bobby kennedy-- jack kennedy came down the stairs early in the morning. and offered-- in effect offered lyndon johnson the vise presidency. johnson said he had to think about it. jack kennedy goes upstairs and there's a bunch of northern leaders and they're congratulating him. he says in effect i think he'll take it. three times after that, that day, robert kennedy comes down those back stairs. three times he tries to get johnson to withdraw from the ticket. the first time he sees sam rayburn and john connolly. rae burn is the great speaker of the house and john connolly is lyndon johnson's top aide. and you know why johnson picked connolly to run his campaign? he said he's the only man tough enough to handle bobby kennedy. so bobby kennedy is there with rayburn and connolly and he says,un, there's going to be a terrible fight. the liberals don't want johnson. labor doesn't want him. how about if he accepts instead the chairmanship of the democratic national commit. and rae burn remyself in a four-letter expletive. bobby kennedy leaves and goes back upsta

chris: that's an amazing thing because kennedy getting killed was an incredible moment. here was the old president, the president coming in and helping l.b.j. do what he did. >> there are two things about that. first of all, ike as a figure was a tremendously reassuring president and personality in american life. if there was a kind of monarch, if there was a retired monarch and symbol of american society, it was ike who had led us in world war ii, who became president during a time of calm american life. so there was reassurance. being a little boy, i remember that. more interesting is the advice that ike gave to lyndon johnson about what l.b.j. should say before a joint session of congress. ike was a republican president and really more of a conservative one in certain respects than we remember. what he told l.b.j. is that he should promise to carry forward the sweeping liberal agenda of jack kennedy who had been assasinated. that the best thing that l.b.j. could do with the country and for l.b.j.'s own standings within the party and the presidency was to promise to ca

kennedy is the daughter of robert kennedy. and has three kids with her ex-husband, new york governor, andrew cuomo. that marriage ended bitterly in 2005. she has no known history of substance abuse. but many of her siblings have battled drug and alcohol issues. in may 2006, her cousin and senator of rhode island, patrick kennedy, crashed into a barrier on capitol hill, saying he was disoriented after taking ambien. doctors say driving after taking ambien can be dangerous. >> i see it all the time. they can do things. be able to drive. be able to walk. be able to have conversations. but have no memory of those events. >> reporter: it's been a tough couple of months for kennedy, her brother's wife, and best friend, mary kennedy, killed herself in may. >> she was an angel brought to us, to live with us here on earth. and i think that god just brought her back up to heaven and said, you don't have to fight for me anymore. >> reporter: it was kerry who introduced mary to her brother. they had been roommates from the time they were

>> unwanted. >> literally, eisenhower is taking kennedy to the woodshed and kennedy is new to office. he had re-organize the white house around his own decisions. he thought that eisenhower was very military, hierarchy was not going to work 31 in a much more personal kind of presidency. and then they had this day. and they said maybe that's not working so well. kennedy said i've been getting to figure that out yet. he changed the way the decision. interestingly enough, after they appeared before the cameras and kennedy really needed this picture -- he needed this picture because they needed to convey the sense of authority and command to have the old general there. eisenhower did not criticize kennedy in public. >> in fact, the following weekend made the pilgrimage to see eisenhower. they thought okay, the bloom is off the rose with the kennedy administration. in eisenhower's thoughtless it is important that we support our president, especially in dangerous times. let's not become a partisan issue. >> which is very much what happened two or three weeks ago. i just have to bring this u

. >> kind of like 19 sticks one, someone described kennedy, people around kennedy, and, brilliant, 100,000 votes the other day, they would all be considered a chorus of stupid. >> when we think about obama, what are you interested in in terms of what makes him tick and how he is perceived by the country? >> oh i think two things. one is what bob caro said, he is a man who i think has learned from history, and that is great for those of us who spend our time with dead presidents to know that this president is able to extend his own lack of experience by learning from history, i mean, he made a lot of talk about theodore roosevelt and learned lessons from fdr and lessons lessons from the do nothing congress of harry truman that you see in the campaign, i think the most important thing jim fallows talked about in the great atlantic piece is his ability to learn from mistakes and to change as time goes by, and if he does get a second term, that ability which made fdr a much better president the second term than the first made lincoln a better president the second than the first will have a cha

nobody can imitate jackie kennedy.'m always poised, even during the most desperate moments in this play. there's so much comedy. there's some drama. it's intense out there. >> my character wishes she was jacqueline kennedy. >> what is it like? >> sex and the city. >> i never saw that show. >> what do you mean you never -- >> i never saw "sex & the city." and she's never seen "full house." >> how can that be? >> we were working. >> i fell in love with you on "general hospital." >> i watched "general hospital." >> we have some footage here, just in case you want to go down memory lane. >> is that you? >> that's me. >> that's crazy. >> what year? >> that's not me. >> that's the dude i was with. my name was nurse betsy. >> see there? >> that's right. >> last time you were here, you wanted to be on "hot in cleveland." >> yes. >> you have another goal. if you speak it, it seemed to happen for you, cybill? >> we have to fake it until you make it. and i got to do "hot in cleveland." what an experience. betty white is my hero.

kerry kennedy, daughter of robert f. kennedy has pleated not guilty. just days after side swiping a tractor trailer on a new york highway and later found slumped over the wheel of her car. kennedy is charged with driving under the influence of drugs after the incident. abc news reporting early on kennedy told police she might have taken ambien. and those new court papers say she might have confused her sleeping medication with her thyroid medication. >> i remember getting on the highway and then i have no memory until i was stopped at a light and a police officer watt out my door. a series of tests led doctors to believe this accident was caused not by a sleeping aid but by a complex procedure. >> and i said to myself, either this person's falling asleep, because they're intoxicated or something. >> reporter: he says, she's lucky nobody was hurt. >> and she almost hit five cars before she got off the exit. she had no control of the car. she didn't even make an attempt to slow down the car or stop. she had no regard for herself or anybody else on the ro

and robert kennedy.th robert kennedy in indianapolis, indiana on the evening of april 4, 1968 when i heard that dr. king had been shot. i did not know his condition until robert kennedy spoke at a rally i was having to organize. >> i want to go to that clip. >> i have some very sad news for all of you, and i think sad news for all of our federal -- fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world. and that is that martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> that was robert kennedy breaking the news to some money. john lewis, you were there. >> i cried with so many other people. i said to myself, "we are still here, bobbie." i went back to atlanta and attended the funeral. robert kennedy and hundreds and thousands of others were there. after the funeral was over, ipad bac on the kennedy campaign -- i went back and got on the kennedy campaign. later, went to california. i campaigned for kennedy. it was a wonderful actor. we went all over los angeles going into w

kennedy, lyndon johnson and president nixon. john f. kennedy left us 270 hours of tape. the kennedy library i believe just released a few more tapes. they have almost released all of those tapes. lyndon johnson left us 800 hours. most of them are telephone tapes and the johnson library has released all of the telephone tapes. there are still some tapes that were done in the cabinet room that will be released in the next few years. 800 hours for johnson, 270 hours for kennedy. then you come to president nixon. in february 1971 president nixon installs the beginning of a taping system. it is installed by the secret service. this is a taping system that is going to grow, but ultimately, it would cover the following scenes and sights. the president's hideaway office in the executive office building. the oval office. the cabinet room. the president's office at camp david. and the lincoln sitting room upstairs in the white house, in the residence. now, there is a lot in this exhibit that is high tech. but this is decidedly low tech because it is fun and gives kids, i mean, we'

police say kerry kennedy, the daughter of robert kennedy, was charged with driving while impaired with drugs. it happened around 8:00 this morning along interstate 684, north of new york city. the 52-year-old ex-wife of andrew cuomo,sideswiped a tractor trailer. according to 911 calls, her call was operating in an erratic manner. she was found passed out behind the wheel. kerry kennedy voluntarily took breathizer, blood, and urine tests, all of which showed no drugs or alcohol whatsoever? her system. the charges were filed before the test results were available. kerry has no known history of drug abuse. she was open with police. she told them she had taken ambien. the ken dishave been rief with family misfortune. just this may, marry kennedy committed suicide after battling depression. he was kerry who introduced the couple. they had been roommates. after marry's pass rk, kerry wrote an ode to my best friend marry. lindsey davis, abc news. the olympic games are drawing near, as you know, and security officials across the globe are at a high alert for terrorism. we have evidence tonight

romney lost the race badly to senator kennedy. it was not the culture war issues, the social issues that are credited with having made the difference in that election. the race didn't end up being much about health insurance or even whether or not plomds or ted kennedy were liberal or conservatives on abortion rights or gay rights or gun rights or anything like tla. observers of the race say mitt romney lost that badly. look at that. he lost by 17 points to ted kennedy in that race more because of this issue. >> mitt romney's ads claim he created jobs, but what's the record? his firm bought a company and moved the headquarters to dallas. his firm bought a company called scm, fired all 350 workers. told some they could reapply at a 25% pay cut. many pregnant or older were denied jobs. and romney made $11 million in two years. mitt romney, he's misled us twice. with negative ads distorting senator kennedy's record and the phony claims about his own. >> i would like to say to mitt romney if you think you can make such a good senator,

kennedy through the creation of a cable that would link president kennedy to the death of south vietnamese president. >>> here you can hear him talking about cubans that were brought back to be involved in the secret intelligence entry bids in 1971 and 1972. this is going to be the hardest thing for the president because he knows who hunt is. and he knows and we know this from the tapes sh he knows hunt is involved in sketchy activities, if not illegal activities for coleson and the re-election campaign. also here we have president nixon himself ordering a violation of the campaign laws by setting up -- coming up with the idea of a fake write-in campaign for ted kennedy in new hampshire. ted kennedy was not running. he was not an announced declared candidate in the 1972 election. the president wanted to siphon off votes from ed muskie, senator muskie of maine who was considered to be the front-runner. so the president orders the set up of a fake write-in operation which the white house will pay for. >> there is something beyond the financial. >> should something be done to finance? >> why

and works for senator kennedy who was -- who during president kennedy's administration was a very well-known civil rights lawyer, and was one of the people that the justice department then robert kennedy was attorney general sent south to -- to help work on the civil rights issues that were there at the time and was very highly respected. so i took that in. great. so we began the search. well, where's john doar? no internet. no computer. i didn't know how to spell his name. so i had d-o-r. d-o-r-e. i just couldn't find him. so finally i get ahold of my brother, i said, you have to call somebody in the kennedy family and -- so, anyway, turns out we found him and he was i believe at the time the head of a corporation, which was a, i think a community help organization founded by robert kennedy. i believe. but i think that's where he was or had been there. anyway, clearly then we did -- clearly he started to catch our attention. certainly caugatntion d others, because of his background. turns out he was, he was appointed by president eisenhower. hired by president eisenhower. he was a republica

in a statement to nbc news, a kennedy spokesperson says kerrie kennedy voluntarily took breathalyzer, blood and urine tests which showed no drugs or alcohol whatever in her system. those tests results according to kennedy's attorney were provided by the hospital, but sources familiar with the case tell nbc news blood and urine tests were also sent to a police lab and it could take several days for results to come back to show any proof of drugs in her system. >>> kennedy was mary kennedy's lifelong best friend and distraut when mary took her own life, her arrest happened one day afs it was made known that her brother, robert f. kennedy jr., dug up the grave and moved it 700 feet from the plot. her attorney tells us she was shaken by the accident but did not sustain injuries. she is due in court on tuesday. >> you bring up all of it, it's been a tough time for the kennedy family. no way around it. thanks very much, veronica dela cruz. >>> george zimmerman is waiting to figure out if he is get ag new judge. they believe the current judge is bias because zimmerman quoted flaunted the sys

patrick kennedy, co-founder of one mind for research. patrick kennedy, welcome back to the show. let me just start with the sad news. that came about your cousin kerry kennedy. there's been lots of newspaper coverage. when they're involved in this kind of thing. i'm sure you get sick and tired of reading about the curse of the kennedys and so on. what can you tell me about what happened to her? >> women, piers, as you know, something very similar happened to me when i was in congress many years ago. i was arrested for a dwi because i was under the influence of ambien and feneregen because i had an upset stomach. i was using the ambien to help me with my sleep because i was trying to live without opiotes. when i initially thought i was treating my own addiction through things that i didn't consider to be drugs. this was a prescription, by the way. so i thought, hey, this is all right. i found i got into a lot of trouble. and it wasn't the alcohol or the opiates which i had used previously that got me behind a wheel and driving while intoxicated. it was ambien. so i can't tell you

. >> vicki kennedy. her reaction here first. >>> and debate and analysis on our powerhouse roundtable with george will, donna brazile, terry moran and keith olbermann. >>> hello again. chief justice roberts has escaped what he called impregnable forest of malt ya after dlifrg the decision that blindsided many. it will shape america's health care system and the constitutional law to come. >>> but we begin with something special. the first reaction on the ruling from vicki kennedy. the widow of ted kennedy who fought for universal health care. a commitment captured in his final convention speech. >> this is the cause of my life. new hope. that we will break the old grid lock and guarantee that every americ american, north, south, east, west, young, old, will have decent health care. >> and vicki kennedy joins us now. thank you so much for coming in this morning. >> thank you, george. >> i can only imagine what it might be like for you the moment you heard the supreme court decided. >> you know, george, as

two sources close to kennedy say she has no recollection of the crash.y say she was only speculating when she told police she maybe, maybe took ambien instead of a different pill earlier in the morning. in 2006 her cousin and former cousin patrick kennedy crashed his car into a security barricade at the u.s. capitol in the middle of the night. he blamed it on ambien and another drug he was spriebed. he pleaded guilty. she's the former wife of andrew co-me. >> mary was my very, very best friend and the best friend anybody could ever imagine having. >> kerry kennedy is expected in court tomorrow on a misdemeanor dui charge. >>> now at 6:00, a robbery victim ends up dead after he's run over. >>> the computer glitch that shut down the entire metro rail system is still a mystery. >> the country's dealing with one of the worst droughts since the '50s. >>> objt

kennedy, the daughter of robert fays she wa kennedy, says not drunk or on drugs. >> i remember gettinge highway, and then i have no memory until i was stopped at a traffic light and a police officer was at my car door. a series of other factors lead my doctors to believe this accident was caused not by a sleeping aid, but by a complex partial seizure. >> kennedy pleaded not guilty today to the charge. on the police report officers claim kennedy said she may have mixed up a sleeping medication with her thyroid pill. >>> let's get a check on our rather cool forecast. >> sandhya patel is here. >> this morning started out with measurable drizzle. mill valley picking up a 10th of an inch. oakland sfo a few hundredths. and then by the afternoon we actually got enough clearing to where the temperatures came up into the 60s and the 70s, but well below average. 75 in livermore. you should be in the upper 80s. 72 in fairfield. 76 in up to 76n 67 richmond and 69 oakland and upper rafael. 64 in santa rosa where the clouds hung on most of the day. we did see clearing at the coastline. mid60s there.