it was jackie kennedy who masterminded it. this is an astounding amount of primary records that document her day today activities regarding the exhibition. there is no question that president kennedy supported this bold idea and considered it part of his effort to ease tensions france --e u.s. and the frencht over nuclear arsenal, something bad to kennedy was vehemently opposed to -- i think he appreciated misses kennedy's idea and backed her 100%. rhett: we have a number of questions about this -- do you think there was a difference in people being able to see the painting? was it available 12 people? was segregation involved -- available to all people. was segregation involved? margaret: john walker was insistent that it was first in line, first in. they got inrived, line. you can imagine, his line was ringing dan tonight of people who wanted a tour of the mona lisa but this was an exhibition for the people. anyone who showed up and waited in line -- sadly, the lines were quite long. at some of the schoolchildren after a five

kennedy's own hand is there, he has a check mark or says ok or this or that, but it really was jackie kennedy who masterminded this. there is an astounding amount of evidence, actual primary records, that document her day-to-day activities regarding the exhibition. there is no question though that president kennedy supported this bold idea and considered it part of his effort to ease tensions between france and the united states. i know many of us know from our history class that there was the famous conflict over the french nuclear arsenal, something which kennedy was vehemently opposed to. i think he appreciated mrs. kennedy's bold idea and backed her 100%. rhett: margaret, we have a number of questions about this, do you think there was a difference in terms of people being able to see the painting? was it available to all people? was segregation involved in terms of visiting the painting when it was at the national gallery? do you know anything about that versus the met? margaret: john walker was insistent that it was just first in line, first in. as people arrived, they queued up. there

oh, jack, what a day. >> the kennedys had already recognized jackie's value. >> she was much more elegantut it mildly, than my family, the kennedy family, known primarily for football and sailing. jackie had a really good sense of taste and elegance. >> jackie had a very privileged childhood. she had every advantage in terms of her education. she went to vasser. >> jackie kennedy was the perfect prize of the wasp establishment. she also knew that the kennedy family was using her. she once said that family treats me like a thing, like an asset, like rhode island. even her own wedding was a political event. >> for the spectators outside the church, it is a real story book wedding. the top society wedding of the year. >> there's glamour on the outside, heart ache on the inside. jackie's own father gets so drunk before the wedding that he can't make it up the aisle. >> jacqueline kennedy had a father she adored, john bouvier but he had many flaws. he was an alcoholic, a gambler, he was a womanizer. >> after divorcing john bouvier, jackie's mother, janet, married the standard oil heir. >> jane

kennedy. it would jackie moon. and this is why you can buy sgt on because she was great luchino this guillaume and then after they have finished with it's london, the noun go to paris. and the french are loved there loved clones, and that was a big deal of that. how were the french think hoshi dress because they thought every american dressed all so you were the photographer who accompanied john f. kennedy to london and potus. is that correct? and i mean, there were me in a few of them, you know, all of them were, you took a photograph of jackie kennedy in london and a car which is almost a luminosity about you took a photograph of princess diana with a crowd which showed the some of the empathy, which she had these people the how to have the ability to communicate visually. there must be a photographers dream. yakked on, on jackie wall. and jackie want, she had taken london by storm. really, imbrie moment in the day she was enjoying it. but she true paris my whole paris to who and rule of law over there love and t

his lens has captured everyone from her majesty the queen to jackie kennedy to listen particular. however, one of his most notable achievements has been to photograph the last 12 american presidents in office until that is donald trump group, the run. alex takes up the story with heidi benson. but i don't like to be joined from florida by legendary photographer harvey benson holly. welcome to the alex salmond, show the pleasure of waiting it all, all my life to be on its just the 12 american presidents photographed by you, but the outgoing plays the new donald trump, who didn't have a, an all together. even relationship. are you hoping to go on much better with and coming joe biden? that's why i'm not mad joe biden is a nice guy. you know, is not event agreeable. but donald trump brought the romney. it wouldn't let you into the white house or you taken his photograph before that? oh, i'm for the graft. maybe for to you and me. so i said this to him when i ran into him some reception and i said to him, don, i'd like to come on one photograph you in the white house needs to know. i

entry into the world and then the revolution becomes so crucial later on and crucial to jackie kennedy's life. >> basically the cold war that defined kennedy's public life began in 1917. the powers of the cold war, the trajectory in collision with each other. >> you could certainly make that argument. they sometimes say to my students i ask when did the cold war begin, and if you look at the characteristics which i also have them do, then i say how many of those characteristics were present some of the things we associate as a great arms race for example, suppression and of course also in the soviet union, a bipolar world structure. some of those things may not be present but i've had a very smart students make a pretty compelling case at the start date of these competitions. >> did you have a preconception about jfk going into this, did you have a picture of him that you were then going to draw or did you begin relatively agnostic? >> i think that i had a sense even when i began for my work and the fact he visited in 1951. >> he goes and asks all these penetrating questions about what t

i guess i am suggesting this is more jacky kennedy's book and perhaps you are. george: i don't want to end on that minor disagreement because i want our audience to know that we've not even really talked about the way the book industry is a marvelous account of the convention that is not gone down in history as one of the great conventions but it's a democratic convention and you see jack kennedy at its absolute best because he was maneuvering and showing videos how to play the game. but is also detached enough to be able to recognize that he can take a loss now and it won't be the end of him. in fact it might actually help them when the big term comes in four years. it. fredrick: i will just say here, i have this in one of the chapters, you can go in youtube, which is where were on now. and you can see concession speech that he gives said that convention. it is done without notes. i think it is a remarkable moment captured that we can all see it on youtube. it is an amazing clip. so the folks are interested in this. he comes so close, just moments before to get

patrick: that's a good segue because we had a couple questions come in about jackie kennedy. do you all hold her papers as well? was she an influence on this thinking about legislation policy? i will let you start with those. alan: let me just point out, some will find a bit of this surprising. the big picture, the archival collections we hold, obviously, president kennedy and his administration, we hold the collection for mrs. kennedy, we hold the collection for bobby kennedy and ted kennedy. and we also have, by interesting historic connection, the ernest hemingway collection, because when ernest hemingway passes away and his wife cannot get his belongings and papers out of cuba and appeals to the kennedy administration for help, it is mrs. kennedy who helps facilitate that and make sure she is able to take one fishing boat worth of belongings back to the u.s. and she asks mary hemingway, what are you going to do with this? hemingwayy because never went to university, there was no other logical place to hold his collection of papers. mrs. kennedy said when we built jack's p

. >> it was especially unfair for michelle obama because jackie kennedy wasn't criticized for completely of the first lady. >> michelle obama, baring arms, has a whole new meaning inside the beltway. >> people zeroed in on her arms because they were not the arms of a fragile damsel who was white. nonwhite americans have for years looked at a white first lady and were still able to say that she represented them, but i think it becomes much more challenging for some white americans to look at a black first lady and see themselves in her. >> instead, they simply saw her as an alien. ♪ >> four months into the obama's first term, michelle takes her first official trip abroad, accompanying her husband to london. the next day while her husband huddles with other g-20 leaders, the cameras follow michelle as she meets with their spouses. >> but she wasn't just going to go as a figure head and just as a spouse. she actually wanted to interact with real people. >> and so michelle makes a solo visit to a girls' school a few miles across london but worlds away from buckingham palace. >> the first lad

of jackie kennedy and his brothers and the leaders of the world slowly walking across the bridge.o one who saw that will ever forget it. it is seared into the national memory and made people forget the successes and failures of the administration and fall in love anew and permanently with john kennedy. susan: the chapter in your book on lyndon johnson is important because of the vietnam war, that we don't have enough time to talk about it. i hope it will interest people in reading it. moving on to richard nixon. let's start with a piece of video and then we will talk about it. this is from 1962. [video clip] >> you had an opportunity to attack me and i think i have given as good as i have taken. i leave you gentlemen now and you will now write it, you will interpret it. that is your right. but as i leave you, i want you to know, just think of how much you're going to be missing. you don't have nixon to kick around anymore. because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. and i hope that what i have said today will at least make television, radio, the press recognize that they

the example of jackie kennedy and even a young jack kennedy helps us to do this. i hope this comes up in those chapters of the book. i am struck by the degree to which in the mid-or maybe a 1936, 37, 38 he's an undergraduate, he is asking large questions about the survival of democracy. is democracy suited to this age? responding to the authoritarian threats, can we do this? are their leaders who will grasp the hurdle and accomplished this? he's asking that even as an undergraduate and the thesis it is in some ways that's the heart of the thesis. why were the british under baldwin and chamberlain similarly unable to prepare for war? but it is ultimately a hopeful message and i guess this comes back to the question, that i think he decides that democracy company requires able leadership. leadership. more than that it requires citizens who are informed, who take an interest in policy issues, who hold their leaders accountable, and then for people themselves of course to run for public service and be engaged. that seems to me to be the most powerful part of the legac

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. >> across the country this could be the highest voter turnout since 1960 when kennedy beat nixon. jackieins us now at san francisco's civic center. good evening, jackie. >> reporter: good evening, raj and jessica. 1960 they had an 86% turnout here in san francisco. right now we're at 66% voter turnout prior to today. let me show you what's going on behind me. to the right is where you can drop off your ballot in the red boxes. in the tent behind it, that's where people can register. in this tent here to the left this is where you can vote. it's been a pretty smooth sailing day with most people casting their ballot before today. in san francisco, jackie ward, nbc bay area news. >> there are poll watchers making sure that things go smoothly. nbc bay area's sergio monitoring that busy polling place there. how does it look like tonight, damian? >> reporter: it's been a steady flow all day, jessica. it's about a one-hour wait to get inside so folks can vote and they will stay open until they cast their ballot. while they were outside one poll watcher was keeping a watchful eye outside. he's w

kennedy, who was 46 years old. people had not seen the assassination of a young president, with young children. image of image of his widow, jackiehis two children, caroline and john, that was the kind of thing that americans had not seen before. in retrospect, all these decades later, i think americans look back and think, in all sorts of ways, america has not been the same since. >> and let's end this segment where we started. you can use more than one word but especially in the hindsight that four years and the trump presidency has given us, what is the first draft, looking back on barack obama as president? >> look what his contemporaries have done this month, they've just elected joe biden by millions of popular votes. people are voting for barack obama with their feet. and i think the result will be important for him. no longer will you have a president falsely saying for four years, when i came in after obama, i inherited a mess. and falsely saying barack obama was spying own me and all the rest. you will see a president of the united states, joe biden, who will treat barack obama the way he deserves, hang his portrait, ha

we can get to know jackie kennedy. at various points in this story, volume 1, is quite open and what he says including about himself, letters to his friends and others, the communication between the two of them reveals a lot. it is interesting in volume 2. >> he would be more guarded. >> i think he will be more guarded. i already know in letters, plain old letters written by him to others become more scarce. that will be a challenge. the degree to which we felt we could get at the young jfk. >> when he was alive, who can tell you their first-hand experience, or is that generation pretty much disappeared? >> it is pretty much gone. there are a few. i have spoken to some of them. some of the ones i have spoken with, they are no longer with us. i do think the magnificent jfk library oral history collection is used with caution. it is a great resource and some of those interviews were conducted soon after the assassination which was a good thing but i will rely more on those than being able to talk. >> host: i can't wait f