kennedy. at passed out literature in my neighborhood about it. i remember a woman slamming the door and saying, i don't support papist to be added not know what that was. it was a big deal to us. there was a lot of anti-catholic prejudice. >> i was seven at the time, but i have a very vivid memory of our principal walking into our second grade class from at band nine school in silver crews, new york. only two things i remember after that was when i got home, standing on the coffee table and my father holding me while i was crying and the drums. and then on sunday, on the tv and watching live oslo being shot by ruby. what got you interested in politics? >> guest: honestly, john f. kennedy did. that is one reason why i did the book. i have always had it in the back of my mind. i wanted to write about this once the had the time and resources to do it. we tried, we are doing a big project on kennedy. the book is a five-year project. that is why it 600 pages. if you give an academic another year he

kennedy. and what did you think about that? >> i was very disappointed. felt like somebody had demoted me to the second team. because all the action in the past had always been with the president, and that's where i wanted to be. i knew how they treated agents with first ladies previously. they watched fashion shows and tea parties and canasta games. that's about all they did. so i didn't want any part of that. but i had to accept the assignment, and i did. >> and when you met mrs. kennedy, she was very pregnant and about two weeks into the assignment you got a phone call. >> yes. it was thanksgiving night, 1960, and i got a phone call. i was at my home, and the phone call told me that they had just taken mrs. kennedy to georgetown hospital, an emergency situation. she was about to give birth. so i raced to georgetown hospital, paced the floor like an expectant father. the president was in florida, and i was there, and i witnessed when john f. kennedy jr. was born, and i saw him shortly after

kennedy. is hard to go through the letters and see how this man inspired young people, how he inspired our age people, and how he inspired the world. he operated in pain every single day of his life and never let it affect his presidency. he sat there with the world blowing up in nine different ways and stayed with it. there is only one person in the world that can write better than me and kennedy and that was william manchester. he was his friend and most articulate of any kennedy writer. he said his death was a tragedy but his life was a triumph. kennedy was lucky. if he had lived and there was no unspoken law among reporters that we don't report on the private life of the president they would have crucified him. he made bill clinton look like a choir boy. he really did. but there is no evidence in those letters. and certainly no evidence in what they got recorded. so i don't think i answered your question, which was, he was movie star handsome. he truly was. i remember as a young man playin

kennedy. and i want to do it in the following way first to give you a sense of how he came to write this book. there were some 40,000 bucks allegedly on jfk. so you sort of have to ask yourself, is there really a need for another book? and that was sort of the first threshold that i had to cross. and i will explain to you why i thought that there was intelligence to write this book. secondly i want to just describe what kind of senator john f. kennedy was. and then lastly, i want to go into a little bit more stag live from. kind of counterfactual analysis and consider a couple alternatives pass that his career might have taken if the fates it chains just a little bit. and i will do that at the end of my remarks. the book actually arose directly out of my work. i was just at the end of the book. i had not identified all the research and a little bit of the riding. i was in the final chapter in a need to put his career into context and understand how we fit in with the course of history. so i ha

, or the memory of kennedy. what are your thoughts sort of on how lyndon johnson factors into how we view kennedy today? >> well, i'm not a johnson expert, but there's a couple of interesting bits in the book about johnson. the first is that when he was picked as vice president, the liberals were outraged. they saw him as a southerner, kind of a gradualist on civil rights. so some of the union guys, the head of the united autoworkers, there was a mini rebellion against kennedy. a lot of those guys would have preferred stevenson anyway, so at the convention when johnson was picked, there's this famous scene where kennedy almost had to uninvite, uninvite johnson to be vice president. part of that was because of this uproar among the liberals. but later on i think you see johnson emerging as more of a liberal figure, at least on domestic policy. and there's another scene in this book where johnson, after kennedy had been shot, meets with walter heller who's a liberal kennedy economic adviser and tells heller, you k

kennedy. the president avoided going and they were in the car and we began to motorcade from san antonio international airport at two the new aeromedical space center medical laboratory. >> so the president is in an open top car. the weather is great and everything is going wonderful. what are we seeing in this photograph? >> a typical situation the president decided to stop the motorcade to allow people to shake his hand. he asked us to do that periodically as we were traveling down the street and that is what you see is the crowd is trying to rush to the presidential vehicle and then we went down to san antonio and there you see people on the street and on the balcony's and hanging out of the windows everywhere they could be to see the president and mrs. kennedy. we get to an airport again in the field to leave the area and another large crowd was helped with the military. .. >> there is a meeting of the group which is a spanish-speaking group. and he had mrs. kennedy to talk to him. and she

kennedy. and i want to do it in the following way first to give you a sense of how he came to write this book. there were some 40,000 bucks allegedly on jfk. so you sort of have to ask yourself, is there really a need for another book? and that was sort of the first threshold that i had to cross. and i will explain to you why i thought that there was intelligence to write this book. secondly i want to just describe what kind of senator john f. kennedy was. and then lastly, i want to go into a little bit more stag live from. kind of counterfactual analysis and consider a couple alternatives pass that his career might have taken if the fates it chains just a little bit. and i will do that at the end of my remarks. the book actually arose directly out of my work. i was just at the end of the book. i had not identified all the research and a little bit of the riding. i was in the final chapter in a need to put his career into context and understand how we fit in with the course of history. so i ha

kennedy made it. willie brand, the mayor of berlin, and kennedy, it's a wonderful progression of things. when kennedy was determined, and he made it clear that unless there was a colossal catastrophe he wasn't going to plunge the world into war. over berlin. he just wasn't going to do. cuban missile in something else. and now the berlin wall. and willy brandt writes in the letter i just going to sit there? are you going to let us be divided like this? are you going to let our freedom be taken? kennedy writes a very brilliant albeit wishy-washy noncommittal letter in which he is telling him that we will increase the troops, we will go into deeper negotiations, blah, blah, blah. but we ain't going to war, very clear. willy brandt is not amused, and then kennedy goes to berlin and he stands there and it may be as greatest speech of all. there is no way to measure the impact of that speech around the world. kennedy -- no way to measure the impact on them. he finishes his speech, he turns to bobby and he s

kennedy hated elites. roosevelt didn't like it, although johnson and roosevelt and kennedy, they would leak things to the press themselves in order -- ross once told me when johnson appointed him national security advisor, he called them up the night before the announcement was being made at midnight and said to him, why did you tel tell the press on te pointing you national security advisor? and he said mr. president, i didn't tell anybody, i didn't tell the press. johnson hung up on them. he went to bed not knowing if johnson was going to announce his appointment the next day. but it was johnson's way of controlling him. still my boy. johnson and joe califf on the talked about this in his memoir about the way in which johnson would control people. this was one technique he had. the kiddies would leak things that would be too good vantage. didn't want anyone to delete that they would. it's a very changed environment. >> we begin by talking about the polls. would ask you about asking your professional a su

kennedy. we encourage you to take part once again tonight, there are three ways to do this, you can tweet us, at first ladies, or on our facebook page, or you can call us. our numbers are -- mountan/pacific -- we will get to your calls in just a bit. i start with a phone conversation with president johnson. i want to ask about why we have them, before we listen very >> he takes his telephone conversations, as eisenhower and roosevelt -- with johnson this was about 650 hours over five years. and in most cases this was without the knowledge that would include jacqueline kennedy. at that point, there was a very good relationship with lbj. >> this is the phone conversation was just 10 days after the death of her husband. this is a phone conversation with lyndon johnson. >> you just have to give me strength. >> i wasn't going to come over. >> you just come over and put your arm around me, let's walk around the backyard. let me tell you how much you mean to all of us, and how we can carry on, -- >>

kennedy matters to a new generation i met by the way to personal moron the john kennedy one. i was twenty four years old driving in a car with three friends in palm beach looking at the sites his car from behind oh my gosh he was parked he died of a cause that how could you hit me on this week and said you want to change license this is no just raise your hands from as the vote for me. then we get to robert kennedy and ted of course very well you're only thirty four what prompted you to write your producing your journey what prompted you to write this book well i think for some time now our country has moved away in some sense from the message of ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country and the first time i heard this clip as a teenager i was inspired i felt that there was something magical about these words and about this president and i believe that he offers us a road map for how we can bring our country back on track and so i wrote this book and you're as the key message is what do you wear us to young people to do well first it's to b

helped kennedy craft those words. the letters, which are a marvelous book, chronicles the late historian's views really from world war for through the -- world war ii through the second iraq war. you can read letters from adelaide stevenson, john kennedy, robert kennedy, henry kissinger, william f. buckley jr., al gore, gore vidal, jacqueline kennedy and naturally -- given arthur's interest in american history -- groucho marx, sammy davis jr. and bianca jagger. alexandra, arthur's wife, is not here, so we can mention that one. to a detractor who accused arthur of being a communist sympathizer, he wrote: the facts i have cited should relieve your mind. if not, i can only commend you to the nearest sigh psychiatris. [laughter] i should note quickly that arthur had a keen appreciation for two tennessee exports, andrew jackson and jack daniel's. [laughter] as john seigenthaler and tom also appreciate, arthur did not believe that white wine was sufficient unto the day given difficulties of an afternoon. [laughter] andrew i

kennedy approved the overthrow of the ruler in 1963. the cia helped to engineer that and of course, president kennedy himself was to be assassinated himself three weeks later. so historically and early to prevent the tremendous loss of life that follows the administration of president johnson and president nixon. bearing in mind as the americans died under nixon as did other jobs and. -- johnson. so my colleague wrote the best and the brightest at the wrong place at the wrong time and i did not necessarily agree with him that but i do now but even the extended effort could have forestalled the ultimate dash a list victory which would have meant the us a promise a of vietnam's at that time. that is the best i can do in the allotted time. >> we will wrap it up. >> we will be hitting around for a little while. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> jfk and the senate halfway through the president say. with the 50th anniversary of the kennedy assassination , was it a benefit to publish your book at this time or di

kennedy, kennedy over and over again. this is a long way from dallas and it really registered with me. i remember interviewing and talking with the great late author david halberstam. he told me in almost a jocular way i carefully like the dallas cowboys. i thought he had another personal preference but he said they are from the city where the president was killed. this was many years later. i think the city has recovered a lot and have eloquently addressed it. there's a beautiful museum there. if you haven't been there please go. it took a long time for the city to figure out how to heal and to move forward. and i think to grapple with the sense that we probably shouldn't let people in either extreme hijacked the microphone. >> thank you francie my questions and i want to open up to the audience now. if anyone has a question if you could just line up behind his microphone in the center. >> will you just speak a little bit about wa criswell? i loved the book. >> we are not related. i wanted to notify everybody here. >> we

and in fact kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, over and over again. a long way from home, long way from dallas that really registered or me. i remember interviewing with the great late author, writer david halverson. he told me almost in a jocular way, i can't really like the dallas cowboys. i thought he had another personal preference. but he sat there for the city where my president was killed. this was many, many years later. i think the city has recovered a lot and now has a look at the address it. it's a beautiful museum up there. if you haven't, please go. it took a long, long time. for the city to figure out how to heal and move forward. to grapple with the fans that we probably shouldn't let people on either extreme hijacked microphone. >> thank you for answering my questions. i want to open it up to the audience. if anyone has a question, if you could line up behind the microphone in the center. >> were you just speak a little bit about w. a chris locke? i love your book. >> thank you you were not related to your thank you for saying that. i'

kennedy matters to a new generation i met by the way at a personal moment john kennedy won. i was twenty four years old driving in a car with three friends in palm beach looking at the sights has a scar from behind oh my gosh he was parked he died of a car said how could you hit me on this week and said you want to change license this is no just raise your hands from was the vote for me. and that began my new role. virginity you had of course very well you're only thirty four what prompted you to write your produce in your journey what prompted you to write this book well i think for some time now our country has moved away in some sense from the message of ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country and the first time i heard this clip as a teenager i was inspired i felt that there was something magical about these words and about this president and i believe that he offers us a roadmap for how we can bring our country back on track and so i wrote this book and you're as the key messages what do you wear us to young people to do well first

and bobby kennedy. in the event he felt he was more close to bobby kennedy and jack kennedy. he was tough to get close to but he said john kennedy was a realist. robert kennedy at the heart of bobby kennedy he felt the problems of the issues of the country. john kennedy figured out if his mind. >> don't you seek bobby was much more because of what he had dead throat? like the assassination? >> john kennedy had the katy one '09 experience. >> but i take his life to take koldewey remember watching bobby and i was on the trail and the fall of the politicians know one changed as much as he did in my judgment. in the end he could still we the tough guy with all of those out to orange county as the shot across the bout but my guess is he probably would have at that point. >> to say this 1,000 times is i believe in the ufo theory. the unforeseen will occur. [laughter] >> there is a live spirit of shakespeare. >> that would have been fascinating. >> i am trying a new technique of pierre it is acre bird. [laught

jackie kennedy is what, 33? 34. we don't have a plan when he died and thank goodness we are not talking about an assassination. everything was choreographed to and the guests were a list. she had to make it up and model what abraham lincoln. >> certainly the kennedy assassination was i think the worst thing in american life since the murder of abraham lincoln years earlier. and jackie wanted to be made. she wanted the president to fly in his casket in revco's in the white house, close coffin and lincoln was open to the the million people saw his body. 100 fils and children but jackie decided that it didn't look like him anymore. you couldn't tell what had happened to him. his face was cricket after the assassination and damaged, but she was appalled and she said no just keep it closed. the marines were called in the middle of the night and they marched on to the white house ground. he was taken in the procession to the capitol in the artillery taken across to pennsylvania avenue. one interesting thing that jackie di

kennedy. and what were your feelings when she passed and when john junior passed away as well. >> well, i saw her, the last time was in june of 1968 that robert kennedy's funeral. i was at that time the agent in charge and i brought president johnson to the funeral and i saw her and spoke to her briefly. but that was the last time that i saw her. and she got married outfall as you know. was it a question? >> were your feelings when she passed away? >> when she passed away in may of 1994, it just so happened that that day i had an appointment with president clinton and yet asked me to come because he wanted to talk to me in the oval office. so i went there and in that evening after i went home, i found out that her condition had worsened that we discussed about how sick she really was. that night i found out that she had died. i was very sad. i really wanted to talk to her again. but i also knew that she heard my voice, it was going to be a memory of what had happened back in dallas. and i did

in 1960, didn't kennedy said mrs. johnson won texas for us. when approached about the issue, how did she reply? not sure she ever replied to that question. >> i'm not sure it was a question that would have been her.ssed to kennedys.ected to the >> next call from john in charleston. are y'all?ning, how >> we're great, thank you. >> i appreciate c-span having first ladies series. wasquestion i had, how mrs. johnson treated on the lady bird express. to charleston, 1964. the congressman accompanied her, a big powerful congressman in the state. and he kind of went out on a her butdo the trip for i think she was treated pretty bad in charleston but overall was she treated the rest of the south and what was their relationship with the rivers and the johnsons? >> a little later on we'll have from the lady bird express but it fits nicely with southmpaign style in the we're talking about. >> in 1964, we were in a whole different place because the signed the 1964 civil rights bill in the summertime andthe south was up in arms mr

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had lived well we wouldn't be alive if kennedy had not done what he did at the cuban missile crisis with khrushchev we were really at the edge of war the sit com they wanted which the joint chiefs of staff wanted to go they wanted to invade cuba we didn't even know the situation in cuba how many bombs they had how many soviet troops were ready to fight there they were led by the commander of stalingrad was there it was a serious war we were facing in cuba it would have escalated into a major international conflict we had bombers ready to go off okinawa dropping nuclear weapons on china we had a whole war plan that eisenhower had devised was massive war calling for something like six hundred million casualties we were thinking ahead you have no idea what we faced and that's what kennedy's courage came at that moment when he said no to the hardliners as khrushchev said no to his hardliners and both men disappear within a year well i can't move on without talking about robert mcnamara joint chiefs of staff under kennedy who act. they presented him with the operation northwoods document

kennedy it's an incident still surrounded by questions that many americans are trying to answer one of the filmmakers made the best attempt to put the disparate pieces together for a time academy award winning director all over stone now he's commemorating the canby anniversary by re releasing has epic film j.f.k. and an ultimate director's cut the collector's edition also includes a segment from oliver stone's showtime series the untold history of the united states a film adaptation of the joint book authored by stone and historian her cousin that could take a lot. if the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike. that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. but with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan. who would systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joins me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have you both on thank you very much all or i want to start wi

"first laderies on ies" continues with a look at jacqueline kennedy. span's another look at c- year in review. >> i think every first lady should do something in this tradition to help the thing that she cares about. i just think that everything in the white house should be the best. the entertainment that is given here. children are the same the world over and so is our feeling for children. i think it is good in the world, there is quite enough to divide people, so we should cherish the language and the emotion that unites us. >> jacqueline kennedy's 1000 days as first lady was defined by images, young mother, advocate for the arts, fashion icon. footage of the assassination of president kennedy and his funeral cemented her in the public consciousness. welcome to the c-span series, first ladies, influence and image. we have two guests at the table, to tell you more about her story. he has a special focus on the cold war era and the kennedy administration. robert parry is a political scientist and as part of the modern first ladies series, he has writ

scene we'd had five or six nuclear threats we made against the chinese and against the soviet you kennedy inherited this office as a young man. and he was suspected by the military leaders the hardliners of the us that he did not have that the wherewithal to really continue the eisenhower policy he had failed to do so in laos to go in to send ground troops he failed in cuba at the bay of pigs to give it to the air support that it needed when he failed in the vietnam to really carry through a a much more in gauged process with the at the me he said non-combat advisors but not combat people so if this was going on that he was fighting and this is known now this is all come out now not when the film came behind the scenes tremendous civil war. and fifty years later right now it is irrefutable evidence came out that implicated the u.s. government or elements of the government and his assassination how do you think the american people would react what you're asking me if it came out now i think we've reached a sort of a because of kennedy's death that we went back in time i think we had a back

generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who had systematically destroyed the promise of kennedy's last year as they returned the country to war and repression joins me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project over stone excellent to have you both on thank you thank you much all i want to start with you it's clear that you're serious j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if you let. he was different in those three years he came into office after thirteen years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons by nineteen sixty mandated by eisenhower a national security complex that was basically had a first strike capability of the soviet union and could get away with it and that is the basis for which the cuban missile crisis and the berlin berlin crisis of one nine hundred sixty one two brought us to the edge to the brink of war eisenhower's secretary of state dollars had called it brinksmanship going against the soviet union going to rollback containment that is a fa

eisenhower had that idea, kennedy had that idea. early in this his administration, kennedy agreed to a peace agreement in laos which gave the communists half the country and a neutralist government. so clearly -- and an important official at the time, an ambassador, he negotiated that deal so to my way of thinking kennedy, who had, you know, ideas to develop the green beret, the great force of heroic force that essentially was fighting the early wars in vietnam, even he by towards the end of his third term in office, third year in office had ordered a withdrawal. so they were starting to pull american troops out. so it strikes me that kennedy was seeing that the american effort to try and create a government that would have the kind of values america could support, have a government in vietnam that could perform the kind of military and leadership capabilities to make a new south korea -- which was being talked about, south vietnam like south korea -- that they just didn't have it. kennedy approved the overthrow of the president in

kennedy assassinated. riots engulfing our cities.ing war in vietnam, claiming lbj's presidency and alienating millions of americans. against this turbulent backdrop, nasa resumed its manned flights and aimed to test in space the craft that it hoped to land on the moon before year's end. a sudden change of plans turned apollo 8 into another make-or-break mission. >> apollo 8 was not going to be a lunar flight. apollo 8 was going to be an orbital flight to test the lunar module in earth orbit to make sure everything was correct with the two vehicles before we ever committed them to the moon. >> apollo 8 was a big step forward, though even if successful, america would still be trailing the russians in the race to the moon. >> the soviets had sent spacecraft around the moon with animals to test whether they can send cosmonauts and try to defeat us not for a landing, but at least beat us to the goal of orbiting, and they were fairly successful. but then, in the soviet hierarchy, they had a big controversy. should we send the cosmonauts, a

why do you see them being so different from the kennedys? >> i think it's a different time an different era and it's a different everything. on those things they are very similar. mrs. obama as a first lady is ferocious about the protection about her two children and as was jackie kennedy. she too is a fashion plate and cares very, very much about clothes and how she looks and the image she presents, as did jackie kennedy. president obama is as gifted as kennedy was intellectually. they even wept t went to the sae school and they both fine orders. and lots of teeth. and lots of prett iness. you have covered so many subjectses from oprah and 23457bsy reagan and more. what do you want to write about. >> i only choose people that have really left a foot print on our land scape. i choose people that are very much alive and have influenced our culture and have had immense power over us in that sense. and everyone that i have chosen for about biography i have been in awe a little bit. and wanted to go behind the curtain for the public image and wh

and president kennedy.at asked, how would you like to go? jackie said she would like a private is it very pat nixon and president nixon organized a private visit for the kennedys, which turned out to be a remarkable event for all concerned. both caroline and john junior wrote letters afterwards thanking the nixons. jackie herself wrote a very warm letter. despite whatever anger they might have had or she might have had about the 1960 campaign, she was a human first and realized the importance of letting president kennedy's widow and children come to the white house for the important unveiling. >> we have to get into politics in the life story. during the world war ii does, richard nixon was on active duty with the navy. his first run for congress was 1946. how did he make the foray into politics? >> when he came back, he was still on active duty. he was contacted by someone from california, and they were looking for somebody to run against jerry in the 12 congressional district. talk to pat and they agreed

but the truth hurts the kennedy and johnson and nixon did registration. and they were prevailing upon the editors and publishers and news directors to disregard the material that the level of the soldier of the stories that i wrote from the vietnam for three weeks every month for days on end with the calvary division was rarely an incident where you were even criticized by the unit commanders. they felt your presence was the interco part of how america fights wars. said beloved reporter of world war ii that wrote about the american soldiers with great sensitivity and who died in the field. and to this day we go to reunions of military units we were at the hotel where they put us up. great accommodations there were a lot of reid is there a and they are supportive of the book. so from my experience soldiers like to have civilian types around them. >> anything more to add? >> all your coverage is great. i admire your riding but you are operating on one side but you may have some control of the news coverage but then you have the side like vietnam that was re

the first is the attitude towards kennedy where he had absolute no animus towards the present at all.n fact, admired the president for his policies, but with john conway of texas who was in the car with kennedy, he had a long-standing grudge that had to do with the change in his military discharge, honorable and dishonorable. and he blamed conley for this because he had appealed to college to change back in 1962, and that hounded him for the next year and a half. and i believe he put the faith of conley on his frustration. so he had a rage and an anger against conley but no such an attitude towards kennedy at all. >> how did you do this research 50 years later? >> i published a biography of john connally in 1989. in fact, i was on booktv back there in 1989 on that, but this was a 680 page biography and the dallas assassination sided with the conley and center some ago lost in all of those pages about the whole life. and so i very much wanted to be part of the conversation of the 50th anniversary commemoration, and that's why i went back to this material and dug deeper into the motive

kennedy. >> mr. kennedy. >> so you had touched briefly when we went through the presentation, the next steps and comments to the eir have closed, but as these projects are brought forward to us, they are not brought forward to us in stone, are they? they are brought forward to us with recommendations from staff on what actions we might take? >> yes. excuse me, yes, recommendations from staff. >> so there will be the opportunity as we move forward on each of these different segments to modify things, to change things, to try to make things work better for everybody? >> if i could just add. i think there were some comments about the outreach process to-date, and i am sure that there are always ways we could be doing better in terms of doing outreach. i think the primary focus of the outreach to-date was to try to help people understand what was in the body of work that was being cleared environmentally? and that is the process that is underway now. we expect to have environmental clearance as sean said

kennedy, mrs.come to the white house as senate wives -- when their husbands were in congress because they would have been invited to those functions. >> we are talking about family life and how mamie's job was to preserve and encourage it. we will return to their farm in gettysburg and learn more about family life. >> alice evans is with the national park service, a park ranger and mamie expert here at the eisenhower house. how much square feet does this property have inside? >> inside, about 14,000. >> what room are we in now? >> we are in the porch. one of the most important rooms in the home. this is where they lived and mamie said we lived on the porch. this room was really the private life of the eisenhowers here and the family center of the home. >> and it was set up with couches and chairs and over here a tv. >> sign of the family of the 1950's. the television. they were our first presidential couple to really watch television together in the white house. >> what would be a typical evening o

kennedy. >> president kennedy was very proud that he was able to start the process of nuclear disarmament. >> kennedy then went to the peace park. she placed a wreath before a statue dedicated to prayers for peace. she and the mayor planted flowering dogwood saplings. the americans gave this type of tree to japan nearly a century ago in return for 3,000 cherry tree saplings the japanese gave them in 1912. a representative of the japan confederation of a and h bomb sufferers followed kennedy's visit, he wants her to send a message back to washington. >> translator: because of the bombing, people were unable to live or die as human beings. i want the ambassador to tell president obama to come and visit nagasaki. >> he also emphasized that atomic bomb survivors are striving for a world without nuclear weapons. >>> china's economy is expected to grow, albeit slightly slower than this year. more on this, ron? >> growth on this is going to be relatively brisk, but one expert says china's period of rapid growth is moderating now, so slower growth next year, officials and company executives are s