chairman, white house historical association board of directors and deborah rutter, president of the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts. [ applause ] >> good evening, everyone. on behalf of the white house history cal summit, 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, librari

it would have thrown a cloud over the election of john f. kennedy. st election of the century with the highest turnout on record. kennedy wins with a slim majority of just 120,000 votes, to become the youngest president elected in american history. without the votes of millions of african-americans, kennedy would have lost the presidency. ♪ >> and so, my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> it must have been a bitter moment for nixon. he'd had eight years as vice president. he had really thought that he would be sworn in that day. >> but kennedy was better at dirty tricks than nixon and nixon knew it. and it planted a seed with nixon that he never forgot. >> and that was the origin of watergate. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >>> you've done good for a hick woodsman from the frontier. but you know something lies rotten at the heart of your country, and you're the one to save it. but how does a clean-shaven prairie lawyer stay as honest abe when you know you'll have to play dirty

it brings tears to your eyes seeing john f. kennedy finally calling for the enactment of a civil rights bill. it was slow in coming and it was at robert kennedy's insistence that john kennedy made the speech. that was part of robert kennedy's power. that's why arguably robert kennedy was a more important figure in the history of civil rights than john kennedy was. i went to the memorial service for robert kennedy on the 50th anniversary, the family held a ceremony at arlington. i don't think there's another figure in american history in the last several decades who could have attracted a crowd like that. 5,000 people commemorating him. in that sense robert kennedy has emerged as a more important figure than his older brother. >> host: talk about sir ptitious meetings they had, i believe they had one meeting especially where robert kennedy had asked martin luther king, jr. to bring other members of the civil rights movement luminary to speak to them, and he was shocked at how they spoke to him. >> david: that's a interesting story. king

it is that reason that this building became the living memorial to john f. kennedy. when congress asked mrs. kennedy what shall we do to recognize her husband? she asked the national cultural center in his name and in fact inspired the contributions that made it possible for us to build this building that we are now in today. the kennedy center has really three elements to its mission. obviously, world-class arts, but also powerful education and programs that reach across the country. and were really well known in almost all 50 states and puerto rico and dc for our education programs. it's 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 celebrate his centennial last year and really focused all of our work in that year around attributes that we describe to president k

often we think of john f. kennedy or ronald reagan as ushering in the television presidency, but in fact, it was dwight eisenhower. ike harnessed the power of television to win the presidency and to put forth his vision of america and the world. this is what we are going to look at today. dwight eisenhower brought several important developments to the modern american presidency through his leadership style and his organizational approach. in doing this, he built on a lot of the transformations that we've already looked at this semester. for example, franklin roosevelt launched the executive office of the presidency, and last week, we looked at how harry truman expanded it with the national security state. dwight eisenhower, however, formalized it. he ran his office very much like he did the military. the bureaucracy became a very entrenched and well-focused and executed component of the american presidency under eisenhower. for example, he had weekly cabinet meetings, and he formed the office of congressional liaison

this was done of john f. kennedy shortly before he died. you will see it's a really colorful and what we would call expressionistic. that's because it was part of a movement called abstract expressionism that includes lake krasner and even her husband. the thing was she can never quite give up the human figure. she loved to show people and she was commissioned to do this portrait by the truman library in kansas city because they have a tradition to make a portrait of the sitting president. she was invited to palm beach florida, which was the winter white house during the dministration. the first day, he had a t-shirt on. sort of a polo. short sleeves. mr. president, you can't come dressed like that, this is your official portrait. he says, that's your problem, not mine. you will notice there is a lot of color in it. when asked about that, she said, everyone knows him from the television. back then it was black and white. but he had this golden aura around him. he had this life, and i wanted that to come out. you'll notice that he is perched

. >> now we have another picture of a president done of john f. kennedy shortly before he died. you see it's really colorful and what we would call expressionistic with a brush stroke. this is because of a movement called abstract expressionism including people like and lee krasner and even her husband, dylan de kooning. the thing was she could never quite give up the human figure. she loved to show people and was commissioned to do this portrait by the truman library in kansas city because they had a tradition of making a portrait of the sitting president. she was invited to palm beach florida which was the winter white house during the administration. the first day when he came out, he had a t-shirt on. mr. president, you can't come dressed like that, this is your official portrait. he said that your problem, not mine. now, you will notice, there's a lot of color and when asked about that she said, everyone knows him from the television. back then it was black and white but he had a golden aura around him, a light. i wanted that to come out. he also noticed i was perched at th

it is telling that john f. kennedy authority. all of that will be the story we look into on thursday. great job today. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] you can watch lectures in history every weekend on american history tv. we take you inside college classrooms to learn about topics ranging from the american revolution to 9/11. that is saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern on the c-span3. 50 years ago on december 21, 1968, apollo eight launch from cape kennedy in florida. to orbit man mission the moon. this weekend we hear from apollo eight astronaut frank borman who talks about his life, career, and the gemini and apollo space missions. here is a preview. when you got home and somebody sent you a telegram that said thank you for saving 1968, was it a telegram sent to you? did you know what they meant right away? >> 1968 was a rotten year, you know what i

>> nixon lost to john f. kennedy in 1960.wo years later citing poor health senator prescott bush chose not to run for rei hreele. in 1964 george bush ran for the senate. >> 40-year-old george bush, an outgoing young man who smiles easily and has been a vigorous campaigner. >> his campaign ads were reminiscent of his father's. >> george bush republican candidate for the united states senate. >> i certainly hope and i'll bet you do too that our children can grow up knowing what freedom really is. >> 18-year-old george w. bush, then a student at yale as his father had been, came home to help with the campaign, the beginning of his political education. his father was running as a conservative. >> i believe we must stop the on rush of big government. the united nations has been a disappointed failure. >> but the political landscape was transformed by the assassination of john f. kennedy. in 1964, lyndon johnson of texas won the white house in a landslide and raff landslide. >> i tried desperately to think of somebody i could blame

nixon lost to john f. kennedyn 1960, two years later, citing poor health, senator prescott bush chose not to run for re-election. in 1964, george bush wanted in, and ran against george yarborough. >> george bush, the happy family man is now george bush republican candidate for the united states senate. >> i certainly hope and i'll bet you do too, that our children can grow up knowing what freedom really is. >> 18-year-old george w. bush, then a student at yale as his father had been, came home to help with the campaign, the beginning of his political education. his father was running as a conservative. >> i believe we must stop the onrush of big government. the united nations has been a disappointing failure. >> but the political land scape was transformed by the assassination of john f. kennedy. in 1964, lyndon johnson of texas won the white house in a landslide and ralph yarborough defeated george bush. >> i sat around for a few minutes trying desperately to think of someone i could blame for this. i regretfully

>> nixon lost to john f. kennedy in 1960.ears later citing poor health senator prescott bush chose not to run for reelection. with his father out of politics, george bush wanted in, and in 1964 george bush ran for the senate. >> 40-year-old george bush, an outgoing young man who smiles easily and has been a vigorous campaigner. >> his campaign ads were reminiscent of his father's. >> george bush republican candidate for the united states senate. >> i certainly hope and i'll bet you do too that our children can grow up knowing what freedom really is. >> 18-year-old george w. bush, then a student at yale as his father had been, came home to help with the campaign, the beginning of his political education. his father was running as a conservative. >> i believe we must stop the on rush of big government. the united nations has been a disappointed failure. >> but the political landscape was transformed by the assassination of john f. kennedy. in 1964, lyndon johnson of texas won the white house in a landslide. >> before coming in

nixon lost to john f. kennedyn 1960, two years later, citing poor health, senator prescott bush chose not to run for re-election. in 1964, george bush wanted in, and ran against georgia ae yarborough. >> george bush, the happy family man is now george bush republican candidate for the united states senate. >> i certainly hope and i'll bet you do too, that our children can grow up knowing what freedom really is. >> 18-year-old george w. bush, then a student at yale as his father had been, came home to help with the campaign, the beginning of his political education. his father was running as a conservative. >> i believe we must stop the onrush of big government. the united nations has been a disappointing failure. >> but the political land scape was transformed by the assassination of john f. kennedy. in 1964, lyndon johnson of texas won the white house in a landslide and ralph yarborough defeated george bush. >> i sat around for a few minutes trying desperately to think of someone i could blame for this. i regretf

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vivos era la carga legal que un sujeto de guyana tratÓ de introducir al paÍs por el aeropuerto john f kennedy la vigilancia del departamento de agricultura, pobres pajaritos. hoy es jueves de inmigraciÓn y nos acompaÑa nuestra abogada alma rosa nieto, muy buenas tardes, abogada. >> muy buenas tardes, felicidad. >> tenemos varias preguntas que nos surgen por lo que va sucediendo ya sabes, en el paÍs. la primer pregunta que tenemos es ¿ quÉ le puedes decir a quienes planean viajar durante las fiestas y tienen miedo de no poder reingresar a estados unidos aÚn siendo residentes legales?. >> excelente pregunta, la fiebre y el temor estÁ al maximo con todo lo que se escucha de la regulaciÓn del cambio de carga pÚblica y expandir la definiciÓn que aÚn no es expando ida, serÁ el prÓximo aÑo. muchos temen en viajar, gente me ha llamado y dicen tengo el boleto y pienso cancelar por els hijos no les va residencia ni serÁ problema para reingresar asÍ que disfruten sus vacaciones tranquilamente, no habrÁ problema. ahora si esa misma persona ha tenido algÚn delito en el pasado, aunque haya entrado previame

as well as space, which john f. kennedy initiated. lyndon johnson and his person of the year cover. he had a bad year in 1967. in 1964, he was man of the year, but that was for a good thing. things were going well in vietnam. things were not going well in the country. there were peace demonstrations and war demonstrations all over. time shows lyndon johnson as the person of the year for not having a good year. his problem was vietnam. n antiwar poster, bring the troops home now. this became a slogan. these protesters would use throughout, wherever they were. bring the troops home now. we went from january to march. the massacre which involved lieutenant william. this is the cover here. timell see a number of covers in this exhibition. there might be as many as 10. this is a cover that actually appeared a year later at the time of his trial. he would be convicted of a number of murders. he would be pardoned in 1974 by richard nixon. the image of the lieutenant. the middle, this is a fascinating photograph. this is a photograph of president lyndon johnson and first lady, lady bird joh

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. this is 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome fred ryan, chairman, white house historical association board of directors and deborah rutter, president of the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts. [ applause ] >> good evening, everyone. on

he had all the sex appeal of a dried prune compared to john f. kennedy. and the kennedy people knew it and they used it both for kennedy and against him. for years and indeed i think decade after kennedy's tragic death, kennedy's admirers continued to demean eisenhower in order to heighten the beauty and glory of the kennedy era. arthur schlesinger jr., in this 1965 book, thousand days screened the nation's capitol as so many ulent in the eisenhower you're buts under kennedy, fresh winds were blowing. the kennedy presidency began with incomparable dash, one of his favorite worths, dash, everyone is dashing in the kennedy years. all these young, idealistic liberals poured into the capitol to lawn the new frontier, like the new dealers the quarter center earlier they brought with them the ideas of national reconstruction and reform which had been germinating under the surface of a decade of inaction. basically, the eisenhower years was gigantic eight year national nap, between two eras of deck -- a wakeful --ic act take. s? trying the eisenhower years by the

. >> tonight, former cia historian and professor on john f. kennedy's administration. here is a preview. on april 15, 1960 1, 2 truax days before the invasion, the first wave of air attacks damaged many cuban planes on the ground but failed to destroy them all. the attacks alerted the cubans that it was coming and got the attention of the united nations were the u.n. ambassador found u.s.lf to be lying about noninvolvement in this operation. kennedy had ordered this to be smaller than -- and canceled the second airstrike. the cia was afraid to recommend that the invasion be canceled, even though everyone knew that without command of the air, the invasion was doomed. they were afraid to give that kind of bad news. it, it isnk about uncharacteristic. a case that they call falling in love with their operation. they were not willing to end it at that point. >> learn more about national intelligence tonight. you are watching american history tv where we bring the classroom to you. next, historian j winnick and doris kearns goodwin this quest the quality of care that they be

he has co-authored several book, most notably for our purposes today, john f. kennedy, the great crisis, and in 2007, a book on george h.w. bush. and catherine allgor, president of the massachusetts historical society. dr. allgor is a noted american historian and specializes on biographies of american first ladies, most notably dolly madison. please enjoy this presentation on how different organizations, institutions, and individuals, are being changed and incorporating different perspectives and moments into the narrative of presidential history. thank you so much. >> thank you, gail. >> thank you. >> thank you for the kind introduction and the whole team, for including me, and including all of us here. this has been a terrific few days already. and a lot of great programming ahead. it is hard to follow jon meacham and judy woodru if. ff here and i think we have a great team here and every one on this panel has been a scholar and everyone has run important historic institution, and i want to get at that in the conversation, so i am going to start, all good research st

john f. kennedy was a young man when he became president.wn side to not having have much experience. you look at this new cross of democrats. there is a lot of people that seem a tad bit green. i don't mean environmentally green. they haven't even had real jobs yet. that's a little concerning. the problem facing america are large. america is the most of important and dominant power on the face of the globe. young versus older, fresh versus someone you have been dealing with for years. but there is a so bright that comes in when americans saw 8 years of obama. even though they graded him on a curve in polls, they didn't like his policies too much. >> he got elected twice over 8 years. and he's one of the most of popular presidents we had in a long time. he had older and younger diverse base that elected him to the white house. blake: you mentioned x had a long time -- we had a long time to talk about it. stay right there, we appreciate it. we'll talk to you in a bit. paris in shambles after a weekend of violent protests. but first, president

socialism, these forces are related that decade, taking advantage and with the assassination of john f. kennedys in trauma. at the end in 1968 we had the death of bobby kennedy and martin luther king. great people that we cared a great deal for so, in that time there were people, the vietnam war erupted in that time and there were many folks again thought war that were charismatic people, people from our industry, and as i was auditioning to get into this industry in working hard to become an actor i fell in with that group of people and i was swept away with the propaganda. one of the pieces of propaganda that i bought at that time, and when you are involved in propaganda emma have to say, there are no doors out of it in a certain sense because your friends are there and this and that you make associations and you pass these soundbites back and forth so i understand what's going on in hollywood today. i understand it. i was right there, and those people are focused on their work too. they're just trying to get a job so it's convenient for them to be politically aligned. i was one of those guys

michael badden, a world renowned forensic pathologist who investigated the deaths of john f. kennedyd testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> dr. michael baden has reviewed the evidence and has determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008 detectives paid one more visit to stephen scharf. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. i mean, it didn't make sense. >> 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff police were back and stephen scharf was in for a shock. >> after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind and hand me this thing, this arrest warrant. >> coming up -- the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm here for my mother. >> stephen and jody scharf's only son has some dark secrets to share. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> when "over the edge" continues. ver the edge" continues. >>> hello. i'm dara brown. here's what's happening. president trump is spending christmas in washington duri

michael baden, a world renowned forensic pathologist who investigated the deaths of john f. kennedynd john belushi and testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> dr. michael baden has reviewed the evidence and has determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008 detectives paid one more visit to stephen scharf. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. i mean, it didn't make sense. >> 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff police were back and stephen scharf was in for a shock. >> after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind and hand me this thing, this arrest warrant. >> coming up -- the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm here for my mother. >> stephen and jody scharf's only son has some dark secrets to share. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, you never know how your skin will look. and it can feel like no matter what you do, you're always itching. but ev

small plane piloted by ted's nephew john f. kennedyior crashed in the atlantic union. 8 miles of martha's vineyard coast and nearly 30 years to the day after the accident at chappaquiddick in the media about more talk of the kennedy curse. as he had countless times before senator again pushed past. >> i continue to be commenced this is the wrong war at the wrong time. >> is democrats taught sought to take back the white house he endorsed senator ted kennedy had a powerful impact on the democratic candidates in 2004 and 2008 and may 2008 his declining health up to him. kennedy suffered a seizure. >> senator ted kennedy remains in the hospital and the 76 -year-old is undergoing test following a seizure over the weekend. >> they later discovered a brain tumor. many consider that an insurmountable obstacle but he did not. on july 2008 he made the triumphant return to the senate. >> powerful moment came in 2008 in denver when championing the goal he worked so hard for. universal healthcare. >> this is the cause of my life. new hope. we will

intelligence under each presidential administration and now we have come to the presidency of john f. kennedy, january, 1961 to november, 1963. kennedy was a former naval of his or her. he thought he knew something about intelligence. he was also a big fan of the james bond novels. i have pictured him with his brother robert kennedy, because the brothers together had great influence on u.s. intelligence. there's a lot to say about u.s. intelligence under kennedy. he served less than a full term because he was assassinated of course, by a pro-cuban american leftist, a disturbed former marine named lee harvey oswald. at the end, i will have some reflections about the assassination. i want to mention a couple other developments that are not as spectacular, but they deserve to be remembered. they are important milestones in u.s. intelligence history and they leave a legacy to this day. one of them is the president's daily brief, which was created for kennedy as the intelligence checklist. when i first came to the cia in 1990, i learned one of the nicknames insiders used was the pickle factory. th

american intelligence under each presidential administration and now we come to be presidency of john f. kennedy. january 1961 to november 1963. kennedy was a former naval officer, he was also a big fan of the big -- of the james bond novels. i have pictured in the air

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told students on the bus to stay seated -- until they were medically cleared.lopez was rushed to john f kennedyl -- where she later died."the school offered us counseling, anyone who was on the bus, if we had a hard time and we needed to speak, for us to go to the office, talk to our counselors, talk to any counselors, if we felt stiff or anything hurt for us to go tell the nurse they just told everyone to be there for each each others time." (justine) construction in the north bay after the 2017 fires.. as been a long and slow process. but one project is going full speed ahead. one veteran i met yesterday is working overtime to make sure homeless war heroes ... get a new place to call home for the holidays. (justine) (justine) back here in the east bay... the first ever seasonal outdoor ice rink opened in downtown oakland yesterday.... this is video of the ice rink being constructed. a celebration was held last night to mark the opening... organizers are hoping to make this an annual tradition. the rink will be open everyday from 10 a-m to 10 p-m until january 6th. here we go... -a major re-ma

we had seven presidents in a row starting with john f. kennedy coming through george bush sr.single one of those presidents wore a military uniform. six of them were in the war. jimmy carter was in the naval academy when the war ended and went on to serve honorably. when george bush sr. had his inaugural parade, there was a replica of that avenger aircraft that he was in that was in that parade and that was quite purposeful on his part. >> i want to quickly go back to dana and jamie. they have a guest. >> thank you. we do have a very special guest. we have ronan tinen here, you heard his beautiful voice not once but twice during this memorial service. thank you for sitting down with us. >> it's lovely to be here. a sad occasion, but it's not to be here. >> we want to hear about what brought you to this moment behind us, but first, you were with the late president singing to him on his final day. can you describe that? >> well, the president and i had been friends for 19 years. it all came about through barbara, because she ran the literacy program and i had written a book and

michael bodden, a world renowned forensic pathologist who investigated the deaths of john f. kennedylushi 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. shaquem get in here. take your razor, yup. alright, up and down, never side to side, shaquem. you got it? come on, get back. quem, you a second behind your brother, stay focused.

not least the democrats started being drawn to the magnetic appeal of john f. kennedyhe young senator from massachusetts, who'd announced to the eisenhower administration for a resolve for the military weakening of america, for enabling the world to be half slave and half free. and kennedy ran for office on what harold macmillan, british prime minister who succeeded eden, called the churchill ticket. kennedy was explicit about the five star general in the white house being militarily incompetent and allowing the united states to lie open to stalinist soviet type power. indeed he was elected in 1960, and in those iconic thousand days of his administration, i chart this as so much changing and so much going awry.not only was the u.s. now after sputnik going forth into the world getting little attention to allies, but with the kennedy administration entirely new heated environment came to the floor. the type we live with to this day, the chronic emergencies, the crises, though windmilling military buildups everything from icbms to special forces. the arrival of professors

michael was the last launch director for the space shuttle program at nasa's john f kennedy space center and responsible for overall shuttle launch countdown activities until the end of the program in 2011. in november 2004 awarded the prestigious award. jonathan h. ward works to bring the thrill of space program to life for general public as solar system ambassador and as a frequent speaker on space exploration topics to interest groups and at regional conferences, previous two books are, rocket launch, the nuts and bolts of the apllo moon program at kennedy space center and countdown to moon launch, preparing apollo for historic journey. please help me in welcoming michael lineback and jonathan ward. >> thank you very much. let's see, i think i will stand up here and jonathan, you can join me or stay -- >> i will hang out here. >> you'll hang out there. >> okay. >> welcome, everybody, good to see some old friends. i haven't been back up to northern virginia for a while. it's always good to get back to my roots. we will talk about colombia and the accident that we dhash -- the accident

the way john f. kennedy was. trump is shackled.pened in july, trump went to helsinki for a perfectly ritualistic normal summit meeting with putin and he comes home and he's accused of treason. >> tucker: i was there. can i ask you, we only have a minute left but i'm so interested in this question. i don't know the answer. what was the motive? there are political motivesst obviously but there is part of our foreign policy establishmenc believes that we ought to be in some sort of adversarial posture against russia. why? >> i don't know.w. when you don't know, you have to say it. but here's a theory, kind of that some people might offer you if asked that question.s when the soviet union ended in 1991, the washington elites who controlled the foreign policy saw a world dominated or governed by or run by the united states. and that seemed to be a reality in the 1990s when russia had a president who was ill, often drunk, and very compliant to washington. and we got used to that. russia is kind of a junior subservient partner. and then c

richard nixon attended the 1961 inaugural of john f. kennedy who beat him for the presidency in the election in 1960. and as he was walking out, he runs into ted sorenson, one of kennedy's speechwriters. and nixon says to sorenson, i wish i said some of those things. and sorenson said, you mean the part where he said ask not what can you do for your country? and nixon said, no, the part where he said i do solomnly swear the point about that story is every man who takes the office wants to put his stamp on the presidency, his unique stamp. and the institution that's bear their names after they leave office also have their own -- they're unique institutions. the families too unique in the stamp that they want to make. 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. >> barbara or jeff? any comments on this, on constituencies? >> i'm just going to speak as a constituency of one as an individual. i was taken to the birthplace of abraham lincoln.

>> nixon lost to john f kennedy in 1960. two years later, citing core health, senator prescott bush decided not to run for re-election. with his father out of politic, george bush wanted in. in 1964, he ran for the senate, taking on texas democrat ralph yarborough. >> yarborough's republican opponent is 40-year-old george bush. an outgoing young man who smiles easily and has been a vigorous campaigner. >> bush's ads were reminiscent of his father. >> george bush is now george bush republican candidate for the united states senate. >> i certainly hope and i'll bet you do, too, that our children can grow up knowing what freedom really is. >> reporter: 18-year-old george w. bush then a student at yale as his father had been came home to help with the campaign. the beginning of his political education. his a water u father was running as a conservative. >> the united nations has been a political failure. >> reporter: the political landscape was transformed by the assassination of john f. kennedy. in 1964, lyndon johnson won in a

. >> it's a good point because you bring up going back many presidents before him, john f. kennedy, folks. they complained about press coverage, didn't get asked the questions that they wanted. but what was different? because you said that even in those difficult moments, like the interview, the final interview you had with him as president, a sense of goodwill remained. >> always a sense of goodwill. he came into that interview. we shook hands. he smiled. he was cheerful. when he left he wasn't so cheer ful but he still shook hands and he respected our respective roles. and he knew that he was going to be pounded. he talked about this. he wrote about it. and he basically said if you can't take that, that's part of the job, you've got to, you know, do something else. but i think, jim, what really drove george herbert walker bush -- forget the press. forget the criticism and everything else, was his sense of service. you mentioned at the outset of this. navy pilot, u.n. ambassador, cia director, ambassador overseas. he had this sense to country, which he passed on to his sons. i rem

. >> as john f. kennedy said don't ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. the bushes lived that through. the trump family is all about how much money can we make off of their businesses. that is the biggest problem we are facing right now with donald trump and that's why he should not be in office. >> this is an issue and there are a lot of people that say it's a lot happening. these are men who had faults as well. you are comparing him to president trump to ignore a lot of that because of what he is is describing. his approach to public service, his approach to the job that he did. >> there is a conversation he had about character and who they were and that's conversation to be had about what they did. those things overlap of course. i'm never going to forgive the fact that he gave us thomas. we could go on and on and on but i totally agree that we are at a moment in time where this opportunity to reflect on what our democracy means, what it looks like, what is showing up

open on , note of hopeful optimism inspired in part by the election of a youthful president, john f. kennedy. early 1960's, eleanor was well into her 70's but still maintaining a hectic schedule. thewas still writing column, but on a reduced basis. three columns of week instead of six. and she was still traveling extensively and had added teaching and a monthly public affairs television program to her schedule. at president kennedy's request, she had also become the chair of the president's commission on the status of women. she continued to be active in the civil rights and labor movements and the democratic party. she was still writing her column. by this point, she had been a public figure for almost 40 years. she had seen it all and done most of it. she was used to being in the public eye. there were a few questions that taser. r. fazed he "does it's ever bother you that her age, a woman traditional secret, is known to all the world?" "no, my age has been known for so long it does not bother me at all." how do you explain the fact that you have grown much better looking as you have grown

how did we get from john f. kennedy to safely putting a man at the end of the decade to the apollo 8 mission in december 1968 to neil armstrong in 1969? >> that's a very good question because when the president made that promise it did not seem like an ambitious promise. it seemed like an insane promise especially for the higher-ups at nasa. no one had any idea how to do such a thing and did not have the infrastructure or technology to do that. nobody had any idea how they were going to pull it off but kennedy made that promise not just for publicity reasons or political reasons. we are losing the space race badly against the soviet union and the president needed something so spectacular and important and profound that it would overtake the soviets and when the space race. we need a real time to do it because we were so far behind and the idea of landing a man on the room-- on the moon and bring him some safely seemed like the perfect combination. let me follow up on that point, why were we behind? what were they doing

. >> john f. kennedyr. >> you know it's good when even the promos are funny. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> nor dlly youon't want to see mistakes. that's the point here. lots of laugh, scott cody and peyton krem are part of the fun and join us in the studio. >> thanks for having us. >> this is a play about a ay. >> correct. it's basically about a troupe of actors from the cornually university drama society. it's opening night of their perfornce of the murder history, the murder at haversham manor. >>n avalanche of disaster. >> peyton, talking about things that go w nightly, this is set in the 1920s. >> it's setre in thent play. the play is in the 1920ys. >> the p they're staging is in the '20s. >> yes. >> is it entirely scripted or are they improvising at times? >> they allow us a few moments to taylor i to the cities we're in. really the whole thing is nightly scripted. >> when you veer off script, do thead other actors know af time or are you reacting on the fly? >> i think it's a little bit o both. certain things will la

she was told with the fact doesn't seem masculine enough as a john f. kennedy so without going down the road to psycho analyze nixon, someone that comes up over and over again in the tapes i that is a crude sene of masculinity and he leads his administration was defined by the 20 masculine and a key part of the disloyalty. it is a key component of what it takes to be a man. personal loyalty. so this is where he does have an important connection where as you said donald trump is describing someone that is relatively loyal to the administration and jeff sessions i don't think we've described as kind of a resistor of the trump presidency but because he recused himself in the investigation, that is enough and it shows the ideology doesn't really matter what matters is loyalty, so what i try to show is that these figures clash with that very basic understanding of loyalty and masculinity. >> what is your judgment of the documentary of watergate? i apologize i haven't had time to watch. i've seen the trailers. i thought it was pretty good but you know more about it t