remember how she charmed french president de gaulle? >> i am the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris and i enjoyed it. >> reporter: in private she called de gaulle an egomaniac and martin luther king, jr., a phony. at the time, fbi director j. edgar hoover was trying to incite divisions between the kennedys and dr. king saying he was overheard on wiretaps making crude comments about jackie kennedy kissing her husband's casket on the day of the funeral. and she talks about politics. >> in politics, things do change quickly. jack would never -- he would often say that. never get in anything so deep that you have lost all chance of conciliation. >> reporter: the book's most poignant moments are about family. a 3-year-old john, jr., is asked what happened to your father. he answers, he's gone to heaven. and jackie, at the height of the cuban missile crisis, described pleading with her husband not to evacuate the family to camp david, telling him she wants to die with him rather than live without him. andrea mitchell, nbc news, w

. >> de gaulle was my hero when i married jack.red him. made it up completely. >> reporter: flattery who now she discovers is a cranky snob. >> i think he was so full of spite. >> reporter: but you'd never know what she's really thinking. >> i loathe the french. there's not one french person that i can think of except maybe two very simple people. you know, they're really not very nice. they're all for themselves. >> reporter: as the president campaigned with de gaulle to get a nuclear non-proliferation treaty, she has a campaign of her own. >> i'd ask him things of history, like, who did louis xvi marry, things like that. >> reporter: and when the white house assumes about a young provinceal. >> and he asks me -- in very slow french that you would say to someone that might not speak it, and i was just so proud, you know, it was strike one for our side. yeah, a first run for our side. >> reporter: she is such a success in paris that when the meetings are orver, de gaullele announces that he's re-evaluated his opinion of the preside

she called charles de gaulle an ego-- ego man ya, gandhi a pushi, horrible woman.çó compared lady birdohnson to a trained hunting dog. >> she did. she said she had-- she sounds much tougher than we think of her. >> you know, she has an absolute eye for human foibl and she can't resist saying what she really saw. and take these pictures where you see her smiling at people and then you hear what she was thinking about them. because she-- . >> stephen: it sounds like if you crossed her she would sweep the legs. >> what she-- what she wanted to do was tell the truth about the way people were really behaving. because that was her historical eye, as she was taking us through it. >> stephen: why are we only hearing these recordings now. >> the recordings are only out now because carol inkennedy decide on the 50th anniversary of her father's inauguration that it was time. they were sealed in an vault, at the kennedy library because her mother said she shouldn't be released until long after her death. and carolyn decided that this was the year to do them. and by the way, she didn't edit them. a

she described martin luther king as a phony and french president charles de gaulle as an go maniac.band as courageous, kind, and sensitive. one of their lowest moments came during the cuban missile crisis when he called her at their virginia weekend home and asked her to return to washington. >> it was just so unlike him. i could tell from his voice it was wrong and that's the whole point of being married, you can sense trouble in their voice and you musn't ask why. so we came right back. >> reporter: the missile crisis lasted more than a week-- one of the few times americans thought a soviet nuclear attack was a real possibility. >> i said, please don't send me away to camp david, me and the children. please don't send me anywhere. i just want to be on the lawn when it happens. i just want to be with you and i want to die with you and the children do, too. >> reporter: today would have been their 58th anniversary. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: serena williams was fined $2,000 today for what she said at the u.s. open women's final. >> pelley: williams ripped into the c

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nine hundred seventy one there were too many claim checks out there and not enough gold charles de gaulle had been asking for gold for several years the president of france and gold was flowing out of the treasury and nixon had to take us off the gold he ended the bretton woods system and once again the will of the public in the free markets did the price of gold up until for a year there was more. the value of the gold of the treasury was greater than the value of all the dollars ever printed and it also covered outstanding revolving credit unpaid credit card balances the credit cards or replacing cash in circulation and for that same thing to happen today for history to repeat and the same thing that happened in one nine hundred thirty four and in one thousand nine hundred eighty it requires fifteen to twenty thousand dollars per ounce of gold when i wrote my book it was only six thousand dollars that required but ben bernanke he created all of this excess base money in just the past two and a half years based money's gone from eight hundred twenty five billion to just a breath away fro

an appeals court in france for the question former prime minister dominique de gaulle flaunts again the last couple see because brianna want to fake a list of names was released linking the then presidential hopeful to secret bank accounts allegedly holding bright money for military deals that was before the presidential vote of two thousand and seven but the real power he was prime minister at the time was accused of failing to stop an investigation even though he removed the list was a sham the acquittal now allows him to stand against the in next year's presidential election. part of our headlines in just a few moments before the game is going to business update with money now. to business here on our fresh concerns about the european economy has caused another wave of turbulence in the global markets and while investors are worrying the chances of a meltdown in europe jacob welse of morgan stanley says russia doesn't have much to worry about so far. russia is actually a much better position in other central european countries and say turkey in the region because it has less strong t

and de gaulle's response was, well, then don't waste any more time.er argument that we hear is that the supply that is going to be produced is minimal on a global scale, it isn't really worth looking at, and this is the one place we were told by a member, the one place on the planet we shouldn't be drilling. the problem is, if you asked them about drilling off the gulf coast, the answer is no. how about drilling offshore? the answer is no. how about drilling onshore generally? the answer is no. how about developing our vast shale reserves that are three times the size of the proven reserves in saudi arabia, the answer is no. how about running a pipeline from canada that is developing its shale oil reserves, the answer is no. so what they are actually arguing is to shut down oil production in the united states. councilman rexford, perhaps you can help me, how do we lessen our dependence on foreign oil by prohibiting the development of our domestic supplies? >> i have no idea how that would happen. >> i have no idea either. and the sad thing is, neither

we were in france when the french republic was killed by the paratroopers and general day gaulle was brought back. that was sobering to a young kid born in pennsylvania. in 1994, mr. gingrich was one of really hit me that countries can die without adequate leadership. between my freshman-sophomore years in high school i began studying three things the architects of the house what does america need to do to be successful gop's contract with america. would you explain it with sufficient clarity and that the american people will give you permission to do itthis event was held at a how would you implement financial services company in if they gave you permission des moines. i did this working, with ronald reagan and speaker the house and as a volunteer adviser for the bush administration. [applause] i believe we are in real trouble, very broad based trouble. it's not any single thing. how many of you agree that america is on the wrong track? raise your hand. virtually unanimous. how many of you agree that getting back on the right track would be an enormous effort? how many of you agree

the former head of the international monetary fund arrived at paris's charles de gaulle airport this morning. strauss kahn got his passport back ten days ago after a judge dismissed his sexual assault case. serena williams makes a statement at the u.s. open. she defeated fourth-seeded player in straight sets yesterday. williams, who has missed most of the past year because of injuries, is going for her fourth u.s. open title. now here's the holiday weekend weather for the rest of us. a line of storms is moving east from maine all the way down to kentucky which is why labor day will be a wet one along the east coast. almost everyone else should feel free to celebrate in the sun. next, where did jobs go? and later, keith richards for the record. >> i get the sense that you're actually in many ways a very traditional guy. >> yes, this is what,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: labor day was created to honor the achievements of american workers. it might seem like a cruel joke since 14 million americans are looking for work right now. where did the jobs go? our rebecca jarvis goes looking for answer

she called charles de gaulle an ego maniac and described communist witchhunter joseph mccarthy sayingmelled of drink and his eyes looked awful." here's what she had to say about martin luther king jr. >> i said what an incredible speaker he was during that freedom march thing and we acknowledged that having made that call during the campaign got them. then he told me of a tape that the fbi had of martin luther king when he was here for the freedom march. and he said this with no bitterness or anything. how he was calling up all these girls and arranging for a party of men and women, i mean, sort of an orgy in the hotel and everything. oh, yeah. at first he said, oh, well, you know, and i said, oh, but jack, that's so terrible. i mean, that man is, you know, such a phony then. >> a critique of martin luther king's role of husband and father. she was excited when she made him proud of her. the book which is a transcript of the recordings clearly show lots of personal, interesting moments. gifts jfk gave her on their tenth wedding anniversary. her wearing her nightgown. really an intimat

she also refers to charles de gaulle as an egomaniac, and she said her husband expressed very clear reservationsbj, lyndon b. johnson, the prime minister possibly one day becoming president. and she also weighs in on martin luther king jr. perhaps among the most controversial comment she made was to say i just can't see a picture of martin luther king without thinking, you know, that man's terrible. to put some context here, she had been told that martin luther king had tried to organize meetings with women. she had been told he had made some disparaging comments about the funeral of her husband. and to give us more historic context here, take a listen to what douglas brinkley had to say. >> she became friends with koh e relate -- coretta scott king, helped build a presidential library and got more involved with the civil rights movement in the late 'of 0s and '70s that i would think she would cringe to hear herself saying these comments about king, but she certainly felt them at the time. >> reporter: certainly raises an interesting point, that jacqueline kennedy went on to live three more deca

. -- when charles de gaulle was brought back. it really hit me that the country was dying without leadership. in high school and began to study three things and i've been setting them ever since. to what does america need to do to be successful? how would you explain with sufficient clarity that the american people would want you to do it? and how would you implement it if they gave you permission? i was working as a volunteer in the reagan administration and i've worked during the bush administration. let me ask you, how many of you agree that america is on the wrong track? how many of you agree that getting back on the right track will be an enormous effort? how many of you agree that very substantial interest groups will fight deeply against cutting back on the right track? i just want to feed back to you what you have just said. this is the heart of why i am proposing a 21st century contract with america. our challenges are enormous, i think, the biggest since 1860. the difficulty of changing direction for an enormous nationa

when you look to the facts that de gaulle did change his attitude toward the united states, but at the, he did some things involving communist china and and the recognition and so forth that were not in the american interest. you might say that it is an even break there. but he did change his attitude toward the united states. and jackie very carefully helped to cultivate that. she also helped to foment of little bit friendlier relationship with khrushchev, and even through the nuclear standoff of the cuban missile crisis, her popularity was not so great that it could prevent that, and this is the something touched on by the book in the tapes, but she wrote an extraordinary letter on the last night in all white house. she read i handwritten letter to nikita khrushchev, the premier of the soviet union, about nuclear war. amazing for side. she said, i think we know now that you are a world power, and the leaders of the superpower no there is no such thing as harming one without harming themselves. that is the small rogue nations, men without side egos, who really pose the danger. you, mr

or the free french you were to de gaulle forces.they were holdovers that were part of that big key for us, too. now, when the allies invaded dermody, there is some question among the allies on how much they should arm the mackie to fight against the germans. there was concern the factions might fight against one another. donna didn't advocated for getting his many weapons and items to while factions to fight future events. in his view, prevailed among those who have doubts about it to >> this is doug waller's sixth book, all of them were related or world war ii specifically? >> well, this was world war ii. the previous was on general building mitchell. that was world war i. then, the other books were on special operations forces, one book i flew with navy pilots for a couple years. another book chronicled the voyage of a nuclear submarine. postcode next call for doug waller comes through denver. >> caller: thank you, mr. waller and thank you took tv. i'd curious if you are familiar with the movie the good shepherd and what your opin