kennedy family. he writes about bobby and he wrote the great book about bobby after his death but he said to the editor of "the new york times" in february of 1954 robert kennedy's letter is such an astonishing mixture of distortion and error that it deserves comment. in attempting to repeat the "times" with the subsequent soviet violations mr. kennedy suggests the far eastern agreement -- the fact is the soviet union pledged china's show retained full sovereignty in manchuria. not that many years later he writes the most eloquent and persuasive letter to the new york times about why bobby kennedy would be a good senator from the state of new york and why he deserves to run. so he was not inflexible in terms of making judgment about things but for me at least watching that my network and watching him on the american landscape and not just going with the whims but making strong judgment, this was an area he did know well and probably did know a lot more about bobby. >> he in fact that brings up a point which is that he did become, you got to know bobby very well when he was working the white house for p

and bobby kennedy had written a book, to seek a newer world. said it is not too late. tell me, how was he on civil rights to rescue was criticized for not moving when he was president of civil-rights by virtue of the fact that he would lose the support of the south in 1964 and the seven committee chairmen. did he build up any relationships, personally with them where he could move these bills based upon his tenure in the senate with the same people? >> i think the short answer is that kennedy, if he felt like he was on the fence on civil rights in the senate. he thought it was an impossible issue politically because he was trying to era have a political base that included both conservatives and the south. it felt like he needed to win in the south to win the presidency, and he also needed liberals. and just, when you read about his senate years commencing slyke sort of almost a nonstop effort to just avoid getting pinned down, and it just -- and several people, paul douglas was very critical. paul douglas held regular meetings and civil-rights and dollars invited kenne

piece -- healthcare piece -- when bobby kennedy went to west virginia and talked that we have poverty, touched something and everybody about these children. we should do something about this. it touched the morality and conscience of the nation. is that we challenge feel a sense of otherness. when a child looks differently or doesn't speak our language, there is not the same empathetic response. this notion around everyone should have health care because we are great nation has the capacity. that is not the way the conversation is playing out. instead it is those people are taking -- getting health care and taking money from me. --t is tied to the distort the distort -- the historic division. my hope is we can elevate that debate to the level of who are we as a nation that is inclusive of all of us. these are valleys that embraces all of us regardless of what we look like and sound like. thank you. [applause] >> we have been listening to steve phillips, president and cofounder of power pac. thank you ladies and gentlemen. this form is now adjourned. [applause] >> russia says it is pla

johnson really thought that bobby kennedy had this whole plan if the convention was disrupted, bobby edy was gone a step in and take the nomination from him. . >> this is a year after -- that even a year after the assassination of john kennedy. >> anyone around at that time knows that is preposterous. lyndon johnson was the hero at this point because he took over the presidency but he really felt that would happen. so he is behind the scenes trying to destroy the party. even more amazingly, he has tape-recorded all of his phone calls when he talks about this stuff. candidly and openly about how he is going to maneuver and don't put my name in, don't let them know i'm doing it. his role in that is something that is hard to be believed. >> gives the speech when fannie lou hamer gives her speech, and the press will cover him. i saidcorrection, president reagan. this speech he gave august 3 almost the same day years later that the bodies of schwerner, cheney, and goodman were found, was right after the republican convention in 1980 when he was nominated, launching his run for the presiden

it was bobby kennedy, in fact, who convinced him to make the phone call. kennedy himself was very reluctant to move on civil rights legislation early on until it dawned on him it was the right thing to do. so dr. king was less than enthusiastic about jfk in this tape, and i think for a good reason. eric? >> it's fascinating. your passion is palpable. your father was there. your father was there. >> at the i had a dream speech. he worked with dr. king. he was with him the day he got killed in memphis. >> i think the tape we just heard, that was just released, shows how gracious he was in making sure -- i don't know that it was he didn't want kennedy to get as much credit or he was going the extra mile to make sure everybody shared in the credit. >> what is missing from the tape is where he goes into a long series of people who helped him in the release. greg, any thoughts? >> every year we do this, i say the same thing. it would be nice to have more leaders like that than we have now, and i think more of them are coming from the right than the left. >> andre

bill de blasio's embrace of leaders like bobby kennedy, chavez shamus, -- cesar and others shows thatll expire to be -- aspire to be no less courageous than they. the challenge to in equities that we face, new yorkers should ensure our man that he will not stand alone in facing the naysayers of progress in our midst, that his invitation, if we assist him in fulfilling his mission, will not suffer. we shall commit ourselves to assisting him and insisting that the better part of ourselves live up to the political and changedurage that demands. how fortunate we new yorkers are that at his side stands surely .acrae [applause] her i is eternally on the hunt for truth. her moral center ensures that bill's moral flame will never dim for a one of the guardian of the gate. today begins a new era, a transformative journey of hope on the road to promise. america wrestle with her conscious. we have seen her struggle to become her better self. the solution to most people want america to become reside here in new york. dna forecome america's the future. [applause] gives new york another opportunity

here today and grow up in texas told me he heard two people speak here --martin luther king and bobby kennedy so no pressure, dad. [laughter] cleveland is a perfect place to have a discussion about the future of the u.s. politics. long before america elected a black president, cleveland blazed the trail by becoming the first major american city to elect a black mayor. that was in 1967. i still remember my mom making a point to drive us by his house when we were children. a lot has changed in america since 1967. many in national politics have been slow to appreciate the changes. the fact of the matter is there is a new majority coalition in america and that coalition was built on the solid foundation of the country's growing number of people of color and that is what we mean by brown is the new white. for the past 400 years or so, the united states has been a majority white country. it is worth noting the continent had many native americans and mexicans prior to the arrival of europeans. for the purposes of understanding contemporary american politics, the majority of the country have been whi

from texas, told me he's heard two people speak here in his whole life, martin luther king and bobby kennedy. so no pressure, dad. [laughter] cleveland is a perfect place to have a discussion about brown is the new white, the future of u.s. politics in the context of america's demographic revolution. long before america elected a black president, cleveland blazed the trail by becoming the first major more than city to elect a black mayor, carl stokes. for those of you under a certain age, that was 1967. and i still remember my mom making a point to drive us by mayor stokes' house on the way to see my grandparents who lived on east 1128th street -- 128th street. many in national politics have been slow to appreciate these changes. the fact of the matter is that there is a new majority coalition in america, and that coalition is built on the solid foundation of the country's growing numbers of people of color. and that is what we mean by brown is the new white. to perhaps state the obvious, for the past 400 years or so the united states has been a majority white country. it is worth noting tha

mr chairman the advice of counsel i assert my right to remain silent now here's a clip of bobby kennedy questioning lewis fronto during the mcclellan hearings check the. very. very hard. and the audio that for some reason has really screwed up but is new jersey politics is starting to really resemble you know the old mafia. style and that's what happened i. i think what you're what you're seeing here is is a character that his background is one of a u.s. attorney and he was always the one pushing people around and all of a sudden he understands you don't push people around without there being some ramifications listen here if you really honestly look at this story his position is i didn't know now this was this this wildstein fellow this david wildstein is somebody that he's grown up with he's around david wildstein all the time he has drinks with dale was wildstein they vacation together they're very very close and for anybody to assume that there hasn't been some discussion about what david wildstein did here is absurd and then you add to that that we just now start hearing the the go

five or six years ago, bobby kennedy was supporting natural gas, but when they realized that this was going to be a boom and that it was going to put their investments in solar and wind on the back burner, they changed their tune. so that's what this is all about. this is not about the science. it's not about the technology. it's pure politics. >> just funny thing, i did not know this. you're saying five years ago, robert f. kennedy jr. was in favor of natural gas? i did not know that. >> yes. if you look at, you know, you go back to the websites of some of these groups that he represents, they were supporting natural gas as the bridge fuel to solar. and wind. and when they realized we had this abundant supply, you know, their tune changed. >> so he pulled back because he will never get his dream of wind mills but they won't allow wind mills in nantucket when they go on vacation. all right. karen moreau, american petroleum institute, thanks. good luck. >>> knives are out, you know that, the knives are out for new jersey governor chris christie but is it hurting him in the opinion poll

remember those pictures of bobby kennedy touring through appalachian and touching the cheeks of hungry children. that's why we became democrats in the first place. those are the people that got us into politics. those are our people. don't throw that away just to be able to say you voted for a farm bill. don't turn your backs on our heritage and our history by giving bipartisan cover to what i believe is a flawed bill. we don't have to do this. the price of admission to pass a farm bill should not be more cuts to snap. and make no mistake about it. my friends on the republican side are not through when it comes to snap. they're going to come back after this program again and again and again. we need to push back. we need to say enough. you know, some -- you know, some have rationalized these cuts. some have tried to explain them away as being nothing but closing a loophole. they are wrong. people are going to be hurt. people all over this country, 1.7 million people are going to be impacted by this. there should be nobody in this country, the richest country in the history of the world

desperately making notes and she says but really there is something i want to say i keep telling bobby kennedy because old men are breaking better things are ready. i want them to know something. at night leave the decision to a recording of the broadway musical camelot about ladies and gentlemen, in she said appliance there was a spot known as camelot to paraphrase i forget the exact when eric she said that is how it was said it will never be that we again. there will never be another camelot there will be other presidents and craig but there will never be another camelot again. she says that over and over. life is waiting to run the story based on an interview that has not finished and has not been written. he goes up to tipsters bedroom and brings it down and this is where he shares. >> host: he is acknowledged to this later. >> he allowed jackie to read the story and edit corrections then he goes to her kitchen to dictates the letter a short story the last two pages as he reads the story jackie is standing right next to him she hears the editors say there is too much camelot. we will cut t

etheridge went on to publish two books on bobby kennedy.him. >> where? >> i think we may have found him. >> let me see. >> it's a picture inside the good samaritan hospital. there in the corner standing just outside of kennedy's room the good dr. miller. >> yes, it's him. >> that's him. >> that's him. >> finally, the photographic proof that my dad actually did what he said. my family history forever intertwined with the night that may have changed the course of american history. thank you. >> all right. all right. >> and that's where we first aired this report i was contacted by dozens of people who said they knew my father and had been helped by him. bill etheridge passed away sadly, in october, and his contributions to photography and history live on. >> incredible story. thank you, michelle. >>> when oprah winfrey decided to sell some of her things she didn't plan to do it herself. who? you know oprah. you'll see how they took control and what went on the auction block. gayle takes all of us behind the scenes with oprah only on "cbs this

hoover sent the tape and transcript to bobby kennedy. not endear king to the attorney general or the white house. >> the price that was paid was that there was never as much close trust between president kennedy, president johnson, and king. >> hoover's contempt for king was clear in his scrawl left on several fbi memos. >> king is a tomcat with obsessive degenerate sexual urges. king could well qualify for the top alley cat prize, disgusting. >> they are listening in on dr. king, writing memos, sharing those memos with presidents. those two guys -- >> yes. >> -- have sex on the brain a lot. >> yes. it's the hatred of a hypocrite. they think they have this special knowledge, thanks to the electronic surveillance, that king is so personally, sexually, a hypocrite and not a minister of the gospel. >> hoover's fbi leaked these sex stories to the press, but no newspaper took the bait. they couldn't ignore hoover when he called reverend king the most notorious liar in the country in a rare 1964 press conference. >> the bureau very much, very

family, ran for congress, a major sociallittle, close friend of jackie kennedys, and she calls carter burden and says, they have bobby too. "they" caught bobby too. i think it's the same people, by the way, it's relatessed to the fact that doctor martin king, and shortly before the murder telling the socialist he'll endorse kennedy for president in 1968. he knows the role king played in 1960 basically tips the election from nixon to john kennedy in the skin tight race. i suspect that that is also a factor in his murders. i am very -- i'm dopily interested in the robert kennedy murder. i was an admirer in many ways, and that definitive store not yet told either. yes, sir? >> can you describe to us what was like to be at daly plaza on november 22? >> surreal. first of all, the plaza is much, much smaller than you picture it. it's very compact. it was -- there were literally -- first of all, it's important that the city close the site down to the average citizen for a long period of time. they did so to control the messages of the comemtive service. they did not want this to be about questions regarding the assassinatio

bobby and teddy wearing black. her only jewelry, her gold wedding band. jacqueline kennedynation for the first time since that terrible day in dallas. thanking the nearly 800,000 people whose letters of condolence had poured into the white house. >> the warmth of these tributes is something i shall never forget. >> reporter: released today a time capsule of comfort and pain. 22,000 letters so moving, so personal, they were set aside to be answered individually. the carpenter in patterson, new jersey, who made a bust of jfk for his garden. miss prince's french class in rhode island. 10-year-old bridgette bear from lake charles, louisiana. she wrote mrs. kennedy i would love for you and your children to come over to our house when you're not busy. and in a kenyan village, the toddler named kennedy after the president. jfk can had just sent his namesake a signed picture from the white house. it arrived two days after he was killed. but most poignant of all, the letter from maxine mcnair, mother of denise mcnair, one of the young girls killed five months earlier in the bombing

kennedy library has now released some of those heartfelt personal notes. >> she had been widowed for only 53 days, less than two months since the assassination. joined by her husband's brothers bobbyer only jewelry, her gold wedding band. jacqueline kennedy spoke to the nation for the first time since that terrible day in dallas, thanking the nearly 800,000 people whose letters of condolence had poured into the white house. >> the wealth of these tributes is something i shall never forget. >> a time capsule of comfort and pain, 22,000 letters so moving and personal, they were set aside to be answered individually. the carpenter in patterson, new jersey, who made a bust of jfk for his garden. miss prince's french class in rhode island. 10-year-old bridget from lake charles, louisiana. she wrote mrs. kennedy, "i would love for you and your children to come over to our house when you're not busy." and in a kenyan village, the toddler named kennedy after the president. jfk had just sent his namesake a signed picture from the white house. it arrived two days after he was killed. but most poignant of all, the letter from maxine mcnair, mother of denise mcnair, one of the young girls kil

they included the late ted kennedy, an early backer of clinton's rival barack obama. also on the list, jay rockefeller, claire mccaskill, bobbyries of president nixon here. >> enemies list. i think this is a little bit different. because if hillary clint and bill clinton had an enemy list, democratic senators would not be on the enemies list. this is more a list of naughty and nice. what democrats out there, who they expected to be nice, who they counted on being nice, were naughty. you know, a lot of politicians have lists like these in their brains. let's be honest. a lot of people have lists like these in their brains, who's been good to me, who's been bad to me. >> you don't have one of those, to you, tapper? >> you've been good to me, you're on the right side of the ledger. the idea of putting it all there in an organized way. >> with points. >> also having it continue years after the primaries is what makes this the juicy nug ets from this pending book that it is. >> i am also hearing there is a nice list, the clintons staff kept a friends list, but we can't find that anywhere. do we know if it exists? >> the problem is

kennedy. in the afternoon robert in his shot, she calls carter burden and she says, they got bobby, too.they got bobby, to but i think it's the same people. by the way i think it's related to the fact that dr. martin luther king is picked up in fbi wiretaps shortly before his murder tally he is going to endorse robert kennedy for president in 1960. johnson knows the pivotal role came played in 1964 he basically gets the election from nixon to john kennedy in a skin tight race. so i suspect that is also a factor in his murders. i'm deeply interested in the robert kennedy murder. i was an admirer of robert kennedy, more than john kennedy in many ways, and they think that defensive story has not yet been told either. yes, sir. >> could you describe to us what it was like to be at the plaza -- at dealey plaza this last november? >> surreal. dealey plaza is much, much smaller than you picture it. it is very compact. it was -- they were literally -- first of all, it's important that the city close the site down to the average citizen for a long period of time. they did so to control the messag