with us is john taft. his wonderful book stewardship on global wall street. of wall street for decades. we touch on the magical name of taft going back to the election of 1908. john taft is not active in politics. , whichs a certain path is every single person, where is the discourse of the republican party? is the republican party of your family going back beyond your great-grandfather, is it gone? , which is oned it of the reasons i have not gotten involved in politics. wingoderate conservative of the republican party does not seem to have a home in u.s. politics today. there has been a lot written recently about my great-grandfather and his views on the presidency, specifically a new biography, a recent column the washingtonin post, pointing out his constitutional modesty, the idea that he was quoted as saying that the constitution restricts more than it empowers the presidency. that was his view of the role of the presidency, a limited one. of modesty and a mixing it up with hubris -- is the idea of modesty and mixing it with hubris, are you looking at whe

what an honor to have john taft with us earlier.and what will you look for in the 7:00, 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. hour this morning? >> the u.s. president doesn't arrive in canada until late this morning and in fact he's on the ground for only 24 hours and is missing most of the second day of the summit and could leave before there's any sort of commun day or key statements. what they'll watch today is his sitdown with the french president and then a working lunch to discuss trade and that will be where the tension points will really be. we'll get a bit of a sense from that shortly after because the traditional family photo will take place after that meeting and might give us a sense of the optics, the body language for the family photo, who walks in and talks with him and who doesn't talk with him. tom: remind me of cicely and who was on which golf cart and where they were in the photo-op as well. will there be a photo opportunity? can we even get there with the president of the united states? rosalind: it is on his schedule for today but

taft, and others. i think you would rather hear about it from the man who wrote the book and our author is our guest today. the very distinguished senator from the state of massachusetts, john f. kennedy. this is the closest i'm going to get for a while. >> the two men knew each other and had a rapport. that makes these photographs even more interesting and personal, because this is one of john f. kennedy's last public appearances before he was assassinated in dallas. we also have in jim wright's papers his copy of the itinerary for that day that showed when president kennedy and mrs. kennedy were going to arrive in fort worth, and what their schedule was going to be. then, the itinerary for november 22, 1963. --is a poignant artifact poignant document because it goes through the entire day. of course, we know that president kennedy did not complete this schedule of events. but these are in the collection as well. jim wright wrote about his experiences that day, being with president kennedy in the motorcade. these are some diaries kept by speaker wright during his tenure in congress. these did not come with us with his original congressional papers, but we received them aft

taft and others but i think you would rather hear about it from the man who wrote the book. the author is our guest today. the very distinguished senator the massachusetts, honorable john f. kennedy. entity: thank you very much for having me. i have never been to texas, so this might be the closest i will get for a while. >> the two men had a report and they knew each other. that makes this photograph even more interesting impersonal, because this is one of john f. kennedy's last public appearances before he was assassinated in dallas. we also have in the papers, a copy of the itinerary for that day, that shows when president and mrs. kennedy were going to arrive in fort worth, and what their schedule was going to be. for november 22 artifact,s a poignant a poignant document, because it goes through the entire day. and of course, we know that president kennedy did not complete this schedule of events. but these are in the collection as well. jim wright wrote about his experiences that day, being with president kennedy in the motorcade. these are the diaries kept by speaker right during his tenure in congress. they did not come to us in the original succession of his congr