we're now looking back at the legacy of jack kennedy. arthur schlesinger reveals letters with kennedy. he is most often identified with his relationship with kennedy. he supported his campaign for president. he was later appointed as special assistant to kennedy. the letters in this book capture the frank and honest relationship they shared and also the trust kennedy placed in schlesinger. two of schlesinger's sons compiled these letters. i love the book of his diaries, and i'm sure i'm going to love the letters. you guys did a hell of a job. i remember your writing a few years ago called the new democrat. let me ask you about your dad and kennedy. was jack kennedy a liberal by the standards of stevenson and fdr? >> yeah. not only was he a liberal, a self-proclaimed liberal. what democratic president since jack kennedy, maybe lyndon johnson has ever said they were a liberal. yeah. he was. and he was the man who proposed in the 1960 presidential campaign, he proposed medicare, he proposed the peace corps. he was talking about discussions w

november 22nd, 1963 forever changed us and whale we remember tonight what jack kennedy achieved in his lifetime we mark too the role of his brothers robert and edward kennedy. >>> the kennedy brothers. they stirred the country's blood and maddened their rivals. bill safire, richard nixon's speechwriter put it this way -- when you beat a kennedy, you beat the best. the trouble was, nobody did. here is the "hardball" political story of how these extraordinary brothers sought the american presidency. >>> let the word go forth from this time -- >> we have the capacity to make this the best generation. >> let us offer new hope. >>> in the 1950s, politics meant men in gray flannel suits, guys like dwight eisenhower, robert taft, adlai stevenson, and richard nixon. they were dull, stodgy and sexless. then in 1956 someone new appeared on the political radar. at the democratic convention in chicago that summer, a young politician battled the old guard for the vice presidential nomination and in the process catapulted himself on to the national stage. his name was jack kennedy. >> i want to take

but jack schlossberg, jfk's grand on is there. you also saw kathleen kennedytownsend, the former lieutenant governor of maryland, who was standing next to jack [ scattered applause ] berg, as well. john king is watching what's going on. john, as we see all of these kennedy family members and other invited guests at this i guess it's a memorial over at the gravesite, it brings back powerful memories of what's going on. >> it is a sacred place not just for the kennedy family but for the country. if nothing else, a moment like this should remind us all to study our history and cherish our history. imagine this family. there is a president who was assassinated buried there. there was his brother, a senator, robert kennedy buried there. his brother, a senator, ted kennedy buried there. remember these three brothers, very competitive, defined by enormous expectations then in each generation, each year that followed magnified by tragedy. it wasn't supposed to be jack, it was supposed to be his older brother joe who was killed in world war then it passed to jack, and

bipartisan thing in recent history, isn't there, david, that is that every president wants to be like jack kennedy in a way. >> absolutely. after lincoln died historians wrote that everybody want to get write with lincoln, walk in his footsteps that happened after john f. kennedy, in a book is very much about every president drool upon kennedy. especially bill clinton. remember the scene when kennedy was young, came to the white house he sort of reached out touched the hand of god. he was always influenced by it and drew heavily upon it in his rhetoric and his actions. >> schieffer: just same question to both of you, what do you think this anniversary means for the country. i think it's very important for people who were not alive when this happened to understand as much as they can about this, what is it that you find most important, peggy? >> the 50th anniversary. this may be the last time we remember this shattering historical event, the last time we remember it on this level. the 60th and 70th would be like so many people who can talk about it will have left. this was a moment that for two gen

it's hard if you look back at the political history, jack kennedy served in the cold war days and the post 9/11 days and a young congressman kennedy now, again a kennedy in the united states congress and a caroline kennedy as ambassador. it's still in someways, fewer of them with us, sadly, but still the royal family of american politics. >> i want to talk about that when we come back. we'll be joined by douglas brinkly to talk about the legacy, including the controversial argument that jfk should not be seen as a fallen liberal. first, friday will mark the day 50 years ago president kennedy was assassinated, 50 year s that spawned countless theories about what happened that day. those 50 years do not blunt the impact the nation felt when they learned the leader was shot. the moments were raw, obviously and still rest nate today. here is an excerpt from the "assassination of president kennedy". >> if it's a conspiracy, the president was hit, the governor was hit, who knows if the next shot would be lyndon johnson. johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at park land hospital. four

it's hard if you look back at the political history, jack kennedy serving in the cold war days. and ted kennedy in the post-9/11 days. and there's a young kennedy in the united states congress. and caroline kennedy as ambassador. and they're with us -- it's still the american family in politics. >> i want to talk about that when we come back. we're going to be joined by douglas brinkley to talk about the kennedy legacy, including the controversial argument that jfk should not be seen as a fallen liberal icon. as i mentioned, friday will mark the day that 50 years ago, president kennedy was assassinated. changed perspective, controversies and countless theories on what happened on that day. those do not blunt the impact the nation felt when it learned its leader had been shot. the feelings were raw. and they resonate today. >> if it's a conspiracy, not only the president was hit, the governor was hit, who knows if the next shot would have been for lyndon johnson. johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at parkland hospital. four agents reach him. and they grab johnson and pull

later jack kennedy said about clark clifford's role, can't you see clifford outrunning the possible course office action the government can take? you know what you're doing when you screw around with the power of the president? i don't think u.s. steel or any other companies

as jack kennedy once said party loyalty asks too much. >> you're right. i grew up in colorado out west. we drove through colorado a lot. the thing about people out west, they are conservative. when i was growing up colorado

kennedy's lap. >> and i remember her hollering, oh, my god they've shot jack. >> it was impossible to tell where kennedy was hit, but bullet wounds were plainly visible. >> i was 23 years old, working in omaha, nebraska, i was the only one on shift i'd gotten to work that morning at about 5:00. and i'd just finished the noon news. and the bells began to ring on the upi ticker. i wandered over to see what was going on and stared in disbelief. >> i was in the cbs newsroom. i called frank stanton who was the president of cbs and the secretary said, he can't be disturbed, he's in a meeting, he'll call you back. i said, disturb him. she said, what do you mean? i said the president of the united states has been shot. >> in those days in the midwest, at least, the network was dark. there was no network and it was local programming and we had a kind of woman show that talked about gardening. i ran downstairs at kmtv in omaha and began to read a bulletin on the air and, you know, everyone was discombobulated and disoriented. >> the air was filled with the screams of women and children. very fe

but the truth of the matter is, bobby kennedy was as pro-tax cuts and growth as was jack kennedy. ounger kennedys is they never got to get the direct experience from their fathers. they never did. they were told about their dads from all sorts of other people because their dads were killed. and what happened is i took joe kennedy in to patrick moynahan's office to explain to him what bobby kennedy was going to run on in that race, which was really going to be reagan's tax cuts. >> i know you worked on joe. i remember that period. >> joe was wonderful. joe is great. >> joe's a great guy. it didn't really rub off. >> oh, it did. i think it did. >> ira stoll, what are you hearing? your book is out there. you're getting good reviews, getting a lot of ink on this. john f. kennedy conservative. first of all, have you heard anything from the kennedy family? >> well, bobby kennedy, jr., was on another network the other night making some disparaging comments. and i think what art said is exactly right. it's sad these guys did not get to know their parents because of these assassinations. it

houses you went into, be somewhere in the kitchen, maybe in the front foyer, there was a picture of jack kennedy and a picture of jesus christ.

as jack kennedy once said party loyalty asks too much. >> you're right. grew up in colorado out west. we drove through colorado a lot. the thing about people out west, they are conservative. when i was growing up colorado was very conservative. people prize family and individuality. which is the reason that dick cheney coming from wyoming, he was a former congressman there although by the way he did live in texas from 1993 until weeks before becoming bush's running mate. i digress. they like someone supporting their own. and if liz cheney had the -- nobody takes anything away from him as a conservative. the problem for liz cheney is she's pretending to be a tea party and primary mike enzi when she is a neocon. and neo-conservative which is known for wanting to bomb the hell out of the middle east but not caring about social issues. she's trying to do something by being something she's fundamentally not which is a tea partier. >> and with only 69,000 people voting out there in the last primary, she's nickel and diming her way. fig yush there's only so many

then jack kennedy made these speeches and all of a sudden everyone wanted to go to harvard business school. the next minute everyone wanted to go to the peace corps or work for bobby kennedy's justice department. he appealed to america's appeals. you signed up for the piece corps. >> first of all, the term '60s does not refer to tenure of '6 1, '62. the early '60s madmen, cigarettes, cocktail, girls, old style macho culture, sexist, i guess you'd say. after jack there was this pall over the country, in a bad news, sad. then the beatles came along, an elixir. but it didn't change things. we tried to make ourselves happy after '63. sure they were getting stronger. we hadn't beaten them, they might have beaten us. early thin ties, short hair. work ethics. no screwing around, flower children. kennedy was a hawk. that's my biggest problem with oliver stone. he has a good complaint he didn't like vietnam war under johnson, blames him for everything, including having a hand in kennedy's death, which is an absurdity. we didn't have anti-government, but civil rights. we keep forgetting how many wer

certainty i can say it was the mob who killed jack kennedy.text, there was involvement of others in our government and what not, but principally the mob. the fbi was following these people. ,he fbi failed, in many ways hugely. to this day, they would rather not own up to that. jack was the cellmate with carlos marcello. he was an informant for the fbi. they were taping his conversations. carlos marcello basically laid out he did everything he read fairly straightforward. >> why doesn't matter now? think, for twoi reasons. one, the killing of jack kennedy was a consequential change in the political future of america. --ber two, it is in port and import than we know our own history, even if it is not pretty. important we know our own history, even if it is not pretty. , thank you forn being here. nationally syndicated radio host of the thom hartmann program. he is the author of two books. one of them was test published, "the crash of 2016: the plot to destroy america--and what we can do to stop it." his book about the kennedy assassination is ca

joining me to discuss jack kennedy's -- and kathleen kennedy town send is the former lieutenant governormaryland and is -- have you ever gotten a sense of when your father's passion and became very real for civil rights grew up. when did he become a sure fighter crusader for civil rights? >> i would say when he was in the justice department and he would make sure that for instance, when we went to new york, and we would go to harlem, he would make sure that we would go to washington, d.c. i remember him driving me down in washington one day, we were going to open a pool and he would say, kathleen, see the kids living in those houses, those tiny, tiny houses, they're your age, they have the same dreams as you, they have the same hopes as you, they would like to ride on a swing, they would like to ride on a pony, they would like to have everything you have, kathleen, you're very lucky and you have to remember everything you share with those kids. so he was very visceral in his understanding of civil rights. obviously that's what he did with me, his daughter, but at the dinner table he woul

this was a city that was in turmoil and filled with a lot of anger when jack kennedy arrived.er and traitor. i think today, they did an admirable job of focusing on what they should which is the life of this man in many ways because as we're talking right now, you bring yourself back 50 years ago, john kennedy is at parkland hospital, young doctors in their 20s, good doctors are working furiously to try to get a sign of life in him. in just another hour, jacqui kennedy who our heart goes out to because we see her with her husband is going to take an ambulance ride with four secret service agents and a brigadier general to air force one with her husband but her husband is in a casket and 20 minutes after that stands next to president johnson in stunned silence. we've seen that as he is sworn in as president. then for the entire ride back to washington, she sits in the back of the plane with the casket. there's no way you can go through the emotions of the day without wanting to turn the car around, turn the motorcade back because we know what's coming up. as a nation our heart

so one of the evening during interests jack kennedy a half a century earlier? because jfk was cut down in his prime we will always -- there will be a sense of an unfinished dream. the dream the media is all too happy to keep revisiting. is this where tv is headed? how much can we gorge on at once? >>> time now for our digital download. amazon post ad new video series called "alpha house." part of a trend that's bypassing television for the web. >> amazon is joining netflix and others in creating original programming. had one a comedy about four republican senators who share a group house. starring john goodman. >> look, i have been through this. the time i knocked [ bleep ], that video [ bleep ] exploded. on every station. the next morning, zip, gone. over. >> what? why? >> i caught a break. a hurricane wiped out carolina beach. but that's the way it works, lewis. the media always moved on. >> that's so, so true. isn't it? >> i really like this series. it captures the cynicism of washington and it is a very funny moment. what i also like is that amazon had a se

president barack obama was introduced by the grandson of president kennedy and 20-year- old jack kennedy is the son of caroline. >> for send ares. 50 years ago he found an extraordinary civilian group. >> and women's rights acts and talk show hosts oprah whimphrey was there as well. >>> a passer made this discovery while shopping in the valley. a bible was posted there with the caption, costco has bible under the fix area. >> members of the pastor's church should be treated as holy and not fix and costco reached out and said they were a result of a dismuting error and later said the words were changed. >>> we went 40 feet below the ground to get a look amount the tunnels and that says it approaches a milestone that could come as early as today. one of the two massive machines will pass between them on market street. >> the most progress was made in one day as we did install 100 feet of sun until and some bart trains may slow down as the big train passes underneath. >> sal, any problems? >>> nothing major but we are watching because they tend to change as we watch with the morning commute

joining me to discuss jack kennedy's -- and kathleen kennedy town send is the former lieutenant governorhave you ever gottena sense of when your father's passion and became very real for civil rights grew up. when did he become a sure fighter crusader for civil rights? >> i would say when he was in the justice department and he would make sure that for instance, when we went to new york, and we would go to harlem, he would make sure that we would go to washington, d.c. i remember him driving me down in washington one day, we were going to open a pool and he would say, kathleen, see the kids living in those houses, those tiny, tiny houses, they're your age, they have the same dreams as you, they have the same hopes as you, they would like to ride on a swing, they would like to ride on a pony, they would like to have everything you have, kathleen, you're very luck briy and you h to remember everything you share with those kids. so he was very visceral in his understanding of civil rights. obviously that's what he did with me, his daughter, but at the dinner table he would talk about how di

awhile back, in researching my book on jack kennedy, i came across the scene of the kennedys enjoyingthat deadly friday in dallas. at one point, i came across the young son playing in his army helmet and rifle, showing off that same smart military salute to his mother, who returns it, just as smartly. on the day of the funeral, you can see jacqueline kennedy encouraging her son to do the same before the world. as it says in the bible, you know not the day nor the hour. in returning your young boy's salute that fresh november weekend in virginia, jackie kennedy had no idea she would be asking him to repeat it again on a day and hour at such unknowable grief. no one knows the future, that includes the kennedy family in those last sweet days of november in 1963. it's for this reason that i think of jack and his family as a new life, grabbing every bit of it, not knowing for a second what was to come as he turned that plaza in dealey plaza. tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of that tragedy. at 7:00 p.m. eastern, we will begin our coverage of what it all meant to those who lived it and to t

he was jack kennedy's enforcer, his closer counselor, a tough guy behind the scenes.as always bobby putting his finger in somebody's chest. obviously in 1968 because of war and civil rights movement and social consciousness that could you see develop on the fly almost he became the most interesting politician after this year. >> jon: when you are talking to people who were down there, as you speak to them, are their memories do they feel personal or almost a narrative created from the day, from all the experience they have experienced from that day? is it difficult to separate those things? >> i think for them it's very personal. they reserved a pat of their -- part of their memory bank and emotion from that day. john brew year who you saw there he did make its possible to get oswald early because he followed him to the movie theater. he changed his life. he got out of dallas, went in the navy for a while. it's just been recently tham it was the idea of john brewer that found oswald and he could have a life. nfl football players with who didn't want to play on that su

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jack kennedy was tenacious. >> now it is time to take longer strides. time for a great new american enterprise. time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement which, in many ways, may hold the could i to -- the key to our future on earth. >> this is a chimpanzee who was flying in space. took off at 10:08. reports everything is perfect and working well. >> kennedy saw the need to have a program that would excite the american people, and then he got all involved in it himself, all the way up to the time he died, he saw this was coming along and saw that the american people themselves were behind the program. >> colonel? this is colonel glenn. >> listen, colonel, we're really proud of you, and i must say you did a wonderful job. >> thank you, mr. president. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out, of landing man on the map and return -- on the moon and returning him safely to earth. no single project will be more impressive to nankai or more important for the long-range ex

obama today giving him his award, barack obama's really the first president without a memory of jack kennedyave a first lady today with michelle obama born after the president was killed in 1964. so it's the first time we've had a couple in the white house without that memory. i think that is a defining generational shift and change in terms of the white house and the leadership in washington without that the visible memory of that assassination date the rest of us have. >> are you surprised, doug brinkley, you're a presidential historian, how powerful that will moment to 508 years ago has become for so many people, not only in the united states but around the world? >> no it, i'm not at all. first off, being the first catholic president, you know, is a big deal. he was so handsome and we all get older and john f. kennedy's the gallant president gunned down in his prime. also, if you've been pointing out, television was just really coming into dominating communications around the world. so all this footage went everywhere. you can imagine. but also he had a lot of great -- when you go there

for jack kennedy that's a problem. but in many respects, you know, that decision is what sort of lead to the communists coming into vietnam which then lead to i guess you could say ultimately the movie "forrest gump" beating "pulp fiction" at the oscars which i think we all agree was the real tragedy of this entire debacle. was she in any way still frightened? was she paranoid that forces were going to be out to get her? >> sure. so by the time i found her, i had to swear up and down that i was not a government agent. i was not married to a government agent. no one in my family belonged to the cia. and she really didn't trust me at first. and i can understand why. she had been burned before. so it took a long time to earn her trust. >> jon: and you had set up many different meetings with her. you went to paris this year. but she never actually shows up. >> no. she doesn't. and at the end of the day i think she likes to think of herself as this powerful, beautiful woman. and so for her to show herself as sort of an olde

later jack kennedy said about clark clifford's role, can't you see clifford outrunning the possible course office action the government can take? you know what you're doing when you screw around with the power of the president? i don't think u.s. steel or any other companies want internal rev enough agents checking expense accounts. want government to go back to he tell bills to fine out who was with you? these are real quotes. now, if the kens were prepared to do this to stop a steel price hike, what they do to keep the presidency in their hands? some of you know i worked for robert kennedy. no public figure i admired more. but this this dark side. they get away with it but people know that something is up. one of those underground things that know. it's all kind of underground. last, 1968. what happens? so here are two notions. if there's no war in vietnam, then richard nixon's most powerful argument for the presidency -- i know the world, i know the soviet union, i can bring peace to vietnam -- is irrelevant, and the republicans can find somebody who could actually win elections, say th

and he regards him as sickly, you know, he says this is a quote from lyndon johnson about jack kennedy he was pathetic as a senator. he didn't know how to address the chair. and he was sickly. he wasn't the man's man. so johnson doesn't realize, he's the mighty majority leader. he thinks he's going to have the nomination in 1960. he doesn't realize that this young senator is a lot tougher and a lot smarter than he thinks he is. >> rose: and so then they off and campaign and win the presidency. >> yes. >> rose: and then -- >> and then johnson finds out how tough jack kennedy really is. because when he becomes president he takes johnson at basically under the kennedy administration, johnson is completely he mass you can lated. all power, all power is removed from him. he doesn't even have the right to order an airplane to take him on a trip without robert kennedy or one of robert ken doe's aides signing off on it. every speech is supposed to be created-- . >> rose: robert ken doe is to the working at the white house. he's in the justice department, or attorney general. >> yes. >> rose: b

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if jack kennedy had run against goldwater in 1964, he would have won in a landslide -- >> but he almost didn't beat nixon. how close was that election? >> that was the closest ever had. 49.8% of the volt to 49.7% of the vote. >> because people believe kennedy as this huge figure, they think he must have won by a landslide but it was close. >> everybody thought he was going to win by a landslide. all of the experts, all of the journalists were convinced. but in the end -- and i think it's because lots of americans weren't yet ready to vote for an irish catholic. >> is the family cursed? >> no. the family cursed itself because these men and women were risk takers. they grew up with glamour, with education, with privilege. they thought at moments that they were immoral; that they could do anything. they took risks that lead to tragedies much too often. >> thank you very much. and you are going to continue to be with us. we wanted to tell you time line right now. on november 21st, the president and his wife flew to texas. the two-day five-city tour was a campaign trip of sorts. it was also

case closed, an author makes the case that lee harvey oswald and lee harvey oswald alone killed jack kennedy. ron burgundy had fun last night on conan, and toronto mayor rob ford's expense. >> my dear, dear, dear friend, mayor rob ford of toronto is running for re-election. and i hold him in the highest regard. he is the best. >> okay. >> i watched that last night. so good on conan. this is "hardball," the place for politics. congested. beat down. crushed. as if the weight of the world is resting on your face. but sudafed gives you maximum strength sinus pressure and pain relief. so you feel free. liberated. released. decongested. open for business. [ inhales, exhales ] [ male announcer ] powerful sinus relief from the #1 pharmacist recommended brand. sudafed. open up. >>> welcome back. the republican party is now engaging in an organized relentless attack to destroy the affordable care act. now the "new york times" has obtained a smoking gun to the attack. an internal memo that maps it all out. it highlights themes they'll use to urge republicans to collect stories about the impact of polic

kennedy and john and caroline. >> she got along with mr. >> she got along with mr. onassis. >> and when people were giving her trouble for marrying mr. onassis, rose stuck up for her and said jackhave wanted her to be happy. >> you describe her as being homeless after the death of president kennedy and wanted to know why the family didn't bring her more support, bring her to the fold, give her a place to live. >> she had money. >> she had $150,000 from the trusts coming her way. bobby pitched in $50,000. >> this is mid '60s. times that times ten for today's dollars. by her standards, perhaps it wasn't enough.

kennedy and john and caroline. >> she got along with mr. onassis. >> and when people were giving her trouble for marrying mr. onassis, rose stuck up for her and said jack would have wanted her to be happy. >> you describe her as being homeless after the death of president kennedy and wanted to know why the family didn't bring her more support, bring her to the fold, give her a place to live. >> she had money. >> she had $150,000 from the trusts coming her way. bobby pitched in $50,000. >> this is mid '60s. times that times ten for today's dollars. by her standards, perhaps it wasn't enough. in terms of the physical place to live, she said in the famous interview with theodore white, the camelot interview the week after the assassination said she wanted to live with my children in the places i lived with jack. georgetown and on the cape. she could have gone to the cape. she went to georgetown. avril larriman loaned his home and she bought a home across the street. it was inundated with tourist buses, tourists, photographers, peeping into her windows and coming up on the porch. she couldn't bear it. after a relative few months, she took off for new york

the film indicated, shall we say, confrontational relationship that eleanor roosevelt had with jack kennedy. and she really did not campaign for the president at all until october 1960 because she insisted that he change his civil rights stance and that he publicly discuss mccarthy, and so she and adam clayton powell and herbert lehman had a big conference in new york at the baptist church. and they come up with about a dozen recommendations that they want the president to endorse before -- you know, to really say to the world, this once in for all, is where i stand on civil rights. and president kennedy against the advice of his advisers goes and meets with her, and she gives him the recommendations. and that's where he issues the famous declaration that i will ban discrimination in federally financed housing with one stroke of the pen. and so, she campaigns for him then for the last 16 days of the election. and she goes to new york, atlanta, detroit, los angeles, san francisco, places where there are significant african-american populations and major labor unions, because labor unions and

those of us on the right were saying we are going to get our jack kennedy. the whole new generation of real change. >> let's move on. there's a lot to talk about. was it a conspiracy? >> i certainly have doubts that he was motivated by himself. i'm not sure if anybody else was involved. i don't go down that road with respect to the grassy knoll theory and all of that. but i have questions about whether they got down to the bottom of oswald's time. >> secretary of state john kerry is not the only one to harbor questions about the motives of the assassin lee harvey oswald who also wounded texas governor john connelly. oswald himself was shot two days later as he was held in the dallas city jail. the shooter was jack ruby. a local nightclub owner. 52% of the public thought lee harvey oswald had not acted alone. today, 61% think oswald had coconspirators. that is down from a high of 81% who thought so in the 1990s after oliver stone's film jfk. true the tragedy has all the makings of a conspiracy. oswald was a former u.s. marine. he had earlier defected to the s