so i got overs to the office one day and there was an invitation from katherine graham and jacqueline kennedy o nas sis to have dinner. i thought i must be the most important person here. i get over to this lovedy dinner at katherine graham's house, me, the two women on the end and all of these male senators. and here's what happened. jacqueline kennedy had edited a book called "remember the ladies" from abigail adams plea to her husband when he was writing the constitution. obviously he didn't do it but -- and it was about all of the things that we didn't know about her story, you know all of the women in our backgrounds that had just been left out of history. they take history too seriously and no reason to put hers in. she wanted this as part of the official part of the by centennial. made sense to me. i thought it was about time women learned their history. i passed it out and since no one was paying attention, it got to the senate and they were like, no way. so i'm sitting here at this dinner and thinking these are probably the two most powerful women i can think of in washington and the

and didn't jacqueline kennedy -- >> my character is based on jacqueline kennedy. >> is that who you tryracter. nobody can imitate jackie kennedy. i do a version of that kind of finishing school polite, i'm always poised, even during the most desperate moments in this play. there's so much comedy. there's some drama. it's intense out there. >> my character wishes she was jacqueline kennedy. >> what is it like? >> sex and the city. >> i never saw that show. >> what do you mean you never -- >> i never saw "sex & the city." and she's never seen "full house." >> how can that be? >> we were working. >> i fell in love with you on "general hospital." >> i watched "general hospital." >> we have some footage here, just in case you want to go down memory lane. >> is that you? >> that's me. >> that's crazy. >> what year? >> that's not me. >> that's the dude i was with. my name was nurse betsy. >> see there? >> that's right. >> last time you were here, you wanted to be on "hot in cleveland." >> yes. >> you have another goal. if you speak it, it seemed to happen for you, cybill? >> we have to fake it

in the 1960s, proposals were made to tear down grand central, but jacqueline kennedy onassis, presidenthn f. kennedy's widow, came to the rescue. she helped save the beautiful building. today, the emphasis is on preservation and restoration. >> what you see, kristen, is what the terminal looked like in 1913, when it was finished. but in 1927, because they needed additional room for the ticket sellers, they built a ceiling over this space, right at this heavy cornice line here, so that when you came down the ramps, you felt like you were going down into a basement of grand central. as architects, we thought that there was an opportunity to remove all of that, put that somewhere else, and once again restore this magnificent view of the skylights, of the chandeliers, and, more importantly, of the sky ceiling and the main concourse beyond with all the natural light coming back in, and we think it's probably the most important and successful change that we made, as restoration architects, to make the terminal great again. this is known as the "whispering gallery," where we have our -- they'r

i was about to write about the scene where johnson takes the oath and jacqueline kennedy is beside him. and i said who was in that room? i've talked to everybody i could think of-- valenti. i said who was in that room that you didn't talk to? and suddenly it came to me, the photographer. cecil stouton was his name. i said he must be about 90 years old. on the computer is the national phone director and there's cecil stouton. i think he's 89-- or was he 88 at that time. and i call and say, "mr. stouton. my name is robert caro, i'm writing books about mr. johnson." and she said, "cecil has been hoping you'd call." >> rose: that's great. i thought you were going to say cecil would answer the phone and say, "i was wondering when you would get to me." >> well, that would be-- you know, you love political power. when i was interviewing john connolly, in the morning-- he had a grand ranch, and he had a stable of quarter horses, and they'd be exer exercised in the morning and he'd come by my guesthouse where i was staying at 6:00, 6:30, and he sat on the fence and i asked him questions that we