jack kennedy picked somebody who tolerated his many affairs. jackie was looking to get married because she needed the money. she knew about jack's reputation but she also had a father who had been a philander. and so she kind of believed that men were just kind of this way. she would be able to deal with it and move on. her father, she adored her husband. he was named john -- they called him blackjack. he lost his fortune. she had grown up accustom to a nice lifestyle. now it was gone when her father lost the money. and her stepfather knead clear he wasn't going support the children. he had his own children. they would have to make their way. when jackie met jack she was working for the president and she was making $42. for a woman who liked the finer things in life, it wasn't the life she envisioned for herself. they married each other for convenience. jack often left her home alone. she seldom traveled with him on the trips even braf he became president. there were two thing that started to change their marriage. the first was the trip to pari

in my book, i tie him to not the murder of jack kennedy, but eight previous murders, murders to cover up corruption, corruption of ethic proportions, biblical proportions. lyndon johnson would steal a hot stove. indeed, "life" magazine finds in 1963 despite the fact he's just a high school teacher, congressman, and u.s. senator, and been on the public payroll his whole life, he's worth $25 million. today, that's $150 million. how do bribes work? simple. want legislation? want a contract? buy fake advertising at johnson's radio station in austin, and the advertising never runs, but that's where you pay the bribe. johnson enters public service penniless and leaves a multi, multimillionaire. let's take about that trail of murder. 1951, sam southwick, a man who is a party to the theft of the 1948 election. now, i should talk about the 1948 election. i have been active in american politics for where i have never seen an election after the polls, marching, signing in in the same hand writing, same ink, but that's what happened in jim wells county. lyndon johnson stole the first election by

certainly the republicans have one to use jack kennedy -- jack kennedy cut income tax rates long before ronald reagan did. so there's that. specifically john kennedy what was said to me was how the strings in attending marriage but as i grew up looking at, anytime you go to the supermarket, all these jackie, jackie, the great love affair and find out they had a strained relationship was said to me. i didn't realize how strange it was. that was probably the most surprising thing after all you thought your own life, and you find out he proposed to her by telegram and the only time, the only liberty ever wrote her was a postcard that said we should you were here. a postcard that said we should you were here. that's literally the length of the correspondence. i've been intrigued by the woman jack kennedy -- i'm doing some research, might be the subject of my next book. she is one of his lovers when he was still in the navy. she was made at the time. he a daughter but, of course, because of her marital circumstances it couldn't be. that was the soulmate he was looking for. i think it had bee

. >> jack kennedy figured out how to use television. i've always had this theory that the most successful politicians are the ones who mastered the dominant media, medium of their time. i mean, kennedy came along and he had this great wit and verve, and he was so good that he had changed, he changed the presidency forever. i still think nobody has quite mastered the way he did. it's hard to say anybody was better on television than ronald reagan. he was very, very good. but i still think that kennedy was the one -- i may comment he could do the interview, he could do the press conference, he could make the speech. and he was just all around better at it. i think he set a style and he set a tone for the presidency. he brought glamour to the presidency. he made a lot of young people want to take part in public service and serve their country. >> doing the interviews for this book, "november 22 "november 22 reflections on the life, assassination, and legacy of john f. kennedy" for me was a labor of love. in addition to contacting people who

>> i think the assassination of jack kennedy was such a profound experience for bobby kennedy that even as he had become quite liberal under the attorney general with his brother's administration faugh if -- it was almost as if fdr changed after polio it opened the sensitivity of poverty, the impoverished of blacks, whites, if the panoply of civil-rights issues and made him an incredibly vulnerable. therefore he became an iconic figure someone to the trodden populous in a way that people saw he could bring together the establishment with that poverty-stricken part of the population that would work together. but i do think it was the assassination that would open him up. >> host: did your father ever talk to you about the conspiracy theories after the assassination? after reading this having been so deeply involved, he refused to believe bobby kennedy had anything to do with taking out castro. of removing. and your dad was in "the new york times" as i remember at the end said he was wrong on that. >> he said operation mongoose was the attempt to get the q been the economy after the bay o

conspired to kill him well that's the difficult question in fifty years let's just put it this way jack kennedy made a lot of enemies he made enemies of the military industrial complex because he would not invade cuba which they wanted to do and he was going to pull us out of vietnam so that's two wars that kennedy was going to head off that we were going to be part of that ticked them off he was going to take away the oil depletion allowance which is where all these oil guys make their real money not having to pay taxes because kennedy couldn't figure out how a guy like h.l. hunt could make thirty million a year and not pay any taxes is so he was going to do it so that got the oil people angry at him he was the first president to bring in civil rights. and equality johnson has that right but kennedy started it all and so that ticked off the south so who killed him down with the and he also after the bay of pigs said he was going to break the cia into a thousand pieces and he fired their top three guys allen dulles so the cia was pissed at him kennedy had more enemies within his administration

unless there is a reason, like jack kennedy said, is this for the country? i think that breaks the decision in the running i think. >>> up next, the stock market has more than doubled since 2009. so why doesn't wall street and the republicans give president obama some credit? cnbc's jim cramer joins us next. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> what a difference four years makes. senator republican leader mitch mcconnell is running for reelection in kentucky, but he faces a primary challenge and a formidable candidate come the general election. so he is turning to fellow kentucky senator rand paul for help. take a look at the ad that formally kicks off the mcconnell campaign. >> welcome and sign the papers. >> what he has done and what allows him to be the most powerful republican up there is that he can pull people together. >> back in 2010, mcconnell snubbed paul and supported another candidate for the republican senate nomination. but now that paul's popularity has eclipsed mcconnell's, mcconnell's needs paul's support if he hopes to hold on to

. >> president that we should look back to on how jack kennedy did compromise and was able to very aptly cut a deal even with the fiercest of republicans. >> and with khrushchev. >> that's right. a question for you. it seems to me that our top three leaders, the congress and the white house all have a disdain for the political process. these guys -- harry reid and obama all of them have that element but they don't seem to enjoy the political game. that process that you so much love, i loved as a student, as a student senator when i went to boston college. it i loved the process but these guys don't seem to love the process. they're such disdain. >> let me answer. the answer is, it has lost the people in the business to get things done. it has lost its joy. i think the stopgap is just going from week to week kicking down -- the can down the road never having a sense of achievement. most people want to achieve something in life. i don't know what you achieve in politics. just think about this. in my lifetime and a lot of our lifetimes the united states congress got together and it's someth

the only ones who have succeeded, the political winners of all time, jack kennedy, ronald reagan andd, all pro growth providing jobs, not welfare. that is how you win politically, that is how we're going to win in 2014 and 2016. in my view it might be with democrats, not just republicans. this is bipartisan growth policies. and that is the winner. stuart: show me the block of democrats who really say we've got to cut corporate tax rates, individual tax rates, because that is at the heart of what you are suggesting, you show me the democrats were going to do that. >> i will show you tons and tons and tons of them in 2014 and 2015, stuart. there are so many who would love to run on a progrowth agenda like their party has always espoused. we are not allowed to because of the political pressures holding the camp together and threatening to teach them a lesson in primaries, but there are a lot of democrats who would love to be progrowth. it is purely economics. you cannot tax the economy into prosperity and you cannot come rich with handouts, it does not work that way. stuart: in 2013 we

hollywood as an actor and john kennedy going to hollywood all the time to hang out with the stars jack kennedy once went to hollywood after world war ii and spent a month there living with broad -- robert staff trying to figure out what gave movie stars charisma so he could mimic that. he went to gary cooper said in huge said this guy is the most job dropping warring person i've ever met that we go outside of the restaurant and he is mobbed. i don't get it. they were also the two most popular speakers in america in the 1950s. kennedy had made a big splash running for president and got hundreds of speaking invitations every week and reagan gave more speeches. he was the official corporate spokesperson for general electric and later death valley days and his job was to tour the country giving speeches on electric appliances. he did that thousands of times. he estimated he gave a speech eight or 9000 times. and yet they kept crossing the country and never met so it's a very strange situation. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> would the like to sign some books? >> we but l

there's planted a pristine bullet on the stretcher that we're asked to believe it wefnt through jack kennedy and connelly and remains pristine. the government can't duplicate that either december -- despite best tries. i'm sure the book is here, please, my friends, move it to the fiction section. [laughter] another question. somebody who has not asked. yes, sir? >> did you run across an proximation how much military industrial complex money loomed -- or let's say his front companies meads, like, continuing in the vietnam war? >> well, we know that, that lady bird was a shrewd investor, big stock in bell helicopters, big stake in brown and rue known as haliburton. johnson's estate made millions on the vietnam war, millions. she was shrewd when it came to investing. hard to say. we know, for example, that there was a $33 5 million contract begin to dredge the bay that did not need dredging, for example. no, i think the generals wanted the war. this is where oliver stone, i'm not related to and who i have agreements and disagreements with, but whom i have enormous respect for based on the talen

look at what we now know jack kennedy was doing part of the ime.e press did not report on that. 20 years later, we had been -- the country had been through watergate, vietnam. many more questions about whether our leaders were telling the truth and i think there was a much greater reluctance to believe our eyes. i don't mean me but i mean the ress's eyes. >> there were some criticisms. we talked about the sense of style she brought to the white house and whether that was appropriate for the time. they used the white house to promote the political agenda as most presidents have. we are going to show you a little bit of how the reagan library was like her style. >> nancy reagan knew how important it was for her to dress appropriately. this gold gown is from the second inaugural. there was a matching dress underneath and it was designed from one of her favorite designers that designed for her during her white house years. this dress is her lucky dress. she wore this when she attended the national republican convention in 1980 when her husband was nomi

reporter, and during the kennedy era, everybody knew, and everybody kept a list of who they thought jack kennedy was sleeping with, but nobody ran the story, so in different periods and in different situations, we either as a culture run the story and run with the story as i think we would today, but i'm not sure, or we wouldn't, and no one ran with the eisenhower questions. no one ran with kennedy while he was alive. as a matter of fact, the kennedy story didn't come out until the 70s when revealed one of his exlovers was the lover of a mafia god, and when that broke, that broke the wall, and suddenly, there was stories. from the 60s to the 70s it's changed, and this changed all through at the 19th century. the press where it started was lots and lots of political newspapers in every town, and with the coming of the steam engine and press, it was possible to sl big mass circulation of newspapers in cities, and so from being a political press, we went to being a press for everybody, and as a press for everybody, crime stories came on and became a big thing. newspapers ran phone yi stories on pur

jack kennedy would have been president with or without his wife. that was a different situation. that was driven by the father. the bushes, i really felt conflicted, because i found myself almost taken in by the grandmotherly image of barbara bush, and the statesmanlike position of george herbert walker bush, who i will still say on foreign policy he was pretty good, terrible on domestic policy. and so i, too, had to fight that public image. and i came out of it quite conflicted. >> host: nicole is in michigan city indiana and nicole, your are on booktv with kitty kelley. >> caller: thank you, ms. kelly. i'm really enjoying the program and i just admire you and i love your approach to writing unauthorized biographies. i'm an aspiring writer myself and i would like to know, how do you start your day, the whole process and starting her books. are you a morning ride, evening writer, what is your process? >> host: what kind of books are you writing? >> caller: well, it's a book on how to get married, because there's a lot of single women, how to get married. [laughter] >> guest: that

jack ruby to that? he wanted to spare mrs. kennedy? >> he feared mrs. kennedy would have to testify at the trial. he buses in a distraught emotional state and was impulsive any way. but it hit him hard. everyone who's talk to him said they were shocked hall over, and he was that it was an emotional downward spiral he had a little dog he called his wife. the little white dog was in his car when he shot oswald. he was also very angry. the man to to tout the ad in the papers was jewish and he was furious. and after he shot oswald he said i had to show there were some tough to wish people in dallas. >> host: very surely we have time for a few questions but i want to sum up one more aspect. there is so much to talk about. pre-don't have the time. the funeral was over jackie dedicates herself to make certain that this event and her husband place in history was going to be seen as wonderful. tell the story about camelot >> guest: you have all heard of camelot it was not the word that describes the kennedy and frustration while it was unfolding. you never heard that phrase associated with kennedy before

jack killer aspect of jfk. a second dimension of want to talk about with kennedy, a domestic policies and other. and kennedy did not love domestic issues. this was not why he became a senator. i sort of like an it to being a student, do your math homework before you go do literature or social studies and history. it was just something that he knew he had to pay attention to it. i don't think he was domestic. he had won in 1952 on a campaign that just effectively alleged the lodge was so interested in being a globetrotting senator and foreign policy that he was neglecting massachusetts. kennedy's them was i will do more for massachusetts. it is somewhat ironic because in some sense kennedy was charging bowater with being is that really kind of senator he won the beat. that was what he thought a senator should do a saw that it was electorally a vulnerability. he pushed very are an affront. so when kennedy was elected, as far politician. the first thing he did was a symbol of very, very detailed economic plan for massachusetts and new england. he hired ted forstmann who came out of his top aides to

kennedy is denied. after this denial it's the rebound goal for nieto. sharks beat florida for the first time in five years. 3-0 is your final. that's sports. >> omg, jack. have you ever checked out these new product ideas people post on your page? they're kind of amaze. ...ing. yeah - that's where i got the ideas for my new- fajita ranch melt. seasoned chicken with a gooey blend of pepper jack cheese, roasted peppers and onions, on toasted sourdough for just $3.99. is that where you also got the idea for that clock bracelet you always wear? my watch? no...these were invented a long time ago. like in the 80's? >> today on "tmz" -- >> trace adkins beat the crap out of trace adkins. >> he was part of the country cruise. so apparently he got in a fight with a trace adkins impersonator. >> devastated. getting your ass kicked by impersonator, that would be bad. >> if the impersonator beats you -- > this is the real person. [laughter] >> yeah. >> kate gosselin was on the "today" show with her twin daughters. what would you want to say about how you and your sister and your family are doing? >> uh --

french who used to talk about kennedy when he was a reporter every betty kept a private list who jack kennedy was sleeping with buck nobody ran the story. but i am not sure. nobody read with the eisenhower question as a matter of fact it did not come out until the '70s when it was revealed also the of lover of the of mafia don then suddenly there were lots of stories but it has changed from the '60s to the '70s and again in the 19th century press was lots and lots of little political newspapers with the steam engine and the press to have a big mass circulation to be up press we went to every betty so crime stories became a big thing. newspapers actually reagan from the stories on purpose just for the entertainment value then they would say no. then this went on throughout the 19th century as well as disasters here and now as it was front-page news. now the newspaper business became more air more mass circulation so with hundreds of thousands of the end of the century it is either/or. either the topic is sensational or the treatment or the degree of treatment. the adjectives is the tone horrib

jack kennedy the does this crazy plan, although i would argue the murder of kennedy may be the ultimate manifestation of their plan. as johnson goes to great lengths to try to blame the cubans. indeed, ambassador william atwood the was the roommate of jfk's at princeton has gone to castro and said john kennedy would like to have quiet back channel talks. it's time to start talking. caster is surprised that he agrees. -- castro. as for cruise ship is concerned why does he want to kill kennedy? the cuban missile crisis. he says in his memoirs when he wrote kennedy had been killed, he wept. there's not an iota of evidence the soviet or cubans are involved in the murder of john f. kennedy. yet only two weeks ago, our esteemed secretary of state, john kerry, says in in in the with cement, i never thought oswald acted alone, right about that part. i think the russians and the cubans did it. completely wrong. another question. >> you mentioned briefly the perhaps possible summits in chicago and in tampa. is a true a three-man hit team was rolled up in tampa and that kennedy's campaign at paren