because robert kennedy was so dynamic as a candidate. it was also because there is a certain uncertainty to be the nominee at that time. he had been very impressive as of 3's nominee in 1968. he was also a rather soft-spoken man most of the time, but he had a terrible temper that sometimes came through. the seldom happened with george mcgovern. >> who else was running and how they compare to george mcgovern? >> the other senators were fred harris -- they were all bunched up together. nomination to's lose. some of the things that happened in new hampshire including appearing to cry in a serious moment outside the local newspapers for things that had been printed about his wife. there was some dispute about whether he was actually crying or not. it was snowing at the time at muskie, himself, said he was not crying. that was the impression, nevertheless. the only reason his tennessee collapsed in new hampshire -- his candidacy collapsed in new hampshire was because of his position on vietnam. mcgovern left no doubt where he stood on the war

go ahead. >> senator mcgovern took of robert kennedy's banner in 1968. how much support did he receive from the kennedy forces after he received the nomination and added a kennedy member, as you are about to discuss, to the ticket? >> do you want to take that one? >> the campaign enthusiastically for him. the kennedy family campaigned enthusiastically for him. when eagleton was dropped from the ticket, sargent shriver agreed to be his running mate. they had a great affection for senator mcgovern. he was viewed as a strong ally of robert kennedy. he called him the most decent man in the u.s. senate. the kennedy family was behind him 100%. >> michael in ohio. you are next. >> this talk about the vice president's pick and so on is an example of how messed up that whole scenario seemed to be. what i always wondered was how come the democratic party never stood behind hubert humphrey, who only four years earlier had a very close election with president nixon, and why they would not have backed him all along instead of him just becoming another person trying to

not know they do have robert kennedy, jr. as a partner one of the individuals who was a principal of the firm was an obama fund-raiser in after the 2012 election went to work as an adviser to the department of energy green energy grants program. see how the cycle works? you have a circumstance now individuals who have worked in the department of energy to have given many are now moving back into the private sector and working for the very people they had given as a authored sums to in the past. it is an enormous cycle of cronyism and it would not be tolerated in many other sectors expect a six of we should feel positive because it is alternative energy. pure cronyism and nothing else. i don't know if i have depressed you for board you i am not sure of the term but hasn't is always been the way? i would say no. yes cronyism has always been there in politicians have enriched themselves but the opportunities have become so much greater and there is so much more money and power and so many more opportunities to make money and lev

that rfk in 68, even though he was saying we were in and get out of vietnam, he thought that robert kennedy was someone he could work with that would have gotten out gradually. i think my father felt that john f. kennedy would never have approved 500,000 troops in south vietnam and he would have fought the special forces war, a quiet war. kind of like we are doing in afghanistan now. >> back to the role of your deceased sister, that she played. >> he would come back very -- periodically. we would go to vermont and try to carry on life as we had known it. he was called to serve and he did it. he did it capably. >> when it comes to long separations, my mother was loose ends. she lost the center of her life. it was very hard for her. a year or so of his being there, my sister, katherine, became ill. she had had epilepsy since she was a child, a terrible seizures. she had developed anorexia and of rosa -- anorexia. it was awful. my mom took on this bill does for my sister. she would make it go away for my father. everything for the mission. i remember i looked over to her one evening and she wa

he learned to like robert kennedy. he campaigned for kennedy in 1966 when he ran for the senate.hey had a meeting. they agreed that if humphrey got the nomination, kennedy would support him. if kennedy got the nomination, humphrey would support him. he was a party person. bobby kennedy, and so was humphrey. >> next up is ron from washington. >> i would like to jump forward to the 1968 campaign. can you elaborate -- my recollection is that president johnson tried to scuttle humphrey's effort. that was one of the closest popular elections in history. it is my recollection that it -- the bombing pause, if that had been started a month earlier, it might have made the crucial difference. can you elaborate on that? thank you. >> did lyndon johnson tried to scuttle his bid for the white house? >> he did not help him very much. he did these kinds of things where he had nixon at the ranch and then hubert humphrey at the ranch. he would tell humphrey that no press could be there. part of the belief among historians is that johnson believed that humphrey might end the war and make him look

though he was on the campaign saying we're going to get out of vietnam, it's immoral, he thought robert kennedy is somebody he could work with that would have gotten out of vietnam more gradly. i think he thought john f. kennedy would never have approved that many troops and he would have fought more the secret war, kind of the war we're fighting in afghanistan now. >> back to your documentary a minute and a half on your father's assignment to vietnam and the role that your deceased sistplared in all that. >> he had a lengthy assignment. he came back periodically. we would go to vermont, try to carry on life as we would know it and he was doing, he was called to serve and he did it. he did it capeably. >> when it comes to long separations, my mother was at loose ends. she lost the center out of her life. it was very hard for her. a year or so into his being there, my sister katherine became ill. she had epilepsy since she was a child. terrible seizures. she developed anorexia anywhere vosea. it was awful. >> my mother took on the suffering of my sister. she would make it go away for my father.

he was on a campaign saying we are going to get out of vietnam and it is immoral, he thought robert kennedy was somebody he could work with that would have gotten out of vietnam more gradually. i think my father would felt john f. kennedy never would have approved 500,000 troops in vietnam and would have sought the more quiet war, the secret war. probably the one we are inviting in afghanistan now. host: back to the documentary, a minute and a half on your father's assignment to vietnam and the role that your deceased sister played in that. >> he had a length lengthy ass. he came back periodically. we would go to vermont. tried to carry on life as we had known t. and it was -- he was called to serve and he did. he did it capably. >> when it documents long separation, my mother was at loose ends. she lost the center out of already life. it was very hard for her. a year or so into his being there my sister catherine became ill. she had had epilepsy since she was a child. alternatively -- terrible seizures. she had anorexia nervosa. it was awful. my mother took on the suffering of my sister. s

go ahead. >> senator mcgovern took of robert kennedy's banner in 1968. how much support did he receive from the kennedy forces after he received the nomination and added a kennedy member, as you are about to discuss, to the ticket? >> do you want to take that one? >> the campaign enthusiastically for him. the kennedy family campaigned enthusiastically for him. when eagleton was dropped from the ticket, sargent shriver agreed to be his running mate. they had a great affection for senator mcgovern. he was viewed as a strong ally of robert kennedy. he called him the most decent man in the u.s. senate. the kennedy family was behind him 100%. >> michael in ohio. you are next. >> this talk about the vice president's pick and so on is an example of how messed up that whole scenario seemed to be. what i always wondered was how come the democratic party never stood behind hubert humphrey, who only four years earlier had a very close election with president nixon, and why they would not have backed him all along instead of him just becoming another person trying to

so, i would go with robert kennedy. he would not have $1 million per soldier in afghanistan, which their number one export is drugs. 90% of the people in prison are there because of heroin. the drugs should be destroyed in that country, because they are killing the youth and the blacks in the inner city. host: justin, macon, georgia, on our line for democrats. caller: my political hero is senator sanders. he makes it pretty clear that government is not a problem. the problem is that government should be even more responsible than what it is. i think republicans and democrats as they look at what is going on here, they all agree that we have to make our communities stronger, and that begins idle local level. in this day and age, -- that begins at a local level. in this day and age, people are aware that capitalism has to become more -- host: jeff in macon, georgia. dw sends us this tweet. we also have a tweet from kentuckybelle1957. phones on our line for republicans, brent in illinois. caller: i really did believe in ge

its inmate population includes charles manson, robert kennedy's assassin sirhan sirhan and some of the nation's most violent prison gangs. lockup crews have also been frequent guests at california's state prison corcoran. >> you might have to fight. you might have to stab. you never know. depends on the situation. >> a lot of times it is fist fights out here. but i would say maybe every other month we get a righteous stabbing. when they do stab each other they go for the kill. they don't just stab each other to play around. >> every morning you wake up you are dealing with 1,000 different attitudes. you never know what can happen on that certain day. all you can do is think the worst, hope for the best. >> we met two inmates on the yard at corcoran who are much more pro-active when it comes to surviving life in this powder keg. they gave our crew a tutorial on how they do it. >> the rules you want to live by behind the walls you want to give everybody the same respect that you expect to receive from them. >> without order we have anarchy. when we have anarchy we have people die here. >

king was assassinated, robert kennedy was assassinated, johnson was forced to step down, a pitched battleobby kennedy until he was killed and jean mccarthy. wallace came into the race with racism and bigotry. richard nixon reinvented the republican party but the economy was in good shape. people had jobs. they could afford their homes. that's the big game changer this time. it seemed like if you think of the american economy it is started to slide away from beneath the feet of people and so you have all of those folks at home who are looking at their mortgages and looking at the value of their house and long-term net worth and they just don't compute. that's a lot of anxiety and with good reason. >> tom brokaw, you spent a lot of time thinking about these issues. i think we all wish folks here in washington did the same. tom, thank you, sir. >> my pleasure, chuck. >>> the political panel will be here next and don't forget you can get the latest political news, first read, everything else, nbc's brand new website nbc politics.com. it's a junky's home. trust me. first, the white house soup

>> he really did not like robert kennedy. they had had a number of disagreements.hey had met at some great length in the month preceding the standing in the schoolhouse door. once again, he used it to talk about the rise of lawlessness in america, but i do not think he was deeply touched by it at all. >> dan carter, in 1968, how serious did president nixon and hubert humphrey take george wallace? >> humphrey worried about him because he saw him as potentially pulling votes. as time went on i think humphrey came to realize that wallace was going to be pulling votes from nixon. he did not worry about him as much. nixon is the one who came to be deeply concerned about him. as the campaign opened, nixon was so far ahead in the polls that it was only by the time you got to late september that he began to realize that humphrey was moving back a little bit, coming up in the polls, and wallace was pulling 20% of the votes. these were his voters, his political advisers felt. he had to figure out a way to get the support of wallace voters without directly attacking him. >> p

. >> bobby had -- robert kennedy had an appeal that was kind of extraordinary.ndiana, where those streets were lined with white ethnic working class people out there to cheer robert kennedy and he is the same candidate who could go to indianapolis and announce to a largely african-american crowd that martin luther king had just been assassinated. they did not know it. he had this extraordinairy pull together appeal and i think part of it emanated from the fact that people regardless of their income, regardless of their skin color, had the feeling that he would fight for them. now, he didn't articulate the battles that they felt they had to fight. >> right. >> but they felt he would fight for them. the gingrich thing is really kind of interesting to me. if you walk around in places like new hampshire, i haven't been to iowa yet, there is a fringe element to the republican party, a fringe element that is fueled emotionally by his words because they think this guy hates obama the way they hate obama. >> absolutely. >> and will get in the ring and won't stop punchin

and these couples, people like seda and robert kennedy -- >> we really enjoy the richness and vibrancy reporter: have secrets. secrets any couple can steal. secret one, generosity. should i be giving my wife lavish gifts? >> no, it's more like regular little things, giving her a back rub. >> reporter: more secrets. healthy sex life, having date nights and sharing housework, and more traditional ones like living within your means, reduces stress, and having a shared religious belief. speaking of the kennedys. parents with four or more children are the happiest. they have five -- boys. >> our commitment to each other has deepened the more children that we have. >> reporter: and they say they're open to adding to their happiness. they're hoping for a girl. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> 65%, less happy after the kids. >> see, i think the opposite. it has been true with our family. it binds you. binds you. the glue that binds you. >> so nervous to have kids. takes a toll. >> best experience in the world. >> would you have five? you have two? >> i would have five. but my husband said th

robert kennedy, days before the start of the and the big games 1600 students and workers slaughtered in mexico city. these are things john and tom the new very well. what is somebody takes a shot at us? he says you know, we're trained to listen for the gun. [laughter] and you know, we are fast. we will do the best we can. [laughter] they get up there peter norman at the greatest sprinter in the history of australia chose to wear a patch for a human-rights and he stood with him on that day and continue to stand with them every year for the rest of his life much to his eternal credit even with all kinds of pressure to recant on his actions and they stood up there to raise their fists when the national and the began and john said, it got so quiet in that stadium you could have heard of frog this on cotton. [laughter] then the of anger started and the then there's the famous shot of their yells at them they paid a terrible price he suffered his kids suffered the fbi tailed him long after he was involved with any movement just to let him know he stepped out of his plays. but that day 1968

they were already wounded by robert kennedy's assassination and torn in half by the war. but i don't think we like to say humphrey lost to richard nixon because of that convention but he probably lost to richard nixon because he hadn't done the one thing hubert always did all his career, was speak his mind and speak his heart and stand up. he didn't speak out -- he didn't stand up to lyndon johnson on the war. he didn't tell democrats how he felt. the party would have been unified a lot earlier and humphrey would have looked a more courageous figure and that's sad because that's really who he was. this one time in his life he didn't really do it. >> except, think of september 30 in salt lake city where he gave this famous speech which even there was perceived as a break with the white house -- with the white house. you could make the break gene mccarthy contributed to humphrey's loss and if mccarthy had been more forthcoming in his support of humphrey who after all was much closer to his world view than richard nixon. >> jean baker, go ahead. >> i think we're leaving out

in particular is very important because she wore that dress when she went to the theater with robert kennedyn. >> there is so much history in this room. i want to walk over and get to something that i think must be kind of the crown of this whole election called the elizabeth taylor diamond. all i got to say is, wow. >> it is wow. it's one of the greatest diamonds that the world knows. it's 33 carats with no color. it has no color other than the light that comes from the rainbow and is reflected. and the cuts of the stone are so deep that elizabeth taylor referred to them as steps into eternity. >> one can only imagine what kind of price a diamond like this would fetch anyway but the fact that it was elizabeth taylor's must make the value go into the stratusphere. >> it is estimated at $2.5 million to $3.5 million and because of the fame should bring more. >> i want to show another room. there is so much memorabilia and fashion. you actually have set up here at christy's her dressing room, a replica. tell us about it. >> we have. one of the extraordinary things about elizabeth taylor's colle

new york times there is a piece in which he is talking about the robert bork hearings and he is talking about he was -- senator kennedy -- the robert bork's america speech avoided looking at this man's judicial record. instead refers to engage in a very personal attack intended to smear him and to ruin his public reputation so that he can be defeated because they know if they look at the record and make it a matter of a constitutional argument that bork is accessible and likely to be put on the court and they don't want to risk it for fear he is a vote against abortion. the same thing happened in the thomas hearing. these things happen and you look at it on the perspective of the right, here i am in austin but when you hear eric fleisher from white house podiums a people have to be careful when they say, you are not allowed to say you have differences about american foreign policy in terms of intervention in iraq, you are being told to shut up. >> i understand the argument. there's one thing in the front of the book where your dedication is dedicated to several groups including fox news, the dedication says standing t

they were already wounded by robert kennedy's assassination and torn in half by the war. but i don't think we like to say humphrey lost to richard nixon because of that convention but he probably lost to richard nixon because he hadn't done the one thing hubert always did all his career, was speak his mind and speak his heart and stand up. he didn't speak out -- he didn't stand up to lyndon johnson on the war. he didn't tell democrats how he felt. the party would have been unified a lot earlier and humphrey would have looked a more courageous figure and that's sad because that's really who he was. this one time in his life he didn't really do it. >> except, think of september 30 in salt lake city where he gave this famous speech which even there was perceived as a break with the white house -- with the white house. you could make the break gene mccarthy contributed to humphrey's loss and if mccarthy had been more forthcoming in his support of humphrey who after all was much closer to his world view than richard nixon. >> jean baker, go ahead. >> i think we're leaving out

in two widely-publicized cases cited by the robert f. kennedyter for justice and human rights, inez fernandez ortega and valentino, two indigenous women, were raped by soldiers from the mexican army in the municipality of geterer row state in 2002. however, to this day the state has refused to admit that these two women were raped. after nearly a decade, these cases were finally transferred to civilian courts, but these two cases are not isolated incidents in the violence perpetrated by the military. the national human rights commission says it's received more than 5,000 complaints about the alleged abuses by the military since the offensive against the drug gangs began in 2006. i note this not to discredit our ally, president calderon, or the marita initiative. since both of them have led to reform in the mexican judicial system. but i want to really for the purposes of this hearing as well go into this hearing with a complete picture of what's happening on the ground in mexico and what president calderon is up against. at a time we're all tigh

kennedy iii, 31 years old and the grandson of robert f. kennedy and a massachusetts prosecutor he is seriously considering a run for the fourth district seat being vacated by barney frank. we're going to take a break. a reminder that our history series on friday night called "the contenders" has just two weeks to go. our feature contender this week is george mcgovern and senator mcgovern will join us himself during this program which originates from mitchell, south dakota. that's 8:00 p.m. friday night. and our final week next friday, ross perot wraps up the series. we'll be right back. our next segment we'll dig a little more deeply into the payroll tax holiday and the politics of what's happening on capitol hill. >> within 90 days, every american soldier and every american prisoner will be out of the jungle, out of their cells and back home in america where they belong. >> his pledge at the 1972 democratic convention came nearly a decade of being one of the first senators to speak out publicly against the vietnam war. the senator from sou

kennedy. and his brother, robert. author jay randy tera berely disagrees. >> i'm thoroughly convinced that marilyn monroe was not murdered. that the kennedys did not have anything to do with her death. marilyn monroe died because she took too many drugs. and that's the sad truth. >> tera berelli's claims angered the secret life of marilyn monroe. >> reporter: where marilyn and jfk were concerned, we were able to interview people close to kennedy and pinpoint that they were only together a total of five times in maryland -- in marilyn's entire lifetime. marilyn and bobby were never intimate. >> and we will have much more on hollywood's most mysterious deaths coming up tonight. >> and you can see entertainment tonight at 7:30, here on wjz. >>> a mysterious chunk of metal tears through. investigators initially thought the five-pound chunk of metal had fallen from an airplane. detectives studying it say it came through the roof with significant force. the unusual damage is under investigation. >>> the sun warms up maryland

kennedy is the son of former congressman joe kennedy and the grandson of late senator robert f. er to you. >> thank you, steve. he's just 24 years old but broncos quarterback tim tebow is in the media's cross hairs. why? many are criticizing tebow's public display of faith. he's a christian. but our next guest says if tim tebow were a muslim, attacks on him would not be tolerated. jennifer floyd ingall is a columnist for foxsports.com. interesting analogy. how did you come up with it? >> i started to think about it. it hit me that if tim tebow were doing things to honor his muslim faith and people started mocking him which has happened in the media and we've seen other athletes in the nfl do it, people would be up in arms and somehow because it's tim tebow and because he's a christian, we think it's ok and to me, you know, i've heard people say that's a disingenuous question. to me, it's a very important question, why are we so willing to let people mock the christian faith? >> i know. i want to get to what you think it is in a moment. let's show some of those mocking incidents s

kennedy reports. >> reporter: robert cotingham wouldn't talk on camera. by this incident. >> duck hunters will tell you it is helpful to have a labrador along for the hunt. hunter mike walters always brings jack, his english lab. >> i shoot them, he goes and gets them. >> that is why robert cotingham brought a lab with him for duck hunting. there were at this refuge. it is him, his son, the brother- in-law and the pooch. two hours into the adventure, robert was waiting in the water. he grabbed the front independent of the boat to take it out to get a wounded duck. that is when the brother-in- law's labrador jumped into the back of the boat on to the gun, setting it off it fired, hit him in the butt stocks and back and you can see here the bird shot. >> reporter: robert took 27 of them. contrary to some published reports, most are still lodged in his buttocks. >> have you ever heard of a dog triggering a gun? >> i've heard of people getting shot before but for the like that, no. >> reporter: actually, there are similar stories. some of them haven't ended s

my question is, have either one of you read robert f. kennedy's book "crimes against nature"? the follow-up is, what ramifications do you think anybody connected with the bush administration would have for winning anything in this country after the travesties against the general public trust and natural resources that the bush administration created. host: did you want to make a final point? caller: have either one of them read "crimes against nature"? how could anybody in there right mind in the republican party be supportive of new gingrich? guest: the environment is an issue that does, from time to time. in the debate, we saw michele bachmann talk about how the epa should not be in existence any more and doing away with some of the regulations. that has become a flashpoint. as far as the bush administration, some democrats have tried to tie the cannabis to the bush administration. this election will come down to how people feel next november and whether they think barack obama has done a good enough job. guest: i think barack obama would very much like to run against george

they were already wounded by robert kennedy's assassination and torn in half by the war. but i don't think we like to say humphrey lost to richard nixon because of that convention but he probably lost to richard nixon because he hadn't done the one thing hubert always did all his career, was speak his mind and speak his heart and stand up. he didn't speak out -- he didn't stand up to lyndon johnson on the war. he didn't tell democrats how he felt. the party would have been unified a lot earlier and humphrey would have looked a more courageous figure and that's sad because that's really who he was. this one time in his life he didn't really do it. >> except, think of september 30 in salt lake city where he gave this famous speech which even there was perceived as a break with the white house -- with the white house. you could make the break gene mccarthy contributed to humphrey's loss and if mccarthy had been more forthcoming in his support of humphrey who after all was much closer to his world view than richard nixon. >> jean baker, go ahead. >> i think we're leaving out

with us now is the founder of the robert f. kennedybout the center's annual holiday auction which raises money, of course, for human rights activists around the world, and mika, they are just -- they are just not playing around. >> she just picked up another auction item. >> like what's that? >> harold. >> harold, really. >> harold ford jr. >> coffee with harold. >> okay. >> you can join us, if you like. >> that's okay. i'm going to bid on the pope, and that's what i need. >> and i'm going to buy you. >> you're the auction item. >> you are an auction item. >> he needs his own auctionite them. >> you're an auction item within yourself. >> but mika, look at this. >> you can bid on harold and you might win. >> take a bid on the harold and bid on joe and mika, or he can bid on the pope. tell us about this. how did you get that? >> how great is that? >> what is that about. you go to see the sistine chapel. >> no! >> you go have a mass with the pope. you get private, you know, very special seating there. you can go see a few other things in

does anybody remember presidential candidate, former attorney general robert fitzgerald kennedy, that went into appalachia in 1968 and acknowledged some of these poor pockets of poverty? does anyone acknowledge the number of children that are impoverished in the united states? has anyone done an overview of the pockets of poverty because manufacturing plants have closed in our rustbelt? we initiated the effort to target those who are most in need. none of that is in this bill but kitchen sink. we suggested nine job creation proposals that would target the most vulnerable communities. we want to give people a second chance. remember the lifeline and the ship just passing by as the hand goes there once, twice and, yes, a third time. you hear that voice shouting, are you in the water because it's your own fault? we believe we should do something about it. there are more job fairs and town halls to come, many members are holding them on their own. and so we focused on trying to help those vulnerable, the most vulnerable. how do we get to where we are today? and why are we in the midst of

spent i think around that time ambassador kennedy used to joke that he was robert taft democrat.ed you the most? did any of her assessments of key players differ from your views and those of other historians? >> sure, and all sorts of ways. but i think the thing that really surprised me was that if we were talking a year ago, i would have said that she was a large influence during that period, but i would have particularly said that she was a large political figure of this administration do and i think if you read this book you have to say that because a number of times she talks mainly about people but not always only about people. and you noted that the people she's very critical of wound up not doing terribly well during the administration, vice versa. to some extent i think she was -- but she does talk about a few cases where for instance, she was in pakistan which have been added to her trip to india for political reasons. and two things happened actually. john kenneth culbreth was the ambassador to india whom john can have known since the 1930 when he was at harvard. the am

> well the stars aligned last night for the kennedy center honors, where every was a little star struck. >> i'm a big star struck. i'm about to see mr. robert deniro. he thought elmo how to act on sesame street. >> politicians and artists came together to honor those in the arts. >> reporter: for washington d.c. this is as hollywood as it gets. where the powerful meet the popular. among the five kennedy center honorees, meryll streep. >> reporter: song writer and performer neil diamond. >> when it comes to neil diamond, i am a believer. we're all believers. >> reporter: cellist, yoyo ma. >> tonight we honor the best cello player. tonight we cellobrete you can say. yoyo doesn't just play the cello he rocks it. >> and barbara cook who made her broadway debut in 1939. >> barbara cook belongs on that very short list of beloved new york treasures. >> reporter: the annual award ceremony brings together the greats in music, stage and screen. recognizing their distinguished careers and commitment to their craft. earlier in the day, president obama praised them for sharing their gift. >> by expressing themselves they helped us learn something about

chief justice roberts said grand standing may be expected to increase. justice kennedy said television alters the way in which we hear the cases, the way in which we talk to counsel, to each other, the way in which we use that precious hour. justice thomas says television would have an effect on the way the cases are argued. justice schee toe, it changes because the participant's behavior changes when televised. justice breyer sees good reasons for television but counsels caution because there's good reasons against it. justice stevens recognized potential benefits but ultimately is against it because it could negatively affect the arguments and the believer of the justices and lawyers. finally, a would just like to say that i'd like to echo the sentiments that the court is in the best position to assess the impact of lock tronnic media on its proceedings and can be trust of ed to give the issuing careful consideration. as justice kennedy explained, it's the justices, not congress, who have intimate knowledge of the dynamics and needs of the court. when the shoe is on t

chief justice roberts has said grandstanding may be expected to increase. justice kennedyider the cases. justice alito, television would change the nature of the argument because the participants behavior is changed when proceedings are televised. justice breyer, he sees good reasons for television but he counsels caution because there are also good reasons against it. and justice stevens, he recognize potential benefits but said he ultimately came down against it because it might negatively affect the argument in the behavior of the justices and lawyers. and finally, i would just like to say that i would like to echo the sentiment that the court is in the best position to assess the impact of electronic media on its proceedings and it can be trusted to continue to give the issues careful consideration. as justice kennedy has explained it is the justices, not congress, who have intimate knowledge of the dynamics and the needs of the court and when the shoe is on the other foot, the supreme court refused to second-guess the senate's procedures for conducting impeachment tri

chief justice roberts has said that grandstanding may be expected to increase. justice kennedy said that television will not alter the way in which they hear cases, the way in which they talk to counsel, the way in which they talk to each other and use that precious hour. justice thomas says television would have an effect on the way cases are argued and undermines the manner in which they consider cases. just as the leader -- "television would change the nature of arguments because the behavior of participants is changed when behavior's are televised. justice briar sees good reasons for television, the council's caution because there are also good reasons against it. and justice stevens recognizes potential benefits but said he ultimately came down against it because it might negatively affect the arguments and behavior of the justices and lawyers. finally, i would like to say that i would like to echo the sentiment that the court is in the best position to assess the impact of electronic media on its proceedings, and it can be trusted to continue to give the issues careful co

and to fulfill that promise, like his brothers, john and robert, before him, he chose a career in politics. ted kennedys his place in our democracy, and it was rolled in our history he truly revered. in his memoir, true compass, he wrote the following, to say that i love the senate does not begin to convey what that institution means to me. let me put it this way. after nearly half a century, i still cannot be in a car headed for the capitol, especially in the evening, and glimpse it in the distance without the hair on my arms standing up. i've told vicki if ever that site does not move me, i will know it is time to step aside. that building symbolizes to me the benevolent power and the majesty of our government. it is awesome to me, not awesome in the reflexive way that young people use the word, but in its real sense, its older sense as evoking reference. being a senator changes a person, he said. something fundamental and profound happens to you when you arrive there. and it stays with you all the time you are privileged to serve. i have seen the changes in people who have come into the senate. it m

kennedy. [speaking names] >> [speaking names] william daniels. michael doyle. edward egelston iii. charles thomas fisher iv. >> joanne flanagan. thomas flanagan. robert fortune. stacey franklin. paul freeman. james fuller. amy gallagher. paul garrett. kenneth gibson. andrew wright. >> shannon davis. david gould. linda susan gordon. nicola hall. anthony hawkins. dora henry. maurice henry. pamela herbert. rober hilbert. afred hill. catherine hollistern. josephine hudson. >> john flynn. melinda hudson. sophie hudson. roger hurst. paul jeffriece. rachel jeffries. patricia cline. [speaking names] lancaster. >> karen hunt. ronald lariviere. wendy lincoln. lloyd ludlow. william macalester. william mack. [speaking names] noel martin. >> beth johnson. daniel mccarthy. robert maccaulem. bernard mclaughlin. john morell. joseph miller. jewel mitchhell. [speaking names] gerald dane murphy. -- geraldine were free. -- geraldine brian cohen. gwyneth a win. -- owen. laura owens. robert owens. sarah rebecca owens. peter per se. -- pierce. james andrew campbell pit. >> julianne francis kelly. david plaque. walter leonard porter. pamela lynn posen. william pugh. [speaking names]

kennedy powered johnson. jay joseph king m. patricia and kline. gregory kaczkline. gregory kaczmarski. manas christopher. mary bao lan caster. >> caryn leigh hunt. bonnard hobart barbier. robertmilton what burke. william chase labor. wendy and lincoln. void david wadlow. maria teresa murky. william john mcallister. while a bit to billy of the cloverleaf. william edward mack. james bruce maguire e. douglas eugene malakhov. wendy forsyth malakhov. elizabeth lillian merrick. what was anthony marengo. no well george martin. diane marie maslowski. >> fna johnson. daniel amit mccarthy. robert eugene mccollum. charles dennis mckie. bernard joseph mclaughlin. jane susan melber. john marrow. joseph kenneth miller. jewel courtney mitchell. jane and morgan. eva anderberg morrison. how ago rachel mosley. ingrid elizabeth swinson mulroy. john mulroy. sean kevin mulroy. mary geraldine murphy. jane adkins murphy. >> christopher andrew johns. karen elizabeth men. daniel amit o'connor. mary denny o'neil. briny elyse outland. glad to von margaret outland. roberts is helipad newco. bora abigail outlands. robert clack o. ends. sir rebecca owings. christos michael papadopoulos. peter brandon. mic

kennedy, the daughter of george wallace. we thank you all very much. we also want to thank governor robert bentley for opening up his temporary home. it has been wonderful, so thank you governor bentley. we also want to thank the governor's mansion staff and thanks to everybody at the alabama state capitol building for all their help in setting up this "contenders." we are going to leave you with governor wallace in 1986, his last address to the alabama legislature. good night. >> i have climbed my last political mountain, but there are still some personal hills i must climb. but for now, i must take the rope and pick and hand them off to another climber and say, climb to higher heights. climb on until we reach our peak. then look back and wave at me. i, too, will still be climbing. my fellow alabamians, i bid you a fond and affectionate farewell. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> we're looking at candidates who ran for president and lost the changed political history. saturday we conclude with eve

and robert f. kennedy were assassinated, riots broke out in all of the major cities, the country saw the chicago police beat up demonstrators at the democratic convention in chicago, and students at san francisco state college and the university of california berkeley closed down both institutions to protest and rally for third world colleges and ethnic studies to hire faculty of color, to eliminate the barriers of class and race and to give access to higher education to african-american, latino-american, native american and asian-american students. and so begins the story of the i hotel from 1968 to 1977 here in the san francisco bay area with its center at the i hotel or the international hotel on kearney and jackson streets between north beach and chinatown, the old center of the filipino-american community. the i hotel revealed after the great san francisco earthquake in 1906 had a long history as an elegant hotel, but by the 1970s it had become the home of elderly filipino and chinese bachelors who ha