jamie: you just don't get in to see jack kennedy. >> no. jamie: but she does more than once. >> what they talked about god only knows, i am sure they talked about harold and his brother joe. jamie: his older brother joe was a naval naive yeah, thiator, whs killed in a top-secret mission, jennie writes her own letter of condolence. i want you to know how much i appreciate your card, he says, i know you know how we all feel, boys like harold and my brother joe can never be replaced. incredible. he says, i hope i shall see you sometimes again. >> yes. jamie: in 1946, kennedy is elected to congress. 6 years later to senate, and in november 1960, kennedy wins the white house. narrowly defeating vice president richard nixon. >> the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans born in this country. >> ke kennedy writes, sends a memorial at the wall in philippines that has been inscribeed with harold a name, he closes his letter saying, if ever you are in the nation's capital, i would like very much to have the white house and other publi

. >> rose: you mean jack kennedy. >> i mean jack kennedy.ple today, if they were called upon to serve their country they would. >> rose: it's become a term of art, what this president or leader needs, this country needs a moon project. >> absolutely. >> rose: a bold vision we can get here if we apply ourselves and i'm going to put my own credibility on the line to say we're going to do this. >> well, you could use this story of the wright brothers. they set themselves on the course to achieve the unachievable, supposedly. president kennedy said we're going to go to the moon. >> rose: right and we did. and they flew. >> and they flew. >> rose: you call what you do a calling. >> yes, i do. >> rose: how is it a calling for you? is it simply -- you tell me. >> i want to bring to life the best that can be found in the story of why we are the way we are and how we got to where we are. that doesn't mean it's all good news, all wonderful admirable people, not by any means. i think that what really happened is not only as interesting as stories that

senator, you're no jack kennedy. do you have once again with kennedy, reagan and clinton white houses and for all i know blake benson's better model had in common thomas jefferson's portrait on the wall. again, break and placed his next two calvin coolidge. so ergo jefferson the most malleable of figures. for liberals, jefferson's words reflect the cosmopolitan concern for human progress. for conservatives, his words appeal to a harmonious home life, safe secure and fairly homogeneous moral community. the new deal that jefferson defined -- the jeffersonian idea of freedom is having grown out of the self-evident truth during jefferson's words sacred and undeniable truth that all are created equal with equal access to the national economy and of course the reagan revolution said that freedom is the freedom -- the jeffersonian idea of freedom is the freedom of every individual, the right to master the economic environment without government standing in the way or imposing unfair regulations from the center. so property p

i mean jack kennedy. charlie: the moon.avid: if these young people were called upon -- charlie: they will see what this president needs or leader needs is to show the country needs to have a moon project. a bold vision we can get here if we apply ourselves and i'm going to put my own credibility on the line to say that we do not do this. david: you can use this story of the wright brothers. they set themselves on the path to achieve the unachievable. kennedy said we are going to go to the moon and we did. and they flew. charlie: you call what you do a calling. david: yes, i do. charlie: how is it a calling for you? it is simply -- you tell me. david: i want to bring to life the best that can be found in the story of why we are the way we are and how we got to where we are. it does not mean it is all good news, all wonderful. not by any means. i think what really happened is not only as interesting as stories that are concocted but often more interesting. i have always thought of myself as a writer. not a historian. i'm writ

. >> senator you're no jack kennedy. >> where's the beef? helped a candidate win unfortunately, he didn't keep the promise. >> read my lips, no new taxes. john: today we've got politicians who bore us by using the same poll tested words again and again. >> everybody get their fair shot, everybody does their fair share. >> everyone gets their fair shot and everyone gets their fair share. john: reminds me of the movie princess bride. >> i do not think it means what you think it means. john: politicians do know the meaning of words like investment free, fair share and so on they just twist the meaning. i wish we had subtitles when politicians spoke. a guide to what they really mean. for example in the woman most likely to be our next president speaks, you'd see something like this. >> i know in a time when we're afflicted by short-termism we're not looking over the horizon for the investments that we need to make in our fellow citizens, in our children. we will have to overcome deep divisions and try to begin to replenish our depleted reservoir

he fought against the industrial military complex being pushed by jack kennedy and rockefeller.in his character. tell me about your views as you shaped the book? >> i would say that started from the fact that he had an inner core that was even below politics.ç he had a problem with it. at night during the war when he was president, he was up nights. anxiety attacks, blood pressure spiking. he was a hater filled with anxiety. he knew he couldn't rule from anger and anxiety. towed project cheerful confidence to do job. he defeated his own anger and his own passion and he created a persona which was steady is that constant. and that led to a policy which was balance asked moderate and not dangerous. you write, individuals are strong but they're not self-sufficient to defeat sin you need help from the outside. so let me ask but marshall. you know, the guys who got credit for winning the war against nazis, ike got it in europe. and the red army side. but marshall was this guy held back in washington by fdr and he did the staff work and he made it all work. >> yeah. he was the organiz

his brother, jack kennedy, was obviously killed in 1963. bert kennedy: when i think of president kennedy, i think of shakespeare and "romeo and juliet," he shall make -- and all the world shall be in night. [applause] director witmore: that is a very powerful passage to describe the loss of a -- the sudden loss of a president. it takes that debt which is a political event and a historical event and makes it a cosmic event -- it takes that event, which is a political event and a historical event, and makes it a cosmic event. we get a lot of calls from people who know a lot about shakespeare and at election time, we get requests for things like a quote from "12 night," -- " 12th night," and we give quotes from them. brian lamb: stephen greenblatt was on and we had a composite of writers on our book notes program that talked about shakespeare. let's watch. >> what i try to do with humor and serious columns is let the reader see politics almost like a shakespearean drama where you have running characters. >> there is no better way than reading s

but neocons support, like jack kennedy was a neocon. followed by lyndon johnson with a poor strategy. 550,000 troops to the republic of vietnam. we won that war. there were democratic neocons. and in the biggest difference between a non- neocon at a democrat is the democrats today don't believe in the use of force unless absolutely positively they have to. and at a minimum risk of loss of american life. i think that is why israel comes up more often than not i did not hear an antiseptic we will to hearing some people mean jews. i get that all the time. time. i'm just an irish catholic boy from ohio. they believe in american exceptionalism. >> host: hugh hewitt indiana. would you be standing behind governor of be one of the business folks? >> guest: i would i would be with them. a big believer of religious liberty. i believe that any individual or business that has a deeply felt conviction about to his principles if your serving people i make this gradation. photography, forests kate baker. forests, unless there being asked to be there d

republican family i've said before and i have to tell you my mom didn't tell anybody she voted for jack kennedy until a couple years before she died. she told my brother jim and just told me. he kept it secret all this year. >> didn't want you to have the satisfaction. >> you don't know. anyway. cokie, let me ask you, my friend. is it possible that there will be a lot of women saying their husband is making a ton of money, have always voted republican. come election day hillary clinton is a credible candidate for president. she may be a bit to the left of some of these republican women. they will sneak out and vote for her? >> sure. in fact, right now in the polls -- >> without telling hubby. >> absolutely. but the reason she's doing well now is because she is getting white women, and that's unusual for a democratic candidate, so you have to figure that that's already going on. >> nedra? >> yeah, i mean, that's what the clinton campaign is banking on, right, that this is going to be the year of the woman and thrill be able to pull over some of these voters who otherwise might not vote for a dem

jack kennedy wanted it. teddy roosevelt wanted to be president. anyway.you think it went well down there with the community? tell me about the african american community. there any anger about the fighting that went on last time around involving jim clyburn and the rest of the political grandees down there? >> i came down here with that same question in mind and talked to a lot of people who were not only operatives on the obama side, supporters on the clinton side and regular civilians who were part of the campaign. and i didn't get a sense that people are holding a grudge against the clintons. what i heard were things like, no there is no judge there. but we want to be courted. this is a frustrated democratic electorate down here. they matter a lot one time, and that's the democratic primary it's something like 55%, at least in 2008, african american. so this is a large african american voting bloc that this is their one chance to really get courted the way iowa voters do. so they really want that, and they crave that. i think they're not willing to giv

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the eisenhower of and jack kennedy. so i think it has evolved and become much more formal. >> i'm going to go over just a little bit and really jumped to one last session before we go to the questions from the audience and that is the first lady and the media which is also banned the part of wilson's earliest days. i'm going to start with a modern one and that is answer the question of how nancy reagan managed to turn around that negative image. i don't know how many of you were around that she had a very unhappy reception from the press corps so what she did was to go to the press corps. you have heard of the gridiron dinner in washington d.c.. i will let you pick up the story from here carl. >> she bought these designer dresses so she was queen nancy. marie antoinette they are comparing her to. it sounds funny but it was somewhat cruel. do we have a clip click she goes to the gridiron and nancy herself is a former thespian not just her husband and she stole the room. >> here's a clip of the reagan presidential library

me to come to his house which was a few houses away from jackie, the kennedy -- the house that jack kennedy and his wife lived in before he became president. so i thought to myself, anything is possible in this country. i am not here today to talk about me, i am here to talk about the senate and ted. so when ted came down to the mcconnell center he brought a perfect photo of john sherman cooper with john f. kennedy with an inscription and this is what it said -- i know how much john f. kennedy admired cooper in the senate and so did i. the perfect gift. i don't think any speaker i had has ever brought a gift. ted did. he obviously asked somebody on staff to do some work, to come up with the appropriate thing to do. the touch that i so much appreciated. even though one was a democrat and the other republican, they forged many alliances. as i indicated they work together on the civil rights bill, so did ted. he picked up his load when his brother was gone and he and senator cooper got the bill across the war. what we saw in the ultimate triumph of the civil rights act was the senate at its be

jack kennedy, whom i did not cover, could joke about it.o i think what hillary did was good an answer as you could possibly give which is we're blessed. we were able to earn this money. but i have never forgotten where i came from. >> let me get jeff. jeff, you're out in iowa. how did it play out there, at least the initial reaction to her answering some questions? >> wolf i agree with gloria. it's always difficult to talk about this. but boy, she didn't step in it like she did the year ago. and said we were dead broke leaving the white house. a much different answer from her today. so it's showing that she has been practicing and thinking about this. i thought her answer was pretty good. i'm not sure that any voter i have ever talked to here in iowa new hampshire, any state be begrudges anyone for their wealth. the challenge for secretary clinton is showing that she is empathetic towards voters. i think when we see her in these small segments, that's what she is trying to do here. across the board she was not nearly as defensive as she was

and joseph kennedy was there. as saying, jack, could you send me? and he said, no.nd remember finally and that was -- [indiscernible] you know and said it to me and bundy saying to me is going on maybe two more days. all of us wake night and day. the situation. and he wrote a letter to mcnamara. ♪ >> how does our president feel about the restoration of the white house? >> he was interested in it. he'd always get so interested in anything -- i cared about him and he was nervous about it. he wanted to be sure was done the right way, so he sent clark clifford to see me. clark clifford was really nervous because he tried to persuade me not to do it, which jack never -- he said he just can't touch, their strange about it and looks at the truman back. -- balcony. if you try to make any change will just be like that. i said, it will not be like the truman balcony. i told him about all of the people we have. so it went on bit by bit and set the committee up andeu certainly go things in the clock is very good about setting up the guidebook. so jack is going along with good c

kennedy: they have a generous powerful as well, you get a jack and coke. >> problem, you know not like- i don't know what dc rate, but in public schools this other states it $8,000 to $12,000 per pupil. kennedy: and choicer to dollars 20,000 in places like l.a. and new york. >> yes. kennedy: but the perk is not making the simms better. -- the systems better and hillary clinton, is leading all competitors, but unfortunately for her, she tops fox news poll as quote less ejt call tha ethir politicians follow by chris christie, and jeb bush, and corrod-- tedcruz at 85, and rant 20%, chris christie has similar numbers, 37% of americans find him topless ethical -- to be less ethical. >> because he got in that scandal, that concession at giant stadium, almost like something you make up, a yo mama joke. >> he was spinning approximately 1400. >> is a beer like $500. >> right. it serves guilded cup. now should voters be concerned about future klystron clinton ? >> like winning gold in the olympics, they were almost proud of it. >> we're totaly unethical. >> what would i do? i think that is what

kennedy the other side of that is jack welch was here saying we need passion and i just look, quoting him, i was at an event with ted cruz, he generates passion now i don't know whether that's a strategy for cruz or a strategy for marco rubio. what do you make of that? >> they are absolutely right. that's what the silicon valley people see in more nontraditional candidates because the traditional parties and certainly the democratic party have been so bad for their business you know, and we talked about the nsa a lot on the show. that hurts the bottom line for the high-tech companies. i wouldn't be surprised to see them investing in the tea party candidates and someone like rand paul, and you know i think that you have the kochs they pledged $100 million in the race. i wouldn't be surprised to see proxy wars between other billionaires. neil: 100 million to them is like 640 to me. interesting a lot of the guys are long-term investors. and one of them is looking at some of the tea party guys. was saying of them you know ted cruz marco rubio could be president within the next 20 years. h

kennedy already planted the flag? >> i.out in the book that he was the most reluctant warrior. jackvalenti -- there is a chapter in my book called the decision the decision -- the one chapter that was written largely on the basis of jack valenti's notes because i was not in the white house for a good part of that time. it shows you how reluctantly was. remember when eisenhower was president john foster dulles wanted to send troops the majority leader of the senate was totally opposed. everybody in the administration -- you have to remember perspective the brothers were assassinated in september late september with our approval if not instigation. kennedy is then assassinated it's chaos in south vietnam. i was in the pentagon and. and great pressure from all of us. mcnamara would come back the white house and say the president we will take a decision in the midst of a campaign. the day after the election mcnamara had five alternatives ready and improvement. sent mcnamara twice. not always reluctant. finally agrees. the only person that opposed it was george walden the government. and

but in 1960, when kennedy and nixon got all the airtime, lar daly convinced the fcc that he, too, should get equal, free television time. and they ended up giving it to him on the jack parr show on nbc. warren uncle sam, smoked a cigarette the whole time he was on the show, you want a sandwich board where you can write to him for more information or to send him campaign donations. lar daly. he was the first official pain in the butt of american televised presidential debate. from the very first one. it was a huge thing for everybody and ignoring everyone and making it all very awkward. the jack parr studio audience, that night that he got his equal time on nbc, the jack parr audience booed lar daly. and they heckled him throughout the audience. parr complained that he had to have this man on his show. lar daly didn't give up and he told the fcc that they hadn't given him enough time to be truly equal. he demanded a further 22 minutes of television time during that election, if that election was going to be fair. lar daly was his name, perennial county and a real pain in the butt. this year, i check every day if he federal election website to see who has officially f