gerald ford had pardoned richard nixon and he was running from behind the whole race. in the weekend before that election gerald ford pulled ahead in the polls for the first time and suddenly the first time is, hey, gerald ford is going to be re-elected president and it made everybody think back to, wait a minute, the guy that pardoned nixon is going to win? and jimmy carter surged ahead. i wonder how much terry mcauliffe has got it, get used to it, guys, i wonder if at the end there were people who like, remember, we don't like this guy. are we sure we want to make this happen? if it had been cuccinelli up five points, i wonder if he would have crunched in the last few days. >> steve kornacki, we always enjoy your insight, thank you, sir. as always, you can catch "up with steve kornacki" 8:00 eastern right here on msnbc. >>> that brings us to our question of the day. do you think republicans will learn from new jersey governor chris christie's example? you can weigh in on twitter or facebook. we're going to share your thoughts a little later in the broadcast. >>> hist

you ask why people wonder, i interviewed gerald ford once for a book i was asking him about nato, the fall of saigon he said, come here. look at this, there was a little stack like, this is my incoming about my presidency. now you see this stack, it was like towering, he said that was about me and the warren commission why i invented a magic bullet. get some of the warn commission report i think it was at times sloppy, it was rushed, it was right in the end. maybe on this anniversary we need to thank people, the legacy of gerald ford and john mccloy and people that worked so hard on those multiple volumes because they i think nailed the story. >> schieffer: what do you think that john kennedy's real legacy is? >> first of all that he was the first catholic elected president. he kicked open the door after him came whole bunch of other minorities. he appointed the first polish american to his cabinet. he wrote a book about immigration called a nation of immigrants, very important to him. the other is of course the cuban missile crisis. kennedy hadn't -- i wonder if we'd be sitting here

. >> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring ann arbor michigan where gerald ford's presidential library is located. he attended and played football for the university of michigan. hosted by our comcast cable partners, c-span's local content vehicles recently visited many sites exploring the city's rich history. learn more about ann arbor all weekend long on american history tv. >> today you are at the ypsilanti automotive heritage museum. 30 miles west of detroit. where we have created here is a museum attempting to tell the automotive history of our area here. and right this minute, we're in a hudson dealership that started off as a dodge dealership way back in 1916. became a hudson dealership in 1933. and continued as a hudson

the nation's newest aircraft carrier, the uss gerald ford, was christened this weekend. president ford's daughter susan doing the traditional honor, smashing a bottle of sparkling wine against the carrier. the uss gerald ford will be the lead ship in the navy's next class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. >>> much more ahead on "world news" this sunday night. remember this? believe it or not, there's something else hurtling towards earth tonight. and it's not a meteorite. the giant satellite, like the movie "gravity," the debris on its path, hurtling towards us. we'll tell you what they know. >>> and a tall tale tonight help solve it. which is truly the tallest building in america? new york's proud new freedom tower, or the willis tower in the windy city? the controversy swirling, and it's about to be decided. . . . if you do something today. and there's never been a better time because this year, devry university has $45 million dollars in need and merit-based scholarships and grants available to those who qualify. and this degree can make a difference. in 2012, 90%

. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring ann arbor, michigan, where gerald ford's presidential library is located. he attended and played football for the university of michigan. hosted by our comcast cable partners, c-span's local content vehicles visited many sites, exploring the city's rich history. learn more about ann arbor all weekend long on american history tv. >>> this is the story of willow run, one of the ford farms that vicini virtually overnight became the largest aircraft plant that had ever been built. story that can now be told in full. >> we're presently in what is known as hangar 1 at willow run airport. we're in bay 8. and if you look out at about a 45-degree angle from here, we see the two doors where the bombers would come off the assembly line after they were built. there's a lot of stories that lead up to the building of this factory. with the war in europe turning hot, the blitzkrieg took place in the low countries, the u.s. was totally unprepared. so roosevelt went to congress and said the u.s. must build 50,000 airplanes to protect itself. then in the

after richard nixon's resignation and gerald ford's loss to jimmy carter in the 1976 presidential electionweakened to the point that some observers wondered if the party would survive. but by the end of the decade, spurred on by phyllis slafly revived republican fortunes and helped elect ronald reagan. this class is an hour and 10 minutes. >> today we're going to continue our saga through conservatism and the republican party and specifically what we're going to look at today is the revival of the republican party after the debacle of the nixon administration and watergate. you recall from previous

history tv is featuring ann arbor michigan where gerald ford's presidential library is located. he attended and played football for the university of michigan. hosted by our comcast cable partners, c-span's local content vehicles recently visited many sites exploring the city's rich history. learn more about ann arbor all weekend long on american history tv. >> today you are at the ypsilanti automotive heritage museum. 30 miles west of detroit. where we have created here is a museum attempting to tell the automotive history of our area here. and right this minute, we're in a hudson dealership that started off as a dodge dealership way back in 1916. became a hudson dealership in 1933. and continued as a hudson dealership until hudson went out of business in 1957. what's unique about it is the dealership has the feel and the look of a 1930s, 1940s car dealership. and it has that feel because it is absolutely original. after world war ii ended, didn't need bombers anymore and there was a giant factory, the biggest one under one roof in the world. and two industrialists got together

. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring ann arbor, michigan, where gerald ford's presidential library is located. he attended and played football for the university of michigan. hosted by our comcast cable partners, c-span's local content vehicles visited many sites exploring the city's rich history. learn more about ann arbor all weekend long on american history tv. >> express my thanks to you. congratulations to the michigan of the east, our university. i come here tonight to say one or two words on this campaign which is now coming in to the last three weeks. >> on october 13th, john kennedy had his third of four debates with richard nixon and then the plan was for him to fly to ann arbor, stay here. this was a hotel, too, among other things. had rooms for rent. and stay here and then the next morning start on a whistle stop across the state but then word got out in the community that he was going to stay here the night so students started gathering here. he was supposed to get here about 11:00 and instead he got here closer to 2:00 so there are students waiting for three h

gerald ford" was unfailed today. the president's daughter smashed the bottle of sparkling wine against the hull of the ship. dick cheney and donald rumsfeld who both worked for ford were at the ceremony. the ship is projected to remain in service until 2057. >>> senator ted cruz in the hot seat. >> i've been reading a lot about you lately, and they describe you as aggressive, arrogant and abrasi abrasive. accurate? >> that was just the first question from "the tonight show" host jay leno. the senator's answer straight ahead. [ female announcer ] ladies and gentlemen i'm here to say a few words about the power of baking stuff with nestle toll house morsels. you can heal a broken heart with a bundt cake. make a monday mornin' feel like a friday afternoon with some nestle toll house morsels. let's close our laptops and open our ovens. these things don't bake themselves. we have to bake them for one another. we can bake the world a better place one toll house cookie at a time. nestle. good food, good life. you give them t

after richard nixon's resignation and gerald ford's loss to jimmy carter in the 1976 presidential election, the gop brand was weakened to the point that some observers wondered if the party would survive. but by the end of the decade, spurred on by phyllis slaf

the anti-abortion league of the republican party, when gerald ford came into office following nixon's resignation, simply believed that ford could not be trusted on the abortion issue. and any difficulties ford had were only aggravated when his wife, betty ford, announced her public support of abortion by telling the press that she would advise her daughter to have an abortion if it was necessary. she also announced her support for e.r.a., the equal rights amendment. and i might add that she also announced that she was for legalized marijuana. later turned out that the children in the white house were smoking pot, so i guess she did favor the legalization of it. and to make matters worse, ford's vice president nelson rockefeller had signed the bill legalizing abortion when he was governor of new york. they simply didn't trust ford on this issue. in congress, representative henry j. hyde, republican from illinois, successfully placed a rider on an appropriations bill banning federal aid for abort n abortions. well, the abortion fight was going on. meanwhile, there was a fight over e.r.

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with his then us counterpart gerald ford ford been on the warren commission which investigated the shooting. hope for and told me it's on satisfactory reached the first conclusion it was not an isolated crime this is just now quoting gerald ford. it was something organized for short was organized. we were unable to uncover. did you know far as is this kind of decoration our fairy to come to d lee's because when we receive some even from users saying i would like to talk to to be my own series. i mused after he was a week to answer we're serving week or two. some say it's the way we begin to say about me. it was the first the first mass marketed conspiracy theory. it is the grand mother all conspiracy type are you due his dad. a former french president. quoting a former us president saying there was a lot can the two states well you know take him to take your pick of the theories world. there are wide enough to choose from but as you go through these lessons are over the years went. tonight is usually get riders come in writing about this every five or ten years i've seen quite a few. ah tan

but the four presidents -- eisenhower, kennedy, gerald ford, and george h w bush, all served in world war ii. these men have a tremendous appreciation for the service of veterans. and kennedy, eisenhower, gerald ford did not work in vietnam and did not commit troops -- george h w bush went into iraq and came out out of respect for the troops. eisenhower warned about the military-industrial concerts. johnson, nixon, george bush ii, they gave into the military industrial complex. i have had four of my friends commit suicide over neglect of veterans. i reported to my congressman about the abuse of veterans in maryland. as a result of these men being abused, i have been blackballed in the v.a., because i did something that should have been done. host: mr. noonan, part of what he was talking about was the experience of actually going to war of u.s. leaders. pew research center put out a recent survey on veterans in congress. talked about this issue. number of veterans in congress, down to about 20 sent -- 20% today and both the house and the senate. does it contribute to the civil- militar

in newport new virginia, they christened the newes aircraft carrier, the uss gerald ford. the lat president's daughter, susan ford bales broke the bottle of sparkling wean on the w of the ship. the nuclear-powered ship wil carry mo war planes and laun more missions eachay with far fewer personnel an the current class of aircraft carriers. when we come back tonit, fore the internet when video on demand was all about a trip to the loc blockbuster store. >>> it wasn't so long ago when watchi a video meant goingo a store, renting a movie on somethg called a video cassette and then popping it in the vcr, remember the flashing :00? blkbuster announced it will close its remaininstores by early next year. today on the fin day to check out a rental, a mind from krisn dahlgren. >> reporter:ack in the day it wawhat we did on saturday nights >> you were in a mov? >> yes. it w called the "girl of high dreams." >> reporter: prominently featured in the movies it was renting the video store was e center of family ritual. >> picking aovie for movie nit. getting thbig bucket of popcn. >> re

the daughter of former president ford broke the bottle over the ship's bouchlt it is named after her dad who served in the navy. it cost more than 13 billion to build. gerald r. ford is the first of super carriers and making it the largest and efficient one on the planet. her job will be to protect democracy and interest world wide. >> yet for every time the ship will instill doubts in the minds of our adversaris. many more times will give hope to our friends and people of the world. it will be welcome support in time of crisis, it will be also comfort bringing in times of disaster and grief. >> it is scheduled to replace the cold- world uss enterproiz that ended 51 years of active service last year. well, you know we like to check with our fox affiliates to see what they are working on and picked on anything in particular. tonight arizona, for the construction of a veteran's day float by an unlikely source. four weeks now. >> a crew of 15 men have labored. >> i am attention to detail. >> worked tirelessly. >> artistec value. >> and giving time. >> city back. and talent to those who dedicated their lives. >> it was a chance to do something for the vets. >>

it really hurt, i think, gerald ford when he dumped rockefeller. back in '76.akes you look like a guy losing altitude in a plane and throwing chairs out the door. you don't look good like that. why would they think of doing it knowing the price of doing it? >> i think they're running a campaign that was going to test everything and be run by numbers. >> you're saying it's the puff. >> almost all presidents running for a second term, this comes out. came out with quail and cheney. >> how about bush in his diary i should have dumped quayle but i can't admit it. >> the scandal is that it's leaking now for someone like biden who already has a tense relationship between his staff and the west wing staff. >> what's that about? what is the friction? >> i think it has to do with them thinking they're serving different masters. that creates tensions. all the reporting i've seen and done has always said the relationship between obama and biden personally between the men is good. and surprisingly good for both men. but with the staff, it hasn't worked. >> the idea of pick

. >> i gerald r. fordvice president gerald ford was sworn in, he became the first and only us president not to be voted into office, within a month, ford pardoned nixon. >> i full, free, and absolute pardon. >> a controversial gesture that may have cost him the next election. >> it hurt you. in this election. >> i am sure, uh, barbara, that it had an adverse impact. i just decided, regardless of the political consequences, that i would do what i thought was right. >> president ford built a reputation for falling down those slippery air force one stairs, but i couldn't summon the courage to ask him about it. >> jimmy carter, the peanut farmer from georgia, was a southern gentleman, at least on the surface. and that was fortunate for me because this was my first presidential special. >> are you mean? do you have a cold, hard mean streak, do those blue eyes get cold and hard? >> well, i'm mean enough to protect myself. and to win if i'm in a battle, >> and there's another moment with the carters that took me

the gerald r. ford is the first in the next generation of nuclear air carriers. named after gerald r. ford who served in the war. he passed away in 2006. how would your father feel about this? >> one, he would be in shock because he never would have expected this and he just wasn't that kind of a man, but he was a naval officer, a lieutenant commander. >> reporter: susan ford bales, president ford's daughter will krit christen it with sparkling wine. >> i won't be here in 50 years but it will be here. >> reporter: it's a labor of love. are e becca ann boyd has been here since the beginning. >> you can't help but get emotional and to be picked to do this, it's just an honor. >> reporter: captain john myer say ms. of the ship's upgrades are highly classified but the ones he can talk about are dramatic improvements over current carriers. the tower called the island has been moved farther back on the deck. >> by moving it out, you get more space for aircraft room for about eight additional aircraft. >> reporter: it will produce 3 1/2 time as much power and electromagn

the gerald r. ford is the first in the next generation of nuclear air carriers. named after gerald r. ford who served in the war. he passed away in 2006. how would your father feel about this? >> one, he would be in shock because he never would have expected this and he just wasn't that kind of a man, but he was a naval officer, a lieutenant commander. >> reporter: susan ford bales, president ford's daughter will krit christen it with sparkling wine. >> i won't be here in 50 years but it will be here. >> reporter: it's a labor of love. are e becca ann boyd has been here since the beginning. >> you can't help but get emotional and to be picked to do this, it's just an honor. >> reporter: captain john myer say ms. of the ship's upgrades are highly classified but the ones he can talk about are dramatic improvements over current carriers. the tower called the island has been moved farther back on the deck. >> by moving it out, you get more space for aircraft room for about eight additional aircraft. >> reporter: it will produce 3 1/2 time as much power and electromagn

i had gerald ford in my home on a couple of different occasions.as he grew older he regretted they were not able to do work that was more definitive and get more answers. >> he told you that? >> he did. bill and alisyn, i believe our children will know what really happen. i don't think it is going to happen in my lifetime. we are learning of all of the details of fdr and fascinating and gives me confidence that history will catch up to this. too many political forces were at work and no one wanted to know the details. >> it is fascinating our children will know and how will they figure it out? >> if you read the bocks about fdr and new books about john kennedy and there is just evidence and testimony that comes forward and when people who know the kenned kens personally or have a political agenda past and historians look at just the evident carefully more detail begins to emerge. i saw a poll that said 80 percent of the members of the media believe in the lone gunmen theory and 70 percent of the american public believe in a conspiracy and most peop

gerald ford will be able to launch jets fast we are fewer crew members than previous ships. benicia's rix industries contributioned generators and cressors to the ship. >>> a bay area man spotted take a gun from his luggage set off a scare at los angeles international airport. they say the 27-year-old man arrived aterminal 3 from san francisco, where he was seen taking the gun from his bag. that is the same terminal where a tsa officer was shot to death one week ago. man was arrest on charges of brandishing a weapon, but alert released. gun was not load and police say he was carrying it really. >>> no deal on iran's nuclear program, but a promise for diplomats to come together again before the end of the month. secretary of state john kerry was among those who gather interested in geneva to freeze iran's program and lift certain sanctions against iran. iran prime minister says progress was made during the meetings. >>> organizers for macy's thanksgiving parade were out practicing take some of the iconic giant balloons out for test flights in an empty lot in new jersey. 90 pe

the uss gerald ford. named after our 38th president. >>> and also on veterans day weekend, a heartwarming homecoming for a sergeant. sur surprised his wife and kids at a football game in north carolina. happy reunion there. >>> finally, we all know that pet owners will do anything for their animal friends, right, dan? >> yes. >> this is joe joe, the pot belly pig, his back legs were paralyzed in an accident, her owners had a special set of wheels made so that she could still get around. and you can see she's getting around. >> she's a fighter. >> thank you, ron. what a cute ie. >>> from harmless animals to deadly animals, that deadly mauling at a big cat sanctuary, a worker bitten by one of the anim animals. they forced to deal with other big cats running loose. abc's reena ninan is here for the latest. >> reporter: it opened in 2001 and this morning, they're trying to figure out how this all happened. it was at this animal sanctuary wildcat haven in oregon, home to nearly 60 cats that an employee was kil

but gerald ford wrote me a personal letter, and later president ford, but he was representative frommichigan and a senior and a ranking republican on the warren commission. and he wrote me a really nice letter, very artfully worded that said high , my inchoiry wa kennedy had addison's disease which i suspected for other reasons -- i'll tell you why. he had a perpetual tan if you will remember. with addison's, there's a pigmentation of the skin. kennedy was a sun lover and he liked to be suntanned. but i saw him, in thinking back on the color of his skin, when i saw him close up a few times that i did, it had a bronze quality to it that lacked the reddishness of a suntan. so i, thinking back on those things, i thought, well, maybe, maybe he does have addison's disease. and i wanted to find out. so the tack i took was i wrote to the warren commission that i had looked at the warren commission autopsy report, which any of you can get the report and read it. the adrenal glapds are just not mentioned. it's like there's no such organ. well, if you're a first year pathology resident and you

i cut my teeth on henry kissinger and nixon and gerald ford.that was an interesting place to start. >> host: are you seeing a trend toward more and more white house influence as opposed to -- >> guest: during the '70s for sure you see the influence of the white house and in particular the national security counsel. this is, you know, it's a trend that has been ramping up for some time. obviously. it reaches the apex and well known with nixon and kissinger. it's the department of state plays a larger role in my volumes. the carter administration than it does in my nixon-ford vom yum. i anticipate hearing from reagan that other agencies are going to play a larger role than the national security counsel. in the '70s you have, of course, two -- fundamentally three very strong national security advisers. you have henry kissinger -- [inaudible] kissinger in particular are very keen to leave their very well-thought out mark on u.s. foreign policy. >> host: kathleen at the state department. thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you for coming to tal

the correct answer to our question is c, president gerald ford. gun was pointed at ford but was tackled by the secret service before pulling the trigger. 17 days later, the gun was fired at the president but the bystander grabbed her arm and she missed ford. ford is the only american president to be shot at by a woman. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i'll see you in ex-week. stay tuned for "reliable sources." >>> cbs' "60 minutes" took one minute and 15 seconds to correct its report on benghazi. correspondent admitting she was misled by a key source who claims he was there. >> the most important thing to every person at "60 minutes" is the truth and the truth is we made a mistake. >> for some the apology and retraction were not enough. dan rather who was ousted after his own "60 minutes" firestorm several years ago was quick to point fingers skyward. >> whatever happened and whatever any blame there is to assess, it starts at the

but to his everlasting credit, gerald ford wrote me a personal letter. and later president ford, but he was representative from michigan and the ranking republican on the warren commission. and he wrote me a really nice letter, very artfully worded that said, my inquiry to them was, if kennedy had addison's disease, which i suspected for other reasons, i'll tell you why. he had a perpetual tan, if you'll recall. if any of you know anything about addison's disease, you'll know that the skin -- there's a pigmentation of the skin that comes with addison's disease. now, kennedy was a sun lover, and he liked to be suntanned, but i saw him, and thinking back on the color of his skin when i saw him close up the few times that i did, it had a bronze quality to it that lacked the reddishness of a suntan. and so i -- thinking back on those things, i thought, well, maybe -- maybe he does have addison's disease. and i wanted to find out. and so the attack i took was i wrote to the warren commission saying -- and i looked at the warren commission autopsy report, whic

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thehes, even bill clinton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

about the opposition in those leaning republican politicians like congressman dole and rumsfeld and gerald ford voted against it. the john burke society. the insurance companies. the ama opposed medicare. the rolling out was so controversial, especially because medicare resulted in integrating southern hospitals. if you think this is controversy all, imagine the difficulty a ,ear after civil rights medicare forced hospitals to integrate. this is soview that controversial, unprecedented but the important thing is five years later people look back and thought what was the big deal? why were people so opposed? tells me, five years from now or ,5 -- 48 years after medicaid what will people say about the affordable care act in five years and 48 years? this will beul another significant step forward in ensuring all americans have access to affordable coverage, which is not what we can claim today. we are the only western country that does not have that health care as a basic right. i think this is a significant feature for not only uninsured americans, and they will have access for the first time eit

it's named after the 38th president of the united states, gerald ford.ord's daughter did the traditional bolt breaking at the ceremony. >> the ship and all who sail her. [ cheering ] >> big cheers there. the ship cost more than $12 billion and already $2 billion over budget. the navy said it will be two years before it's completely finished. >>> big day in college football, all the highlights ahead in sports. >>> and it's in out of this world sighting of the olympic torch. details when al jazeera america returns. determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesn't contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted towards you specifically, they may not consider it abuse. they may consider it offensive. and in that case they just recommend that you block that person. >> i don't want to minimise this, because i mean, there's some really horrible things that are on line, and it's not - it's not just twitter, what has happened th

that brave president was gerald ford, he never let the american people forget what he really believed. believed. "ac 360" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm john berman filling in for anderson tonight. we'll check in with chad myers in the weather center in a moment to find occupant the latest on the prethanksgiving storm that snarled traffic and made air travel a challenge for so many, the scenes not as bad as it could have been but there are extreme weather conditions to tell you about. take a look. winds lashed parts of the east coast today as the massive winter storm trudged north. road and power crews in the boston area struggled to deal with the downed trees, keep cars moving and keep customers with power. today, the massive thanksgiving storm affected much of the eastern seaboard. in south carolina, flooding tuesday and wednesday made the roads a nightmare for some holiday travelers. in north carolina, heavy winds turned into an ef 2 tornado with speeds of 135 miles an hour. it was powerful enough to tear the roofs off, uproot trees and leave thousands wi

money for the construction of the first ship of the navy's new class of aircraft carriers, the gerald ford. that means the navy will have to issue a stop work order on the construction of the ford, requiring them to play off workers and requiring a break in production that will add hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars, not only to the cost of the ford but also to the cost of follow-on aircraft carriers. it goes on and on, madam president. if we fail, if we fail to enact this bill, we will enact none of the far-reaching reforms that we need to address the problem of sexual assault in the military. we have been -- already we have blocked, we have been blocked in our effort to clear a package of managers' amendments, including senator boxer's amendment reforming the article 32 process. now, we're not only going to lose important reforms, but there are two dozen measures that are in the bill that address the problem of sexual assault. if we don't adopt this bill, we won't be providing a special victims council for victims of sexual assault, we won't make retaliation for reporting se

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thel clinton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. this is "piers morgan live" looking at the grave site of john f kennedy at arlington national cemetery. two days after the assassination jackie requested the flame as a permanent memorial. 50 years later, america and the world are remembering the 35th president in dallas, the city where jfk died a moment of silence at 12:30 local time, the exact moment the shots rang out in dealey plaza. >> ladies and gentlemen, woul

it was so popular that it out-sold the masks of jimmy carter and gerald ford two years after nixon wasut of office. during the 1984 campaign, walter mondale made a self-deprecating way to get in on the fun. he was wearing the mondale mask. only to be outdone by the press corps that was wearing mondale masks. he lost that year to reagan. a boom of masks from bush to bill clinton to highlight just a few. and in 2004, the george w. bush campaign staff used halloween to mock their opponent john kerry who had famously gone duck hunting just a week before. that means that ted cruz who went pheasant hunting last weekend should also be fair game. after all, he's the face scaring a lot of trick-or-treaters this year. >>> up next, rand paul was caught plagiarizing wikipedia by rachel maddow. now he's attacking her for catching him. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. a federal appeals court has blocked the decision that ruled the stop and frisk unconstitutional. >>> a massive storm system moving from texas to the northeast this halloween. back to "hardball." ♪ >>> we're back now

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thes, even bill clinton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> this is "piers morgan live." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. and james ray had had it all, fame, fortune, even oprah winfrey, listen to what he told her back in 2006. >> i had peers in our industry telling me you will never be on oprah, you're not mainstream, i said baby, i'm the new mainstream. >> and he was, it all came crashes down in tucson, arizona, promising powerful breakthroughs

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in those days, the leading republican politicians like congressman dole and rumsfeld and gerald ford voted against it. companies and the ama imposed medicare. the rolling out of it was so controversial, especially because medicare resulted in integrating southern hospitals and if you think this is controversial, what is happening now, imagine the difficulty a year after civil rights around the time of voting rights passing, that medicare forced hospitals to integrate. the whole view this is so controversial and so unprecedented when you roll out a new program, the important thing, i think, five years later people look back on medicare and thought, what was the big dear -- big deal and why were people so opposed? five years from now, or 48 years after medicare, what are people going to say about the affordable care act in five or 48 years? >> i am hopeful this will be another significant step forward in ensuring all americans have access to affordable health coverage, which is not what we can claim today. the only western country which does not have health care as a basic right. this

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thenton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. > what started out innocently with teddy bears became anything but at the vma awards in september. a performance that had tongues wagging. >> it became that moment of a singer/song writer/entertainer finding that special moment. >> i thought it was sloppy and i didn't think it was professional enough for her. she has to go back to the drawing board. >> about a woman who most of america knew as wholesome hannah, a disney character living a double life. but, if her recent appear

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, theple, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >>> storm dprunlting. it's the busiest travel week of the year. along with typical delays and traffic. you know the deal, a massive weather system is threatening to make thanksgiving travel even worse, i'm sorry to say. this thing is expected to affect nearly the entire country. >>> breaking overnight, secretary of state john kerry arrived in north korea to try to hammer out an agreement with the deal. >>> and the moments here for you