john kennedy was so gracious. he said i have never signed a photograph. because i remember stanley well. he signed the photograph. he never went by john f. kennedy, jr. he always signed john kennedy. >> all right. i hung it in the room. and when stanley was dying in july of 1999, it was the same day that john kennedy, jr.'s wrote and i am sitting on the bedside with stanley, and the television is on mute and you know they just announced john kennedy has been declared dead. i looked up and saw that photograph and i thought, you know, i said, stanley, you can go now. your pictures are all over the world. a photographer is dying at the same time as his most famous subject. tom done would say, okay. >> the publisher at st. martin's press, a wonderful line of books including all of kitty kelly's books, all of pat buchanan's books and i must add all of mine. >> company. >> a wonderful conflict of interest. some of it maybe by elizabeth taylor must have been exciting. >> that's my least favorite book. >> is that right? hold that story. we have to take a quick br

john f. kennedy millions of other americans across the country, was glued to the television. >> am enshepard was an instant hero but the facts of life, the earth was circled a month before and alan want up-and-down in 16 minutes. john f. kennedy wanted to bet the soviets and sought advice from the top engineers, one was a famed rocket scientist. >> in alabama, president kennedy with missile expert begin as two day to you of the space centers. >> i read a letter from von brawn and he said, how can we beat the russians and the letter said, we can't beat them anywhere except to be the first on the moon. so, that is what we committed to. >> may 25, 1916, the president made a dramatic announce president before a joint session of congress. >> i believe this nation should commit to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> we did not go to collect rocks but to stick the flag in before the russians. >> if we did not have the cold war w

john f. kennedy in 1961, ask not what your country can do for you, as good you can do for your country. then the departure of the old presidents. here is george w. bush departing the scene on the back of the capitol four years ago flying off a helicopter looking back at the capitol. and as a luncheon. obama's luncheon for years ago. then the return to the white house after that. this is the first time that i first lady ever drove back to the white house with the president's. 1909. taft. we will see that again. the kennedys. the obama's what part of the distance. jimmy carter and rosalynn carter walked the entire distance of a mile and half in 1977 from the capitol back to the white house. the inaugural parade that will take place, reviewing stand is always set up in the white house. that is grover cleveland back in '85. there is the white house in the background. a classic inaugural parade picture. the capital in the background with bands marching. 1953, a famous old cowboy named monte mantegna lasso

what if john kennedy had never been president? thinking of all the thousands of books that never would have been written or may be different books written. i once interviewed caroline kennedy who edited a simple book career mother was writing mostly and tapes from the white house, caroline kennedy is famous for staying on message and talking about certain things but not other things, tend to get off message. have you ever thought about a kennedy bookstore. she would not say anything about it. it is possible to have an entire book store devoted to the kennedys, a serious history, arnold schwarzenegger's book could be there as well. he tells the story going back -- he and maria shows in the house, in los angeles, hollywood. joseph kennedy would appear for a while and there was a tunnel underneath the house to gloria swanson's house and he said maria was the most interested and embarrassed by this story. i asked donald why he put that in the book. he didn't really answer the question. >> here's a question. kennedy's book store. there

so i pulled out john f. kennedy's cal woods prize-winning book profiles in courage and their in chapter 1 was john quincy adams. i thought his name begins with a xu chapter 1. that's not the reason he was in chapter 1. john kennedy himself a war hero had listed these characters in order of the degree of courage, and he placed john quincy adams first among the most courageous senators and congressmen in american history. he was not just the sixth president of the united states. he was a congressman as well for 16 years and a center for four years. most americans don't realize he was a congressman. many don't even know he was president. >> by your going to change that. >> yes. he was this enormously courageous congressman. the first congressman to stand up and call for emancipation before lincoln even knew how to spell the word. >> we will get back to emancipation and the abolition movement. someone said to me the other day i have read to biographies of john quincy adams. here's his question: what is new to be said? >>

so i pulled out john f. kennedy's pulitzer prize-winning book, profiles in courage and daring chapter one was john quincy adams. so i thought his name begins begins with a comma on the season chapter one. but i was not the reason. john kennedy himself a war hero had listed these characters in order of the degree of coverage and he placed john quincy adams first among the most courageous senators and congressmen in american has terry. he was not just the sixth president of the united states. he was a congressman as well for 16 years and a senator for four. most americans don't realize he was a congressman. many don't even know he was president. >> well, you're going to change that. >> yes. he was this enormously courageous congressmen, the first congressman to stand up and call for emancipation before linking even knew how to spell the word. >> will get back to institution in a moment. a friend of mine who is a lawyer said to mean the other day, i read two biographies of john quincy adams. here's his question. what is

but by then, his brother-in-law, john kennedy, was running for president. shriver served us kennedy's chair for illinois and also head of the campaign civil rights division. in that capacity, leading a campaign, he convinced kennedy to telephone caruthers scott king in the matter of his imprisonment on the trumped up charges. it was a risky move given the residual racism that still tainted american life. but many analysts had concluded that the phone call attracted enough african-american votes to the democratic party that your to win a razor-thin victory to john kennedy. after the inauguration, president kennedy asked shriver to assume leadership as the founding director of the peace corps. when asked why he had selected his brother in law for the job, kennedy said that if the project were to become a flop, it would be easier to fire a member of the family when a political ally. when we look at the origins of the peace corps today we have to be careful not to read history backwards or to argue that the success of the peace corps was inevitable. it wasn't so

eastern you will hear from the president and ceo john kennedy of pandora.they active members, that is the question. the fact that a lot of people like this company, he is the special guest coming off at 4:00 p.m. eastern. remember december of 1999. let me remind you. the meltdown that was sure to begin. my next guest says the fiscal cliff is simply y2k fear. joining me now is a chief investment officer. we have had other people talk about it similar to y2k. why do you feel that it is not something to worry about right now, from an investor standpoint. >> first, i think the deal is already settled in was settled a while back. everyone who has negotiated knows that is what goes on. from an investor point of view, i think you will find that the tax rates don't go crazy like everyone thinks. the dividend taxes, for example, you will have 23.5%. all of these captains of industries, what happens when it turned and looked around and say it really was not such a big thing. what will they do? will they go away from dividends and not have anything that has interest.

many of us remember 49 years ago next year will be the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy followed by lyndon johnson being sworn in a border force one in dallas. he was sworn in by federal district judge sarah hughes, the only woman to ever square and a president. gerald r. ford being sworn in in the white house in 1974 after richard nixon resigned in disgrace. here's a picture of -- and it's my final story for the day. this story actually inspired me more than any other to write this book. this is calvin coolidge's 1923, president after the death of warren harding. at the time of harding's death

in the days leading up to john f. kennedy's and automation, frost wrote a special column for the occasion called dedication. there was a major snowstorm on the night before the ceremony. on the day of the inauguration, however, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was blue. frost was about to begin to read his poem but the bright glare of the snow prevented him from being able to see his manuscript clearly triet here was one of the world's most famous poets but he couldn't read his own words. new vice president lyndon johnson stood up and made an effort to create some shade for frost with a top hat, but it didn't help. you can actually see that in the picture. john thune is sitting next to him holding a top hat. frost could be heard to say i'm not having a good light, and i can't see in the sun. so, instead, frost delivered an older home one that he had memorized. but even then, his problems did not end. he concluded his presentation by informing them that his poetry had been dedicated to the president-elect, mr. john finle

would of john kennedy had never been president? we thought of thousands of books and never have been written. once interviewed carolyn kennedy she is famous for staying on message. in an attempt to get her off message they sent what about a kennedy bookstore? and she was thinking about it she would not say. you could have an entire bookstore devoted to the kennedys. scandals, serious history, arnold schwarzenegger, he tells a story where he and maria our house hunting for pro someone shows them the house in los angeles in the real-estate agents said joseph kennedy lived year and there is a tunnel under the house going to gloria swanson's house. riyal was both interested and embarrassed by asked why he put that in the book and he did not really answer the question kennedy bookstore? there is a link and bookstore in chicago. >> it is doing phenomenal well. >> a think that would be good and to also bring in the cuomo family with their ceasing to exist relationship. >> host: not a fair question but if you compare david nassau the patria

the >> president john f. kennedy and senators robert f. kennedy and edward kennedy. the author examines joseph kennedy's careers in business and politics, which included ventures on wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. this is a little under an hour. >> thank you all. as i tell my history students -- [inaudible] as i tell my histories of it until i went to choke me, the past is a foreign country. we can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air, the fragrance, but where foreigners in a strange way. this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america. writing about the recent past is not easy to tailor this time around. first, there were people got to talk to. i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating views. i much prefer working for but documents than listening to people, tried to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know, but they don't know at all. the o

secondly, john kennedy was shown on television because shaun liked the speech. you said a reduction from 90 to 71%. bill clinton increased taxes from 35 to 39%, started with a $300 billion deficit. ended with a trillion dollar surplus. all of you and i think you on television predictedicted thered be a recession. 23 million jobs later, there was no recession. >> lanny, if what you say is true, that the clinton tax cuts did it, why doesn't barack obama say let's have back all of the clinton tax hikes? let's have back all of the clinton tax increases object on everybody and we'll have a boom because he knows in his heart what he knew in 2010. you raise taxes on everybody, and a weak economy like we've got and you will send it into the dumpster. that's what he's threatening to do. >> that's a fair point. that's the reason it's a weak economy. when bill clinton raised taes and ended up with a surplus, conservatives like yourself loved the fact we had a surplus underather than under the last o administrations. we now have a $16 trillion national debt. >> one question

he's describing the scene where john kennedy is meeting marilyn monroe and being crosspiece house in florida, a famous party, which moved from frank sinatra's house because kennedy had been warned that frank was involved with mafia figures. you can imagine bill o'reilly nursing all these name. get a sentence that said everyone knew they would sleep with marilyn monroe that night. no attribution. how did you know this? he had a source. the source was an interview in the london daily mail, which is a tabloid in london that have reported this years ago and he said it was confirmed by a secret service agent was at the party, but could not be identified. is that verifiable? sources are important. how a writer knows what about, especially in history is important. they gloss over that. >> host: it's not just popular history to have one last point that in 2012 in general what many conversations about fact checking and cooperating forces, verifying facts, making sure which you wrote is actually true. all of those things to some degree brought down general layer who for some years have been th

kennedy patriarch of the political family that included president john f. kennedy and senators robert f. kennedy and edward kennedy. the author examines joseph kennedy's career in business and politics, which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. this is a little under an hour. [applause] >> thank you, all. delighted to be here. as i tell my history students at the city university of new york in the ph.d. program -- thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they want to choke me the past is a foreign country. we can visit, try to learn the customs and the white smith the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors but we are foreigners in a strange land. this is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. first there are people you have to talk to. and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including la

i am the executive director of the library foundation under the john f. kennedy library and museum and all foundation colleagues i thank you for coming. was a dollars a generous underwriters, bank of america, raytheon, boston capital, the boston foundation, and our media partners "the boston globe" and w. b. you are. tonight's forum is special for those who work at the presidential library and use the and it is a testimony to the hard work and dedication for those employs to work hard to preserve the nation's history and of president kennedy. this secret recordings of jfk which is now on sale sale, would not have been impossible if not for the incredible skills, talent, professional ism, dedication of our library staff in the. government employees. one person in particular rely to a knowledge its which is then archivist of these white house recording as the archivist who knows more about these taped conversations and any of the american. please join us to acknowledge all of our colleagues work here at the kennedy library. [applause] and we have a wonderful panel

john f. kennedy and the kennedy administration, not one of them talks about the relationship that byrd and kennedy established. most of us talk about the byrd opposition to the kennedy primary. once kennedy gets the nomination, byrd goes out campaigning for him. he goes down to the southern baptist in texas and they were serious for lyndon johnson being on the ticket with hannity, who was catholic. -- kennedy who wa s a catholic. both johnson and john f. kennedy won their victory in the 1960s election with robert byrd's help in north carolina and texas. the second objective -- i realize byrd is a legend. outside of washington, d.c., he is little loan, much less respected. that is something i want to correct across the country. i knew history biography would not serve the purpose. there is an effort being made to portray byrd who gave nice speeches about the constitution. there is so much more to the guy. throughout his career, he was a fighter. he had to fight for everything he got. there are some wh

john f. kennedy in 1961 ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. in the departure of the old president hears george w. bush departing the scene on the back of the capitol for years ago flying off in a helicopter looking back at the capitol, and there's a luncheon, obama's luncheon for years ago and then return to the white house after that it's the first time a first lady ever drove back to the white house with the president in 1909 with william howard taft and the obama's what part of the distance. jimmy carter and rosalynn carter walked the entire distance in 1977 from the capitol back to the white house. in the inaugural parade that will take place the reviewing is always set up in the white house there's the white house in the background and is a classic inaugural parade and the capitol is in the background with the bands marching. in 1953 famous cowboy named monty montana lassoed dwight eisenhower with his permission. [laughter] in the afternoon of inaugura

before i said to him john kennedy said you can never negotiate with someone who was saying that you are his right is his right and your rights are negotiable this is not a kind of a negotiation all what we need is a fair negotiation for all parties palestinians egyptians really we need these to be in the in the whole this. all right mr assad a wary very briefly if you can egypt's credit rating has just been slashed by its stance that poisoned a multi-billion dollar i.m.f. loan deal has been put on hold what's to blame for these setbacks and divorce the solution. you see the standard and poor's have the right to lower our. our eleven because of the political instability but i think this is temporary i think within a month the political stability of egypt will innovate our. our standard ordinary. right live from cairo that was somehow a sour way spokesman for the muslim brotherhood freedom and justice party many thanks indeed and. when he's coming up i have a short break. led mission and free accreditation free transport judges free to make amends three risk free studio types free. downlo

john f. kennedy library and the same. the publication of the "listening in", which is now on sale in our museum store, was simply not possible if not for the incredible skills and talent and professionalism and dedication of our library staff and government employees. there is one person in particular, one person that tom putnam and i would like to acknowledge. and it isn't archivist that has been overseeing the classification of these recordings and who knows more about these 265 hours of president can '80s taped conversation than any other american. so i ask that you please join us in thanking and acknowledging his work here at the kennedy library. [applause] we have a wonderful panel with us tonight. joining us for tonight's discussion as historian ted winters, who so carefully selected the most compelling of his remarkable recordings and wrote detailed annotations of the transcripts. with us also is owen fitzpatrick, a professor of history at the university of new hampshire, also a wonderful and

it would make her happy all right so john kennedy heard it makes happy. here year for it's me. i saw him and we're on the cusp of now twenty thirteen so you have to put on your prediction and camp for a second you've got obviously a lot of cross-currents things happening in politics and culture. we've established that throughout the past twenty five or thirty years the only constant seemingly in this ever changing world is john cooper clarke a parent you are the star around which the entire universe appears to be revolving i'm glad you think so much so that we can look forward to that continuing. for the rest of the mortals. trends perhaps do you see in the next twelve months. i know it's a tremendous pressure. being put. well the football wise i think united are going to get a zero this year. fashion wise i don't see the two piece fading now anytime soon the lounge lounge the lounge suit is is making a big comeback in even on the high street yes you know honestly they have now the one z's and you know the style of their comfort yeah but like all comfortable clothes they look i

john f. kennedy and the kennedy administration, not one of them talks about the relationship that byrd and kennedy established. once kennedy became president. most of us talk about the byrd opposition to the kennedy primary. once kennedy gets the nomination, byrd goes out campaigning for him. both in north carolina and texas. he goes down to the southern baptist in texas and they were serious for lyndon johnson being -- furious for lyndon johnson being on the ticket with hannity, who was catholic. both johnson and john f. kennedy won their victory in the 1960s election with robert byrd's help in north carolina and texas. that put byrd on the national stage. the second objective -- i realize byrd is a legend. an icon in west virginia. outside of washington, d.c., he is little loan, much less -- little known, much less respected. that is something i want to correct across the country. i knew history biography would not serve the purpose. there is an effort being made to portray byrd who gave nice speec

caroline kennedy joined us with never-before-released audio recordings from inside her father's white house. >> caroline contributed to the book "listening in: the secret white house recordings of john. kennedy," which includes more than two hours of taped conversations from jfk's oval office and cabinet room, including this phone call between president kennedy and general dwight d. eisenhower, discussing the cuban missile crisis. >> general, what about if the soviet union -- khrushchev -- announced tomorrow, which i think he will, that if we attack cuba, that it's going to be nuclear war? and what's your judgment as to the chances they'll fire these things off if we invade cuba? >> oh, i don't believe that they will. >> you don't think they will? in other words, you would take that risk if the situation seemed desirable? >> well, as a matter of fact, what can you do? if this thing is such a serious thing here on our flank, that we're going to be uneasy and we know what thing is happening now, all right, you've got to use something. >> yeah. >> something may make these people shoot them off. i just don't believe this will. >> yeah, right. >> in any event, of course, i'll say this. i

kennedy was assassinated. they launch operation centers shall here after be known as the john f. nnedy space center. >> in april 1964 nasa launched project gem knee latin for twins. >> the gemini was started it was a two-man spacecraft. the gem knee program was to show if we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon you had to have capability of two weeks in space, you had to be able to rendezvous, you had to be able to get outside of the space suit and have a guide to reentering. we practiced those missions on gemini. the gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> on june 3rd, 1965, the astronaut became the first american. >> america was still playing catchup however soviet cosmonaut had performed a space walk three months earlier. the big prize was still up there and the gemini missions were moving forward each one providing nasa with more information necessary for the ultimate quest. >> we are on our way. >> in december of 1965 gem any 7 rendezvous with gem any 6 a in orbit making it the first aircraft to do so. gem any 7 doubled the am

to the white house to see president kennedy and when kennedy finishes his speech bill clinton goes forward and gets his picture taken alongside of john f. kennedy. he is so proud and these already dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person who is going to bring complete honor to this family. by the age of 17 he is already planning to be elected attorney general and then governor of arkansas and president of the united states. this is something which everyone who knows him knows about because he talks about all the time. he does not go to the university of arkansas. he goes to george tenet from georgetown he becomes the arkansas candidate for the fellowship and goes to oxford. he's an incrediblincredibl e success everywhere but he cannot have an ongoing relationship with a woman. he is attracted to the kind of women his mother directs them to who are the beauty queens, the ones who are flirtatious, who are attractive and that is where you size it then. until he cantelli comes back to yell law school. there he meets hillary rodham. >> watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org. now on c-span2 we bring you booktv.

kennedy was assassinated. they launch operation centers shall here after be known as the john f. nnedy space center. >> in april 1964 nasa launched project gem knee latin for twins. >> the gemini was started it was a two-man spacecraft. the gem knee program was to show if we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon you had to have capability of two weeks in space, you had to be able to rendezvous, you had to be able to get outside of the space suit and have a guide to reentering. we practiced those missions on gemini. the gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> on june 3rd, 1965, the astronaut became the first american. >> america was still playing catchup however soviet cosmonaut had performed a space walk three months earlier. the big prize was still up there and the gemini missions were moving forward each one providing nasa with more information necessary for the ultite quest. >> we are on our way. >> in december of 1965 gem any 7 rendezvous with gem any 6 a in orbit making it the first aircraft to do so. gem any 7 doubled the amou

kennedy was assassinated. they launch operation centers shall here after be known as the john f. nnedy space center. >> in april 1964 nasa launched project gem knee latin for twins. >> the gemini was started it was a two-man spacecraft. the gem knee program was to show if we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon you had to have capability of two weeks in space, you had to be able to rendezvous, you had to be able to get outside of the space suit and have a guide to reentering. we practiced those missions on gemini. the gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> on june 3rd, 1965, the astronaut became the first american. >> america was still playing catchup however soviet cosmonaut had performed a space walk three months earlier. the big prize was still up there and the gemini missions were moving forward each one providing nasa with more information necessary for the ultimate quest. >> we are on our way. >> in december of 1965 gem any 7 rendezvous with gem any 6 a in orbit making it the first aircraft to do so. gem any 7 doubled the am

joe kennedy, -- john kennedy's father got the ambassadorship to england to get off of fdr's back forplumb assignmented and handed out like candy. but should and we have a better system for this? the same way we do say, we put cabinet officials through the grill, ambassadorships go through easily, except yours. >> it must have been because of my large contribution to george w. bush campaign. neil: you know what i mean. should there be some standards? >> well i think there are. i think that political appointees in both parties get a bad wrap, there are failures, they are the one that get the attention, but having people around the world who are sensitive to the president who put them there and can speak with authority when they have to deliver a tough message t the country they are located it is a -- >> big difference. i don't know what they do? maybe when president visits, you could stay at the ambassador's residents. >> you are raising an important point that has nothing to do with any weather the ambassador is a political appointty. the way we do recognition will change. neil: they

a few months before he took up residence in this house, one of my predecessors john kennedy tried to sum up the temper of the times with a quote from an author closely tied to christmas, charles dickens. we were living he said in the best of times and the worst of times. in some ways that is even more true today. the world is full of peril as well as promise. too many of its people even now live in the shadow of want and tyranny. christmas means so much because of one special child. but christmas also reminds us that all children are special. that they are gifts from god. gifts beyond price that mean more than any presents money

when john-john kennedy died he had none john-john and as part of that story i went up to talk to bill. 9/11 i went up to talk to a f.b.i. agent i knew in boston and stopped at bill's to get a take of a historian. and we were just friends. we would have dinner, watch the red sox. host: what was he like? guest: well, i forget who i have told this story. if i told it today, tell me. the first night i met him he and the old marines were sitting around talking about old marine stuff. host: you had gone up there with these marines. guest: to do a feature story. there was a knock on the door around 10:00. that was late. young woman from wesleyan, a student with two books of man westchester she and the old wanted him to nscribe to her father or maybe her grand father who was a world war that vet. manchester invited her in, sat her down, offered her tea or wine and five marines talked about the war and she listened for two hours and probably got a story she would never gets again. and i just mets him hours earlier. and i thaought this is a generos man. and i always believed that. he would call

if we had the debt we do now john f. kennedyld not have envisioned putting a man on the moon, so it limits vision, it limits possibilities, it limits everything. >>guest: it hurts companies. it hurts investors. it makes people go back if their shell and not spend money which is close to extent percent of the u.s. economy. you look at consumer confidence numbers from the university michigan and everyone is worried about the future because of the scare tactics that are coming from washington. >>neil: amazing. thank you very were. a footnote on the 40th anniversary, more than half of americans alive today were not even born at that time. on the 40th anniversary of the apollo launch the last guy to washington on the moon is talking to us. >> america's challenge of today, forging man's destiny, up a pile. >>neil: you look at the moon. you were the last human being to touch that surface. how does that make you feel? >>guest: humble. i don't look at the moon and say, what a great guy you are, i do it when you ask. >> we live. we came.

but i also think that john kennedy, when you save a nation and a world from armageddon, you get to ben the mountain. >> and he looked good up there. >> i think the cuban missile crisis. >> and ronald reagan. >> and president reagan, who i think was a natural step in finding what we've always found in the country, which is a kind of democratic lower-case d synthesis. >> i'm surprised by jfk. obviously a martyred president who really -- whose assassination shaped how a generation of historians and writers have looked towards him as a fallen good-looking president. do you really think that jfk will fare well 50 years from now? >> i -- yes. and i base this on my friend ev evan's treatment of the cuban missile crisis in his book about bobby kennedy, because when you think about a young president in his 40s, the son of an appeaser, sitting around in a room having his manhood and his courage challenged by generals over nuclear missiles and his having the courage to compromise and to make the deal me made to avoid what could have been a nuclear war in october 1962, yeah, he yao get on the mou

>> i think the white house needs to do case studies, calvin coolidge and president john f. kennedy, when you look at what they did with lowering tax rates and increase revenues. calvin coolidge went from 73% to 24%. john f. kennedy from 91% to 71%. they increased revenues. we are not talking about what the president is looking at with his wealth redistribution, we are talking about wealth expansion, economic growth and sound policies to do that. if you want to continue to believe that $250,000 makes someone rich, you are going to crush the small business owners who run at subchapter "s," llcs and we are talking about capital gains from 15 to 25%. that will affect investment. we are talking about dividends from 15 to thirty four 33.44%. death tax to a 55% bracket and the minimum exemption from $5 million to $1 million. look at the farmers, especially in south florida. what will happen with the people trying to pass on their businesses? something we talked about before wecame on air, there are 20 new taxes in the health care law above and beyond the tax structure. >> we were looking

i would like to for word to the 60's and talk about john kennedy with the memory of people now alive at least. clearly one of the most dramatic events of the presidency was the missile crisis in october, 62 which all of us lived through as teenagers. toggled if you what about how you think that crisis came to be and why it didn't yield and a nuclear holocaust. >> well, khrushchev actually made a big blunder in the cuban missile crisis and that was not just putting them vessels with the nuclear warheads into cuba. it was not announcing that they had done so. he undermined his own deterrence. what he was trying to detour was the u.s. invasion of cuba. the united states had been planning an invasion. as a matter of fact we had an event, a mock invasion planned for october 62. >> the second invasion after the bay of pigs -- >> after the bay of pigs, right. and it was castro spelled backwards. the heavy planning for an invasion to overthrow of the disaster of the bay of pigs and we had the operation running on booze which was the counter insurgency terrorist program. so it was clear the u

. >> that reminds me of the story when john kennedy announced his brother for attorney general the joke was he walked out at 2:00 in the morning and just yelled -- whispered it's bobby and then walked back inside. anyway, jared, i want to pursue this line reasoning with you and rick santelli some more. what would the president be able to offer that would bring more republicans into the fold on the house vote here, do you think? >> i don't think that the president is going to offer anything particularly new. >> got to offer something, don't you think? >> i think what we'll offer is a $250 threshold on the taxes, extended unemployment insurance, kick the sequester down the road and patch the amt and what we call the doc fix, the medicare piece of this. >> is that going to be enough? >> rick, does that bring the republicans into the fold for john bainer? >> once again, i'm not going to argue about the small but important piece. i think in order to make this happen in the house he needs to go to the other side of the discussion and bring some real potential reform in entitlement reform to t

john kennedy was shot by a rifle by lee harvey oswald getting it from a sporting goods store in chicagoook it seriously. he couldn't get it done. we see barack obama bah in the campaign no follow-up. it's one thing to console and we should point out that that is a very important role. >> very important. >> he fills it brilliantly in tucson he did. we saw that as you've been tweeting going all the way back to ronald reagan after the challenger. these moments. the great peggy noonan written speech where ronald reagan showed that leadership is really important. >> the bonds of earth. but lincoln did it at gettysburg but mainly a statement of political philosophy. now i think we would have a hard time electing a president not pretty good on this these on horrible occasions. think of something that happened in johnson's presidency. these "apollo" astronauts died on the launch pad and there was no national sharing experience like what we saw last night with the president at the center. nowadays there would be. >> well, now we have to see whether there's action as comfort. >> indeed. >> michae

john kennedy was president. he responded by issuing a statement. people did not expect a president to frame the problem and express their emotion the way that barack obama did so well tonight. >> we have another piece of sound from the president that i'd like to play for you, michael. let's listen. >> this is our first task, caring for our children. it's our first job. if we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. that's how as a society, we will be judged. and by that measure, can we truly say as a nation that we're meeting our obligations? can we honestly say that we're doing enough to keep our children, all of them, safe from harm? >> michael when you're talking about such a divisive issue as kristen was saying, looking at the polls, as gun control, we don't know what proposals will come out of this or how -- >> or if at all. >> or how sbeepi isweeping or n if they will happen at all. this great tragedy and fact that it affected 20 young people 6 and 7 young people, we don't know that will change any minds. but is there anything in hi

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he's interrogating the whole bureaucracy, kind of like john kennedy used to do. don't just take it from the immediate person below you. find out what's going on. and you can see in some of the diaries of civil servants this sense that suddenly the machine is just gearing up to a completely different level. and 245 sense of a dynamo at work is the other thing that is really important. >> and it is, of course, a conjunction of him realizing that his position is unique. i felt as if i was walking with destiny. but also the conjunction is with a nation and a people who are at a unique point in their history. it's very easy now to just forget the degree of isolation, physical ice laying of great britain at that point. of course there was the empire, there was the commonwealth, there was the hope that one day the united states would become actively involved with its allies. but for that period he and britain are alone and that i think comes back to this thing of courage. >> its situation is extromly simple. you know, in politics and international life, most of the 20 e