and other book i have been reading a lot and enjoying his paul kennedy's fall of naval british mastery he makes the point at the beginning of world war ii, the navy was the world's biggest navy but was also irrelevant. it was powerful but they didn't understand aircraft carriers. they underestimated submarines and they thought battleships were still -- still central maritime operations. the royal navy does almost nothing worth remembering in world war ii. a total drain on the british. when mitt romney was talking about the size of the navy during the debates, you want to read paul kennedy here. just because you have a big powerful navy doesn't mean you have the right navy. you want a relevant force and a relevant force down a road is going to look very different than it does today. the place to begin is with severe budget cuts that make people stop and think. >> okay. we have had so many great questions and we could go on all night. we have time for one more and i know tom will talk to a lot of you individually as well. you, sir. >> perfect segue. i am a navy captain at the naval acade

another book i've been reading a lot lately as paul kennedy's rise and fall of british naval mastery,ich is a wonderful book. he makes the point at the beginning of world war ii, the royal navy was the world's biggest navy. it also is irrelevant. this powerful, but they didn't understand aircraft carriers. the underestimated submarines and they thought battleships were still central to maritime operations. hence the royal navy does almost nothing worth remembering in world war ii. it's a total drain on the british. when governor romney was talking about the size of the navy drama database, but that you want to read paul kennedy here. just because you're a powerful navy, doesn't be near the rate may be. what you want is a relative force any relevant for us on the road is going to look different than it does today. i think the place to begin is with pretty severe budget cuts of meat people stop and think. >> okay, we've had so many great questions and i know it can go on all night. we have time for one more than i know tom will talk to a lot of a lot of you individually as well. you, si

in "engineers of victory," historian paul kennedy details strategies used to secure allied victory. and political science professor jeanne theoharis in "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks." watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. ♪ ♪ >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> the white house is a bully pulpit, and you ought to take advantage of it. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. >> i think i just had little antennas that went up and told me when somebody had their own agenda. >> so much influence in that office, it would be just a shame to waste it. >> with i think they serve as a window on the past to what was going on with american women. >> she becomes the chief confidant. she's really in a way the only one in the world he can trust. >> many of the women who were first ladies, they were writers, a lot of them were writers, journalists, they wrote books. >> they are, in many cases, quite frankly, more interesting as human bein

paul. takeoff from kennedy favors building and looked down and see google ron paul intends a letter to spiritcampaign that sack of your own menu to them make their romance ads. a lot of creative stuff came out of the youtube's, but it is a movement because they would libertarians, they didn't like being told what to do. they did what they wanted to do and it needed a much more interesting campaign. they were going to do what they want us to do, but a made up more interesting than typical campaign. >> at tea parties and mention a couple times with a couple different contacts and the question i have is the certainly seemed like there was a movement that had its origins in the 2008 campaign at least parallel is very supportive of the senators in 2010, but since then, it seems to have gone off in a different direction. not necessarily opposite the movement, but definitely somewhat different. it is very disturbing to see exit polls during the republican primary, see romney getting a vast majority of the tea party support, which was completely off topic. so i wonder from your work on the boat and b

banner or radiology resident in new york put on the top of this building, google ron paul when you take off from kennedyby flyovers building any seat google ron paul and 10-foot letters. or you see a campaign that and make their own ads. a lot of creative staff came out, but it really was a movement because they were libertarians commended it might and told what to do. they did what they wanted to do animated a much more interesting can't pay. i don't know if they're right or wrong, but they did it anyway. but he made it more interesting than a typical came pain. >> the tea parties been mentioned a couple times and the question i have is this certainly seems like that was a movement that had its origins in the 2008 campaign, at least parallel, very supportive of the senators in kentucky 2010. since then it's gone off in a different direction. not necessarily opposite the movement at the ron paul revolution is solid, but definitely somewhat different. it is disturbing to me to see exit polls and a republican primary and romney getting the vast majority of the tea party support, which is completely off-to

holding a transistor radio to easier and he comes running down toward the swimming pool were kennedy and morgan paulspinning. at that very moment before the man with a radio arrives, the telephone rings and it's jay edgar hoover to tell robert kennedy that his brother has been shot, perhaps fatally. hoover did my kennedy and robert kennedy did like him. robert kennedy was later to say he didn't show any emotion at all. he just delivered the news. so they see on the other side of the pool b.c. robert kennedy slapped his hand to his face in shock and horror. c-span: the question was about the oath. what happened with lyndon johnson talked to robert kennedy right after he was shot? >> guest: well, he calls him from the plane. he calls them from the plane to ask him basically two things. should i take the oath of office in texas or wait until i get back to washington to take it? but he's not really asked. he knows he wants to take it in texas. he wants robert kennedy to agree that's the best course. and he wants the wording of the oath. deputy attorney general said to me, i was really appalled that he w

but in fact that gave us the brief and honorable service of paul kirk, a former chairman of the national democratic party and a friend of kennedywho was supposed to pass a key vote in the senate for health care, but the vote slipped into 2010, and then this guy won the special election. and senate democrats had to rip out a portion of the health care bill and pass it using the reconciliation procedure in an unprecedented way. it was so unprecedented that they never considered using that until kennedy won the seat. it was the kind of move tommy fennerin must have loved if he understood it. he was the clever speaker of the massachusetts house who first rewrote the law designed to keep massachusetts seats in the united states senate for democrats only. tommy has since faced federal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, pled guilty to some of them to avoid prison time and emerged as what else? a very clever radio talk show host in boston. tommy and i grew up in the same neighborhood but i didn't know him very well. tommy was way too cool to talk to me very much. years ahead of me, not just in age but cleverness, so clever

kennedy continued it. there is an argument that planned tofinitely ca withdraw from vietnam. i went to vietnam. i served. it was not like a st. paul in damascus moment where i read woke up and changed, that i did come back terribly bothered, and it took me many years to work out. for the last 30 years of my life, they're completely contrary to the first 35 years of my life. i think coming from the other side to where i am, i have learned a certain dimension of experience and that is why i am doing this. >> finally, what lessons can president obama learn from your tv series on showtime. >> it would be great if you watched it. -- he watched it. the best lesson is compassion. i think he has it. he has a sense of the world. seeing through history, seeing the world through other people's eyes and having empathy for others, roosevelt had it. kennedy had it. kennedy was the first person since world war ii to knowledge the suffering of the russian people. get in touch with the heart. you can be -- i would say soft is a good word. compassionate. you can make friends around the world. we can be a partner with the entire world. there are 180

paul. they are part of the treasure hunters roadshow. this picture here we bought. we paid 1200 dollars for it and it can probably auction for 1500, and 2,000 dollars. the john j kennedyight bill from 1959 paid a 1,000 dollars for that. we may not buy everything but we want to see everything because you just never know. what about this one that says this could be something? a lot of the older advertisements people collect it. i'm going to take this picture and i'm going to send it to my research department and they're going to look to see if they got anybody that's in the market for it and if they do then they're going to come back and they're going to give her a price for it. sitting around collecting dust. i came yesterday and just brought in a few small items because i didn't know just how it was and i didn't want to bring in a whole bunch f stuff like i did today. sandra stimbert netted a 158 bucks and came back for round two. brought two old clocks, but a lot of the coins we have collected through the years. field buyers sonya hands starts by sorting through items that could be treasures. i'm going to separate these because this right here is fine silver and you

kennedy and others. paul begala wrote a piece in the daily beast the other day saying president obama should give lip service to unity and then go out and be ruthless afterward. >> that is a tough choice for the president. what does he want his strategy to be in the short window that second term presidents get, is it a year, 18 months, two years? by the 2014 mid term, the climate will change even more. people feel better about the direction of the country at any point of his presidency, yet 49% of americans think the country is going in a good direction. so the president has to bring american people along at a time when they don't like this town, they don't like washington, and they're not totally in love with his first term. he just beat his rival in the election. >> people have lower expectations, so i think we're going to -- he may try and raise that a little bit. this will be a lot of poetry, and the state of the union address is going to be the prose where he really lays out the agenda. >> let's bring in

revolution that you know webster to the sons of immigrants by paul tsongas and to do with in quincy market could send to washington in the ted kennedy who sought to expand solar array and now the woman, elizabeth foreign, approved in massachusetts a cost ceiling has finally been forever shattered. what a remarkable gift massachusetts has given me to come here and learned so much about the rest of the country. i've had the privilege of learning but really makes our nation tape. what a gift to have been the nominee of my party, to have come within a whisker of winning the president teagan the wartime incumbent, but more importantly experience the magic of our nation in such a personal way. to experience the gift of traveling along the banks of the mighty mississippi through iowa and south dakota and rivers where lewis and clark march enmeshed with the dream of our first secretary of state, thomas jefferson that would advance into the last to experience a journey that took me to alabama where he stood silently for a much talked to king appreciative stream and tipped my fingers into the top of birmingham where water flows over the name

paul ryans but liberty and justice for all, more includ ine realistic. >> fast forward 2016, right? you and i were talking about this, both at kennedysale ccelebration. vice president biden made an impression. what makes you think he's trying to vie for the latino votes? >> first of all i know joe biden and i think he's on campaign mode already. we saw a joe biden sprinting through the parade route yesterday. i think he was trying to show us he's a very spry, fit, 70-year-old who will be in very good shape in four years. he became the first vice president to get sworn in by ay ays a latina justice. first vice president to do that. it's a matter of time before we hear joe biden singing or in spanish or reciting irish poetry in spanish because i think joe biden is a very smart politician. realizes how important the latino vote was to this victory. and i think he's prepping himself for a 2016 run. look, he said it at the latina ball the head of the new pack, a hispanic democrat super pac founded and that includes eva longoria and others said those people have been over his house so many times the last three daze they're probably tired

paul. >> really a shame. this is where mr. keene is out of step with most gun owners. in 1968 -- i know it was a million years ago but when senator kennedy assassinated, laws were passed in the wake of kennedy's assassination. the nra has not always opposed everything. they certainly opposed president clinton, and opposed us on banning assault weapons and opposed us on banning multiround, 30-round ammunition clips but we won. i hope the president can win. the nra is very powerful. >> here's what you wrote on your blog, erick and i'm going to put it up on the screen. until we figure out how to fix the family instability and educational problems within the inner city, any solution proposed in washington will be a potemkin village solution mask being the real gun conversation we should be having. >> what is that real gun conversation we should be having? >> if you took away the gun violence in the inner city, largely this nation would not have serious gun problems or violence. we would always have acts of violence. they won on the the assaults weapons ban. the violence prevention center did little good. there's much more handgun violence in

paul. takeoff from kennedy favors building and looked down and see google ron paul intends a letter to spirit for campaign that sack of your own menu to them make their romance ads. a lot of creative stuff came out of the youtube's, but it is a movement because they would libertarians, they didn't like being told what to do. they did what they wanted to do and it needed a much more interesting campaign. they were going to do what they want us to do, but a made up more interesting than typical campaign. >> at tea parties and mention a couple times with a couple different contacts and the question i have is the certainly seemed like there was a movement that had its origins in the 2008 campaign at least parallel is very supportive of the senators in 2010, but since then, it seems to have gone off in a different direction. not necessarily opposite the movement, but definitely somewhat different. it is very disturbing to see exit polls during the republican primary, see romney getting a vast majority of the tea party support, which was completely off topic. so i wonder from your work on the boat

sons of immigrants like paul tsongas and to know that a state where the apoll listingisted crusaded and the sufficient fro jets marched could send to washington sons like ted kennedy and ed brook who fought to expand civil rights and now a woman, elizabeth warren, who proved that in massachusetts the grat ceiling has finally been forever shattered. and what a remarkable gift massachusetts has given me to come here and learn so much about the rest of our country. i've had the privilege of learning what really makes our nation tick. what a gift to have been the nominee of my party, to have come within a whisper of winning the presidency against a wartime incumbent, but more importantly to have experienced the magic of our nation in such a personal way, to experience the gift of traveling along the banks of the mighty mississippi through iowa and south dakota and along the rivers where lewis and clark marked and measured the dream of our first secretary of state, thomas jefferson, who foresaw an america that would advance into the west, to experience a journey that took me to alabama where i stood silently in the very pulpit from which dr. king preached his dream of