unusual choices? kate middleton tends to play it pretty safe in terms of her royal style. >> kate's royal style is perfect. it's always very quintessentially british. i think meghan's an american, she's mature, she's modern. we're going to see that in her fashion. she's already choosing when she wore a suit to the day, it was a suit which was appropriate but it was very modern, a funky cut to it, and i think we'll see more of that, where she hit

kennedy a ministration get big. so out they are on the water and she says to jack, what i'm asking for is something you have to think about in personal ways. you and jackie have had two enormous losses. jackie had lost a child to miscarriage. she had had a stillbirth. patrick had not yet been born. those two losses should convince you that we don't know enough about why women miscarry. we don't know enough about stillbirth when he said why thought you were just preoccupied with mental retardation. she said it's all of the peace and we now have what is called the eunice kennedy shriver institute for child health and human development. it was created during the kennedy administration because she saw what so many people in medicine could not see. ironically, when patrick was born he died shortly after birth. he died of hyaline membrane disease which is a lung disease that no children die of today because at the institute of child health and human development research into the development of lungs in the world had progressed in such a way that it's in non- starter as a serious threat to children. we all that to eunice. we think of her as the special olympics

kennedy/attorney "this is a very loving, together family. when you have true child abuse kinds of things, there's hostility and nastiness between the kids and the parents. this is a loving family."jackieee the whole thing actually dropped completely. they get their kids back, they need their kids back now."jeremy chen, joshua tree. (pam) (pam) today is the national day of prayer--people across the country are encouraged to participate and pray for the nation. the white house observed the occasion by inviting various spiritual leaders... to say a blessing in the rose garden. president trump also signed an executive order to create a faith- based office.. he said it would ensure that all faith- based communities have strong advocates in the white house... and throughout the trump administration. (pam) critics (pam) critics of the executive order say, it will actually inhibit freedom of religion by placing one relgious viewpoint above all others. (pam) the puerto rico national guard says, nine crew members died