kennedy cross paths with aristotle onassis he gave instructions in the presence of his brother, the attorneyeneral. now i will back to my office i try to research why because i did not know exactly why. i found out onassis was in legal trouble with united states government and appeared to me the reason was them not wanting the to to cross paths it was going to be a political embarrassment for the president for the party if she was seen in the company of aristotle onassis. >> how much time to she spent around him? >> never saw him. never saw him in 1961. she had met him with the president at one time previous. an island off the coast in the mediterranean because his yacht was in the harbor. they were there. winston churchill was on board the yacht then senator kennedy wanted to meet winston churchill they arranged through mutual friends to go abort and meet winston churchill so she had met him. should not see him in 1961. she did see him in 1963. >> 325-foot yacht named christina. looks very nice yacht. >> how much time you spent on it? what i was there from when mrs. kenny got on until she g

kennedy cross paths with aristotle onassis, who said that? >> president kennedy gave me those instructions in 1961 when mrs. kennedy went to greece the first time she went there alone. she went with her-- alone, had her sister lee with her. she went there and she wanted to see the open air theater, on a yacht named the north wind, i believe it was, and the instructions from the president before-- i did my advance for the trip, was not to let mrs. kennedy cross paths with aristotle onassis and he gave me those instructions in the presence of his brother the attorney general. when i went back to the office i tried to research why. i didn't know exactly why and i found out that onassis was in legal trouble with the united states government and it appeared to me that the reason was for them not wanting the two to cross paths, it was going to be a political embarrassment for the president and for the party if she was seen in the company of aristotle onassis. >> how much did she spend around him? >> never saw him. >> in 1961. >> in 1961. never saw

aristotle onassis yacht. fill in the rest of that sentence and. he he learns that the the ship has docked in new york and gets on the phone and says, i will send my plane and i would love to have mr. churchill come to the white. for a few days. and we will just talk. and churchill's assistant made the decision that that would not happen. and the reason that he he was frail. and he did not want all of the attention would be focused on. the visit to show in that condition. if and i think it was probably a smart decision on his part. so they don't meet but. about five or six months before kennedy is assessed unaided. he confers honor, citizenship on winston churchill. first time in american that honorary has been granted to someone from another country and he gives this tremendous speech and it's all glowing and that and in the book it struck me he says he kennedy churchill, mo mobile lives the english language age and sent it into battle. oh, isn't that a great. that's a great phrase. well, the person who wrote that phrase was the cbs journalist bro