kennedy." and by the way, that is how she pronounced her name, jacqueline. we think these tapes are surprising. and as you're about to see, a portrait of a young person who thinks she is one kind of person only to discover she is another. and they are also a story of someone who is a hisness to history and making history herself. a first lady deciding her country would lay cultural claim to the american century. so, now, it is time to begin. after all these years, jacqueline kennedy, ready to tell us who she really was. the setting is her house in washington, where she liveded for a few months after moving out of the white house. her living room with its pail yellow chairs and favorite pictures on the bookshelves. caroline, age 6, john, age 3, can be heard in the background. there are ice cubes in a glass. a match lights up her cigarette. and the time capsule begins to open. we see them again, the young couple who once held the promise of a brand new century. a young man filled with nerve and s

both bobby kennedy tells jackie kennedy some stuff and john kennedy tells his wife some stuff.herefore, jackie kennedy forms a negative opinion about dr. king. >> that's where we are today. i think the first thing to remember, bill, is we see these people 40 years later, and, of course, dr. king is now memorialized and a new monument built in his honor. but in his day he was not a popular man. >> we know that. >> but i don't think people today understand that. >> oh, they do. they understand what was going on back then and the charges leveled against dr. king. but in totality, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, dr. king was a great man. now, jackie kennedy didn't like him back then. if jackie kennedy 30 years probably probably changed her opinion because the tapes were made very soon after the assassination. let's turn our attention to lbj. what was the source of the dislike between jfk and lbj? what was that tension. >> these were men from two different worlds. you have kennedy, the northern massachusetts democrat, and lin done -- lyndon johnson, the son of a poor farmer from t

tonight on what would have been the kennedys 58th wedding anniversary. andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: she was still in what her daughter caroline described as the extreme stages of grief. speaking publically only once. >> the knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me. >> reporter: while famously private, the young widow sat down with historian arthur schlesinger, jr., and secretly recorded her most personal thoughts for posterity. >> it's just not as simple as that story sounds. >> reporter: in sharp contrast to the formal white house guide. >> i think every first lady should do something in this position to help the things she cares about. >> reporter: this jacqueline kennedy paints an intimate family portrait. jfk kneeling on the edge of the bed to say his prayers each night -- a habit she describes as both childish and sweet. the president crying in his bedroom over the bay of pigs fiasco, and being privately dismissive of lyndon johnson, his successor. >> bobby told me this later and i know jack sa

they were doing a oral history for the kennedy library and the kennedy project and i think caroline kennedy that these tapes would be made public sooner or later in 50 years, meaning 2014. so it's better to let them out now and get on top of these, you know, the martin luther king things and others, and present it in a way with the it in a way with the historian michael bechloss. he's first rate. and come out with it in a way that puts the first lady in a better light than if you just waited for their release a couple years from now. >> here's another clip from the abc special. ms. kennedy was speaking about the cuban missile crisis. >> i remember saying, i knew if anything happened, we would all be evacuated to camp david or something and i don't know if he said anything about that that to me. i don't think he -- but i said, please don't send me away to camp david, you know, me and the children. please don't send me anywhere. if anything happens, we're all going to stay right here with you. and, you know, i said, even if there's not room in the bomb shelter in the white house, which i've s

social programs that kennedy had been doing. i just want to get along and win the war, and he really viewed these issues as separate. he wanted to do right by the people, but he didn't necessarily attribute it to the way he was going to go and win the war. >> host: are there clues to the presidents going in besides their appointees? can we hear it in their campaigns 1234 >> guest: that's another really interesting finding that sort of surprised me. so scholars are skeptical of the idea that presidents make this much of a difference in foreign policy which sounds surprising because we have a sense who is in the white house matters for foreign policy decisions. they attribute them to the international circumstances or the particular vagaries of american politics. they are appeared as strained. to show it's the president who matters, i had to show clearly the president came to office already with these beliefs of where threats come from already in place. they may say things under the pressures of decisions that don't reflect what t

kennedy administration.lot more historical preservation and certainly a lot for culture in the white house. but you see the number of opinions that she had about people who worked for john kennedy. she even talks about urging of the president to fire his secretary of state dean rusk. he says, well, i can't because he has nowhere to go, he burned his bridges with the rockefeller foundation which is where he used to be. she said, couldn't you find something for him so you can get rid of him? kennedy, according to her, was resolved to let rusk go by the end of the term, without her influence. >> that's such an interesting point. i'm going to play another piece of tape right now, you get the opposite impression, the part of the tape on how she formed her political views. let's listen to that. >> in my marriage, i could never conceive. and i remember i said it in an interview once. all these women, we got all these letters. someone said, where do you get your opinions? i said, i get all my opinions from my husban

kennedy f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover and president richard nixon has also written biographies of celebrities marilyn monroe and frank sinatra his latest book the eleventh day well to one account of nine eleven is an investigation of the terrorist attacks of nine eleven september eleventh is the product of five years comprehensive research and access for the first time to tens of thousands of previously withheld nine eleven commission documents and it's being hailed as the first comprehensive independent account of the events that changed. america forever i'm honored to welcome anthony summers our studios in new york anthony rock thanks so much for being with us. let's end by the way congratulations on becoming honorary fellow at university college in dublin i must treat you with yet more research i want to have behaved behave to me in tripoli different way from. let's let's start with the present and work backwards just because you know this is this is the moment nine eleven. it's not this moment but this is

they were doing a oral history for the kennedy library and the kennedy project and i think caroline kennedyief that these tapes would be made public sooner or later in 50 years, meaning 2014. so it's better to let them out now and get on top of these, you know, the martin luther king things and others, and present it in a way with the it in a way with the historian michael bechloss. he's first rate. and come out with it in a way that puts the first lady in a better light than if you just waited for their release a couple years from now. >> here's another clip from the abc special. ms. kennedy was speaking about the cuban missile crisis. >> i remember saying, i knew if anything happened, we would all be evacuated to camp david or something and i don't know if he said anything about that that to me. i don't think he -- but i said, please don't send me away to camp david, you know, me and the children. please don't send me anywhere. if anything happens, we're all going to stay right here with you. and, you know, i said, even if there's not room in the bomb shelter in the white house, which i'v

kennedy administration.ial historian and regular newshour guest michael beschloss edited and annotated the book, and he joins us now. michael, it was a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at life with j.f.k., life in the white house, and the life and times of the kennedy administration. what do you know now? what's the most important thing you know now that you didn't know before? >> well, the biggest thing, if we had talked a year ago before i read this thing i would have said jacqueline kennedy was a major figure in j.f.k.'s wife, and kennedy's washington did a lot for historic preservation, restored the white house, substituted the case, perhaps, the dwight eisenhower who had people like fred warring and the pennsylvanians play in the white house, for people like pablo casals. i wouldn't say she was a major political figure in kennedy administration. now i would. one example of this is number of times in this book where she runs down, say, someone like dean rush, the secretary of state, says jackie should

when he takes over for kennedy he says, i don't want so much of this 2-putting social program that kennedy had been doing. i want to get along and when the war. he really he these issues as separate. he wanted to do right by a vietnamese, but he did not attribute it to the way he was going to go when the war. >> are there clues to the president's going in beside their appointees? can we hear it in their campaigns? >> another really interesting finding that surprised me. scholars are a little bit skeptical of the idea that presidents make this much of the difference in foreign-policy. it may sound surprising because we have this sense that the person in the white house matters. scholars attribute the decision is more to the international circumstances where the particular vagaries of american politics. the president is viewed as a constraint. to show that it really is the president in matters i had to show clearly that the president came to office already with beliefs about where threats come from already in place. we don't want to look at what they're doing in the crisis because they may s

kennedy."ight, here's diane with the special preview. >> once i asked him, i think this is rather touching if he could have one wish, what would it be, you know, looking back on his life, and he said i wish i had had -- i wish i had had more good times. >> reporter: it is stunning to hear again that singular breathy voice. >> and i thought that was such a touching thing to say because i always thought of him as an enormously glamorous figure that i married at 36. i thought he would have millions of gay trips to europe, girl, dances, everything and of course he had a lot of that but i suppose what he meant by that was that he had been paying so much and those awful years campaigning, living in a milk shake and a hot dog. >> reporter: she is a witness to history who will end up making history herself. >> when we got in the white house, i was so happy for jack because it madadhim so happy. it made me so happy. so those were our happiest years. he'd get up at quarter of 8:00, you know, reading 00 m

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kennedy and knows more and the most.t would be like me is sitting with lauren bacall talking about henry clay. again, not talking about the obvious, but he has a very courtly, rather nice way with women. host: carl anthony? guest: again, if you take one or two exurbs out, you will find that she seems to contradict yourself throughout the 7.5 hours. she makes something flattering about the french president. in fact, at one point on the tape, she says, you know, you begin to realize that no person is all black or all white. suggesting that people are a mixture of attributes and deficiencies. and that is what is really -- in no, these tapes, if you are looking for things on clothes or mistresses or jewelry, you will not find it. when you were going to find here is somebody who lived in the white house, i would say, perhaps maybe on the level of someone like thomas jefferson, who is interested in some many different worlds. and really with a pursuit of it into a great depth. even in her humor, it is reflected when she talks

kennedy. we bought a copy last week, and tonight we hear more about how she felt about her husband, her family during a very scary time. our report again from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: they appeared to be a storybook couple from their marriage 58 years ago this week. >> you're pretty much in love with him, aren't you? >> oh, no. i said no, didn't i? >> yes, you did. you want to do it again? >> reporter: she described herself as a victorian wife. from the election campaign to the white house as a young family. at work and at play, she called the white house years the happiest in her life. before the tragedy and scandals, it was that brief shining moment she later called camelot, frozen in memory and brought back to life in her conversations with arthur schlesinger, jr. in 1964. daughter caroline says her mother was still in extreme grief at the time, less than four months after the assassination. on march 2nd, john jr. wandered into the room. >> john, what happened to your father? >>

at the door to the kennedy library. it happened. it happened in our time. >> host: alvin felzenberg communist president kennedy tied with truman, zachary taylor? >> guest: yes, old rough and ready, by the way, he was the commanding officer of a fellow named u.s. grant. he was a lot like harry truman. they belong in the same category. he knew where zachary taylor stood. had zachary taylor not died 18 months into his presidency, and that's of course one of the first conspiracy theories that he died of natural causes. he insisted california come into the union as a free state. and here's a southern slaveowner, sugar plantation. spent his entire life of the u.s. army. the only nationalists in addition we had on the edge of the civil war. and he's not going to let these people destroy his union. so we talk about richard nixon, only nixon would go to china because a democrat had been to china. the conservative republicans would have attacked him. who could oppose them? well, if you have a southern plantation, the war hero, the man who is

doesn't that weaken somehow theÑi memory of president kennedy to know the truth about him? how many times have cried. >> i have never cried. >> never? (laughter) >> stephen: i have never for any reason cried. and you're not going to make me start crying now. barbara walters couldn't do it and you can't do it either. >> stephen, i just want to tell me how you feel about not ever having cried. because-- . >> stephen: i feel fine. (laughter) >> stephen: damn you, damn you, you got me. thank you so much, diane. >> thank you. >> stephen: diane sawyer, diane, diane, diane, diane! jacqueline kennedy in her own words airs tomorrow night at 9:00 on abc. we'll be right back. thank you, diane. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ [ pop ] [ man ] ♪ sometimes [ alarm beeping ] ♪ i can't help the feeling that i'm ♪ ♪ livin' a life of illusion [ alarm stops ] ♪ and, oh, why can't we let it be ♪ ♪ and see through the hole in this wall of confusion ♪ come on. [ sighs ] ♪ i just can't help the feeling ♪ - ♪ i'm livin' a life of illu

we call them the kennedy tax cuts. kennedy was at a time with the keynesian style, a different form of economics. ironically a felon in nixon. figure that one out. there was a split. what do you do to get the economy moving again. and the question was, you put it in public investment. or the affluent society, the argument that public squalor, private corey. your you cut marginal tax rates temporarily, in your short deficits, and grow. he took the latter path. it wasn't keynesian and this, again, is what brought the aeronautics industry. the computer industry. many, many other things that give us the 60's. we baby boomers grew up. we'll have our own room, what to the wrong car, went to college. a lot of that was financed because our parents were it will to do those. he had the economy. i thought of him. paul ryan when he came up with his road map last winter. five, six, even 7 percent growth feasible. even he did not think so. but still up to the kennedy library. it happened. >> alvin felzenberg, you have president kenn

doesn't that weaken somehow theÑi memory of president kennedy to know the truth about him? how many times have cried. >> i have never cried. >> never? (laughter) >> stephen: i have never for any reason cried. and you're not going to make me start crying now. barbara walters couldn't do it and you can't do it either. >> stephen, i just want to tell me how you feel about not ever having cried. because-- . >> stephen: i feel fine. (laughter) >> stephen: damn you, damn you, you got me. thank you so much, diane. >> thank you. >> stephen: diane sawyer, diane, diane, diane, diane! jacqueline kennedy in her own words airs tomorrow night at 9:00 on abc. we'll be right back. thank you, diane.

. >> jackie kennedy in her own words. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- you remember anthony weiner, a democrat from new york? he resigned his seat after he had been tweeting pictures of his crotch, conduct is seen as unbecoming for a member of the house of representatives. the district had been a democrat since the 1920's. not this time to the new congressman is 75-year-old former cable-tv executive, bob turner, creator of "the jerry springer show." >> we have had it with an irresponsible fiscal policy that endangers everyone of our social safety networks. we have had it with your treatment of israel. [applause] >> congressman steve israel of new york, who is trying to get democrats elected, is trying to play this one down. >> it is not pretty good about what is going to happen -- not predictive of what is going to happen. >> that is what democrats said after scott round shellacked -- after scott brown at shellacked martha coakley for the seat held by ted kennedy. it republican also one in

she and bobby kennedy trying to make sure johnson doesn't take credit for president kennedy's legacy. >> when something really crisis happens, that's when they're going to miss jack and talk about lyndon, and people will think i'm bitter. but i'm not so bitter now. >> reporter: she is also the woman who bore the weight of a nation's grief after the assassination of her husband. at one point a 3-year-old john kennedy jr. is overheard wandering in and talking to the microphone held by historian arthur schlessinger. >> john, you went to the airport today. >> yeah. >> did you like it? >> yes. >> john, what happened to your father? >> well, he's gone to heaven. >> he's gone to heaven. >> yes. >> do you remember him? >> yes. >> what do you remember? >> i don't remember anything. >> and tonight right here we'll have more on the shy, private woman who found her voice and her power in the white house, and, again, tomorrow night a two-hour special about so many things beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern, and we hope to have you with us tomorrow night. >>> and now we turn to a mysterious and worrying

scott round shellacked -- after scott brown at shellacked martha coakley for the seat held by ted kennedy it republican also one in nevada. what do these elections tell you, charles? "conduct unbecoming of a congressman"? u chedn d iss the canary in the coal mine. on the issue of the economy and obama, it is a real message tt democrats are in trouble nationwide. >> democrats and republicans are in trouble nationwide. the electorate is furious with both sides. 27% want to throw everybody ou 28% are frustrated. 30% wish they would compromise. -- 38% which they could compromise. the number doing the best they can, 8% . r what is wrong with washington, they put it on the republicans, although there is shared blame for democrats as well. nodys fet is cycle. >> jonathan? >> democrats have to be worried about the results this tuesday did to me it was the clearest illustration yet of the o in is about his economic policies. there was talkbo israel, but you have this city that is democratic, saying we don't approve of the job you are doing odd jobs -- on jobs. he has got to get back on track oil o

doesn't that weaken somehow theÑi memory of president kennedy to know the truth about him? how many times have cried. >> i have never cried. >> never? (laughter) >> stephen: i have never for any reason cried. and you're not going to make me start crying now. barbara walters couldn't do it and you can't do it either. >> stephen, i just want to tell me how you feel about not ever having cried. because-- . >> stephen: i feel fine. (laughter) >> stephen: damn you, damn you, you got me. thank you so much, diane. >> thank you. >> stephen: diane sawyer, diane, diane, diane, diane! jacqueline kennedy in her own words airs tomorrow night at 9:00 on abc. we'll be right back. thank you, diane. ok, people. show me the best way to design a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you book matter

kennedy high school history. he replace it is legendary pete who has been here since the school opened in 1965. it is like trying to replace joe at pen state. >> he's legendary. i played against him 15 years ago. then he was a legend. coming into kennedy and taking over a program like that, it is a tough task. >> it is a process. although we are 0-2 we have a good team. they know they're getting better and the process is getting easier. they're doing a good job. >> you don't know much about concord. concord doesn't know much about you s. that an advantage for you. >> it can be a good thing. one thing that's similar is we run similar offenses. they don't know that yet. to have ray team where they have been historically good and kennedy has had good teams in past it will be good for the whole community and people will enjoy the show tonight. >>> concord is aheavy favorite here, but both teams 0-2. kennedy driving by the way we will have highlights to night at 10:00. chicken tear i teryaki -- >> i love it. thank, fr

jacqueline kennedy remembers meeting john kennedy and walking into his family of impossibly high achieverse, so different. shy, from a private world. >> i was always a liability to him. everyone thought i was a snob from newport who had bouffant hair and had french clothes and hated politics. >> reporter: unlike the kennedy women, she was not built for political campaign. >> he'd get so upset for me when something like that came out. and sometimes i'd said, "oh, jack, i wish, you know, i'm so sorry for you that i'm just such a dud." >> reporter: but in the white house, the girl who loved books, history and art, suddenly found a kind of confidence, a voice. previous administrations had actually sold white house antiques. so, she used her scholarly passion to study the documents and engravings and restore america's treasure. the end result? staggering. the east sitting hall, before and after. the yellow oval room, before and after. and then, the woman who liked to stay in the background decided she would show the white house to americans. unprecedented. all three networks, 80 million people

kennedy."ck to the program, caroline kennedy. ( applause ) so nice to see you again. >> you, too. >> jon: thanks for coming. it's transcripts. i read an awful lot of historical nonfiction on the show because i don't want or have a life. but... ( laughter ) >> that was clear from earlier. ( laughter ). >> jon: you should see what our prop people had to go through today. this truly is one of the most remarkable pieces of history i've-- i've ever read, i've ever been engaged with. it's-- it's so human to hear-- i can't imagine what it's like for you-- tell me-- to hear your mother-- four months after your farther's passing discussing it with this historian. >> well, i think for me it's quite familiar because i know her, and so it's just nice to be able to feel sort of a connection with her in the way she sought world again. but i am really struck by how much courage it took for her to do this and how much-- how complex and interesting it is, and it really brings a whole world to life in ways that-

go up to the kennedy library and ask. islamic al felzenberg, you have president kennedy tied with truman, president mckinley, zachary taylor? >> yes, yes. here is my theory about saturday. i wasn't a plan ready by the way he was a commander officer by the name u.s.s. grant and like harry truman in the same category. had zachary taylor not died 18 months into his presidency she died of natural causes we know two things about him, he insisted california commended the union as a free state, and here is a southern slave owner, sugar plantation in louisiana, spent his entire life in the army, the only national institution that we had on the edge of the civil war and he's not going to let these people to decide his union. because of a democrat the conservative republican would have attacked temps. if nixon goes to china who could oppose it? well, if you have a southern plantation owner who is the war hero which is the man that is the chief of staff during the mexican war double the size of the united states, and then of course

what was jacqueline kennedy's favorite photo with her husband? her daughter caroline opens the family album. >>> candid camera. a hilarious and touching love story, by some computer novices who don't know the camera is rolling. >> i don't know how to do it. ♪ hello my darling ♪ hello my baby >>> good evening to you. we begin tonight with the white house on the hot seat over a story we broke right here on abc news. did a half billion dollars of your taxpayer money go to a company certain to fail? and why? members of congress called the white house on the carpet today and abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross, who broke the story, tells us those new twists today. >> reporter: more than $500 million dollars in taxpayer money was given to the now bankrupt company, and no one is taking responsibility for it today. >> you tell me what you're going to tell the taxpayers. >> reporter: administration officials in front of congress dodged tough questions about solyndra, saying such problems can be expected with start-up companies and that no o

king telling bobby kennedy that dr.iretaps making crude comments about jackie kennedy, kissing her husband's coffin on the day of jack's funeral. the tapes were supposed to be locked in a vault for a is enry but caroline decided to release them now all eight and a half hours uncensored. she also explained it isn't surprising her mother would have at the time made some statements she might have changed later. as caroline told "parade" when she first read the transcript they reminded her what made historical figures human is what made them more interesting and what made this oral history is what made a different jacqueline kennedy not the long familiar public figure whose whispery figure guided us through the white house. >> it seemed such a shame to find anything of the past in the white house. >> i am the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris. and i've enjoyed it. >> reporter: this jacqueline kennedy is far more complex with a keen eye for the characters around her husband, and a feel for diplomacy and politic

jacqueline ordered they be kept under seal by the kennedy library until after her death. now, they will be part of a new book being released on wednesday. they gave us an intimate look at some of the most intense moments during kennedy's presidency. listen to what she said during the cuban missile. >> i said please, don't go away -- >> even if you live in a bombshell in the white house, please -- >>> jacqueline says the time in the white house was the happiest years. >>> diane sawyer will host a prime time two-hour special of jacqueline kennedy in her own words. it airs from 9:00 to 11:00 right here on abc7. >> in november, arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords will sit down with her first interview since a gunman shot her. giffords seen in an emotional part during a budget battle. that interview will coincide with the couple's memoir, gabby a story of courage and hope. she was shot in the head and recovering from brain injuries. interview will air right here on abc7. >> got to listen to the details on the forecast. >> we'll talk about a warming trend after we look out

. >>> and in her own words, jackie kennedy. how she really felt about some of the greatest figures of our time. of the greatest figures of our time. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. this is the kind of thing americans hear and then they wonder what they're supposed to think and how they're supposed to act. last night just as the president was preparing to speak to the joint session of congress, just as we're preparing for the tenth anniversary of the worst day in modern american history, we learned of another terrorist threat and as only the people in government and law enforcement can put it, we were told it was, quote, specific and credible but unconfirmed. well, we have learned more since, but whatever it is, it caused the streets of new york and washington to be flooded with police and vehicles, some cops with visible automatic weapons, and that feeling in the population centers of being on edge is back. but of course it never really went away over this past decade.

. >>> jacqueline kennedy. the hihioric tapes, locked away for almost 50 years, revealing the private woman who changed american history. >>> and ten years later. the 9/11 babies who lost their dads, reminding us to celebrate love and life. our "persons of the week." >>> good evening to you. we are a nation coming together tonight to remember 9/11, ten years ago, and to stand sentry on the new threat that has been leveled against the united states. as the clock runs down to the anniversary on sunday, police, national guard, bomb-sniffing dogs are all out in force in new york and washington, d.c. intelligence officials are pouring over the names on flights from abroad. and abc news has learned new details on this terror threat. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross has been talking to intelligence officials all day and he is standing at one of the many police checkpoints all over this city tonight. brian? >> reporter: good evening, diane. abc news has, in fact, learned new details of the source of t

kennedy was 35. the first time. >> reporter: in february, 1962, first lady jackie kennedy gave cbs a tour of the redecorated white house. >> i just think that everything in the white house should be the best. >> reporter: it was the first time americans had her her speak at length. her voice and poise captivated the nation. in a series of interviews in 1964 just months after her husband was assassinated, she said that for her, the tour had been a turning point. >> suddenly everything had been a liability before-- your hair, that you spoke french, that you didn't just adore and campaign. everyone thought i was a snob and hated politics. then i was having a baby and couldn't campaign. and when we get in the white house all the things that i'd always done suddenly became wonderful. >> reporter: the tour was seen by 56 million people. >> i was so happy for jack. it made him so happy. it made me so happy. >> reporter: according to the "new york times" which released portions of the interviews today mrs. k

we call them the kennedy tax cuts. kennedy was out of time with the keynesians.ronically is economic professor at harvard with a fellow named nixon. old professor nixon talked about canes and there was a split in the keynesian view and how to get the economy moving again. the question was you put in public investment or the affluent society and private glory and all that. or do you cut marginal tax rates and growth? it was a keynesian path and this is the aeronautics industry that helped the computer industry, defense and many things that gave us the war of the 60s. baby boomers are proud of this time. we want our own room and car and college and all that. that was financed because our parents were able to do this because of the kennedy tax cuts and he had the economy growing 5%. i thought of him when paul ryan came up with his road map last winter. the 7% growth in the economy was feasible. even he didn't think so. go to the kennedy library. it happened in our time. >> host: you have president kennedy tied with president truman and president mckinley and zachary

jacqueline ordered they be kept under seal by the kennedy library until after her death. now, they will be part of a new book being released on wednesday. they gave us an intimate look at some of the most intense moments during kennedy's presidency. listen to what she said during the cuban missile. >> i said please, don't go away -- >> even if you live in a bombshell in the white house, please -- >>> jacqueline says the time in the white house was the happiest years. >>> diane sawyer will host a prime time two-hour special of jacqueline kennedy in her own words. it airs from 9:00 to 11:00 right here on abc7. >> in november, arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords will sit down with her first interview since a gunman shot her. giffords seen in an emotional part during a budget battle. that interview will coincide with the couple's memoir, gabby a story of courage and hope. she was shot in the head and recovering from brain injuries. interview will air right here on abc7. >> got to listen to the details on the forecast. >> we'll talk about a warming trend after we look out