senators during rethinks is a golden age in the senate of the '60s and '70s and characters like ted kennedy kennedy, baker, muskie, a bird, who got things done and reached across the aisle to break with their own party orthodoxy. we moaning we don't do that berry more -- in a more very much and how much was done with that spirit of cooperation and compromise. my next book his -- is an accounting history that the christian orthodoxy and heresy were opposed not by church leaders but leaders of the state were the state directly intervened in the convening councils of bishops and insisted on certain precept of orthodoxy and the concept of what constituted heresy and the emperor seditious to really insisted on that to change the course of history but not always as the best and it squelched with the theories of theology and led to the persecution over the centuries by it is an account of early christian history and the consequences that flow from the effort from constantinople but was a westerner originally. a wonderful new book called the general's the author of the best single volume of our invasion of

the widow of senator ted kennedy, vicki kennedy. she is here with me right now. vicki, thank you for coming. >> of course. >> and we've got tommy o'neill, who is getting to be frighteningly resembling his dad, tip o'neill. i was fortunate to work for him awhile. vicki, this whole question in massachusetts and trying to get to the bottom of the state, ted kennedy was always re-elected because it wasn't because he was a celebrity, it was because he worked for the state. >> well, massachusetts is just a wonderful, fabulous place to live, and people are concerned about is the same things they're concerned about around the country. they're concerned about their families. they're concerned about their futures. i've been lucky enough to travel around recently on behalf of ed markey. we have an election tomorrow for the united states senate. ed markey is on the ballot. i hope everyone will go out and vote. it's very, very important for their futures. i've been hearing the same things i heard when i was traveling around the state with ted. people are worried about their f

ted kennedy. ted kennedy tried so hard to get something. he was chairman of this subcommittee for decades. so ted kennedy, i'm sure, is going to wait till next friday but he's going to smile at all of us because this is a remarkably good piece of work, something he tried to do for a long time. this country, mr. president, is a nation of immigrants. i know everybody is in a hurry but i have to say just a couple more things. my wonderful wife is here in america today because her father came here from russia. he and his people were persecuted. he came here. he came here as israel goldfarb. that was his name. he like a a lot of immigrants, changed his name. i only knew him as earl gold. but, mr. president, i don't know what he accomplished in his short life. he died as a young man. but one thing did he accomplish, he fathered my wife. my wonderful wife. an only child. and as a result of that, i have five wonderful children, 16 grandchildren. that's what immigration is all about. that's why this country of ours has found immigration as a source o

kennedy family. too painful. something we knew they wouldn't want to hear. but manzi took our material. i would love for you to be able to tell us what happened this ted kennedy did read them. he said i know if you're involved it's going to be all right. and from that point on, his assistant kept in touch with us and actually came down to meet all of us and so we had that open conduit to the kennedy family. nancy, stand-up we want to thank you. [applause] after she visited with ted kennedy he asked her to go to new york and visit with steve smith about. he then was in contact with the family. >> i want to go through a few questions from the audience today. this one is addressed to all free. where were you when president kennedy was shot to read i have to disqualify myself. i wasn't alive when president kennedy was shot but my mother is here and my love to have a word with you after the program. i was born several years after the assassination but this to move you remember where you were november 22nd, 1963. if you could tell us where you were and how you found out about the assassination. go ahead. >> i was at home and i was having a meeting at my house on doctors' rights and all of a sudden, ruben appeared in this emergency room and he couldn't get through to tell us what happened because of the lines were tied up. so he came in and he said turn on the television. we did and we

kennedy, and jackie agreed. and so robert kennedy and ted sorenson, jackie and the two kids and stanley went up to high hyannis port. and he took a series of photographs that are quite extraordinary. and jackie signed this one: for stanley, with a very personal inscription which is in the book. this is from that same photo shoot. mrs. kennedy with the two children. this is a photograph taken of caroline and john in hyde park in london after the assassination. the queen dedicated running mead to president kennedy. and stanley, he was a wonderful photographer, but he was also a very, very good rider. and be he would -- and he would make notes to his editor, and he kept copies of all the letters that he sent to his editor and the back and forth that went on. and there's a wonderful ten-page memorandum called "my agonizing ten days in london with jackie." [laughter] and it goes into very funny detail about how he had to follow her around. she said you can come, but pretend you're not there. i don't want anyone to think that i have my own personal photograph -- photographer. anyway, this picture was taken in hyde park, and caroline is a real horse woman. she loved it, like her mother. john was allergic to horses, and jackie did not want his picture taken because anytime he got around horses, his little eyes would fill, and he'd

ted kennedy. i was still pinching myself say, i'm going to serve in the same place with ted kennedy? he said, well, i have a request for you, dick. i'd like for you to be a member of my immigration subcommittee on senate judiciary. he was the chairman, and i accepted his invitation. i set in that gallery and watched senator ted kennedy and senator bobby kennedy on the floor of the senate. i was just a student at the time. and i thought, i'm going to have a chance now sit in the same committee room with this man and speak to the issue of immigration. i didn't think 16 years later i'd be standing here on the floor of the senate with senator kennedy gone and we'd still be struggling to fix america's broken immigration system. we've been through a lot in that period of time. 12 years ago i wrote a bill called "the dream act." that bill would allow immigrant students to came to the united states as children to earn their citizenship by attending college or serving in the military. i've been frightin fighting to t the law of the land. we've received majority votes v, but i could never get t