chairman, white house historical association board of directors and deborah rudder, president of the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts. >> good evening, everyone. it's my pleasure to welcome you to the celebration of the 2018 presidential site summit. the kennedy center is the perfect venue for this. it's so fitting because itself is a presidential site which is dedicated as a living memorial to president john f. kennedy and to assure the authentic nature of this historical gathering, the kennedy center brought it back to the 1800s in terms of the temperature in washington, d.c. and we want thank you for that. also, we've been given authority from no higher source than the chairman of the board of the john f. kennedy center for gentlemen and ladies would like to remove jackets and be more comfortable. so please feel free to do so. this year's site summit is the largest gathering ever of presidential site representatives. these historic sites include more than 100 birthplaces and childhood homes, memorials and museums, libraries and landmarks from coast to coast. we're grateful to have t

it is that reason that this place became the living memorial to john f. kennedy. en congress asked mrs. kennedy what shall we do to recognize your husband, she asked that they name the national cultural center in his honor. and, in fact, that inspired the contributions that made it possible for us to build this building that we're in today. the kennedy center really has three elements to its mission. obviously, world class art. but also powerful education and programs that reach across the country. and we're really well known almost in all 50 states and puerto rico and d.c. for our education program. it is the programs that happen here all the time that really support and sustain the memorial to john f. kennedy. our work as we near the 50th anniversary is to strengthen that message and to really reaffirm and remind our patrons and our visitors alike that it is what he stood for, what he believed in, how he lived his life that we really represent here. we celebrated his centennial last year and really focused all of our work in that year around attributes that we as

of president ford, truman, mckinley, johnson and roosevelt share their family stories of the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts here in washington, d.c. the conference was attended by represent is of presidential sites from around the country and descendents of presidents from james monroe to gerald ford. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome fred ryan, chairman, white house historical association board of directors and deborah rudder, president of the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts.

the most important foreign-policy issue facing john f. kennedy when he came to the landlocked southeast asian monarchy called laos. quote, "laos is a nation of homosexuals," eisenhower said. apparently this was no compliment coming from either man. despite the culturally bizarre prison through which eisenhower viewed the country, he left office in january of 1961, imploring kennedy to take the situation in laos extraordinary seriously and making clear that as far as he was concerned, u.s. national security depended on the independence of that faraway place. two months later, in march of 1961, the situation for the u.s. allied monarchy was dire, with north vietnam and chinese backed communist taking control of the central high plateau of the country, threatening the low lands that were the pathways to the country's capital and to neighboring thailand. kennedy did not know what to do. the united states was a charter member of the southeast asian treaty organization and as such had an obligation to defend the territorial integrity of a country most

a discussion was recorded at the john f. kennedye performing arts in washington, d.c. >>> good evening. i hope you've been enjoying tonight's program. it's been fascinating and there's more to come. a your ago i was honored when fred ryan, chair of our board, asked me to chair the white house historical association's board committee for this important four-day senate. i want to thank the members of our committee for their year-lock commitment and contributions to the planning of the summit. with

then we have a new president in john f. kennedy who suggested we got to go even faster, even further and of course 1962 he gave a speech to a joint session of congress, declaring that we are going to go to the men. at the time this is only a week up or alan shepard had done his straight up-and-down flight that went across the carmine line. a couple hundred miles, 250,000 miles. that's a big difference. by the way, will land on the surface of the moon and come home. then he goes to rice university, my alma mater. better throw that in there. and he gives probably one of the greatest corporations in american has very about why we go to the moon. his speech was called we chose to go to the mid-and he asked the important question that all they should be asking is also not question was this. he asked why does rice play texas. [laughter] and then he asked another important question, which is why do you climb the highest mountain. he choose to do these things because they are hard. he was setting an agenda for the united states. he needed

we're just really, coo cool peo that go to drive-ins. >> i'm going to borrow from john f. kennedy who said, when he had a number of nobel laureates, i believe, in the white house, you know, there have been so many great minds here since thomas jefferson dined alone. and i would forego all of the other, just to have, you know, abraham lincoln alone. but i would certainly want dolly madison to host it. going back to the trumans. just what anita said, there's this great story about harry truman who goes bounding with his driver/bodyguard, mike westwood, down from independence to jefferson city for a meeting. skpr and truman is in the front seat and spies this woman whose pigs have gotten loose and they're running all around. and truman demands that westwood stop the car and he hops -- truman hops out and helps her to coral these pigs. a reporter gets wind of this when truman, you know, arrives at his destination in jefferson city. and they ask him if it's true. he said, yeah, of course it's true, but remember, i was a farmer before i was president. >> see. >> so down to earth. >> i t

johnson herself about how she felt about becoming first lady after the assassination of john f. kennedy and how she said people , look at the living and wish for the dead. you just can't imagine really the personal pain that it exhibited that the whole country was feeling. and here were the johnsons front and center that take over leadership of the community at that time and feel the challenge to also help comfort the nation in a certain way. and to help mrs. kennedy through it all, which of course they were incredibly gracious as we know, and told her she can live and stay in the white house as long as she needs to to get her children packed up and moved out and to move on with her life. but mrs. johnson, again, having a front row seat of working with laura bush for so many years, and she would say very honestly, that in addition to her mother-in-law, of course, lady bird johnson was her favorite first lady. and she learned so much from her. -- her from watching her and being a texas woman herself and sort of the graciousness of mrs. kennedy, also, mrs. kennedy of course, and also mrs.

tripadvisor. >>> when john f. kennedyn of a cool president died with him, at least for a while. the country retreated to an earlier more familiar model of the commander in chief. >> the folks elected into the presidency for the next four elections tended to be older more experienced folks who had time in washington. these were all men who had this kind of leadership experience. they didn't need to be cool, they didn't want to be cool. >> but when cool left the white house after kennedy, it helped shape a new kind of leadership, from outside the establishment. an unprecedented prosperity swept across america, its benefits were not for everyone. >> there was this real feeling of anger on the part of many who felt that they as americans were not being heard. >> black americans were denied the basic rights of full-fledged citizens. by the mid-60s the tension reached the breaking point. leaders rose up against inequality. >> some sought justice through peace. >> this is a non-violent protest. we're on moral and spiritual force

se puso en marcha tras el asesinato de el presidente john f kennedy.ades mentales como ahora con el presidente trump. >> poco probable entonces,. vamos a seguir porque por tercer dÍa la comisiÓn judicial del senado realiza audiencia sobre la nominaciÓn de brett cabenon,. se >> estamos en el tercer dÍa, hoy continuamos en ese senado judicial. >> esa divulgaciÓn de esos informes que los demÓcratas eran divulgar y revelar. >> una noticia revelante del dÍa, al menos cuatro personas murieron, entre ellas el acante gravedad. en el centro de cincinnati. la policÍa dijo que el pistolero ingresÓ al vestÍbulo del banco donde intercambiaron disparos en el edificio que estÁ el banco funcionan sitios de comida por donde transita mucha gente. se escucharon entre 8:15 disparos. > -- entre ocho y 15 disparos. estaremos pendientes tambiÉn si identifican al pistolero. tenemos mÁs, a continuaciÓn, la policÍa allanÓ una casa de una pareja new jersey, donde un juez ordenÓ responder por $400,000 que recaudÓ para un buen samaritano sin hogar. >> escucha esto, pÁnico en la in

. >>> pasajeros y venía de dubái y aterrizó esta mañana en el aeropuerto john f kennedy . >>> a bordo, sabemose policía de la autoridad portuaria y los centros para el control y prevención de enfermedades estaban esperando en 1 a de estacionamiento para controlar a estos pasajeros. también sabemos que la empresa emirates mencionó que los pasajeros podrán bajar del avión pronto y que la seguridad y cuidado de sus clientes es una prioridad. es una historia que continúa en desarrollo, los mantendremos informados. >>> de esta situación es la pregunta del día, cómo reaccionarias ante este tipo de emergencias? >>> puede compartir sus experiencias en cualquiera de nuestras plataformas en redes sociales . >>> yo creo que hicieron lo correcto, reportando y llegó gente de control de enfermedades para investigar >>> esperemos que no hayan más enfermos . > esta persecución que alcanzó las 100 millas por hora ocurrió esta mañana en la autopista 680. de acuerdo a las autoridades, ahora la policía está un tras el conductor de la camioneta que logró darse a la fuga luego que se cancelará la persecuci

john f. kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis kelsey so kill c. really if you know. who the mother because. i come home from the playground one day my mom says honey good news you're going to get arms dear i mean you just remember a day like that right i thought we were going shopping you know arms or us i don't know. i was very confused they had hooks and they were made of metal and plastic and wood i mean i couldn't take off my shoes i wasn't allowed to use my feet can imagine how weird that was. so this became an interesting life half of my life was being elven law the kid with no arms the other half of my life was this terrible victim of the little guy. i lost my sense of what was right stick these arms around me on all the body more all the models and how many are artificial or not. and why why why would i leave them when there was no good reason not one good reason. to use them for years i told them hey you are doing me any good. and i was like shut up

the text is relatively recent, borne right after john f. kennedyy members of his administration, including his brother bobby, who shuddered to think if the president had only been incapacitated in dallas. before 1965, this country had no plan for what they would do if a president can't carry out his duties. this came after william harrison died a month after taking office. nobody knew what to call vice president john tyler. critics called him your accidentsy. decades later, president garfield was shot and lingered incapacitated for two months. afraid of create a constitutional congress, vice president chester a. arthur of the really great study burns, avoided doing anything presidential and the government ground to a halt. in 1919, president woodrow wilson had a stroke and his second wife, edith, essentially ran the country for 18 months. by that point, 259th amendment was long overdue, but it took the kennedy assassination to get it written, and it didn't get used by a president for another two decades when president reagan had a 1985 surgery, but

of course, that is the first thing john f. kennedy product and cut nixon by surprise. i think it is key today. it was one ofh: the later debates. by that point, the campaign had he did get it right by bringing kennedy on this stage and having the vice president and senator from massachusetts as equals on the stage. he equalized the two of them. if nixon had a brilliant performance, maybe it would have worked. but his performance was not really good. some people said, maybe out of have this guy who i like compared to this guy who i don't much care for. that, it didn't really play a role. the polling shows that the audience watched them. the first one was the one that mattered. [laughter] you have onegh: chance to make a first impression. thank you very much. [applause] >> interested in american history tv, visit our website come a c-span.org/history. you can view the tv schedule, preview programs, and look at archival films and more. american history tv, at c-span.org/history. >> next, lbj foundation president, former chief of staff anita mcbride, a white house historica

then we had a new president in john f. kennedy who suggested that we got to go even faster, even further, and of course in 1962, he gave a speech to a joint session of congress declaring that we're going to go to the moon. and at this time, this was only about a week after alan shepard had done his straight up and down flight that went across the carmen line. a couple hundred miles, 250,000, you know, miles. that's a big difference. and oh, by the way, we're going to land on the surface of the moon and come home. so he declares we're going to the moon. then he goes to rice university, my alma mater, got to throw that in there. he goes to rice university and gives probably one of the greatest orations in american history about why we go to the moon. in that speech, he asked the very important question that all of us should be asking ourselves. that question was this. he asked, why does rice play texas? and then he asked another important question, which is why do you climb the highest mountain? you choose to do these things because

go back to -- you the democrats and look at partya and grand pa's when john f. kennedy was the icon. he's still celebrated. can do forat you country. find a democrat that will run on that today instead, that will be opposite. your country is not doing this for you. when i'm there it will do more you. it'sngressman davidson, been a pleasure to have a good conversation with you. backmend you for getting involved if politics and maintaining your principle when it's tough. thank you very much for being here. >> thanks for putting it on. [applause] >> this week the house and senate are back for legislative work on tuesday. in the house, members return from their summer district work consider bills student liquidbt counseling and natural gas exports. swearing if ofe troylican representative balderson. in the senate, executive and nominations. starting with who has been the member ofe as the security and exchange commission. vote to advance the nomination is set for 5:30 p.m. eastern on tuesday. housesome, follow the live on c-span and the senate c-span 2. at 7:30 a.m. eastern

going >> steve represents the kennedy going to well so i'm borrow from john f. if kennedy, when he was with a noble lawyer rest, i elieve, in the white house, there have been so many great minds here since thomas jefferson died. i would forego all, just to have abraham lincoln, but i would dolley madison to host it. >> yes. > going back to the trumans, ast what anita said, there is great story about harry truman who goes bounding with his driver/bodyguard mike westwood from independence to jefferson city for a meeting. seat uman is in the front nd he spies this woman whose pigs have gotten loose and they are running all around. truman demands that westwood stop the car and truman hops out her to corral these pigs. of this r gets wind when truman, you know, arrives jefferson ination in city. they ask him if it's true, he said, yeah, of course it's true, a farmer er, i was before i was president. earth.o down to >> american. >> yeah. trying to tie into your mark, and i appreciate the gerald ford story. we did a year gs ago was to come up with the idea story, presid

the firsturse, that's thing that john f. kennedy nixon byp, caught surprise, and i think was key in debate. prof. rorabaugh: well, that was in one of the -- i think it was the fourth debate. the later debates and by that point the campaign importantpast -- the thing for -- eisenhower really got it right. it right byid get bringing kennedy on the stage and having the vice president senator from massachusetts as equals on the stage, you equalize the two of experiencexon's argument begins to evaporate right there. nixon had had a brilliant performance, maybe it would have worked because his first performance wasn't very good. voters looked at that and said maybe i would rather have this guy over here who i like rather here who guy over claims he's experienced, but i for. much care that, the island bit i think didn't really play a role. shows the later debates -- the audience dropped with every one of them. each one had a lower rating than the one before. the first one was the one that mattered. you have one chance to make a first impre

is no republican on the ballot for the state's 7th which wasnal district once represented by john f. kennedy. >> the contentious confirmatio ttle over supreme court nominee brett kavanagh will pickup again in just hours. d in the first of hearings, democrats showed up ready for a fight. they were trying to throw a wrench in the proceedings by immediately calling for a ve to adjourn. and interruption from dozens of protesters only added to the chs as nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson tells us more fireworks are expected in the coming day >> reporter: no delaying the drama as democrats demanded one econds into the hearing. >> we cannot possibly move forward, mr. chairman, with this hearing -- >> i extend a wm welcome to judge kavanae . >> wlieve this should be postponed >> mr. chairman, i move to adjourn. >> reporter: protests erupting. 70 people ultimately in the audience, the father of a parkland school shooting vretim who says kavanagh brushed him off when he introduced himself. the white house says the judge escorted by security didn't know who he was. plan to s opponen

if you look at grandma and grandpa's party when john f. kennedy was the icon, and he was celebrated, but asked, ask not what the country can do for you but what you can do for your country -- find a democrat that will run on that instead of the exact opposite. your country isn't doing this for you. when i'm there, it's going to do more for you. they will be offering lawnmowing any day now. host: congressman davidson, it's been my pleasure to sit down and have a good conversation with you. i commend you for getting involved in politics and maintaining or principles even when it's tough with your side coming after you. rep. davidson: it's an honor to do it. thanks for putting it on. [applause] sandro petrick leahy is asked about the supreme court nomination of kavanaugh. weekted to vote later this , senator leahy has announced he will vote against jet -- judge kavanaugh's nomination. watch the interview at 6:00 p.m. eastern here and c-span. >> thursday morning, watch the senate judiciary committee's decision to vote but kavanaugh to the supreme cour

stories, and it may be true, it may be impossible, but richard nixon -- attended the 1961 inaugural john f. kennedy who of course, beat him for the presidency, and the election of 1960. and, as he was walking out, he runs into ted sorensen, one of kennedy's speech writers, and nixon says, i wish i had said some of those things. and sorensen said, you mean the part where he said ask not what you can do for your country? and nixon said no, the part where he said i do solemnly swear -- and that is -- than i do not want to know. but, the point about that story, is every man who takes the office, want to put his stamp on the presidency. is unique stamp, and the institutions, that bear their names, after they leave office, also have their own -- they are all big institutions, and the families to our unique, understand they want to make. i think, it is best when we are not heavy-handed. when we let people tell the story, as it was. and generally speaking, that reflects well on the principle. >> any comments on this, on constituencies? >> i am just going to speak as a constituency of one, as an individual,

michael bodden, a world renowned forensic pathologist who investigated the deaths of john f. kennedyelushi and testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a cold case. >> dr. bodden reviewed the evidence and determined that it could not have been an accidental fall. >> reporter: in december of 2008, detectives paid one more visit to stephen. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. it make sense. >> reporter: 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff, police were back. and stephen was in for a shock. after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind and handed me this thing. this arrest warrant. >> reporter: coming up, the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm here for my mother. >> reporter: stephen and jody's only son has some dark secrets to share. >> did you see the abuse? >> i did. (burke) that's what we call a huge drag. seriously, that's what we call it. officially. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or t

city counselor ayanna presley who promised change for the deep blue district once represented by john f. kennedy. cameras here capturing the moment presley found out she won. she is the latest black candidate to win a primary this year in a district where minorities are the majority. >>> president trump was up late tweeting overnight responding to claims in the new bombshell book from veteran reporter bob woodward. the book describes a white house in chaos and a, quote, nervous breakdown within the administration along with a string of insults reportedly hurled at the president by his own staffers. this morning, president trump is firing back at bob woodward's explosive book "fear" that paints a picture of top aides ridiculing the president behind his back. in a series of new tweets, trump calls the book a con on the public and suggests woodward may be a democratic operative. but during a recorded phone call before the book was released, the president told woodward this. >> you know i'm very open to you. i think you've always been fair. >> reporter: woodward says the president called him last mo

. >> her challenge to a 20-year incumbent and fellow democrat, for the seat held by john f. kennedyse who think we are doing something disruptive, good. we need to be. >> hear modern message, delivered the old fashioned way. meeting voters on the way to work. >> change trump's antics. >> i will definitely take on trump. >> and where they live? >> my fellow concordian. >> a self proclaimed hugger in an interparty brawl. she is compared to cortes, she is not running to the left of her ox ponent. >> i have been on the forefront opposing the trump agenda. >> there is no reason for her to be running against me. >> i didn't know what i have been more disruptive than what i was doing. anyone who running for office will tell people they are the best. my job is to tell people what i do. >> it has a potential to be a shocker. a once predominantly white district, now, majority minority, younger and economically diverse. presenting presley to argue for change. >> what is this race about? >> well, these times require us to be disruptive and bold. >> i won't wait my turn. my mother didn't raise m

michael baden, a world renowned forensic pathologists who investigated the deaths of john f. kennedy and john bu loogsy and testified at the trial of o. j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> he's reviewed the evidence and has determined this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008 detectives paid one more visit to steven sharp. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this buwas about. it didn't make sense. >> 15 years after that fatal night on the cliff, police were back and steven sharp was in for a shock. after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind me and handed me this arrest warrant. >>> coming up -- the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. steven and jody sharp's only son has some dark secrets to share. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. enough of their nutrients? new one a day with nature's medley is the only complete multivitamin with antioxidants from one total serving of fruits and veggies. new from one a day. you need to power your wellness. new

great political novels, the kind john f kennedy. i wished we had a progressive like him.rtunately his spirit isn't gone. i saw that spirit in the voice of his daughter megan. there was a pride in that voice. she reminded me of the movie heroine billion dollar baby. i have a feeling of what happened saturday, it was the feeling i had in east germany before the wall came down. it was a religious service but something more of an underground movement. this darkness we are going through right now is going to pass. that american will return again to the values of truth and courage and individual spirit that the lying and the gutlessness and the bullying will have seen their day. and that is "hardball." thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" will start right now. >>> tonight on "all in." i'm talking about woodward, you never told me. >> bob woodward's bombshell. democrats stage a rebellion. >> what is the rush? >> tonight, senator's cory booker and kama

a discussion was recorded at the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts in washington, d.c. >>> good evening. i hope you've been enjoying tonight's program. it's been fascinating and there's more to come. a your ago i was honored when fred ryan, chair of our board, asked me to chair the white house historical association's board committee for this important four-day senate. i want to thank the members of our committee for their year-lock commitment and contributions to the planning of the summit. with the terrific staff of the white house historical association and the vision and leadership, we've convened more than 100 presidential sites, as well as leading experts in the wide array of fields and interests at the presidential cite that the representative told us they wanted to hear from. that is what it is like to be in the white house. our next panel, we'll shift gears to hollywood. as dd myers said in her message, we'll examine you the big and small screens portray the fictional perspective of the white house and the peop

the republicans decided that they were going to turn reagan into essentially what john f. kennedycontra war ended in 1990 and today the s d sandinistas rule nicaragua. the last of the original seven american hostages was released in december of 1991. u.s. relations with iran remain polarized. >> i will be your senator in the united states senate. >> narrator: oliver north made an unsuccessful bid for a u.s. senate seat in virginia in 1994. he remains on the public stage as an author and media pundit and he's the new president of the national rifle association. and the questions raised by the iran-contra affair about transparency, honesty and accountability to congress and to the public are as vital and relevant as ever. >> whether it is the reagan administration or any administration in the future, what's actually going on? they're telling us these are their goals, their principles, their values, about what are they really doing? >> the president of the united states does not have the right legally, morally or otherwise, to violate the law. as nixon claimed that he did, president

and also authored a book on john f. kennedy and also co-authored a book on george h.w. bush. and catherine al gore is a noted american his or the yarn, and dr. algore wrote a book about our first ladies and most notably dolly madison. please enjoy this view of different incorporations of perspectives and thenarratives presidential history. thank you so much. >> thank you to the kind introduction and stewart and the team for including all of us here. this has been a terrific day already and it is tough to the follow jon meacham and judy wood are rough, bwoo woodruff, but everyone has run important historical institution, and so i want to get into that, because all good research starts with questions, but also framing museums, framing presentations, and also starts with questions. so i am curious what questions animates your work, and how do you think about the hard challenges of including voice, and who to include, and how to include them in that mix of what are the questions that keep you up at night? >> that makes it sound terribly worried about it. and what keeps me up at n

the text is relatively recent, born after john f. kennedyd thought up by members of his administration, including his brother bobby to shuddered to think what might have happened had the president been only incapacitated in dallas. as recently as 1965, this nation had no real plan for what to do if a president couldn't discharge his duties. the issue came back in 1841 when william henry harrison died a month after taking office. no one knew what to call vice president john tyler. critics called him your accidenticy. four years later james garfield was schott and lingered incapacitated. afraid of causing a constitutional crisis, vice president chester a. arthur with great side burns avoided doing anything presidential and the government ground to a halt. in 1919, president woodrow wilson had a stroke and his second wife edith essentially ran the country for 18 months. by that point, the 25th amendment was long overdue but it took the kennedy assassination to get it written, and it didn't get used by a president for another two decades when pr

liberalism as a policy and ideology has been prominent in liberal democrat administrations such as john f. kennedyndon johnson, bill clinton, and barack obama. this american liberalism promotes a mixed regime, what they consider a mixture of private and public. a mixed regime, a balanced regime. the idea is mixing the private free market economy, free-market capitalism, private business and so on, with the public being a large federal government role for managing that economy and promoting social justice through various social programs. so it is a mixture of private and public, free-market capitalism, private property exchange, competition and so on. and a large central government regulating that, for the public good. since the 1960's, both political parties, democrat and republican, have endorsed this mixed view of american politics. a mixture of public and private. neither a pure -- except for smaller groups on the political spectrum such as libertarians on the free market side that want almost no government and socialist and communist on the far left who want total government control. except fo

why what we heard today it were speeches that franklin roosevelt and that abraham lincoln and john f kennedy ronald regan could have identified with and that was john mccain's gift to us. because he didn't want people untears from how he selected the eulogies. he wanted to reaffirm those values that inspired his life. and he chose two men who could do so powerfully. george w. bush and barack obama and they did today. >> i want to say amen, brother. i feel like you just took me to church, tim. but it was so powerful to watch the service because it was just one of those moments. i mean really the service in itself was a moment i felt like in this country. but it was so striking the mesening in contrast to what we've seen in our political dialogue and just society right now, the divisiveness we have. of course president trump was not there. how unusual, how unprecedented is it for the sitting president not to be invited to the funeral of a member of his own party? >> well, i think i want to dwell today on the unprecedented nature of two presidents from different parties kwraoeulogyiz same man.

it may be true, it may be apock rafal, but richard nixon attended the inaugural of john f. kennedy who beat him for the presidency in the election of 1960. and as he was walking out, he runs into ted sorensen, one of kennedy's speechwriters and nixon says, i wish i had said some of the things. you mean the part where he said ask not what you can do for your country? and nixon said, no, i solemnly swear. every man who takes the office wants to put his stamp on the presidency. his unique stamp. the institutions that bear their names after they leave office also have their own -- because they're all unique institutions and the families too are unique in the stamp that they want to make on it. i think it's best when we're not heavy handed. when we let people tell the story as it was. and generally speaking, that reflects well on the principle. >> any comments on this, on the constituencies? >> i'm just going to speak as a constituency of one. as an individual who grew up in louisville, kentucky, and was taken at age 5 to the birth place of abraham lincoln. as i sat last night listening

here we have a publication by john f. kennedy, titled a nation of immigrants. many people believe it was ghost authored by oscar hamlin, pressing for the idea of the united states as a country that can welcome and include and integrate a multitude of immigrant populations. really pressing for immigration reform. however, there is staunch opposition. it is increasingly minority opposition, but because of the way the committee structure in congress works, it took a tremendous upswell for it to pass. 1965, we see lbj signing the new immigration act. he is right under the statue of liberty. he is surrounded, you can see a couple of the kennedy brothers. this is lady bird johnson. and this is in the wake of the assassination of president kennedy. immigration reform was a cause that kennedy had championed during his career as a senator, and when he became president. but it took lbj with his sexy in -- with his savvy in congress, and the upswell of civil rights pressures to get the legislation through. these are the terms of the 1965 immigration act. as we go through

the republicans decided that they were going to turn reagan into, essentially, what john f. kennedyocrats. >> the contra war ended in 1990 and today, the sandinistas rule nicaragua. the last of the original seven american hostages was released in december of 1991. u.s. relations with iran remain polarized. >> i will be your senator in the united states senate. >> oliver north made an unsuccessful bid for a u.s. senate seat in virginia in 1994. he remains on the public stage as an author and a media pundit and he's the new president of the national rifle association. and the questions raised by the iran contra affair about transparency, honesty, and accountability to congress and to the public are as vital and relevant as ever. >> whether it's the reagan administration or any administration in the future, what's actually going on? they're telling us these are their goals, their principles, their values, but what are they really doing? >> the president of the united states does not have the right legally, morally, or otherwise, to violate the law. president nixon claimed that he did.

gone from democratic party where franklin roosevelt campaignod forgotten man and john f. kennedy, ask what you can do for your country, and shrug your shoulder and violence and maxine waters, it is pathetic, pathetic. it has got to stop or somebody is going to get hurt and steve scalise was already hurt. >> can i say, this is not anything republican and democrat. we have to remember what happened to gabby giffords, as well. people are extreme. >> laura: talking about jared, i can't remember his name. wofener. it was initially reported that he was a conservative talk radio listener. false. he was not. this was not -- i believe correct me if i'm wrong, not politically motivated, he was a nut job. violence, period. condemn it, obviously, that was not related to political resistance. we're talking about weaponizing political resistance, jeffrey, last word. >> yeah, this has got to stop. the thing that i am concerned about is precisely because president trump is a businessman with properties all over the country and the world, they're easy targets. i think we've got to reign this stuf

cruz who later hear trump accuse father of accomplice city in assassination of john f. kennedy then trump insulted cruz's wife and told fox news i like donald trump. i think he's terrific. i think he's pressure. i think he speaks the truth. ted even lost support of his long time sugar daddy robert merse and nodded politely through it all in 30 years never seen engage in great or self-humiliation. many of the republican candidates have again out of their way to take a two by four to donald trump i think it's a mistake cruz told of polito now look ted is a bright guy. there's no question much, much smarter than average bear. however, like quite a few smart people cruz has a massive spot when it comes to playground bullies obtained for entirety of his life. trump saw him from the jump as a mark. the tragedy of ted cruz sounds like a play, the bargain cruise made in efforts to win over trump voters reduced him from rock star to something can do, tolerated occasionally praised but mostly kept out of sight unless he soiled carpets. ever ambitious taken with cleverness cruz clings to

republicans decided they were going to turn him into essentially what john f. kennedyoday, the they rule anything r nicaragua. the last of the hostages was released in december of 1991. u.s. relations with iran remain polarized. >> i will be your senator. in the united states senate. >> oliver north made an unsuccessful bid for a u.s. senate seat in virginia in 1994. he remains an author and media pun dant. and the new president of the national rifle association. >> and the questions raised by the iran contra affair, about transparency, honest and accountability to congress and the public. are as vital and relevant as ever. >> whether it's the reagan administration or any administration. what's actually going on. what are they really doing? >> the president of the united states does not have the right, legally morally or otherwise to violate the law. nixon claimed he did. president reagan's defenders argued that he did. but in fact neither of them did. and never has any president had that power. >>> leaks. secret tapes. special prosecutors and presidential paranoia. wh

john f. kennedy's assassination, there was concerns about it. 25th amendment in 1967 and in this case, this is stunning, it tells you how upset rod rosenstein was and worried in may of 2017 that donald trump was unfit for command that the firing of comey was tied to the russians, that the president was perhaps divulging classified information to russia. and so he was starting a grassroots movement according to the "times" in the justice department to remove him from office and his first people he was trying to get on board to do this were attorney general jeff sessions and homeland security chief john kelly and move to rex tillerson and others, eventually vice president pence would have to agree that donald trump wasn't suitable for the white house. >> we should point out here that rod rosenstein in a statement has called this report inaccurate and factually incorrect. he says he does not see any basis to invoke the 25th amendment based on his personal dealings with the president. here is the other thing, though, there can be chaos in the white