i was too young for jfk, just barely too young. i was really only 17 when i went into the reagan house. but tax cuts and if i may, i want to go back because i'm reading a book the title of which is the jazz age but it's about war and g harding. the much-maligned us president i might add. wayto form a line but in the 1920s , in the 1920s harding, his vice president calvin coolidge and importantly his treasury secretary andrew mellon who was a great figure from pittsburgh, an entrepreneurial banker. they put together huge reductions in marginal tax rates. the income tax amendment was i believe 1913.the 16th amendment. it started out as seven percentand when woodrow wilson left office it was 70 percent . we went into a recession after world war i. those guys brought tax rates down to 25 percent. and launched a tremendous boom, prosperity boom in the 1920s. and i'm going to go one more. you're going to give me one more on this and that is another of my favorite figures is ulysses s grant. he was arguably america's greatest general and

i was too young for jfk, just barely too young. i was only 17 when i went into the reagan white house. that's a joke. -- if i may come i want to go back because i'm reading a book, the title is the jazz age, but it is about warren g. harding, a much maligned u.s. president, way too far maligned. but in the 1920's, harding, his vice president, calvin coolidge and his treasury secretary andrew mellon, who was a great figure from pittsburgh and entrepreneurial banker, they put together a huge reduction in marginal tax rates. the income tax amendment was 1913. when woodrow wilson left office, it was over 70%. we went into a recession after world war i and those guys brought tax rates down to 25%. it launched a tremendous prosperity boom in the 1920's. i'm going to go one more. another of my favorite figures is ulysses s grant. he was arguably america's greatest generals -- they still teach some of his formations at west point. but grant come also as president, much maligned. my colleague at fox wrote a pretty good book about grant. but

imagine a beautiful day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk, you pass sixth avenue and head to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made golden gate park sproord. i have been hering about disk golf and pickle ball. can you tell us about and where people can practice and play. >> i knew you were going. pickle ball the fastest growing sports. you know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play. it is fun and accessible. we are trying to accommodate sport. we have over 55 courts around san francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and tennis. we have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to growch we opened our first disk golf course in golden gate park in 2005. and you know, whether you are an expert at disk golf or be

i was too young for jfk. just barely too young. i was really only 17 when i went to the reagan white house, thought that was a joke. and if i may but warren g harding in the 1920s harding, his vice president, college coolidge and his treasury secretary andrew mellon it was a great figure and pittsburgh an option or help banker. they put together a huge reduction and marginal tax rates. the income tax amendment i believe is 1913 the 16th amendment started out at 7%. one woodrow wilson left office it was over 70%. we went into recession after world war i. those guys brought tax rates down to 25% and launched eight tremendous and boom prosperity boom in the 1920s. went to give me one more on this and that is, another of my favorite figures is ulysses s grant. he was arguably america's greatest generals are one of the greatest generals they still teach some of his formations at west point. but grant, as president also much-maligned. my colleague wrote pretty good book. grant did two things to economic things in his administration but h

there's almost preternatural calm that comes over jfk. he's measured, he doesn't panic, he doesn't paint himself into a corner, and he's desperately looking for a way out. >> i mean, that is the public kennedy, write? the grace under pressure. and as you say in the title, what's he like that in private as well, all the time? >> you know, i think so. has he used to say, he was very compartmentalized. different people saw different jack kennedy. we'd say the same about lyndon johnson. but he, there was a certain vitality that he had. you know, we look at him as being so vigorous, so youthful, but he had battled illness his whole life. and i think he saw the tenuous-ness of human life. he had been in world war ii and lost his brother day, he lost his sister soon thereafter. his sister, rosemary, had a lot to me because of retardation. that was something that was meant to be a cure. so he thought a fleeting hold that life had, and he tried to make the most of his life. but i think those hours, those really crucial hours, the cerebral kennedy

there's almost preternatural calm that comes over jfk. he's measured, he doesn't panic, he doesn't paint himself into a corner, and he's desperately looking for a way out. the grace under pressure. as you say in the title. >> he was very compartmentalized. different people saw a different kennedy. people say the same thing about lyndon johnson. there was a certain vitality that he had we look at him as being so vigorous, so youthful. he had battled illness his whole life. i think he saw the tenuous-ness of human life. he had been in world war ii. he lost his brother there. he lost his sister thereafter. a sister rosemary had a lobotomy because of retardation. it was meant to be a cure. he sought the fleeting hold that life had. he tried to make the most of his life. those really crucial hours, the cerebral kennedy kicked in. he was really thoughtful about what are the best approach would be going forward. he was determined to avoid military conflict. in allows, when the berlin wall went up, and of course during the cuban missile crisis, h

um, so as stuart mentioned there are a few about jfk out there. right. thank you series some films some i've watched all of them. why jfk? why did you decide to do this? you know, and it's a wonderful question before i answer it. i'm the lineages. thank you again for doing this you have as i understand it. you have an evening job. at the pbs newshour, so it's so good of you to make time for this and i'm a huge admirer of the work you do. so, thank you so much. thank you to my friend stuart mclaren and to all the people at the white house historical association for running this marvelous institution. thank you to my friend lauren leader for helping to organize this with our mutual friend kimball stroud and thank you friends old and new for for coming tonight. i'm so grateful for you being here. there are so many people i would like to recognize but one in particular if i may and and it really leads to your question and answer your question anxiety is here anxiety is the widow of hugh society. it was the legendary president watcher for time magazine. i had

i was too young for jfk just barely too young. i was really only 17 when i went into the reagan white house, that was a joke. and if i make, i want to go back. i am reading a book the title of which is the jazz age. it's about warren g harding way too far maligned. in the 1920s, inc., vice president calvin coolidge and importantly as treasury secretary andrew mellon may put together huge reduction in marginal tax rates. the income tax amendment i believe is 1913 the 16th amendment started out at 7%. woodrow wilson left office it was over 70%. we went into a recession after world war i. those guys brought tax rates down to 25%. launched a tremendous boom and prosperity. going to go one more pretty got to give me one more on this. another of my favorite figures is ulysses s grant.es now, he was arguably america's greatest general or one of its greatest generals. but gramps, as president, also much-maligned. my friend and colleague brett bear wrote a pretty good book. granta did two things to economic things in his administration. it

>> yes. >> i think jfk jr. >> i thought he was a magazine magnet who lived in new york. >> yeah, i don't think so. >> absolutely breathtaking. jounl r joining me is the great jordan klepper, contributor for the daily show. i'm going to let you talk for a few moments while i grab my bottle of advil, are you ever surprised? i mean, i have to wonder whether you rank some of these conspiracy theories, like this was the best. this was the second best, i suppose it would happen by the day that you would do this sort of ranking but, i mean, it's just remarkable what folks come up with. >> yeah, i will say for this piece we ontwent out talking ab the midterms, we thought we were going to get reactions on the overturning of the roe v. wade, and people were jumping down our throats talking about jfk jr., not just one person, multiple people, everyone we came up to. it is shocking to us, this cult of maga-ism is melting brains full stop. and you talk to people and you realize when you normalize the idea that a dead dictat

jfk was not around when that happened. that was under lyndon johnson and and shameless plug that it is my book. i i cover johnson's approach to withdrawal policy and as we know that that never fully went through because by the end of 1964 johnson was conducting reprisal strikes on north vietnam and then into 1965 more sustained strikes. would rolling thunder bombing and then by the middle of 1965 100,000 troops were going in that would rise to over half a million by 1968. but lbj is a fascinating character. not only with respect to vietnam, but with respect to power and bob caro's wonderful work. on lbj really is a study of power and i want to play a couple of clips from lbj that gives you a sense of how he wielded that power one of them comes from just 10 days or so after he became president. it's a conversation between johnson and jackie kennedy the late president's widow, and it's notable for a variety of reasons, but particularly for johnson, who knows that he is going to need to stay in the good graces of the kennedy

susan: we talked about controversies, one of them you were involved in was the jfk records.avid: which will never end. susan: why? david: it's getting better, and we will make an announcement just have better it's gotten, but we are still dealing with some agencies that will not relinquish information because of concerns about personally identifiable information. susan: how much is left? david: i am waiting to hear that. i asked that this morning. i want the figure. susan: so, what do you hope for public access will reveal and do for us -- david: there is no there there. that is what i'm hoping happens. susan: another controversy was the women's suffrage photo. david: mistake on our part. a hard lesson learned. susan: would you explain what happened? david: we altered a photograph from the washington post, i forget. susan: the centennial. david: the centennial for the white -- right to vote for women. the exhibit opening outside the exhibit gallery as you walk by, the 1919 protest march as you walk by, you will see the women's march. in the women's march, two of the posters

old vehicle access to jfk drive in golden gate park, and a stretch of the great highway could cost $80 million. that's according to a new report from the san francisco comptroller's office. the money would fund infrastructure for the roads over a 20 year period. the ballot measure seeks to overturn the board of supervisors decision back in april to make the road in golden gate park permanently car free. california could soon be the first state in the nation to enact a law limiting prosecutors ability to use rap lyrics as evidence. against an artist during a criminal trial. ktvu south bay reporter lamonica peters has the story. representing district 59 in los angeles county assembly member reginald jones. sawyer senior says music industry groups and civil rights advocates support assembly bill 27 99 stage name might be a little murder or whatever, but that doesn't mean they are a murderer. the bill requires a judge to determine if rap lyrics can be used as evidence during a criminal trial. we found out that they the lyrics that that they were using the court to prosecute someone. those

i was too young for jfk. really only 17 when i went to the reagan white house. but if i may, i'm reading a book thee title of which is about warren g harding a much-maligned u.s. president i might add, but in the 1920s, harding as vice president calvin coolidge and the treasury secretary andrew mellon, who was a great figure from pittsburgh and entrepreneurial banker. they put together the huge reduction of marginal tax rates. the income tax amendment i believe was 1913, the amendment started and when woodrow wilson left office it was over 70%. we went into a recession and brought tax rates down to 25% and launched a tremendous boom, prosperity boom in the 1920s. and i'm going to go one more. that is another of my favorite figures is ulysses s grant. he was arguably the greatest general or one of the greatest generals. grant as president also much-maligned and my friend and colleague. grant did two things in his administration. he neverer gets credit for this. the liberal historians will neveror give him credit but the fact is grand ended the civil war income ta

based on a movie it had political implications you had the congress passes the jfk act which requires cia to declassify everything it has it could be related to the kennedy assassination. as i was saying the the agency is always. considered itself to be the president's instrument no matter what was going on whether there are intelligence failures debacles like the bay of pigs budget cuts signs that the cold war is thawing all of these are alleged motives. the silliest one among the silliest is that cia killed kennedy because he planned to remove the us from vietnam. um, the reality is that cia wasn't really enaborative operating in vietnam. maybe the silliest is at the agency was doing the bidding of the vice president lyndon johnson or even sillier. is that johnson had it done because he was controlled by cia. which is nuts. another is that kennedy actually wanted to stop cia from trying to kill castro. against all evidence and see i didn't want to stop. now the real cia at the time. the agency i know. from years of study of cia internal documents oral history interviews memoirs memo

imagine a beautiful day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk, you passe and head to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made golden gate park sproord. i have been hering about disk golf and pickle ball. can you tell us about and where people can practice and play. >> i knew you were going. pickle ball the fastest growing sports. you know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play. it is fun and accessible. we are trying to accommodate sport. we have over 55 courts around san francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and tennis. we have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to growch we opened our first disk golf course in golden gate park in 2005. and you know, whether you are an expert at disk golf or beginner, the

well, jfk said, i guess we all have our own ways of relaxing from the burdens of office. at least i won't leave any marks on the floor. i wouldn't even tell you where that one goes. but anyway, let's return to taft. for he found in my beloved baseball another means of relaxation. it was taft to in 1910 at a washington senators game throughout the first ball and that became a thing that presidents do legend also taps calves credit with the seventh evening stretch as the story is told the six foot two 300 pound president grew increasingly uncomfortable in the small wooden chairs. so by the seventh inning he stood to stretch his legs then his fellow spectators decided that they saw him rising and they'd follow his lead as a matter of respect for the presidency. thus the tradition of the seventh ending stretch was started. while following in taft splits footsteps baseball has provided relaxation for presidents hoover who considered baseball? number one fan for nixon for reagan who would announce cubs games when he was during his broadcasting career for bush 43 who had owned t

it started with corruption with j edgar hoover, who used his power to control jfk and every other president. the problem is they could not control trump, that is where they are having their problems. the fbi is as corrupt today as it was when it began. it is music to my ears when they say the -- defunded the fbi. it is useless and a danger to the country. thank you, hope you'll have a great day. host: the next caller is timothy and ohio, on the republican line. caller: good morning. first of all, i think president trump has done a fine job with all of the battles he has had to fight. i respect the first lady her speech i watched on television the other day. i realize something. that man has been ripped up one side and down the other for trying to bring the world back to americans. it is a hard job to go back through all the presidencies and everything. that is part of the reason why he took document to secure them, because he knew they'd be safe at his home. whatever else is going on, i have no political involvement. as i see things now, i am going to steer toward the republican party. if m

of course, jfk was not around when it happened. that was lyndon b. johnson. it's the shameless plug that is, my book, i covered johnson approach to policy. as we know it's 11 through. and by the end johnson was mid north vietnam and 65. rolling thunder. done by the middle of 1965, 100,000 troops were going to rise to half 1 million by 1968. fascinating perspective. a wonderful -- bob's wonderful work on lbj really is a study of power. i want to play a couple of clips from lbj that gives you a sense of how he wielded that power. one of them comes from just ten days or so after he became president. it is a conversation between johnson and jackie kennedy. the late president's widow. it is notable for a variety of reasons, particularly for johnson who, he knows that he is going to need to stay in the good graces of the kennedy family. he has picked up the mantle from the fall and president. he is trying to pass kennedy's legislative agendas, tax cuts, foreign aid. and eventually civil rights. then he is going to need to go into a 1968 presidential candidate not a

but in jfk's case an actual assassination and death of the president. how do you go about? determining what artifacts? what objects involving and assassination are? appropriate for public display. i'm sure that must be a difficult situation. well, i get that into amendment, but i'll do say that john john hinckley who attempted to assassinate president reagan actually lived in dallas. so that was another shock for dallas said has really still being really from the effects of having the city where the president was lost his life. president kennedy's assassination was happened at the dawn of television and satellite broadcasting. so the news ricocheted all around the world and there's been an outpouring of interest all across the world since the assassination and finding out what happened. so people come to dallas trying to seek meaning. and the careful crafting of the original exhibit john f kennedy in the memory of a nation was designed to reach people who had lived through this traumatic time the it was not that this was a museum or a memorial. this was an exhibit that woul

but a great deal of it covers jfk's funeral. how were they able to do that? >> well, i think the last thing the presidential couple expected when they made their visit to texas and to dallas was to have the four days in november, and a national funeral and uniting the world in sorrow. but mrs. kennedy was inspired by lincoln's funeral procession, so with great detail did she plan that, and with enormous grace and support from her team. but the sixth floor museum really chronicles the assassination and addresses those chaotic days leading up to the assassination, the aftermath, and tell the nation and the world more. and why there are still questions today. >> yeah. i remember at the time, i grew up, and i found a book on our shelf at home, and it's called the torch is passed, famous book about the jfk funeral. and i remember leafing through it and seeing these iconic images of the funeral. i thought i'd pull one up -- yeah. tell us about this moment. >> one of the strengths of our museum collection is that we've been given, donated, so many wonderful images a

let's start with jfk. it is a tape that is important for me for my work i've just continued a manuscript on kennedy in vietnam the focus not necessarily on a comprehensive, soup to nuts, kennedy in vietnam those narratives are out there. they are worthwhile invaluable. but i was interested in a smaller segment of the kennedy vietnam story. it relates to his planning to withdraw the united states from vietnam by 1965. lots have been written about this recently. because of some material that kennedy taped, we have a way to try to get to the bottom of what kennedy was thinking about of vietnam at large, but also in respect to this planning that have been going on since the summer of 1962 to get the united states out by 1965. the time when he expected he would still be president. the conversation we are going to hear is from early october, 1963. it will feature defensive secretary robert mcnamara, and chief secretary maxwell taylor. they have just come back from a fact finding mission in vietnam. they deliver

this first artemis mission is expected to take 42 days to complete. 60 years after that iconic jfk speech -- >> for the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest but by a banner of freedom and peace. >> reporter: a new hope about the promise and possibility of space to unite us once again. >> our thanks to gio. our coverage begins at 8:00 a.m. eastern monday on abc news live. ♪ ♪ >>> time now for "the mix" on this national dog day, and we are starting with the teacher who alleges a dog ate her homework. >> yes. actually, it was her student's homework. all of it. this photo is going viral on reddit. look at this. with the caption "when you're a teacher and your dog eats everyone's homework." >> that's just a good boy there. one user responded, oh, how the tables have turned. >> so everyone gets an "a," right? >> i think so. right? that's the rule. >> that's the rule. so cute, though. you can never go wrong with dogs. >>> finally, to the long-awaited family reunion for two h

john you posted a portion of jfk's speech on twitter. why did you do that? >> i was preparing a podcast for next week on the anniversary of james meredith an incredibly courageous black man, who integrated old mist. he graduated next week and is putting together an anniversary package that. and i read kennedy speeches which have been done obviously year before when oxford, mississippi was in riots. see if this sounds familiar? when a huge chunk of the country, my chunk of the country largely was being defiant of the will of the federal government which was the manifestation of the national will about applying the declaration the principles of the declaration of independence through constitutional means to create a more perfect union. ha! as mark twain is reputedly to of said, history may not repeat itself but it does rhyme. so what with kennedy's speech was just this great oratory does, as great insights do, it resonated. he says later in that same address from the fall of 62, that if the rule of law collapses, then no judge can be sure of his writ and no ne

america, if you like, the knowledge that i got was listening over the radio to things like the jfk assassination, man on the moon. we did not have tv where i grew up. i was fascinated by america and what i offer the world, that combination, being recruited out of campus, the companies that came by that were american were the ones that i was intrigued by. dow had the best recruiting line of them offer a 21-year-old, join us and we will show you the world. david: was your family a wealthy family? andrew: no, blue colors we would call them, immigrants, he lost his parents, so he raised his two younger brothers when he was 12, he became an apprentice carpenter and he and his two brothers built a small building business. i was a first go to university in my family. david: you go to work at dow, and hong kong initially? andrew: they sent me down to a very cold part of australia called melbourne that has a lot of great people. cold was redefined when i went to michigan, i went there for six months. there was an accident in a factory in hong kong, they sent for australian engineers. i went to work to he

jfk was made for tv, he was the first tv president. we've had a twitter president, for better or for worse. but here's a radio president, and he's very good at it. it's the tone he sets. i'm looking at our audience here, i think we all remember father knows best. this is kind of the father, you know, avuncularly talking to his family, the family of the united states of america. there was an occasion during the war when he was gonna explain what was happening in the pacific. he said, everybody go get a globe and have it ready. wait until you get your club, and i'm gonna show you. if you look right to why he, and you move your -- here's the teacher in chief, if you will. the uncool-in-chief. but he's communicating with his constituents as if they were peers. we're all working on this together. let me explain what's going on. he very seldom had a confrontational attitude toward anyone, not only not on the radio, but in person, he absolutely abhorred personal confrontation. this is where he is at his best. that deep, resident base voice, w

are their thoughts that aliens are behind the jfk assassination to keep it quite? 'very much so. if you take cooper's telling, he may have been alien, he may have been human, but it is the driver of kennedy's car that killed him in order to silence him on the question of alien conspiracy. as you might tell from that, there is a kind of heavily religious element here as well, the anti-catholic element. where is he getting "behold a pale horse" from? revelations. he is strongly fitting in within this strain of pre-millennial sensationalist apocalypticism, that aliens are their own satanic agents bringing about the end times. he brings about medical and eugenic conspiracism. going back to the question as to why -- why are the aliens experimenting on us? cooper's argument is that alien's genetic structure is deteriorating and they need to experiment on our superior genetic structure in order to save the alien race. which is a really interesting turnabout. you say these beingsy from another planet who traveled however far to get here are still racially inferior to us. there is a weird

jfk. when he would not have sammy davis junior say at the white house overnight for political reasons, number one, he was married to a white woman, number two, who is african american. jfk worried about the political implications of having sammy davis junior, this great celebrity stay at the white house. so, it is a long story that has major implications. and the lincoln assassination i think, changes the trajectory of this story. so i don't counterfactuals. i don't know what would have been different head lincoln lived. but i do try to show that for a brief period, for four years, the white house is different than it was before, and it is different than it would be for a long time after. >> well, thank you very much, john. >> the corruption end -- the american people have hungered for leadership founded on integrity, wisdom, and courage. >> we have a leader that is of the people, a manned raised by the people. >>

you're hitting a live look right now at jfk.sources confirm to nbc news thaderway right now. 15,000 nurses said to castt their ballots, andthe staffing shortages are due to too many people out in key positions on sick leave. the sources say the callouts are not organized and they're not necessarily related to covid. >>> nurses in minnesota could be inching closer to one of the largest nursing strikes in american history. voting on a potential strike is underway right now. 15,000 nurses set to cast their ballots and we could get those results tonight. union members say they're fed up with staffing shortages and other challenges nurses have faced for too long across the country. negotiations have been going on for months, but nurses say they've made little tor strike would a no progress. cnbc's perry russom on their fight. >> we have been called the here is but the heroes are burnt out and now the heroes have to be taking care of. >> reporter: the minnesota nurses association says their strike would affect 13 facilities across the

>> jfk jr. is still alive. >> olivia, it's funny. we laugh at it but it does go to these disinformation silos that folks are in, you know, on the trump side of things. >> yeah. and it is very extensive. we are amused by it but the thing is there are real world consequences when it comes to it and the fact that this is why we're seeing what's happening with people targeting law enforcement. these narratives get started. they grow legs. the next thing you know everyone is against them and they get concerned everyone is coming after them. this is the cycle, you know, and never ending when you have right wing pundits repeating it and also elected leaders reepeating it. that is why it is so dangerous. >> stephanie, i suppose you have no doubt if donald trump gets out there and announces he is running for president and holds these rallies they'll be just as big and boisterous and out of control as we saw the last five years? six years? >> yeah, you know, sadly, and i don't mean to be dramatic but i think a lot worse. he is going to run. i