khrushchev expected that kennedy would accept the missiles and that kennedy would do it. on june 26th, 1963, he goes to berlin. he said i am not a jelly donut and i'll be happy to talk about that if you like but i don't think it's worth it. and he's done work if necessary to save their freedom. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. and now we will have two comments. first mary beth stein and then charlie livingston in 10 minutes. mary beth stein is the associate professor of journalism international affairs at the george washington university in washington, d.c. and she received her ph.d. and has received several fellowships and scholarships with her various studies of germany. she's really an expert on current east german affairs and german affairs and german literature and also on the berlin wall and all that's around it so i'm very pleased to have her today. i just remembered about 11 years ago we had our first panel in atlanta, georgia. i'm happy to be with you again and we look forward to your comments and then i will introduce mr. livingston, thank

kennedy. from the outset nixon he would be an opportunity or a problem for him depending whether castro was in power or gone by election day. now, in the fall of 1960, john kennedy was just beating the eisenhower administration over the head with fidel castro. and no subject roused american voters more than the specter of a communist cuba and he reminded viewers that it was eight minutes away and he plame eisenhower and company including vice president nixon for letting this happen. imagine being in the shoes of richard nixon. he had a pretty well earned reputation as a communist busters in america and along comes this democrat from massachusetts suggesting that he richard nixon was not anticommunist enough. it was galling. kennedy somehow managed to outflank nixon with the antimost of the talk. one of the best examples heard in the nixon-kennedy television debates, not the first debate the one that was most favorite but the next debate. this debate may have been very important in the campaign

kennedy. from the outset, nixon realized that fidel castro was either going to be an opportunity or a problem for him depending on whether castro was still in power or gone by election day. now, in the fall of 1960 john kennedy was beating the eisenhower administration over the head with fidel castro. kennedy had realized that no subject roused the american voters more than the specter of a communist cuba, and at every whistle stop he reminded voters that the island was, quote, a mere eight jet minutes away, and he plameed eisenhower -- blamed eisenhower and company, including vice president nixon, for letting this happen. imagine being in the shoes of richard nixon. he had a pretty well-earned reputation as a communist buster, one of the premier communist busters in america, and along comes this democrat from massachusetts suggesting that he, richard nixon, was not quite anti-communist enough. it was galling. kennedy had somehow managed to outflank nixon. probably the best example occurred in

and he gave kennedy the same compliment that kennedy would later give him. he's really good, although he didn't meet him to his face after that and just focusing a little bit on the communications right around the time of the march 'cause there's any number of them and that's probably a good place to demarcate it. shortly before the march when kennedy had a meeting at the white house of all the march leaders to talk about whether the march was a good idea, king was, of course, there. and king argued very forcefully for the march to occur even though he said it may seem ill timed and he went on to say, personally i've never engaged in a civil rights was ill timed. many thought birmingham was ill timed and kennedy said yeah, including the attorney general. [laughter] >> which is the exchange i had. after the march on washington there was a meeting at the white house for all the march leaders. and the president went up to martin luther king and grabbed his hand and gave him a smile and said, i have a dream, acknowledging the success of king's best line of the d

bobby kennedy never did. and i think this is a young girl, not mature, bobby kennedy who feels heavily the burden of having to defend his brother, the president, jack kennedy, who was vulnerable because he was having affairs with people in the mafia and even an east german woman that sort of thing. bobby kennedy had to have hoover's help to protect his brother, and compromised him in this three or four we dance he's going to try to protect the kennedy's political position in the south and -- and the alliance, to luther king. it's like riding razors come and ultimately, i believe hoover, without ever saying you've got to do this for that. they're far too skilled bureaucrats for that. they would say okay i will help you over here down the scandal against your brother. but i'm very concerned about martin luther king coming and we need this wiretap. and ultimately robert kennedy's mind that we're taught knowing that he was serving with it and pretense of controlling to get occur over. so it's very, very complex p

i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you are no jack kennedy.eers] >> bill: all right. dukakis and benson went on to lose. they went on to serve in the clinton administration in what capacity? >> bill: lloyd benson was c treasury secretary. you got it he was the geithner. >> no, no. lloyd benson paid his taxes. >> bill: doocy, very g very good that will endear you to him. that was a time. >> let's end it there. got to go. [ laughter ] >> sucker. sit down. >> bill: do you want to come back? >> tie breaker, dagen, i'm giving it to you. >> who -- oh no, go ahead. >> bill: who was the producer of the kennedy-nixon debate that some say kennedy -- put kennedy in the white house. who was the producer? >> i have no idea. >> bill: doocy? >> d as in don hewitt. 60 minutes producer. i have got to give it to him. i hate to do it. don't cry. >> she threw it. >> i might be a chic but i don't cry. >> bill: you heard it. pinheads and patriots coming up next. p and p moments away. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was w

the senior democrat for many years was a guy named kennedy, ted kennedy. they were remarkably effective, the committee was remarkably productive. i would say to mike enzi, how does one of the most conservative republicans around here work so productively with one of the most liberal democrats? you -- the chairman was kennedy or whether it's enzi. and he said that ted kennedy and i subscribed to the 80-20 rule. what is that? and he said, the 80-20 rule, we agree on about 80% of the stuff. we disagree on maybe 20% of the stuff. and what we decide to do is focus on the 80% we agree on. as a result we get a lot done. more times than i count i call my colleagues on this side to subscribe to the 80-20 rule. if we get that on a consistent basis i think it would be not just a better place to work but probably a better country. i would urge us as we -- it seems like we got about -- i don't know about 80%, but agreement on what needs to be acted more quickly, more promptly, and that which needs more sculling. so deference to my mother, haste does make waste. remembe

that really was a teddy kennedy line. and some years ago, joe biden and others discovered when you take other people's lines, that can cause a stir. especially picking a democratic line. >> i think he'll say it's homage rather than -- >> homage to kennedy? he's doing a homage to kennedy when you're rick per? >> along those lines, he talked about how the unemployment rate amongst african-americans and hispanics is higher. that's sort of trying to get to the left of the president. rick perry is a smart guy who's often underestimated. he's got a great campaign of people who are loyal and -- going back to what said about romney and donors. perry will get establishment support, no question. and the ability to raise money, there's a huge number of mccain and bush people who aren't signed up anywhere. most people implicitly said we don't want romney. some establishment money may go to romney now because they don't want rick perry. there are some people who say we can't nominate a southerner, texan, a guy positioned on social iss

great commentary timesman kennedy supported him come on everybody else ran kennedy would not support it. he told me he had a remarkable conversation, where he said this is what you should do. he said the, talk to the president. don't talk to me. so it was quite clear that kennedy was beginning to shift, but he was beginning to shift in the way that none of the people around him quite understood and then did not become obvious. i thank you very much for coming and for your attention. i'm very honored really that you grow questions and thought to this meeting because this is a very personal memoir for me as well as a political book in research work. so it's a mix and scholarship and not a biography. and it's nice to see that people take it seriously. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much, w.r. smyser, marybeth. go to www.amazon.com. thank you everybody for coming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> up next, todd moye >> from the 2011 was about reading festival, trillium 11

and my dad was for kennedy.emember them out in the garage putting away some boxes or whatever and having this political debate. and my dad being appalled because we are catholic. how can not going to vote for -- this is going to be were first catholic president. my mom's family -- heard that was the head of the republican party in the area in the early part of the 20th century come and republicans back then, you know, they were -- when they said conservative, they meant don't spend money you don't have, not a bad idea. conserve the air, conserve water, the gifts god gave us, the earth today and of course there were the party of lincoln. they were very much against slavery and against discrimination and all that. so, i had that kind of republican mother and father who was a hard core roosevelt democrat. >> what about active in thawing uaw politics? >> my dad was a uaw member, still is a retiree. he worked on the assembly line building spark plugs for ac spark plug for almost 35 years. and my uncle was in the sit-

. >>> next -- jackie kennedy's private thoughts reveal what she did to get even with her cheating husband and who she says was really behind his murder. >>> noticing right now the skies are actually clearing over the coast. now the weather pattern you should expect for the week ahead as "eyewitness news" continues on cbs-5. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> the skies are clear. is it finally gonna really warm up? no. [ laughter ] >> the skies are clearing over most areas except right here. take a look. it's our live cbs-5 weather camera. when you have to go way -- very high up above the transamerica building and see patchy fog there, otherwise we do have clear skies. the high temperature at the airport in concord topped out at 88. it's currently 84 in concord. also, mid-80s in livermore. 10 degrees cooler in the santa clara valley. it's 82 in santa rosa. low 60s in san francisco. so out and about in the 50s through the 60s and 70s to 85 degrees. we do have just that hint, that sliver of low clouds parked up against the coast. heading out to at&t park, giants are coasting -- hosting the pirates. plan on a

tavis: pleased to welcome robert kennedy junior to our program. he has dealt his life to environmental issues including the fight over coal. he has featured a new documentary about coal which is called "the last mountain" playing in theaters in select theaters. >> we are cutting down the ap lashian mountains literally. >> absolutely gigantic. >> blowing the tops off the mountain to get at the coal. >> coal is sort of a layer of cake, layer of coal, lake of rock, layer of coal, lack of rock and keep this process up until they reduce the mountain to rubble. >> they detonated explosives every day. and explosive power the size of a hiroshima bomb once a week. tavis: this documentary is about coal, but at the center of this documentary, sits an uncomfortable conversation in this country that we have to have about corporations versus democracy or put another way, when corporations take over the space that democracy ought to occupy. talk to me about that battle between corporations and democracy in this country beyond just coal. >> you put your finger on

my name is sharon kennedy, you probably recognize me, i've been here about four times this year. i figured i might as well come again because it seems no one is listening to me. i just sent in, you know, the round three forms with 11 schools on them, including my attendance area, and still, nothing. so i'm getting very frustrated. i was assigned a school over five miles awhat from -- away from the house, you guys have heard my sob story here. it's really far away, i've got a kindergartener, i don't know how you expect me, with the time it would take to get and the cost, i can't send my kid on a bus. i think that's a lot for the district to ask of a family to make them go so far away. i sent an email to ms. wynns because the last time i was here, someone asked her to get my name so she replied with a generic email back to you, well, as many of you in your neighborhood are experiencing the same thing.i would like to n my neighborhood would be able to attend a school so far away. i responded in a heartfelt e- mail explaining many things. one thing was why was i given such of generic

the reagan plan, the kennedy plan, always, woulds. i heard this a number of wall street types and very smart big money types had advised your father to go slow, that the tax cuts were a good idea, but that the degree to which he was cutting them might not be a good idea, and that hell would follow and your fare well, the hell with you, i will do it. they were proven wrong, and he was proven right. was he ever jostled by the warnings, coming from some very accomplished financial ivy league bigwigs. >>guest: remember, this man graduated from economics degree from eureka college in illinois, he was an economist. he understood what art laffer showed him on the nap kip, -- napkin, the laffer curve. he listened to the people and he knew he may not get a second term. he needed to fix things, now, because america was in such, as we say from the carter days, in such a malaise. he stayed the course and we came out with 20 million jobs and growth in the economy and the united states american being a shiny city on the hill he talked about. >>neil

my name is sharon kennedy, you probably recognize me, i've been here about four times this year. i figured i might as well come again because it seems no one is listening to me. i just sent in, you know, the round three forms with 11 schools on them, including my attendance area, and still, nothing. so i'm getting very frustrated. i was assigned a school over five miles awhat from -- away from the house, you guys have heard my sob story here. it's really far away, i've got a kindergartener, i don't know how you expect me, with the ti

. >>> on top of that, the newly released files of senator kennedy. showing who wanted to kill him. >>> an i iredibly rare sight, a close encounter with the largest animal on earth. >>> well, believe it or not the markets are notthowing the soror of enthusiastic reaction you'd expect after the house passed the nation's debt deal. tokyo's nikkei average lost 120 points today. hong kong's hang seng is also down in late trading and in london the ftse opened lower too. the dow lost 10 points yesterday. the nasdaq index lost 11. >>> the big reason for the market drop has to do with the yield from treasury securities. the yield dropped yesterday to its lowest point since february. treasury yields dictate numerous interest rates affecting mortgages, consumer loans and even bank accounts. >>> ford is recalling 1.1 beneath the truck could make the gas tanks fall off and catch fire. the problem is being blamed for eight fires and one injury. the recall affects various f-150, f-250 and lincoln blackwood pickups, the f-150 is traditionally the best-selling but it

senator tede kennedy. senator brown talked about his political career at the ronald reaganpr presidential library i simi valley california. this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> before i get started i just want to say i had an opportunity to go-round and try to meet everybody and say hello, and i know you talk about the weather here. no offense. [laughter] i have snow that is about as high as the flags over here, so and they did get a chance to go into her this amazing facility and be part of history. it is such a wonderful opportunity for not just young people but every person from every walk of life and i'm so honored to be here. i want to thank you all for the very very warm welcome and john i appreciate the kind introduction and a chance to visit the ronald reagan presidential library. you know this is my first time here and what an honor it is for me to really meet a living legend, obviously nancy reagan herself and it is wonderful to be with you, maam. thank you. [applause] it is a tremendous thrill form

senator ted kennedy. senator brown talked about his political career at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley california. this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> before i get started i just want to say i had an opportunity to go-round and try to meet everybody and say hello, and i know you talk about the weather here. no offense. [laughter] i have snow that is about as high as the flags over here, so and they did get a chance to go into her this amazing facility and be part of history. it is such a wonderful opportunity for not just young people but every person from every walk of life and i'm so honored to be here. i want to thank you all for the very very warm welcome and john i appreciate the kind introduction and a chance to visit the ronald reagan presidential library. you know this is my first time here and what an honor it is for me to really meet a living legend, obviously nancy reagan herself and it is wonderful to be with you, maam. thank you. [applause] it is a tremendous thrill formi

because you think maybe maybe kennedy might side with the liberals and then he doesn't and if you're left of center you're very upset with that right it's very interesting. you talk about how in fact you just mentioned how roosevelt didn't see packing the court for that matter he didn't see the the end is that this was all a means to in his mind was totally constitution and not just constitution where you characterize it a book it was the survival of american democracy i mean literally of his because because other nations you know coming out of the great depression were flipping to fascism or communism or whatever. as a as an historian have ever had a president since roosevelt who so passionately had a clear crystal clear vision of america and fought so hard for well i think we certainly have presidents who had a clear vision and fought hard for it i think president johnson have a clear vision of fought hard for i think president reagan had a clear vision fought hard for it and i believe in my president president clinton certainly did as well you have not since the nineteenth or he's

kennedy's life.is is the red room and the reason i show this is that was the first from that she completed in restoration. but this was the day of her husband's funeral. she insisted that she meet those who are coming from afar, those were diplomats, the diplomatic corps from abroad. so she stood with her brother-in-law, senator edward kennedy to arrive, and she insisted on greeting everyone who had come to pay their respects to her husband. on a more gloomy note, a team we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time that was she was in the white house, and it's only a little over 1000 days, she and her husband through 16 state dinners. in the first term, or four years of the w. bush term, they held i believe it was too. now, mind you, 9/11 happened during that time. they were security issues, but that bush is from texas were just not as interested in the. they were not as interested in state entertainment. day when his interest in bringing people from abroad and entertained

kennedy made nixon sweat. why did he sweat?me right after kennedy said, i'm a democrat, proud to be a democrat. we built social security and by the way, i'm going to put together something called medicare, social security for medical care for old people, and nixon, part of a great, proud american party, calmed republicans. by the way, the republican party opposed all those thing, let me mention. >> this politics, seems to me, reminding people what the stakes are. you oewon't have all this stuff even to kick around, to use a nixon phrase. there won't be medicare, medicaid. things it republicans have been dying to take apart and now are on the verge of doing it. your thoughts? >> there's a sinking feeling among some democrats that joe biden and nancy pelosi are the great protectors of social security and medicare and not barack obama. the fact he shrunk from the site, he is keyed up to have the role in public life. seems in a lot of levels the president is shrinking from it. he has an impressive legislative series of accomplishme

below deck, john kennedy and skylar tasered and subdued tom hawks.bbed jackie, and cuffed her. >> what did she say? >> she says what's going on? what is this, you know. she's screaming that we trusted you. and your wife came over. you know, you have your kid over, your little girl over. why are you doing this? >> then, alonso described how the hawks were brought to their bed, tied together, back to back. >> he got the tape and he told me to tape their eyes, tape their mouth. skylar went up and programmed their gps system to go out. >> heading farther out to sea now, jackie hawks, her eyes and mouth duct taped, and tied up back to back with tom, started to cry. tom stroked her hand, trying to calm her. then, one at a time, skylar brought each of them up to the galley, loosened their bindings just enough so they could hold a pen and sign away everything they owned. alonso described jackie hawks as shaking with fear. skylar had gotten what he needed, the boat, and those signatures. so tom and jackie were brought out to the stern. >> they were like, well

. >>> startling new revelations about the private life of jacqueline kennedy. england's "sunday express" claims secret audiotapes being released to abc by caroline revealed she believed her husband's assassination was part of a conspiracy involving then vice president lyndon b. johnson and a group of texas tycoons. the paper claims mrs. kennedy had her own affairs with hollywood star william holden and fiat car mogul johnny iynelli. >>> no buyers at an auction of a 1940s stag film that an event promoter claims monroe had sex. they called the film a fraud. >>> scary moments for a tight rope walker in china when high winds caused him to fall during a stunt between two hot air balloons. fortunately he managed to catch the fire and pull himself to safety and do a backflip there. >>> how wall street will kick off the day, it gained 60 points friday, the s&p down a fraction and the nasdaq lost 23. overseas trading. this is where it gets rough. in tokyo, the nikkei skid 202 and the hang seng dropped 455. >>> as we reported, wall street will have its first reaction to

. >>> startling new revelations about the private life of jacqueline kennedy. england's "sunday express" claims secret audio tapes being released to abc by her daughter caroline reveal the former first lady believed her husband's assassination was part of a conspiracy involving then-vice president lyndon b. johnson and a group of texas tycoons. the paper also claims mrs. kennedy had her own affairs with hollywood star william holden and fiat car mogul, gianni agnelli. abc is denying the story's accuracy. >>> and scary moments for a tight rope walker in china, when high winds caused him to fall during a stunt between two hot air balloons. fortunately, he managed to catch the wire and pull himself to safety. >>> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,444, after gaining 60 points on friday. the s&p was down a fraction. the nasdaq lost 23. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei skid 202 points. while in hong kong the hang seng dropped 455. >>> as we reported earlier, today wall street

relief for africa. >>> and the lost tapes from jackie kennedy onassis. >>> good monday morning.tly cloudy skies over a good portion. bay area. temperatures in the 50s. a little bit warmer compared to yesterday. i'll have the numbers coming up in a little bit. >>> the fallout is growing this morning from america's credit rating downgrade. alison burns is live in our washington, d.c. newsroom that, tracking the trill trill -- trafficking the triple-digit damage. >> reporter: that's right. since my last update, the news hat gotten worse. stocks are falling. and the credit rating has been counsel graded to double-a class for freddie mac and fannie mae. it's their reliance on the government that prompted the downgrade. this could lead to more expensive lenders. meanwhile, stock prices keep dropping this morning. this is a live look at the big board at the new york stock exchanges. the dow is down about 239 points. adding insult to injury, executives with standard & poor's are making the rounds on morning tv says another downgrade is possible in the next six to 24 months. we also foun

i'm fwlad you gglad you guys ar ronald reagan's idea of growth -- >> and john kennedy's. >> john kennedy's. are you willing to look at lowering osha regulations, lowering some of the epas burning on businesses as a way of creating jobs? >> i think that's what's unique about the proposal. it will allow both from the perspective of the 12-person committee, them to bring up both of those proposals and then put a vote before congress. they have to come up with the plan. i think everything should be on the table as is the case with reducing the deficit. i think it's a way of injoining this in a way that's dynamic and has us dealing with an issue that not only will result in lowering the deficit, but as importantly, i would dare say more importantly the people i've been speaking with, create jobs and put america back to work. >> all right. john larson. the man with a plan for washington to develop a plan. thanks for your good work and for explaining that to all of us today. thanks always to the megapanel. sam sedar, jim carney and imogen lloyd webber. i still think when i listen to the plans --

and my dad was for kennedy. i can remember them out in the garage putting away some boxes or whatever and having this political debate. my dad being appalled because we are catholic, how could you not vote -- he would be our first catholic president. but my mom's family, her dad was the head of the repugnant party in the area in the early part of the 20th century, and republicans back then, you know, when they said conservative payments don't spend money you don't have. not a bad idea. conserve the air come and serve the water, the gifts that god gave us, this earth. and of course they were the party of lincoln. they were very much against slavery and against discrimination and all that. so i had that kind of republican mother and father who was a hard-core roosevelt democrat. >> what about active in the uaw politics? >> my dad was a uaw member, still lives. he is a retiree. he worked on the assembly line building sparkplugs for ac spark plugs for 35 years. and my uncle was in the sitdown strike in flint in the

so it is a shame that senator kennedy has passed away and it is a shame that so has senator mccain. [laughter] neither of those individuals are still there. but we should resurrect the proposals they had in terms of family immigration. it has created huge problems. the backlog of family immigration has contributed to undocumented immigration, family separation. it is counter to the family values that the nation counts. to me, it is a no-brainer clear the backlog. -- the nation touts. >> cindy, in advising the immigration rights committee, for advising them on cir, who needs to be heard, which forces need to be lifted up? >> i could take professor hing's sarcastic way of looking at it -- just kidding. [laughter] i hope my other congressional colleagues do not kill me about sang this but i think it is important to keep your congressional office into an with what is important to you. i could not agree more with the two speakers. i think you have to be an optimist to be working on this issue, on this job, but i am with prof. hang in that we are scared with the flip side is. right now we

so the sec's discussion, while it is well known within lossn miserables that john kennedy and franklin roosevelt had their te affairs but it may get into a sd price.s we don't have all these sex scandals it distract us. >> the 1970's. politicians. what happened?er in 1970. you suggested another era where they changed once again. th well, david is going to have a bit more on this. after the cold war. they no longer protectedoing ain roosevelt are eisenhower or whoever. maybe they weren't doing anything, but as far as they're private lives, they protected them.co after the cold war we were not that worried anymore. they just did not do it. a lot of political as dead as far as to the press tell with that personal on allocation. h >> guest: you also have yourh sexual revolution which makes o in kenot more comfortable and the rise onef feminism.ve in kennedy's day what would have been the past became a sexual-harassment lawsuit as is saw with paula jones. so mave this huge change in american social mores. politician journalism. what was kept secret became pare of the dialogue. >> host: the

i was detailed to senator kennedy's office. i worked on the immigration bill. when it was time to go back to dhs -- i decided i needed to be more engaged in the public debate. there's some things you cannot do as a public servant that you can do on the outside. that's how i ended up at the immigration policy center. we're all about trying to provide the kind of facts and information that helped shape the debate in the way that it supports the idea that immigration is important to america. we are part of the american immigration council, formally known as the american immigration law foundation. we work very closely with lawyers, including one of the sponsors of tonight's events. when i talk about compehensive immigration reform to people, i often like to move away from the movie analogy to the game analogy. think about it as a rubik's cube. if you get one side right, it probably means the other sites are screwed up. you cannot think about immigration as the one issue. there are so many that interact with each other. we often focus on legalization because it's s

so it's not a kennedy catholic moment. catholic church does not believe that he's going to become a literal god and be given his own kingdom. >> well, eric, i'm going to leave the last word to you on this whole thing. tricia, you still didn't give me one specific policy matter in which it made any difference -- >> i just told you that -- i just told you that the mormon -- >> no, you're -- >> wants to set up a government -- >> but i'm asking you for a policy. >> they want to rule from missouri. that's their policy. the mormon church's policy. >> eric, do you buy any of this? >> i find it difficult to believe -- >> it's the truth. >> -- and one thing the church has come out, all their leaders to say hands off of politics. >> it's in their history. >> tricia erickson, thanks for being here. eric marrapodi, nice to have you here. we'll see you all down the campaign trail, i'm sure. >>> still ahead, a deadly heat wave in the south, tropical storm in the caribbean, and long hot summer is taking its toll. when we come back. [ man