mrs. kennedy -- i told mrs. kennedy, i hope you remember that a today is john's third birthday, and she did, and they had a little birthday party after this reception upstairs this the white house. it was just john, caroline and their cousins and members of the family, but it was something that they had promised john when they left that previous thursday. they told him we'll be back monday to celebrate your birthday. and she did. that night, it was after 11:00, phone rang, and it was mrs. kennedy. she said, mr. hill, the attorney general and i want to go back to the cemetery to pay our respects and to see the eternal flame. i said, okay. we're standing by, we're ready to go. so she and the attorney general came down, and we took them to arlington. she brought a small bouquet of flowers with her, they knelt at the grave and prayed for a but minutes. we stayed there 10, 12 minutes or so and then went back to the white house. but that was the end of november 25th, the fifth day in five days in november. >> and, clin

mrs. 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

mrs. kennedy. she said, mr. hill, the attorney general and i want to go back to the cemetery to pay our respects and i said, okay. and we took them to arlington. and she brought a small bouquet of flowers and stayed there 10 or 12 minutes or so and then went back to the white house. but that was the end of the fifth day in five days in november. >> and i know that for many years you could not even bear to talk about this with anyone. it has been emotional, emotional writing this book, but i think for a lot of people it is certainly healing and it offers a sense of closure to know what really happened to know the truth area and we are so thankful that you shared your story with us. >> thank you. [applause] [applause] >> thank you all very much. [applause] >> thank you if any of you have any questions, please feel free to raise your hand. [inaudible question] >> can you repeat the question? >> do i think the fact that he was wearing a back brace -- would he lived? well, i don't know. but it could have prevented hi

mrs. 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 n

mrs. kennedy. she is so popular and you will have much bigger crowds. >> i have to say that john kennedy was much more wealthy than she. so why would the public not react to his help? >> he felt as may political leaders that come from affluent backgrounds, -- in 1957 she bought him a jaguar as a birthday gift. he had this returned -- but he felt she was not someone who had a lot of political experience, and in 1960 -- this might be a difficult -- >> she felt she was a drag on him in the early days. >> she said, i am sorry i'm such a drag for you. but this did not stop this -- this did not last long. >> i want to talk about the imagery of camelot. >> jackie kennedy asked teddy white, who was a family friend, to come up and interview her, with the idea of what she wanted to say would get into life magazine. she said, late at night, before jack and i were in the white house, wheeze to play the record of camelot. and needless to say, the editors and life thought, this would be the big thing -- and they

mr. 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

mr. kennedy. >> good afternoon directors. my name is sean kennedy and i'm the planning manager for the tep, the transit effectiveness project. and i'm here to offer an update on where we are with the program and then discuss our outreach efforts coming up over the next 6-8 months. you know, san francisco is a wonderful city, and it deserves a world-class transit system. since 2006 we have been working with the community, as well as this board, transit operators, and other stakeholders to put a plan together to develop a system that will accomplish that. but we are faced with three big obstacles. one, we have an aging infrastructure. we have the oldest -- one of the oldest fleets in the country transit vehicle-wise. two, we have a dense and congested city, we're the second densest city in the united states, besides new york city and we operate in a con strained right-of-way. a lot of competing interest for space and roadway space and there is really no room for expansion. so there is a lot of different modes and options that wa

mrs. kennedy's dress was stained with blood. one leg was almost entirely with it and her right caked.as that immaculate woman, it was her husband'sod, blood. she always wore gloves, like she them and that was the most poignant dressed andisitely caked in blood. i couldn't be of help herto come in and change and she said, oh, no, right, perhaps later i'll ask for mary gallagher but now and then was something, for a person that gentle, that dignified, had an of fierceness. she said, i want them to see to jack. have done he should should be there in dallas as quickly as possible. there, in the very narrow confines of the plane were left, her hair falling in her eyes but very then lyndon and right.was on his judge hughes with a bible in him and a cluster of people andice congressmen we'd known a long time. the oath of office. >> what are you hearing there should understand be lady bird johnson? >> she's very specific. i had forgotten how she gets so many details and her description that and before that when she talks about walking i

mrs. kennedy thought a lot of me and whatever i wanted to do, that was fine. she didn't have any problem with it. >> all right, last question. ma'am? >> [inaudible] >> you're asking about the writing process and how difficult it was? >> [inaudible] >> when he goes through -- well, it was very difficult. we had an office, we had two computers side by side. we spent almost 24 hours a day together for many months, and i didn't live through this time, so all of this is his memories. we would -- there's a lot of video footage, as we showed you tonight, and so we would watch those videos together, and it was very emotional. and he would tell me what happened and certain things would bring back memories to him, and there were times, you know, we did, we had to stop because i could see how difficult it was for him to relive all of this, and at one point i said, okay, this is the last book. we're not going to make you go through this again, so let's just get everything out there in this one, because it really was painful. do you want to say anything about that, clint?

mr. kennedy and look forward to working with you as the process goes forward. with that, we'll take a >> item 12, approving the conceptual traffic-coaxing project for the dewey boulevard. >> we have a brief overview, and there is a well-written staff report explaining what we are proposing and we have gotten a lot of written feedback on this. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thank you, director reiskin and directors. my name is nick carr and i'm the project manager for the dewey boulevard area traffic-calming project, a project looking at the local streets and forest hill and upper golden gate heights neighborhoods. i'm going to put up the map of proposed traffic-calming changes, developed through this project and quickly go through the community process that was involved. we're here today seeking approval of a conceptual plan for this neighborhood for traffic-calming. if approved many of the traffic-calming measures within this plan will still come back for an additional layer of legislation or detailed design work with stakeholders, who may have concerns

mr. kennedy. good afternoon, supervisor. >> good afternoon, commissioners, director reiskin, mark farrell district 2 supervisor. thank you for hearing me today and allowing me to speak to you. i will do my best to keep my comment brief. i was just briefed by our controller's office about the mayor's transportation task force and i know the extreme challenges that we have, financially, especially as a transportation system. you have my commitment to work together inside of city hall, certainly now as chair of the budget and finance to find solutions to that. i agree with the sentiment of the task force and co-chair has it all san franciscans should be able to choose among many high-quality transportation options. so the tep's end, i want to speak about you today, because it affects the district that i represent in a large fashion is the elimination of the 3 jackson line. i am here to tell you as someone who was born and raised in district 2 and raising my children there, i have ridden the 3 jackson

mr. kennedy in the $5 million to $10 million range. >> we spent hundreds of millions. we may go up to a billion on this stupid thing. it's still screwed up. >> yeah. >> none of the contractors are ever held accountable for delivering crap. >> it's crap. >>le talking with martin bosh earlier, another hacker. amazing the type of security you can build. nothing rocket science. you can do it. >> people think this is bad? think of the health care. beside it is cancellations forced into the plan, you can't keep your doctor the. you're paying more money and you will have bad coverage. if it wasn't so funny, i would be crying. good to see you. >> thanks, sean. >>> up next, tonight right here on "hannity" -- >> the combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the american dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe. >> all right. president in distraction mode. taking a break from trying to defend the disastrous health care law. he's back on the attack assaulting hard-working americans. the class warfare update is

mrs. 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

mrs. kennedy's unforgettable white house tour but it was a very orchestrated presentation. people were not acustomed to a first lady being asked or answering as i say the kinds of questions -- her view was people are talking about these around their dinner tables all over america. why shouldn't the first family have the same privilege. >> and they covered issues such as divorce, use of marijuana. her daughter's dating and sex before marriage, things of that nature. >> she also talked about her use of pillow talk to get a woman in the cabinet. she menged she was working on getting a woman on the supreme court. john paul stevens is safe to say probably would not have been her first choice but she wasn't doing the choosing. >> you're on the air. caller: thank you very much. i love this show. i read somewhere that mrs. ford was older than president ford and i wonder if that was true. >> no, actually he was five years her senior. >> we've talked in the series about the use of the white house for entertaining but that entertaining has hey political purpose. to start that we're go

mr. kennedy. we want to recognize and thank you and mr. bera's trip of their in terms of the oversight of this committee and also the troops in afghanistan. we also want to recognize joe wilson for his trip there and his son's service in in the army in afghanistan. mr. wilson, it is your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for your interest in the security of afghanistan, american security even prior to 9/11. people need to understand and i want to thank each of you for the difference you are making. it originated out of caves in afghanistan. we should never forget that. that is why am grateful for our military service. i have had the opportunity, seen the progress that has occurred. i have been there 12 times. my national guard unit, former unit, they served their and led by general houston. -- general bob livingston. it was the largest deployment of troops from south carolina since 1600. they developed a great affinity for their afghan brothers. i appreciate the chairman referencing my youngest son. first lieutenant hunter wilson. he retur

kennedy with the mta. >> thank you. >> i also see a note that, mr. k, it looks like a request from colleague commissioners that the mta think about a maintenance plan for the escalators as was brought up by commissioner kim. i'm just wondering if you are comment on that? miss lombardyo is here as well. >> thank you for your very good comments and commissioner king as well. we can incorporate that into board's packet. my understanding is that the new federal guidelines when you put in a new escalator you have to build a new canopy for the very reasons you cited and the rules for replacing a rehabilitated, you can cross the line whether it's a new escalator and you have to put up canopies. it's a trade off. i can request a response to that particular angle as part of the board packet. >> commissioner campos? >> i appreciate that, but i don't think that the committee should send anything out until we have fully vetted it. so i would hold on to the $3.7 million until we get that. >> that's until next month. >> yes. i think the message we need to send to

mrs. kennedy isn't going to refer you to do an autopsy. the police were called and it in the local authorities and the secret service agents who are now furious they are furious their boss has been killed and that they didn't stop it and they are in no mood to let the texas officials keep the president's body. so the role the coffin right through this group of local officials and put it in the hearse and drive to air force one and it's only then the texas autopsy had occurred that we might have been scared 50 years of conspiracy theory. they even argue that the doctors at bethesda naval hospital were traders who did a fraudulent autopsy to conceal the conspiracy to call the president until the plane landed most people couldn't know where the president was coming. jackie decided on bethesda. under the theory they would have had the doctors working at walter reed and bethesda and half the hospitals in washington of the very medical officers that cared for the president would conspire to conceal the role. it is an absurd and if only that had

mrs. kennedy's taste, said i cannot sit there and watch people on battlefields. she had the paper removed. back.arter had it put >> they lived in colorado for a while. alexandria, virginia, washington, d.c., grand rapids, and palm springs. >> that is right. by the time the president passed away, when we were planning his funeral, there were a number of term -- number of personal touches. there was no horse-drawn procession through the streets of washington. instead, the hearse drove through their old neighborhoods in alexandria. large crowds turned out and i stopped at the world war ii memorial to recognize the service. >> 1976, the bicentennial and a hotly contested presidential election. the campaign included a slogan, vote for betty's husband. how was she used during the campaign? >> some controversy about that. people think that she was misused, overused, that she was a fragile figure. rather delicate figure. she was certainly very active in the primary candidate in the ford-reagan race. at the convention, the dueling candidates. the entrance of mrs. reagan,

mr. kennedy, i'm sure we'll be talking to you a little later on. miss boomer. >> we have members of the public here and also in 408. so if you hear your name in 408, if you would make you your way to this room to address the board. [ reading speakers' names ] >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i grew up on the 39. i rode the ecar, which was a streetcar the size of the cable care. i'm a native and i ride the no. 3. i ride the no. 3 from one terminus to the other terminus. from walnut and california to bart or muni. and the california street doesn't do that. it doesn't stop at a connection. you have to walk a couple of blocks. and during the winter, during rain, and all of that kind weather, but i have also rode the cable car when it went all the way to presidio, the california cable car. thank you >> thank you sir. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> mark christenson, third generation san franciscan. very simple put there are elements of the transit effectiveness project that need to be reevaluated before implementation. there are two elements tha

mr. forces, but kennedy, what you know about him as an anti-communist and not one to lose, would he have also gone and jumped into southeast asia with both feet? >> guest: i examine that question at length because i have great interest in it. here is my conclusion. kennedy deserves part of the blame for vietnam. you cannot exonerate him. put a lot of advisers and some troops in there. exactly. he started the trend, but here is why i believe he never would have done what johnson did. johnson put 535,000 troops in vietnam. first of all, if there is one word that describes president kennedy in office it is cautious second, you always look to a politician's base. you know this well. what was kennedy space,

mr. kennedy i don't want to go ♪ >> what my whole life will be like. develop hobbies. >> i weave. >> like baskets? >> yeah. >> really? >> no. >> i'm sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. >>> that was a look at five of "new york times" film critic tony scott's best movies of the year and tony joins us now. i can't wait to hear about this. okay. best one. >> best one for me was "inside louie davis" the cohen brothers film about struggling folk singer in 1961 in new york like two days before bob dillon shows up and changes everything. the music is fantastic. the performance by oscar isaac who did all of his own singing and playing is phenomenal. it just kind of won my heart. very sort of, you know, melancholy film. >> justin timberlake is in it. >> john goodman. and usual sort of cohen brothers tricks. so the story you think is going one place or no place in particular it ends up coming around to something else. >> this is a reality check. how far are you in the t

mr. kennedy. we want to recognize and thank trip of theirra's in terms of the oversight of this committee and also the troops in afghanistan. we also want to recognize joe wilson for his trip there and his son's service in afghanistan. mr. wilson, it is your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for your interest in the security of afghanistan, american security, even prior to 9/11. people need to understand and i want to thank each of you for the difference you are making. it originated out of caves in afghanistan. we should never forget that. that is why am grateful for our military service. seene had the opportunity, the progress that has occurred. i have been there 12 times. my national guard unit, former unit, they served their and led by general houston. deployment ofgest troops from south carolina since 1600. they developed a great affinity for their afghan brothers. i appreciate the chairman referencing my youngest son. last thursday from his service this year in afghanistan. so as i talk abou

mr. kennedy suggested the agreement gave manchuria to soviet russia. china shall retain full sovereignty in manchuria. not that many years later he writes the most persuasive letter to "the new york times" about why bobby kennedy will be a good senator from the state of new york and why he deserves to run. so's not inflexible in terms of making judgments about things. but for me at least, watching that mind at work and watching him on the american landscape and not just going with the winds, but making strong judgments, this was an area that he knew well and probably did know a lot more than bobby did about what happened at yalta and was not afraid to pull his chain. >> well, in fact, that brings up a point which is he did become -- he got to know bobby very well when he was working in the white house for president kennedy, and he became very close to him. and i used to visit my father when i was at law school when he was living in new york and i was living in cambridge, and he would take us -- he would often take bobby and myself and others out to dinn

mrs. kennedy. i want to talk about clothing because that's not a very important issue in this day. do think clothing makes a statement. one of the things that pat did was she appeared in a magazine -- i believe it was "mccall's" in a pants suit in 1972. this was a big deal. she never wore pants. dick didn't like pants. she never appeared in public in slacks. the fact she would appear in a magazine in a pants suit is making a political statement. i think by the time you said, you do have pat nixon coming into your own. she'd gone to africa, china, the soviet union, here she is in pants. >> i'd like to ask you about the social events in the white house and their significance. the video white house and how important an event was that and how did it strike politically given the president's standings in the polls at that time? >> probably pat nixon's happiest day in the white house. i don't think there's any doubt. it's an infection point. right after that, you have the pentagon papers controversy and the things start to get out of hand. so that moment in the summer of 1971 is a very sw

as i understand two presidents kennedy and hoover never received an income as president. did mrs.d receive any kind of income after president ford had passed away? thank you. >> first of all, you're right about hoover and jfk. in fact, rejecting federal salaries as president. in hoover's case, he never accepted payment for any of his various positions whether secretary of commerce or the hoover commissions, whatever. the question about whether mrs. ford -- >> did she get a widow's pension, more or less. as i understand it. do you get compensation if your husband dies and you served as.? >> i don't believe you do. i don't think so. >> so back to the amount of time, we heard -- >> no, no term of payment or pension, no. there's an office, of course, the president's office remained in operation and she had the privilege. >> what is that? >> very good. the franking privilege is free postage. there was secret service protection until the end of her life. >> did the public pay for that? >> yes. >> so there were benefits not salaries. >> absolutely. >> back to their days in congress, stev

mr. kennedy. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker. fellow members of the u.k. youth are limits, we're not know what we wanted to do until we came -- to we gained a little bit of work experience. the cables across the u.k. are entitled to one or two ways of working syrians -- work experience. this is no longer compulsory. do you agree with me that it should be? we all know young people in our local areas whose work placement in the past have involved making shadowingocopy and rather than the high-quality working sprinkler they deserve. high-quality work insurance and guidance is about as aspirational, as proactive, and comes rather than the -- it is focus upon. it benefits and inspires. y.p. represent 11 to 19-year-olds, and voting in favor is more inclusive than those we represent is not just asresent the smaller such voting for 16 and 17-year-olds. youth unemployment is a huge -- better quality careers advice, working sprint. -- work experience. a report finds that young people who take part in work experience are 40% less likely to be unemployed. we need tou.

mr. kennedy we want to recognize and thank you and mr. barrios' trip there accompanying ileana ros-lehtinen both in terms of the oversight of this committee, but also visiting the troops nafplgt we want to also recognize joe wilson for his recent trip there, but also for his son's service in the u.s. army in afghanistan. mr. wilson, it's your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. chairman, for your interest in the security of afghanistan, american security, even prior to 9/11. people need to understand and i want to thank each of you for the difference you are making that indeed the attacks on our country, september 11, 2001, originated out of caves in afghanistan. we should never forget that. that's why i'm grateful for our military service. i have had the opportunity, usaid, i have seen the progress that has occurred. i have been there 12 times. my national guard unit, former it, served there, and led by general livingston. it was the largest troops from south carolina since world war ii, 1,600. they really developed a great