when war broke out, john f. kennedy joined the navy. >> a lot of people recognize the exceptional circumstances of him joining the navy. he overcame a lot of physical disabilities. he was disqualified for naval service. he had a number of other maladies. mosquitor joked about for the mosquito would die. he did want to join the navy. even though he was initially rejected. he wanted his father to intervene on his behalf. he was initially assigned to a test job. he was given a command of pt boats. all of those operations very much and his sense of public service. appreciationhis for democracy. assault from a world that did not believe in the kind of freedom. debates within his address toixon, his the nation at that point is, can america live half free and have slave? he referred to lincoln in that speech. it is an interesting take on the world. grounded int it is his service in world war ii. paul: there was another incident during world war ii i think had enormous inflict -- influence on john f. kennedy. that was the death

i think john f. kennedy's inaugural address remains one of the best beaches of all time. >> i have to agree and i have to say fdr and the events of his time as presidency shaped the nation, shaped that generation. in profound ways. even nixon is only three years older than kennedy. president herbert walker bush is only six years older than kennedy. world war ii shapes them and so many other kennedy sibling serve in the war either in the military or in civilian rules. i think president kennedy would have encouraged us, were he alive today, to always value public service and considerate and consider it in its many forms. as a way to make the world that around us. paul: that is a great place to end today's conversation. thank you for joining us. you do a great job up there. i hope you have a great year. >> always great to talk. i look forward to visiting hyde park again. paul: that is it for today. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accurac

it is that reason that this place became the living memorial to john f. kennedy. when congress asked mrs. kennedy what should we do to recognize your husband, she asked that they name the national cultural center in his honor. and, in fact, that inspired the contributions that made it possible to build this building that we're in today. the kennedy center really has three elements to its mission. obviously, world class art. but also powerful education and programs that reach across the country. and we're really well known almost in all 50 states and puerto rico and d.c. for our education program. it is the programs that happen here all the time that really support and sustain the memorial to john f. kennedy. our work as we near the 50th anniversary is to strengthen that message and to really reaffirm and remind our patrons and visitors alike that it is what he stood for, what he believed in, how he lived his life that we really represent here. we celebrated his centennial last year and really focused all of our work in that year around attributes that we ascribe to

john f. kennedy has been in office 2.5 years. think it is fair to say his record was mixed as president. his first year, 1961, he authorized the disastrous bay of pigs. he had a difficult meeting with nikita khrushchev in vienna. where he was bullied in a sense, when bullied meant something different. he watches the berlin wall go up in august of 1961. by the end of that year, when a reporter says to him, "i would like to write a history of your first year in office," kennedy to him and says, "why would you like to write a history about disasters?" by 1962, things are changing. he faces down executives that were trying to raise prices. he faces down nikita khrushchev famously in what is the cuban missile crisis. by 1963, he is feeling confident about his presidency, but he also knows that america is at a watershed, a turning point. both the height of the cold war arms, and around civil rights. let's deal with nuclear war. i just mentioned the cuban missile crisis of 1962. 13 perilous days in the autumn of 1962 where historians st

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his inaugural address, seen as quite hawkish, and some people said don't judge john f. kennedy by his inaugural address, judge him by the peace speech. the rhetoric, the tone. when kennedy says in the final analysis, we all inhabit the same planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's future, we are all mortal, he is almost universalist in his appeal. this kind of language had not been heard from the mouth of a president since perhaps franklin roosevelt was dealing with stalin. -- nikitahristoph cannothev years this, he believe what he is hearing. in,e will be and it goes and six weeks later, just to show you -- as you know, sometimes things do happen from speeches -- there will be a limited nuclear testing treaty, the most important foreign policy decision and achievement of the kennedy administration. later,: a few hours after this transformative foreign policy speech that kennedy gives at american university, your book details how heap -- how he has pivoted two hours later to another major, pressing national issue, concerning -- governor wallace and the

john f. kennedy admired powell a great deal. and when john f. edy was elected, powell became chairman. so imagine that. two separate committees. it was very powerful. and under lyndon johnson actually some of legislation began to gush forth read the warm property was leo much of the success to powell. he was relentless. he also had cited them somewhat dark. he hired people who didn't show up for jobs. he put his third wife on the payroll. she was from puerto rico. he was so undisciplined when it came to ethics at the u.s. congress passed that an ethics bill largely because of adam clayton powell jr. they were not the ethic crimes from the headlines and we read about now. but at the time, travel and so many southern enemies that is crimes were explosive headlines. he was expelled from congress. for an ethics violation. after 24 years in house, he went to the supreme court anyone. they told u.s. congress you did a great injustice to adam clayton powell jr. and the voters of harlem. they elected him, should let them come back and take a seat and you

john f. kennedy. eated and produced by cbs news for the cbs television network. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is the white house as seen from the south lawn. for the next hour mrs. john f. kennedy invites you to visit. >> good evening, everybody. do i need to use this? okay. what i'd like to do for a few minutes is bring a little color to a black and white tv show. some color pictures of how these rooms looked when mrs. kennedy was doing it and then some pictures of how the rooms have changed since that time. because i think mrs. kennedy would been the very first person to say to everyone that what she was doing was a first step when she was asking people to donate things, well, maybe the very best things weren't being offered at the time but when she had nothing you took a lot of things that were offered. so there have been improvements into the collection and growth in the collection and that is what she expected every first lady, president and first family to do, to contribute to the house remaining a museum and gr

you have arrived at john f. kennedy airport. all of you is open to every sensation and every sensation is fresh. my first thought was i had been it down in a brilliant part, did not occur to me these were the colors of my new flag. they were just brilliant and were everywhere. sky.ildings against the in the clothing the people war. did whatnitial day, i americans think a very strange thing. i decided to walk to times square. walk did notr deter me at all. it was like entering a hall with music swelling all around. a melody that had been in the deepest part of me before but had never found its voice. the city itself was magically music and fresh colors mixed together and moving along. i was the one standing still. now happening on this new land gave me a kind of delight that often seems to feel small children. the men in dress, the flags on the street sent my mind. this sense of new elation carried over so that every site seemed to trigger my cartoonist mind and suddenly i was reconstructing how our caveman ancestors found it nec

then, suddenly, it's all over, you have arrived at john f. kennedy airport. all of you is open to every sensation and every sensation -- my first thought was that i had been put down in a brilliant part of colors, mostly of red and white and blue. it did not occur to me that these were the colors of my new flag. they were just brilliant, they were everywhere. on vehicles, on buildings, against the sky itself, in the close the people war. on that initial day, i did what i have learned since americans think are very strange things. i decided to walk to times square. that five-hour walk didn't hire me at all. it was like entering a hall with music swelling all about. a melody that had always been in the deepest part of me before, but had never found its voice. ♪ ♪ >> the city itself was magically music, and fresh colors mixed together and moving along. i was the one who was standing still. parades where i came from had lost their meaning for me long ago. now happening on one in this new land gave me a kind of delight that often seems to fill small children. the

chairman, white house historical association board of directors and deborah rudder, president of the john f. kennedye performing arts. [applause]

. >> during the 1960 campaign senator john f. kennedyhbor audience on chicago's south side, then he grows are the first to be fired in a recession because have not had a chance to learn skills. president john f. kennedy knows this is still true. birmingham forced him to push for civil rights legislation this year. the president believes even with the best civil rights legislation, the nigro will advance socially when he advances economically. this belief is shared by the man closest to him, his brother, the attorney general. >> this is going to be an education problem at an economic problem. when you have such high and ,mployment among nigro's averaging in our northern communities two to three times that of white people. the you have one out of heads of one out of every fortney were families in the city of chicago that do not have employment, does one out of every four nigro families in chicago that do not have employment, you have nigro's drawing relay for the second generation where you have young people who drop out of school in large

historians edward ayers and joann freeman as well as norman or steen, and an author talks about john f. kennedy and the 48 hours that made history about two days, june 10th and 11th, 1963, that defined jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. explore the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> former first lady barbara bush passed away in april of 2018. she was 92 years old and had been married to george h.w. bush for 73 years. we talked to her in 2013 about her life before being married as well as her public and private life after marriage. >> barbara bush, with all the posts that you and the president have held over the years, was there one that best prepared you for the white house, and when you became first lady, did you feel prepared? >> the answer is did i feel prepared? yes, i really did. first of all, i wasn't elected so it didn't make that much difference. i did notice, though, the difference between being the vice president's wife and the president's wife is huge because the vice president's wife can say anything. nobody cares. the minute

. >> the more americans mistrusted government, the more they believed that john f. kennedyn assassinated by a secret group of officials who did not like his policies. >> soon an entire cottage industry was created around the jfk assassination. books, board games, video games and of course, a hollywood block buster. >> one of the grossest lies ever forced on the american people. we have come to know it as the magic bullet theory. >> great cinemtography and terrible history. >> but it was the internet age of the '90s and 2000s that helped to rocket a conspiracy theorists right to the presidency. [♪] looking to repair dry, damaged hair without weighing it down? try pantene daily moisture renewal conditioner. its color-safe formula uses smart conditioners to micro-target damage helping to repair hair without weighing it down. try pantene. some companies still have hr stuck between employeesentering data.a. changing data. more and more sensitive, personal data. and it doesn't just drag hr down. it drags the entire business down -- with inefficiency, errors and waste. it's ridicu

this is where the casket of john f. kennedy was taken up the steps, after his assassination in 1963. and this is where john lewis' casket will be taken up those steps, and lie in state. in fact, it will lie on the lincoln platform, the wooden platform that held the casket of abraham lincoln, also held the casket of john f. kennedy in 1963, and now will hold the casket of john robert lewis. in 2020. it plays its own part in history. there are so many wonderful stories about john lewis, i just want to tell one quick one. as a little boy, he was the son of sharecroppers in a very rural part of alabama, and his nickname was "preacher." his job on the farm as a sharecropper's son was to take care of the chickens, and he apparently decided that he was going to be the preacher to the chickens, and so he would baptize the chickens, he would preach the bible to the chickens, and when they died he would give them elaborate funerals. so his family knew him as "preacher." i think at one point there was some thought that if he did intend ce

. >> the more americans mistrusted government, the more they believed that john f. kennedysinated by a secret group of officials, who did not like his policies. >> soon, an entire cottage industry because created around the jfk assassination. books. board games. video games. and of course, a hollywood blockbuster. >> one of the grossest lies ever forced on the american people. we've come to know it as the magic-bullet theory. >> great cinematography. terrible history. >> but it was the internet age of the '90s and 2000s that helped rocket a conspiracy theorist right to the presidency. - i didn't know why my body was moving on its own. it turns out i have tardive dyskinesia, a condition that may be related to important medications i take for my bipolar disorder. tardive dyskinesia can affect different parts of the body. it may also affect people who take medication for depression and schizophrenia. - [narrator] in today's trying times, we're here to help you manage td. visit talkabouttd.com for a doctor discussion guide to prep for your next appointment in person, over the p

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john f. kennedy and the 48 hours that made history. 1963 thatd 11th, defined jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. up next, a visit to philadelphia's museum of the american revolution. in the first of a two-part program, we learn about the location and design, tour the exhibit galleries exploring the origins of the revolution. >> my name is michael quinn. i am the president and ceo of museum of the american revolution. i am now standing on the plaza

building laguardia airport, the first new airport in the united states, in 25 years, redoing john f. kennedy airport. and if that was not enough, he had to deal with something called covid, which obviously impacted the airports, and we are so lucky to have him. i want to thank him very much for everything he has been doing. this morning we are going to be joined by mayor bottoms, the mayor of atlanta. and she is going to join us this money. the morning, how are you, mayor -- this morning. good morning, how are you, mayor? good to be with you. i don't know if the audio is working. mayor bottoms, we have been watching you. we are your neighbors to the north and we have been watching you and what you have been going through, and first, i hope you are feeling well, and i hope your family is feeling well. on top of everything, you have to be dealing with the covid virus yourself. then you have your hands more than full there. you have not only the covid virus but the other virus of racism and division, and what was going on with mr. brooks. but we just want to tell you, on behalf of new yorkers,

on the presidency, author andrew cohen talks about his book "two days in june, john f. kennedy and the 48 hours that made history" about two days, june 10th and 11th, 1963, that defined jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and sicivil rights. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> ladylike does not require -- why should my husband's job or yours prevent us from being ourselves? i do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. >> betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with breast cancer, through much oher family's public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her post-white house years. welcome to first ladies, influence and image. tonight, we'll tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38th president, president gerald ford, and here for the nebs 90 minutes to tell her story is richard norton smith, presidential historian. if you have been

63 with birmingham, what malcolm at times ignored that the parts of king's rhetoric that made john f. kennedy, president kent, president lyndon johnson very uncomfortable. parts that are radical structural transformation and not just reform. king is going amplify the parts much more after malcolm's assassination but when we think but the context of george floyd, ahmad arbery, san bra bland, one thing you see from malcolm and martin they realize the criminal justice system, even in the context of the 1950s and 1960s was a gateway to panoramic injustice. we need a radical transformation not just criminal justice in the out but the way in which the criminal justice system interfaces with all aspects of democratic institutions, and that guess from public spaces where people are being surveilled in terms of housing, goes for public schools that are pipeline to corrections for juveniles and adults. that goes for so many different aspects of our lives. but i think malcolm and martin absolutely understood that. so even though that is a debate, i think over time they both come to realize that they're

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. >> reporter: and he was among the leaders who met that day with president john f. kennedy. >> i was not concerned about making history i just wanted to change things. >> reporter: on march 7th, 1965 in selma, alabama he did both. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation -- >> reporter: leading a peaceful march for voting rights, they were attacked by state troopers wielding clubs and tear gas it became known as bloody sunday. lewis suffered a fractured skull. >> i lost consciousness. 50 years later i don't recall how i made it back across that bridge. >> reporter: televised images of the violence that day galvanized the nation, spurring passage of the voting rights act, signed into law just five months later john lewis was there too. >> i'm john lewis from the board of education project. >> reporter: he worked tirelessly to turn hard wan voting rights into political power. >> too many black people died in the state for the right to register and the right to vote. >> reporter: he helped run volunteer programs for president carter and in 1986 was elected to congres

on the presidency, author andrew cohen talks about his book "two days in june, john f. kennedy and the 48 hours that made history" about two days, june 10th and 11th, 1963, that defined jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and sicivil rights. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> ladylike does not require -- why should my husband's job or yours prevent

"jacqueline kennedy: historic conversations on life with john f. kennedywhich you annotated and introduced and worked with caroline kennedy on. >> jacque kennedy, right in the wake of the assassination she was reading all sorts of stories about her husband wouldn't amount to very much because it'd only been two years and ten months so she was so determined to try to help him win this reputation that she felt he deserved. one of the things that was urged on her by arthur shlessinger, the white house aide and historian was, there's a new movement called oral history which barbara is working very deeply in right now at the university of virginia and that is that, you know, when there are historical events that may not be recorded in letters we go and interview a great figure in history and somehow try to fill in the gap. so shlessinger interviewed her at her house in georgetown i think about eight times. was about eight, ten, hours in the end. only a few months after the assassination when her memories were very fresh and the idea would be that she would spea

ok for 25 years i taught in the john f. kennedy institute for north american studies at the university for women and we require our students to go abroad and naturally people would go to canada and the united states and to a student they would come back with a much richer different differentiated view of america what makes america great where america shares problems just like problems here in europe but it is an understanding. for the united states and respect a deep respect for its educational institutions they bring that back the other thing to keep in mind the american students gain enormously they don't have to come and go broad to have close intimate contact with. students coming from abroad they enrich the campus environment in the united states it's hard to imagine the stem a group science technology engineering studies mathematical studies these are many many foreign students who named it help maintain the programs and that's where the long term innovations for the american economy are to be found out it's you can't find a

it is connecting john lewis with john f. kennedy. thorou marshall and lincoln as well.s. it is the son of two former sharecroppers. lying in state there in the capitol rotunda. professor, before you joined us, as we watch all these lawmakers simultaneously, a number of them, all members of the cbc, the congressional black caucus, professor, in terms of how he should be remembered in 30 seconds, i know that's terribly unfair, but how should we remember congressman lewis? >> you know, echoing heather mcghee earlier, he's a founding father. he helps us reach for an america that is just. it should be understood as a saint. a saint is not a perfect person. it's someone who exemplifies the virtues that define the good life as we imagine. but he's a child of the south. of our tradition. we have to remember him as the best of who we are. yeah. risked everything. and hopefully as an example for us to risk everything right now. so we need to lift him up. >> heather, word came down a short time ago. when asked at the white house, whether he would be paying his respects to john lew

audience the book that came out of this, "jacqueline kennedy: historic conversations on life with john f. kennedy, " which you annotated and introduced and worked with caroline kennedy on. >> what is this project, before we listen to the tape? >> well, when jackie kennedy, right in the wake of the assassination, she was reading all sorts of stories about her husband wouldn't amount to very much because it had only been two years and 10 months. so she was so determined to try to help him win this reputation that she felt he deserved. >> one of the things that was urged on her by arthur schlesinger, the white house aide and historian, was there was a new movement called "oral history" which barbara is working very deeply in right now at the university of virginia. and that is that, you know, when there are historical events that may not be recorded in letters, we go and interview a great figure in history and somehow try to fill in the gap. >> so schlesinger interviewed her at her house in georgetown i think about eight times -- it was about eight, 10 hours in the end -- only a few months after the

trump but about trump going after his pedophile it shows they can believe certain things like john f. kennedy jr is still alive and he's trying to bring down the path to file ratings and they are increasingly networked with high profile people in congress in the white house and self-worth trump retreating several cunanan supporters so this is a large and growing movement. so here and i'm curious you mentioned the part about j.f.k. jr being actually live in going to come back and bring down this ring so he would be from the left or right and i think most people associate is it fair to say q anon is a right wing movement or is it something else. it certainly is there's an interesting sort of a harsher situation happening with that where the mythology of turin on actually holds that the j.f.k. assassination in the 1960 s. was actually part of this big giant conspiracy by what they call the couple and you know we have these presidents particular have a j.f.k. ronald reagan and ol trumpet all in this mythology that they are you know these iconoclast who have trouble the cabal they fought it all th

on the presidency, author andrew cohen talks about his book, two days in june, john f. kennedy and the 48 hours that made history, about two days, june 10th and 11th, 1963, that defined jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. exploring the american story, watch americantj-history tv thi weekend on c-span3.Ñ8ud >> and now, hillary clinton discusses her time as an attorney on the staff of the house judiciary committee during the impeachment inquiry of president richard nixon in 1974. this interview is from the richard nixon presidential library and museum oral history collection, and was conducted by a former libraryngtb director, timothy nephtally on july 9th, 2018. >> when you graduate in 1973, what do you expect to be doing in 1974? >> well, i expected to be doing what i started out doing when i graduated, which was to go to work for the children's defense fund for marion aidalman. b6 and again, i think that's right. i wanted to go to work with her so i moved to cambridge, and began working doing investigations and litigation around issues like the incarcerat

. >> and of course, lyndon johnson succeeding john f. kennedy following his assassination in november of 1963, and john dickerson in his final press conference october 31st, 1963, there was this question to president kennedy. >> mr. president, just shortly after the bay of pigs, i asked you how you like being president. if i rerd, you said you liked it better before the event. now you had a chance to appraise your job. why do you like it and why do you want to stay in office four more years? >> well, i find the work rewarding. whether i'm going to stay and what my intentions are and all of that seems to be still many months away, but as far as the job of president goes, it's rewarding and i have given before this group the definition of happiness. i'll define it again. the full use of your powers along the lines of excellence. therefore, the president provides some happiness. >> that's 1963, and again, john dickerson three weeks later, he would be assassinated. >> he was, of course, already thinking about his next term. so keeping the tradition

together with john f. kennedy as president bashar intensified iran u.s. relations the 2 of them agreed that only a strong military could fend off the latent threats from the soviet union the u.s. promised aid to strengthen iran's armed forces and in return for weapons america would get oil. i think ari. often the americans gave the modern weapons to build up his armed forces. there were countless military advisors in iran who decided what would be done and what wouldn't give us. that and the things they did was certainly not a service to democracy bush diminished a democratic. in the 960 s. iran was still very much a developing country most people were tenant farmers with most of the land in the hands of feudal lords and big landowners including numerous mourners and religious foundations. on january the 11th 1963 the shan put forward a comprehensive reform program aimed at significantly improving the people's living conditions he called it the white revolution. and the nervous if it was a white revolution that his majesty decided to undertake was truly h

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