reagan was much higher than it is now and i would say a lot of people with a gold in the home of john f. kennedy. the son of the middle this is not only say john f. kennedy made it clear that it's a paradoxical truth that when you lower tax rates you increase tax revenues because you allow businesses to have that many more dollars to hire that many more people which contributes that many more dollars which is i assume he's a large each of the evolutional is going to mad marty and any ministration insurers who worked in the reagan ministry the reality is that what if the majority of american workers looking right now they watch wall street tank their economy and them on main street. really should use you know get ready because you do you know first of all again let me recommend that you go back and actually i know the identity yeah usually it's ninety to seventy i would gladly want to show you that is because we can make them to make sure they sure as long as army is run by centralized corporate oligarchy always basically and gives the news really stream is and the republicans will be you know mo

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. >> kelly, i do believe in the sun in the face character, whether it's ronald reagan or john f. kennedy or who. you think of them as outdoors, optimistic people. >> and no tie. >> mitt romney may not have a tie but he looks so much like he's wearing one. >> wanting to convey that management class, that background. the romance of the campaign trail is so important because people do respond so differently. what people want is so different in the senate than what they want as a president. it will be tough in the early going to find that way to say i can do it better. >> what about the malarkey factor? don't you have to show something, "here, i can do this, i do -- did that?" >> i think you have to show an effortless, intuitive understanding. david in his book imagines a leader called "richard gray," perfect name for the graceful candidate who without seeming to try too hard, looks like sees in charge. obama has had that at some points. at other points he's really lost it, looked like he's struggling to hang on the it's really important to remember that external factors, un employment, thos

laughter] like many kids in my state and of my generation, i grew up with respect to the name of john f. kennedy even on our messed up houses we often heavy picture of john f. kennedy on the wall. and ted held the seat until the time i was three. i'm 51 epic and on top of the audit legacy we are in a state where all of 12% of registered voters are republicans. 12%. and in a republican who bothers to run for political office isn't just taking on an opponent, you know, you are taking on the entire democratic state committee and this whole machine of unions and special interests. most times they can keep a pretty tight hold on things in massachusetts. and my race was different for a whole lot of reasons. in a bad economy with two wars going on, voters were at a pretty serious frame of mind. while the machine was treating the whole thing as a formality. iran on the issues i'm and voters appreciated being treated as if they actually had a choice. i said that a government takeover of health care was a bad idea, and i was against it. i also said that we need to get off the road of big government and da

. >>> it was 50 years ago today, just a few weeks after his inauguration as president, john f. kennedy signed an executive order establishing the peace corps, with a simple but powerful mission. promoting peace and friendship around the world in the name of the united states. the first group of peace corps volunteers arrived in ghana and tanzania in august of 1961. since that time, some 200,000 volunteers have proudly served in almost 140 nations. >>> when we come back, using the power of pure fun to make a serious difference. >>> finally tonight, a story about a unique group of places where kids learn, it can be cool to do homework, work hard and write well. it may be what's out front that draws them in, but it's what's happening in the back that's making a difference. our report tonight from nbc's willie geist. >> reporter: in gotham city, there's a place where the crime fighting elite go to stock up on the essentials, brooklyn's superhero supply store. >> x-ray glasses. >> reporter: 12-year-old alex showed me the tools of the superhero trade. from a gallon of cloning fluid to the al

. >>> plus, a new memoir by one of john f. kennedy jr.'s former girlfriends is revealing intimate details about his private life including rather candid memories of their romantic vacations and also a near death experience on a kayaking trip. she is going to tell us more in a live interview. >> but let us begin on a tuesday morning with president obama making his case for u.s. involvement in libya. chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent. chuck, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. well, the president used a 28-minute speech to make that case for the limited military action in libya. he also took the opportunity to rebut critics on the left and the right about how and whether to target gadhafi with the military. in total the president used the framework of american values to make the case. >> the united states of america has done what we said we would do. >> explaining the case for military action in libya, the president said it was in america's national interest and the u.s. had a responsibility to act. >> to

. >> schieffer: the 1963 assassination of john f. kennedy was still fresh in the minds of the secret service. in its wake, there had been a string of violence. the shootings of martin luther king, jr., robert f. kennedy, governor george wallace. and two assassination attempts on gerald ford. two decades of gun fire that had taught the secret service one lesson above all: move fast. >> if jerry par was a split second slower, he would have gotten it in the head. it would have hit reagan in the head. >> reporter: "washington post" reporter dell quint inwilbur has written a new book that discloses here to foreunknown details of that day. it takes its title from reagan's secret service code name, raw hide. >> raw hide is okay. follow up. raw hide is okay. >> reporter: wilbur petitioned the secret service to release these audio recordings of radio calls from the president's limo. >> do you want to go to the hospital or back to the white house? we're going to crown. >> they're so calm. i think that's the training, the discipline the secret service

a path of public involvement and i felt drawn to that i felt drawn to it by the presidency of john f. kennedy when he spoke in his inauguration over fifty years ago and said let the word go forth from this time and place that the torch had been passed to a new generation when i was sitting in sister sabina's home room at age of fourteen i heard that and i thought i was talking to me and then when he said ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country i felt that call as i think the number of people in our generation you know absolutely from seventy seven seventy nine you are the fifty third mirror of cleveland. the mafia put a hit on you and you almost shot except for the fact that you were hospitalized this is you took out a big power utility. is that simple really wild stuff back then you know in the big city mer business from actually finally after thirty years putting the finishing touches on a book about that in a movie treatment about it because it was a classic struggle between the interest of community and corporate interests which really sought to steal

we are not the first-generation to face these challenges. 50 years ago this month, president john f. kennedy had an ambition for progress. it was a massive investments. billions of u.s. dollars to meet the needs of the people across a region. such a program was appropriate for that era. the realities of our time in a new capabilities and confidence of latin america the live -- deserve something different. to build a hemisphere where they have a sustainable this of level. but we have a new way. i believe in the americas today, there are no senior or junior partners. there are only equal partners. that demands a sense of shared responsibility. we have obligations to each other. today the united states is working with the nations of the hemisphere to meet our responsibilities in several key areas. first, we are partnering to address concerns that they say they worry about the most, the security of their families. criminal gangs are not only a threat to citizens but also to developers. they scare away investors. they are a direct threat to democracy. they feel the corruption. with our partners f

america since george washington without having a bet panic within a fifteen year period so was john f. kennedy wrong when he cut the marginal tax rate he actually raised taxes and he talked about that with nixon in the nixon kennedy debates encourage you go back and listen to the kennedy talk about how he was one of those guys who was supposed to pay the ninety percent tax and nobody paid people are paying forty fifty sixty percent as are so many loopholes he wanted to close the loophole and raise it up to seventy four percent he actually actually he didn't do it it was l.b.j. as you know it happened a year after kennedy died so it was johnson who lowered that tax rate but he raised taxes on the rich and increased revenues. you raise taxes on the rich you raise the raise the amount of money that was collected from the rich that's right by lowering the marginal tax rates he write more red nose in the loopholes so you what you're saying is by lowering tax rates the government gets more revenue where you know i'm not going to regulate our loopholes if you look at what reagan did reagan lowered ta

middle this is not only say john f. kennedy made it clear that it's a paradoxical truth that when you lower tax rates you increase tax revenues because you allow businesses to have that many more dollars to hire that many more people which contributes that many more dollars because it's actually getting so large a chunk of your life you always would imagine marty in any ministration insurers who worked in the reagan ministries reality is that what the majority of americans are feeling right now they watch wall street take their economy and them on main street. and really disabuse you of the i'm going to read literally because you do know that you know first of all let me recommend that you go back and actually i know that you're going to reward kennedy yeah usually it's ninety to seventy i would want to show you because we could make the inflation rates low as long as our media is run by centralized corporate oligarchy elites basically and gives infotainment news the real extremism the republicans will be no most americans will

fue konsz triconstruid con el fondo alianza para el progreso durante el mandato del presidente john f. kennedya asignada, tarea que nunca olvidarÁ porque sin duda le cambiÓ la vida. >> (risas) >> bueno, sin duda fue una gran experiencia que merece un gran aplauso y desde aquÍ se lo enviamos y un reconocimiento a unos chiquititos lindos. >> bueno, ya llegÓ la primavera pero hay muchos que lÁstimamente siguen soportando los estragos del tiempo. jackie ya estÁ listada, lista. >> antes les cuento que justamente en california se repiten fuertes lluvias, vamos a observar en el video en dÓnde es el caso en el sur de california que se vio abatido por las malas condiciones del tiempo. el granizo y la nieve y afectaron el trÁnsito en una carretera interestatal que por suerte no llegaron a ser clausuradas yo quisiera darles buenas noticias pero no serÁ el caso porque tenemos otro sistema que estÁ generando fuertes lluvias las mÁs fuertes en sacramento, a eso les sumamos los vientos en rÁfagas de hasta 50 millas por horas, tenemos el aviso de alertas forestales hacia el aviso de plan skwees invernales, lo

also ahead this morning, john f. kennedy jr. died tragically and too soon. like his father.was in a revealing memoir from his girlfriend of five years, who was also a friend since childhood. she is here this morning to tell us more about the life and the joy they shared. some inside stories you likely have not heard before. >> all that coming up, but, first, jeff glor at the news desk with another check of the headlines. >> i'm still thinking about the food dye thing. >> ranch dorito diet over there. good morning, everyone. in libya the rebel advance has been reversed by a forceful government counter attack. the rebels are retreating under heavy fire from several key cities. overnight the u.s. did launch a barrage of 22 cruise missiles at targets near tripoli. this morning secretary of state clinton and other administration officials brief congressional leaders. the rebels are retreating east, and, while the u.s. is considering sending thinl arms, there are concerns that some may have ties to terror groups, and president obama told erica the u.s. has to be careful. >> it's h

[laughter] like many kids in my state and of my generation i grew up respecting the name of john f. kennedy. even an hour west of houses we have a picture of john f. k. on the wall. and it had fallen on the seat and held it from the time i was 3-years-old. 51 now. and on top of that honored legacy we are in a state where all of 12% of the registered voters are republicans. 12%. and any republican who bothers to run for political office isn't just taking on an opponent. you know, and you're taking on the entire year democratic state committee and the whole machines of unions and special interests. most times they can keep a pretty tight hold on things in massachusetts. in my race was different for a whole lot of reasons and in a bad economy with two wars going on voters were in a pretty serious fan of mind. while the machine as treating the whole thing as a formality i ran on the issues and the voters appreciated being treated as if the actually had a choice. the government takeover of health care was a bad idea and i was against. i also said we need to get off the road of big government and

>>pam: 50 years ago today president john f. kennedy signed the order crating the agency that sends americans to developing countries to promote peace and friendship all around the world. >>louisa: a look at your satellite and radar we have a pretty big storm headed our way bringing with it some heavy rain and very strong winds. we will have the details and timing of the storm straight ahead. california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a world where tobacco kills more people... than aids, drugs, alcohol, murder and car crashes... combined. we have a lot more work to do. >>pam: many apple fans have been waiting, the next i pad will be unveiled tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. in san francisco. we're joined by gabe slate to talk about all the rumors and the hype. what you think will happen? >>gabe: t

museum by caroline kennedy and senator ted kennedy to receive the john f. kennedy award for courage in public service because of the nixon pardon. senator ted kennedy stood up there and talked about how 20 years earlier, he thought that had sold the country out, and it looked like an unethical decision to him at that point. he could see was 20 years of history what it was really about, trying to heal a nation and bring the country back together and heal the wounds of that nation. i want to close with one thing that i think speaks of dad and this idea, the world become so competitive we have to win at any cost. dad took a yellow legal pad and picked about 20 subject that he thought were important to young man or woman growing up in this subject today, subject like what is character, integrity. this one is a learning how to lose. he bounded that book and gave it to all of us kids. i remember as the gunmen when he gave me the book -- as a young man when he gave me the book. he said these are some of my core values, and this is the copy of one of the pages, on learning

for interest on the national debt larger than the entire cost of the federal government under john f. kennedyparents left us a growing economy. the rules say, we must not leave our kids a mountain of debt. it isn't right that a woman should get paid 59 cents on the dollar for the same work as a man. [cheers and applause] if you play by the rules you deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. it isn't right that -- that if trends continue, by the year 2000 nearly all of the poor people in america will be women and children. the rules of a decent society say, when you distribute sacrifice in times of austerity, you don't put women and children first. it isn't right that young people today fear they won't get the social security they paid for, and that older americans fear that they will lose what they have already earned. social security is a contract between the last generation and the next, and the rules say, you don't break contracts. we're going to keep faith with older americans. we hammered out a fair compromise in the congress to save social security. every group sacrificed to keep

for interest on the national debt larger than the entire cost of the federal government under john f. kennedyr parents left us a growing economy. the rules say, we must not leave our kids a mountain of debt. it isn't right that a woman should get paid 59 cents on the dollar for the same work as a man. [cheers and applause] if you play by the rules you deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. it isn't right that -- that if trends continue, by the year 2000 nearly all of the poor people in america will be women and children. the rules of a decent society say, when you distribute sacrifice in times of austerity, you don't put women and children first. it isn't right that young people today fear they won't get the social security they paid for, and that older americans fear that they will lose what they have already earned. social security is a contract between the last generation and the next, and the rules say, you don't break contracts. we're going to keep faith with older americans. we hammered out a fair compromise in the congress to save social security. every group sacrificed to kee

about six senators you say, written by john f. kennedy. why did you bring that up in relationship to writing your book about the system? >> guest: well, because one of the lines that president kennedy used in that book, thinking back -- i'm sorry. i quote his line about "victory has 1,000 fathers, disaster is an orphan." but the reference to president kennedy's "profiles in courage" comes in a section where we're trying to talk about some of the people in the system who, despite all of the pressures that were operating on them, showed themselves to be men and women of real courage who stuck to principle, who fought for what they thought was the right thing to do and resisted enormous political pressure to do otherwise. c-span: now you name a lot of people in this book. is there any one person that comes out of this, in your opinion, as someone who really has principles? >>guest: well, there is more than one. i guess two that are particularly appealing to me. one was a man that i knew quite well from his years as governor and a senator. the

. >> you told a catholic group you were appalled that john f. kennedy wanted to separate church and state in his 1960 campaign. what surprised you about that? >> he took a concept which is now a famous one thomas jefferson's wall of separation. the wall of separation. it was a letter he wrote in 18 01, 11 years after the constitution was ratified. -- 1801, 11 years after the constitution was ratified. wait a minute, 21 years. no 11 years. the latter to be dan barry that this -- danbury was about the government interfering with religion. religion can impact government. that was never the intention of jefferson. it was clearly not his intention. it was not the intention of madison. it was the perfect remedy. bring it into the public square. this was exacerbated by the thinking of the 1960's and 1970's. they have no right to claim truth in the public square. be motivated by is de facto banned from the public discourse. our founders would be spinning in their graves if they understood that that is how their words were twisted. everyone is in. as a catholic,

quarter million people who have served in the peace corps in the name of peace. 50 years ago, john f. kennedy signed the executive order creating the peace corps. the significance of this executive order revesh rated around the world -- reverberated around the world. at this point, america was in the throes of a cold war and our great nation was viewed with cynicism. the peace corps showed the world the enduring values of peace, commitment to national service and an optimism that had been lost in the cold war and world war ii. under the masterful direction of sargent shriver, it grew to 1,500 volunteers. i was one of those early recruits. i found myself in peace corps training and found myself in medellin, colombia. i saw the grinding cycles of poverty that left so many men, women and children without hope. i committed then to work to end the culture of poverty. it is in no small part due to that experience in the peace corps that i am standing here in the congress. yes, i will yield. mr. dreier: i'd like to con gradge late my friend for his service in the peace corps. he not only served then

our second witness is thomas putnam, director of the john f. kennedy presidential library and museum. and our third, mr. duke blackwood, director of the ronald reagan library and a fairly constant host to me when i get up there. >> we'll start out by recognizing the -- i'm going to -- i'll catch those when we get -- when we get to them. but we'll go ahead and what we're going to do is we'll have the first three give their testimony. we tried to limit you to five minutes. if you have a lengthy statement, or anything you would like to have included in the record, that will be part of the -- made part of the proceedings today, but first we'll recognize mr. ferriero. >> by the way, if david has to have something put in the record, make sure it is not all of his archives. that could be over our limit. >> we'll make note of that. thank you. and you're recognized. welcome, sir. >> chairman mica, chairman issa and chairman of the other committees, i appreciate the opportunitto testify to you today on the important role of the presidential libraries. both the n

massachusetts, with more on the effort is professor matthew bunn, a nuclear expert at harvard's john f. kennedy school of government. good morning. >> good morning. >> we keep hearing about reactor 3 and it's continued problems. how far away are we from what bill just mentioned disaster measure of just entombing this thing? >> well, i think that idea is one that might happen in the long term, because the reality is we've got a lot of damaged spent fuel in the reactor cores and the spent fuel pools and deal with. but that's not something you can do in a matter of days. it's going to take months to bill such a tomb. right now the key priority is getting all of the fuel under water again. >> what can they possibly do to get this situation under control? because there are some bits of good news coming out of the nuclear plant this weekend, but reactor 3, with more smoke billowing from it today, seems >> indeed. this is a real remainder of what the japanese cabinet secretary said, which is, there are going to be twists and turns, even as they make progress in stabilizing these reactors. they have no

during john f. kennedy's campaign his opponents portrayed a dire future for america with a catholic president. we view these events of our past as a breach of our treasured american valued. let's talk about facts rather than stereotypes. in fact, the muslim american community reject violent ideology. a report released last year states, "given the low rate of would-be violent extremists, about 100 amongst the 3 million american muslims suggests the american muslim population remains hostile to jihadist ideology and its exotations to violence." at a press conference yesterday, eric holder said, "the muslim community has contributed significantly to the resolution of many things that have resolved over the last or the course of the last 12 to 18 months, tips have been received, information shared, has been critical to our effort to disrupt plots that otherwise might have occurred." muslim american community across the country actively works with law enforcement officials from dialogues with attorney general eric

. >>> professor matthew bunn, a nuclear expert at john f. kennedy school of government joins us from massachusetts. >> good morning. >> what is the biggest danger right now? what is going on at the plant? the instability there, or the radiation that has already got out and leaking to the food and water supply? >> well, we actually are making some progress. they've hooked up the electricity. they are switching over from the sea water to the fresh water. but we're definitely not out of the woods yet. and unfortunately, we may not be out of the woods for weeks to come. we just don't know a lot of what we would like to know. we don't know how much radiation has been released. we don't know how damaged the fuel is in these cores. we don't know for sure whether these steel pressure vessels around the cores have breached. there's a lot yet to this story to play out. >> in foods and in water there's been contaminated spinach, milk and in tap water. do you think what we're seeing this morning will pose even a greater threat to the food t(ly? >> i don't think

during john f. kennedy's campaign his opponents portrayed a dire future for america with a catholic president. we view these events of our past as a breach of our treasured american valued. let's talk about facts rather than stereotypes. in fact, the muslim american communit reject violent ideology. a report released last year states, "given the low rate of would-be violent extremists, about 100 amongst the 3 million american muslims suggests the american muslim population remains hostile to jihadist ideology and its exotations to violence." at a press conference yesterday, eric holder said, "the muslim community has contributed significantly to the resoluon of many things that have resolved over the last or the course of the last 12 to 18 months, ti have been received, information shared, has been critical to our effort to disrupt plots that otherwise might have occurred." muslim american community across the country actively works with law enforcement officials from dialogues with attorney general eric hold

even john f. kennedy in his speeches in the '60s were saying the way to grow and stimulate the economy is to lower the tax rate, stimulate the economy, and see the economy grow. it does not go up by raising the tax rates on individuals who have worked hard -- why are we looking at punishing people who have been successful? host: what about the argument that taxes did you up and president clinton had a surplus for president bush? guest: we were riding a wave of lower government regulation from previous administrations. clinton was in the right place at the right time. clinton was willing to work with and compromise with the congress. we are not seeing that from the white house right now. where is the vice-president in leading the debate in the senate? he is m.i.a. we need some leadership and the white house. it is not just in the economy. if you look at oil prices, it costs $90 here in washington to fill up my car. almost $3.50 in some areas throughout the country. where is the leadership on this? gas pric

and i said then to paraphrase john f. kennedy, not since bill levitt dined alone had there been so much housing expertise in one place at one time. so we have a strong group for you to kind of kick around these issues. let me start with, you kw, what is the basic gap or dichotomy that we are oking at as you see in this poll, and even more eloquently in that video? americans remained attached to homeownership as an ideal in their own lives enormous percentages saying that they prefer it to renting. they would advise a family member to buy a home. 90% said they would buy a home again. of homeowners despite all the turmoil in the market. and yet yesterday the commerce report home owners -- home sales are the lowest going back to 1960. so there's aspiration and then there's execution. what is the space in between? why is this personal desire for homeownership not translate into more actual people showing up in the model and putting a check them? >> i think the thing the chart that jared showed is really the key to the. we had a great

a conspiracy to attack john f. kennedy airport by exploding fuel tanks underneath the airport. on june 24, attempting to detonate a car bomb in times square. on march 18, guilty to charges in planning the november 2008 attacks in mumbai, india which killed 164 people. everyone of these incidents could resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people, and headley plot did, including six americans. all this terrorist were in different to whom they killed, including women and children. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to those who stop-loss before they could be carried out. in view this history, i was curious about your web site, the community alert section, which is apparently directed to american muslims. it says the fbi is contacting american muslim to solicit information and advice about addressing violent to extremism. muslim advocates strongly urged urges people not to speak to law enforcement officials without the presence of a lawyer. i was stunned to do is to that kind of instruction to people who would read your side since of his legal abortion from muslim americans is one

james garfield, when you mcanally, and john f. kennedy high in 1963.ast presidential assassination attempts -- and jackson, franklin roosevelt, harry truman, 1915. gerald ford how, two assassination attempts. and of course ronald reagan, march 30, 1981. james, a democrat in new mexico. caller: however like to say that , in ronald reagan was shoct was in a restaurant eating. that is were i was when he was shot. it was really something to hear. thank you for taking my call and have a nice day. host: we will continue talking about this for 15 minutes. the syrian president bashar assad is speaking right now to parliament. that is courtesy of al jazeera. we will let you know what he is saying. there has been some speculation about what he will say in today's address. whether or not he will lift an emergency law, or whatever it is he was said. courtesy of al jazeera this morning. massachusetts, joe, an independent scholar. caller: ronald reagan, what a disgrace he was. may he burn in. he used a drug runner, ollie north, that on his own drug war with the iran

in 1961, president john f. kennedy, together with sargent shriver established the most remarkable, long-lasting and incredibly successful united states peace corps. on the announcement of the establishment of the peace corps, countries wanted americans of all ages to come to their country and assist in the economic development of their countries. to date, some -- over 200,000 americans have followed that call to service and have served in over 130 countries. today, some 77 countries have peace corps volunteers and another 20 countries request the presence of peace corps volunteers. my wife patty and i are proud returned peace corps volunteers. joining me today to celebrate this 50th anniversary are two other returned peace corps volunteers and together with sam farr who unfortunately cannot join us, comprise the four members of congress who are returned peace corps volunteers. i would like to call upon my colleague from california, mike honda, to join us here and to express his own experiences and his work here in cong

and i said then to paraphrase john f. kennedy, not since bill levitt dined alone had there been so much housing expertise in one place at one time. so we have a strong group for you to kind of kick around these issues. let me start with, you know, what is the basic gap or dichotomy that we are looking at as you see in this poll, and even more eloquently in that video? americans remained attached to homeownership as an ideal in their own lives enormous percentages saying that they prefer it to renting. they would advise a family member to buy a home. 90% said they would buy a home again. of homeowners despite all the turmoil in the market. and yet yesterday the commerce report home owners -- home sales are the lowest going back to 1960. so there's aspiration and then there's execution. what is the space in between? why is this personal desire for homeownership not translate into more actual people showing up in the model and putting a check them? >> i think the thing the chart that jared showed is really the key to the. we had a g

and i said then to paraphrase john f. kennedy, not since bill levitt dined alone had there been so much housing expertise in one place at one time. so we have a strong group for you to kind of kick around these issues. let me start with, you know, what is the basic gap or dichotomy that we are looking at as you see in this poll, and even more eloquently in that video? americans remained attached to homeownership as an ideal in their own lives enormous percentages saying that they prefer it to renting. they would advise a family member to buy a home. 90% said they would buy a home again. of homeowners despite all the turmoil in the market. and yet yesterday the commerce report home owners -- home sales are the lowest going back to 1960. so there's aspiration and then there's execution. what is the space in between? why is this personal desire for homeownership not translate into more actual people showing up in the model and putting a check them? >> i think the thing the chart that jared showed is really the key to the. we had a g

we are not the first generation to face these challenges. 50 years ago this month, president john f. kennedy proposed an ambitious alliance for progress. it was, even by today's standards, a massive investment. billions of u.s. dollars to meet the basic needs of people across the region. such a program was right. such was appropriate for that era. the reality of our time and the new capabilities in confidence of black america demand something different. challenge innnedy's doors to build a hemisphere were all people can hope for a sustainable, suitable standard of living, and alton about their lives with dignity and freedom. half a century later, we must give meaning to this work in our own way. in any way. -- in a new way. i believe there are no senior partners in junior partners. there're only equal partners. of course equal partnership demands a sense of shared responsibility. we have obligations to each other. today the united states is working with the nations of this hemisphere to meet our responsibilities in several key areas. first, we are partnering to address the concerns that peop

my cohost today is john seigenthaler, a highly respected journalist who also served as special assistant to attorney general robert f. kennedy during the civil rights movement. after retiring from newspapers, john went on to found the first amendment center. john and i are delighted to welcome a pulitzer prize-winning author and journalist whose recent book, called the children, focuses on the work of courageous young people in the civil rights movement, and whose earlier book, the best and the brightest, was the definitive study of american policy in vietnam. david halberstam. [applause] i have to ask the first and most basic question. you graduate from harvard in 1956. five. '55. with great distinction. no, i was a terrible student. [laughter] i was in the bottom third of my class. that was the heart of my question. how badly did you do at harvard? [laughs] i think i had-- i mean, i think it's true of a lot of people in journalism. i had in those days what we didn't know was attention deficit disorder. i did not focus well on schoolwork, but i was good at something called journalism. i was on the undergraduate newspaper. a

august 2 -- a conspiracy to attack john f. kennedy by exploding fuel tanks underneath the airport. on june 24, attempting to detonate a car bomb in times square. he was sentenced to life in prison. on march 18, guilty to charges in planning the november 2008 attacks in mumbai, india which killed 164 people. everyone of these incidents could resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people, and headley plot did, including six americans. all this terrorist were in different to whom they killed, including women and children. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to those who stop- loss -- those who stopped the plots before they could be carried out. in view this history, i was curious about your web site, the community alert section, which is apparently directed to american muslims. it says the fbi is contacting american muslim to solicit information and advice about addressing violent to extremism. muslim advocates strongly urged urges people not to speak to law enforcement officials without the presence of a lawyer. i was stunned to do is to