mrs. kennedy. she has that mysterious smile. mrs. kennedy is a bit mysterious to us even today because she maintained such a tight hold on her privacy. hook at other first ladies since. almost all of them have written memoirs. mrs. kennedy never wrote a memoir. think of hillary clinton's in which she tells of finding out about her husband's infidelities, and in a famous passage, she says, "i wanted to ring bill's neck." well, maybe mrs. kennedy wanted to say the same thing, but if she did, she never told about. she never went on oprah about it. she kept these things in her heart. and it adds to that mystique. it was perfect for her to facilitate the borrowing of the painting, if mona lisa, from france. we need france as an ally. france and president de gaulle could be prickly, and it could be a hitting difficult to deal with him at times. but note how mrs. kennedy is standing here next to andre mall row. this is how mrs. kennedy approached men of power. she would tuck her shoulder up understood neither theirs, and she would use that v

mrs. kennedy. and you mentioned eleanor roosevelt. you mentioned mamie eisenhower. how about bess truman? let's stop and think of those three immediate predecessors to jacqueline kennedy. those ladies, when they left office, were all in their 60s. jacqueline ken by was -- kennedy was 31 when she came to the white house to be first lady. there had not been young children in the white house since the teddy roosevelt era in the early 1900s, and they weren't as young as young caroline who was only 3 when her parents entered the white house, and john jr. had just been born between the election and the inauguration, the only time that's ever happened in the history of the first ladies. can you even imagine mamie eisenhower or bess truman on a horse? one of the reasons i can't imagine that is because like my own grandmothers who were of that generation, i never saw my grandmothers wear trousers. they always wore dresses. so even just to see a first lady in riding clothes and to be as athletic as -- and she

mrs. kennedy. you mentioned eleanor roosevelt. you mention mamie eisenhower. how about bess truman? let's stop and think of those three immediate predecessors to jacqueline kennedy. those ladies when they left office were all in their 60s. jacqueline kennedy was 31 when she came to the white house to be first lady. .. >> to see a first lady in riding clothes and to be as athletic as she, to be up on horse back in itself was just different certainly from again the three predecessors. this horse was named sadar given to her by the president of pakistan when she made a trip there in 1962, a semiofficial trip. some of you might recall to pakistan and india in 1961. she was a huge hit there. she loved this horse, and many of the photographs you see of her from that time on during her time in the white house and out on her farm that she rented, and then built a farmhouse right at the end of the presidency, so oftentimes when she's riding, she's riding this horse, the pakistani president's gift to her. sh

mrs. kennedy's life. this is the red room, and the reason i show this is that was the first room that she completed in her restoration, but this was the day of her husband's funeral. and she insisted that she meet those who were coming from afar, those who were diplomats, the diplomatic corps from abroad. and so she stood with her brother-in-law, senator edward kennedy, to her right, and she insisted on greeting everyone who had come to pay their respects to her husband. on a more glittery note, again, we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time that she was in the white house, and it was only a little over a thousand days, she and her husband threw 16 state dinners. in the first term, full four years of the w. bush term, they held, i believe it was two. now, mind you, 9/11 happened during that time, there were security issues, but the bushes, the second bushes from texas were just not as interested in that. they weren't as interested in state entertainment. they weren't as int

mrs. kennedy's life. this is the red room, and the reason i show this, that was the first room she completed in the restoration but this was the day of her husband's funeral, and she insisted she immediate those who were coming from afar, those who were diplomats, the diplomatic corps and she stood with her brother-in-law, edward kennedy to her right, and insisted on greeting everybody who came to pay their respects to her husband. on a more grit note, we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time she was in the white house, only a little over 1,000 days, she and her husband threw 16 state dinners. in the first term, full four years, of the w. bush term, they ahead believe it was two now, mind you 9/11 happen during that time. there will security issues, but the bushes, the second bushes, from texas, were just not as interested in that. they weren't as interested in state entertainment. the weren't as interested in bringing people from abroad and entertaining them at the white ho

mr. kennedy. >> personally, i find this a very exciting proposal. supervisor mar: thank you very much. >> thank you. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> i've lived at parkmerced in district 7 for 14 years. i see this proposal as a very positive revision. provides solid, new family- oriented housing, a neighborhood where you can do many more things in a neighborhood without driving out of the neighborhood to other parts of the city or to other towns. it being propose at a time when many reports say san francisco will see a great amount of growth over the next 20 years. it's right on time. it provides jobs both during and after the construction. rent control has to be taken care of. i'm impressed by the work you are doing. i think this will lead to a presicident. make sure you can keep that in place. if this project is not approved, one of my big worries is not that it will go back to the era of benign neglect, but back to the era that i call aggressive exploitation but it was a relentless battle at the rent board and they sold off blocks of the neighbor

mrs. kennedy's life. this is the red room, and the reason i show this is that was the first room that she completed in her restoration, but this was the day of her husband's funeral. and she insisted that she meet those who were coming from afar, those who were diplomats, the diplomatic corps fro

mrs. kennedy, loved the arts. so she would use each and every one of these state entertainment occasions to bring artists to the white house. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> and we are back here at the second annual gaithersburg book festival in gaithersburg, maryland. up next, edward dolnick on isaac newton and the birth of the modern world. >> good afternoon and welcome to the second annual gaithersburg book festival. my name is kathy, and i'm a city council member. gaithers been -- gaithersburg proudly supports culture, and we are please today bring you this event. a couple of announcements. for the consideration of everyone here, please silence any devices that make any kind of noise. your feedback is critical in helping us to improve this event. surveys are available here at the info desk and online at our web site. everyone who submits a survey will be entered into a random drawing for a nook color, so, please, be sure to fill one out and submit it.

mr. kennedy likening it to diabetes.reas work, are we going to get do that? it is lack of serotonin, will we get to that? >> if i went out and had chocolate cake because of diabetes no one would be writing about me. do we have people with diabetes be not followi compliance with their doctor, do we treat them like someone with an illness like alcoholis snem no. and you nailed it. because it's not the same. but it is the same. i mean, it's behavioral. sure you take your insulin but you're supposed to not also eat too much chocolate cake. if someone eats a bunch of chocolate cake, they're not going to call up and say, patrick kennedy was out eating a lot of chocolate cake because he has diabetes and that's not a story. >> again, it was just fascinating to talk to him, doctor, just like a diabetic eating chocolate cake. that's the analogy he use. when you hear that, first of all, just your immediate impression. >> well i work in a methadone clinic. a lot of folks refer to methadone as almost insulin. they say a diabetic woul

mrs. kennedy paid a visit to canada, they were treated as conquering heroes. too short. we have just--have you talked to sy hersh on this program? you know, we did a television series about the other side of kennedys in conjunction with sy's book. a lot of people objected to seeing another side of the--of the kennedy white house at the time, yes, but unrequited, unhoped. but i remember--do we all not?--the hope and the--and the sense of commitment to the rest of the world and the sense of potential accomplishment that so many people had during the kennedy presidency, the degree to which he attracted talented people to come and serve in the administration. people were profoundly angry when we took a look at the other side of the kennedy white house. c-span: did you interview john f. kennedy? >> guest: mm-hmm, only once and only on the road. c-span: how old were you then? >> guest: never sat down with him. c-span: do you remember? >> guest: in my 20s--yeah, in my mid-20s. c-span: you picked in this book a photo at the lincoln memorial... >> guest: right. c-span: ... from b

mr. lincoln and the two kennedy brothers and martin luther king.had they been able to survive i would like you to comment that would have brought the interchange that seems to be lacking in our politics today those that continue to exist over and over and i see nothing different over the past 200 years except those four gentlemen. >> it is a pretty sweeping notion, no question the removal of those people change me if john hinckley is done were pointed 1 inch to his left we would have run of reagan eight weeks and not eight years but to stop the tennessee he is having a lot of trouble. and big city mayors and organized labor's pushing back because it involves structural changes. i don't quarrel with what you are saying. i don't know now i don't know secure enough to know. >> i just don't know. >> and except for the few hanging chad. [laughter] >> i probably answer the question but as an aide to senator robert kennedy come if he was elected president, you would have been in the white house with him for several years and would have remained in washing

mr. lincoln, the two kennedy brothers and martin luther king. had those gentlemen survived, i would like you to comment on the fact that that would have brought the truth change that seems to be lacking in politics today which seems to have things that continue to exist over and over again. i see nothing different in the past 200 years except those four gentlemen. >> it is a pretty sweeping notion. no question the removal of those people from life changed things. if john hinckley's gun had been appointed an inch to is left we would have had ronald reagan as president for eight weeks. original not eight years. one of the reasons i stopped the robert kennedy presidency in the summer of 1970 is he is having a lot of trouble. he is having big city mayors and traditional democrats and organized labor push back on his ideas because they involve structural changes that hurt. i don't quarrel with what you are saying but i don't -- i don't feel secure enough to know if lincoln isn't assassinated we have a better post civil war period. could be. i just do

kennedy to john kerry. former speechwriter for george w. bush, mr. frum. welcome to both of you.u. was it standard practice or is this is your prying to you that the israeli government knew the precise content of the speech before it was delivered and was given a chance to push back? >> it is standard practice to share a speech with all important stakeholders. clearly the administration felt the israelis were an important stakeholder here. it is surprising to me they allowed it to go so long and i think they thought they were going to spring something on the israelis by showing them at the lass minute and got them -- to pushback. you put your finger in your -- opening statement on the key point about all of this, though. which is -- they -- was this the news the president wanted to make in his speech about the arab? 80% of the speech is about the arab, ball rain and syria. what's the headline that he got? about the '67 borders. is that what he wanted? find that hard to believe. if so, that's kind of -- that's a failure in and a disappointment for the administration. >> what david

kennedy to john kerry. former speechwriter for george w. bush, mr. frum. welcome to both of you.let me begin with you. was it standard practice or is this is your prying to you that the israeli government knew the precise content of the speech before it was delivered and was given a chance to push back? >> it is standard practice to share a speech with all important stakeholders. clearly the administration felt the israelis were an important stakeholder here. it is surprising to me they allowed it to go so long and i think they thought they were going to spring something on the israelis by showing them at the lass minute and got them -- to pushback. you put your finger in your -- opening statement on the key point about all of this, though. which is -- they -- was this the news the president wanted to make in his speech about the arab? 80% of the speech is about the arab, ball rain and syria. what's the headline that he got? about the '67 borders. is that what he wanted? find that hard to believe. if so, that's kind of -- that's a failure in and a disappointment for the administr

mr. kempe analyzes one of the most significant standoffs of the cold war era, the kennedy administration'sttempt to prevent the soviets from building the berlin wall. he discusses this turbulent period and theless ons mate -- lessons with angela stent, the director of georgetown's center for eurasian, russian and east european studies. >> host: i'm angela stent, i'm director of the center for eurasian, russian and european studies at georgetown, and it is my great pleasure to introduce frederick kempe, author of "berlin: 1961." fred kempe is the ceo and president of the atlantic council of united states which is a leading washington think tank. for 25 years he had a distinguished career as a journalist. his last position being the editor of the european wall street journal. he is the author of a number of books, among them siberian odyssey and a book about his own family and germany and his own thoughts about a unified germany. so this is, i think, going to be a very interesting discussion. fred, most people when they look back at the 45-year history of the cold war say that the cuban miss

mr. president, vie with that i would yield to the t vice chairman of the kennedy, one that i consider my andons in the le >> senator isaacson. of a >> on certain occasions when th, life of a public official one is called upon to make difficult decisions and unpleasant onesche such as the case of the six members of the united states senate ethics committee today but we recognize its essentials te, tha tith the tinstitution, theunde s senate, the loyal to our als citizens must live under mustndr also enforceable laws and rulese of standard conduct we pose upos ourselves.olemn it is a responsibility but it'st important to the integrity and ature of this institution. as bo looks upon itself as an advisory board and a source of information and counsel to our u members.here are we ask members to come to us the potentialof violation of a r decision or even something mades in passing to be trivial. be our job is to make sure in our case the different eddy that has a question gets an answer and no one unwillingly gets caught in the ethical situation.uation. but it is also ourplaints responsibilit

mr. zarate responds, as the airplanes are going in and out of kennedy, do you feel more comfortable? caller: yes, i do. when i look out at night, i see them in the sky and i think of them as satellites, things that are protecting the shoreline. i love our country. i have our old values. i want the country to continue to do well, get rid of this horrific debt, start bringing things back to america. guest: great comments. i think one of the interesting things about this situation is it has demonstrating an element of continuity between both administrations in a way that you have not seen before. the obama administration came in wanting to change a counter- terrorism policy, but i had been predicting more continuity. a lot of the key officials that they have relied on were bush administration and key officials. a lot of my friend were a part of this and i am proud of them. we demonstrated our persistence on this problem, the intelligence members, and they stayed on it and finally got it. incredible pride, i think, in the special operations community. all of those special forces that hav

mr. zarate responds, as the airplanes are going in and out of kennedy, do you feel more comfortable?ler: yes, i do. when i look out at night, i see them in the sky and i think of them as satellites, things that are protecting the shoreline. i love our country. i have our old values. i want the country to continue to do well, get rid of this horrific debt, start bringing things back to america. guest: great comments. i think one of the interesting things about this situation is it has demonstrating an element of continuity between both administrations in a way that you have not seen before. the obama administration came in wanting to change a counter- terrorism policy, but i had been predicting more continuity. a lot of the key officials that they have relied on were bush administration and key officials. a lot of my friend were a part of this and i am proud of them. we demonstrated our persistence on this problem, the intelligence members, and they stayed on it and finally got it. incredible pride, i think, in the special operations community. all of those special forces that have do

mr. zarate responds, as the airplanes are going in and out of kennedy, do you feel more comfortable? caller: yes, i do. when i look out at night, i see them in the sky and i think of them as satellites, things that are protecting the shoreline. i love our country. i have our old values. i want the country to continue to do well, get rid of this horrific debt, start bringing things back to america. guest: great comments. i think one of the interesting things about this situation is it has demonstrating an element of continuity between both administrations in a way that you have not seen before. the obama administration came in wanting to change a counter- terrorism policy, but i had been predicting more continuity. a lot of the key officials that they have relied on were bush administration and key officials. a lot of my friend were a part of this and i am proud of them. we demonstrated our persistence on this problem, the intelligence members, and they stayed on it and finally got it. incredible pride, i think, in the special operations community. all of those special forces that hav

mr. gannon is that using the term general that yu used, kennedy of effort, is that we don't have the unity of effort regarding domestic intelligence that we have regarding foreign intelligence. and i know represented harman you have been critical at the department of homeland security is not where it should be. i agree. i think secretary napolitano is working on that and we are getting better but i wanted to invite any of you and we wil start with mr. gannon because you made this point, what is the oblem in terms of unity of effort? i note you weren't criticizing the of theeye. you were admiring their improvements they have made in counterterrorism but what do we need to do and does the dni needed additional authority or is this one of those areas as you said before that the dni, looking across the community, maybe this is an area that the dni authority has now focused in on? >> i would like to make several points here. i think you are dealing with frankly new agencies like the department of homeland secity. compared to the department of defense or the cia, they have years of doing foreign

mr. whitehouse: madam president, 50 years ago on this day, john f. kennedy addressed a joint session of congress and he presented to our nation a bold challenge. he said -- quote -- "i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." it was and remains a memorable challenge. to meet it would require long-term commitment and unprecedented resources. it had great risks and it had no simple solutions, but president kennedy put his faith in the talent and dedication and discipline of america. he believed that his challenge could mobilize our country to meet this challenge and succeed, and he was right. president kennedy's goal to in ten years put a man on the moon and return him safely was clear, was direct and was accountable. the result was a vast mobilization of private and public resources that collaborated in innovative ways to achieve that singular purpose, and we did. i come to the floor today to call for a similar challenge to reform our health c

mr. obama bet the irish president and planted a peace tree near trees planted by president bill clinton and john f. kennedy. the president will visit the small village home to his great, great, grand faerpt. pakistan gained control of a nav base control bid the taliban. more than 20 stormed that base last night. the militants fought with pakistani troops for 16 hours, 12 pakistani troops were killed and two u.s.-supplied aircraft destroyed, a taliban said that raid was to avenge the death of osama bin laden. a wave of violence in iraq killed at least 16 people including two american soldiers. the u.s. military says they were conducting the operations in central iraq, they were the first soldiers the too die in iraq this month. >> ash from another active volcano in iceland is causing trouble this morning. it erupted over the weekend sending black plumes into the air as you can see. air space over greenland was closed because of that. the ash cloud may reach britain later this week. it is 13 minute past the hour. over to erica. >>> talk about a busy weekend for the republican presidential race. early sunday

mr. gannon is that using the term general that you used, kennedy of effort, is that we don't have the unityof effort regarding domestic intelligence that we have regarding foreign intelligence. and i know represented harman you have been critical at the department of homeland security is not where it should be. i agree. i think secretary napolitano is working on that and we are getting better but i wanted to invite any of you and we will start with mr. gannon because you made this point, what is the problem in terms of unity of effort? i note you weren't criticizing the of the eye. you were admiring their improvements they have made in counterterrorism but what do we need to do and does the dni needed additional authority or is this one of those areas as you said before that the dni, looking across the community, maybe this is an area that the dni authority has now focused in on? >> i would like to make several points here. i think you are dealing with frankly new agencies like the department of homeland security. compared to the department of defense or the cia, they have years of doing fo

mr. crawford. i think you referred to paul as a radical when it comes to the fed. i remind you that president kennedy started to print u.s. not notes. he printed i think the $5 bill and another denomination and there's been a lot of conspiracy theory and that he was killed. but when you buck the most powerful people in the world that might be the real reason he was assassinated because he started to print u.s. notes and said we didn't need the fed. so i consider ron paul to be currently o currently -- courageous in fact committing suicide. guest: i'm very interested in some of his ideas. he makes me think. that is the thing about ron paul, every time he listen he has such a different world view compared to most conventional politicia politicians. most conventional world politicians don't make me think and he does. host: we have this tweet. early.well, it is 'm just not going to write anybody off. from herman cain and ron paul down. politics can take some wild turns. people wrote off barack obama and bill clinton early on because they were not known and barack had that funny name and so on. that is th

mr. crawford. i think you referred to paul as a radical when it comes to the fed. i remind you that president kennedy started to print u.s. not notes. he printed i think the $5 bill and another denomination and there's been a lot of conspiracy theory and that he was killed. but when you buck the most powerful people in the world that might be the real reason he was assassinated because he started to print u.s. notes and said we didn't need the fed. so i consider ron paul to be currently o currently -- courageous in fact committing suicide. guest: i'm very interested in some of his ideas. he makes me think. that is the thing about ron paul, every time he listen he has such a different world view compared to most conventional politicia politicians. most conventional world politicians don't make me think and he does. host: we have this tweet. early.well, it is 'm just not going to write anybody off. from herman cain and ron paul down. politics can take some wild turns. people wrote off barack obama and bill clinton early on because they were not known and barack had that funny name and so on. that is th

mr. zarate responds, as the airplanes are going in and out of kennedy, do you feel more comfortable? caller: yes, i do. when i look out at night, i see them in the sky and i think of them as satellites, things that are protecting the shoreline. i love our country. i have our old value i want the country to continue to do well, get rid of this horrific debt, start bringing things back to america. guest: great comments. i think one of the interesting things about this situation is it has demonstrating an element of continuity between both administrations in a way that you have noseen before. the obama administration came in wanting to change a counter- terrorism policy, but i had been edicting more continuity. a l of the key officials that they have relied on were bush administration and key officials. a lot of my friend were a part of this and i am proud of them. we demonstrated our persistence on this problem, the intelligence members, and they stayed on it and finally got it. incredible pride, i think, in the special operations community. all of those special forces that have done r

mr. williams. >> thank you adam chairman and thank you members of the kennedy for your support of the peace corps and four looking for ways to help the peace corps grow stronger as we move through another 50 years. >> finally i would like to introduce kathy buller, inspector general inspector general of the peace corps. ms. buller was named by the director to be inspector general of the peace corps on may 25, 2008 with over 20 years experience in inspector general community. as a member of the council for inspectors general on integrity and efficiency, ms. buller is also cochair of the inspections and evaluations committee and a member of the legislation committee. thank you ms. buller for appearing before us today. your full statement will be made a part of the record and we ask that you summarize it in five minutes. thank you and welcome. >> thank you turkoman and chairman, ranking member berman and distinguished members of the committee, i thank you for inviting me to appear before you and allowing me to summarize my prepared statement. i would also like to acknowledge the courage and the stre

mr. crawford. i think you referred to paul as a radical when it comes to the fed. i remind you that president kennedy started to print u.s. not notes. he printed i think the $5 bill and another denomination and there's been a lot of conspiracy theory and that he was killed. but when you buck the most powerful people in the world that might be the real reason he was assassinated because he started to print u.s. notes and said we didn't need the fed. so i consider ron paul to be currently o currently -- courageous in fact committing suicide. guest: i'm very interested in some of his ideas. he makes me think. that is the thing about ron paul, every time he listen he has such a different world view compared to most conventional politicia politicians. most conventional world politicians don't make me think and he does. host: we have this tweet. early.well, it is 'm just not going to write anybody off. from herman cain and ron paul down. politics can take some wild turns. people wrote off barack obama and bill clinton early on because they were not known and barack had that funny name and so on. that is th

mrs. wilson, of florida. >> thank you for holding this hearing. founded in 1961 by john f. kennedy, this is thought to promote world peace and friendship by sending american volunteers to serve at the grass-roots level in villages and towns in all corners of the globe. working with ordinary people, the volunteers have contributed in a number of capacities, small business advisors, to improve the lives of those they serve in helping others to understand american culture. 200,000 volunteers have served in 139 countries and about 8655 volunteers -- in september 2005, the score response volunteers were sent to give relief during hurricane katrina, the first time they were used domestically. now they are serving in haiti. and as they serve the nation and our interests, we will hear terrible stories of sexual assault and abuse to volunteers in the peace corps. it is important to learn what changes the peace corps has made in the wake of these charges. the sexual assault protocol -- is this sufficient and what can we do to keep the volunteers safe? i look forward to the testimony of the w

mr. chairman, the -- i offer this amendment so the children of america can likewise be with us as they wave their flags and welcome our men and women home. as president john f. kennedy said, as we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them. let us live and celebrate on this national day of honor the men and women who served us so gallantly and bravely. i ask my leagues to join me in supporting this amendment. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: i yield myself the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mckeon: i thank the gentlelady for her amendment. we have a good bill, this national defense authorization act of 2012. is that the one we're working on? is a very good bill. we have a lot of good things in it. but this amendment, this amendment alone is reason to vote for the bill. i think we should all, on memorial day, on the day you're requesting, and throughout the year, honor those who are willing to lay their lives on the line every day for us. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. th