a party man -- agreed that if humphrey won the nomination, bobby kennedy would support him and vice versa. humphrey often believed bobby kennedy wouldn't have been killed and that he had gotten the nomination, humphrey got the nomination, he would have won because of the support of bobby kennedy. >> so let's talk about your fabulous documentary, hubert h. mumpary, the art of the possible. i want to share with the students one of many moments from your work. this is at the convention in chicago summer of 1968. >> this moment is one of personal pride and gratificat n gratification, yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city. for the personal injuries which have occurred. [ applause ] surely we have now learned the lesson that violence breeds counter-violence, and it cannot condoned whatever the source. >> i believe that the republican candidate -- i believe the republican candidate owes it to the people to come out of the shadows. >> if you one time hav

it was amazing how -- i thought it was interesting how bobby kennedy was the one to give a speech when martin luther king jr. died. i would think it would be more someone else, maybe not senator kennedy, but i thought he did a good job. it was still in black and white, and there was so much turmoil going on in america at that time. i wonder had one less thing happened, had bobby ken didn't been shot or had the war -- the turmoil with the war not been going on, would things have turned out differently? >> one of those what-if questions. mick, how do you sfond? >> i think any one of those events would have certainly helped the situation, and there were moments when the peace process seemed like it was ending the war, which is also in the film. what you see is if the peace process did happen during that election, humphrey would have been elected president because that was in his way. any one of those assassinations would have certainly helped. the war was probably the central issue, and no matter what else happened, that had to be resolved because it's a really divided country. by the way

johnson and then along came kennedy, bobby kennedy, and all of this just sort of caused him to just basically give it up and say, you know, i need to be out of this. and the reason he quit was there are a lot of different ideas about it, but some say he was not healthy. others thought that he felt he couldn't win the war and couldn't do any good. maybe he couldn't win the election, his re-election. so no one really knows what those reasons were. humphries was shocked because johnson had -- when he -- when he read this over tv in a letter to people. sort of a thing that he had written, and in the morning he called -- that day that he left, he called humphreys and told him to come over in the morning and showed him a letter and said there's two endings to this and didn't tell him which one it was. humphries went to mexico on a trip and found out that he had left the presidency.

. >> where were you the night bobby kennedy was killed? >> it was an important night for me. i was in new york and i had gone over to nbc to do a little television interview on the california election and i went back to the -- they'd arranged we all had suites at the hotel, haldeman was right below me and he'd -- my suite was very nice. so i turned the television on and i saw bobby kennedy finishing making his speech at ambassador hotel, and he went out, there was a ballroom. i'd been with richard nixon 100 times. he always left that ballroom going through the kitchen is the way you got out of it without having to shake everybody's hand in the room. so i saw him go in to the kitchen and then suddenly the shots rang out. so i was obviously shocked and hoping he was alive and his press secretary was a friend of mine and was with him. frank. he's still a friend. so anyway, the question then in my mind was should i call nixon right away and tell him. i decided, no, it would be better to not tell him because he's going to need a lot of sharpness the next day. then i didn't call hi

. >> how about bobby kennedy? >> he was terrific. the first day that bobby kennedy came into office, he was committed to doing something about the discrimination in voting. >> am i guessing right that you were about 40 years old in that picture? >> that's right. >> let's go to the next still shot, and you're there on the right. who's on the right and who's in the middle in? >> the chief u.s. marshal is on the left, and james meredith is in the middle. it's a shot sometime when meredith entered the university of mississippi in 1962. >> and what's your role? >> i was the first assistant in the civil rights division at that time. i was asked to accompany james meredith when he entered the university. >> what was the significance of him entering the university of mississippi? >> well, no black student had ever gone to the university of mississippi. this was the first time. this was the first time any integration of schools in mississippi occurred. >> this was 1962. >> this was 1962. >> and what's the first memory that comes to mind about

you know, bobby kennedy lived to loathe lyndon johnson, as did ted kennedy and the kennedy family.lways a feeling that johnson's presidency wasn't real, that there was just a co-option of kennedy policies. and the proof is in the pudding. that bobby kennedy geared up to run in 1968 over vietnam and wanted to, you know in many ways, help cripple johnson's presidency. >> yeah, i mean, kennedy said like -- he laughed at him as like a river boat gambler. he called him landslide because he only won that election. the '48 election of the senate by 48 votes. used to kid him about having a dishonest election. he felt uncomfortable being in his presence. he didn't like being in the same room at lyndon johnson. let's go to something really important. that's the vietnam war. here's a new tape that came out november 20th, 1963. just two days before the assassination. kennedy had his eye on the situation in vietnam that fall. here is just, as i said, just two days before he got killed, talking about what he was going to follow up with south vietnam. let's listen. >> they were going to have a br

he's is son of joe ken did i ii and is the late bobby kennedy's grandson. >>> iran stirring up new concerns. saying they're dramatically closer to being able to produce nuclear fuel. they've resumed talks with powers. a government official tells us that the u.s. believes this is still time and space for a diplomatic solution. >>> and families in honduras are demanding justice after more than 350 prisoners were killed in a fire. inmates said guards refused to let screaming prisoners out as flames swept through the prison. firefighters said they were kept outside for half an hour. >>> the so-called underwear bomber could be hit with five life sentences when he's in court today. he confessed to trying to blow up an airliner with a bomb hidden in his underwear. he was the only person hurt in the 2009 christmas day plot. >>> and new details in the whitney houston investigation. her death certificate has been released. it does not list a cause of death. >> meanwhile, family members have allowed fans a chance to say good-bye. linsey davis has more. >> reporter: much to the delight of whitney houst

you know, bobby kennedy lived to loathe lyndon johnson as did ted kennedy and the kennedy family.at johnson's presidency wasn't real, that it was really just a co-option of kennedy policies and the proof in the pudding that bobby kennedy geared up to run in 1968 over vietnam and wanted to in many ways help cripple johnson's presidency. >> i mean, kennedy had these weird -- he laughed at them as kind of a river boat gambler and called them landslide because h gambler, called him "landslide" he won by 87 votes. used to kid him about a dishonest election. felt uncomfortable being in his presence. he didn't like being in the same room as lyndon johnson. let's go to something important to history, the viet nam war. a new tape came out november 20, just released, november 20, 1963 two days before the assassination. kennedy had his eye on viet nam. two days before he got killed, talking about what he was going to follow up with the ambassador henry cabot lodge. >> they were going to have a briefing book for me by saturday. i think i ought to be back here until maybe seven, then i have to

i remember the oregon primary and seeing bobby denky make that concession. we won. the first time the kennedys had lost an election. i was as close to him as i am to you. he brought his dog up and everything from california. very gracious to gene mccarthy who beat him. in the next week we were out of california because reagan had a disfavorite son. i was watching -- i was at home on the east side of new york and i got a call from jeff bell, and he said bobby kennedy's been shot. i called vice president nixon mr. nixon, and david and julie were over there and they'd been watching and nad already told him. and so from there i went to the convention in chicago for nixon after our convention. and i was p in chicago in the 19th floor of what we call the comrade hilton hotel after we'd been gassed down the street watching out the window. i was by myself comes after that. we all went to the windows and i saw the police come down balboa, michigan and balboa. they were coming down in a large number, and all of a sudden they fanned out and went through the pa park. and wallace, governor wallace was at 2

columnist, he was a political operative for two of the greatest liberal icons of the 20th century, bobby kennedy and senator george mcgovern who ran the most liberal campaign for president as a nominee of the democratic party that this country has ever seen. friday night on the news hour on pbs, he had this to say about the obama administration's decision that will require catholic institutions to provide contraceptive coverage in health care plans for their employees. >> the fallout is cataclysmic for the white house and for the president. >> joining me now is mark sheels. mark, thanks very much for joining me tonight. >> good to be with you, lawrence. >> don't go on and on. we can't talk all night like on pbs, because we have commercials here, mark, okay? we have to get to a commercial eventually. tell us -- a lot of our viewers haven't heard the case you're making about why this is cataclysmic for the president. talk about it on policy grounds and talk about it on political grounds. >> okay. first on policy grounds. it's an incredibly narrow constructionist definition of religion. it basicall

. >> you once worked on bobby kennedy's campaign? >> that was my first elected political involvement. but only for four months. in all your experience, is this any nastier than any republican democrat. >> not particularly nastier, we have now obviously the 24/7 coverage and so much more money spent on advertising that the commercials are so much rougher. so that probably is, but in terms of the hostility in the nation, people are forgetting 1968. in 1968, the nation was really divided. and i don't mean just by those who were politically active, it was the vietnam war, it was civil rights, our cities were burning, there were dmen stragszs, people were burning draft cards. the whole country was torn apart. >> there was a little bit of a banter with suze orman that they were broken people. and i take exception to this. i think they're not broken, they're suffering financial hardship but most of all they're angry at the politicians. because it's the politicians right now that are trying to kill each other. the people actually are probabl

if you look in the pews, there's no families of 8 or 12 or bobby kennedy families or whatever. the priests look out and they see that. but should the priests be forced to do something they believe is wrong? >> this issue is important to some catholics and socially conservative catholics. but i actually think it's an issue that's broader than just catholics. a lot of religiously observent people and people who aren't religiously observent want to respect religion. do you want to respect the rights of employees, but surely there's some other answer than the rule they have come up with. >> i tried not to take a position on this to try to make sure both sides are heard. it seems there ought to be a way to allow women who are concerned here and they certainly have more rights, and they deserve to get them. can they go to work knowing they can have birth control pills if they want. if they need them. if they want birth control, they should get it all. the question is what does it say on the documents that the church signs? they don't want to sign something that says we're giving it t

bobby kennedy calls them a criminal enterprise. they were like a rogue, out of control corporation who kills people as result. on a larger national scale, that's really what citizens united is about. it's sort of the endgame of what's happened in west virginia and other places but senator whitehouse took to the fore after the bp disaster, and it came out that bp and other oil, oil executives were literally in bed with government officials who were supposed to be regulating them. and this is what he said. so it's a reading from the book but it is actually his work because i couldn't find any myself that were better than this. this is what he said on the floor. have we now learn what price must be paid when the wealthy -- i'm sorry come when the stealthy as corporate influence on how to reach into an capture our of government. i pray let us have learned this, let us have learned that lesson. i sincerely pray we have learned and that this will never happen again. but let us not just break in this troubled world god works through our h

kennedy iii, the grandson of bobby kennedy will announce his candidacy for congress tomorrow. -year-old kennedy is running for the seat currently held by barney frank who is retiring. there hasn't been a kennedy in congress since congressman patrick kennedy of rhode island retired in 2011. that's only two years ago. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." iran is ratcheting up the level of international tension with a series of recent developments. today the iranian president made a big show. here he is, ahmadinejad, unveiling the country's first domestically produced fuel rods. in a ceremony that aired on iranian tv. second there are conflicting reports out now that iran intends to cut off oil to six european countries and, third, there is a suspicion iran was involved in monday's attacks on the israeli diplomats in india and the former soviet republic of georgia. and a botched attack just yesterday in bangkok. we go now to ali aruzi, nbc's tehran bureau chief. run through all of those. first of all, the nuclear advance. how would you calibrate it? >> reporter: fo

bobby kennedy, criminal enterprise. a railroad out of control corp. as a result. on the larger national scale that is with citizens united is about. part of the end game of what happened in west virginia and other cases but senator wychehouse took the floor after the bp disaster and it came out that bp and other oil executive flaps were literally in bed with government officials who were supposed to be regulating them and this is what he said. a reading from the book but actually his words. i couldn't find any myself that were better than this. this is what he said. have we learned what price must be paid when the wealthy tentacles of corporate influence are allowed to reach into and capture our agencies of government? i pray let us have learned that lesson. i sincerely pray we have learned and this will never happen again. let us not just pray. in this troubled world god works for our human hand. grow the more perfect union through our human heart. create a loving community through our human thoughts and ideas. it is not enough to pray. we must act. we must act i

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. >>> joseph kennedy iii, he's the grandson of the late bobby kennedy. jumping into the race to replace barney frank when he requi retires after this term. he would continue the long line of kennedies serving in congress with the exception of two years in the '60s was unbroken from 1947 until patrick kennedy's retirement last year. >>> the state department is denying reports that hillary clinton has talked to the white house about leaving the world bank after she leaves the administration, clinton has said publicly she won't be back as secretary of state next term if there is a next term. >>> rick santorum is holding events in michigan today hoping to win mitt romney's home state. joining me now is ron mott who is with santorum in detroit. his big economic message today, detroit economic club has come basically a little more than one week before we know mitt romney's about to do one. but he's decided to move the venue to ford field, santorum sticking with a smaller venue today. >> reporter: smaller venue today, chuck. good morning, this is the meeting of

was somebody angry what bobby kennedy was going after jimmy hofhoffa, the teamsters. >> charlie: my questis you as an historian and a good one, have you seen anything, anything to indicate that there was these connections? >> there's battle an bits and pt the problem is oswald could have made the shot. right after the man named lou wood a reporter for cbs news went right up to the book depository and had a rifle, did a, cbs would run and anger mrs. ke kennedy they showed how easy the shot was by the begunman. people say there were other people on the grassy knoll. if you can break them down to three different issues, who shot kennedy, who was oswald working for and what was the u.s. government's response, is the warren commission a viable historical document. then you're getting really three different areas that are still intensely being debated and scroot nayse naysedscrutinized. >> charlie: you haven't seen any other that indicates any conclusive conclusions on any of these questions. >> the most conclusive is what the warren commission said. oswald did it and he was a lone gunman. bend

i remember one time bobby kennedy was lamenting that j.f.k. only had three years and my husband, dick goodwin who worked for j.f.k. said "don't worry, bobby, julius caesar only had three years." and bobby said "yeah, but it's nice if you have shakespeare to write about you." (laughter) so it will be hard for him. >> this which raises another issue about successful presidencies. it's said bill clinton bemoaned the fact that during his presidency he didn't have a historic event that he could show what he was made out of. >> that gets back to how much a president really does make his times. i think doris is right about how much john kennedy grew throughout most of his firm term. he said to his aides civil rights, i can't do anything about that. too controversy. nuclear test ban treaty, i'll becrucified. but the point is he grew and realized these things could not wait so by the summer of 1963 he was saying if i lose the second term because of civil rights or test ban treaty it will be worth it. >> i understand president clinton's frustration on t

i think bobby kennedy was a good influence on him, and i think he might have avoided going in as deeply as lyndon johnson did. >> here is a cartoon from the lyndon johnson period, during the vietnam war. >> well, lynd johnson, you know, the great husky there is the vietnam war and he's telling the domestic needs that -- well -- >> it says there's money enough to support both of you. >> money enough to support both of you, and johnson did have our guns and butter policy, you can do both, but he actually balance the budget, but it was a very precarious thing and the war was costing lives and money and everything. >> here is "everything's ok -- they never reached the mimeograph machine," and headquarters, saigon. what's that? >> it was after the tet offensive in vietnam and you know, turning out things saying everything is dandy, and actually some military people say thatthe viet cong had really shot its bolt at the time of this tet offensive. but in this country, there were just too many lights at the end of too many tunnels and too many predictions of victory and people were sick of it,