kennedy, jr. hookah up until this point* never saw him as a journalist perhaps a historian not sure what he would be. he is a dreamer but when old joe wants you to do something, his son's do it. so he runs for congress. by 1960, and the ambition that was not his for the presidency, he is ready to run. lyndon baines johnson belongs to a different sort of dynasty or ambition. his family was a dynasty on the way down. his family owned lands and the slaves in texas. and his father was a member of the state legislature. but he works his way down on the social and political scale. when he is in the legislature sam johnson and sponsors a bill to have a road constructed by there hometown. by the time it is to be constructed, johnson is not only a former member of the state legislature but working on the road crew doing manual labor, pushing wheelbarrows, that is how far the johnson family had fallen. very, very quickly. and lyndon johnson and the sort of like scarlett o'hara and "gone with the wind", it d

not for jack kennedy.but there was a local grudge match where the state attorney like the district attorney of cook county was up for reelection. he was a former democrat, former daley ally. and he wanted to get this guy. big time. he wanted him out. and he wanted the governorship and all that other stuff. and if you gets to the presidency in the bargain, then so much the better. that was already -- that is a texas thing. one of those little things about texas and illinois is this. every mistake a losing candidate makes gets magnified, and everything the winning candidate or military campaign or does, tends to be not important because you want. so when the allies were off laying in a beach and, that's not important here because you win. and nixon in the last week of the campaign flies out to alaska to keep the 50 state pledge, and all historians go, that's the dumbest thing. that's like, why is he doing this? aside from keeping his word which is like something you don't associate with richard nixon, but it

he was with senator kennedy in 1980 when the last of the kennedy brothers ran for president. i remember that so well, as the down state coordinator of the ted kennedy for president campaign in illinois. in 1985 paul kirk took on the challenge of chairing the democratic national committee in the middle of the reaganer remarks quite a political challenge for any democrat. he served as cochairman of the commission on presidential debates, chairman of the john f. kennedy library foundation since 1992. he's a good fellow with a great sense of humor. and i can tell you what's been said about him. he's never been known for excitement. one friend said of paul kirk several years ago -- quote -- "behind that quiet exterior is a quiet interior. he's just that sort of person. soft spoken but effective." he may not speak in a lion's roar like ted kennedy, but his reverence for america and his belief in this great of nation and sense of justice is just as strong. on the saturday before thanksgiving during the effort to break the filibuster on health care reform, senator kirk came to the fl

the house of representatives, distinguished senator from the state ever massachusetts, senator ted kennedy, who has done a marvelous job, not just with this legislation that we hope to pass -- [applause] >> not only with this legislation that we hope to pass to create an adams' memorial, but maybe some day there will be a kennedy memorial in our nation's capital to the great things that that family has achieved over the span of their many, many talented generations of public service. i also -- i'd also like to say in my remarks here as well, too, that in the dinner that we talked about, we talked about

kennedy foundation in chicago. he of course was supporting ted kennedy in the primaries over jimmy carter in 1980 and of course as we all know this is as senator kennedy lost and lost badly to jimmy carter and the family was furious with carter in 1980 because what he thought was a very vicious campaign against senator kennedy and corydon took it upon himself to exact meat revenge, so he secretive to the campaign briefing documents carter briefing books out of the carter white house and gave them to bill casey who by that time was running in the reagan campaign and as a matter of fact casey put paul corydon on the retainer to the campaign. here is a guy just worked for ted kennedy, the backroom of working in the communist party politics, the labor politics and had been arrested numerous times for running scams in the midwest and was all sorts of criminal law activities. and of course reagan doesn't know anything about this whatsoever. the irony is the briefing books which when i interviewed president carter he to t

he took over the seat long held by ted kennedy, and he defrived democrats of the 60-seat needed to filibuster. scott brown all day today asked some tough questions. how did he do? >> his swearing in was actually a week earlier than was originally planned, and now, wolf, he will likely cast one of his first votes on monday -- it will be on one of the president's nominees for a labor board, and this is something republicans have been trying very hard to hold up, and scott brown's vote could actually give the republicans the last vote to block it. so that is one of the things that i asked scott brown when he arrived here first thing today in a scrum of reporters. >> mr. brown, we were told by some reporters that were talk to go your folks that they made it pretty clear they wanted you to come down because some of the nominees they were opposed to were coming up fast and they wanted your 40th vote against it. >> all i can tell you is i've had no contact with the office or anyone else. he's been helpful and a mentor getting the office set up. i'm an independent thinker, always have been. i'm going

justice kennedy, somebody gave them a copy.rl warren -- they got it too. [laughter] >> things happen in the lower court after the supreme court decides the case. if anybody thinks they have the right of their own and the public, i agree with the justice that it is good to be cautious. i want to cite that they say it is good to be chromatic -- pragmatic, but there is the story about the constitution, that they are protected. after all, that is the point of having a constitution. a lot of that happens and the lower courts. there are things that officials do, police officers do, they infringe on rights and get litigated with the justice, and so that is an essential part of the system. it is just different at the supreme court. it is not a court like other courts. it is a political accord. it is part of government. >> game marriage, which is going on right now. the constitution defense game marriage. and if you are in california, it will provoke a backlash, prop. 8 will clash, and it will set back politics and you are afraid that i

is about whether people connected the reagan speech, the kennedy berlin speech.s. the kennedy speech is, you know, remains the, you know, one of the most important moments i think for germ man -- germans since the second world war. it was much different moment. the wall had only recently gone up. it was incredibly emotional moment. kennedy said that he was actually a little worried that people might try to tear down the wall after he gave his speech, they were so whipped into a frenzy. the reagan people were very conscious of not trying to duplicate what kennedy did. they knew they were not going to get a million people in the streets as kennedy did. he had 500,000 people in the city square when he gave his address. the peter robinson, who was the main speechwriter of "tear down this wall", told me watched kennedy's speech but he was very conscious that he didn't want to invoke. so that also influenced the site selection. they, the reagan people didn't want his speech being compared unfavorably to the kennedy speech so they wanted to pick a location that would lo

that day, march 5th, senator kennedy said health care is a right, not a privilege. let us move in a way -- who can say -- we started this six weeks after your inauguration. just six weeks after your inauguration on march 5th, with you extending a hand of bipartisanship. and many of the provisions that are in our bill i just hope as we sit around this table, we understand the urgency that the american people have about this issue. that affects not only their health but their economic security, and i thank you, mr. president, for your leadership in getting to this place.

kennedy, class of 1940. quote, if the crimson did show up at the white house we would get calls from solicitors office or bundy's office, referring to kennedy aides. and george buddy who served as the dean of faculty at harvard your. kennedy's presidency the rise and fall of camelot was the backdrop for some of the most extraordinary scenes and events in the lives of houston smith, andy weil, richard alpert and timothy live. kennedy was elected in the fall of 1960, the same season that andy weil and the harvard class of 1964 move to cambridge and begin their undergraduate studies. on the very day that kennedy defeated richard milhouse nixon and was elected president, november 8, 1960, huxley and his psychedelic connection met timothy leary at a boston restaurant and decide to work with him on the harvard psilocybin project. he was the president and editor of in chief of the harvard crimson at the height of the kennedy presidency. he would graduate, get hired by newsweek and head out to berkeley in 1964 to co

if you look down this hall, this is a very large suite that ted kennedy had. it is prime real estate here on the capitol complex because it actually on the other side has a nice balcony with a beautiful view of the cap zpol we are close to the capitol sparse senate offices go. this, of course, will be empty and this will be the office of scott brown. usually these offices are doled out by seniority. as one senate official told me he was coming in mid stream, he's going to not only take senator ted kennedy's seat, he will take his office as well. >> i want to be precise. after he is sworn in the senate, he will have a little news conference. is that right? >> reporter: that's right. he was supposed to have been sworn in by now. he will go to the gallery that senators are able to come to speak to press and will speak to us and have his first news conference as a sitting senator. >> we are anxious to see that. he's obviously an influential player already here in washington. stand by. we are going to get back to you and i want david gergen and gloria borger and be

scott brown took ted kennedy's seat in massachusetts the bluest of blue states running on the idea that he would be the 41st vote against this massive health care bill. what's their response? to accuse us of crying when they try to it through with 51 votes and ignore the american people by making it bigger. i think they've lost their mind. >> greta: what are the

justice kennedy, somebody gave them a copy.preme court decides the case. if anybody thinks they have the right of their own and the public, i agree with the justice that it is good to be cautious. i want to cite that they say it is good to be chromatic -- pragmatic, but there is the story about the constitution, story about the constitution, that they are protected a lot of that happens in the lower courts. petty officials, police officers, they do things to infringe on people's rights. judges get those basic principles right and protect liberties, that is an essential part of the system. it is different at the supreme court, a different dynamic it is a political court. it is one of the three branches of government. >> can we throw on theñ table te test case for your theory -- gay marriage? do you believe in good conscience? the constitution allows game marriage -- gay marriage. you are in california and you have a strong sense that if you pass this it will have a strong backlash and a setback progressive politics more generall

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> from a marketing standpoint, they almost have to win tonight, because then it would be friday the 13th. kind of catchy. their 12-game streak is already the longest in the nhl since the lock-out. as dave owens found out, not even mother nature can stop the caps. >> reporter: the caps have found all sorts of ways to win during this 12-game streak. some nights they dominate. >> score! >> reporter: others, like last night's 6-5 affair get accomplished with less than their best. >> it just happens that our b level is usually higher than most other teams' b level, even higher than sometimes when they play their best. >> reporter: alex ovechkin sat out this morning's skate. just the 9th player in history to earn 500 points in his first five seasons. >> he's got so many, i don't know where to begin any more. >> reporter: tonight, the thrashers. despite having beaten

for now, brown will have kennedy's old office as a temporary office, but not his desk. senator kennedy's desk is going to the new senior senator from the bay state john kerry. >>> also today, speaking at the national prayer breakfast, president obama criticized what he called the erosion of civility in america. by way of example, he made clear reference to the whisper campaign that he is a muslim or was born outside the u.s. >> i am the first to confess i'm not always right. michelle will testify to that. but surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith. or for that matter my citizenship. >> every president since eisenhower has participated in the annual prayer breakfast, but this year's event drew some controversy after an ethnics group asked the president and congressional leaders to boycott it, saying the sponsor, the fellowship foundation, is linked to harsh anti-gay laws in uganda. >>> when "nightly news" continue once a thursday night, those ten american whose tried to take haitian children out of the country are formally charged. what happens

what i did get is ted kennedy's desk, which was held previously, it's the desk that jack kennedy had.'s a massachusetts treasure if you will. >> you didn't tell me. >> just got it yesterday. >> larry: teresa, thank you so much. >> thanks to you. >> larry: they know everyone in the music business. brought them together if help haiti. the men behind "we are the world" next. well, maybe it should be tuna helper day. mmmm... fish delish, yes? i'll take it. sold! tuna helper. one tasty meal. upbeat rock ♪ so i could hear myself myseas a ringtone ♪hone ♪ sold! ♪ who knew the store would go and check my credit score ♪ ♪ now all they let me have is this dinosaur ♪ ♪ hello hello hello can anybody hear me? ♪ ♪ i know i know i know i shoulda gone to ♪ ♪ free credit report dot com! ♪ that's where i shoulda gone! coulda got my knowledge on! ♪ ♪ vo: free credit score and report with enrollment in triple advantage. for just $29.99 at red lobster. with fresh salads and biscuits... your choice of entrées... and an appetizer or a dessert to share. ends soon...at red lobster. >> larry: welcome back. qui

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justice kennedy, somebody gave them a copy.> nixon, earl warren -- they got it too. [laughter] >> things happen in the lower court after the supreme court decides the case. if anybody thinks they have the right of their own and the public, i agree with the justice that it is good to be cautious. i want to cite that they say it is good to be chromatic -- pragmatic, but there is the story about the constitution, that they are protected. after all, that is the point of having a constitution. a lot of that happens and the lower courts. there are things that officials do, police officers do, they infringe on rights and get litigated with the justice, and so that is an essential part of the system. it is just different at the supreme court. it is not a court like other courts. it is a political accord. it is part of government. >> game marriage, which is going on right now. the constitution defense game marriage. and if you are in california, it will provoke a backlash, prop. 8 will clash, and it will set back politics and you are af

this is the former office spales space of ted kennedy. literally moving into his offices. not today. today he'll have some temporary offices and for the next couple of days. but this is really pretty remarkable, because this office suite which i think you're seeing down the hall here in the russell senate office building, this is prime real estate. this is where ted kennedy obviously had immense seniority, he had his offices for some time. you see that all of these offices down to where you see the flags down the hall, they are occupied, were occupied, by ted kennedy. now are occupied by his temporary replacement, will ultimately where scott brown is. the beautiful views of the capitol, beautiful balconies. i'm told it is just being done for convenience sake, because it is an open office, but it certainly is symbolic that scott brown will be taking over this pretty plush office space that ted kennedy once held. we used to see him walk here, all the time, every day, because we do the live shots from right around the corner and that's why w

duncan kennedy, abc news, in rome. >> 11 days from the start of the operation in helmand province, we are told that further progress has been made. the royal air force has played a key role. our defense correspondent is in canada are -- kandahar. >> [unintelligible] >> it is early morning and crews are on a round-the-clock mission, keeping crews below. these guys are high above homeland. -- the helmand province. >> there is a bit of instability creeping in. >> it started with a weather briefing. then they rolled close air support to nato forces on the ground anywhere in afghanistan. they flew in one week the same number of hours that would normally fly in a month. >> it is what we are trained to do. to get there is quite rewarding. >> at first, it was a slow buildup. it is fortunate their work magic -- american troops. i was literally screaming on the radio. >> they had been in service for roughly eight years. the squadron here incensed january has played a vital role in the operation -- here since january has played a vital role in the operation. they are helping soldiers under fire,

>> i had great respect for senator kennedy, everybody in massachusetts did. whether you agreed with him, we all had great respect for him. he had a super sense of humor. it's temporary housing, i understand that. i'm looking forward to when the cameras go away i'll settle down and get to work. >> thank you, everybody. >> did you get that business card? >> yes. >> still no business cards. the senator-elect from the state of massachusetts, scott brown, waiting for a swearing in. with us, jonathan wiseman. reporter for the wall street journal. how are you? >> good, how are you? >> how big is change is this? how much legislation difference will he make? >> it's amazing to think that the democrats have a majority of 59 and it has -- that one seat has made such a difference. this is still the second largest majority since the johnson administration. but the republicans have maintained remarkable discipline on obama's priorities. so this is a very, very big deal. republicans now need to be brought to the table on any major teal that president obama things he's going

but what i did get, which i'm very excited about, was ted kennedy's desk, which was held previously,ennedy had and sort of a massachusetts treasure. >> you didn't tell me. >> just got it yesterday. >> larry: teresa, good luck to you. >> thank you. >> larry: they know everyone in the music business, brought many of them together to help haiti. ♪ and the number would haunt me wherever i'd go ♪ ♪ thought i'd move to a place where my credit could stink ♪ ♪ and nobody would care ♪ i just wish that somebody had told me ♪ ♪ that place was a renaissance fair! ♪ ♪ free credit report dot com! tell your friends, ♪ ♪ tell your dad,tell your mom! ♪ never mind, they've been singing our songs ♪ ♪ since we first showed up with our pirate hats on! ♪ ♪ if you're not into fake sword fights ♪ ♪ pointy slippers and green wool tights ♪ ♪ take a tip from a knight who knows ♪ ♪ free credit report dot com, let's go! ♪ legal vo: offer applies with enrollment in triple advantage >> larry: welcome back. quincy jones and lionel richie are two of the biggest names in the music business, and they created "we are t

we felt we had three, justice scalia, thomas, and kennedy. kennedy had written extensively on first amendment issues. so we felt that we had those three. our to swing votes were chief justice roberts and justice alito. you did not know where they were going to be because they did not answer these questions before. >> in 2005-2006 is when they first came on the court. >> the chief justice was. it did not matter. we did not know where either would be in this ruling. >> how much did the whole lawsuit cost you? >> we have spent well in excess of $1 million on the legal fees related to this. >> did you have to raise it for this particular purpose? >> nobody gives to mccain- feingold lawsuits. >> you did not call somebody and said, we're going after this one and we need 50 grand? >> no. we raised less than $10,000 directly as it relates to this lawsuit. >> you are not getting any more money? >> nobody has called and said, what a great victory and here's a donation. if anybody would like to help us, we would love to have it. we spend about $1.25 mil

so kennedy said there was no conceivable reason fidel new that and khrushchev knew that but we did not know that. >> host: what if they put short range that would not reach atlanta or washington? wouldn't be well protected? >> khrushchev did want to threaten us because they were threatening him. >> host: he knew how far behind you was in the missile arms race. >> guest: there were two items that were. we were kept out of both of them. list goes on over and over in this point* where the first bush was thinking of the of rate war, he did say let's do this. admiral, the former head of lead joint chiefs of staff testified weight of it. there is a good reason to prolong the sanctions just to see if they might work. secretary of state jim baker came back to the same is said the adderall no longer has clearance so his opinion is not worth anything. so we all have to defend on the priesthood of the secrets they are the only ones that are qualified to judge and that is where secrecy has taken us. >> host: patrick moynihan would say in his book on secrecy, not that it was the bomb power but the

kennedy. his is an ambition of a dynasty.n some sense, a political dynasty, also a financial dynasty. his father, joseph p. kennedy wanted to be the first tablet president of the united states of america. his ambitions, get derailed, around 1940 as he picks the wrong side of the isolationist debate going into world war ii. and he transfers those ambitions to his son, joseph p. kennedy junior, who in august 1944, in an effort to equal his younger brother, jfk's wartime exploit, pt 109 is piloting obama across the english channel, filled with one of perhaps the greatest lows of tnt in the history of mankind. and somewhere across the english channel, that plane debate. they never find the pieces of him. windows are shattered and buildings in london, the explosion is so severe. and that is the end of that part of joseph p. kennedy senior's plan for the presidency. those ambitions are transferred to john f. kennedy junior who up until this point never saw himself as a politician. saw himself as a writer, historian, journalist perh

his father, senator edward kennedy, died last year, so come 2011, there will be no kennedy in congress for the first time in nearly half a century. in the meantime, it remains unclear what congress can or will do this year to change voters' opinions. there's been some progress on a financial re-regulation bill. but health care reform is in limbo, along with climate change. and now, there's a new dispute in the senate over a jobs bill. >> we have a bipartisan bill that will create jobs, according to the cbo, immediately. >> woodruff: senate majority leader harry reid made that announcement thursday, but just hours later, he dramatically scaled it back to a much leaner plan. democrats complained it would do too little, and some republicans said it's still too much. >> i'm concerned about how it's paid for. i'm concerned about loading it up with other extraneous provisions. >> woodruff: the senate takes up the jobs bill when it returns to work in ten days, after the president's day recess. now, for more on what the polls say and how that may be affecting the politicians, we turn to: andre

kennedy and bush getting together, or is there something that you have learned of the past years as thebe the better way to start out by sitting down with your republican colleagues? >> it is the better approach. i had that experience with president bush and senator kennedy and others, top political fighters, getting together with no top left behind. at the education and labor committee, we try to start on a bipartisan track and go down that track as far as we can. but a lot of times we do. the former chairman of the committee and myself put together our discussion track about how to revise and no child left behind. the former chairman brady has come up to the hill and met with senate democrats. we had discussions with senator harkin and myself, lamar alexander my ranking member. >> jon klein. >> yes, and we met with leader boehner about this. the joint staff of the senate and house, bipartisan, and the administration working together on the basic architecture of it. that is the route that we would prefer to go. and in consideration of that act, we have the opportunity because what the

the senator taking over the late ted kennedy's seat. brown was initially supposed to be sworn in a week from now but he wanted in early to vote on a couple of issues, including a labor relations board seat. >>> d.c. says goodbye to tai shan. the beloved panda was loaded on to a fed ex crate and caravaned to dulles. he and another panda from the atlanta zoo took off on a jet bound for china. they'll join a breeding program in south central china. >> thank you, laura. >>> the news edge on maryland where the party may be over for a bethesda manual. paul pickthorn apparently holds sex parties in his rented home off river road once a month featuring lessons and bondage, dominance and submission. he invites consenting adults, collects donations at the door. nothing illegal happens. neighbors have voiced their concerns, though, their anger, even calling police on several occasions. now montgomery county is investigating. >> i just felt really uncomfortable having it in our neighborhood and having children especially. >> if it's commercial acti

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. >>> and another kennedy may have an eye on public office. a top democrat since joseph kennedy the third is considering a run for the u.s. house. he is the grandson of robert kennedy, the 29-year-old is a graduate of stanford university and harvard law school. he currently works as a prosecutor in massachusetts. >>> premiums will go up and they will also go up because of the government mandates. >> it's not factually accurate. costs for families for the same type of coverage as they're currently receiving would go down 14 to 20%. >> i believe with respect you're wrong. >> there were no big breakthroughs during president obama's health care summit that played out on tv. the president ended talks by promising to move forward. so did the last ditch mting sway any lawmakers or is the partisan divide as strong as ever? chris wallace is the coast of fox news sunday he joins us with a preview of today's program. good morning. >> good morning melanie. >> after a seven hour working session i'd like to believe there would be some areas of agreement wer

laura deny dilawyer kennedy is-- --laura ken did i.it is a way we meet with other nations to try to reduce the advance of nuclear arms and the threat of nuclear war. her nomination is based on the fact that she's an experienced diplomat with talent and skills that are desperately needed in this very involved, difficult, and important negotiation. she has already served with with distinction in several position. she was ambassador to turkmenistan, deputy commandant at the national war college. she was reported out of the senate foreign relations committee two months ago. what is holding her up? yesterday the majority leader asked that laura kennedy, the nominee to the conference on disarmament be approved by the senate and the senator from alabama, senator shelby, said "i object." well, i think senator shelby owes it to all of us to come and tell us why. what is it that he objects to about laura kennedy? does he feel she's not qualified? if he does, let's hear why. and then let's bring it to a vote of the senate. isn't that only fair? k

i was finally able to get bill kennedy. people did not want to talk about this.bill kennedy came to washington to work alongside vance and the white house council office. he was the person who went and identified his body at the morgue and told me of the story. i put it in their only to show that to the extent people tried to create conspiracy theories that the clintons were somehow involved, that was just so over the top and so inappropriate because they had all lost one of there closest friends. this had been bill clinton's friend since he was four years old. this was a horrible time for all of them. that piece of things is just a very sad piece of the story. >> host: of the final personality that we can talk about in the context is paula jones. in that story the whitewater story, they get intermingled did you talk to paula jones? >> guest: i did. >> host: did you learn anything? >> guest: i got a feel for what made paula jones tick. she is likable. it is, in fact, the last piece of it. what happened is you have whitewater. whitewater had been dead for years. n

no child left behind was a bipartisan bill with kennedy and bush getting together.or, is there something that you've learned over the past year as the chairman or past couple of years that maybe this is the bester way to start out a complex issue by sitting down with your republican sns >> it's a little of both. i had that experience with senator bush and senator kennedy and myself, and john boehner, very tough political fighters came together. really, the education and labor committee we try to start every bill on a bipartisan track and we go far down that track as we can. if we can't agree then we can't agree. but a lot of times we do. the former chair of the committee buck mckeon and myself as chair put together discussion draft two years ago about how to revise no child left behind. the secretary has been great. he has come up to thehill. he has met with senate and the house committees, republicans and democrats. we had one meeting with all of us together. senator harken, myself, and lamar alexander, senator ense and john -- my ranking member john kline. and he

by the way, john kerry just grabbed the senate desk of ted kennedy, which was jack kennedy's desk and i believe before that daniel webster's. now you see the swearing-in ceremony. democracy continues in america. >>> welcome back to "hardball." president obama pledged congress to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. the chairman of the joint chiefs apparently goes along with that. michael mullen supports allowing gay servicepeople to serve openly in the military. how easy will it be to eliminate the current rule? what would it mean for the military? let's turn to two real soldiers, two iraq war veterans. i'll call you by both your names so we don't get confused. john solts, you, sir, give me a real-life example of what it's like to serve with gay servicemen and women and how it works. what's it like and how does it work effectively? >> the way it works right now is you come home from the war, and like i was, i was on vacation with a couple of my friends. we were traveling around. and they said, oh, by the way, you know that other officer that was with us, he was gay. i said reall

blank -- fighters into kennedy and the secret service cover-up everything.es in one call. that is close to a record. host: we are encouraging everybody to call in, including democrats ands democrats. we're getting a lot of republican calls. -- including democrats and independents. which president was afraid of being buried alive and guest: why george washington. the first lady was as well, eleanor roosevelt. she had this irrational fear of being buried alive from childbirth. that humanizes president's in a way. there may be a number of people and the evidence you have the same fear. host: what was george washington stipulation to make sure he was not buried alive? guest: he just expressed a fear. he said do not put me in the tomb in less than three days. the irony, of course, i discovered a friend of his who is the co architect of the original capital. he rushed to mount vernon and thought he could resurrect the dead washington by robbinubbings body vigorously in putting him in warm water. mrs. washington put a stop to that. maybe he was onto something. host

he said why did kennedy pay attention to that? that was all and classified information. crusco therefore not important. >> guest: therefore, not important. when he went to his generals and cia people he said we have all the secrets. they don't have them. and of course that is what lyndon johnson said during the vietnam war: if you know what i know, but you can't of course. host collected the of pigs the recent scholarships' adjusted one of the reasons they went ahead with it is the expected if not an uprising, successful assassination of castro. the had the mafia working on the secret plots. it was a combination. >> guest: they could do that without the investigation the. they tried over and over. that is another example. president kennedy said linda cubin missiles -- when the russian missiles were put in cuba, there is no conceivable defensive justification for the missiles begin their. so they obviously are offensive just to attack us. well, there is a very conceivable defensive reason. fidel castro they were plotting his assassination and sabotaging the crops and mini

he said why didn't kennedy pay any attention to that? because that was all unclassified information. >> host: therefore not important? >> guest: therefore not important so when he went to his generals and cia he said we have all the secrets. they don't have them. and of course that is what lyndon johnson said during the vietnam war. if you know what i know -- but you can't of course. >> host: at the bay of pigs the recent scholarship also suggested one of the reasons they went ahead with it is they also expected if not an uprising a successful assassination of castro street and the mafia working on the secret plots as well. a combination -- biskupic could do that without the invasion though. they treated it over and over. >> host: hundreds of times. >> guest: that's another example. president kennedy said there is no -- wind the cubin missiles were put in cuba, there is no conceivable defensive justification for the missiles being there so they obviously are offensive. they are there just to attack us. well, there was a very conceivable

and, and, others had tried to establish and open a dialogue with the soviet union and john kennedy was one of those people and, there is some evidence that had he lived, he was moving toward a relationship with crew that might well have produced some -- khrushchev that might have produced major agreements that reduced arms race and slowed the cold war. he came along where there was a partner in moscow where he could work with. that's why i think korb chauf was very significant because there was no one quite like him until he came along. i guess we have time for one more. yes. >> you said that ronald reagan intended to bankrupt the soviet union in his administration in military spending went up dramatically. the soviets tried to match that, hence ford of the 25% of their gdp. was there a master plan of the reagan administration to bankrupt the soviet union? >> the question was whether the reagan white house had a plan to bankrupt the soviet union. they certainly did have a strategy. they did believe the soviet union and reagan really believed this from the get-go, that the soviet econom

legislation that we hope to pass to create an adams' memorial, but maybe some day there will be a kennedy memorial in our nation's capital to the great things that that family has achieved over the span of their many, many talented generations of public service. i also -- i'd also like to say in my remarks here as well, too, that in the dinner that we talked about, we talked about the adams family, and how marvelous the adams family is. i want to quote daniel bornston, a former libe ran of congress. he said, and i quote, "the achievements of the individual adamses are as dazzling in their brilliance, gripping in their drama. but the family history moves in the long, deep, currents of american civilization. for four generations adames were leaders in the decisive battles of american life. the american revolution, the movement against slavery, the civil war, and the railroad conquest of the continent." this family, when we don't have a memorial to family in this great city of four generations of men and women -- john adams and abigail ad yams, john quincy and luisa. of diplomats. charles fr

the senator kennedy is our inspiration. with the leadership of president obama and with your help, we will pass health insurance reform this year. [applause] >> here's what i want you to remember about health insurance reform, creating nour million good paying jobs. it is about innovation. it's about using the health i.t., et cetera and medical research and innovation of how we deliver health care to everyone in america and to everyone to have personalized, customized care, to getting the right care. this is very important and it's about the future. this bill is about prevention and wellness, it's about diet, not diabetes. it's about how we can make america healthier, not just about health care, but a healthier america. and this bill is about fairness, that fairness, that fire that burns within us. in the spirit of fairness, under the legislation, you will not be denied coverage -- >> we'll take you live to the national democratic winter meeting for comments from president obama live here on c-span. [cheers and applause] >>

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> welcome back. super bowl weekend, super storm. all packed up together what. do you say? >> yeah, stuck, together. >> exactly. >> armando trull is in forestville, maryland. kind of a storm command center there at the department of public works. armando. >> that's right this is the snowstorm center, and it got a huge screen with access the about 100 cameras, and from the last time we spoke, we now see that the snow is beginning to pile up. this is old branch at kirby. we've got garrett at morgan station. you can see a lot more snow there. paint branch, and that subpoena in the college park area. and the temperature is now about 26 degrees. that is the temperature on the pavement. that's what their computer records say. and that means that the snow is actually sticking. and that means this about 240 trucks and crews are about or have gone into action, and with

kennedy, tras un marco distinto a los anteriores con nieve a los alrededores, el tecnico curl onalfonsado a trabajar en estas practicas que seran las primeras para teaner un equipo bastante formado de lo que sera la temporada 2010. jaime moreno, "la bomba", confirmo que seguira jugando para el equipo d.c. united, llego a un acuerdo con la liga y con el d.c. para seguir siendo parte del equipo capitalino. mientras tanto la contratacion salvadoreña no pudo entrenar por problemas dentales. "ehhh es algo que a uno le duele bastante de no estar entrenando ya con el grupo, pero por la eh tenido que hacer nada mas estoy en terapia recuperandome de unas muelas que me sacaron pero pues ya, espero en los proximos dias tratar de estar con el grupo unido y tratar ya de estar haciendo lo que me gusta, jugar. no, me siento contento ya te digo pues eh trato de relacionar muy bien con ellos, ellos me han recibido de la mejor manera y contento de estar aca en un equipo grande y tratar de hacer las cosas bien nada mas". dentro y fuera del ring manny pacquiao sigue haciendo historia y su trabajo

we don't like the snow. >> suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. >>> let's go right to doug hill and the weather center. what is the latest? >> the snow continues, watching the temperatures fall. the weatherbug network, we are noticing the slow, steady increase in wind speed. these are live numbers. ocean city, fenwich, northeast wind at 13, 15, that will slowly increase. other areas locally will increase as well. along with the snow, the wood will become a factor. the 31 decrees downtown, damascus 30. close to 4 inches of snow. warrenton 29, calvert county 30 degrees. 3 inches of snowfall there. on the graphics, thank you for sending your photos. what we are dealing with -- sorry, this is doppler. heavy snow bands continue to come out of the southern bait and north central virginia, spreading from southwest to northeast. that is where we will get the heaviest precipitation. more of this is moving up from south carolina, north carolina, transitioning. we're keeping a close line -- cosi on the transition line. it is clearly south of the viewing area, we're monitoring that closely. moving across t

kennedy, who summoned up to serve and called us to pay any price, bear any burden.y of edward m. kennedy, whose cause and doors, who said that here in the united states, the promise of health care should not be privilege but a fundamental right. that is who we are, a democrat. that is who we have got to be today, for all the stories we have heard, after all the campaigns, after all the promises we made, this is our best chance to deliver change that the american people need. if we do that, if we speak to the hopes of the american people instead of their fears, if we inspire them instead of divide them, if we respond to their challenges with the same sense of urgency they feel in their hearts, we will not just when elections, elections will take care of themselves. we will once again be the party that turns around the economy and moves this country forward and secures the american dream for another generation. thanks very much, everybody. god bless. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ["stars and stripes" playing] ♪ ♪ ["stars and stripes" continues] >> coming up next, the fune

kennedy let these guys came in.fficial duties of the white house photographer or for military people. this is lyndon johnson, kennedy, and some of you would know the other guy. i also showed a picture of marched off martha mitchell to a class to the other day and only three people knew who it was. [laughter] these are really beautiful photos. it is a very famous picture. this transitions into a moment -- this was after jfk was assassinated on air force one, a very memorable photo, one of the top 10 pictures you would remember that you have seen in your life. johnson was not satisfied with theçó pictures from the militar. in their defense, the military photographers were not given access and did not have a fluid relationship. president johnson brought in someone that my colleagues and i really feel is the godfather of modern presidential photography. i have visited the archives here and it is an astonishing set of photos. he really laid down the gauntlet for the rest of us, in terms of how he would do this. [laughter

fortunately, we had men like mac and teddy kennedy.my observation, never mattered were meant anything to mac. moral compromise meant even less. i will not recount, as i have attempted to do, because of the wonderful remembrances thus far, think about it. mac voting against and coming out against the vietnam war when incredible pressure was being placed on him as a loyal republican. mac, marching with the midst of a highly charged atmosphere, when most people were hoping to not have to talk to either one of them with the cameras on because they were such lightning rods. wonderful people, but such political lightning rods for significant parts of our constituency. mac just went out and marched with them. campaigning -- campaign finance reform. oh, god, had he won. what a differen countryt this would be if he had prevailed on campaign finance reform. watergate -- not a very popular position to be in. i served with mac on the committees for the entire 14 years that we served together. watching him step up on issue after issue, i wondered h