[laughter] and the cover is it norman rockwell and freshener maybe they got rockwell to do what of agray-haired 60 year-old kennedy we don't go to war against it now but on but catholics of long island. i think it is proven it is stuck here there is something about the near mess of life that has always intrigued me. but the reason i did this now that you mention it. >> talk about the cultural impacts of these? bill like this is a national plan item going to those but no. i will not do that. >> in your book? >> in this book the ones i have mentioned at one point it is 1969 and kennedy is president reading about a three day concert. [laughter] he is not happy with this and he says to his young aids what are they fixing the environment or teaching people to read? one if his young aides and says mr. president come on one hand you have the choice of arduous physical labor or three days of great music and drugs and easy sex. it is not that complicated her. [laughter] >> lyndon johnson, when he became president, passed a prestigious amount of legislation that was kennedy's program. he becam

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and the cover is either a norman rockwell impression or maybe they got rockwell to do in of a gray-haired 16-year-old john kennedy and the whole culture changes. we don't go to war in vietnam but we go to war on behalf of the beleaguered catholics of northern ireland. what you have proven here is this has always been kind of stuck here. there's something about the near miss of life that has always intrigued me. i don't know that it was the reason i did this, but now that you mention it may have a point. >> you talk about the cultural impact of these political changes in your book too. >> this is the national lampoon and and i'm not going to a cultural changes we describe because -- [talking over each other] >> in this book the one that i mentioned, at one point i will just share one moment with you. 1969, robert kennedy is reading about this three day concert and he is not happy with this and is saying to his young aides why aren't these people -- why are they fixing the environment and teaching people to read and one of his young aides takes a deep breath and says mr. president, on the o

identity and belonging who knows how many future ancyl adams's or georgia o'keeffe says or norman rockwell's will never pick up a camera or a paintbrush because republicans defunded their schools art programs during the great depression president franklin roosevelt knew how important our it was in fact it was just as important as putting people back to work and turning the economy around that's why in addition to building the works progress administration created millions of jobs during the great depression he also built the federal our project the federal our project the f eight pete put tens of thousands of starving painters musicians well at least out of work papers musicians writers filmmakers and dancers to work and gave birth to over two hundred thousand unique pieces of enduring american art cultural additions that are invaluable jackson pollock was a product of f.d.r.'s federal art project an estimated eight million people were exposed to the depression era art thanks to over one hundred arts centers that employ thousands of art teachers all across the nation during the great depress

and i can only say that because of the sit-ins, i became indoctrinated with george lincoln rockwell and the nazi party, et cetera. but when the freedom riders came to a halt, because of the burning of the bus, because of the riots in birmingham, i didn't join the ride until montgomery, alabama. if you will, that was the distinctive, frightening point. we were going to mississippi and of course mississippi is the -- or was at the time the epitome of what the clan and the rest of it was. needless to say, i don't know if any of your audience has seen the changing of the guard at buckingham palace, but when we got on that bus in montgomery, and we had two helicopters flying overhead, we had national guards men on the bus with us, with unsheathed bayonets, believe me it was frightening because we thought the worst was going to happen. but at the mississippi-alabama state line, it was the changing of the guard. we had at least for 100 yards, alabama national guardsmen on one side of the line and at the mississippi side the same thing, it was again the changing of the guards. >> and i do think