kennedy and senators robert f. kennedy and edward kennedy. the author examines joseph kennedy's careers in business and politics, which included ventures on wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. this is a little under an hour. >> thank you all. as i tell my history students -- [inaudible] as i tell my histories of it until i went to choke me, the past is a foreign country. we can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air, the fragrance, but where foreigners in a strange way. this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america. writing about the recent past is not easy to tailor this time around. first, there were people got to talk to. i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating views. i much prefer working for but documents than listening to people, tried to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know, but they don't know at all. the o

kennedy and senators robert f. kennedy and edward kennedy. the author examines joseph kennedy's career in business and politics, which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. this is a little under an hour. [applause] >> thank you, all. delighted to be here. as i tell my history students at the city university of new york in the ph.d. program -- thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they want to choke me the past is a foreign country. we can visit, try to learn the customs and the white smith the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors but we are foreigners in a strange land. this is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. first there are people you have to talk to. and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including large numbers of committees, i much prefer working from writ

we know on this plane johnson went in to president kennedy's bedroom, made a call to robert kennedy. he asks him for the details of being sworn in and the exact wording of the oath he should take as president. now you say is johnson taking revenge for all the humiliation that robert kennedy inflicted on him when he was vice president? was there some other motive? we don't know. i certainly don't know. but marie famer, robert kennedy catches in his deputy to this call and he says anyone of the 100 officials could have given johnson that information. i could have given him the information. he shouldn't have made that call. i asked marie famer who was on an extension taking down the words of the oath, he says -- what ritter voices like? she said katzenbach's voice was like steel. robert kennedy's was when he started but then it wasn't. then stopped and said to me he shouldn't have been talking on that call. not that lyndon johnson ever when at all against robert kennedy. when the plane lands at andrews air force base he has made arrangements. when he was in i should have said one of the

kennedy." president kennedy takes to do 65 hours of meetings, conversations are private dictation between july 62 and november 1963. you'll hear more about this in seems silly people that knew for certain where my father, his secretary and the secret service agent and tell making -- made white house state being famous and infamous and other recording systems were revealed. with the backdrop of watergate it contained problematic but it is the invaluable historical resource. history unfolds in realtime and the most dramatic possible way. recede the most intense confrontation and the life and death decision made with the cuban missile crisis. people ask why they love the system six keep an accurate record for the memoir he planned to write after the bay of pigs disaster he wants to remember who said what in case they later changed their tune. although much of the material has been available it is not been easily accessible. the original recordings are of varying quality. working with our archivist

kennedy." he taped hours of meetings and phone calls in dictation between july 1962 and november 1963. you'll hear more about this from our panelists. for the taping system was top secret. it seems that the only people who knew for certain of its existence were my father, his secretary, and the secret service agent who installed it. that is until president nixon made infamous. [applause] of the presidential recording systems were revealed. against the backdrop of watergate, taping can seem problematic. but it is a unique and invaluable resource. on these tapes, history unfolds real-time in the most dramatic possible way. here are the confrontations of the civil rights movement and the life decisions being made during the cuban missile crisis. people often ask me why my fatherfather install the systems. as a lover of history, i know he would've been talk of this new technology as a way of keeping an accurate record of events for the memoir he planned to write after leaving office. after the bay

kennedy kept trying.he returned to this country in 1940 in disgrace because he had made it clear that no american dollar support the british because they were going to get defeated. the only way americans could survive, he thought, was to make a deal with the germans and italians and japanese. but he said war would destroy the country, the united states. we would go back into depression, capitalism would be threatened. democracy would also be threatened. he became a pariah and an outsider in 1940. the last remarkable chapter of this man's life, from 1940 to 1960, the kennedy family goes from being low, in 1960 joseph p. kennedy became the ultimate insider. the ultimate establishment figure. the father of the president of the united states. it is a wonderful story. and i have a great deal of fun doing lots of writing. i thank you for your attention. [applause] >> i hope you don't mind if i stand. i can see you better from this vantage point. it is an honor to be here and share the stage mr. david nasaw . i

-- people pushed kennedy. kennedy met with macarthur and macarthur said you had have to have your head conditioned if you got the u.s. involved in a ground war in asian. >> robert gates about afghanistan. >> they were both right and kennedy took the lesson, and mcnamara has drawn up the plan, called talking a thousand troops out before the end of 14-9d 63 and all the u.s. troops out by 1965, and mcnamara said, what if the ute is losing? and he said we would have taken them out anyway. that was our plan. we have a lot of people -- kennedy mentioned to a lot of people in 1963 this was his planment he said i can't do it out in, or else there will be a right wing rebellion and we'll lose the election. so he says after the election i'm going to do it he said it to tip o'neill -- >> i'm sure you grew up on the pentagon papers, the secret history of the war, represent by daniel elsburg, is it true the papers were about vietnam was gaining territory. so perhaps by the '64 election this would have been major issue for

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the change in mind after the cuban missile crisis we see a new kennedy that is left, a visionary kennedy, kennedy that wanted to end the war. it's a tragedy. >> yes. well you call little less airport i call that -- >> this is the third commercial in baltimore. >> now, obviously one of the last things that happens when he is alive that has a very poor impact on the foreign policy is the assassination of the president of south viet nam from our client, our ally over there. then two weeks later, three weeks later, kennedy himself is assassinated. and as you said before, this begs the question that historians argue about. we will probably keep arguing about that the next 50 years. what kennedy has mounted to -- what he have pulled out of the american troops in vietnam and the advisers if we didn't yet have the troops and the great numbers of the combat troops there? and you are doing think that indications are that he would have come in and you cite various sources about that. curious just to challenge that a little bit. there is a wonderful book by a story called choosing war which you prob

kennedy who was the father of president kennedy, many other kennedys, was also active in the sec and ambassador to london and in the hollywood film industry, very active in the roosevelt administration, sometimes the relationship between him and the president got contentious and he has been doing an excellent job putting together so much research. c-span six years on this book going to archive after archive, cross checking, fact checking, one of the things he seems to have proven definitively, joe kennedy was not a bootlegger. rumors persisted about this for decades. i admire the scholarship and i am glad to have spent the many weeks i have with this book. >> discovering new things about the kennedy family is outstanding. we were talking about what if one of the alternative history things, what if nixon had been kennedy in 1960? what if john kennedy had never been president? thinking of all the thousands of books that never would have been written or may be different books written. i once interviewed caroline kennedy who edited a simple book career mother was writing mostly and tapes

kennedy family.he full court press. >> other headlines making news are the novel fifty shades of gray was so successful selling more than 35 million copies, every single employee will be seeing shades of green. random house announcing it is giving every single worker who has been there for at least a year from the top editors all the way to the warehouse workers a 5,000 dollar bonus each. this is for several thousand employees. they want to be sure. >> bill: i want to say i read the book. >> did you really? >> i read the book on my trip to turkey. i took it with me. carol could not believe it. >> peter: you read "fifty shades of gray". >> it is pure porn. >> is it? >> it's pure porn and it's not even good porn. it's badly-written porn. >> you are a connoisseur of good porn >> bill: exactly. i know good porn when i read it or enjoy it. >> peter: now i kind of want to read it >> bill: i can give you my copy. >> rock and roll hall of fame announcesing inductees, donna summer. >> not rock and roll. >> al

with the killing kennedy notes there is the scene describing john kennedy it is not just about the assassination. he describes the scene kennedy meets marilyn monroe at being crosbies house that was moved from frank sinatra because kennedy had been warned franc was involved with some mafia. you can imagine bill o'reilly looking at these names. and everyone knew that president kennedy would sleep with marilyn monroe that night. period. no retribution. how does he know that? he had a source from the london daily mail, a tabloid that had recorded this years ago and confirmed by secret service agent who was at the party but could not be identified. is that verifiable? it is something. sources are important. how he knows he is writing about is important and a popular history losses over that. >> guest: 2012 in general there were conversations of fact checking, corroborating sources, that what you wrote to was true and it brought down general there who writing about neuroscience so the book imagine can now and it turns out he had fabricated one source said copied extensively from earlier writings. as

for example, one of his old tv commercials. >> ♪ kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedyken-nedy for me ♪ >> ♪ kennedy >> ♪ kennedy >> ♪ kennedy >> ♪ kennedy >> you can even dial his phone and listen in on presidential conversations. >> with the popularity 70% now, sir, you'd break 50/50 with the republicans. >> it's a safe bet you'll find lots of fascinating facts about our 35th president. with "click this," i'm harry. sometimes it's hard to see where you're going, because you're stuck in where you are. but you have the power to change your problems... to change your life. and even though some things you're facing seem overwhelming - sometimes even small changes can have a big impact. these changes can start with something as simple as reaching out to someone who listens... someone who cares... someone who can help. you can choose a new path. you can change your life. all it takes is courage. yourlifeyourvoice.org. (tdd# 1-800-448-1433) >> let's get your opinion in "speak of the week." >> here's this week's question. "do you know your parents' middle names?" >> i don't k

kennedy and the kennedy administration, not one of them talks about the relationship that byrd and kennedy established. most of us talk about the byrd opposition to the kennedy primary. once kennedy gets the nomination, byrd goes out campaigning for him. he goes down to the southern baptist in texas and they were serious for lyndon johnson being on the ticket with hannity, who was catholic. -- kennedy who wa s a catholic. both johnson and john f. kennedy won their victory in the 1960s election with robert byrd's help in north carolina and texas. the second objective -- i realize byrd is a legend. outside of washington, d.c., he is little loan, much less respected. that is something i want to correct across the country. i knew history biography would not serve the purpose. there is an effort being made to portray byrd who gave nice speeches about the constitution. there is so much more to the guy. throughout his career, he was a fighter. he had to fight for everything he got. there are some who say he never faced a tough opponent. that is ridiculous. despite opposition, he takes on say that

that kennedy was much more friendly towards them?.. >> let's all listen and not let things get out of control. >> may be good can come from the evil and khrushchev says eliminate every crisis point* that eliminates a conflict and kennedy is slow to respond. >> bay back down with the cuban missile crisis just like people did not forgive kennedy. they were furious. but christian of reaches out and kennedy responds but we realize norman cousins goes over and he is frustrated. >> that was an important magazine. but kennedy responds he already had the solution that made people angry but the space race was the signature initiative. why should we compete? let's collaborate he gave a strong intention to pull out of vietnam. his american diversity speech the best in the 20th-century, he has a few but this is a great great speech in june 1953 that says let's end the cold war. he is reaching out to a limited area with a series of victories and kennedy learned other lessons. after the bay of pigs, do not trust the cia or the joint chiefs they ca

you can see here from kennedy's inauguration four years earlier, jackie kennedy is off to the left not holding the bible. the bible was, instead, held by james r. browning, a clerk of the supreme court. a few more pictures to show you. or reagan's swearing-in, jimmy carter, bill clinton and. here's 1985. this is reagan's second inauguration. a different locale, and the reason is because the weather was so bad in washington d.c. in 1985, it was a wind chill factor below zero, and so everything got canceled. the parade get canceled. then moved the of taking indoors and to the capitol rotunda, so there were only about 1,000 people squeezed in. weather has been a problem a few times, as i mentioned. an old picture from 89 in a lot of rain for the inauguration of benjamin harrison. 1945 this was franklin d. roosevelt's fourth inauguration. the war was going on. he was ill. everything was moved to the white house and he took the of have one of the balcony is there at the white house. so you know that fdr had for inauguration's. here's my trivia. you can impress your friends. barack obama is

for example, one of his old tv commercials. >> ♪ kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedyken-nedy for me ♪ >> ♪ kennedy >> ♪ kennedy >> ♪ kennedy >> ♪ kennedy >> you can even dial his phone and listen in on presidential conversations. >> with the popularity 70% now, sir, you'd break 50/50 with the republicans. >> it's a safe bet you'll find lots of fascinating facts about our 35th president. with "click this," i'm harry. >> let's get your opinion in "speak of the week." >> here's this week's question. "do you know your parents' middle names?" >> i don't know my parents' middle names. >> nope. >> no. they don't have any. >> my mom's... actually, i'm not even sure. no, i'm not sure of either. >> they're really long. they're, like, really, really long. >> i can't tell you that. they'd get upset with me. >> yes, i know my parents' middle names. my dad's middle name is quok, and my mom's middle name is ching. >> maria and labretto. >> my parents' middle names are michelle and clarence. >> my mom's middle name is crocket and my dad's middle name is joseph. >> according to our un

work together in the kennedy center honors. you can be-- you can be sure that his contribution to the led zeppelin segment outdistance mine. >> rose: if he wrote that, you tell him he has my highest respect because i thought it was brilliantly written. >> sdechlt and he conceived that ending with stairway to heaven. and robert plant told me that they were loving this tribute, but we were kind of dreading. we know stairway to heaven is coming because he has seen it done so badly. and this eatmt wh the choir and strings, they really loved it. but we're making it a feature length documentary about her block. >> rose: oh yes, are you doing that now. >> the great cartoonist for "the washington post". >> five time pulitzer prize winner. and one of the really great journalists in addition to cartoons. so we're excited about that. >> rose: the president is standing, is up in the audience with the first lady. this president has been every year, has he not? >> yes. only on two occasions was the president not present. >> rose: any preside

kennedy center honors program and the american film institute. >> president kennedy said i look forward to an america that will not be afraid of grace and bite. i look forward to an american that will honor achievement in the arts, the way we honor achievement in business or state craft. and that's what the kennedy center honors are. >> we conclude this evening with the stars and director of the new film, this is 40. joining us paul rudd, leslie mann and judd apatow. >> i think it is a couple that my own opinion is that they love each other and they're deal well problems that a lot of marriages deal with. and maybe they're just handling it in the wrong way sometimes. and i think they're kind of succumbing to the pressures of all of it. >> like paul said we kind of share a brain and so we, you know, we have a shorthand with each other, with all of it. and we have i mean we're constantly having conversations about what we are-- about screens and these characters. >> it is person. we debate all the time how truthful it is, and how personal it is. and some days it is like this is really per

tapes, kennedy sounds great. president kennedy, particularly on the last day, the 13th day everybody's getting nervous, you hear voices getting squeaky, president kennedy is cool understanding we need a deal, russians, secretly, but have to make a deal with them, and thank god there was a couple years to learn on the job, and because he did in the end handle the crisis well. some of the education came from president eisenhower. anybody else? thank you very much. [applause] >>> for more information visit the author's website at evanthomasbooks.com. >> booktv on location at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, maryland interviews professors who a also authors. we are joined by richard ruth, a professor at the naval academy. professor, what do you teach? >> predominantly asian history, and offer courses in thailand and vietnam. >> host: why important for students to know southeast asian history? >> guest: the united states is very much engaged in that corner of the world that we have many allies there. we have many

and kennedy gets that picture. and it's part of the education of john f. kennedy.one thing i like about president kennedy, he was raw, he was green, but he did learn on the job. he was bullied by kruschev in 1961, he had a rough summer in berlin, but he learned. and by the time to have cuban missile crisis in 1962, he's a great president. you listen to the tapes, and i have for a book i wrote about bobby kennedy, half of the sessions are taped, president kennedy's great. particularly on the last day, the 13th day when everybody's starting to get a little nervous, you can hear the voices get a little squeaky, president kennedy is cool. and he understands we have to make a deal with the russians. we have to do it secretly, but we have to make a deal with them. and thank god he had a couple of years to learn on the job, because he did in the end handle the crisis well. and some of his education came from president eisenhower. anybody else? thank you very much. [applause] >> visit the author's web site, evanthomasbooks.com. >> with a month left in 2012, many publicatio

the kennedies are still that lively. i can't pick a winner, but there are so many options. >> chris, congratulations on the great book and paperback. but it's hard to make the comparison over the years between politics now and politics then. but where would you put kennedy on the scale of liberal, moderate, conservative, in today's politics? >> i think he was a cold warrior in terms of foreign policy. he was intuitively anti-communist. he knew that meant authority for the top and no individual freedom at the bottom. he instinctively wanted to have a good time in life, enjoy life. he couldn't imagine being controlled by a state. so he hated the idea of communism. that was real with him. what he really wanted to do was end the arms race with the soviets. and he was able to do it with a limited test ban treat of august of '63. he was a cold war era, who like reagan wanted to end the chance of the world blowing up. so he was a smart cold warrior, who knew the goal of the cold war by its nature was to avoid a real war. that w

but the kennedy family so most historians tell us wanted to robert kennedy to assume political leadership, and eventually hubert humphrey to the vice presidency. shortly after the election, johnson asked shriver to head the war on poverty. some of the impetus for prioritizing the issue of poverty came from the of america. the best-selling study of poverty by the holy cross alumni michael harrington who found poverty hidden in appellation and in america's inner cities. shriver is accepted the challenge and got to work first of all research and the scope of the problem and its possible solutions. she found 30 million americans then living in poverty, and his agenda for them was and handouts employment through programs like the preschool head program, a dhaka court to retrain adults for in the dhaka the postindustrial economy and vista volunteers in service to america often described as a domestic peace corps. there were programs come stress and community leadership, global planning with federal funds, and there were legal services for the poor. in time, the war on poverty raised up resentme

kennedy, the father of president kennedy, many other kennedys heading the sec. he was the master to london in the hollywood film industry was very active in the roosevelt administration. sometimes the relationship between him and the president could take contentious and i feel nassau has done an excellent job of putting together so much research. he spent within six years on this book going to archive after archive, crosschecking, fat checking. one thing that seems to improve defensively with joe kennedy pisani bootlegger. i really, really admire the scholarship and a very quiet to spend the many weeks with this book. >> host: discovering new things about the kennedy family is just astounding. we were talking about an alternative history thing. but if nixon, what if they had never been president and we start thinking about the thousands of books that never would have been written about it but maybe different books. i once interviewed caroline kennedy edited several books, mostly and some tapes from the white house. caroline kennedy is famous for staying on messa

just for the kennedys. that is for the five kennedy half dollars. i get the matter eventually. that is remarkable to me that 5 coins is almost $200 when you look at the price of the entire collection. again this is even incredibly rare to have on hsn. it has not happened in about a year. he was finally able to put this premium collection together and you get all the cases. it really a wonderful way to start, give it. thank you for joining us and stay online for this. with everybody waiting, we have about 125 left and then it is gone again. you have no idea when thewe are doing it again. >>guest: the issue people are focusing on gold and silver. so we are able to sell these at a price we have never been able to do before.set by said these are some of the lowest prices i did in 20 years. >>host: stay online. 3 >>host: 1 set that is coming up that is a massive savings tonight this ed and i do think is insane! -- it >>host: now tonight for one time only we have taken $700 off the prestige proof sets. i had exactly 55 now so if you are seen as for the fi

kennedy had set as the beginning of the decade.ft to another president to congratulate the astronauts. >> for a priceless moment in the history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. >>neil: he planned two different speeches, one if you succeeded and one if you didn't. fate ordained the men who went to the moon, to rest in peace the brave men know there is no hope for their recovery, but they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice, that would have been read if you did not make it. >> we were pioneers. it was doing something that was never done anywhere. >> armstrong and collins and aldrin splashed in 1969 in the pacific and the space race was over. >> coming up in the 1960's there was a hit tv show "lost in space" and a movie "marooned" as long as humans dreamed of exploring the heaven they shuddered the at possibility of never getting back but the astronauts of apollo 13 that nightmare almost came true. apoo [ male announcer ] at scottrade, we believe the more you know, the better you trade. so we

the most was during the kennedy years. jack kennedy as i said was determined to do something that the cuba problem. he was obsessed, humiliated that the day. lyndon johnson can after kennedy and his obsession with vietnam so he declined precipitously. subsequent presidents such as gerald ford, jimmy carter made a very serious efforts to achieve a rapprochement with castro, quite the opposite of what kennedy was doing. so yes, cuba has waxed and waned and it's been a different kind of priority over these 50 years, so it is with american presidents. estimate on the reverse side, does cuba have good assets, did they have good assets in the u.s.? has the castro regime ever tried to assassinate a u.s

but he was no jack kennedy. [laughter] here's a picture of washington's inauguration the first one in 79 that place in the capitol at the time. the next inaugurations took place in philadelphia and the first one in washington was in 1801. now there is a mess, a legend of the george washington so help me god at the end of the los. but there is no proof that he said that. out of the four words at the time it's come to be a tradition at least from 1933 to the present those words have been added at the end of the los. this is 1929 coming in on the left is the chief justice william howard taft and he is administering the oath of office to the new president herbert hoover. he's the only person ever to be both president and chief justice and you're supposed to say preserve, protect and defend the constitution that he said cruisers, maintain and defend and this was a mistake was actually discovered by a little 13 year old girl listening to the inauguration on radio in the classroom and the state of new york. she's the o

and robert kennedy. i was with robert kennedy in indianapolis, indiana, on the evening of april 4, 1968, when i heard that dr. king had been shot. i didn't know his condition until robert kennedy spoke at a rally that i was having to organize and said that dr. king had been assassinated. that clip. robert f. kennedy: i have some very sad news for all of you, and i think sad news for all of our 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. martin luther king dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. he died in the cause of that effort. in this difficult day, in this difficult time for the united states, it is best well for us to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. for those of you who are black, considering the evidence, evidently that there were white people responsible, you can be filled with bitterness and with hatred, and a desire f

kennedy. i went to work for john lindsay, but i would not work for him at republican headquarters. i was handing out leaflets on the street corner in new york and a woman thought this is really cute, this little boy handing out leaflets. she asked me why, and i made the case for lindsay. i got an early start on my political work consulting career. she said that is so cute. she hands me a box of what looked to be pastry, all white box with string. i took it back to the liberal party headquarters and the open it up, and there were all these donuts and a wad of $10 bills. one of my early lessons in politics. >> tuesday night, david axelrod on his life in journalism and politics. that is followed at 9:30 with all five of new hampshire is all woman delegation. then, growing up at the white house, tuesday evening on c- span. >> george will spoke at washington university in st. louis about the role of religion in politics. the speech was hosted by the john danforth center on politics. we will hear fr

you can see from kennedy's inauguration jackie kennedy's office in the picture she isn't holding the bible. it was instead held by james brown and who was a clerk of the supreme court. a few more pictures to show you. here's ronald reagan swearing in, jimmy carter old when president is off to the right of the picture and here is bill clinton in 1993. now here is 1985, this is the second inauguration and notice it's a different locale and the reason is because the weather was so bad in washington, d.c. in 1985 it was a windshield factor of below zero everything got canceled. the parade got canceled, they moved the oath taking in doors into the capitol rotunda so there were only about a thousand people squeezed in. weather has been a problem at times i mentioned. this is an old picture from 1989 a lot of rain that the for the inauguration of benjamin harrison. and then in 1945 this was franklin d. roosevelt's fourth inauguration. the war was going on. she wasn't feeling well. he was ill and everything was moved to the white house. he took the oath at one of the balcony's of the white h

then as mercury was winding down oz september 2nd president kennedy was assassinated.hey launch operation centers shall here after be known as the john f. kennedy space center. >> in april 1964 nasa launched project gem knee latin for twins. >> the gemini was started it was a two-man spacecraft. the gem knee program was to show if we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon you had to have capability of two weeks in space, you had to be able to rendezvous, you had to be able to get outside of the space suit and have a guide to reentering. we practiced those missions on gemini. the gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> on june 3rd, 1965, the astronaut became the first american. >> america was still playing catchup however soviet cosmonaut had performed a space walk three months earlier. the big prize was still up there and the gemini missions were moving forward each one providing nasa with more information necessary for the ultimate quest. >> we are on our way. >> in december of 1965 gem any 7 rendezvous with gem any 6 a

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then as mercury was winding down oz september 2nd president kennedy was assassinated.hey launch operation centers shall here after be known as the john f. kennedy space center. >> in april 1964 nasa launched project gem knee latin for twins. >> the gemini was started it was a two-man spacecraft. the gem knee program was to show if we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon you had to have capability of two weeks in space, you had to be able to rendezvous, you had to be able to get outside of the space suit and have a guide to reentering. we practiced those missions on gemini. the gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> on june 3rd, 1965, the astronaut became the first american. >> america was still playing catchup however soviet cosmonaut had performed a space walk three months earlier. the big prize was still up there and the gemini missions were moving forward each one providing nasa with more information necessary for the ultite quest. >> we are on our way. >> in december of 1965 gem any 7 rendezvous with gem any 6 a in

the kennedys in 61. storage and laura bush, barack and michele obama. unplanned inauguration's are also a big part of inauguration day. not really the inauguration day, but as part of inauguration history. you cannot deny, and many of us remember 49 years ago next year will be the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy followed by lyndon johnson being sworn in a border force one in dallas. he was sworn in by federal district judge sarah hughes, the only woman to ever square and a president. gerald r. ford being sworn in in the white house in 1974 after richard nixon resigned in disgrace. here's a picture of -- and it's my final story for the day. this story actually inspired me more than any other to write this book. this is calvin coolidge's 1923, president after the death of warren harding. at the time of harding's death

she performed during the kennedy center honors in 1981.ow others will perform for her. >> chicago, thank you very much. i'll never leave. >> blues man buddy guy got a sendsoff for the honors. he went on to win six grammy awards. honoree dustin hoffman said when he grew up, movie stars didn't look like he did. more than 50 films later, he has two best actor oscars. honoree david letterman has more than 5,000 television broadcasts under his belt. he's being recognized for finding the humor in anything, even winning it honor. he talked about it on "the late show." >> when i stopped laughing, i was very excited. i'll tell you, because this is great for my family. they think i'm working at a jiffy lube in mexico. >> why not? >> reporter: people who cover the honors say there's more than comic relief at play. it's a break from partisan politics. >> at this moment when we're all tired from the election, you can see a break in the action. that adds to the momentousness of the evening. >> reporter: david letterman joked on his show that kennedy cen

then as mercury was winding down oz september 2nd president kennedy was assassinated.hey launch operation centers shall here after be known as the john f. kennedy space center. >> in april 1964 nasa launched project gem knee latin for twins. >> the gemini was started it was a two-man spacecraft. the gem knee program was to show if we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon you had to have capability of two weeks in space, you had to be able to rendezvous, you had to be able to get outside of the space suit and have a guide to reentering. we practiced those missions on gemini. the gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> on june 3rd, 1965, the astronaut became the first american. >> america was still playing catchup however soviet cosmonaut had performed a space walk three months earlier. the big prize was still up there and the gemini missions were moving forward each one providing nasa with more information necessary for the ultimate quest. >> we are on our way. >> in december of 1965 gem any 7 rendezvous with gem any 6 a

kennedy didn't want to offend them. instead of the friendly reception they thought they would get, they would be listened to what the administration -- they would take recommendations and incorporate them later on in legislation force them to. until the civil rights movement person to come but they would be polite and then write a spec implores to themselves about these people think we're going to do this. he can't do any of us. so they found out and try to cooperate with the administration. but what they found out who is the appendage put into the love of their setup, which made them an independent voice to civil rights is really important and they shouldn't try and be friendly with some particular administration. their job is to be a watchdog over what the administration was doing and they learned that. and when kennedy was assassinated in johnson is a pro-civil rights, what they proposes proposed this legislation the civil rights act of 64 and 65 were enacted into law. >> host: at what point did you become aware in y

she dated a kennedy.e near ethel kennedy and now she's in the uk and she was named the moist charitable celebrity of 2012. >> and she's a serial dater. >> all her songs are about dating relationships. >> that's how she keeps the music going. dates new guys. tears them apart and wrooishts a song about them. >> and seth mcfarland? >> i think he's the coolest guy ever. >> very handsome. >> he's behind "family guy" and he was "gq" man of the year and he was the host of snl and he was nominated for a grammy and not to mention he's the guy behind "ted" the best movie of our generation. >>> and did we mention the gq part? and finally royalty. prince harry for his now infamous trip to las vegas? >> this was the biggest story, i think, in the year. he's like at a pool party and playing naked billiards. i think this definitely caused some problems for people on both sides of the pond. >> looking forward, 2013. who do you think are going to be the a-listers making some top headlines? >> i think we'll still hear from

. >> jack kennedy. >> now you're jack kennedy. chris: these aren't the best of all time. >> i like the navy one and i know -- chris: the bayonets and horses. >> the white house had been prepared for that one because mechanism was using the line about the navy being smaller now. chris: one of his biggest advisers, former secretary of the navy, 600-ship navy. >> so they were prepared for it and put that line in there just waiting and it was so funny, i was there for that debate and the second mitt romney said what he did, a lot of the reporters trying to groans baud they knew what was coming. >> i like the zinger from the president. the one i like was on the david letterman show. letterman says you and mitt romney don't like each other, why not? and he said, when we were kids together in kenya growing up and that kind of humor really makes an impact on people because they like it. chris: it's self deprecating, taking the biggest charge against you. >> i'm going with the kerry. the setup thing was terrible but when kerry said you've

kennedy and the kennedy administration, not one of them talks about the relationship that byrd and kennedyshed. most of us talk about the byrd opposition to the kennedy primary. you have a simple explanation. the guy was a bigoted anti- catholic hillbilly. wrong. once kennedy gets the nomination, byrd goes out campaigning for him. he goes down to the southern baptist in texas and they were serious for lyndon johnson being on the ticket with hannity, who was catholic. -- kennedy, a catholic. both johnson and john f. kennedy won their victory in the 1960s election with robert byrd's help in north carolina and texas. the second objective -- i realize byrd is a legend. outside of washington, d.c., he is little loan, much less respected. -- little known, much less respected. that is something i want to correct across the country. i knew history biography would not serve the purpose. there is an effort being made to portray byrd who gave nice speeches about the constitution. there is so much more to the guy. throughout his career, he was a fighter. he had to fight for everything he got. all the