i mentioned at the top that you, at the age of 7, performed for john f. kennedy, long before that building -- let me be clear, you were in that same building before it was renamed the kennedy center. so you were there performing for john f. kennedy in the building before it bears his name. do you recall that? i assume you do. >> i do recall. it was shortly after my family and i moved from france to the united states so i probably barely spoke english and what i was that we went to washington, i met a great cellist named bernard greenhouse and then somehow i associated greenhouse with the white house, it's, like, wait a minute, white house, greenhouse, it's a 7-year-old's point of view. and then, of course, i saw, at the performance, the person that made the greatest impression was the guy who was conducting the national symphony orchestra who was not a musician but he was the funniest person i had ever seen. his name was danny kaye so i thought this guy was great and i wanted to be like him. only later on did i understand that, oh, well, you know -- it's like you

i talk about john f. kennedy a good bit in my book because i thought it would be useful to compare and contrast obama and john f. kennedy. john f. kennedy had a special burden when he ran for the presidency. what was his burden? catholic. there had never been a catholic president of the united states. she had a special burden. he had to go the extra in assuaging the anxiety of non catholics. he took special effort to say he was not going to be subservient to the po when it came to things political. he had to make a special effort to show that he was going to recognize the wall between church and state. he had to make special effort to do that just like barack obama had to take special effort to assuage the anxieties of non black people who were going to feel -- basing his candidacy, he made and has made special efforts to show he wanted to be president of all the people. he is president of all the people. he is not going to engage in any sort of racial favoritism. that is when i say he has overcome his blackness.

well today marks the anniversary of john f. kennedy's death and more than fifty years later the cia releases documents that were once secret the telling the bay of pigs invasion one document is a particularly interesting and highlights a conversation with president kennedy and his brother that attorney general robert kennedy they discuss of worries of a senate investigation that threatens to reveal that president kennedy authorized the use of american jets and weapons in the failed attack on cuba are the corresponding kalen for takes and end up luck and what because documents reveal. it was meant to roll back a revolution begun on the dictatorship. and take down a government. instead the invasion of the bay of pigs went down as one of the greatest failures in u.s. history you know me then i know many many. many. many many and. killing one hundred fifteen in capturing twelve hundred other cuban exile paramilitaries including then twenty two year old alpha male don who was convinced we would either win or die we never expected to lose them

i talk about john f. kennedy azadeh my book because i thought we could -- it would be useful to compare and contrast obama and john f. kennedy. john f. kennedy had a special burden when he ran for the presidency. what was his burden? he was catholic. there had never been a catholic president of the united states. he had a special burden. he had to go the extra mile in assuaging the anxieties of non-catholics who were going to be deciding whether they should vote for him, and he took special effort to say that he was not going to be subservient to the pope when it comes to things political. he had made a special effort to show that yes, he was going to recognize the wall between church and state. he had to make special efforts to do that, just like barack obama. yet to make special efforts to assuage the anxiety of some non-black people in facing his candidacy. he made and has made a special effort to show that you know he wanted to be president of all the people and he is president of all the people that he is no

and my guest chris matthews has a new book about john f. kennedy, although i have a theory there was a second author. north korea is opening to tourists. you'll come for the kimchi. you'll stay because you can't leave. this is the colbert report. captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: thank you, so much. report to the report. good to have you with us. thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. nation, it's wednesday. and that means it's time for a new g.o.p. front-runner. ( laughter ) jim. >> once given up for political roadkill newt gingrich killing them all. in the latest polling he is the front-runner. >> there is a p.p.p. poll showing newt gingrich, 38, mitt romney 18. >> stephen: it makes sense gingrich is rising. he appears to be the only candidate who appears to be made of dough. newt's campaign got off to a bit of a rocky start. back in june, instead of campaigning in iowa, newt wont a two-week luxury

never go there particularly when are you seeking votes and rubbing for public office but when john f. kennedy ran in 1960, what were people calling catholicism, a cult. so they come out, they become more mainstream, people find out about them, john f. kennedy wins. religion goes mastream. probably the same with mormonism there somebody an important time ubs for us all to pull together as americans, you know what i mean. >> stephen: i don't know what you mean. >> you know, it is unnarl and unhealthy for the most blue sky optimistic people in the world. we as americans to be as divided as we are today. >> stephen: don't we have to take our country back. >> we have to fix it. >> stephen: we have to take it back first before we can fix it. haven't you heard those chants. take our country back. >> we have to fix it i lived in china. >> stephen: i heard. >> we covered that earlier. and here's the deal-- . >> stephen: i'm sorry. but legally we have to do that. by the way, i find as i, as you have seen, i'm scared of chinese people and not chinese americans, greatest people in the world but chinese p

he campaigned all over the country for john f. kennedy. bobby kennedy's first of the campaign trail was right here at the home where we had a great rally on the lawn for bobby kennedy. >> now, he referred it to jackie kennedy's new book put out called historic conversations on life with jfk. there were some audiotapes attached to this. she talked shortly after the assassination. they were just released. here is jackie kennedy talking about adlai stevenson and jfk. >> telling you he had to have the un. i could remember jack telling me about that. >> did that give him a lot of difficulty? >> it was unpleasant. he did not like it. he was not going to give him the state department. at the earliest times a we spoke of it, you new governor stevenson would get the un -- not state which he wanted. it is unpleasant to tell somebody that. stevens said he did not have anything to say or something funny. >> why do you think he decided not to have stevenson for state? >> it was not just bitterness. look at all the people jack took who had been a against

i'll ask frank ridge why he says there's something prize sproo izing that barack obama and john f. kennedy have in common. >>> the nba's come home for christmas. are the fans getting stiffed? shaquille o'neal on the end of the lockout and his extraordinary 19-year career. >> 19 years, baby. >> and the player so good he could only be called magic. the one and only magic johnson on the game he still loves and the causes closest to his heart. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. we'll get to my interviews with shaquille o'neal and magic johnson later in the show. i'll ask them what they think of the deal to end the nba lockout. were they as aggrieved as i was about this lengthy delay and the crisis in college sports in america. but first, another herman cain he said, she said story. a woman says she knew he was marry and she tells waga the relationship was, quote, a very inappropriate situation. >> it was pretty simple. it was uncomplicated. and i was aware that he was married. and i was also aware that i was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship. >> herman cain de

their pictures that if you tap on them, you see the report filed on the day that john f. kennedy gave a stern speech, all when jacqueline onassis went to paris. i cannot live around the time of john f. kennedy, but i want to learn as much as possible, and i am so fascinated by our reporters back and used it covered presidents and how polite they were. nobody nowadays, so i think the technology is going to take my package, my reports, and it will put it on the website and an article about egypt with a video from nbc about the revolution and perhaps also a link to a longer format book. and you get this great product for the small fee of $3.99. >> [unintelligible] >> alan ask a question about technology. i like to ask you to weigh in on this. we think that this is organic. speaking of technology. cultural forms are organic, and i forget the guy who wrote the book back in the 1950's and 1960's, but he began set by saying the record album. you know why i record album exist? because someone invented long playing technology. it used to be just singles. they invented along verplank recor

and within three days without food or ammunition to counter revolution was over and the john f. kennedy administration claimed quote plausible deniability. no regression. from florida or from any of the motives peter kornbluh has worked for thirty years to get that cia's own history of the bay of pigs operation declassified insist denying american involvement is impossible the reality was the very first person on the beach was a cia operative grayson winch and he put the beacon on the beach. if you got on the boat start firing the planes some of which turned out to be american planes freshly painted to look like the cuban air forces the twenty six bombers there were definitely american trainers american involvement american arms are medical and airplanes everybody knew it miami was like casablanca doing the war second war war was full of intrigue and conspiracies despite president kennedy's public statements this was a struggle of cuban patriots against a cuban dictator we made it because the clia the authors of this country would not intervene in any way but the us did intervene and re

a simpler way to ship. >>> on the day barack obama took office the comparisons to john f. kennedyn immediately. both young, both groundbreaking in their own way, both with attractive families. something else, something surprising the two leaders may have in common. frank rich who compared the presidencies in an article in "new york magazine" joins me to explain what it is. a fascinating piece. >> thank you. >> the parallels are pretty obvious. 1963 seems a long way away, but actually in terms of racial tension of economic inequality, a lot of parallels there. >> there are a lot of parallels there. and also in the early '60s during the kennedy administration was really the birth of the radical right, as we know it today. the john birch society, what would become the goldwater movement and, famously, of course, kennedy went to dallas against the advice of people close to him right into that nutty atmosphere where people were accusing him of treason. sort of like the birther craziness today that people thought he was an illegitimate president. a communist possibly. catholic, there wa

. >>> up next, what if john f. kennedy had lived?ing theory coming out from the great, brilliant steven king, who's written a novel about what would have happened had he not been killed that day. stephen king, who can scare the bejesus out of you sometimes, is going to tell a story of mixed development. i'm not sure this is a good ending either. this is "hardball" on msnbc. on november 26th you can make a huge impact by shopping small on small business saturday. one purchase. one purchase is all it takes. so, pick your favorite local business... and join the movement. i pledge to shop small at big top candy shop. allen's boots... at juno baby store. make the pledge to shop small. please. shop small on small business saturday. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil

. >> he stoped by to talk about his new book on the life of john f. kennedy. >> i think john f. will sell this book. an old pal of his phoned me about two or three weeks ago leaving a message. ited is, you -- it said, you brought him back alive. i wanted to know what he was like. i wasn't around with him. i went back to his 12 closest friends either through all history or personally. i found out what was he like to be with? they said reading history is not what the person is like. but i thought i could get him in the theater. 12 people would tell me what he was like and i could from all their memories figure out what it was like to hang out. what was the guy kidding around with? what was he like in the navy when you are in the south pacific? what was he was like when you were scared to death? what was he like in school causing trouble. >> you found some interesting stories. the first, ask not -- >> i wrote that story. it is called reporting. i went and found out whener it came from. it was not original. he had a headmaster in connecticut and he used to say, ask not what your scho

. >> on the anniversary of the death of president john f. kennedy, we remember our president. >> the house of representatives recognized him with a prayer. kennedy was shot and killed in dallas texas on this day in 1963. he was the first president killed in office. >>> robin gibbs is fighting liver cancer. he was diagnosed several months ago and was rushed to a british hospital last week. he was released a short time later. so far, he hasn't commented on his health but he did tell the press he was feeling great last month. >>> the best friend of natalie woods speaks up about her mysterious death and we have the latest from hollywood. >> coming up on entertainment tonight, one of natalie woods' closest friends reveals what he knows about the actress' mysterious death. >> reporter: she speaks with wagoner often and says he's in good spirits but one aspect of the new investigation enrages him, the claims of the captain of the boat who implies wagner could have saved his life. >> what i personally think is it is such a dreadful betrayful. i don't think

i would like to talk about the john f. kennedy proposed the bike path. thank you for the update, as far as including the people with disabilities and the mayor's disability office and paratransit coordinating council, which i am members of. it seems to me when they proposed this pathway, the bike path is going to be against the curb. so everybody will have to be going across the pathway in order to get to the curb, the sidewalk. i am kind of concerned about people with disabilities, and families with strollers, having to make their way onto the curbs safely. also, even when people are paratransit users, the lift is so large -- by the time they deploy the left, it is going to be on a buffer. when the wheelchair user gets off the lift, i do not know how far into the buffer zone would be safe in order to pass to get to the sidewalk. it is one of those concerns we had talked about in many of our disability committees. i just want to bring this up as a public comment. but one of these creative obstacles -- i would love to work with the park commission and eve

a copy is being donated to the national archives and the john f. kennedy library, so people will be able to listen to it. >>> keeping french fries on the school menu. they're picking apart an obama proposal to make school lurches health -- lunches healthier. it would also give school districts greaterflect flexibilities to improve favorites. >> in today's healthwatch, millions suffer from lower back pain. and there's a whole range of treatments. but for some, one treatment just isn't enough. randall pinkston reports for wjz. >> reporter: frank spedero had the life he dreamed of, young and successful. until last year, when a car accident changed it all. >> you lost everything. >> reporter: his injuries left him with relentless pain in his back and neck, which doctors treated with pills and more pills. >> everything from vicodin, percocet, oxycodone, xanax. >> but the focus changed when he met dr. charles kim. who uses both ancient and modern techniques to fight pain. that means alternative therapies, acupuncture, and pumping, which suctions the skin. as wel

let me recommend we find another day to remember john f. kennedycan people chose him in a recent poll to be up there on mt. rushmore with washington, jefferson, lincoln and, of course, teddy roosevelt. i recommend that instead of marking tomorrow as we often do to remember this beloved president, that we do it as we have for other great presidents, on the day of his birth. i could think of other dates we could mark to honor the 35th president, all of whom paid tribute and honor to what he did and what he was doing when he was taken from us. how about march 1st, the day he by executive order created the peace corps which sent young men and women like me around the world to help developing countries make their way? may 25th, he set as a national goal the landing of americans on the moon before 1970 or june 10th when he gave the peace speech at american university which sent such a positive message that khrushchev had it broadcast throughout the soviet union. june 11th in 1963 when he gave his historic televised address to country calling for civil ri

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to franklin roosevelt and john f. kennedy amassing secret files he used to blackmail. in the movie hoover is shown presenting bobby kennedy with extremely compromising wiretaps of his brother. >> oh, let him know that i have a copy of my own in safekeeping. >> reporter: growing up and as a young man in the era of j. edgar hoover, what did you think of him? >> everybody thought of him as the top cop. >> reporter: did you admire him? >> i think so. >> reporter: but hoover had his own secrets. many historians believe hoover was a gay man in an era when that was unthinkable for a public figure. he never married and had a lifelong remarkably close relationship with fbi associate director clyde tolson. they ate lunch and dinners together and are buried within a few feet of each other. >> mr. tolson, i need someone who i can trust. i want you to be my number two man. you understand, i need you. >> reporter: i went in thinking this was a movie about power and it felt to me it was almost a movie about love. >> it's a love story between two men in a way, but it's -- i didn't wan

grateful liberians named it in honor of president john f. kennedy. during the war, soldiers so ravaged the place the jfk hospital came to stand for something else, just for killing. just five years ago, the hospital still had no lights and no running water. most of the doctors had died or fled during the war. in fact, till just a few years ago, there wasn't a single pediatrician in all of liberia. that's why andy is here. >> this counter, sometimes the children will be on the counter, just overflowing. >> reporter: he can only do so much. so he and his colleagues are determined to leave something behind. >> you doing good? you ready to go home? >> reporter: that's dr. easter ling, another resident from mt. sinai. he grew up in newark but found his way to countries line senegal. he's practiced in many far-flung places like here in earthquake-ravaged haiti. >> you get some medication today? yeah? okay. >> reporter: he and andy are here in liberia as part of a program called heart, in which every year over 70 residents from some of the nation's top medi

>>> the associated press reports long lost air force win recordings made in the aftermath of john f. kennedy's assassination have been found and up for sale. the two plus hour recordings come from the estate of a former kennedy aide and going for $500,000. >>> the dow opens at 12,096 after adding 17 points yesterday. the s&p was up 6 points. the nasdaq gained 28. taking a look at overseas trading this morning n tokyo the nikkei fell 78 points while in hong kong the hang seng dropped 387. >>> good news from italy and here at home had wall street on the upside of its recent seesaw run tuesday. with italy racing to avoid financial crisis, prime minister sdeg nat mario monty is expected to finish forming a government in what by normal italian standards is almost lightning speed. still with italian benchmark bond yields once again closing above the critical 7% level and spanish and french yields also higher, euro worries could drive wall street through more up and downs this week. here at home, retail sales rose for a fifth straight month on more spending than expected. more proof the economy may b

we had heard dan quayle say something about john f. kennedyefore that -- the experience thing was the point dan quayle had more experience in congress and in government than john f. kennedy did when he was elected president. they were ready for this. i think we just have to leave it to here again to two different views of what happened. >> host: talk a little bit about the negotiations that going to -- i know you are not part of them. you clearly know about them. the candidates just don't show up at the podium and get ready to debate. it is a grueling process that their campaigns go through. like peace talks. >> guest: absolutely. the thing everybody has to remember is the negotiations are by two groups of people. one with only one purpose. and that is to make his or her candidate have an advantage over the other candidate. everybody on the other side is doing this same thing. they couldn't care less about whether or not this is fair or whether this is or whatever. if they think it will help the candidate to be seated, we will negotiate the be

a nationally recognized leader on the environment, she became the first woman to received the john f. kennedy profile in courage reward in 2000 for pioneering work on environmental justice issues. it was the first of its kind in the nation to become law. she was elected to public office in 1985 as a member of the college board of trustees. she served in the california state assembly from 1992-1994, and in 1994 made history by becoming the first latina collected in the california state senate. she also offered a record 17 at state laws aimed at combating domestic violence. she earned a master's degree of public administration at the university of southern california. a former federal employee, she worked in the carter's white house office of hispanic affairs and was appointed later as a management analyst with office of management and budget in the civil-rights division. she was nominated by barack obama to serve as secretary of labor on january, 20, 2009. now we would like to present this personal video from her. >> good afternoon. thank you superintendent garcia for that introduction, and th

in doing that, he was actually like electoral politicians, said john f. kennedy had to assuage the anxiety of the nine catholic americans to become the first catholic president. one of the things the bombing had to do was overcome negative stereotypes, he had to calm the fears of the nonblack. >> host: 202 is the area code if you'd like to talk with professor kennedy. >> host: dr. kennedy you write about affirmative action in barack obama positioning toward affirmative action. you say it is a dangerous land mine for him? >> sure it is. frankly, all racial controversy is a land mine for barack obama and that is why he tries to stay far away from racial controversy and affirmative action and is no different. to say is less as he could come as some people were very critical of in for avoiding ratio controversy. i am not. he is the electoral politician and has to be attentive to public opinion and he wants to stay away from issues that be an electoral losers 410 and avoid controversy there will be the electoral loser. >> talk about politics talk about the african-ame