bobby kennedy announced to a that dr. king had died. i thing every american would do well to read through it this week. he spoke words in the moment that are not only historic that spoke to the hearts of the people of our community in .ndianapolis he challenged everyone to pray and return home. find ways to to come together after difficult for consensus. >> i will and where i began on politics. and a lot of ambitious republicans are hitting the campaign trail. you to travel around the country and help out with republican candidates? >> i have been doing that. part ofghted to be a the republican governors association. we have some fantastic candidate running for election and reelection. as we move into full-scale elections after labor day, the ones in indiana allow me to do it. i will be traveling around the country. at the state level. put these republican principles into practice it still works. the progress we are seeing in education are all a result of the act that we are putting these into practice. i love telling that story. pence,

will take a very big win, a spectacular win in california, to repair the badly shattered kennedy image. >> bobby's it. you know, this was just the way that everybody felt. >> for kennedy, 48%. and for mccarthy, 41%. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ this land is robert kennedy's ♪ >> all of us are involved in this great effort, and it's a great effort not on behalf of the democratic party. it's on behalf of the united states, on behalf of our own people, on behalf of mankind all around the globe -- [ cheers and applause ] >> my thanks to all of you and now, it's on to chicago and let's win there. [ cheers and applause ] >> senator, this way. this way. >> i was upstairs in the ambassador hotel. we were getting ready for a victory party. somebody called. i picked up the phone in the suite. this colleague called and said, something's happened to the senator. >> senator kennedy has been shot! is that possible? >> it was bedlam. i couldn't find kennedy. finally found him. he was lying on the floor. [ shouting and chaos ] >> somebody shot him in the corridor behind the kitchen, going through the kitchen here. >> everybo

of time, basically a decade we had the assassination of president kennedy, the assassination of bobby kennedy. at sa asse aassassination and water gate. it was a heavy load that the american people are being asked to show. it showed in the expressions of the members. tom railsback was under enormous stretch because he was a strong supporter of president nixon. he lost his voice and never regained it. congressman flowers was suffering from bleeding ulsers. >> those who would come to public sessions, he would come with an individual named rabbi korve and made it known they were opposed to where the committee was going. >> were there a lot of personal things that were going on in the lives of individuals that perhaps were never known to the public but in the committee. >> did you have a sense of how riveting the events were and how much americans were watching. >> before we opened it up to the public, no. we had been meeting day after day after day, of course the press is trying to get information. it was pretty closed. i know i would brief members of the press from time to time on context or re

. >> this is after bobby kennedy was shot. suddenly, all the candidates got secret service protection. nixon was at the point. ray price and i were staying down at and inn. >> 1968? >> 1968, just before the convention. i think rosemary woods was out there too. the rest of the gang went down to miami beach. nixon is in theire and i see ths guy standing there, looking around. he is looking off to the woods. i was behind him and i picked up a rock and i threw it over his head into the woods. he went into a crouch. i probably shouldn't have done it. >> he drew his gun? >> he put his hand on his gun, it was a stupid thing to do. >> why did you do that? >> the impulse of something. >> the kind of thing that got you in trouble in georgetown, messing with the cops? [laughter] >> the beginning i have got that whole story. -- right from the beginning, i have got the whole story. >> here is another story -- richard nixon meeting with a group of harvard students. >> that was very early, february, 1966. nixon invites me to his apartment, m

>> bobby kennedy knew he had to win california and that would be his ticket to the convention. >> it e a big win, spectacular win in california to repair the kennedy image. >> bobby is going to do it. this is just the way everybody felt. >> 48%, senator mccarthy 41%. [ cheers ] >> all of us are involved in this great effort, a great effort not only on behalf of the democratic party but the united states, on behalf of our own people and man kind around the globe. [ applause ] >> my thanks to all of you and it's on to chicago. >> senator? senator? >> i was upstairs and we were getting ready for a victory party and somebody called. i picked up the phone and this colleague said something is happened to the senator. >> senator kennedy has been shot. >> senator kennedy has been shot. is that possible? >> i couldn't find kennedy. finally found him. he's lying on the floor. [crying] >> somebody shot him behind the kitchen, right to the kitchen. >> everybody please stay back, please stay back. we need a doctor here. >> please, it's very important. we need a doctor. >> will you please clear thi

of time, basically a decade we had the assassination of president kennedy, the assassination of bobby kennedy. at sa asse aassassination and water gate. it was a heavy load that the american people are being asked to show. it showed in the expressions of the members. tom railsback was under enormous stretch because he was a strong supporter of president nixon. he lost his voice and never regained it. congressman flowers was suffering from bleeding ulsers. >> those who would come to public sessions, he would come with an individual named rabbi korve and made it known they were opposed to where the committee was going. >> were there a lot of personal things that were going on in the lives of individuals that perhaps were never known to the public but in the committee. >> did you have a sense of how riveting the events were and how much americans were watching. >> before we opened it up to the public, no. we had been meeting day after day after day, of course the press is trying to get information. it was pretty closed. i know i would brief members of the press from time to time on context or re

i call it the bobby kennedy moment.e when bobby kennedy called floyd mann of the highway patrol in alabama and said, will you protect the freedom riders? if a warrant is obtained that doesn't preclude the things our guest is saying. he understands what i'm saying as well. >> let me ask you this, paul, as a prosecutor. >> yeah. >> a lot of what i have heard around ferguson and st. louis county is the distrust is because there is so much secrecy. nothing put in front of the public, not even to the family. how do you feel about that as a prosecutor, that it seems like transparency is not there at all? >> i feel like there are a number of issues that buy into the lack of transparency. because there aren't conversations coming from law enforcement. one of the things that actually makes he hr optimistic and hopeful about the situation is that the federal government has stepped in and is conducting their own investigation as to what they think should happen in this case and they are reviewing all of the facts and evidence in t

we give a lot of credit to bobby kennedy, but bobby kennedy never went to the south during the civil rights movement when he was attorney general. he sent people. the fight that we have, the president addressing this issue, the fact the attorney general came to the scene of a police civil rights matter, means we're being heard. now we must be determined and disciplined to make our chance lead to change and our demonstrations into legislation. as the families have the right to engage the criminal justice system for justice. >> there was a portion in your speech i think will probably get a lot of attention. it was kind of directed inwards about kind of getting our act together. i'm speaking in your voice now about african-americans and acting right and there's a long tradition of this, of course, and there are also critics who hear this and they call it -- they use the term respectability politics, that this is a way to kind of audition for the outside world and that that kind of respectability politics doesn't end up gaining anything. what do you say to those critics who hear that por

we didn't see bobby kennedy go to the south in civil rights area.w a sitting attorney general go to ferguson and i think that's historic. i think these moves will lead to real change. our chance must lead to change, our demonstration for legislation. we'll get up there. you must remember the montgomery bus boycott started in 1955. we didn't get civil rights legislation until '64. change takes time. but those of us that are committed are willing to put in the time because we cannot tolerate not having the change. >> there's a big article on u.s. magazine this week, talks about how close your contact with the white house is. how you often serve as kind of a surrogate for the white house. let me ask you about the president and in the case of ferguson in particular, racial relations in america in general. is he doing enough? >> first of all, i am not a sir gatt. i have access to the white house in every era going back to lincoln, frederick douglass talks with those leading at the time. not comparing but that's nothing unusual. i went to ferguson because

you read some of their letters and messages back and forth, and you read bobby kennedy meetings with the soviet-backed channel. the top guys in the kremlin in the white house, they got it that things are slipping out of control. at the ground level, there were nuclear weapons. we now know things that kennedy did not know. it was a cruise missile aimed at guantÁnamo. invaded, guantanamo synonym for her roche of today. there -- a synonym for hiroshima. that kennedy and khrushchev made a secret deal was not the public perception. the public perception was that testosterone won. they back down. the same thing was being applied to hanoi. what is fascinating now that we can look through the historian'' work, the inside historians' work, at the national security agency who pursued the story, had access. d the basic fundamental work that intelligence analysts should have done at the time, which was to put all of the intercepts in one pile. and go through them and see what did they say? where did they contradict each other? and especially where did they contradict this highly selective chrono

party which was the overwhelmingly dominant party was crack apart into four parts, george wallace, bobby kennedy on the left, joining the social revolution and lyndon johnson in the center. i don't see the possibility for any more 49-state landslides like nixon got in 1972 but i do think there's a narrow path to victory in 2016. >> one last question about nixon. we recently had doug brinkley on the show, to talk about his new book, how callus nixon sounded about the juice, japanese, and those from india. you paint a much more compassionate picture than what some of those tapes show. was he any more callus than some of his predecessors and sit fair to judge him by today's standards? >> i'm sure lyndon johnson used language in his private moments that would shock nixon. you mention negative comments about jewish folks in the oval office. at the same time richard nixon launched the air lift that saved israel in the yom kippur war. golda maier said richard nixon was the best friend israel ever had. so there's no doubts that there are moments in there with haldeman and er ehrlichman. he desegregated

bobby kennedy, jean mccartney. antiwar left. joining the social revolution, and lindy johnson and humphrey in the center. i don't see the possibility for 49 state lapped slides like -- landslides like dixon got in '72. i think there's a narrow path to victory in 2016. >> he got the landslide. in a post scrip to the book, you say if nissan left the presidency, history would see him as a near great president. in the later years, he rehab it tated himself greatly and became a respected statesman. is that the big are comeback an the one you write about in your book. >> it came back from a low than 1962. that is the comeback of an individual, who, frankly, was close to death after losing the presidency in california, had the lobitis attack. i was called in florida, where we were staying at his place and told that he had passed away. he came back physically and again to new york, and then he began writing books and presidents were calling him about foreign policy, and i thought he did a great job about standing up under the burdens he

he refused a challenge from ethel kennedy who is the widow of bobby kennedy.he president donated an undisclosed sum to the als association instead. yesterday the state department reminded ambassadors and diplomats that the challenge is off limits. federal ethics rules prevents them from using their office for private gain, no matter how worthy the cause. >> why a last minute redesign could force apple to delay the iphone 6. >> one last summer getaway. we'll show you the unexpected secrets to scoring the best deal. 6 ♪ ♪ ♪ . >>> heads up if have you young kids. two children have suffocated from beanbag chairs. 22 million of the beanbag chairs are being recalled. two children opened them, crawled inside, and suffocated. the beanbag chairs are made by ace bayou and were sold on-line and in stores nationwide. go to our website nbcwashington.com for more information. >>> american airlines is raising the age now for what it considers children flying as unaccompanied minors. the nation's largest airline says it charges $150 for children ages 5 through 11 to fly as un

i remember way back in the morning when bobby kennedy was shot, i put together a quick live show andthey ever assassinate any right wingers? not long after that george lincoln rockwall was shot but her presence was tangible. she just -- you knew you were with what you might call a cash customer when you were with her. there was no non-sense, no expectation. she wasn't tough but she could play tough and sound tough. >> she had -- >> her vulnerability always showed through. >> that husky voice was really amazing, so memorable. give us a little flavor of what she meant to so many people who loved her over the years. >> i think to many people, i would love to be her, she. she just was what a lot of young women would like to be, someone that can't be pushed around. someone that can tell you where to head in as they usually say with a colorful vocabulary if she needed to fall back on it. i remember doing my shows and she said call, went with her to africa because it was john houston and bogy and said i don't want to go down there with two drunks without my friend on. they comforted each ot

then bobby kennedy was civil rights hero. nobody could question his fairness.nother person named francis o'brien who was 27 and was rodino's administrative assistant. nobody knew how to do this. there was a book. but it didn't say, how do you impeach a president? nobody knew. so, look, for the country to accept it, they kept their eye on the ball. it could not be partisan and it cannot appear to come from one way or another wing. they pushed it out. the very far right that way and the very far left members over that way. sorry, we're not going to have something about the cambodia bombing because that's a political question and we're not going to impeach on a political question. and they took a long time. they had hearings, and that's what brought the country around. by the time that committee voted, people thought, yes, this is fair. and it came from the committee. there were some democrats and republicans who formed a coalition at the core, at the center of this committee and if you listen to john dore, you know this was no lynch mob guy. it was carefully done

but moving forward, what we need, joy s we need bobby kennedy in the '60s when he called the governorama and moved in federal agents to protect martin luther king's church in montgomery. they objected to that. we had to have an attorney general to do it. i think we immediate some action here, some leadership, some decisions, and the federal government's got to not worry about the niceties and make a decision. >> all right. pamela meanes and jim cavanaugh, thanks to both of you. >> thank you so much, joy. >> all right. up next, we reid between the lines on who's really in charge of the operation in ferguson. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. they taste lik

they went out and found the council for the committee, in the eisenhower justice department and bobby kennedy, justice department working on civil rights, a real hero but nobody could call him a flame thrower or a partisan figure. they understood this had to come from the center and be bipartisan for the country to accept it and that is why the vietnam war, the invasion of cambodia and other things that were suggested to be part of the impeachment proceedings were set aside and they had as much trouble pushing aside the ones who want to go on all sorts of issues and on the far right who could find no wrong with nixon. then you have numbers you did know about. there was -- caldwell butler was one but from a virginia, south carolina, you know what i mean. james man looked like a founding father. james madison, they were very serious, james man was a real conservative on the democratic side, southern democrat, died in the will, 7 democrats, he was very very involved in this. there was paul sarbanes from baltimore who was very involved in shaping article ii and they worked together and they were

one of them is right here with ray wilkins in the middle and you're right behind him, bobby kennedy on the left, and a. philip randolph... >> guest: yes. c-span: ... on the right, along with -- i believe whitney young is in the photo, too. what do you remember about that day? where was that? >> guest: well, that was one of the days when we were coming together, feeling good about the fact that we were moving really the civil rights agenda. and i was the one woman member of the united civil rights leadership group, which included dr. king, and roy wilkins and whitney young, and james farmer, and later john lewis, and a. philip randolph, and i was a part of that group. and that's one of the many occasions when we came together to develop strategies, but that was one when we could kind of rejoice a little bit, because it looks like we were getting the civil rights act onward. c-span: now, a. philip randolph, you walk over here to union station, a block from here, and there's a statue of him right in the concourse. >> guest: yes. c-span: and you said earlier that he was the one that organi

go through the tumultuous year of riots in the streets and the depth of martin luther king and bobby kennedy, after that whole tumultuous year of nixon standing on top, it angered the left. they were always looking to get nixon, but he did well his first term. our book documents what did he right in his first term, as well as what he did wrong. but watergate, by 1972, starting to ticktock and it destroyed him. at one point in this book, at the end of 1972, after winning over 60% of the electorate, nixon just months before he starts going into decline said somebody should write a book about this year, i'm one of the world's greats. i'm degal or churchill. i'm the great cold war president. how the mighty falls am by the next year, it was just sledding straight downhill. host: doug brenk leave, this book covers 1971 to 1973. but you start off by saying that johnson, president johnson, advised president nixon to put in a taping system, and he declined. guest: very much so. look, f.d.r. did some limited taping. john f. kennedy did taping, but selectively. kennedy looks great in the tapes t. shows

we didn't see bobby kennedy go to the south in civil rights area.g attorney general go to ferguson and i think that's historic. i think these moves will lead to real change. our chance must lead to change, our demonstration for legislation. we'll get up there. you must remember the montgomery bus boycott started in 1955. we didn't get civil rights legislation until '64. change takes time. but those of us that are committed are willing to put in the time because we cannot tolerate not having the change. >> there's a big article on u.s. magazine this week, talks about how close your contact with the white house is. how you often serve as kind of a surrogate for the white house. let me ask you about the president and in the case of ferguson in particular, racial relations in america in general. is he doing enough? >> first of all, i am not a sir gatt. i have access to the white house in every era going back to lincoln, frederick douglass talks with those leading at the time. not comparing but that's nothing unusual. i went to ferguson because the famil

. >> that was when nicholas katzenback and bobby kennedy were involved.er, the attorney general, has said that the justice department is involved. i assume the civil rights division. but we've seen nothing day after day from the federal government, even as the state government is missing in action. >> i think that must be a greater sense of visibility and action on the part of the federal government. the department of justice, the civil rights division. they have a community relation effort that can bring people together involving the religious leaders, community leaders and people from the side who are -- it says something about the city. it just is unreal to me. it's just unreal. how can you have a city and expect to have peace and order and very few symbols that are representatives of the people making up the public safety department of the city. >> so that gets to the pount of what has to happen next because once this, lord willing, dies down and we get passed this crisis, towns like ferguson and cities all across america have to really look at their

what he's going to do and he knows a nuclear war might have been a possibility those 13 days that bobby kennedy talked about probably pretty much equal the sum of what lincoln was but maybe not quite as much. probably the most emotional pressure that somebody felt was lbj. think about it we are now celebrating so much of what he did in those first years of his presidency. the civil rights act, ending segregation in the south of voting rights act providing the precious right to millions of black americans open housing medicare aid to education and public television. he had a legacy almost unequaled up to his great hero fdr and then got into vietnam and watched in those last years of his life that legacy being cut into and not knowing how to get out of vietnam and getting stuck in it and getting worse an i wonder if you have ever thought to yourself up becoming a leader of this country because i can't think of anybody who would be better. >> thank you. >> you are like a combination of bobby greatest presidencies of research. >> if i were younger. when i was young i did think about going into publ

he's going to do and he knows a nuclear war might have been a possibility, those 13 days that bobby kennedy talked about probably pretty much equal the sum of what lincoln was but maybe not quite as much. probably the most emotional pressure that somebody felt was lbj. think about it, we are now celebrating so much of what he did in those first years of his presidency. the civil rights act, ending segregation in the south of voting rights act providing the precious right to millions of black americans open housing medicare aid to education and public television. he had a legacy almost unequaled up to his great hero fdr and then got into vietnam and watched in those last years of his life that legacy being cut into and not knowing how to get out of vietnam and getting stuck in it and getting worse an >> some insacred bl questions that no one's ever asked me before, so you did it. >> host: next question over here. >> caller: thank you very much for your wonderful work. i can't think of anybody who has greater insight into the presidency, the use of presidential decisions, choosing assistance

folks and john kennedy folks because they don't feel bobby has been given enough attention and the roosevelt library does a good job incorporating eleanor because she is such a part of the story. bobby's family is interested in may be going to different place. i would go and do a research topic everywhere i went so what i wrote about in the kennedy library was this man, a jazz pianist. if you want to hear is that store you know where to get it, "chasing history: 1 man's road trip through the presidential libraries". gerald ford, once he gets a library is the official. everybody gets a library no matter what. is library is very interesting though. 01 problem with the library the director would tell you is they have the museum 100 miles away from the archives. as she told me, she wouldn't want anyone to go through the difficulties she has to go through. it is considered by everybody that that was not a great idea. to have a little disco hall to talk about what was going on in a the ford years. one thing about the ford library is he was very wil