mrs. kennedy to participate. he asked kennedy o'donnell to go back and get mrs. kennedy and mrs. kennedy to is a model of grace and dignity and strength says it's the least i can do, and that picture is from the plane takes off about three minutes after the plan -- picture is taken. that picture of the swearing-in is projected to the rest of the nation. so it sends exactly the image lyndon johnson needed to send and as quickly as could possibly be done. johnson so you know wanted to choreograph the exit from the plane at andrews air force base when they write in washington, on that occasion the kennedy group refused to cooperate and you've probably all seen these images of the small cargo truck coming down with a casket and mrs. kennedy and robert kennedy walk through the back and the other kennedy aides. what i found in the house select committee on assassinations, their papers are in the national archives in washington, and i found an interview with one of the kennedy aides, which proves what happened is someone went through and hand-picked all the people who were going to leave

mrs. kennedy to participate. he asked kenny o'donnell to go back and get mrs. kennedy and mrs. kennedy, who is just a model of grace and dignity and strength, says, it's the least that i could do. and that picture is -- the plane takes off about three minutes after that picture is taken, the photographer goes to the a.p. in dallas, so while johnson is making his way back to washington, that picture of the swearing in is projected to the rest of the nation. so it sends exactly the image that lyndon johnson needed to send and it sent it as quickly as could possibly be done. johnson, just so you know, also wanted to choreograph the exit from the plane at andrews air force base when a they arrived n washington, but on that hoe indication, the -- occasion, the kennedy group refused to cooperate and you've probably all seen these images of this small sort of cargo truck coming down with the casket and mrs. kennedy and robert kennedy, who boards from the front of the plane, walks to the back and the other kennedy aides, what i found in the house select committee on assassinations, thei

mrs. kennedy. they didn't want them to see the casket carrying the president's body, but johnson insisted that the national media stood he is walking a fine line. i think that looking at that, the kennedys, the family and the people around them, the slain president, it's hard to appreciate their grief and their sorrow and their sense of loss. but there is a sense of entitlement that i found difficult to comprehend, and i think that overall lyndon johnson manages that pretty well. johnson of course is not -- johnson doesn't cooperate with manchester. he refuses to sit down with manchester but if you go to the johnson library which is a wonderful place to work, you see all these notes where manchester is constantly writing mainly jack valenti asking for access to the president. e. putting him off and put them off and putting them off. and then comes along jim bishop. jim bishop was a popular writer, and it was interesting for me when i write history books, i have a sense of historians, we need to be o

mrs. kennedy leaves remarks elsewhere in the home.travel at the grand staircase that harry truman built, you enter into the treaty room, given its name by president and mrs. kennedy. today, is a private office of the -- in 1962, it is just an idea. signed in his room. this says that this room was during the administration -- hear, the treaty of peace was famous. >> after dedicating the new refurbished room with vice- president johnson were so much history unfolded. >> an agreement has been reached on rate of forces of misery and destruction under international law. this treaty is not the millennium. it will not halt the production of nuclear weapons. but it is an important first step. a step towards peace. a step away from war. >> it is a room still steeped in history. as with many rooms in the white house, it changes over time it. >> they never knew what to do with it. when president bush the first came in, he converted it into a steady that had been a steady before mrs. kennedy. that is the president's office in the house. that is w

mrs. kennedy leaves remarks elsewhere in the home.u travel at the grand staircase that harry truman built, you enter into the treaty room, given its name by president and mrs. kennedy. today, is a private office of the -- >> so many trees have been signed in his room. this says that this room was during the administration -- hear, the treaty of peace was famous. after dedicating the new refurbished room with vice- president johnson were so much history unfolded. >> an agreement has been reached on rate of forces of misery and destruction under international law. this treaty is not the millennium. it will not halt the production of nuclear weapons. but it is an important first step. a step towards peace. a step away from war. >> it is a room still steeped in history. as with many rooms in the white house, it changes over time it. >> they never knew what to do with it. when president bush the first came in, he converted it into a steady that had been a steady before mrs. kennedy. that is the president's office in the house. that is wher

mrs. kennedy assured them that, no, she wanted them to be guests. but their mother, mrs. johnson, said you can't have the wine. then in 1964 president and mrs. johnson having become the new president had the first state dinner in the rose garden. and it was for the chancellor of west germany. and music that night was provided by the national symphony orchestra who is going to be part of tonight's entertainment as well. for some especially noteworthy visitors, dinners had been held in the east room, not just in 1902 but more recent times where you could accommodate guests up to about 230. 130 in this room, 230 in the east room, more on the grounds. . the social secretary recruited of very nervous last-second replacement, that was me. early in his administration, and jimmy carter invited his 8-year- old daughter amy to come to a state bennett -- dinner. she spent the evening reading a book while the other guest were talking around a table. in 1976, to honor the bicentennial, there was a big dinner for queen elizabeth ii in the rose gone -- rose garden. that afternoon, most

mr. president, to recognize a colleague who is here tonight only in spirit, ted kennedy. has been said and written about his lifelockçç t to -- life-long quest to ensure that every american has decent healthcare. tonight we and the days to come will pay him the highest compliment by fulfilling that quest of achieving the goal that all americans aspire for and that is a national healthcarew3 our citizens. i would like to speak briefly to the american people who i suspect areç just tuning inç this vote that will occurç why does this issue andv: debat matter? why are we hear on a satur@v evening evening? for thatxd matter, why are you watching c-span on aç saturday! evening? for one thing healthcare represents one-sixth of our economy and affects 100% of the population. it is true that skyrocketing healthcare costs are the single biggest threat to the final future of our fellow citizens. the reason tonight's vote is so historic beyondq those last two points is that never, ever before, never before, mr. president, has this body elected to serve the american people confr

mr. meredith's enrollment at the university was followed by a riot, and president kennedy sent soldiers intoon, mississippi, hosts the 25-minute event. >> we thank everyone else for coming. i have a couple of confessions to make at first. one is i'm not a public speaker. this is a foreign environment for me. so whatever your expectations are, i hope they're met, but i won't be surprised. second, i don't go to book signings as a general rule, so i have no idea what goes on at these. so i'm going to do what i feel comfortable doing, and i hope it works. however this turns out, i will make one guarantee and that is that the book is better than the presentation. [laughter] so i guess the moral is so far don't judge a book by its author. [laughter] probably the first question some people ask is why do we need another book about james meredith and the riot at ole miss in 1962? when i started working on this book about 1991 and not working intensely, but that was when i first started playing with the topic, there were already four books out. this book is published in 2009, and there are in the inte

mrs. palin. >> you have other events of this size? >> just in my time as a bookseller and cincinnati location, we have posted caroline kennedy which had about 3,000, stephanie by year from the "twilight" fame eclipse and people coming in and a number of very large events. johnny bench. it spans the gamut. >> how do these big events help a bookstore? >> the biggest thing is the challenge of letting people know that we do you vince is tricky. seems like we do a big event people that live in the city or neighborhood say i knew you were a bookstore but you had authors. but we have 25 authors her month. so awareness is probably the biggest benefit but also just having people experience the event here to understand how we do it with the line letters and letting them know what it takes to get from their door to our door back to our door hopefully at once or twice per year they will come in and read a lot more. >> i am here from the cincinnati. >> what time did you get here? >> about 7:30 a.m. [laughter] >> you have been here over three hours almost four hours? >> i had breakfast while i was waiting for this to start. >> why did you come so e

i also want to thank the memory of a very important center named ted kennedy, who i know is here in spirit, mrsident. 40 years of dedication to this cause. finally, i want to thank president obama for his vision. we would not be here today, eight years under a former president, we did not have the opportunity to get here to this place. we did not have the opportunity to be able to end insurance abuses and truly protect medicare for the future. to put forward health care reform to save lives and save money. i want to thank president obama also for understanding that healthcare is also about jobs, and that we have too many people in this country today who are losing their jobs and losing their health insurance. it is impossible to talk about health care reform without also talking about jobs, because for most families, they are connected and one and the same. i have spoken on the floor so many times on health care costs and access, and frankly, health care is something that brought me to public service 30 years ago, when i was 5, i just want that for the record. i have been fighting to get to th

president kennedy was even given a turkey with a sign around its neck that said good eating, mr. president. but he showed mercy. and he said, let's keep him going. and 20 years ago, this thanksgiving, the first president bush issued the first presidential pardon for a turkey. today i'm pleased to announce that thanks to the interventions of malia and sasha, courage will also be spared this terrible and delicious fate. he'll head to disneyland where he will be the grand marshal of the parade. just in case he can't fulfill his dutiess, carolina is here to be a stand in. we will take two of the less fortune brothers, i want to thank the farm in pennsylvania for donating the birds for dinner. today all told, i believe it's fair to say that we have saved or created four turkeys. [laughter] >> you know, there's certain days that remind me of why i ran for this office. and then there are moments like this where i pardon and turkey and send it to disneyland. [laughter] >> but every single day i am thankful for the extraordinary responsibility that the american people have placed in me. i

mr. president, this is where we stand. health care coverage for all of america's families has been an illusive goal since teddy roosevelt first proposed it nearly a century ago. our dear friends, ted kennedysenator ted kennedy, whom we miss so much, fought for health care right here on this senate floor from the moment he arrived in the senate in 1962 to the moment he died. today i am proud to say we are moving closer to fulfilling this promise of health care for all. robert kennedy once said, few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation. mr. president, this is our time, this is our moment, this is our moment for us to come together as a nation nation and make surr people never again have to face what nikki white faced in her last days, filling out forms, praying to god she could get health care and not being able to get it and dying at age 32. that is immoral. it isn't necessary. and we can fix it. and we should. and i thank you very much, and i yield the floor. the sparn healthcare hub at c-span.org/healthcare. a look at two healthcare ads

mr. president, to recognize a colleague who is here tonight only in spirit, ted kennedy. so much has been said and written about his lifelong quest to ensure that every american -- every american -- has decent health care. tonight we and in the days to come will pay him the highest compliment as our colleague by fulfilling that quest of achieving the goal that all americans aspire for, and that is a national health care plan that serves every one of our citizens. i'd like to speak briefly, if i could, to the american people who are at home this evening, i suspect, and just tuning into this debate, this important vote that will occur momentarily. why does this issue and this debate matter? why are we here on a saturday evening? but then again, for that matter, why are you watching c-span on a saturday evening, i might add? well, for one thing, mr. president, health care represents one-sixth of our economy and affects 100%, as we all know, of the population of this country. and it is true that skyrocketing health care costs are the single-biggest threat to the financial fut

i also want to thank the memory of a very important senator named ted kennedy, who i know is here in spirit, mr dedication to this cause. and finally i want to thank president obama for his vision. we would not be here today. eight years under a former president, we did not have the opportunity to get here to this place. we did not have the opportunity to be able to end insurance abuses and truly protect medicare for the future, to put forward health care reform to save lives and save money. i want to thank president obama also for understanding that health care is also about jobs and that we have too many people in this country today who are losing their job, and with that, they're losing their health insurance. so it's impossible to take talk about health care reform without also talking about jobs because, for most families, they are connected and one of the same. i have spoken on the floor so many times on health care costs and access and, frankly, mr. president, health care is something that brought me to public service 30 years ago when i was five -- i just want that for the record. i led

of senator kennedy's illness deserves enormous credit, enormous praise for picking up the ball at a critical juncture in the carrying it across the line in the health care committee as well. mr. president, senator reid had a very difficult task of bringing together of the finance committee bill and the health committee bill combining them into a vehicle for consideration here. when this bill is not perfect. no work of humans ever is. certainly more needs to be done to control costs. that's what i believe. and this is a very good beginning. this bill makes an important contribution to improving health care in this country and those who labored for months and months and months to produce it deserve our thanks and praise. i am somewhat taken aback by speeches i have heard from colleagues over the last several days acting as though this vote tomorrow is the end of the story. anybody who understands senate procedure even a little bit knows this is the beginning of the story. this is the beginning of a debate, this is the beginning of a process to amend and improve the bill. this is the beginning of a discussion on the floor of the senate about legislation of reform the health car

president kennedy was even given a turkey with a sign around its neck that said "good eatin', mr. president"but he showed mercy and so let's keep them going. 20 years ago the first president bush issued the first official presidential pardon for a turkey. today i am pleased to announce that things to the interventions of malia and sasha, because i was planning to eat this sucker, "courage" will also be speared this terrible and delicious bit. later i will go to disneyland where tomorrow i'll be grand marshal of tomorrow's parade and just in case kurds cannot fulfil his responsibilities, walter brought along another turkey "carolina" as an alternate, a stand-in. later the saponin my daughters and i will take two other less fortunate brethren to martha's table, an extraordinary organization who helps folks here in washington, d.c. for those who needed the most -- and i want to thank the farm in pennsylvania for done it in those dressed birds for dinner. today i think all-told we have saved or created four turkeys. [laughter] [laughter] there are certain days that remind me of why i

mr. president, this is where we stand. health care coverage for all of america's families has been an illusive goal since teddy roosevelt first proposed it nearly a century ago. our dear friends, ted kennedy, senator ted kennedy, whom we miss so much, fought for health care right here on this senate floor from the moment he arrived in the senate in 1962 to the moment he died. today i am proud to say we are moving closer to fulfilling this promise of health care for all. robert kennedy once said, few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation. mr. president, this is our time, this is our moment, this is our moment for us to come together as a nation nation and make surr people never again have to face what nikki white faced in her last days, filling out forms, praying to god she could get health care and not being able to get it and dying at age 32. that is immoral. it isn't necessary. and we can fix it. and we should. and i thank you very much, and i yield the floor. mr. dorgan: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from north dako

and one thing i think the entire kennedy shares is a desire that one day in cuba that kind of peaceful clash of ideas can be expressed in the political system in cuba. >> mr. chairman -- [applause] >> mr. chairman? >> the gentleman from massachusetts. >> i don't want to give you the last word. [laughter] but there has been, if the chair would indulge me for a moment, the chair has been asked of various individuals when they go to cuba do they ask to see political prisoners. i want this to be noted for the record that my first trip to cuba occurred in 1988 as part of a human rights project. at that point in time, we asked and requested a meeting with a group of prisoners who identified themselves as [speaking in spanish] i have a sense that some of them are here today. let me just suggest this: we did press the government after that is visit, and i certainly am not taking credit for it, but i am aware that approximately nine months to a year later they were released. sometimes, we don't know, good things can happen if we continue to press. and i have them on trips with mr. peters. i can assure you that in every single location we have pressed -- we've met

kennedy campaign. i interviewed john anderson and his running mate, the former governor. i tried to talk to as many as possible and gather as much oral history as possible. host: mrs.he has retired from interviews. i will forever be grateful to her that -- the 1985 files are sealed at the library because they have not been culminated yet. there are millions associated with his life there. but she told the library to open them exclusively for me to go through. i had exclusive rights to go through the 1980 campaign document. host: what did you learn from the documents but that surprised you? guest: most of it was pretty straightforward. the one thing which was interesting, all of his inner circle dick allen, and meese, and others -- they were modest men. there were very focused on their conservative philosophy. you did not have campaigns, at least with these men -- it was not about the celebrity consultants. it was very focused on policy and winning the campaign. making sure that reagan was always ready and prepared. host: atlanta and, on the democrats' line. caller: happy thanksgiving to both of you guys. mr. craig shirley, what i hear is the conservative fascinatio

mr. khrushchev, unless you pull those missiles out, we're bombing, and that later was circulated as the so-called second speech when, in fact, there was no second speech drafted for kennedy to give, but we were almost divided into two groups, some for the air strike, followed up by an invasion, or -- and others were for the block cade, which we renamed the quarantine against offensive weapons which was announced in the kennedy speech, parts of which were shown in the film clip, so it was, as graham said, extraordinary that a president didn't just take one option like a preemptive strike or invasion and run with it. no, he wanted to know what all the possibilities were and he wanted to know what the pros and cons were of each possibility. >> people have seen the show that people might not live through the weekend of october 27 and 28 on the show "mad men." for those of you in the white house, tell us about the an at this anxiety and the relief? >> first of all -- let me back up one moment. our deliberations continued almost night and day through that first week after tuesday the 16th. finally after i was asked to draft a speech for the president on the quarantine, and the