jack johnson was the biggest show the u.s. had. this is james reese, one of the best known men in harlem. the ahead of the music union. they wanted to hire musicians for society ball, they called him. some nights he would drive around harlem directing bands five or six different places. he would recruit from the streets of harlem. also the conductor of choice for a dance duo, vernon and irene castle. vernon castle was british citizen. and james muir traveled with them and got famous because of them. vernon castle joined the raf. they served in the 7th and 131st and the recruiting office was around the corner the cigar store. this is the tree of hope people touched for good luck, and they marched around with broomsticks on their shoulders instead of rifles. hayward used his wealthy friends to buy uniforms. they were porters and elevator operators and architects and lawyers, fighting more for an america they believed was possible than for the one they knew. black soldiers had served before in the civil war, but they had been assigned

white hope was coined during the search for a white boxer to take the heavyweight crown back from jack johnson in 1910, there really isn't a lot to misunderstand here. worse -- the california congressman and the clown who thinks this was satire. oh, there's tape of this now. >> i'm a proud right wing terrorist. >> amen, god bless you. there's a great american. >> turns out the guy's also a birther, still congressman herger defends him. congress ma you maybe you should introduce this paranoid to congresswoman great white hope over here? all that and more now on "countdown." >> amen, god bless you. >>> tonight at the jfk library in boston, the crowds having wait ford hours to pay there respects to edward m. kennedy, the man they sent to the senate nine times who served them in that capacity for nearly five decades. good evening from new york. one year ago this month undergoing a chemotherapy treatment senator kennedy read in the newspaper about two servicemen from the same small town in massachusetts who had brn killed in iraq and afghanistan respectively. we are going down there, he said to pay

nationwide campaign to find a white fighter capable of defeating the first black boxing champion, jack johnsonjenkins later apologized for her words through a spokesperson. but she is not the first to make such racially-charged statements. since president obama's win, there have been several race-based statements by republicans and/or conservatives including a south carolina activist who compared michelle obama's ancestors to gorillas to fox news' glenn beck calling the president a racist. so with comments like these, tara setmayer, is the gop ever going to be the majority party again? >> oh, absolutely, comments come from both sides that are inappropriate, but czars, trillion dollar deficits, government takeover of private industry, that's what's going to get the republican party back into the majority. >> well, but until republicans shed their image of hate and intolerance, they will remain out of sync with the majority of americans who are diverse and open minded. >> after electing our first african-american president in the nation's history, i think we're more sensitive to racial issues, b

. >>> and prince georges county executive jack johnson is dropping hints about continuing his politicaler his term ends next year. these story and more the examiner. >>> hbo has a good reputation for putting on cutting-edge documentaries. tonight they will air the nine lives of marion barry. bruce johnson has seen the entire documentary and has more on the good and bad viewers will see when it comes to marion barry and maybe the city, as well. >> i live in the third ed , stctrii work the third district. >> be ready for rare images from marion barry as a young man, a phd candidate who arrived in washington in the ' 60s and became an activists to be reckoned with by police, white business leaders, members of congress and the blackest cuss quo. >> nobody going to put me out either. >> i wish you would touch me to put me out of here. >> reporter: it has moments. there is a good effort to examine how he got himself elected to every political office he sought. >> thank you. >> i love you. >> how he was elected mayor after serving a prison sentence for a cocaine conviction. >> a lot of people

lap 423, johnson's crew having issues in the pits, they drop a jack while adjusting his right-rear tirea bit wobbly coming out of the pits, almost collides with david reutimann. johnson would have to repit and falls to 21st due to the mistake. two laps to go, kyle busch in the lead but look at martin. tries to pass him on the inside. but busch holds him off -- fourth win of the season for busch, martin finishes second despite leading 240 laps. busch happy about the win on saturday night. >> it's awesome. racing the sprint cup series with all of these guys is really an honor, and mark martin, what a class act. he deserved to win this race and i'm sorry he came home in second. i know how he feels. but man, i drove as hard as i could and he had a chance, he could have done it but he didn't, he raced me clean and we didn't have the best car tonight but we had a car capable enough of doing it. >> so kyle busch is the first driver to sweep at bristol since his brother, kurt busch, did so in 2003. >> welcome to miami. dolphins hosting the panthers -- dolphin is a mammal, don't let anybody fool

he was not in politics, but he knew journalists and people like jack anderson, johnson, humphrey, and scoop jackson. i saw that as a kid. it is a culture that does not interest me. it is too easy to be stroked. >> say that ron emmanuel is watching this. he says of the president wants to talk to you. you can ask anything you want to. would you do it? >> of course. i would not give him my advice. that is not my role. i would welcome any opportunity to talk to the president of by united states or rom emanuel. that is great. of course you do that. what i don't want to do is become part of this party circuit or the washington correspondents dinner circuit or off the record, behind-the- scenes stuff. >> i know you are a close friend of maureen dowd. >> we wrote a column together before we had our own columns. >> do you coordinate among the colonists to make sure you do not write about the same thing? >> no, we never have. we do not even tell our editors will we are writing in the advance. when readers are puzzled if three people have a column on what ever, is real, dick cheney, henry louis

johnson's people revealed that kennedy suffered from addison's disease, which had the kennedy people not succeeded in denying it would have killed jack's chances. bobby kennedy couldn't contain his anger. >> there were a number of instances over the course of the 1960 convention where he approached johnson people, waved his finger in someone's face and said, you johnson people are going to get yours. >> i come to you today full of admiration for senator johnson. >> but the "yours" johnson's people ended up gegt was jack's pick for vice president. he had done his political analysis. he needed the local man on the ticket to get the votes. with a hard fought nomination in hand the kennedy campaign fixed its sights on baegt richard nixon. contrasting jack's vitality and promise to get the country moving again, with a candidate tied to the status quo of the 1950s. >> the republican nominee of course is a young man, but his approach is as old as mckinley. >> nixon was thrown at first bite coby the coldness and efficiency of the kennedy frontal assault. he had known and liked jack since they came to the house together in 1947. jack's father h

. >> jack johnson earlier in the 20th century was a white boxer whom everyone wanted to be the greatan ali period, of course, but i think in the 40 years since there are many times when great white hope is used just to say the next big thing. the band that could take over. the ceo who can -- without any racial content. >> i read it in "rolling stone" reviews all the time with the next big band. >> who knows what this woman was in his heart but i would cut her a maybe a little slack. >> your wife disagrees, though, doesn't she? you were the republican last night in your household. >> in our role playing, i was the republican. >> that had to hurt. >> well, you know, it often happens. >> her name is lynn jenkins, from kansas. she said she was not talking about barack obama. do we have it, chris? let's listen to it >> all right. so she looks like a boxing fan. remember what ali called -- the great white dope. he was pummeled for 15 rounds. he just played with him. all right. hey, so what's going on, michael? >> one thing about the clip. i take it as a figure of speech but i think it's in

lap 423, johnson's crew having issues in the pits, they drop a jack while adjusting his right-rear tireson a bit wobbly coming out of the pits, almost collides with david reutimann. johnson would have to repit and falls to 21st due to the mistake. two laps to go, kyle busch in the lead but look at martin. tries to pass him on the inside. but busch holds him off -- fourth win of the season for busch, martin finishes second despite leading 240 laps. busch happy about the win on saturday night. >> it's awesome. racing the sprint cup series with all of these guys is really an honor, and mark martin, what a class act. he deserved to win this race and i'm sorry he came home in second. i know how he feels. but man, i drove as hard as i could and he had a chance, he could have done it but he didn't, he raced me clean and we didn't have the best car tonight but we had a car capable enough of doing it. >> so kyle busch is the first driver to sweep at bristol since his brother, kurt busch, did so in 2003. >> welcome to miami. dolphins hosting the panthers -- dolphin is a mammal, don't let anybody

that's the same seat that dwight eisenhower, jack kennedy and lyndon johnson sat in. if you don't think you're big enough to sit in that seat, i wouldn't do it, if i were you.' he grinned. he said, 'i'm recording tomorrow night at united. do you want to start then?' i said, 'we'll be there.' i didn't know what he was talking about. i went out in the hall, i found a phone booth, i called a cameraman i knew and i said, 'what in the hell is a united?' he said, 'it's a big recording studio.' i said, 'well, light it. we're going to shoot sinatra tomorrow night.' he arrived. mia farrow was with him. this big limo pulls up, he gets out, the hat's on the back of the head, the coat's over the shoulder, and i figured, 'oh, my god, he's going to play man on the album cover,' and he did. he was delicious. he--all the quips--he was frank sinatra, man on the album cover. and i figured, 'boy, this is d--this is great. i mean, this couldn't be better. everything's working out.' now we shoot him doing the "september of my years" album, which is pretty good stuff. i mean, it's--if you'

>> no affirmative action was formulated under lyndon johnson. jacke were the beginning of affirmative action. yale didn't wake up one day and -- it depends what you mean by affirmative action. it wasn't a law. >> that's what we're talking about. because i want to be a little bit precise about it. >> it was in the air. it was a concept. i'm not talking about a government mandate. nobody could tell yale to let in 90 more black people but it was philosophically in the air. the idea was embraced that we needed to create a new leadership class within the affirmative community or another way to put it is that the broader american class should be more diverse so we need to led harvard, frank rains, give him a

president, president johnson coming in. >> those who knew bobby say that after his brother's death he seemed in a trans. yet even as he brooded, he began to actively position himself as jack's lyndon johnson denied him the chance to be his vermont, bobby resigned as attorney general and ran for the senate in new york. he had. lived in the state since he was a boy, but the kennedys were never ones to play by the rule book or wait their turn. >> no one committed to participating in public life can sit on the sidelines with so much at stake. >> yet facing taunts that he was a carpet bagger and haunted by the suspicion that the cheers were not for him but for his brother, bobby had trouble finding his political footing. >> this is the largest minority of hecklers you have ever had in? >> i don't know. i don't know. i have had them else where. i don't know. >> he was kind of tentative and he didn't want to trade on his brother's name, on the other hand, he didn't quite know what to say for himself. >> kennedy ended up defeating the popular incumbent senator ken keating by riding on lyndon johnson's long presidential coat tails. but even as he joined his younger brother ted on th

lap 423, johnson's crew having issues in the pit. they drop the jackrear tire, and johnson is a bit wobbly coming out of the pits, almost collide with david reutimann. johnson would have to repit. drops to 21st due to the mistake. two laps to go, kyle busch now in the lead but martin trying to pass him on the inside. busch somehow holds him off. final lap, busch holds on to win at bristol. busch happy about the win. >> it's awesome. racing the sprint cup series with all of these guys is really an honor, and mark martin -- what a class act. he deserved to win this race, and i'm sorry he came home in second. i know how he feels. but i drove as hard as i could, and he had a chance. he could have done it, but he didn't. he raced me clean, and we didn't have the best car tonight but we had a car capable of doing it. >> for kyle busch, the first driver to sweep at bristol since his brother kurt busch did so in 2003. busch ties mark martin whom he edged at the end for the most wins this season with four. tony stewart and jimmie johnson each have three wins. >

ly lyndon johnson went after jack kennedy. he was still hold iing it again them. still running against munich. still blaming jack for the old position on the second world war. it's interesting how you picked up on it. >> it was ted kennedy who stayed there, who was the brother that survived there, constantly going back to his father saying, dad, i've got terrible news. california and seeing the old man stricken with a streak for years now just slumping in his chair. >> i think that's what you said a couple hours ago this morning, on a grim morning, about bobby -- teddy being able to see his brothers at sea and living with them in the presence of his life. >> yeah, we have that on tape, i think. it was an emotional moment and i got back to it not on camera a couple years after that, this past early summer. and he talked about it at length, being able to see his brothers when he was out on that boat and pointing out to me where his brother joe taught him how to swim right out in front of the compound on a small strip of beach by hyannis port, harbor. he would take h

that is the same seat that eisenhower, jack kennedy, and lyndon johnson sat and. if you don't think you're big enough to sit in that seat, i would not do it, if i were you. he grinned. he said, i am recording tomorrow night. if you want to start then? i said, i'll be there. i call the cameraman. what in hell is united? he said, it's a big recording studio. i said, like it. we're going to records sinatra there. he arrived with mia farrow, a big limousine comes out, the cut is over the shoulder. i go, oh, my god. he's going to do the album cover. he was delicious. all the clips -- it was frank sinatra, man on the album cover. and i thought that this was great. they could not be better. we should him -- week shoot him doing the album, which is pretty good stuff. if you have a time capsule, that's one of the things you put into it. we got along great with him. he played for the convicts. without this gerald and count basie, and i'm thinking, i have fallen into something. this is big stuff. i am in the journalism business and i'm impressed with ed murrow. i'm running a

jack kennedy. and kennedy had had pierre salinger i mean johnson -- johnson had pierre salinger phone rowlie and tell him your day is over year. you don't have any sources. you're out of there. rowlie was trying to rebuild some sources and had some success with bill moyers. bill has been very critical of me in years to come. he thinks i move far to the right, and i think he's moved far to the left. c-span: wilbur mills, a marvelous source. who was the? >> guest: wilbur mills was the chairman of ways and means committee. he had a reputation as the smartest member of congress, and he was brilliant. and had some very strong ideas on tax policy. tax cutting, but only in return for cutting tax advantages. and so, he got crossways with john f. kennedy, who wanted to cut taxes without necessarily taking out the loopholes. c-span: you say you never criticize a source in your column. >> guest: try not to. sometimes you do a little bit. you don't get total protection by being a source. but that's the way the world works. very few reporters will admit that. that's one of the -- i think that's one of the unusual

jack nicholson would be in the same building together. >> you remember that -- >> l.a. lakers fan. i guess ted kennedy can bring anybody together. >> you remember the fabled campaign in no, i guess you don't. linda byrd johnson. al gore whose father was also in the senate. we just heard. you have president bush coming whose grandfather was in the senate. john mccain. just mentioned, his father. his grandfather, admiral. one hopes that all of these family connects and ties of blood and history and experience would help us get to a place now in the age of obama where we could recover the best part of that 20th century tradition of working to the in order to push us forward. not that everything is perfect. not that it is a club. but that there's a level of humanity ask the -- personal connection that can make the -- rough edges smooth. >> pat buchanan? >> joe, what jon was saying reminds me jon will recollect this for sure, middle ages, the truth of god and peace of god. when the battles stopped during lent and battles stopped during holy days and i noticed when ronald reagan died, as when teddy kennedy died and was buried, you had three, four days when the country at least on from television and the message ou

jack when john f. kennedy became president of the united states. he was there for the johnson administration. through the nixon administration and watergate and general ford. he challenged jimmy carter, the sitting democratic president in the 1980 democratic primaries. civil rights, voting rights, abortion rights, gay rights, vietnam, the fall of the berlin and the cold war, health care, education. pick an issue the country has dealt with in the last half century and ted kennedy has been in the thick of it. it's a sad irony he passes at a time on the issue he cared most about, health care reform, is front and senter in the united states congress, front and center in president agenda and in trouble. what the president needs is a legislator to help him out of a mess, a mess in his own party. he had a history of stepping up at moments like this and finding a way to compromise. >>> interesting, a year ago, august 25 of 2008, shortly after that diagnosis as we know and the treatment he went through for brain cancer that he appeared at the dnc strong. he looked happy, strong, and just -- you could

jacked down the line. it is going to score one, send another one to third, and the marlins lead 4-0. that huers because that was nick johnsonho jason bergmann walked to lead off the inning. first and third, two outs and now cody ross. >> rob: you see the swing by jeremy hermida, head down. he doesn't try to kill the ball, just put it in play. it found a nice little home out in right field. cody ross, 1-3 tonight with a homer, his 18th. the last time these two teams met, cody ross hit a homer and drove in two runs. that was the homer that sean burnett gave up in his first nats' appearance down in florida. he has homered tonight off of j.d. martin. this guy has made himself into a pretty decent major league hitter with pop. 18 homers and 58 batted in. he didn't leave anything on the bag on that swing. he hit 22 for the marlinses. it is the top of the hour here at nationals park in our nation's capital. bob carpenter and rob dibble and debbi taylor with you on masn two. sad to report for the 10th time in a row this year, it is all marlins. and a fly ball to right for elijah dukes. they pick up a run. it is a 4-0 game. josh wil