he and robert kennedy were moving toward winning a war toward property. education.y ways, spoke to how that was the key part of where we go as a nation. in his sermon the night before he was killed, he said, i have been to the mountain top, i have seen the promised land. we may not get to it -- and the thing he had been saying time and again, the mountain is ahead, it still needed to be climbed. do i have any doubts that if the health care bill was up for repeal at this moment, after all the work that was done to produce the best the congress could get, a big step toward where keynes wanted to go for good health care for everybody in this country -- to i have any doubt that he would move into action to prevent the repeal of the health care act so that we can go on to the neck steps to provide health care for all and other reforms needed? i have no doubt about that. and lastly, the world. he risked a lot taking on the vietnam war. some thought it was a terrible political mistake to take on a controversial issue like the vietnam war. i think i want to end by saying ma

night, and she was performing that night as artists-- she was one of those who had campaigned for robert kennedy. a lot of artists went out on the campaign trail for candidates, and i was with her that night. and actually, at the moment that senator kennedy was shot, i remember that it was the last time i've seen her, which was 32 years ago. she was supposed to sing at the overflow room downstairs, and the senator was supposed to exit one side of the stage where-- to see rosemary clooney, and at the last minute-- you can hear it on the tape. someone says, "this way, senator." and he goes the other way. what happened that night was obviously, for a kid-- i remember seeing people in shock, and i--you know, when you're 12, you've never seen that. i didn't understand why adults were crying, and people were doubled over and, you know, just absolute wracked with emotion. and i couldn't process it, really, you know? i think i'm lucky for having had it happen at that age, because i was just young enough to be able to sort of step back from it, but what did happen, i remember a month later looking at mag

and some even ruthless, for example robert kennedy was accused of being rootless. secure agnew of accused of being [inaudible] in july and this is not the case at all. i interviewed about 120 people for the book, many of them in the senate and washington, many of them in delaware, and the worst i found was a fellow who was an aide to a republican candidate, one of his relations campaigns, and last white as joe biden continue to get reelected, he's elected six times at this point to the senate. he's an embarrassment but he's our embarrassment. [laughter] and that is really the worst i was told about him. but as we all know, joe biden has had what i call to barnacles on his ship that always cling to him on this speech here. not as damaging in any way to the characteristics that have been assigned to nixon, spiro agnew and evin carter and that is that he talks too much and that he put said his foot in his mouth too often. [laughter] joe biden would plead guilty to this himself. i would like to read to you from the book would a couple of republicans have said about joe

first significant gun show laws did not come out and about after the assassination of john and robert kennedy and martin luther king jr. and the law known as the brady bill came in eventually of the shooting of reagan and the crippling wounds to james brady. that requires federal background checks and a five- day waiting period to buy a handgun. in that case, he was a mentally- disturbed young man. he had been trying to get the attention of the actress, jody foster. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. in the 2003, they ruled that hinkley could leave the mental hospital where he had lived for 22 years for unsupervised visit with his family in the washington, d.c. area. ktvu, ken wayne, reported on the reactions at the time. >> reporter: in 1981, he opened fire on president reagan outside a washington hotel. the president was lifted away by secret service agents, seriously wounded. the two law enforcement officers were also sorcery injured. and the white house press secretary was permanently disabled. a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to st. elizabeth ho

for example, robert kennedy was accused of being ruthless.nixon and agnew of being conniving and crooked. carter of being stubborn. and in exploring joe biden, it's not the case at all. i interviewed about 120 people for the book, many of them in the senate, many of them in washington, many of them in delaware. and the worst i found about him was a fellow who was an aide, a republican candidate against biden on one of israel election campaigns. when i asked why joe biden continue to get reelected, he was reelected six times. and the fellow said he's an embarrassment, he's our embarrassment. and that is the worst that i was told about him. but as we all know, joe biden has had what i call to barnacles on the ship that always cling to him, of this nature. not as damaging in any way to the negative characteristics assigned to nixon and agnew, and even carter, and that is he talks too much and that he puts his foot in his mouth too often. joe biden would plead guilty to this himself. i would like to read to you from the book won a couple of repub

robert kennedy's third then the first comes a that's right, women have more of a shot of getting the high quality kneal and the polygamous society and that is their objective given that they are going to invest a lot of energy and time of the production because just carrying -- >> host: it also works the other way that in those societies the prestige measured by the number of wall that you have that powerful the wealthy man and the economic transaction they are sort of competing for the women to a degree. >> guest: their objective not just in terms of prestige that their objective is to maximize passage of their jeans under the next generation and if they have like a handful of wives began at a handful of kids and this genetic perspective, but the thing is it doesn't work for all it works for the powerful and that is why i think that this institutional institution proved unstable. i think there are two reasons economists have looked at. one is in polygamous societies it is common for the men to pay for women because they are a relatively scarce resource, and so they are more common t

i find this great quote who said who wouldn't rather be robert kennedy's first wife than the third. >> host: who would rather be robert kennedy's third wife. >> guest: and so that's why women have more of a shot of getting a high-quality meal in a polygamous society and that is their objective given that they are going to invest a lot of energy and time just carrying. >> host: it also works the of the ring given misleading, the prestige, the measure you have that powerful there are the sort of competing. >> guest: the work perfectly, powerful men were perfectly calls their objective not just in terms of prestige but also to maximize their jeans under the next generation and if they had liked a handful of white ticket have a bunch of kids and this is different from the genetic perspective. the thing is it doesn't work for all of the minute works for the powerful men and that is why i think this proves on stable. i mean i think there are two reasons. one is that in a polygamous societies it is common for the men to pay for women because you know, they are a scarce resource and more comm

robert kennedy said i dream things that never were and ask why not? sarge shriver mirrored that quote. may we all learn from his example. may we honor his legacy of public service by expanding our own horizons of the possible. by caring for those who need our help. here and around the world. sargent shriver brought to american life a singular commitment to service. his good work and his historic examples will long outlive >> this new law is the fiscal house of cards. >> has any child, any grandparent met a more bureaucratic system than the american health insurance system? >> watch the house -- watched the health-care debate from the house floor any time online with c-span's congressional chronicle. read transcripts of every house and senate session. congressional chronicle -- at c- span.org/congress. >> in a few moments, today's headlines and recalls live on "washington journal" and we will be live at 11:30 a.m. eastern with a house democrats news conference in cambridge, md.. then at 12:15 p.m. eastern, the u.s. conference of mayors. and it about 45

as robert kennedy told us, the future is not a gift. it is an achievement. sustaining the american dream has never been about standing pat. it has required each generation to sacrifice and struggle and meet the demands of a new age. and now it's our turn. we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to outinnovate, out educate, and outbuild the rest of the world. [applause] >> we have to make america the best place on earth to do business. we need to take responsibility for our deficit and reform our government. that's how our people will prosper. that's how we'll win the future. [applause] and tonight, i'd like to talk about how we get there. the first step in winning the future is encouraging american innovation. none of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be. or where the new jobs will come from. 30 years ago, we couldn't know that something called the internet would lead to an economic revolution. what we can do, what america does better than anyone else, is spark the creativity and imaginati

it was robert kennedy that you can see on the back of the truck in indianapolis when he delivered then-american community that martin luther king had been killed. you can see him in the kennedy library, those remarks from memory, the tragedy, we can learn by the grace of god. [applause] >> thank you very much, senator. the honorable kathleen kennedy townsend, please. >> thank you. i love listening to you. i want to thank the ada. i have to say, when sheryl asked about this panel, what would martin do, it reminded me of what would jesus do? that question is always answered by what you think you should do. who knows what martin mr. king would do? he was a great leader and he was a visionary and a leader. i wish we had his vision. i will tell you what i think should be done. it is hard to say what a leader would do. i say this because my mother would never let any of my brothers and sisters say what my father would do. you do not know. q. are you to say? -- who are you to say? i can tell you what i think i have learned from martin luther king. i learned that you change. he was always dev

as robert kennedy told us, the future is not a gift, it is an achievement. sustaining the american dream has never been about standing pat. it has required each generation to sacrifice and struggle and meet the demands of a new age. and now it is our turn. we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to shut out innovate, out educate, and help build the rest of the world -- and help build the rest of the world. tavis: i'm pleased to be joined tonight by charlie crist, the former florida governor and u.s. senate candidate in miami. i assume he is enjoying his new life out of politics. governor, good to have you on the program. >> tavis, it is good to be with you, my pleasure. tavis: let me start by asking what you made of the speech. >> i thought it was great. i thought that president obama delivered a speech that took us to a higher place, that talked about the fact we need to be unified, work together as a nation, republicans, democrats, independents, to pull us out of this economic difficulty we have been dealing with f

don't know if you remember how just how overwhelmingly traumatic for example the assassination of robert kennedy was because that was like the last vestige of hope for a generation i think it affected a lot of my cohorts really really bad like you know we haven't had a lot of mischief like that of that kind and you know mob mischief is also infectious and we haven't had any of that. you know i suspect we'll start to see some things around the employment issue i mean that's an easy call as you know mr talib would tell you of course you can't predict the black swan events because they are by definition the blacks want to vent the things that you can't see now that the latest book. yeah the which of paper on which a lot we mentioned it a couple of weeks ago and i understand sales spiked enormously based on that on that program so it's an excellent book but that's all it's on for we have today james howard kunstler thanks for being on the kaiser reports pleasure all right that's going to for this edition of the kaiser report i want to thank stacy herbert and of course my guest james howard kunstler

. >> i would like to think that between my dad's assassination and senator robert kennedy at least beganprocess of congress thinking about putting some legislation on the books. >> couric: six months after king was assassinated, president lyndon johnson signed the gun control act of 1968, making it illegal for criminals, drug addicts, and those with psychiatric problems to purchase guns. >> mr. president! ( gunshots ) >> couric: 12 years after john hinckley tried to kill president reagan, the brady bill became law in 1993 and added a national database for criminal background checks. >> there are federal gun laws that say you can't sell guns to minors, you can't sell guns to deranged people, you can't sell guns to drug dealers, you can't sell guns to criminals. there is also a requirement that a background check is done before you sell a gun. the trouble is, there's no money to enforce it and there are loopholes. >> couric: so you think the laws that currently exist are enough or do new laws need to be passed? >> you can always have more laws but if you don't enforce the ones on the books

and jack javits whose seat i now occupy, hillary clinton, robert kennedy and, of course, pat. and it says something about this state and this city that an irish kid from hell's kitchen whose father left the family when he was 10, who would work as a stevedore on thely great senators the nation has ever known. i think the work steve's done in putting together the book serves pat and his legacy so well. and shows us how he game the man i got to -- how he became the senator the world got to know. e couldn't be a better night for this event. we didn't plan it that way. maybe dick had something to do with it knowing of both events, but as susan mentioned, we broke ground -- at least ceremonious ceremoniously -- on moynihan station which means that in the not-so-distant future pat's vision -- and it was his vision -- for a new, truly grand penn station and the farley post office will become reality. it's one of the projects i've been proud to be part of in my time in the senate, and i'm glad that when we're done there's going to be a honest-to-goodness monument to senator daniel pat

don't know if you remember how just how overwhelmingly traumatic for example the assassination of robert kennedy was because that was like the last vestige of hope for a generation i think it affected a lot of my cohorts really really badly you know we haven't had a lot of mischief like that of that kind and you know mob mischief is also infectious and we haven't had any of that. you know i suspect we'll start to see.

roberts. chief justice anthony kennedy. associate justice stephen breyer.there the president is is now talking to. ruth bader ginsberg between them. between justice breyer and justice kennedy. there is justice sotomayer and justice kagan the two newest members of the supreme court of the united states. now the joint chiefs mike mullens. the navy admiral who is the chairman of the joint chiefs. general casey, the head of the army, who is going to be retiring soon. and mike mullins' last year. no word. michael and mark, who will replace mike mullin. general cartwright has been mentioned. he's the vice chairman now. the marine general and marine aviator. they already have one marine aviator in the joint chiefs, general amos. you see his back there. he's the commandant of the marine corps. two marine aviators. one small group. >> it might be a little much. >> lehrer: there is the president shaking hands with the new speaker of the house john boehner. he delivered the speech to the speaker. and to vice president biden. a process that began many many years ago. h

for example, robert kennedy was accused of being ruthless. nixon and agnew of being conniving and corrected and also carter. but with joe biden that is not the case at all. i interviewed 120 people for the book, and many in the senate and in washington and in delaware. of the worst i found about him was a young fellow who was an aide to republican candidate against biden in one of the reelection campaigns and i asked why did joe biden continue? he was reelected six times and he said he is an embarrassment but he is our embarrassment. that is the worst that i was told about him. but as we all know, joe biden has had to barnacles on his ship of this nature. not as damaging it anyway to the negative characteristics as 92 agnew or carter but that he talks too much and puts his foot to in his mouth too often. joe biden would plead guilty to this himself. i would like to read what republicans have said. the first is bob dole. who characteristically said joe has a short fuse and the ability to go with it. when joe use to get up to speak we all figur

as robert kennedy told us, "the future is not a gift. it is an achievement." sustaining the american dream has never been about standing pat. it has required each generation to sacrifice, and struggle, and meet the demands of a new age. now it is our turn. we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to out-innovate, out- educate, and out-build the rest of the world. [applause] we have to make america the best place on earth to do business. we need to take responsibility for our deficit, and reform our government. that's how our people will prosper. that's how we will win the future. [applause] and tonight, i would like to talk about how we get there. the first step in winning the future is encouraging american innovation. none of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be, or where the new jobs will come from. thirty years ago, we could not know that something called the internet would lead to an economic revolution. what we can do -- what america does better than anyone -- is spark the creativity and

y lo podemos ganar pero para lograryo no solamente podemos mantenernos de pies como nos dijo robert kennedyr educación, y mayores construcciones que el resto del mundo. (aplausos) >> tenemos que hacer que los estados unidos sea el mejor sitio en el mundo para negociar, tenemos que tomar responsabilidad de nuestro propio déficit de reformar el gobierno, así va a prosperar nuestro pueblo así es como vavas a ganar el futuro. >> esta noche quisiera hablar con ustedes de sobre como vamos a llegar allá, el primer paso para ganar el futuro es alentar a la innovación de estadounidenses, ninguno de nosotros puede predecir con certeza skwcuál será la próxima industria o empleos, hace 30 años ni siquiera podríamos saber lo llamado internet nos iba a llevar a la revolución económica. lo que estados unidos sabe hacer más que nadie que es lo que causa la creatividad y la imaginación de nuestro pueblo, somos la nación que colocó los autos en nuestras casas las computado computadoras de la oficinas de edici edison y los hermanos ray, es como nos ganamos la vida. >> nuestro sistema de libre empresa es la fu

>> well, kennedy tell that it was -- he felt as did robert kennedy in his campaign that they -- that one of the things that you did in a presidential campaign was that you educated the american people. that you tried -- you know, that you tried to teach them something. not because they're ig norpts or anything, but that you tried to educate them. that you tried to convince them of certain principles. this is what kennedy did throughout his campaign, the same principles again and again. this idea of sacrifice, that there was a higher purpose. he said it again and again in different ways and different speeches. this is why it rang so true when he said it in his inaugural address, because it was something that people expected from hi -- from him. it was something he created in the campaign, you know, the ground work for this. people say sometimes, well, why can't we have another inaugural address like this one? well, maybe the problem is not with the presidents or the men, maybe the problem is with the campaigns. and that the campaigns, the way a presidential campaign is run now doesn't

as robert kennedy told us, the future is not a gift it is an achievement, sustaining the american dream has never been about standing pat to it requires each generation to sacrifice and struggle and meet the demands of the new- age. now it's our turn, we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. it we do out innovate, educated and build the rest of the world. (cheering) we have to make america the best place on earth to do business. it we need to take responsibility for our deficit and reform our government to that's how where people will prosper. that's how we will win the future. (cheering) tonight at would like to talk about how we get there. first happen when the future is encouraging american innovation. none of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be or where the new jobs will come from. 30 years ago we could know something like the internet it would lead to an economic revolution. what we can do calm what america does better than anyone else. it is part the creativity and imagination of our people. all i throughout our history

but in 1968 when senator robert kennedy was assassinated when president kennedy was assassinateed in the midst of a campaign, president johnson gave an address, the rhetoric of extreme in the country. he called for congress to enact gun control laws and it was really actually quite a powerful speech. it was a different speech in many ways than the examples michael has cite which had i think more common in recent years the themes really are of the nation speaking through its president its condolences to the victims and tries to bring the country together in this moment of national mourning. >> is it a time, ellen, one of the few times, when a president whether he or she be a republican or a democrat, a liberal or conservative actually speaks as a representative of the american people and everybody accepts it without any qualms? >> absolutely. and today, of course, the newspapers were filled with discussions of what president obama would say. so there's a greatly heightened attention to the president in his role as the chief executive of our country as in some sense the person who we l

being right after the three horrible assassinations of the '60s-- president kennedy, senator robert kennedy who was running for president, and dr. king right here in tennessee. and those three assassinations drove the gun control act of '68 which basically says that guns are to be purchased by buyers in their home states and they would produce identification and they would not be of prohibited categories like convicted felons, persons adjudicated as mental defectives or aliens illegally in the country and some other categories. so that's the federal law. it's not very restrictive. there's no federal registration with the only exception that since 1934 machine guns, silencers, hand grenades, sawed off shotguns and certain weapons like that have to be registered with the government. those are the only real registered guns. and so what the constitution defines and what's been laid out by the congress is a federal regulation and enforcement that allows each state to pass their own law and the federal government regulates and enforces the interstate commerce action and the regulatory scheme that

. >> when robert kennedy asked me before this president-- . >> rose: how do we get this solved. >> no, he said look here. you have a missile there. we have our intelligence. think about it. and this is really the thing you wouldn't really tolerate so i said they telling me, that we have a missile there. please tell me what kind of missile for me-- and the short answer was on all-- from president or his brother, you should answer we have only a defensive weapon in cuba. not, no further. so like a parrot. >> rose: like a parrot. >> what else, i have only one phrase, from the government, say-- . >> rose: we have only defensive missiles in cuba. >> yes. and they would only discuss, if you look at all the minutes, it was always discussed defensive missile. so but in this case, they could see it was a different thing. but five months later they had a special discussion about me. whether i was deceiving them or not. if i dereceiving then they have to ask-- what kind of ambassador mi that i deceive the government. of course intolerable. and they come to the conclusion-- . >> well, i suppose t

i saw her in 1968 for the funeral center of robert kennedy and talk to her a few times on the telephone because the children and that was the extent of it. >> all three of you i assume spoke with the current and former agents at the time about this project. how do those conversations and what kind of response do you get especially from those who wouldn't speak or participate in this project? >> i started off early by calling jerry's wife and he was our agent in charge and i talked with her and told her i was thinking of doing that. the second person i touch base with is floyd surprising probably too many we never discuss the assassination of each other after the is essential occurred there was never trauma counseling. there was to some awful lot of work to do. so we were left to do the work and our working life was 60 hours a month over on average. i think i calculated it out we made about a dollar 80 cents an hour we just were constantly working the only we could relax is take an hour or two after you got off and you're drowning down the agency were working with, and so we just somehow

candidate george wallace; mark chapman, who murdered john lennon; and sirhan sirhan, who killed robert kennedy. they found that assassins come from all walks of life, but travel a common path, leaving distinctive clues. >> fein: rarely were there direct threats communicated to the target or to law enforcement authorities. but very often there was some kind of communication, be it a communication to a family member or to a friend, that suggested that the attacker or potential attacker was moving out on the path that might lead to an attack. >> vossekuil: one of the things that we also saw were that there were common motives among a number of these to include drawing attention to a grievance, possibly look... looking for notoriety, potentially actually being suicidal and being willing to die or expecting to die in an attack, and perhaps wanting to die. >> pelley: in the more than 80 cases that you studied, was politics, pure and simple, ever the motivation? >> fein: i cannot think of a case where politics, pure and simple, was the motivation. sometimes people used a political language, but peopl

i saw her in 1968 when -- for the funeral of senator robert kennedy, and i talked to a her a few times on telephone. because of the interest she had in protective activities for her children. that was the extent of it. >> all three of you, i assume, spoke with many of the current and former agents at the time about this project. how do those conversations go? and what kind of responses did you get? especially from those who would not speak or participate in this project. >> there were -- i started off really by calling jerry banes's wife. jerry had passed on. he was our agent in charge. i talked with her and i told her that i was thinking of doing that. the second person that i touched base with was floyd corey. surprising probably to many of you, but we never discussed the assassination with each other. after the assassination occurred, there was no trauma counseling, just an offer lot of work to do. so we were left to do the work. our working life was 60 hours a month over time on average. i think i calculated it out, we made about $1.80 an hour. and we just were constantly working.