he responded earlier much more to the assassination of john kennedy, despite the fact that he always saw kennedy his foil for standing in the schoolhouse door, trying to keep out black students in 1963. he really respected him. when kennedy was assassinated, it disturbed him deeply, i think, in part because he realizes that the assassination of a public figure like kennedy could happen to him as well >> you have a picture in your book of president kennedy touring alabama in 1963. not a picture that jfk wanted to have published. >> he made every effort to make sure he was not photographed side-by-side with george wallace. he may have not liked wallace. in some ways, he admired his political skills. he did not like him, but he realized that politically this was not going to do him any good to have this picture next to governor wallace. >> there is the picture. you could see it was sticking by a long lens. jfk getting off the helicopter and greeting governor wallace. what was his reaction in june 1968 when rfk was shot? >> he really did not like robert kennedy. they had had a number of d

he responded earlier much more to the assassination of john kennedy, despite the fact that he always saw kennedy his foil for standing in the schoolhouse door, trying to keep out black students in 1963. he really respected him. when kennedy was assassinated, it disturbed him deeply, i think, in part because he realizes that the assassination of a public figure like kennedy could happen to him as well >> you have a picture in your book of president kennedy touring alabama in 1963. not a picture that jfk wanted to have published. >> he made every effort to make sure he was not photographed side-by-side with george wallace. he may have not liked wallace. in some ways, he admired his political skills. he did not like him, but he realized that politically this was not going to do him any good to have this picture next to governor wallace. >> there is the picture. you could see it was sticking by a long lens. jfk getting off the helicopter and greeting governor wallace. what was his reaction in june 1968 when rfk was shot? >> he really did not like robert kennedy. they had had a number of d

and the words of john kennedy to you and to me and to posterity.t week, we witness once again in czechoslovakia, the desperate attempt of tyranny to crush out the forces of liberalism by force and brutal power, to hold back change. but in eastern europe as elsewhere, the old era will surely end and there as here a new day will dawn. and to speed this day, we must go far beyond where we've been, beyond containment to communication, beyond the emphasis of differences to dialogue, beyond fear to hope. we must cross those remaining barriers of suspicion and despair. we must halt the arms race before it halts humanity. [ applause ] and is this -- is this a vain hope? is it put a dream? i say the record says no. within the last few years we have made progress. we have negotiated a nuclear test ban treaty. we have laid the groundwork for nuclear nonproliferation treaty. we have reached agreement on banning weapons in outer space. we have been building patiently stone by stone each in our own way the cathedral of peace. and now we must take new initiatives

here's jackie kennedy talking about adlai stevenson and john f. and the big thing with governor stevenson wanting to stay, telling him he would have to have the u.n., i remember that jack about that. >> how was that? >> you know, it was unpleasant. i mean, he didn't like it having to do it or anything but he wasn't going to give him the state department. i remember the earliest times we spoke of it, we knew that governor stevenson would get the u.n. i remember their conference on the doorstep was rather vague where stevenson said he didn't have anything to say. >> why did he suppose you think did stevenson decide against it. >> he thought that man had a real disease of unable to make up his mind and stevenson irritated him. it would have been an awfully difficult relationship. >> senator stevenson, could we get your reaction. >> well, unfortunately, i really couldn't hear it. i knew jackie kennedy and i can tell you that i don't think she was political at all. in fact, she was very art istic woman, intellectual, who used to leave washington on week

all right,ann: here's another kennedy spot that's a little bit more creative, but still, not all that exciting. this is a family. recently, johngreat 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 telephone bills have gone up. what's been your experience, keeping those two daughters of yours? >> we're concerned with their future. we would like both of them to go to college. >> have you been able to put much aside? >> unfortunately not right now. >> one of the things that i think increased the cost of living has been this administration's reliance on a high interest rate policy. my own judgment is that we're going to have to try to do a better job in this field? . yes, we can do better. but to do so we must elect the man who cares about america's problems. we must elect john f. kennedy president. professor mann: notice the tag line, what was it? did you notice? yes we can. , maybe obama stole it from so obama didn't come up with that. so, you know, he was tr

we must elect john f. kennedy president. [end clip] mr. mann: notice the tag line, what was it?that? can." maybe obama stole it from kennedy. so obama didn't come up with that. all right, so, you know, he was trying. i would give him credit. they were trying to do something somewhat interesting. the republicans were sort of here. of course, the problem that snix nixon had was that he wanted eisenhower's support and, yet, eisenhower had said some, if not disparaging things about nixon , he famously said when asked at a press conference, can you name one important decision in your administration that vice president nixon has participated in? and eisenhower says, if you give me a week, i think i can come up with something. and so, of course, that was like cat nip for the democrats for kennedy and they ran that spot and everything and ridiculing nixon for not being really a part of the eisenhower administration. , for being shut out. so they force eisenhower to come out and sort of recant and make the point that, yes, nixon has and here's the spot. , it is done in a very uncreative

so, john kennedy felt that perhaps his candidacy had brought mcgovern down in south dakota, so he offered mcgovern a position to run a program in the kennedy administration. host: and so, we are talking about george mcgovern's legacy, his candidacy. we are going to delve into the primary run he made in 1971. before we do that, let's get in kirk from akron, ohio into the conversation. c-span, fork you, this wonderful series "the contenders." i just hope one day you will do one about the cabinet, too. anyway, my comment and my question is i heard somewhere -- i do not know what the truth is behind this -- but just moments before senator robert f. kennedy was assassinated in 1968 after winning the california primary, senator mcgovern was actually participating in a phone conversation with senator kennedy. i wondered if it has been revealed what the conversation was about and if you know anything about that phone conversation? host: jules witcover? mr. witcover: i have never heard that. i was in the hotel kitchen at the time robert kennedy was assassinated. i spent a great deal of time since

how did president john kennedy and his brother, senator ted kennedy change the game. >> immigration is the issue that has, well it's been a springboard, if you will, for donald trump's talk about building a wall. his talk about keeping muslims out of the country. his promise to get rid of the illegal aliens in our midst. this is donald trump's issue. even going bac president obama really wasn't born in this country. immigrants and immigration seems to have really touched a nerve with donald trump. but you know, you stop and thinking about the kennedy brothers. the kennedy brothers were the great grandchildren of irish immigrants, craig. and as such, they heard about how irish immigrants were mistreated by the protestant broman british in new england arrived. and when they came to power, when president kennedy was elected and when his brother came to the senate after president kennedy's assassination, there was a real effort on their part to say we need to change immigration laws to make sure that immigrants from around the world, not just western europe, but from around the world, woul

kennedy, kennedy ♪ kennedy, kennedy, kennedy ♪ ken-nedy for me ♪ kennedy, kennedy, kennedy ♪ kennedy >> sabato: and johnedy, kennedy, kennedy" ad that would literally drive you insane if you listen to it too many times. >> ♪ try something new >> sabato: well, in 1964, we began the era of professional television advertising that really did have an impact. >> ♪ >> mann: doyle dane bernbach was an up-and-coming advertising firm on madison avenue that was making a name for themselves with advertisements for up-and-coming firms and products that included volkswagen. john f. kennedy saw the spots and told his brother-in-law steve smith, "go find me that firm. i want to talk to them about maybe doing my advertising for my reelection in 1964." and that's how ddb came into the orbit of lyndon johnson and the dnc in 1964. johnson and the people around him, his aides and his advertising firm, wanted to portray goldwater as a dangerous man who, if he got control of the nuclear arsenal, might threaten the peace of the world. >> goldwater, jr.: the mood of the country at the time was one of worry about the soviet uni

we are joined by a member of the kennedy family tonight, nephew of the president john f. kennedy and senator robert f. kennedy who reminds us political violence is no joke. >>> and new polling on the five things trump has said during this campaign that bother voters the most. i doubt the most offensive trump line will come as a surprise. we all know what that is. it's a physical thing he did making fun of somebody. >>> the "hardball" roundtable will be here the tell us something i don't know. sglp some surprising new numbers wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin. hydro boost. from neutrogena sglp some surprising new numbers on how donald trump and hillary clinton fare in three states this november. let's check out the scoreboard. in wisconsin, clinton has a 15 point lead over trump among likely voters. that's widened from her four point edge last month. in iowa, it's within the margin of error, trump ahead by one point, 4

and i'm talking about john kennedy not robert kennedy. but you you can't talk about one without the other. they were like that, the line that you just use, that was the lime a proper kennedys for the rest of his life. it was the highest compliment he could take to anybody what you do for john because they were like that. there are like that for the point where at the kennedy described the fact that there is a clichÉ that people are so close that they finish each other's sentences. what ethel kennedy said about bobby's relation to jack is that there are so close they do need to talk. they could just pick up one another's expressions and that is why the closest thing it's not a clichÉ in politics, people talk about copresidents and before people elected when they're on the ticket together and they say this is going to be the closest working relationship we've ever had between the president and vice president. the truth is no president their white mind ever gives up president or vice president or anybody else. but the closest thing that amer

here is john kennedy, republican louisiana state treasurer, a trump campaign surrogate.e is also a candidate for u.s. senate. i mean it is interesting the way that the two sides are playing this. donald trump went down to see the damage first-hand. seemed like a kind of obvious move given there were so many cries about is anyone paying attention. democrats have taken the other side. hillary clinton saying she called and she talked to governor and he said don't come. president saying he doesn't want to interfere. you're on the ground there. what is the better choice? >> well, they're not two sides to this. there is one side. this isn't about politics, or it shouldn't be. i think what the president's press people have put out a bunch of bull. look, i want everybody to come. i'm a republican, but, i'm glad mr. trump came. i wish president obama would come. i wish secretary clinton would come. i wishing gary johnson would come. i wishing lebron james would come or michael phelps anybody that will come to understand what has happened to louisiana here. we've got 110,000 homes

interrupted by presidents taft and franklin roosevelt and harry truman and dwight eisenhower and john kennedy and jimmy carter and bill clinton, and the department of state and the department of defense so we seem to have a continuum through american history. this building was the largest building on the naval base, this was 9,000 square feet. and consequently it was built originally as the pay master and commander's home but by 1911 our new base commander realized things were getting a little snug and so emerged it into a single dwelling of almost 9,000 square feet and at that time key west was the command headquarters for the 7th naval district which covered everything from key west to charleston, and admiral nimitz is here inspecting the base. and he finds that our base commander moved to smaller quarters because he's a bachelor and he doesn't want to bounce around in 9,000 square feet by himself. some left this large home sitting vacant. nimitz is here. sees this large house sitting empty. is impressed with the top secret research done by the navy in key west so he gets home to learn the

here's jackie kennedy talking about adlai stevenson and john f. ve the u.n., i remember jashg tell -- jack telling me about that. >> how was that? >> you know, it was unpleasant. i mean, he didn't like it having to do it or anything but he wasn't going to give him the state department. i remember the earliest times we spoke of it, we knew that governor stevenson would get the u.n. not state, which he wanted. it's unpleasant to have to tell someone that. i remember their conference on the doorstep was rather vague where stevenson said he didn't have anything to say. something funny. >> why do you suppose he decided against stevenson for state? >> he never lifted one finger to help him. it was never bitterness. look at all the people jack took that had been against him. he thought that man had a real disease of unable to make up his mind and stevenson irritated him. i don't think he could have borne to have him around coming in every day as secretary of state. it would have been an awfully difficult relationship. >> senator stevenson, could we get yo

so in his telegram, john f. kennedy actually says the only announced threat to orderly compliance with the law, however, is your plan to bar physically the admission of negro students in defiance of the order of the alabama federal district court and in violation of accepted standards of public conduct. wallace's response is he's still determined to make this public stand at the university of alabama in order, you know, presumably for law and order, but also to advance his candidacy as potentially a national political figure. >> the university of alabama university campus is under tight security guard of state police as george wallace appeals for calm and prepares to confront a deputy u.s. attorney. the federal officers are armed with a proclamation from president kennedy urging the governor to end his efforts to prevent two negro students from registering at the university. the governor is adamant. he made a campaign promise to stand in the doorway himself to prevent the integration of the last all white state universi

we are joined by a member of the kennedy family tonight, nephew of the president john f. kennedy and senator robert f. kennedy who reminds us political violence is no joke. >>> and new polling on the five things trump has said during this campaign that bother voters the most. i doubt the most offensive trump line will come as a surprise. we all know what that is. it's a physical thing he did making fun of somebo. >>> the "hardball" roundtable will be here the telus something i don't know. i'm anne howard and i'm michael howard. we left on our honeymoon in january 2012. it actually evolved into a business. from our blog to video editing... our technology has to hang tough with us. when you're going to a place without electricity, you need a long battery life. the touch, combined with the screen resolution... a mac doesn't have that. we wanted to help more people get out there and see the world. once you take that leap, that's where the magic happens. whmade plastics that tmake them lighter?rs the lubricants that improved fuel economy. even technology to make engines more ef

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police evacuated terminal eight at john f. kennedy airport around 9:30 last night and shortly afterward closed terminal one. they received reports of shots fired near the departure gates but found no evidence of a shooting. some travelers ran for the exits in panic. the faa ordered a ground stop at the airport and inbound flights were delayed. >>> the latest cbs news battleground tracker poll has good news for hillary clinton. in florida, she extended her lead over donald trump and is now five points ahead, up two points from june. in new hampshire, clinton is dominating by nine points. in georgia, a traditionally republican state, trump has a four-point advantage, but clinton is closer than in most presidential races. >>> the trump campaign is facing new criticism this morning for alleged links to pro moscow political operatives in ukraine. "the new york times" reports a secret ledger itemizes cash given to paul manafort. the times reports that 14 million were to man a forty from ukraine's former president vikt viktor. on the eve of

kennedy to the country. there were a lot of big things for it. >>there was a circle or very protective circle around john threat. people were pouring in from across the country. they were literally hint -- cameron on the at the 1960 convention. adlai stevenson at the podium. >> i wanted to tell you how grateful i am. for this he moving well, of the 1960 democratic convention. [applause] i have an observation. after getting in and out of the hotel and at this hall, i decided i know you will nominate. it will be the last survivor. [applause] >> the details of my participation have not been worked out, but i would drive the campaign were i -- or he wanted me to. i suspect that will be in the west and the east and everywhere in between. i hope so. >> what would you do about it? how would you go about it? >> i hope by the participation in the campaign i have not had much doubt that they would support the ticket. i hope they will supported vigorously in the same manner that i did. >> i hope it will fall you as vigorously as you did in los angeles. almost stevenson's moment and he threw it away. he was in a pos

he responded earlier much more to the assassination of john kennedy, despite the fact that he always saw kennedy his foil for standing in the schoolhouse door, trying to keep out black students in 1963. he really respected him. when kennedy was assassinated, it disturbed him deeply, i think, in part because he realizes that the assassination of a public figure like kennedy could happen to him as well >> you have a picture in your book of president kennedy touring alabama in 1963. not a picture that jfk wanted to have published. >> he made every effort to make sure he was not photographed side-by-side with george wallace. he may have not liked wallace. in some ways, he admired his political skills. he did not like him, but he realized that politically this was not going to do him any good to have this picture next to governor wallace. >> there is the picture. you could see it was sticking by a long lens. jfk getting off the helicopter and greeting governor wallace. what was his reaction in june 1968 when rfk was shot? >> he really did not like robert kennedy. they had had a number of d

kennedy. and i believe it was mutual. but there was, and newt was closer, really, a circle, a very protective circle around john f. n was a threat. people were pouring in from across the country. by the tens of thousands. literally hammering on the doors, in some cases knocking down the doors of that convention to demand another nomination for their candidate. eleanor roosevelt was there. and gene mccarthy gave a brilliant nominating address for stevenson. and this caused a little anxiety in the kennedy camp. and it probably caused a little, you know, interest, thought on my father's part that maybe if things deadlocked, he could still win the nomination. he had felt that a leader of the party and out of loyalty to eleanor roosevelt and supporters, he should be neutral and he was neutral. i was thinking if he had a chance, maybe neutrality was the best way of getting there. the former secretary of labor was also involved in state administration told me he was in my father's suite on the eve of the balloting. and my father said when bobby kennedy calls, tell him i've gone to bed and i've left instructions not to be

when john kennedy was assassinated, it is hard to reconstruct the context and our minds. it was so care wing for the american people. people like extremism. people blame the ideological politics that americans did not want to believe as part of their political system. barry goldwater and immediately lost interest. it was another month and a half before he answered the call of one more group of people coming to him and begging him saying it was his duty to support the pr republican cause. >> this book was the manifest of why he was running. the ideology that shaped him. in the piece of film which showed you, he talked about freedom and free enterprise and the failed socialist experiment that democrats were pushing in the 1960's. >> barry goldwater stood for one thing. he was very clear about it. that was freedom. that but today is just as relevant as it was when it was written 50 years ago. barry goldwater would say, circumstances change. principles do not. when he was getting ready to run for office, he said, as i survey the landscape at look at the questions that might o

it was less than midway through the flight from john f. kennedy to seattle that the crew decided to make the diversion. >> we're dropping off a passenger early. having a difficult time working and playing well with others. >> reporter: the woman sitti pill. >> almost he didn't realize he was on a plane. just said, i need to cancel my flight and go check on something. >> reporter: hours later a southwest jet ready to get from albuquerque to denver is unloaded and sent to a remote area for a search for a suspicious item. nothing was found. this as we've seen airport terminals empty with false reports of active shooters. the most recent in l.a. sunday. tension among flyers. passengers grounded. more than 15.5 million expected to fly over labor day weekend. that's a 4% increase from last year. abc news, reagan national airport. >>> triple a is taking a pass on clocking how many people they estimate will travel. they say labor day is the least traveled. >> considering compared to previous labor days the last few days, airfare prices are down. a lot of

on the day after john f. kennedy was assassinated and lbj became president, that next day life magazine was set to release an article investigating lbj's dealing in texas that article never saw the light of day. there were also doing an investigation of lbj and that was stopped immediately. we could say he is one of the luckiest man alive because jfk's assassinated an assassination put him in the white house. some people say he had something to do with jfk's assassination which is not true. >> what does the term house deal mean? >> it's a deal with the devil. men like matt wallace were in fact dealing with the devil. they got something for it but they paid a steep price. >> a new book out on the american revolution. what will we learn? >> paul is the former head of the art department and a historian. it's written through the lens of five great painters of the era. they are a fascinating group of men to begin with but you see the revolution through completely different eyes when you study the paintings they did which

chaos erupts at john f kennedy airport in new york after a report of gunfire. officials say several witnesses reported hearing gunfire. terminal eight and terminal one were placed on lock down.. but no shooter were found. a law enforcement official says cheering and clapping from people watching the olympics may have led to the mistake. this morning.. the f-a-a is updating their radio system. before today.. controllers and pilots communicated using analog radios.. which have several issues -- including a higher potential for misunderstood messages. now with the push of a button.. controllers will be able to send routine instructions.. directly to the flight deck. the f-a-a says this will reduce work- load and lead to fewer communication errors. listen up -- may be hard to. doctors are noticing a trend that people are losing hearing earlier in life. the theory is that headphones -- specifically the ear buds.. might be the source of the problem. team 12's haley hernadez has more.. in your ???adlib ???adlib ???toss morning juice she was the golden girl in the 20-1

in 1928, he was subject to horrible anti catholic commentary, and then the next catholic won, john kennedydinner, that's the elite of new york, the catholic elite. >> cover it -- >> the cardinal, o'connor would come. in 2000, bush and gore came, and, the nominees both come and make humorous toasts. >> >> i was a leading white liberal in new york city with the racial profiling be supporting the black and latino community. along the lines about sharpton who seems to endorse me still think in there were racially hostile not me but some supporters. so finally she calls back to say i will meet with you tonight so i leave the dinner with the tails and a tie and go to headquarters. to go to bernie sanders into endorse president after the nominee. and with city hall and then i had a meeting with sharpton with the primary that was an election is to come. the next day i've been with the president and his supporters in now that you define party has a bad problem but now tromping clinton is going through with sanders. >> they said that you were attacked in the middle of the campaign that somebody dist

john kennedy felt that perhaps his candidacy had brought mcgovern down, so he offered mcgovern a position to run a program in the kennedy administration. my comment and my question is i heard somewhere -- i do not know what the truth is behind this -- but moments before senator robert f. kennedy was assassinated in 1968 after winning the california primary, senator mcgovern was actually participating in a conversation with senator kennedy. i wondered if it has been revealed what the conversation was about and if you know anything about that phone conversation? about that phone conversation? >> jules witcover? >> i have never heard that. i was in the hotel kitchen at the time robert kennedy was assassinated. i spent a great deal of time since then exploring all of the details of the time leading up to robert kennedy's death. i have never run across that story. i do know that in his hotel room, he made a call to a number of people to look over to the next phase of the campaign. he was going to new york to campaign for delegates there. he did talk to many people. he may well have talked to s

he responded earlier, much more to the assassination of john kennedy. despite the fact that he always saw -- used kennedy as a foil, for example, in the stand in the schoolhouse door, trying to keep out black students in 1963. he admired kennedy. and really respected him. and when kennedy was assassinated, it -- it disturbed him deeply, i think. in part because he realized that the assassination of a public figure like -- like kennedy could happen to him, as well. >> well, you've got a picture in your book, "the politics of rage, "dan carter, of president kennedy touring alabama in 1963. >> right. right. >> not a picture that jfk wanted to have published. >> no. he made every effort to make sure that he was not photographed side by side with george wallace. and for him, it was politics. i mean, it wasn't -- he may have not have liked wallace. in some ways, his brother particularly, robert, admired his political skills. didn't like him, but he realized that politically this was not going to do him any good to have his picture next to governor wallace ther

. >> you know n 1960 which state voted most for john kennedy? georgia.>> wow. >> and that's when blacks couldn't vote. >> right. >> and big donors will be hearing a lot from hillary clinton. the public and the press will not be. hillary clinton is still keeping press out of her fundraiser. >> what will be her next press conference? >> well, tvd. we asked and -- >> fundraisers are much more fun than press conferences. >> right. >> michael steele. >> we were talking -- >> you have a great broadcast voice. where did you get that? >> according to larry, george wallace got 3% of the african american vote in 1968. donald trump currently polling at 1 or 2%. he is less popular than the man who stood in the schoolhouse door. >> thank you. i love this kind of stuff. i don't like the news but i love the way you got it. jason johnson, coleen and that's "hardball" for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. have a good night tonight. >>> tonight on all in. >> i want our party to be the home of the african-american voter once again. >> the trump outreach continues

i actually suspect that john f. kennedyas thinking kind of cynically and thought if i could get this guy on a platform and force him to kind of mouth his, what were then, very unpopular views, i could wipe the floor with him. so i'm not sure it was this magnanimous act on kennedy's part. >> history changed in dallas, november 22nd, 1963, following the assassination of president kennedy. senator barry goldwater said this. >> well, he was a very decent fellow. he was a gentleman. he's the kind of antagonist that i've always enjoyed. he would fight like a wildcat for his points and his principles, but there was never anything personal about it. i imagine that i've debated with the president more on the floor of the senate than any other man, and it never affected our friendship. we had some rather violent arguments in sessions of committee and never affected our friendship. that's the kind of a man that you respect. that's the kind of a man you like to work with in politics. >> and so after the assassination and before he ente

carefully in a was there an epiphany i went to the convention in los angeles and i was there when john kennedywas nominated for president and i met eleanor roosevelt and i didn't come from a political family i just made this is what i wanted to do. did you have a moment? how did this successful guy throw his hat in the ring in a crowded race for the mayor of denver? >> i had gotten involved in this naming of the old football stadium and several different people that were all politically astute came up and said you should run for mayor. you love the city and all these nonprofit committees. so i thought about it for about 18 months and there was a fellow who ran the national civic league at the time and engineered a whole to her than the eastern seaboard. can you make a difference? i just really couldn't. i had never hung out with elected officials or the class president. they didn't hang out with me. >> you were a geek with coke bottle glasses? [laughter] >> we don't have to go over too much. >> and you couldn't get the girls either. >> about tipping point on the decision is playing with the id

and, number two, any time you suggest gun violence, there is this long swath of history, john kennedy was assassinated, martin luther king was assassinated, and ronald reagan almost assassinated. each time it on took one gunman. who know what is rhetoric or who know what is motivated those people. we know these language is unacceptable. i grew up in texas. i grew up in a gun culture. i've had guns in my hand since i was 5 or 6 years old. what donald trump says about the second amendment reflects badly on them because it goes into the stereotype that everybody in sport of the second amendment is gun crazy and some sort of nut job and that's not the case. >> let me say something about what i think is a critical difference between my opponent and myself. words matter, my friends. and if you are running to be president or you are president of the united states, words can have tremendous consequences. yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from donald trump that crossed the line. his casual cruelty to a gold star family, his casual suggestion that more countrie

john f. kennedyays the only announced threat to orderly compliance of the law, however, is your plan of -- and in violation of acceptan acceptance standards of public conduct. he's still determined to make this public stand at the university of alabama in order, you know, presumably for law and order but also to advance his candidacy as potentially a national figure. the university of alabama campus is under a security guard as governor george lost the field. the federal officers are on the front urging the government to end this and negros voting in the university. >> in this photograph, you see nicholas, who's the assistant attorney general of the united states. he's the kennedy's representative making federal government argument for the immigration of university. then standing in the door, as he promised governor wallace who stands here and make a statement and states that he's not going to leave and he's going to physically bar the admission of james hood and of the two african-american students

they did not have the formal education of a john f. kennedy. they both appreciated the experiences of a common man and woman. that is what drove them to public service, i believe. garner was mentioned fdr's first vice president. they share skepticism about that office of a both held with garner once observing that the vice presidency was not worth a couple of warm spit. that is a sanitized version of the quote. there is a less sanitized version, and i will let your imagination take you wherever it does. harry truman, not to the outdone, made a similar observation about the vice presidency, that it was like the no way toon a cow, really change that one around that i could think of. [laughter] >> hopefully that will suggest to you the common bond of the two men. andner was truman senior garner was in the vice presidency when truman came to the senate so he was the presiding officer in the chamber. garner gave truman the same advice he gave all new members and that was to be quiet and learn how things were for a while. garner did serve as a mentor

we lost john kennedy in 63 and martin luther king in april of 68 and robert kennedy. my brother was called up in the glenville wright in 1968 when cleveland burned because of those events. you have to frame this in the context of other bigger and he mentioned that already. >> was i try to do in the book that i forgot one thing, karl stokes from cleveland had wonderful description of him. he said he looked like a football player turned partition. it's a great description. you have been wonderful and i would be glad to sign books for anyone who would like to have it. thank you very much. >> hello everybody. thank you so much for coming out. on this really beautiful day. thank you so much for coming. before we start a few housekeeping rules. please silence your cell phones. we have a site that kramer.com and we would love for you to visit. there's the science behind it with what happens to the people who lived it and those who died. as i said there was a particular commitment to kramerbooks and we are so glad he could be with us tonight. wonderful stories and i'm sarah b

president john f. kennedy found once global nuclear war between the u.s. some distant hypothetical insane possibility, president kennedy in 1962 realized even though he was president and had incredible power and responsibility in that situation, logistically, he didn't exactly know how one would go about doing this? how is a president supposed to start a global nuclear war if he decides that's what he wants to do?

we all remember bobby kennedy was assassinated in june in california. i don't understand it. it was john f. kennedy who in in a 1961 speech detailed the importance of the second amendment and why it must not be subverted in any way. in part he said this, today we need a nation of minute men, citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. the cause of liberty, the cause of america cannot succeed with any lesser effort. where were they then? joining me now former reagan white house political director great america pact strategist ed roll linls. great to sigh. >> you thank you very much. >> i just have to get your reaction to this. what is such a transparent and obviously manufactured outrage on the part of some of the silly give dills in the mainstream liberal media. >> they are made this the story, it's not anything that he said. the irony is that gun ownership in this country has increased immeasurably under obama, people a

the change came with john kennedy. kennedy appointed mc george monday as his national security advisor. these that is truman or eisenhower had a national security advisor, the size of the staff mushroomed. under truman and eisenhower staff of the nsc were notetakers and minute seekers, they never three or four. under kennedy the size of the staff increased to 20 and began to handle policy issues. it happened again when kissinger became national security advisor to nixon. for the time george bush took office, numbered well over 100. these were experts in specific areas. in many respects the national security act of 1947 had been turned on its head. instead of a body that coordinated government policy as was intended the national security council staff became a policymaking tool. bush ran policy from the white house, national security staff allowed him to do so. the second point i would like to make is bush is a born-again christian who saw the world in biblical terms. that was especially true after 9/11. bush defined th