, lo conoció al comenzar una pasantía, dice que en ese mismo día, ex presidente john f. kennedy relaciones que antes. >>> tenemos casos como el ex presidente clinton, como el gobernador de carolina del sur, que han tenido sus affaires y amoríos que no han podido esconder. >>> mimi dijo que

now santorum is criticizing john f. kennedy who in 1960 said this. >> i believe in an america where the separation of church and state is absolute. where no catholic zealot would tell the president should he be catholic how to act. and no protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote. where no church or church school can granted any public funds or political preference. and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him. >> that makes me throw up. and it should make every american seeing from a president someone who is now trying to tell people of faith that you will do what the government says. we are going to impose our values on you. not that you can't come to the public square and argue against it but now we're going to turn around and say we're going to impose our values from the government on people of faith, which, of course, is the next logical step when people of faith, at least according to john kenn

. >> john f. kennedysee ourselves reflected in them, and i don't think that's going to change. >> he broke his life up into separate pieces, separate compartments, they were very sealed from another. he had a frightening strength of being able to read everyone's emotions but not have them affect them. he did what he wanted to do regardless of others feelings. >> we expect our husbands, our friends to have certain kinds of fidelity towards us, we expect our leaders to give us good leadership, and that's a different thing. >> i believe we should go to the moon. >> you can feel a sense of disappointment, but it doesn't mean that you're judging them completely differently as a result of finding out something like this. >> i certainly never saw a single instance where his private life or his health affected national policy. and his health was a much more hidden secret than the womanizing was. >> there's a cuban missile crisis, the decisiveness which he dealt with that, the beginning move towards the desegregat

john f. kennedy. her secret was first revealed in 2003 when historian robert dallek wrote in his biography of jfk that a tall, slender, beautiful white house intern was rumored to be among the president's many paramours. it prompt the inevitable comparisons to bill clinton's scandalous relationship with white house intern mon kalu win ski but in 2003 mimi wasn't offering details. she released a short statement and disappeared. >> when i saw this book, the first thing that thought was i don't even remember -- i don't remember this story. you had successfully sort of fallen off the face of the earth, so to speak. why did you decide to expose yourself all over again, mimi? why write this book now? >> it's not so much that i feel that i'm exposing myself. it's that i'm really unburdening myself. i think when you keep a secret and when you keep silent about something, you do it because you think it's keeping you safe. but, in fact, it's deadly. >> reporter: it all goes back to 1961 when "meet the press mi

as president john f. kennedye new frontier is not a set of promises. it is a set of challenges. and these astronauts not only accepted those challenges, they challenged future generations to explore new horizons, to apply our skills, our effort, our determination to any obstacles before us. when president kennedy announced his determination to chart a new course into space, all americans and those of you who -- many of you may not have been born then, but for many of us learned a new word, astronaut, sailors to the stars. a sailor to the stars. in the past age of discovery, the sailors were guided by the stars. and the new age of discovery, the new frontier, these astronauts reached for the stars. senator john glenn became the first american to orbit the earth. he paved the way for not more missions into space, but for an expanded commitment to science and technology. and he acted upon that commitment with his leadership and the united states senate where he brought honor to the congress and as he and the other r

we will fast forward and look at a spot by richard nixon and john kennedy. ay be the first one. >> this is the sills family, kennedy visited the sills. >> they are facing one of the great problems that all american families are now facing and that is the great increase in the cost of living. >> our rent has gone up, our food, our cleaning of our clothing, buying of the clothing, our gas and electric and our telephone bills have gone up. >> what has been your experience as far as keeping those two daughters of yours -- >> we would like them to go to college. >> have you been able to put much aside? >> unfortunately not right now. >> one of the things that i think has increased the cost of living has been this administration reliance on a high interest rate policy. my own judgment is that we have to try to do a better job in the fields. >> yes, we can do better, but we must elect the man that cares about america's problems. >> next is a nixon spot from 1960. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, richard nixon. >> i want to talk to yo

kennedy was nice enough to actually shake hands with little children who were from a latin american country, because that was so unusual at the time. one thing both john and jacqueline kennedy i think both felt is what you are saying, ted, one test of american power is the number of missiles and nuclear weapons and so, but often times just as important is how people think about america in their hearts and that was what the peace corp was about. >> there's wonderful statements in the book -- >> one or two. >> -- thank goodness. i learned she named her poodle degall -- >> this was my foot note, she should not be held responsible for that. >> did those surprise snu >> when she said that she came to have, i think the same opinion of french people as she did of people in wisconsin. i think sort of for the same reasons, because wisconsin did not ultimately vote overwhelmingly for john kennedy and the french particularly charles degall was giving her husband a great deal of trouble. so i think you can see the things to some extent as a great test of loyalty. >> there's language in the middle of the account of the cuban missile crisis. she said no day and no

during their marriage since 1953, john kennedy had run for vice president, run for reelection of theenate, run for president, and so was gone, she says, almost every weekend, very much apart. the first time, now, they were there at that house, she worked in the oval office, they were together in physical proximity a lot more, so i think there was an exhilaration finding that, contrary to what she expected, there real those really were her happiest years. >> there was talk about wisconsin -- >> she really loved wisconsin, caroline said. >> i don't remember if these proceedings are being televised in wisconsin. >> she's extremely fond of wisconsin. everyone in wisconsin, just don't read that part. >> in fact, there is a word in your transcript i always wondered how to spell. in describing wisconsin in the winter, she said, ewwwwww. >> she actually said she didn't like a single person that she met in wisconsin except for the people that worked for jack, and in west virginia she liked almost everyone she met. >> that's right. but, dick, obviously she brought great charisma to the art of

people with the upbringing sounds like a lot of us with the picture of john f. kennedy in the house when we were kids, wondering, why do this now? why tell her story now? >> reporter: people need to realize she did not reveal her secret initially. she was outed by historian robert dalleck. who wrote about her in his biography of jfk that generated a firestorm. the press caught on to it. her name was revealed. that's when she issued a written statement and disappeared. in the years that followed, she saw her story being reduced to paragraphs in other people's books and decided she wanted to claim it as her own. also, she wanted to unburden herself of this secret that she had kept for so long because it was, in her estimation, really destroying her life and her relationships with men moving forward. for her this book was a catharsis. >> i'm glad you'll be with us tonight to talk more about this as questions arise. >> reporter: there will be a lot of them. >> there will be. thank you, meredith, for being with us. there will be much more tonight on "rock center" at 9:00/8:0

here is a telephone conversation you and i talked about it earlier today between rose kennedy, of course the mother of johnpresident lyndon johnson and lady bird his wife aboard air force one just hours after the shooting in dallas. let's listen to the brand new tape. >> president kennedy? >> yes, yes, mr. president. >> i wish to god there was something that i could do. i wanted to tell you that we were grieving with you. >> yes, well, thanks a million -- thank you very much. i know. i know you loved jack and he loved you. >> we feel that we've just had -- >> yes, all right. >> we are glad that the nation had your son. >> yes, yes. >> as long as it did. >> yes, well, thank you for that, lady bird. thank you very much. good-bye. >> love and prayers to all of you. >> thank you very much. >> you know, i don't know what to say, doug. it strikes me as a terse conversation. maybe it's all shock. not much heart there. it's strange. a strange conversation. >> it's very strange. and obviously there's no love lost between john f. kennedy and lyndon johnson, but i think rose kennedy was obviously in shock and had to

john galbreath was the ambassador of india which kennedy had known before. it was difficult to imply that walter in pakistan have an equal but somewhat relationship with the president, and she was implying that they think a lot of each other. and the ambassador said, that's funny. i met him only once when i took this job two weeks ago. so that didn't work too terribly well. not as a result of this, but having been in pakistan and watching him in action, she went right back home and wrote her husband a memo saying, this is exactly the kind of ambassador we should not have in a job like this, and it went to the state department, and ambassador mcconnaughey served until 1966. >> she didn't seem to get as involved in domestic politics. would you agree, dick? >> well, i don't know that she didn't get involved in domestic politics. because, for instance, the talk about the monuments from then, the s-1 dam flooding, i remember going to see the congressman from brooklyn who was in charge of appropriations. >> now, would he have been politically very eager to help eg

a young caroline kennedy can be heard in the background, as well as john kennedy jr. we just heard was president kennedy talking about his trip to texas and trying to schedule something for friday, the 29th, and saying instead he needed to do it on that tuesday which ended up being the day of his funeral. guest: that strike, this is the last batch of kennedy takes, and they go up to the last few days before his assassination. -- that is right. he is trying to schedule for the next week, trying to change his schedule to be more manageable. it did provide a very poignant view of the president and the presidency at this point in view of what we now know. at the time, it was monday and scheduling issues, but the point is we know what happened after that. host: we go now to charlie in west virginia. good morning to you. go ahead. caller: my question is, was there anything revealed in the tapes that have been reviewed by mr. coleman that would suggest that there indeed was the concern on the part of president kennedy of secrecy, secret societies in america? guest: i have see

here's how he described his reaction to john f. kennedy's 1960 speech about the role of religion in the public sphere. >> earlier in the campaign you talked about j.f.k.'s famous speech to the baptist ministers in houston back in 1960. here's what you had to say. >> i had the opportunity to read the speech and i almost threw up. you should read the speech. >> that speech has been read as you know by millions of americans. its themes were echoed in part by mitt romney in the last campaign. why did it make you throw up? >> because the first line... the first substantive line in the speech says i believe in an america where the separation of church and state is absolute. i don't believe in an america with a separation of church and state is absolute. the idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country. this is the first amendment. the first amendment says the free exercise of religion. that means bringing everybody, people of faith and

when oliver stone's movie came out in 1991, we had by 92 the john fnch f. kennedyssassinatn act where all available documentation came together but not this tape. and it turned out this tape was in the possession of the military aide of gen f john f. kennedy. the warren commission and the intelligence gathering mechanisms couldn't fi the tape but a dealer out of a book dealer an aquarium bookdealer out of philadelphia confined it. it's only going to open up a so-called case closed theory. and in this particular tape it raises some question about curtis lamay for example. one of the very significant as you know cold war figures who was angry about kennedy in cuba, thought we had really lost the showdown over the cuban missile crises because we cut a deal with the jupiter missiles in turkey. and lamay famesl wanted to use a nucleareapon if he had to win the cold war. here is on the tape lamay being injected for the first time in the drama and the hours after kennedy's death. >> charlie: let's set the record straight on a couple things. no one ever suggested lamay thr

. >> and that classic speech that john kennedy gave in 1960. catholic running for president trying to reassure voters he wouldn't take orders from the pope. he gave a speech in defense of the separation of church and state. santorum said the first time he heard that speech, it almost made him throw up. that's what i asked him about. >> well, absolutely, to say that people of faith have no role in the public square, you bet that makes you throw up. what kind of country do we live in that says only people of nonfaith can come in the public square and make their case? that makes me throw up. >> rick santorum did recalibrate a bit today. this is something he really believes. he gave speeches about this a couple of years ago, matters of conviction. secondly, some strategy here, diane. about almost half of the voters in the republican primary tomorrow are conservative evangelical christians who agree with him on this point. >> we'll see if the gamble is rid right. what about the other republicans watching this? >> some concern about these social issu

oil is now leaking from the cruise ship. >> new audio tapes reveal a devastating moments after john f. kennedy's assassination. lyndon b. johnson tries to control -- cancel the president's mother. take out [inaudible] >> the john f. kennedy presidential library is releasing 45 hours of secretly- recorded meetings and phone calls in the final months of his life. the last of more than two wondered 60 hours in meetings and conversations before his assassination in november, 1963. the nation's leading breast cancer charity is severing ties with planned parenthood, and that is striking outcry from abortion rights activists. they said they have adopted new guidelines that bar it from giving donations to organizations under congressional investigation. and because of that it will no longer give money to planned parenthood. a congressman is investigating planned parent to decide whether public money was improperly spent on abortions. >> a six-year-old girl got the ultimate wish come true. >> bailey was in the middle of her presentation about her favorite things when one of them walked right into the cla

. >> richard wolffe on the attack on education and joan walsh on ridiculous knock on john f. kennedy. >>> mitt romney's days of blunder continue. >> i have great friends that are nascar team owners. >> it's as tight as a tick in michigan. howard fineman and john nichols have the latest. >>> a brand new state has declared war on women's bodies and their law goes farther than virginia. the grio's joy-ann reid and terry o'neill are here. >>> in wisconsin, the biggest victory for the recall walker movement to dait te. >> it's nine million dollars of taxpayer money to run this. >> good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. rick santorum is trying to drive a wedge between wage earners and the president of the united states. santorum's new attack on the president is taylor made for the people in the rust belt states like michigan. here is his pitch to a tea party crowd. >> i know what manufacturing means to a community, i grew up in one. i understand what it means to have folks who are at the bottom of the economic ladder, folks who are struggling to pull the skills together to