we miss him. >> ted began life as the youngest child of joseph and rose kennedy. iark, ted's mother rose, died in 1985 at the age of 104. >> rose kennedy does not get her due. her ability to infuse the exact right combination of competition and compassion, there's no precedent in a democratic society for what she created. this royal family. >> some people enjoy a life that's normal and mead ocher. other people respond to challenges, adventure and entertainment. that's who we are. >> rose lived long enough to see generation after generation of kennedys serve their country. >> today all you young athletes are in the arena. >> jeanne was an incredible ambassador who helped to bring peace to northern ireland. >> jack and jackie's daughter carolyn became a u.s. ambassador to japan. you have joseph kennedy ii, bobby and ethel's oldest son who served a number of terms in congress and cathy was a lieutenant governor of maryland. christopher kennedy, son of robert kennedy launching his political career in illinois. >> it would not be possible to write a complete history of

york has just voted 96.5 for , 1.54ey, 87 for mccarthy mcgovern, two for phillips, and three for ted kennedy>> two votes for reverend phillips and three votes for senator kennedy. north carolina, 59. carolina, obedient to the instructions of the north carolina state to my credit convention -- democratic convention, submits in nomination the name of her favorite son and distinguished governor, and to cast our 59 .otes for him as caucused the delegation has cast 59 votes for him. governormr. chairman, assigned each delegate to this invention. in conviction of his heart and consciousness. has released the delegation from the instructions imposed by the north carolina democratic convention and north carolina cast her vote as follows. governor dan moore. two votes for senator eugene mccarthy. senator george mcgovern. votes for our distinguished vice president hubert h humphrey. [applause] >> the north carolina vote is as follows. votes for vice president humphrey. two votes for senator mccarthy. one half vote for senator mcgovern and 12 votes for governor moore. north dakota. 25. dakota, the stat

carter was a moderate democrat, but not liberal enough for ted kennedy.e have afghan invasion by the soviet union, the hostage crisis. we had his brother. we have the rise of inflation, because of the iran crisis. the hostage crisis with the rescue effort. we had even as we completed, arms control treaty, like afghanistan. --many ways, a point of tough. when you have all of them, it was difficult. the ted kennedy challenge, inflation and iran would take this from 1980. host: the book president carter, white house years. joining us from new york. thank you for bei announcer: here on c-span, you is next. that is followed by theresa may taking questions from members of the house of commons. later, we will look at the impact of fresh and sanctions on u.s. foreign-policy. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," university of california santa barbara english professor yunte huang. he discusses his book "inseparable: the original siamese twins and their rendezvous with american history." ♪ brian: yunte huang, author of "inseparable: the original siamese twins and their

now ted kennedy as a senator actually knows what he's doing. >> as ted charts his own political courseauma hits the family. >> misfortune strikes the kennedy family once again. senator edward m. kennedy was seriously injured when his private plane crashed in the woods near southampton, massachusetts. >> two die in the crash. ted kennedy is dragged from the wreckage with a bnroke back >> in any other family to have one of the primary members in an airplane crash that almost kills them and gives him permanent back problems would be at the top of the list of tragedies. but in the kennedys it's just another check off on the list. >> two months later a traumatized bobby addresses the democratic national convention as it honors jack's memory. >> and now it is my privilege and honor to introduce the man who stood closer to him than anyone else. his brother robert kennedy. >> and the place just breaks into this just heartfelt cathartic applause. and he stands there, and this goes on for five minutes and ten minutes, and it overwhelms him. >> i was in hyannisport. i was by myself. and i watched

all of them supporting him for years just as he supported bill clinton and ted kennedy and harvey weinsteinthey've gotten a pass for all of that. this time it's worth getting to the bottom of their complicity if any of this. tammy bruce is a radio show host in new york city. she joins us now. how long before eric s schneiderman's alleged abuses become the abuse of all men? this is really a macro problem.m shouldn't we pause before we shift responsibility to everyone and asked who know about this specific guy? >> yes. i mean, look, this is still sinking in it so horrific. it's one thing to be arguing about sexual harassment in treating women badly or unequally in the one place, bad enough. these are stories of physical violence, of domestic violence, which has not been dealt with a great deal when it comes to the #metoo movement and a man who was law enforcement. the attorney general of the state and it's an extraordinary dynamic and we know that these issues transcend politics and parties, but what's fascinating here is that these are men,nd whether with harvey weinstein or bill clinton or

they established a friendship that has lasted through w this day towith kennedy and his family and ted kennedy as well the hero of the hour that at the table was just awarded everybody wanted to talk to john glenn who would soon run for the senate for the first time and a canadian liberal party leader was there after winning the nobel peace prize and would be elected prime aminister of canada the following year., robert w frost was there. he had become famous for the polo at the inauguration 1961 and president kennedy sent him to russia on a special mission to the soviet union mostly writing short s stories but one novel on that very day that was number one on the new york times bestseller list nobel laureate was there burial hemingway was there and she said it president kennedy's table but also got into an argument with him she had a particular perspective on the day of not shared by president kennedy and also fidel castro. people enjoyed themselves that evening even though ordinarily would have been uncomfortable for one reason or another even though he was out picketing he was a great dance

he negotiated the super chemical cleanup and in one last gesture of reconciliation with ted kennedy who had no reason to reconcile, kennedy wanted steve buyer to help us on airlinenend deregulation appointed to a vacancy in the first circuit. i went in to see carter knowing he would do it and he said no. it willa be attributed to the judiciary and that is what got them on the first circuit and ultimately the supreme court. by book is not just about policy. it's about people. very interesting profile to mention only two in the interest of time. ms. polian is a registered nurse with black and white patients in the rural south when it was highly unpopular into the peace corps 68. a new york reporter in on the central thesis of the campaign i'll never lie to you. though certainly you know that your son must have lied. this certainly was. yes, you're right. he told white lies all the time. i said to the reporter, and two midway lie. remember when i said how wonderful it was to have you here. that was a white lie. [laughter] i saw them going from being a shy campaigner to an accomplished firs

the last point i make about this is you read stu's book and it feels as if ted kennedy really was perfectlyhappy to see a failed presidency and up resident ronald reagan and the stubbornness becomes through in the book about kennedy on that is shocking for a fellow like me who does not study that part of this so i think between now and election days the democrats have a real challenge which is do they recognize the value of someone with the political positions of carter and that's why you want to stay away from personality or do they go all the way left and i think we talked to members of congress they are worried about whether the candidates go far left. >> let me come back to stu for a final question and then we have a half an hour for your questions and i know i recognize half of the audience and you better ask good questions. get ready. stu, one of the eyes that you listed, inflation, iran, inexperience and interparty warfare is one i want to focus on and that is inexperience. i think congress was a problem but i served nine terms as a new democrat in congress and it wasn't pretty every

also went on to be a senator from pennsylvania and a very close friend of the kennedy family and ted kennedy. and that he is here tonight is an important, i think, part of any discussion of the legacy. the u.s. centennial commission, which i chaired, fabulous. talk about bipartisanship. that is bipartisan ship. here are the members. try getting this done today. here are the members of last year's commission. senator markey, senator mccain, senator hatch, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, congressman joe kennedy, congresswoman elaine stepper next, david serio, the archivist of the united states, secretary of the interior, jack schlossberg, president kennedy's .randson, elaine jone where is elaine? there is elaine jones. she has worked with the kennedy library from the very beginning in setting up the profile in courage award. she has been a distinguished member of that committee. we all do on that committee whatever you lane musician, famous cellist was also on that committee. in a moment, stephen will talk about the various initiatives promoted, promulgated, and pushed by the u.s. centen

wofford: what a transformation there was with john kennedy, robert kennedy, ted kennedy. the transformation from the great beginning through hard times that the bay of pigs, and then the great skill and passion with which he solved the cuban missile crisis. and then, second only to his inaugural address, we had the two american university speeches on peace. and on that same day, his big case on civil rights. so, we are lucky to have been a part of all of that. and i wish good luck here, everyone. thank you. [applause] >> thank you again, senator for all of your leadership over the years. our country is better because of everything you have done. we appreciate it. so with deep thanks to all of , you for coming and to the national press club, let us continue in the reception. right? thank you again for all of your leadership. thank you, everybody. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [crowd noise] >> this wee

wofford: one of the transformations that there was with president kennedy, robert kennedy, and ted kennedy, the transformation from the great beginning through hard times at and the greats skill and passion with which he solved the cuban missile crisis. and then, second only to his inaugural address, we had the two american university speeches on peace and on that same day, his big speech on civil rights. so, we are lucky to have been a part of all of that. and i wish good luck here, everyone. thank you. [applause] >> thank you again, senator for all of your leadership over the years. our country is better because of everything that you have done and we appreciate it. with deep thanks to all of you for coming and to the national press club, let us continue in the reception. right? thank you again for all of your leadership. thank you, everyone. announcer: monday morning we are in nebraska for the next stop on the c-span bus 50 capital tour. p cricket will be our guest on the bus on washington journal. next, clare booth luce center for conservative women president talks about the life and c

. >> kathleen kennedy, how serious was the country in asking that ted kennedy be his running mate. >> there is a lot of afengs for our family but i know my uncle was not interested. we were a torn apart family. my mother had 11 chirp without a father and there was a lot of hearing that had to go on in our family. >>> let's go to tom inner re-pennsylvania. good morning -- in pennsylvania. >> what sticks out in my mind most about john kennedy and robert kennedy they were the last leaders we had that represented the broad middle class in america. what's happened since then is we wouldn't up with the republicans representing the top, no more than 10 percent, the democrats representing the liberal, the far left radical liberal left and the 80% of us in the middle have no representation in national politics and very often in state politics, do you foresee anybody coming forward in the near future tour to represent america's middle 80%. >> tom, thank you. let's turn to kathleen kennedy so you know, i think we had the best economic performance for middle class and actually for working people

he didn't do it and in 2009, before ted kennedy got sick he controlled the white house and congress and he could have done that. he didn't do it and then president obama deported to a half-million immigrants, destroyed thousands of families and he was no other president had done something like that. this is important because i think as a journalist you have to be independent. i have a track president trump because of his racist remarks, but also criticize president barack obama for what he did. host: you have a chapter in your new book, when to stop being distrustful. guest: as a journalistic equivalent responsibility to report reality as it is whereas we wish it would be, but more importantly support-- responsibility we have is to question those in power and when it comes to racism, discrimination corruption, public life i think we have to take a step. holocaust survivor used to say equality helps the oppressor, never the victim and i think the best examples we have a great journalism is to take a stand, not only watergate, mccarthy era where the boston globe attacking m the republican

and i think that at that particular time, people realize that ted kennedy, they had taken it upon himself, the responsibility of being the leader of the kennedy clan. and the people in the political world, they also recognized that. it is a full competition when they simply realized it was none of their brothers when they were around any longer. and the kid was called upon it all, doing the senior member of the clan. and i think as a senator, most everybody, right and left, they would agree that ted kennedy was an extraordinary senator after that. >> the next call is william from new york city. good morning, welcome to the conversation. >> fred william? >> yes. i would just like to say for the record, kennedy -- yes, i would just like to correct the record that kennedy lost the primary in oregon. and also the first time a kennedy had ever lost an election. i'm very surprised neither of your commentators knew that. >> you're right, that was my mistake. as a native oregonian, i would like to think everyone comes away as a winner from oregon, but you are totally correct. gene mccarthy won th

i think, as a senator, most everybody right and left would agree that ted kennedy was an extraordinary senator after that time. host: the next call is william from new york city. welcome to the conversation. go ahead. caller: i would just like to say kennedy lostd that -- yes, i would just like to correct the record that kennedy lost the primary in oregon. that was the first time that kennedy had ever lost an election. i am very surprised that neither of your commentators knew that. guest: you know, he is right. that was my mistake. as a native oregonian, i like to think everybody comes away a winner from oregon. you are totally correct. that.ccarthy won kennedy recovered intel point. good catch. host: good morning, independent line. caller: good morning. i appreciate c-span's programming in terms of having the courage to examine the media's role in america today. i think c-span is doing a great job and making sure that we have balanced coverage. this question is for marvin. i have watched your work and appreciate the intellectual approach you take and the objective approach you take t

he makes up stuff like ted cruz's father helped kill kennedy.gn, he used this tactic, i don't know if you would call it a tactic, it's modus operandi which is say whatever you need to say to get through every given moment. his whole objective is not to come to symptom objective truth or to put something out that's going to be accurate. it's to win the moment. say whatever is required tore, quote unquote, win. so he does. and he sees the winning as the justification, and really, there is no -- the people around him are not necessarily pushing back on him as hard as you would maybe hope in some of these circumstances. >> and getting caught is no downside for him. getting caught means nothing. >> how about something would leak from his briefing when 50 reporters were there and it was done in a white house briefing and everybody says you look like a dunce. you sound like a crazy person. >> we know they president is thin skinned. anytime he reads a news report he deems unflattering he's going to deride it as fake news. that's been a tactic that's bee

al franken was ousted, that one really hurt liberals but i believe it was the great ted kennedy who saidat is crazy, i murdered a woman. "chappaquiddick," in theaters now. i did have a a lot of jokes about cabinet members but i had to scrap all of those because everyone has been fired. you guys are going through cabinet members quicker than starbucks throws out black people. don't worry, they are having an afternoon. we just needed an afternoon. mitch mcconnell is not here tonight. he had a prior engagement. he is finally getting his neck circumcised. paul ryan also couldn't make it. he has already been circumcised. unfortunately, while they were down there, they also took his balls. by the way paul, great acting in that video. republicans are easy to make fun of. it is like shooting fish in a chris christie. i also want to make fun of democrats. democrats are harder to make fun of because you guys don't do anything. [laughter] you think you might flip the house and senate this november but you guys always find a way to mess it up. you are somehow going to lose by 12 points to a guy name

history is, neil, when your own candidate challenges an incumbent as reagan did against ford or ted kennedyd against carter, it divides that and paves the way for the opposition. why did that happen with ted and the liberal wing? it's because jimmy carter was a centrist. he was a fiscal conservative. he was progressive on race and poverty issues, but on fiscal issues at a time with high inflation and budget deficits, he tightened the budget and cut programs and the liberal wing didn't like that. when ted ran promising a health insurance program, which would have busted the bank, we came back with a major first phase program, which if it was enacted, we would be better off today. the liberal wing wanted all or nothing. so carter was a centrist. he was too liberal for the conservative southern base that helped get him elected and he was too conservative for the liberal wing which was a central also to his re-election. that is the labor liberal academic wing. so he fell in the cracks in between and that often happens with centrists. >> neil: he also oftentimes seemed overwhelmed. i don't know

in 2005, he cosponsored ambitious legislation on immigration reform with democrat ted kennedy.t, mccain geared up for a second president children. >> today, i announce my candidacy for president of the united states. >> he was popular. he was prominent. he had the money and the resources and the brains and the party behind him. >> despite a long list of boulders and heavy hitting operatives, his campaign struggled. >> the fundraising estimates didn't pan out. the campaign was top-heavy and bankrupt. >> it reaches a point in the summer of 2007 that the obituary is written. >> i will never forget i was walking my dog in northern california and the phone rang. he said, will you help me, boy? will you help me? everybody quit. they are all gone. i'm not getting out. literally flew up to new hampshire. in the middle feed on a southwest airlines with the national press waiting like vultures to pick over his bones , when are you getting out of that race? it's all over. and he didn't. >> with nothing less -- left to lose, he made new hampshire his last stand. >> you come to the town hal

ted kennedy in 2006 on the floor of the senate read some of the testimony of american soldiers who had water sprayed up their nostrils, doused on their faces. wereof those people executed. among the charges that were executed for was waterboarding. not solely waterboarding but one of the main charges. others were sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. what is gina haspel's? being ca.nated for >> if one of your operatives work capture, subjected to waterboarding, enhanced interrogation techniques which i believe you supervised, would you consider that to be moral since perhaps the other entity did not have legal restrictions and good tradecraft, as you -- ared to do when >> senator, i do not believe the terrorists follow any guidelines or civilized norms or the law. cia follows the law. thatu seem to be sayi you were not following civilized norms in the law or anything else when you're conducting those activities will step if that is the analogy you are going to draw. >> i'm sorry, can you -- >> it is very simple. you're an operations officer captured. he is being waterboarded. i have ask

mccain was known for developing friendships across the aisle and working on immigration reform with ted kennedy days ago with joe biden. kennedy and john mccain are both fighting the same brain cancer. >>> silicon valley is extreme in wealth. >> and sometimes generosity gets overlooked. b -- but st. louis a few days ago andrew an his 5-year-old daughter were living out of a van but now proud owners of a tiny house. mark brock purchased the tomorrow for the hall brights and let them park it on his property in bolder creek. before they were sleeping oef-- sleeping in a cold, dark van and now they have a place to sleep and all of the creature comforts. >> i've never had somebody put their neck out like this before. and it just -- it brings hope. it just brings hope to you. >> and truthfully we're all one step away from homelessness. any lost my job or got a terminal illness, if i had an addiction, whether it is prescription or not, i would be homeless also. >> he is the chief strategic officer for an organization that generates ideas on how the faith community can solve problems in cities. he hope

he was known to have been friends with ted kennedy, the liberal lion of the united states senate.ly on public policy, this is someone who is willing to work across party lines to get things done. when i say country first, that was john mccain's tag line back in the 2008 presidential election. so perhaps he may dig his heels in on public policy, but he understands fundamentally that we're all americans and it's in the best interests of our country and the broader world when we have common sense and levelheadedness in our politics, unlike what we saw today from the white house. >> it underscores you to see the legacy of john mccain so differently, and even now, as john mccain is about to release a book. i mean, the audio excerpts of his book are very powerful, and at the same time he's simultaneously making plans for the inevitability, making plans for, you know, his funeral, and then just yesterday, you know, john, we heard the president while he was in cleveland make reference to john mccain. he didn't use his name but he talked about the one vote, the one vote on his efforts to,

brown who a year and a half earlier shocked the blue state of massachusetts by capturing the late ted kennedy'sizabeth warren. >> suddenly, you got democrats in massachusetts looking around and saying, she couldn't get confirmed maybe to run the cfpb, but i think she maybe would make a good messenger in a senate race against this republican. we gotta find to take out of office. >> she hasn't held or even run for public office before. >> elizabeth never saw herself as a politician. that's part of why i thought she would be a terrific senator. >> reluctant at first, the 62-year-old officially enters the race in september. >> she was untested but she proved pretty quickly -- very quickly in that senate race, she's got that. >> warren hits her first real stumble when a controversy emerges in april 2012. >> the boston herald had a story that raised a lot of questions about why is it that harvard had in a couple of instances listed her as a minority and a native american when there was no apparent proof that she was a native american. it wasn't something that she had talked about. >> my father's peop

you got in a little bit of trouble back in 1980 in that campaign when it looked like ted kennedy might "i will kick his ass." and at the time, that was unimaginable. >> for me, yes. >> stephen: that a president, for any president, that he would say that to a reporter. it seems pretty tame-- >> i didn't say that to a reporter. i said it to a congressman and he reported it to a reporter. >> stephen: so he threw you under the bus? >> he did, yeah. >> stephen: who was the congressman? >> i won't say his name. he's out of office now. >> stephen: okay. but still living? >> yes, he's still living. >> stephen: we'll find him. ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) >> but it was true, and i did. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: that's true. so you're not as nice as people think! ( laughter ) >> my wife can tell you that. >> stephen: you have been critical of sanctions against north korea. why is that? why is the isolation you think a wrong thing to do? >> well, because when we imposed sanctions like for 70 years against north korea and about that long against cuba, we get blamed for all the things that

their candidates lp no matter what they said or did and i still hear they say they std stood by ted kennedy chappaquiddick, stood by bill clinton, stood by joe biden after bragging that delaware used to be a slave state. they decided these are the rules we're going to play by too and so rightly or wrongly that's where we are. >> do you really think that's a fair symmetry with the way things are now? i just don't see anyone in a democratic primary like roy moore like there's just no democratic roy moore right now. there just isn't. >> well, i mean, look, dennis kucinich has definitely said some bizarre things and he's still involved in a reasonably competitive race that's going on tomorrow as well. i'm not saying they're equivalent now and i definitely think there's kind of this air of triumphalism that is maybe a little over the top of what you see on the democratic side but i'm telling you that's the perception and that's what's fueling a lot of what you're seeing out there in terms of people just we'll be okay with anything as long as our guy wins. >> mona, what do you think? >> well, you

and it is so poignant for biden, of course, because he lost his friend senator ted kennedy to the samese and then he lost his own son beau biden to brain cancer. so this hits home. >> of course it does because of the loss of beau. he spoke about regret for not putting joe lieberman, an independent who caucused with democrats on his ticket because he was worried about the politics of it. >> yeah. you know, i always thought that mccain at the end of his life, whenever that moment came, would say something about his regrets when it comes to sarah palin. i covered that campaign. mccain has a penchant for self-criticism and honesty. sometimes it takes a while, but he invariably critiques himself and this is one of those examples where i kind of knew what happened eventually. what he's done, though, he's not criticizing palin directly. he's not saying he regrets picking her. he's being a little bit more delicate about the matter and saying he wishes he had selected joe lieberman instead. that's what he wanted to do at the time. he says very clearly his staff said no, there will be a huge bac

. >> laura, let me just tell you, she went after ted kennedy fort chappaquiddick -- >> laura: oh, that's original. something else we want to look at, why journalists thought this was a laugh riot coming up. >> its 2018, and i am a woman, so you cannot shut me up. unless you have michael cohen wire me $130,000. >> laura: the hypocrisy of a far left wing laughed best disguised as a salute to free speech, that is next. go your o♪ copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. these may worsen with anoro. call your doctor if you have worsened breathing, c

ted kennedy actually kills a woman and yet when he died he was praised as a lion of the senate and a real champion for women. same thing with bill clinton until just recently. it is a remarkable thing thatti the democrats for so many years have said we embrace humanity in the abstract but when it comes to actual individuals, actual people and actual women, they tend -- not everybody, i don't mean to make a sweeping generalization here, but some oy their most high-profile men that they have celebrated have abuset and assaulted women who have been closest to them. >> laura: you know what's just wild? if you go back and listen to his comments, we played one in the angle. he could be describing himself. you men who abuse women and threaten them. talking about of course harvey weinstein. it really could have been just a narrative about the charges these women are now making aboun him and they were in a consensual relationship that were twisted and slavish and abusive. et cetera, et cetera. when you watch the way this is being covered, even certain republicans -- there was this woman, aman

i mean, there were all the old kennedy hands, ted sorensen, dave powers who he would hear about, buthat he really was moved by was those who said, you know, go sisi sar chavez, go to the inner city and the delta and two, with marianne wright edelman. so he was listening in large part to his heart and to what was going on with young people. >> he loses the oregon primary and comes back to win the california primary. how did he do that? what changed? >> well, the easy answer is the demographics changed. he won i think -- i can't remember exactly, but almost 98% of the hispanic vote, for instance, in california. he won huge in some precincts 100% of the african-american vote. so he was winning working -- working class people, he was winning in that group, whereas the people like who -- you know, hispanics and african-americans were not a large part of the population in oregon. so that was one of the -- one of the big differences between the two states. and he, unlike, as i said, about gene mccarthy, my father was tireless campaigner. he got up really early, he worked, you know, 15-hour

. >> kathleen kennedy, how serious was the country in asking that ted kennedy be his running mate. >> there is a lot of afengs for our family but i know my uncle was not interested. we were a torn apart family. my mother had 11 chirp without a father and there was a lot of hearing that had to go on in our family. >>> let's go to tom inner re-pennsylvania. good morning -- in pennsylvania. >> what sticks out in my mind most about john kennedy and robert kennedy they were the last leaders we had that represented the broad middle class in america. what's happened since then is we wouldn't up with the republicans representing the top, no more than 10 percent, the democrats representing the liberal, the far left radical liberal left and the 80% of us in the middle have no representation in national politics and very often in state politics, do you foresee anybody coming forward in the near future tour to represent america's middle 80%. >> tom, thank you. let's turn to kathleen kennedy so you know, i think we had the best economic performance for middle class and actually for working people

carter was a moderate democrat, but not liberal enough for ted kennedy. we have afghan invasion by the soviet union, the hostage crisis. we had his brother. we have the rise of inflation, because of the iran crisis. the hostage crisis with the rescue effort. we had even as we completed, arms control treaty, like afghanistan. --many ways, a point of tough. when you have all of them, it was difficult. the ted kennedy challenge, inflation and iran would take this from 1980. host: the book president carter, white house years. joining us from new york. thank you for being with us. --t: we continue our series and welcome our viewers on american history tv. joining us, elizabeth cobbs and mark kramer, the program program on harvard's american studies. that begins in a moment. but first, this is from a nasa film from 1968 about the launch of apollo eight. [video clip] mosttor: one of the significant days of the year. 14, 13, 12, a, 10, 9 -- 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. have commenced -- we have liftoff. 7:01 a.m. eastern standard time. >> tower cleared at 13 seconds. narrator:

kennedy have nine children. from the oldest, joseph junior to the youngest ted. e kennedys aren't just any family, they're a family on a mission. >> kennedys to the left of them, kennedys to the right of them, so working over time to picture the u.s. ambassador. >> they lined up before the camera. >> joseph junior and -- >> smiled and everybody had something to say. >> this was my first trip to new york and i was so excited. i can't even sleep last night. >> there were quotes in the newspapers. got 11 ambassadors for the price of one. >> so the whole family was accepted with a lot of buzz. >> the kennedys understand before any other american family, the role of glamour and until now, glamour is something that's really the province of hollywood. the kennedys pull it over into the province of politics in the first time as a modern way and as a result, everybody is in love with this family. >> the kennedy family represented america on the rise. an immigrant country where anybody could get ahead if they were smart enough, ambitious enough. they would look at kennedys

the kennedys established a friendship which lasted till today, robert kennedy and his family and ted kennedy as well. john glenn was there, the hero of the hour, he sat at mrs. kennedy's table. he had just orbited the earth. anyone who wanted to talk to john glenn would soon run for the senate for ohio for the first time, lester pearson, canadian liberal party leader, won nobel peace prize on suess crisis, he would be elected prime minister of canada the following year. robert frost was there, he was 88, he was a magnet all evening for people. of course, frost was -- had become famous for his reciting of the gift outright poem in inago intraiciÓn -- inauguration and president kennedy would send him on a mission, cultural affairs mission to the soviet union. katherine anne porter was there, she had written one novel, she mostly wrote short stories but her one novel on that very day reached number one in "the new york times" best seller list. only nobel female was there, mary hemmingway, as mentioned in the introduction, she sat at president's kennedy table but she also got into an argument ov

kennedy have nine children. from their oldest, joseph jr., to their youngest, ted. the kennedys aren't just any family.re a family on a mission. >> kennedys to the left of them, kennedys to the right of them. so england's cameramen work overtime to welcome the u.s. ambassador with his nine children. >> they lined up before the newsreel cameras. >> joseph, jr. age 22 and john age 21. >> smiled. everybody had something to say. >> this is my first trip to europe. i was very excited. i couldn't even sleep last night. >> there's all these quotes from newspapers saying got 11 ambassadors for the price of one or something. >> the london zoo is open for the masters kennedy who quickly get on sympathetic terms with the animals. >> the whole family was accepted with a lot of buzz. >> the kennedys understand, before any other american family, the role of glamour. and until now glamour is something that's really the province of hollywood. the kennedys pull it over into the province of politics really and for the first time in a modern way. and as a result, everybody's in love with this family. >> the kennedy famil

ted kennedy. john mccain.derstood, like, political drama as sort of a type of capital that you could use. so the kennedys, but even lesser known people like a chris dodd type who understood moments and the power of speeches and imagery. and nowadays, i don't want to get all sentimental, it's just a different politics. there are not those types of people who use that type of dramatic moment to move things. for mccain, it was an amazing thing to see. also led him down very weird paths. and he doesn't say he regrets picking sarah palin, what he says is he regrets not picking joe lieberman. but that -- the choice of sarah palin was in a way an amazing illustration of his penchant for drama. >> right. >> of rolling those dice. pausing his campaign when the market crashed in 2008. things people would not normally do, he decided, you know what, i don't fear the drama, i embrace it. that made him very different, unique, often hated but often beloved figure in washington, d.c. >> a lot of people who saw those moments a

at that point, karen kennedy, ted's daughter septembering on behalf of them became close friends. she let me know it was her uncle john f. kennedy who said that who a community honours, who a community remembers, who a community memorializes says so much about that community. and it was only a few weeks after the assassination of president kennedy that j.f.k. airport was renamed from idawyld to send a message about new york, to send a message about this nation. we stand up for the rights of all people. we stand up for civil rights. and so for the people around the world who have the opportunity to fly into a great airport that sfo is and transit through the harvey milk terminal it sends that message that this community honours those who have, not only led but who paid the ultimate sacrifice. and so i always end these type of events with what i was asked by a member of press if we, the family isn't sad that harvey didn't get to see a day where we would have these wonderful issues and my uncle did see this day. because he dreamed of it and it is what gave him the courage to take thes

he was not supposed to win that election, it was a special election when ted kennedy passed away.tics, well-known in massachusetts. why are you running right now. >> i was watching tv in the morning and i would have a argument in my head with her. i have a fundamental disagreement about role of government. people of massachusetts feel they -- ainsley: why people saying you are her worst nightmare. >> i'm a contrast to her left-wing liberal politics. i believe in free markets and money better spent in the hands of people that earn it. that is a very different take where she is. she demonizes anybody who disagrees with her. it is about tone and temperment. she has said she wanted to teach books, throw rocks. you can pass legislation you can not be a rock thrower. i have built bridges with people in my career. there is big difference there. ainsley: what do people say in massachusetts about her? what is the reputation of elizabeth warren? >> when i'm out across the state women say they just hug me, thank you for running. we have got to get rid of her. she does not have the same value

we look at the kennedy legacy and we see ted's 47 years in the united states senate. we don't see how many pieces of legislation that bear his name came from a conversation at the dinner table with eunice kennedy shriver, including the 1975 law that required school districts to give a seat in a classroom to a disabled child, including the americans with disabilities act. that law which fundamentally changed the relationship of people with intellectual and physical disabilities to the world around them owes a lot to eunice kennedy shriver. it is now a violation of their civil rights to deny them a place in the work place, a home, an apartment in an apartment building. they can walk, or roll their wheelchairs across the street now because we have curbs that allow that. the same rights extend to people with intellectual disabilities. i would like to say that 1984 ceremony in which she was honored, what other people might think of as retirement age, with the presidential medal of freedom was the end of eunice's career. she might have learned to relax, had it been, but that

for developing friendships across the aisle in the senate, working on immigration reform with ted kenne kennedy a few days ago by joe biden. his son died of the same kind of brain cancer that mccain is fighting now. fighting now. we are all wishing him the best. ♪ ♪ claritin and relief from of non-drowsy symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) >>> coming up, we are getting details about the royal ♪ at walgreens... helping millions of children here at home... and around the world... starts with one person... you. this red nose day... stop by walgreens and help end child poverty... one nose at a time. because every. one. counts. walgreens, trusted since 1901. if you have moderate to severe or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaqu