built in the frame of the old embassy ballroom where in june of 1968 bobby kennedy stood right arounde after winning the california primary. on to chicago and let's win there. after he said that he then exited out the pantry. what happened there changed american history. >> yeah. i was here for the victory speech and i was on the platform with bob here. >> paul was a kennedy confidant at the time and marvelled at the gold leaf being placed on the mural. >> bobby kennedy would have said -- and he would have said i love it because the kids will learn here. >> and while the half billion dollars came from a construction bond issue and could not be used for anything else, this is a school district that's laying off teachers and cutting academic programs. >> well, the school district also spent $700 million and two other high schools giving a reputation for building taj mahal schools. the district says that area has been underrepresented that is by the school district now. as school formally opens next month. >> well, they are dubbed kid killers but teenagers convicted of killing may get a

they think of jfk, bobby kennedy doing the work with cesar tshamba says, so traditionally they feel -- with cesar chavez, said the traditionally feel comfortable with the democratic party, but their values align with the republican party. what we need to do is reach out and explained it would feel more comfortable with our party. obviously, what we have to do is also reach out to the republican party as the conservative establishment and educate them about the values and aspirations of latinos so they understand they are not liberal but actually very conservative. tavis: respectfully, the republican party can sell and focus millions on a campaign to reach out to the hispanic voters. the only problem with the ronald reagan statement about latinos is it is very ignorant, as if they do not understand what is important to them. latinos understand where they stand on this immigration debate. the party could sell all day long, try to pull them all day long, but on the issue is the party is wrong and that is why they're not getting the votes, yes? >> well, not really. the problem with the im

jfk's trust in sorrienson was so high that he asked hi to help bobby kennedy draft a k letter. it was to khrushchev at the most critic point of the first nuear confrontationetween global super powers and it worked. he was just 34. >> during the first year i was a lowly research assistant, but then after one year he asked me to help on the speech. he likedy draft of the speech and afte that, i couldn't get rid of the speech writing job. >> reporter: then, of course, there is the phrase that many quote. >> ask not what your country can do for you. >> ask what you can do for your country. >> reporter: and where did that co from? >> that came from the process of collaborion and the basic feel of kenne's campaign for president. i loved the man, loved the job. and because my parents did bring me up to care about this country nd this world, i was doing what i wanted most to do. >> reporter: cheryl jennings, a 7 news. >> china is on a spending spree. the country appears fosed on buying silon valley companies, david louis with an inside look at what they're planning to buy and why. >> r

let's send this guy known as a cross between james bond and bobby kennedy. let's send sergio. i asked him personally to take the job. i said, you are the right person for this job and i hope you will do it. >> president bush had met him and, i think, rated him very highly. there was therefore a general consensus that if he could be persuaded to do it, he would be the right person. >> he never wanted the job in iraq. but that week he had just received a phone call from new york where the secretary- general was asking him to go and see him. and i asked, to talk about what? about iraq? you were already clear. >> sergio and his friends were saying absolutely no. he just got a new job. but the pressures mounted and he clearly became more interested, and was finally influenced by the profile of the issue it was the center stage of u.n. action in 2003. >> why sergio? >> because in the course of doing the rwanda film, i met people like gromo alex. the best and brightest of the u.n. -- whatever you think about the un, there are some amazing people there. gromo, i became interested in t

and the worst thing that kennedy said though to johnson was they hid bobby's visit to the gesture that ended the cuban missile crisis. so johnson felt and the american public thought that the lesson of the cuban missile crisis was we were eye ball to eyeball and we made the other guy blink when the truth was both identify-- sides blinked. >> woodruff: you say he belonged probably in what you say as the second-tier of great presidents. and that was not something that was recognized when he was alive. >> no, i think he belongs with jackson, teddy roosevelt, jefferson, right below the top washington. >> woodruff: despite vietnam. >> yes. but vietnam, it's hard to say despite vietnam. you know, someone used that line with john kevin galbraith and that's like saying switzerland would be flat without the alps. so. >> woodruff: but vietnam was what -- >> vietnam was his presidency and it was, he was wrong. he was just wrong. he was a man who worried terribly about his manhood, about being courageous. one of his airedes told me that-- aides told me that the-- the aide was leaving and he wanted