. >> all robert kennedy knows of farms he has known of conviction. never milked a could you in his life but he has sponsored legislation it help the family farmer. a man of the city in the suburbs. he can sense the common interest of all-americans. >> some of that money for education. problems faced in the local communities. >> he is a man of the city who reached his own conclusions about the importance of our farmers. >> this stuff happens to you as farmers is important to those of us who live elsewhere in the country and that you can have an adequate income. >> kennedy, can make the difference. >>> robert kennedy and some people who aren't registered this year. in ten years, these americans will inherit the problems we don't solve today. >> it is suggested that in the next several decades that people will start having it wear gas masks in new york city because of the air is becoming so polluted. 750 pounds of ref use that you breath every year. and the same thing is true in a lesser degrees in cities across the united states. that will spread it th

through robert kennedy's assassination and the national political conventions to richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey in the general election. during the cold war the u.s. films made films for international audiences and by law they couldn't be shown in the u.s. until 12 years after they were produced. this half hour film is courtesy of the national archives. >> the political situation here in new hampshire. the rest of the country is still watching. >> once every four years when the united states turns its attention to choosing a leader, a small snowy state in the northeastern corner of the country becomes the political center of the nation. >> new hampshire clearly wants richard nixon to be the next president of the united states. >> the final campaigning is under way in the new hampshire presidential primary. on the republican side richard nixon is urging new hampshire republicans to give him a big send-off in his quest for the gop presidential nomination. >> new hampshire signals the start of the national presidential campaign by holding the first primary election of the year

hello there. >> senator robert kennedy ended most of his campaign speeches with the phrase "some men things as they are and ask why. i dream of things that never were and ask why not." before those dreams would ever become reality senator kennedy was killed. shot by an assassin in the kitchen of a los angeles hotel. the nation mourned. and for a time politics were forgotten. although the country had lost a man that many loved, his death could not destroy the essential stability of the democratic process. the nation still had to choose a leader, and in time the campaigns began again. >> do we have a nixon poster? >> jim wilson, working for nixon in laconia, was looking forward to the republican national convention. the choices at the miami beach convention were richard nixon, governor nelson rockefeller of new york, who was now working hard for the nomination, and california's governor, ronald reagan. as the republican delegates gathered in this resort city, it soon became clear that nixon was also their choice by an overwhelming mandate. >> the next president of the united states,

now, mccarthy was facing competition from a new candidate, senator robert kennedy.he decisions made by this convention today. >> there were other unexpected events. >> every day, i do not -- >> they do not realize at first that he was about to tell the nation he was not running for the presidency again. seekcordingly, i shall not and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. ♪ the next president of the united states, thank you. >> vice president humphrey became the last major democratic candidate to enter the race. a substantialred number of delegate votes for the national convention. kennedy andobert most of his campaign speeches why?the phrase asked i do things that never were and ask why not? before those things could ever become reality, senator kennedy was killed, shot by an assassin in a los angeles hotel. the nation mourned and for a time, politics were forgotten. the country had lost a man that many loved, his death could not destroy the essential stability of the democratic process. the nation still had to choose a lea

give him your support. >> all robert kennedy knows of farms he has known of conviction. milked a could you in his life but he has sponsored legislation it help the family farmer. a man of the city in the suburbs. he can sense the common interest of all-americans. >> some of that money for education. problems faced in the local communities. >> he is a man of the city who reached his own conclusions about the importance of our farmers. >> this stuff happens to you as farmers is important to those of us who live elsewhere in the country and that you can have an adequate income. >> kennedy, can make the difference. >>> robert kennedy and some people who aren't registered this year. in ten years, these americans will inherit the problems we don't solve today. >> it is suggested that in the next several decades that people will start having it wear gas masks in new york city because of the air is becoming so polluted. 750 pounds of ref use that you breath every year. and the same thing is true in a lesser degrees in cities across the united states. that will spread it the rura

the whole question of robert kennedy's reaction and his general silence on it i think is a fascinating topic whichi iu'm not sure anybody's really gotten to the bottom of it. i don't know. there's also a story that's in david's book and also in a book previo previously that robert and jacky sent william walton as a personal emsary to moscow a week after the assassination to deliver the news that we know this wasn't you guys. this was a big domestic plot and bobby's going to try to become president later and carry on john's work, which is an amazing story. >> we are out of to be the problems internally. >> kate, scott, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> tonight you've been watching some of our american history tv programming in prime time. you'll find us here every weekend on c-span3. we'll take you live to conferences, symposiums and historical sites. on american artifacts go behind the scenes with us and travel with us to the nation's classrooms where you'll hear from college and yurt professors on lectures in history. as the 2016 campaign continues, watch past presidential campai

hello there. >> senator robert kennedy ended most of his campaign speeches with the phrase "some men things as they are and ask why. i dream of things that never were and ask why not." before those dreams would ever become reality senator kennedy was killed. shot by an assassin in the kitchen of a los angeles hotel. the nation mourned. and for a time politics were forgotten. although the country had lost a man that many loved, his death could not destroy the essential stability of the democratic process. the nation still had to choose a leader, and in time the campaigns began again. >> do we have a nixon poster? >> jim wilson, working for nixon in laconia, was looking forward to the republican national convention. the choices at the miami beach convention were richard nixon, governor nelson rockefeller of new york, who was now working hard for the nomination, and california's governor, ronald reagan. as the republican delegates gathered in this resort city, it soon became clear that nixon was also their choice by an overwhelming mandate. >> the next president of the united states, ri

in new hampshire to the surprise withdrawal of president lyndon johnson from the race through robert kennedy's assassination and the national political conventions to richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey. during the cold war, the u.s. information agency made films for international audiences to promote american society. by law, they couldn't be shown in the u.s. until 12 years after they were produced. this half-hour film is courtesy of the national archives. >> the political situation in new hampshire, the rest of the country is watching us. >> once every four years, when the united states turns its attention to choosing a leader, a small, snowy state in the north of the country becomes the political center of the nation. >> new hampshire clearly wants richar

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three greatest remembrances of the white house, we know he was dedicated in all sincerity and robert kennedy as well. this is a funny little incident, but one day i was going from the east wing to the west wing and the presidential elevator stopped and mrs. kennedy was away and out came the president with john john. he had one pajama rolled up and down and there's a little aetrium where the white house pool was that is no longer there where the secret service man said you can go ahead. when i got inside, there was the president of the united states and john was hollering at the top of his lungs. mrs. kennedy used to take him out with macaroni and pull them he was screaming he wanted to go on that sleigh and here was the president of the united states saying, but john, daddy has to go to the office. i cannot help you. [laughter] >> good morning, mr. president. i kept right on going. he was like every other father, frustrated. i am going to tell to stories and finish it. the other one was november 22. while i was not there, everybody came running saying, the president has been shot. secret ser

a reporter said, i think we should have robert kennedy and robert frost debate that prospect. [laughter] but golden was no dummy. he timed this debate 2 days before a heavyweight boxing mesh. -- match. this was back when boxing mattered in america. many of the reporters for the boxing match showed up to the buckley-mailer undercard. there were 4500 people at this theater, they paid $2.5 to see it. it was billed on the marquee like a title fight. buckley was favored 2.5 to 1. you could get odds. [laughter] they had a booking there. -- if you needed it, mailer stayed at the playboy mansion. the debate didn't disappoint. they were fierce and funny from the get go. buckley's opening line was that he did not think he could maintain mailer's interest in the right-wing egos they do not have enough sexual neuroses. he would try to be interesting enough so that mailer would, for once, look up from the world's genital glands. "it's clear from reading the works of mr. mailer that human swinishness is pleasing to him." mailer interrupted him saying, do you want me to lay here a little lon

robert kennedy was given the responsibility to bring "the terrors of the earth" to cuba. it -- he in fact described it as one of the prime goals of government, is to ensure that we terrorize cuba. and it was pretty serious. thousands of people were killed, petrochemical plants, other industrial installations blown up. russian ships in the havana harbor were attacked. you can imagine what would happen if american ships were attacked. it was probably connected with poisoning of crops and livestock, cannot be certain. it went on into the 1990's, though not at that -- not at the extreme level of the kennedy years, but pretty bad. the late 1970's, there was an upsurge, blowing up of a cubana airliner, 73 people killed. the culprits are living happily in miami. one of them died. the other, luis posada, major terrorist, is cheerfully living there. the taking over of southeastern cuba back -- at the time of the platt amendment, the u.s. had absolutely no claim to this territory. none whatsoever. we're holding onto it just in order -- it's a major u.s. military base -- it was. but

she later ran robert f kennedy's campaign. your husband was a specialist for jfk. tell us a bit about that and how you met and what that entire experience was like. >> is it on? >> it is on. >> let me tell you a bit about the white house because it is so different today. the kennedy white house had no chief of staff. eisenhower was the first president with the chief of staff, military so it kind of fit, but he wanted one, but when it came time to organize the kennedy white house, bob kennedy was his closest advisor. nobody was ever going to be more important than bobby. let's get a group of people and make them all equal, which meant they all had direct access to the president. they did not have to go through anyone else. that included the special assistance, but now it is assistant to the president regular chief of staff. there were 95, what i call elliptical appointees in the kennedy white house. everyone who works in the white house is a political appointee. the ushers, the butlers, the switchboard operators, the drivers. they are not civil servants because they

also two ads from democratic primary candidate robert f. kennedy who was assassinated in june 1968.rd mixon went on to win with less than 1% of the popular vote over hubert humphrey. wallace finished third but won five states. this is just over 10 minutes. >>> never has so much military, economic and diplomatic power been use sewed ineffectively as in vietnam.d sewed ineffectivels in vietnam. sewed ineffectively as in vietnam.s sewed ineffecti as in vietnam.o sewed ineffectiy as in vietnam.sewed ineffective as in vietnam.ewed ineffectivel as in vietnam.wed ineffectivelys in vietnam.ed ineffectively as in vietnam.d ineffectively as in vietnam. ineffectively as in vietnam. you factor all of this time, sacrific sacrifice, support and there is no end in support. american people need to turn to new leadership. not tied to the policies and mistakes of the past. i pledge to you, we shall have an honorable end to the war in vietnam. >>> this time, vote like your whole world depended on it. think about it, when the decision of one man can affect your family for generations to come, what kind

and portraits of the civil rights era but also going to force the hand of the attorney general robert kennedy to send in federal marshals in to the south. 1961 is also the gear of really raging protests all across the united states in terms of counter demonstrations -- 1962 is the year of james meredith, the first black student to integrate the university of mississippi and there will be three days of rioting that leave one person dead. 1963 is the centennial of the emancipation proclamation and the city of birmingham, alabama is literally and figuratively on fire. martin luther king jr. connected with a local movement led by the reverend fred shuttlesworth to desegregate birmingham, alabama. same as the king is incarcerated in birmingham and he writes on scraps of paper letter from birmingham jail and he really defends the movement against critics who say the movement should move slower. the movement should wait and freedom and justice and democracy. one of the best lines from birmingham jail is king arguing in the future the young men and women being incarcerated and brutalized and arrested

>> no. [ as robert kennedy ] this is the top of my bucket list. >> what was thatting a tent? into a kennedy voice. >> because you're not wearing a jacket. >> i'm very much like jfk who didn't wear a jacket on inaugural day. >> i feel like i was transported in time. >> thank you so much, good luck. >> thank you. >> i'll send it back to you guys. >> give them our love. we love those two. >> by the way, meghan trainor, i wasn't here friday and everybody said she was amazing, i was in physical therapy for my neck. she left me a note "dear kathie lee, thank you for letting me use your dressing room, we missed you but i killed in your honor." and that's what everybody said she did. >> and she signed it "m train." >> you know who's so call, jen and lane, the couple we met on the plaza and they got married in our studio on thursday. so after that, they -- you and i had plans but they said we're going to have our reception, we're going to go to buffalo wild wings." >> so they went. they sent us pictures. why didn't we get to go to buffalo wild wings. >> well, they asked us to. >> oh,

and that ronald -- robert kennedy was a major political foe at a time. we will begin, i want to apologize in advance for some of the audio, i thought it was important to listen to it, even though there are segments that are difficult to listen to given that it was recorded on old equipment five decades ago. what i would like to end my introduction with is, many of you are familiar with the voice of ronald reagan, as governor perhaps, but mostly at the present. -- as president. please realize that what you would hear is ronald reagan running for presidency in the 1960's, talking about world affairs, an area that historians and others do not associate with ronald reagan. this is brand new information. what i did in my research was go to the reagan and eisenhower correspondence at the eisenhower library, which consisted of memos, letters and telegrams. i interviewed approximately 35 reagan campaign grassroots activists from that era in the late 1960's. there were for personal meetings between eisenhower and reagan. at the reagan presidential library are aud

murderer charles manson and robert kennedy's assassin, sirhan sirhan, are among the most notorious inmates allegations against staff brought the prison to its knees. officers were accused of arranging gladiator-style fights between rival inmates that often had to be stopped with lethal force. >> officers betting on these fights, who's going to win, who's going to be stabbed, who's going to kill who, who's going to beat who bad. >> all of the indicted officers were subsequently acquitted. george galaza was warden at the time and had to tackle the daunting task of getting corcoran back on its feet. >> when i got here in 1996, corcoran frankly was under an intensive media barrage. the impact that that had on the staff here, it was tremendous. you cannot maintain a prison like this well if your staff morale is poor. so the first part of it was getting the staff morale up. the next thing that we focused on was the issue of violence. >> you might have to fight. >> in a prison like this one, because of the types of inmates that we have, violence is a real thing. >> you might have to kill, you mig

we wrap up the night with campaign ads from richard nixon, and robert kennedy. american history tv in prime time beginning at

book on cronkite, we learn a lot about his personal politics and his involvement, even asking robert kennedy to run for president during the war. there was a lot of resentment on the part of conservatives, what ever you want to call the right wing, that there is an genda. >> i do not think walter's so-called agenda ever got expressed in his reporting. i really believe that. and i know that. >> what about the vietnam statement? >> that vietnam statement -- he penly stepped aside from his traditional role and made a ersonal statement. here is not -- that was, believe me, walter really sweated that. he really did a slot that. >> in what way? >> at the way, and i doing the right thing here? >> did you talk to him before you did it? >> i did not. i talked to him a lot about it fterwards. >> you had a similar -- the cam ne incident, the burning of the village by the marines in 965. people think that might have started a trend against the vietnam war. >> i never said that. people blame me or criticize me or it. i do not believe -- when the country started turning against it, when the country turned

robert kennedy was shot.y ended up with humphrey who was a moderate that led to craziness in chicago which is where their convention was in 1968, really riots. cot same thing happen this time? >> i don't think so. you don't have the vietnam war going on at the time. david: that's true. >> david what you're getting at is this -- david: by the way what we're looking at right now, forgive me, fred, we're looking at video of 1968. that is chicago of 1968 for those that don't remember. >> i do remember. anyway, look the democratic fight has been more raucous, bitter than the republican battle for the presidential nomination. this nevada thing, here it is we're getting toward the end of that battle on democratic side and it is getting worse. and i don't think that the clinton people are sure of winning all the platform fights because you're going to have, i don't know whether you call them trojan horse delegates or not, there will be a lot of delegates who are on hillary's side who will actually like more left wing

we wrap up the night with campaign ads from richard nixon, and robert kennedy. american history tv in prime time beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> tonight on c-span3 we mark the 40th anniversary of the church committee's final report on the government intelligence committee. first former committee members look into covert operations. the brennan center for justice if washington, d.c. hosted this event last year. this is american history tv on c-span3.

book on cronkite, we learned a lot about his personal politics and his involvement, even asking robert kennedy to run for president, back during the war, and there's a lot of resentment on the -- there was, has been for years, on the part of the conservatives in this country or the -- whatever you want to call, the right wing or -- that there is an agenda. morley safer: i don't think walter's so-called agenda ever, ever got expressed in his reporting. i really believe that. and i know that. brian lamb: what about his vietnam statement? morley safer: his vietnam statement, well, there you are, precisely. the -- and he -- where he actually openly stepped aside from his traditional role and made a personal statement. and that's -- i can't say -- there's not another and that was -- and he -- believe me, walter really sweated that. he really did sweat that. brian lamb: in what way? morley safer: well in the way, "am i doing the right thing here?" brian lamb: did you talk to him before he did it? morley safer: no, i did not. talked to him a lot about it afterwards. brian lamb: well you have a simila

senator kennedy in 1958, republished in 1964, posthumously with an introduction by his brother robert kennedy and then republished again in 2008 with an introduction by his other brother, senator edward kennedy. the phrase appears, of course, articles, popular journals, and popular media all time. most americans take pride in the notion that we are a nation of immigrants. story of immigrants' success, the story of america as immigrants isor woven in much of our history. one scholar has, indeed, noted that the history of immigration is the history of america itself. this would even be true, of onrse, if you were focusing native-americans because they would be seeing the history of ofrica from the other side immigration. but, in a sense, immigration .uns throughout our history growing up, theng up, schoolbooks focused on the famous successful immigrants, andrew carnegie, alexander name, ofll, whose course, became synonymous with johnelephone he invented, ericsson, the great engineer, and occasionally jack warner and his brothers who helped create the movie industry. have a mentiond of the great

we wrap up the night with campaign ads from richard nixon, and robert kennedy. american history tv in prime time beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> tonight on c-span3 we mark the 40th anniversary of the church committee's final report on the government intelligence committee. first former committee members look into covert operations. the brennan center for justice if washington, d.c. hosted this event last year. this is american history tv on c-span3. >>> good morning, everyone. thank you so much for coming. my name is mike german, a fellow with the brennan center for justice at the new york law school. i welcome you to strengthen oversight. this year marks 40th anniversary of the creation of senate select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities, more simply known as church committee after chairman senator church. it was the first and only comprehensive investigation of secret intelligence activities within the united states. this is one of a series of activities that the brennan center has undertaken

also two ads from democratic primary candidate robert f. kennedy who was assassinated in june 1968.win with less than 1% of the popular vote over hubert humphrey. wallace finished third but won five states. this is just over 10 minutes. >>> never

when robert kennedy was running for president in 1968, he raised with students at the university of kansas some basic questions about dignity and purpose. he pointed out that what we now call our gdp was measured among other things in items like the size of our military, the capacity of our jails, the production of our weapons and the pollution emanating from our factories. it was not, he lamented, measured in the things that mattered most in our daily lives. kennedy said the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. it does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. it measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom or our learning. neither our compassion or our devotion to country. it measures everything in short except that which makes life worthwhile. my friends, we are under no illusions about the gigantic challenges before us. but we should remember that compared to any earlier gen

anne's orphanage, even bringing the kids each year for a christmas party and to hickory hill at robert kennedy's home and elsewhere. can you talk about how you think that shaped each of the women? marlene? >> in bessie's case she was very fortunate that when misfortune struck and her mother died when the family was living in memphis, that there was and had been for nearly half a century or more a jewish orphanage in new orleans that accepted children from throughout the south. and so bessie's life there was not in the dickensian sense of ap orphan life. this was an extraordinary institution where some very well-established jews in new orleans really doted on these children. they wanted them to become american jews, patriotic, self-sufficient, american jews that would actually bring honor to their prosperous benefactors. so very little was spared for these children. bessie was given the finest education, one of the most prestigious schools to this day in new orleans was founded to educate the jewish orphans in this home. and bessie, fortunately, excelled in every academic subject, was on the deba

what the fbi told john kennedy and robert kennedy was he was a member of the communist party and a close advisor of king and they wanted to get the wire taps. they then obtained -- they didn't have to obtain permission. under the rules then the fbi put a bug in anybody's house, in anybody's bedroom, and they put bugs in hotel rooms that king was going to use and they made recordings from that and then sent those to king with the letter. just one final thought that may be helpful. we obviously focused very much on the cia and very much on the fbi and a lot on other institutions like the nsa. my own view -- and i remember mentioning this to the committee at some time -- was that the cia was a danger to the country because its successes undermined the reputation of the united states in the world, but that the fbi was a danger to the country because its efforts undermined democracy in america. both of those things one should be worried about, but i thought that the effort to undermine democracy in america was the more dangerous, and so my personal view is that our hearings on the fbi were th

a substantial causing a severe blow to president johnson's prospects and opening the door to robert kennedy to challenge the sitting president. johnson ended his campaign. although nixon won the election, he injected public comment. he revived the idea that those committed to self-government to participate the process to correct injustice a and improve lives around minnesota. he severed as a representative and senator from our great state from 1949 to 1971. he returned to his life as a reluctant minnesota leader. authored 20 books on public policy and economics. mccarthy continued to strongly influence minnesota politics. mccarthy was critical of jimmy carter and supported reagan's strategic's initiative. and his father once said, quote, gene is a good boy but he is in the wrong party. in minnesota we pride ourselves to disagree. we pride ourselves on working together from different perspectives toward common goals. personally i don't like the term bipartisan. an issue he we make about our different points of view instead about the fact that we want the same things. for instance, we all wan

and i don't know -- justice roberts: you're -- justice kennedy: i don't know -- justice roberts: it's somebody in the government whose client comes to them and says, we'd really like the solicitor general's office to file a brief in our case. and then that person calls you up and says, can you meet with so and so? all he wants to do is sit down with you and persuade you why you should file a brief supporting his case. mr. dreeben: but getting in the door, mr. chief justice, is one of the absolutely critical things. justice roberts: so is your answer, yes, that that's a felony? mr. dreeben: if somebody pays me -- justice roberts: no, no. that's the quid that's the quid side of it. mr. dreeben: yes. justice roberts: i'm talking about the pro side in the quid pro quo. mr. dreeben: taking a meeting, yes, i think taking a meeting is absolutely government action. justice kennedy: so if so if the president gives special access to high-dollar donors to have meetings with government officials, that is a felony? mr. dreeben: certainly not, justice kennedy. and i -- justice kennedy: why certainl