he liked kennedy. he's told me that. he liked kennedy. they had very good conversations, but somehow or other they were not on the same page. and kiss jer was couraged because he thought that kennedy would yield too much to the soviets.inger was couraged because he thought that kennedy would yield too much to the soviets. he resigned in 1961 with a note ant the note said the following. i am in the position of a man sitting next to a driver, kennedy, who is heading for a precipice. and i am being asked to make sure that the tires are properly inflated and that the oil pressure is adequate. farce kissinger was concerned that was not the kind of role that he envisioned for himself and it was not the kind of role that he had later. even before kennedy's inauguration, crews clever made nice. he sent a memo to kennedy saying he wanted good relations. he didn't really like eisenhower. he didn't say that. but that was true. kennedy wrote back and said, yes, i want good relations also. and he proposed a meeting. crews clever sat on the invitation.

kennedy. the assassination of president kennedy on that day in dallas put our guests in the iconic film frames from a photographic images and collective memories that record and recall one of the most genetic moments in our countries history. a history known viscerally to anyone living at that time and sure to be known by generations to come. what is less known about our guest is on the tragic day and for three years before and almost a year afterwards, he was assigned to jacqueline kennedy, not the president and it is that special assignment to guard an intensely private first lady than former first lady that is the subject of his new book, "mrs. kennedy and me." tonight we are pleased the co-author of mrs. kennedy in me, lisa mccubbin joined the conversation. they said co-authored the book, the kennedy detail and its award-winning journalist and tv news anchor and reporter. please join me in welcoming, lisa mccubbin and clint hill. [applause] >> thank you so much for coming out tonight. grea

kennedy, kennedy. it still rings in my head. any case, kennedy came to city hall. had a room to himself for a while to rest. two people were with him bob lock ner then the head of usia, a german interpreter, and another interpreter. kennedy looked at his speech. i've seen that speech in the kennedy library i've seen about four or five drafts and i can tell you that they are god awful. it was the kind of speech that he wouldn't even make to an american crowd. yes, things are tough, but sooner or later one day the wall will fall and this kind of stuff. kennedy looked at it and he said i can't give the kind of speech to people who have talked to me this way. he decided to go back to his ole latin where he learned and to say -- there was a discussion of course, which all of you know, did he said, i am a jelly doughnut. no, he did not say i am a jelly doughnut. he said, i'm a berliner. i talked to vaber about this. very extraordinary. and i asked him what he had recommended. he said, i'd recommended i'm a berliner. nobody would have thought that kennedy was saying that

yes. >> there were three broadcasts that kennedy and others heard and kennedy heard that in the ap office, he was listening to the bbc and these were english translations of the german broadcast that he heard. each broadcast had slightly different content. it was, i believe, the 2:40 p.m. broadcast that put him over and probably decided him to move at that point. the first one came at 2:01. but it was a good 40 minutes listening to those english translations before you made a call. and that phone that he picked up was paris military and shafe had not fought about closing off that but kennedy and others had used that line before. it was not out of the ordinary to pick up that line if you had to call in. >> may i ask, how long was it before others matched the story and did the other people, once ap had the story, then break the embargo or did the military then lift the embargo and let others report the story? >> they did not lift the embargo and others did not report. >> so it was the next day? >> it was exclusive for a day. >> most of the reporters spent their time writing a petition. and

he was livid that cronkite bigfoot him and got to do the big kennedy interview when he was covering kennedy as a correspondent all the time. there became a celebrity status to these journalists. the part about cronkite that interests me is how he liked talking to everybody. his real genius was even though he lived in new york and operated in social circles, but he loved talking to cabdrivers and gardeners. he never said no to anybody. that is where his genius was. he never lost touch with the average american people. >> how did you do this? gives us some insight into how you write 800 pages in a very short time and do the research? some people write for 12 years. >> i put a lot of that material because i wanted a cast of characters for people and voluminous and notes. i am an academic. notes are part of my training. >> would you buy time to write? >> that is all they do. i teach at rice in austin. my three kids go to school. i have a big library of all my books. this book was easy because all his papers are just down the road. the hard part is traveling to do research. i have been around. i

kennedy was telegenic. incidentally, cronkite taught a course before the 1952 convention which john f. kennedy took on how to be telegenic. it is a longer story. but kennedy came in and as you know, the inaugural was fantastic television of kennedy, and then the press conferences were just dynamite. then the whole hyannis port, cape cod mystique that came up -- don hewitt, the crucial figure, saying kennedies do well. and it was not just kennedy for the nightly news but cbs had all these new shows. you could get on "eyewitness to history." in fact, cronkite covered america's cup up there and got interested in yachting and sailing hang and run the kennedys. but the kennedy era brought television into our lives, the main way people started getting news. and famously, cronkite did a maracas job broadcasting the kennedy assassination to the american people. so, history connects cronkite with the kennedys a lot. he ended up living in martha's vineyard, buying his house and in many ways was part of the set of cap

kennedy. when the senator secured the nomination, white was named national chair of citizens for kennedy johnson. as a practical matter, the position provided robert kennedy with a daily opportunity to consult white for advice on campaign tactics and strategy as well as for the wealth of personnel judgments required by a national campaign. after senator kennedy was elected, white was named deputy attorney general. his first task was to recruit assistants attorney general who would be the frontline officers in the department of justice. when white finished the task, one distinguished legal scholar declared, it was the most brilliantly staffed department we had seen in a long time. and the quality of personnel bespoke a vision of public service that would have done anyone proud." in addition to making staffing decisions, he was responsible for supervising the vetting of more than 100 judges nominated during the administration's first year. he received national recognition during the freedom ride

so robert kennedy in south africa in 1965. >> there were places for whites. there were places for what the government referred to as non-whites, and never the two -- the twain mixed. and there we all were gathered in johannesburg awaiting his arrival. >> they arrived at the airport that said non-whites only and whites only. he chose to go to the non-white area. that's where they put his podium. >> i don't think anybody anticipated that hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of people made their way to that airport, which was a long way outside johannesburg. there was no public transportation. the black south africans, very few of them had access to automobiles. >> when kennedy came, this person almost from out of space really, when something like that happens to people who are boarded up and oppressed, it sends through an electric shock through the communities of the coming of freedom. >> the airport was swarming with white, black, brown, indian, every hue of skin. i don't think i had ever seen anything like that in my life. so that very first night, we began t

kennedy was telegenic. cronkite talked eight course before the 52 convention on how to be telegenic. -- taught a course before the 52 convention on how to be telegenic. his press conferences were dynamite. been ththen that mystique that e up, [unintelligible] kennedy's do well. it was not as kennedy's for the nightly news, but they have all these other new shows. if you can get an eyewitness, cronkite covered americans interest in yachting and sailing. cronkite does a miraculous job of broadcasting the kennedy assassination to the american people. cronkites associate with the kennedys. >> at last count, i think barack obama has appeared on 60 minutes 11 times. i do not think anyone else has appeared that many times. their ratings are good. are they giving him a platform? >> 60 minutes is all about ratings. all television is about ratings. >> how much of this is news judgment and how much is ratings? >> i have never heard -- he did it in its 80's. he thought this was good. walter cronkite did great work with

for senator kennedy. both when he ran for the senate and then after. >> what's your brother's name? >> john. john o'brien. >> what did he do for the senator? >> a political aide. he worked in the '64 campaign. that's how he did it, and he was political person, but he called one day and said you know, there was a man named john doar who worked for president kennedy 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

eisenhower and kennedy me.his is a far off, seriously tried to warn you cannot organize the white house as a kind of type. kennedy said yeah, i'm beginning to figure this out now. he would learn. you change the way he did his decision-making as they become more like the one that pay, interestingly enough before they appear before the cameras and kennedy really needed this picture as much as he needed to talking to you because it can read need a sense of authority in command to have the old general bear. eisenhower didn't criticize kennedy in public. >> in fact, the following week in a congressional delegation congressman a pilgrimage to gettysburg to see eisenhower could do that okay, the limits of the rest of the kennedy administration on eisenhower person that said there should be no wish to. it is important that we support our president, especially in foreign policy in dangerous times this not become a partisan issue. >> which is very much like what happened about two or three weeks ago. i just have to bring

kennedy. from '52 onwards, you just see television news and special events reporting, which cronkite was the master of, like walking us through the kennedy assassination, or taking us through, you know, the apollo 11 mission. he would go marathon for days. he was known as the iron pants, became his nickname within cbs culture. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. >> i remember getting these glasses. i just liked the glasses. and my colleague sort of called them my cronkites. and i picked up that name. but it's interesting when you see him with those glasses talking about the death of john f. kennedy, taking them on, looking at the clock. that was his moment. and that is probably the iconic moment in journalism, and the next i think would probably be 9/11. >> everybody knows that clip. i'll tell you, he came in that day, tafs normal friday. a lot of people had cut out for the weekend and others were having long lunches in new york. he brought

eisenhower and kennedy may. this was a serious -- i tried to warn you can't organize the white house is what kind of talk and kennedy says yeah i'm beginning to figure that out now and kennedy would learn. he would change the way he made his decisions. he would become much more like the one the ike -- after they appear before the cameras kennedy really needed this picture as much as he needed a talking to. he need this picture because it conveyed a sense of authority and command to have the old general there. but eisenhower did not criticize kennedy and public. >> and back the following week a congressional -- made the pilgrimage to see eisenhower. they said the bloom is off the rose of a candidate on eisenhower brushed him back and said there will be no witchhunt. it's important that we support our president especially in policy and especially in dangerous times. that this not become a partisan issue. >> which is very much like what happened two or three weeks ago. i just have to bring this up. after george w.

dan kennedy is not willing to compromise. he feels that his, the building he wishes to build is already substantially under the maximum building envelope. the modest increase in seven-foot height above the current d.r. applicants rear roof deck parapet wall will not substantially change the views from or daylight into the rear lower level limits. it will have virtually no affect at all on the remaining rear-facing units above that level. in conclusion, we feel the proposed project is precisely what the new western neighborhood guidelines were drafted to encourage, the service and light industrial use of an automobile repair garage, also it should be noted that any modifications to the proposed design would likely also have the greater effect of establishing a dangerous precedent to the newly established guidelines. thank you for your time and i'm available for questions. president fong: thank you. speakers in favor of the project sponsor. it appears there are none. d.r. requester, you have a two-minute rebuttal? >> thank you

the decision will likely hinge on the decision of justice anthony kennedy.ways impossible to read. >>> the next day, giving quote, scarily a sign that he's close to a decision. mass i mo joins us now. great to see you. >> thank for having me. >> let's talk about justice kennedy. much was made about his behavior during the oral arguments, but in hindsight, i wonder, as we said, he seems like a cipher, which is to say you never really know. the opinions expressed at conference don't often change, but kennedy changes more than most. in one famous incident. scalia went for a walk with kennedy and came away confident they would vote together. the nebs day kennedy went the other way. yes, there's some famous examples. i think he went to look at the justice white papers for further reporting, and there's case after case where not only do people think they have him, but he actually votes one way in conference, and then subsequently after sort of living with the opinion for a little while, changes his mind and goes the other way, writes an opinion the other way. that

the report gives a raw and candid look inside the kennedy home, as it appears mary kennedy was spiraling down, drinking heavily, depressed and out of control. jeff rossen reports that she was only allowed to see her children if she was supervised. >> reporter: on the grounds of their sprawling new york estate, mary kennedy hanged herself, a painful end last month to a painful life. she was in the midst of a bitter divorce from bobby kennedy, her final months laid out in excruciating detail in this "newsweek" article. mary's violin andfold abuse continued before -- he said she sell she intended to kill herselves. he went over to mary's house after separating. i opened the door and she leapt out of the bed and hit me with a roundhouse punch. bobby says mary screamed at him saying in front of their son, everything he does is evil and a fraud. he is a flanderer, an adulterer, a sex addict. lawrence lamer, a respected kennedy boy grapher, wrote the article, speaking exclusively with nbc news. >> she drank heavily. because of her drinking, the children were taken away from her. what was left?

john kennedy was one of those people. and there's some evidence that had he lived, he was moving toward a relationship with cruise clever that may have slowed the arms race and the cold war. i think reagan was building on a foundation. but he came along at a time when there was a partner in moscow who he could work with. i think gorbachev is really significant. there was no one quite like him until he came along. we have time for one more. bl it's been said that ronald reagan intended to bankrupt the soviet union during his administration military spending went up dramatically. the soviets then tried to match that henceforth the 25% of their gdp. was there a master plan of the reagan administration to bankrupt the soviet union? >> so the question is about whether the reagan white house had a plan to bankrupt the soviet union. they certainly did have a strategy. they did believe that the soviet union and reagan really believed this from the get to that the soviet economy was weak and that it would crumble under pressure. t

eisenhower and kennedy meet. i tried to warn you can't organize the white house this way and kennedy said i am beginning to figure that out and he would change the way he did his decisionmaking. much more -- after they appear before the cameras and kennedy needed this picture as much as they needed talking to. and to have the old general there. but eisenhower didn't criticize kennedy in public. >> the following week a full congressional delegation of republican leaders made the pilgrimage -- and the bloom is off the rose of the kennedy administration and eisenhower said there should be no witch hunt. it is important to support the president in foreign policy especially in dangerous times. does not become a partisan issue. >> very much like what happened three months ago. they bring this up after george w. bush left office and the club has its protocol. he went off the grid. he disappeared and the current president deserves my silence. was a classy thing to do. the vice president didn't take that approach. when he

kennedy. then nixon. in 1971, nefebruary, president nixon doesn't personally install it. he orders its installation. it's installed by the secret service. this is a taping system that's 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 link lincoln sitting room upstairs in the white house. there's a lot in this exhibit that is high tech. but this is decidedly low tech because it's fun. and gives kids -- i mean, we're not talking about, you know, high school students, college students. they'll enjoy the touch screens and listening to voices from the past. but, you know, we do get kids that are younger. and that's probably not that interesting to them. this, i would hope, would be interesting. so here let me press a button for you. the oval office. you press the oval office button, and you get to see where all the secreted

he said he would not participate in that kennedy institute debate if anybody associated with the kennedy institute was going to make an endorsement in the race. now, he didn't just mean somebody who was going to be moderating the debate and asking the questions or anything like that. what republican senator scott brown insisted on rather is that the widow of ted kennedy personally be banned from making an endorsement in the senate race because she has an association with her late husband's institute. to be clear, there was never any indication she was going to be participating in the debate in any way or asking the questions or anything like that. just because she's associated with the institute named for her late husband, scott brown said he forbid her from making any endorsement in the election before the debate, after the debate, ever. all the way through to the election. scott brown's condition for accepting that debate was a personal endorsement ban on the late ted kennedy's wife. if you didn't get that, he said that debate just wouldn't be fair. when ted kennedy's widow responsed t

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i spoke to vicki kennedy this morning and patrick kennedy before coming here.the important role that he played. a lifetime of commitment to making health care a right. not a privilege in our country. he called it the great unfinished business of our country. our society. i knew that when he left us, he would go to heaven and help pass the bill. until this decision came down. spiring one way or another. and now he can rest in peace. his dream, for america's families, has become a reality. i'll be pleased to take any questions. >> the president has said, himself -- >> that, of course, the former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who more than probably anybody in congress really s shepherded this bill to completion, to law. we talked about the reactions here. it was such a fraught moment in american history when the bill was passed. in some ways this is closure for the democrats who were slogging it out in congress and pushed this thing forward. she, of course, is invoking the legacy of ted kennedy, whose dream it was to see a national health care plan. >> righ

and i think in the end why ted kennedy -- we can't ask him to now, but why he picked david nasaw is because he saw a model for the arc of his father's life he made a great fortune relatively early and spent the rest of his life figuring out ways to do good things with it. end of course we mistake the things, help make his son president. that piece of the story, al joseph kennedy was involved and ultimately the election is fascinating the name has been dead this long. there are some real newsbreaks. >> and other book coming out as well. >> yes. an autobiography. how firm and has such a reputation as a diplomat, it is delightfully unvarnished. there is no secret that he had some issues with the bush administration in iraq and other

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his relationship with kennedy was testy because kennedy wanted to do a do-over on a interview like we are doing now and cronkite said no. but he became close to bobby kennedy. in 1968, cronkite urged bobby kennedy to run for president and challenge lyndon johnson for the nomination, cronkite went to vietnam and was sickened by what he saw. people question, why would he urge somebody like bobby kennedy to run for president, is that ethical and the answer was vietnam tore the country apart. once he went incountry and looked around, his sense of being a humanist was above him being an anchor. >> thank you very much. a legal drug that is believed to be connect to several crimes. one young man called it the devil because he overdosed on it. >>> want to check the headlines, george zimmerman no longer a free man, the man who shot trayvon martin to death in self defense is back in jail. he lied about the money he had, and that amount determined his bail. >>> a death toll is rising after a plane crash in nigeria. a plane fell into a city and killed all 153 people on board. the president of knt

kennedy, jr.laimed his estranged wife was physically abusive to him and made numerous threats of suicide. coming up what her family is saying about that. >>> then we're going to switch gears and take you down memory lane. are you ready for this? >> i'm ready. >> one of the most talked about plot twists, who shot j.r., obsessed fans in the '80s. now the ewing gang is back here in our studio, larry hagman, linda gray and patrick duffy all joining us live this morning. we're excited about that. >>> let's begin with the devastating wildfire in colorado. charles pad okay in bellevue. charles, good morning. >> good morning, ann. this fire known as the high park fire is the largest blaze in this part of the rocky mountains in 25 years. what's making it worse is its unpredictable nature. here is how fast it can happen. from a two acre fire first noticed saturday morning in the mountains north of ft. collins, colorado to a 20,000 acre behemoth in one day with zero containment and no signs of slowing down.

>> look, justice kennedy gets one vote just like everybody else. speculation is that there is four to his left. there is usually four to his right. if that's the case, then his vote may be decisive. it couldvel be a a-4 decision in which justice kennedy cast the deciding vote. >> juan: give insight what you think his background is on this issue of using the commerce clause as it applies to having americans, all americans buy health insurance? >> sure, justice kennedy is committed to brains pell in our constitution called federalism which basically says that the federal government does some things and the state government does some things. justice kennedy believes that splitting sovereignty between the federal government and state government leaves us more free than when it's consolidated. that's the question here. has the federal government gone beyond proper boundaries by seeking to force people in commerce when they are not otherwise in there. >> juan: in the oral arguments with done that, the solicitor general. he seemed critical at points but t

anthony kennedy was the swing justice in this case. these days, anthony kennedy sides with the conservatives on just bearing, but on the issue of sentencing american children to die, either in prison or on a lethal injection gurney down the hall from their cells, anthony kennedy has sided in the past and today again sided with the liberals. the liberals are not lucky however to have that same swing justice with them on issues of democracy and corruption. justice kennedy was the author of the decision in the most justly famous radical supreme court decision since bush v. gore, citizens united. that case struck down decades of anti-corruption election law and said that corporations need to be able to spend in an unlimited fashion to be able to dominate the political discourse in our country as much as they want to. at a time when corporate profits are at an all-time historic high and american wages are at an all-time historic low, no literally, both of those happening at once, one might think corporations are doing okay getting what they

i think justice kennedy asks hard questions of government. he has hard questions to the challengers. he's trying to get at the answers here. he's not trying to hide where he is. >> poker face jokes aside, you worked for him. do you find it alarming that so many of the decisions come down to this one man, it seems? >> no. i think it's the way the court the balanced. there is an expectation that the court could wind up 5-4 on this. we don't know. we'll see that tomorrow. every nominee matters. >> we are expecting for justice kennedy to be a swing vote. i was talking to jeff toobin and he said, yes, he ripped into the federal government's council all of like five minutes in. what can we really glean from that. is it how he may decide? >> look, i think he did ask hard questions of the government. he said the government is doing something here that it's never done before forcing someone to enter the stream of commerce under the guise of regulating commerce. justice kennedy said he thought the government had a heavy burden to carry that. when he go

kennedy was miffed. he became very close to bobby kennedy.8 walter cronkite even urged bobby kennedy to run for president. kennedy being the new york senator at that time. and challenge lyndon johnson for the democratic nomination because cronkite had gone to vietnam and was sick by what he saw about the johnson administration had lied to the american people and called the war a stalemate. many people are questioning why would a cronkite, a serious journalist, urge somebody like bobby kennedy to run for president. the answer is vietnam tore the country apart. cronkite stayed in the middle from '55 to '68. once he went inside the country being a humanist transcended being an anchor. >> i want to talk about this whole idea of liberal and conservative when it comes to news. we hear so much about it now. especially with the advent of cable news. some people being on the right and being on the left. was walter cronkite considered a liberal in those days, did people know about it and was he criticized for it? >> he was not considered a liberal unti

one.justice anthony kennedy. will be of obamacare.kennedd's vote has decided dozens of five-to-four cases since ronald regan appointed him to the bench in 1988.he often times... leans right.bbt this time around... kennedd and chief justice john roberts both seemed skeetical of the government's case. can you create commerce n order to regulate it?i don't think you're addressing theirr main point,,which is that they are not creating commerce in -- in heath care. it's already there, and we are all gging to need some kind of health care; most of us will, at some point. point.while his kind of questing gives hopeeto the survive... at least in part. cost... is still a big concern. coming up next half hour... hear from president obama on why he believes... it's the fox45 morning news.illnd, tter - one man is dead... after aa shooting inndowntown baltimore. and this orning... police are on the lookout for a vehicle that fled the scene.the shooting happened around 8 o'clock, last night on ccntral avenue.the man was found

justice kennedy, speaks for the minority, including justices thomas aleto, and scalia. justice kennedy said you changing what the congress intended and never used the word tax. how can we all of a sudden, the court say this is a tax if you don't sign up for healthcare. this is interesting. and three of the justices spoke. initially roberts and then kennedy and justice ruth bader ginsburg talked about why she thought the whole thing should have been okay. it wassing about -- interesting and there. >> from the inside, i am curious what it was like, surprised that justice kennedy was not the deciding vote or swing vote here. a lot of people thought he would be and where chief justice john roberts, who traditionally is a conservative, became the deciding vote in this. what was -- what happened inside the court when that became clear? >> and justicendy has been the voice for the mine ort -- justice kennedy has been the voice for the minority and is known as a thinker and a swing vote and he was harsh and saying on behalf of the four- member minority, the whole affordable car