he gave i think some really marvelous speeches on indochina, the french involvement in indochina, on algeria, the french involvement in algeria, on the whole battle with the soviet union and now the u.s. should try to emerge in the cold war. so he was interesting. he was a more compelling person than i expected, and, of course, had some great contemporary. he worked with people like hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, scoop jackson. it was a really interesting time with some great senators. >> what was his relationship with lyndon johnson when they're both in the senate? >> i spent some time at the kennedy library, and his file is thick with letters to lyndon johnson asking for better committee assignments. johnson was the senate democratic leader. kennedy was the more junior senator so he was sending johnson a lot of letters asking for different committee assignments. johnson seem to put them away, and ted sorenson had a wonderful know. kennedy appointed john to do some third or fourth tier dredging commission or something. sorts and send them and said we are making great progress. sen

we have only to look at indochina. would ever have imagined that after the end of the vietnam war we would have a country that is one of the leadership countries, particularly economically, in asia, in the form of a vietnam? we have numeral two other countries that are real ashley f numeral to other countries that haven't 2vely -- we other countries that are relatively peaceful, cambodia and laos. true, when you talk about southeast asia. but each of these countries is run by a single party, or as in the case of cambodia, by han s en, a 20-near decatur, so you are back to where you started. you are back to a dictatorship-type of situation that has brought about some sort of economic chain. it is a most the chinese model. >> it is very close to the chinese model. isn't moving in the right direction? we hope that development in china will produce a more pluralistic society. we had an interesting conversation -- our winter issue deals with china versus india, the competition and the concordance and so on between what -- i

look at all that clear air across the philippines over towards the indochina peninsula down into thailand and also malaysia, making for some drier conditions, at least for the time being. also, cold front pushing across northern japan. this is bringing some snowfall, about 40 to 50 centimeters of the white stuff could be seen here from hokkaido down through tohoku over the next 24 hours. that will be tapering off. the high is going to come in, also pump in some warmer air. behind that, another low, though, by the time we see that, looking at the risk of some rain, as well. as far as the temperatures, though, it really couldn't be any warmer at least for this time of year. shanghai with a high of 14. rain showers. tokyo to 11. back into the midteens later on in the week. see what's going on in europe where we have several storm systems. two spots we're continuing to watch. one in the eastern mediterranean and then at first i want to talk about this. a low pressure system just spinning there over the british isles. but this is bringing in some gusty winds. reports of 70 to 80 kilometer per

he made those decisions on indochina later in his presidency without really being decisive. he used a completely false accusation of miss out against the eisenhower administration which was completely unfounded. it seems to me, his presidency, policy terms. .. which came out with an alarmist report saying united states had fallenhich behind. sta i think it was called the gatesd report. 1080 sort of pounced on that. it helped further the narrativer that he was arguing and to have a blue ribbon panel that president eisenhower had chosen. n argument to advance but i don't dispute that there was a hard political aspect, and i don't know -- on domestic policy i do think that he was committed as a strong supporter of labor although not an on critical one. he was also very careful on civil rights as i mentioned and was very politically attuned. i don't really feel like i'm quite -- i read a lot about the presidency but the final view on what were the main political goals of john f. kennedy that will be the next book but it's a great question. a really is an important one. >> thank

the can launch wars in algeria and indochina with a gesture to the national assembly that met regularly and across from the palace where he presided. today he must turn to the deeply fractured parliament for approval in every major political decision. in london where winston churchill and the cabinet could join american allies in defense of the empire with barely a nod to the house of commons just down the block today's successor david cameron bows down after seven hours shouting down as evers deutsch to join the same american military and syria middle eastern state with nuclear ties to the british commonwealth. rarely have the chiefs of state or government then has the of war today in the power of the electorate to barely able to keep a single one blinked on and on how history might treat them. the presidency and terri hail or not is in the one position of the government to pay for which all power flows down to the rest of the government and at the same time in the best of circumstances upward from the people. but all too often in just one direction. and this feeling is most central to

and we have only to look at indochina. who would've ever imagined that after the end of the vietnam war we would have a country that's one of the leading, leadership countries economically, particularly economically, in asia, in the form of vietnam. with two other countries that are relatively peaceful, cambodia and laos. they have managed to find a way of bringing a government the power that works for the people. do you have a follow-up? >> that is true, when you talk about southeast asia, but each of these countries is run by a single party, or as in the case of cambodia, by a 20 year dictator. so you are back to where you started. you are back to term the and toe back to get leadership type of situation that has brought about some sort of economic change. it's almost the chinese model. >> very close to a chinese market but again the chinese model registry is that living in the right direction? wwe hope. we hope that development will produce a more pluralistic society. with a very interesting conversation in our winter i

we have only to look at indochina. who would ever have imagined that after the end of the vietnam war we would have a country that is one of the leadership countries, particularly economically, in asia, in the form of a vietnam? we have 2 other countries that are relatively peaceful, cambodia and laos. they managed to find a way of bringing government power that works for the people. >> that is true, when you talk about southeast asia. but each of these countries is run by a single party, or as in the case of cambodia, by hun sen, a 20-near decatur, so you are back to where you started. you are back to a dictatorship- type of situation that has brought about some sort of economic chain. it is a most the chinese model. >> it is very close to the chinese model. is it moving in the right direction? we hope that development in china will produce a more pluralistic society. we had an interesting conversation -- our winter issue deals with china versus india, the competition and the concordance and so on between what -- it s

india where, in fact, there are only four of these classical elements, once you get into china, indochina, korea and japan, nearly all of them have variation, but essentially five classical elements underpin every aspect of their lives. those five elements are wood, earth, water, fire, and metal. and i thought it might work that i could corral all these people and their achievements into these headings, under the headings of the five classical elements. so i started first of all trying it out. i thought, how about would? think of lewis and clark. think of jefferson, thomas jefferson sitting on the terrace in monticelmonticel lo. if you go to monticello, i'm sure many of you have and you look at those gardens, they are dominated by trees that he planted. he regarded them as crops. he loved sitting under them looking at them. he loves the simple majesty of them. i'm sure you know the story, he was sitting on his terrace with his secretary reading the book, this was i think late 1802, which had just been sent to him from london written by a man who alexander mackenzie -- about how he had sai

almost all aspects of life everywhere from india where there are only four, once you get into china, indochina, korea and japan nearly all of them have variation, tinkering buddy sensually five classical elements underpin every aspect of their life and those five elements are wood, earth, water, fire and metal. and i thought it might work to correll all these people and their achievements into the headings of these five the elements. thomas jefferson sitting on the terrace in monticello. was obsessed with freeze if any of you have been to monticello, you look at them, he loved the majesty of them. i am sure you know the story. he was sitting on his terrace with his secretary reading of book, late 1802-1803 which had just been sent to him from london written by alexander mackenzie, a scotsman from the hebrides about how he succeeded in crossing the entirety of canada to be inscribed success on a rock in a town in british columbia. it was a stellar achievement. jefferson was apoplectic, across canada, and lewis's secretary, this cannot be allowed. across our country and forget the achievements o

the can launch wars in algeria and indochina with a gesture to the national assembly that met regularlyross from the palace where he presided. today he must turn to the deeply fractured parliament for approval in every major political decision. in london where winston churchill and the cabinet could join american allies in defense of the empire with barely a nod to the house of commons just down the block today's successor david cameron bows down after seven hours shouting down as evers deutsch to join the same american military and syria middle eastern state with nuclear ties to the british commonwealth. rarely have the chiefs of state or government then has the of war today in the power of the electorate to barely able to keep a single one blinked on and on how history might treat them. the presidency and terri hail or not is in the one position of the government to pay for which all power flows down to the rest of the government and at the same time in the best of circumstances upward from the people. but all too often in just one direction. and this feeling is most central to our un