and a close contest between richard nixon and john f. kennedy. from the outset nixon he would be an opportunity or a problem for him depending whether castro was in power or gone by election day. now, in the fall of 1960, john kennedy was just beating the eisenhower administration over the head with fidel castro. and no subject roused american voters more than the specter of a communist cuba and he reminded viewers that it was eight minutes away and he plame eisenhower and company including vice president nixon for letting this happen. imagine being in the shoes of richard nixon. he had a pretty well earned reputation as a communist busters in america and along comes this democrat from massachusetts suggesting that he richard nixon was not anticommunist enough. it was galling. kennedy somehow managed to outflank nixon with the antimost of the talk. one of the best examples heard in the nixon-kennedy television debates, not the first debate the one that was most favorite but the next debate. this debate may have been very important in the campaign.

"to kill a mocking bird" came out when john f. kennedy was taking on the system, defending the right of a student to be admitted to ole miss. when we come back, dick cheney's memoir coming out, will any republicans run on his legacy? chris: welcome back. dick cheney's new memoir is out this week. it reminds us of the old politic he is served up with the bitter charge that democrats were willing to ignore the threats out there. he's trying to keep that alive. >> if you try to walk away from pakistan or after dwan stan or that part of the world generally i'm fearful that we're headed for trouble down the road. i don't think we need to run for the exit. chris: but chaney's -- but cheney's party isn't there anymore. listen to the reception that ron paul got a few years ago. here he is in 2007. >> if we understand that 70% or so of the people in america want the war over with and want our troops to come home. third, senator clinton -- [audience booing." >> i say stay out of their internal business, don't get involved in the wars, bring our tro

in a close contest between richard nixon and john f. kennedy. from the outset, nixon realized that fidel castro was either going to be an opportunity or a problem for him depending on whether castro was still in power or gone by election day. now, in the fall of 1960 john kennedy was beating the eisenhower administration over the head with fidel castro. kennedy had realized that no subject roused the american voters more than the specter of a communist cuba, and at every whistle stop he reminded voters that the island was, quote, a mere eight jet minutes away, and he plameed eisenhower -- blamed eisenhower and company, including vice president nixon, for letting this happen. imagine being in the shoes of richard nixon. he had a pretty well-earned reputation as a communist buster, one of the premier communist busters in america, and along comes this democrat from massachusetts suggesting that he, richard nixon, was not quite anti-communist enough. it was galling. kennedy had somehow managed to outflank nixon. probably the best example occurred in

john f. kennedy cut taxes on the rich. the share of taxes they paid went up. that's the way -- george bush by the way cut taxes on the rich. and after the bush tax cut, we had 52 straight months of economic growth. government revenues increased and the share the rich paid -- >> then everything collapsed under the lower tax rates. >> we had eight years of growth. >> and we bailed out the banks and they gave themselves bonuses. we bailed out the auto industry and they're making money again. in the economic recovery. that's what the american people want. i think the republicans are in a bad spot trying to defend. >> the issues will be jobs, jobs, jobs. >> how to create the jobs. >> it was remarkable to see gabrielle giffords looking so good about seven months after taking a bullet to the head. can she return as an active member of the united states congress. she voted last night. stand by. the unrest in syria takes an awful turn for the worse as the holy month begins. we have fresh claims and shock brutality. vrrooom...vrrroooomm vroom vrrooom vrrroooomm vrrroooo

house of representatives on the select committee on assassinations looking into both the death of john f. kennedy and dr martin luther king i interviewed james earl ray the assassin i like the dreamer better dr king said you and i will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people but for the appalling silence of good people so my life has been a series my vocation while being a person of faith my vocation is basically to be a person who addresses ending the poverty that kills healing the earth and bringing peace and throughout my career i've been focused on all three of those major casts i joke and say i can retire when we end poverty. have peace and heal the earth. it's. it's extraordinary you also went to vietnam to look at the situation. you know we we not only explicitly and overtly killed two million vietnamese an. estimated two million we left behind a horrible legacy. in. american troops got a fair amount of publicity agent orange but not so much publicity about the impact of that of the news that so tell us about the sermons and what what br

i remember first, second grade she having me memorize john f. kennedy'sal address, and i was able to do it. by second grade, this is what was a little freaky about me, there's this little kid wandering around, you know, "asked not --" and i try to do the accent, i am a little taught "ask not what this country can do for you." so there was a very -- i don't know, i think if you come out of an irish catholic tradition you can't help but not be engaged in what's going on around you. and also you can't help but not have a sense of humor about it, too, because it's the thing that protects you from, you know, all that is. and so, yeah. i don't know, i think growing up in flint, being part of that whole situation -- >> since you were about 9-years-old when jfk was assassinated; the remember that? >> i remember very well. >> you're right about that in "here comes trouble"? >> yes, we were actually watching educational television and they broke in and they must have switched over to the nbc coverage and chet was on and announced it and of course all of the nuns to

universal doctrine that is if you support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation ok john f. kennedy pay any price bear any burden to assure the survival and success of liberty we all remember that one man we should it's a good saying george w. bush had his own to the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world now mr obama a few days ago had the following to say let's discuss if this is his doctrine. america should not be expected to police the world particularly when we have so many pressing concerns here at home is that a doctrine should it be a doctrine should it be embrace in this it being acted out philis well i don't think that's a doctrine i think it's a statement of lowering expectations i also think that one of the problems with all of these doctrines is that it bases the whole of u.s. foreign policy on the military so if we say should we intervene should we help it's assumed to mean should we send troops in my analysis that's almost never the case we should intervene with a whole range of other things but not with military force and that question of how are we defining in

president-elect john f. kennedy and some members of his cabinet went to the white house to meet with outgoing president dwight eisenhower. eisenhower was to brief them on foreign affairs as was the secretary of state. they did that, and eisenhower said privately to kennedy, berlin is a place that worries me. i think we're going to have a crisis there. we've managed to postpone it, but it's going to come up probably pretty quickly. christian hooder, the secretary of state, briefed them on how khrushchev in 1958 had issued an ultimatum that they were all to agree to sign a peace treaty for germany within six months. if they did not do that, he would sign a private treaty just with east german party boss and dictator, and then after that the allies would have to get their rights from walter. at that point they would no longer be able to fly in the corridors the way they had been flying, they would no longer be able to go back and forth to berlin on a special privilege which only the soviets checked, and they would no l

you know there's a critical issue which is how big is the government to be back in the days of john f. kennedy the federal government took up along with the state local governments twenty seven percent of the economy the big government consumes thirty seven percent of the economy we were inches away from no longer having a free economy. i am my classical liberal i believe that less government is better government i always maintained as governor of new mexico that i could have cut state government by a third and that no one would have noticed the difference well i wasn't a dictator i was one of three branches of government and in that context i vetoed seven hundred fifty bills as you pointed out earlier i had thousands of line items i think and the whole notion of less government i think my actions speak louder than anyone's anyone else's words and certainly louder than the big government in massachusetts so you would say you could cut a third of the of the budget in mexico without anybody noticing at the federal level you would still have the same problem that the beneficiaries of that spendin

he did with bill moyers' help and lost the nomination to john f. kennedy. and when lyndon johnson was elected vice president this was bill moyers chance to leave his employee and go to work for the peace corps, which didn't even exist yet. he went to work lobbying congress for it. he was only what 26 years old, 26-27 years old. he worked for the peace corps until in the fall of 1963. he was sent off to texas on a political mission. he was sitting at the luncheon in dallas on the day in november when president kennedy was assassinated. mr. moyers made his way to the airfield and got on board air force one and flew back to washington with president johnson and went to work with his very close personal assistance on domestic affairs and a speechwriter. and then press secretary. he left the white house for a couple of reasons, maybe more. he left because -- because mr. johnson who had powerful trepidations about the war in vietnam had become obsessed with it and paranoid. a sign of disloyalty and he felt that mr. moyers had become closer to hubert humphrey and

back in the days of john f. kennedy, the government took up 75 percent of the economy. today, government consumes 37% of the economy. we are inches away from no longer having a free economy. therefore, well before the debate got pushed along, i signed a pledge saying i would not raise the debt ceiling unless we had cut, cap, and balance. that is what i reiterated throughout the process. >> michele balkman >> i have a very consistent record of fighting very hard against barack obama and his unconstitutional members in congress. i brought tens of thousands of americans to washington to fight the unconstitutional, individual mandate. when it came to cap and trade, i fought it with everything that was in me, including i introduced the light bulb freedom of choice act so people could purchase levels of their choice. >> tim:t was the first remember they were also running against president obama. >> where's barack obama on these issues? you can't find his plans on some of the most pressing financial issues. where is barack obama's plan on social security reform, medicare refor

i thought at first and making the subtitle education of john f. kennedy because i think he was a different and in the fall of 62 from the spring of 61. khrushchev did not know that. that was a grave mistake. he had become to understand it. great commentary timesman kennedy supported him come on everybody else ran kennedy would not support it. he told me he had a remarkable conversation, where he said this is what you should do. he said the, talk to the president. don't talk to me. so it was quite clear that kennedy was beginning to shift, but he was beginning to shift in the way that none of the people around him quite understood and then did not become obvious. i thank you very much for coming and for your attention. i'm very honored really that you grow questions and thought to this meeting because this is a very personal memoir for me as well as a political book in research work. so it's a mix and scholarship and not a biography. and it's nice to see that people take it seriously. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much, w.r. smyser, mar

john f. john f. kennedy's inaugural address. and i was able to do it and by second grade, that was a little freaky about me. there was this little kid wandering around, you know. i would try to do they ask, ask not. i am a little tyke. ask not what this country can do for you. so i don't know, i think if you come out of an irish catholic tradition, you can't help but not be engaged in what is going on around you. and also you can help it not have a sense of humor about it too says it is the thing that protects you from you know, all that is. so yeah, i don't know. being in flint and being part of that whole situation. >> so you were about nine years old when jfk was assassinated. d. remember that? >> i remembered very well. >> do you write about that? >> yeah. we rashly watching educational television and they broke in and that must have switched over to nbc coverage and chet huntley was on. they announced it and of course all the nuns took us over to church and we were praying that he would live. two days later i'm sitting on t

during the days of john f. kennedy, government all levels comprised about 1/4 of our economy, 27%.37% of the economy. we are inching closer and closer to a nation that no longer has free enterprise. we insisted that we cut federal spending and cap federal spending and that we have a balanced budget amendment and that is the right course for america if we are going to reign in the excessive growth of government. [applause] a don't know why the president is as misguided and in managing our economy as he is. sometimes i wonder whether he takes his political inspiration from the social democrats of europe. i don't think europe is working. i don't think europe will work here. can happen to believe that we got it right and they got it wrong. i believe in freedom and opportunity american-style. [applause] i believe in capitalism and free enterprise. i believe in the constitution as it was framed by the founders. by the way, i like all the amendments, not just a few of them. those who served in state government are particularly fond of the 10th amendment. i will give you the top -- it says

dan rather, the veteran newsman that's covered every veteran since john f. kennedyoing on in washington and wall street. all that at the top of the hour. anderson, back to you. >> piers, thank you very much. i remember 19 years ago this month, no, 19 years ago a couple of months from now standing not too far from here, the airport in mogadishu, watching dan rather reporting. >>> up next, the big 60 interview with iman, the world famous supermodel born in somalia. she's concerned the world is not doing enough to end the suffering of the somalis here. >> it's heart breaking for more ways than one. it's preventable but it is not not salvageable. [ man ] they said i couldn't win a fight. but i did. they said i couldn't fight above my weight class. but i did. they said i couldn't get elected to congress. but i did. ♪ sometimes when we touch ha ha! millions of hits! [ male announcer ] flick, stack, and move between active apps seamlessly. only on the new hp touchpad with webos. handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mai

increasing tack rates, you know, i remember the speech that john f. kennedyen he was president, saying that actually reducing tax rates was going to produce economic growth and produce extra revenue. so i think there's a lot of confusion, because sometimes people are asked about revenue increases, sometimes they're asked about tax rate increases, and the best way that you can increase revenue right now is to get the economy healthy again. that will bring in a lot more revenue for the federal government than any sort of tax increase could ever bring in. >> that's like saying the best way to get things we had is to bring in water. the question is, how do you bring in the water? >> good question. >> how do you do that without reforming the tax the way that we have taxing in this country, dealing with the tax breaks that were given by former president bush. >> there were interesting numbers that came out this summer. it you took all the of the money, the taxable income of every american that makes more than $100,000 a year, their total income would be insufficien

. >> all revenues -- >> the way to grow revenues that john f. kennedyd it, bill clinton and george bush. when you cut taxes you grow the economy. >> come on. revenues is a word for taxes. >> when you have top 2,000 corporations in america paying 70% of the corporate tax load, you have a competitive decision globally. >> the republicans -- >> go ahead. >> the thing that's distressing about this discussion. there are 100 things the parties in washington disagree on. but before we got into the debt ceiling debate, there were at least a handful of important things they could agree on. the free trade agreement and bipartisan. we could look at extending the payroll tax cut for 150 million workers. we could change the patent reform. let's do those things. even with the jobs numbers coming in better than expected on friday, it's still a wake-up call. it's not a good report. if this was six months ago when we were growing, we would have said it wasn't that impressive. we have to get back to that. if we could at least show that washington could do something, they

alleged attack involved students from john f. kennedy middle school. happened in a secluded area of the park. tonight the board plans to discuss ways to improve safety on future field trips. school district superintendent john baker says the board will most likely discuss having more adults on hand to supervise field trips. >> designer drug is causing problems in the bay area just like it has out on the east coast. it's found in bath salts. cloud nine. synthetic drugs. people say it gives a cocaine like hall but often they turn violent. they are issuing an alert after seeing a smoke shop's facebook post saying eight balls are in stock. mdpv and meth drone. poison control center reports calls in 2010, jumping to 1400 in the first three months of this year. police say the drug often hurts those who use it and people around them. >> some of the effects that a parent might see from a child, very aggressive behavior, dilated pupils, rapid pulse, could even have psychotic episodes from an overdose of this type of synthetic. >>> police are hoping educating sh

one, of course, was john f. kennedyother was congressman hugh carey of new york, he saved new york city from financial collapse, he did it with brains, guts, heart, and common sense. he saw a city, a great city, that had lost its way, and through tough, unpleasant, but necessary steps, won back its good sense and its credit rating. he made cuts that needed to be made, raised taxes and put things back together. he even got a republican president to change his mind about new york, a president that basically told the city to drop dead. today new york is the most vital city in the united states, more exciting and safer than it's been. every young person wants to be there, hugh carey is the one that did it. he did something else which he'll always be remembered by irish-americans. it was he who ended, for all times, i hope, america's support for violence in northern ireland. started what ended with the good friday, according to that, an end to the troubles, the time of horror that had the irish killing each other for too man

since leaving the senate, senator bob graham has served as a senior fellow at the john f. kennedy school of government at harvard university, and was appointed by president obama to chair, coach or the bipartisan national commission on the bp oil spill and share the financial crisis inquiry commission. senator graham will discuss his book and then we'll take questions for about half an hour or whatever time we need. and then he will sign copies of the book which is a battle outside if you haven't already purchased it. all the sales are at the national press club and overbook raps benefit the libra at the national press club. that's why we restrict the books to those soldier of the book wrap. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming former governor and former senator and now author bob graham. [applause] >> thank you very much. i didn't want to thank larry for all the conferences demonstrated in my political career. i've been following very around for a long time. when i arrived in tallahassee as governor, larry was the president of the capital press club. the capital pres

the attack involved students from john f. kennedy middle school.ppened in a secluded area of the park. the boys admitted to the sexual assault of the girls. tonight the board plans to discuss ways to improve student safety on school trips. john baker says the board will more likely discuss having more adults on hand to supervise those field trips. >> feel a little bit of the heat rising up around us. christina here to tell us -- exactly, she's smoking hot. >> good morning to you. yeah, we're looking really good this morning. he's a smart man, isn't he? temperatures are comfortable. we're starting to see that visibility come up a little bit in novato. we are three miles, at a mile and a half 15 minutes ago. numbers are coming in and out. that means patchy fog drifting around the bay area. wherever you're headed, take it easy out there. you probably know how to drive through fog if you live here. 53 in san mateo, 54 in san francisco, 51 in santa rosa, a little chillier this morning than we were this time yesterday. we've got a giants game in town, a

and the answer is 1962 by president john f. kennedy. partially lifted the travel ban, and as our shasta darlington reports, many americans are now seeing havana for the very first time. >> reporter: sipping mojitos to the rhythm of cuban salsa at havana's historic hotel nacionale. thousands of tourists do it every year, but usually they're not americans. cuba receives more than 2 million tourists every yore. they flock to the white sand beaches and ogle at the vintage american cars. but for half a century, the vast majority of americans have been barred from traveling to the communist country. earlier this year, president barack obama eased restrictions and resumed allowing americans to visit the island for purposeful travel, called people-to-people tourism. such trips had been suspended by from president bush. the first tours organized by inside cuba have finally landed. >> swoe tao we take them throug real places in cuba meeting real people and real-life settings and they're incredibly rewarding. >> reporter: the idea is that visitors

whether it's fdr or harry truman or john f. kennedyl clinton or ronald reagan, when you've had these great recoveries from difficult time, they've come through great government and big ideas. >> that's not -- the way it feels to me is that when you wait for a decision to be made from someone in power above you and you give up your personal responsibility, you give up your own power, that's where the danger comes. >> right now, small business people, for example, they have absolutely no mechanism out there to get their businesses going again. they just don't. it's just not there. >> right. >> so what do you say to those people? how do they -- how do they operate? this government -- >> give them government money. >> i think the solution is probably to do a better job. probably to raise taxes, to cut spending, to do special incentive for business people. >> you think they're raising taxes not on the small business people. >> get the revenue from the higher earners in my view. people have to pay for this. >> it's always going to be the mid

during the days of john f. kennedy, government all levels comprised about 1/4 of our economy, 27%. government today comprises about 37% of the economy. we are inching closer and closer to a nation that no longer has free enterprise. we insisted that we cut federal spending and cap federal spending and that we have a balanced budget amendment and that is the right course for america if we are going to reign in the excessive growth of government. [applause] a don't know why the president is as misguided and in managing our economy as he is. sometimes i wonder whether he takes his political inspiration from the social democrats of europe. i don't think europe is working. i don't think europe will work here. can happen to believe that we got it right and they got it wrong. i believe in freedom and opportunity american-style. [applause] i believe in capitalism and free enterprise. i believe in the constitution as it was framed by the founders. by the way, i like all the amendments, not just a few of them. those who served in state government are particularly fond of the 10th amendment.

in the days of john f. kennedy the federal government with the state and local governments took up 27% of the economy. today 37% of the economy. we are inches from no longer having a free economy. this is a critical issue. therefore, well before the debate got pushed along, i signed a pledge saying i would not raise the debt ceiling unless we had cut, cap and balance. and that is the view i took june 30th and reiterated that through the process and to the end. >> bret: when candidates go over the a lotted time, they've agreed to this system, that's what you hear, the bell. we'll try -- we'll try to not ring the bell that much. just to be clear. youpwo)#b#t echoed congresswoman bachmann and congressman paul in being against that final compromise deal. to phrase it another way, if you were president, you would have vetoed that bill? >> i'm not going to eat barack obama's dog food. what he served up is not what i would have been done if i had been president of the united states. i'm not president now, though i liked t

in the days of john f. kennedy the government took up with the state and local governments 27% of the economy. today government consumes 237% of the economy. we are inches from no longer having a free economy in is a critical issue. therefore, well before the debate got pushed along, i signed a pledge, saying i would not raise the debt ceiling unless we had cut, cap and balance. and that is the view i took june 30th and reiterated that throughout the process and to the end. >> bret: when candidates go over the a lotted time they've agreed to this system that's you hear, the bell. we'll try to not ring the bell that much. it is not the doorbell. to be clear here, you congresswoman bachmann and congressman paul being against that final compromise deal. if you were president, you would have vetoed that bill? >> i'm not going to eat barack obama's dog food. what he served was not what i would have done if i were president. if i had been -- i'm not president now, though i like to have been. if i were president, i would

and they'll be able to quote john f. kennedy, who said exactly the same thing. so i think as long as that's coup weld a message of growth and hope and optimism, we know how to plant the seeds of growth in the fertile seeds it's fertile soil of the private sector and not in the sterile concrete of washington, i think republicans will be okay there. >> i want you to listen here. i thought former speaker newt gingrich turned in a pretty strong performance tonight. now his campaign has been round inering so it's a question of, will it make a difference? listen here, he developed a very sharp criticism for the president's leadership in general and also this supercommittee that's been created to try to get more deficit reduction. >> i thought the president's speech in el paso, where he talked about moats and alligators is the perfect symbol as a failure as a lead perphe failed to get any immigration reform through when he controlled the senate and he controlled the house. he ran through obama care but he couldn't deal with immigration. now he has republicans in the ho