>> now meet your candidate for the united states senate. >> how can this young whippersnapper of a congressman without much of a record run against henry cabot lodge jr. who has an ancestry that's much more distinguished? >> it was a brazen move, a move that looked totally quixotic, and nobody gave him much of a shot. >> jack needs all the help he can get. and his mother rose is one of his most important assets. >> rose was the expert at campaigning because she'd been campaigning with her father from the time she was a teenager when he had run for mayor of boston. >> rose kennedy was fantastic in front of an audience. she knew exactly what to say, and she knew exactly how to say it. she was extremely smart about politics, but she was also very smart about human nature. >> there was an idea to have formal tea parties where rose kennedy and her daughters and jack kennedy would go to a fancy