. >> wes kennedy, b.a.s.e jumper that made this b.a.s.e jump a suspension b.a.s.e jump. guess what?ave another video just like it. this guy is sergei, this jump set up by the same guy that set up the previous jump, stanislav. this time on top of a power tower. he's on hooks. he jumps. >>> the can knopy is already ou >> i feel like i can feel this in my back. >> how do you test this? you don't know how thick someone's skin really is. >> these are the tests. that's why they're doing these jumps they're going to push the ante by having the can know pi deploy from a bag. it's going to have is that jolt. they rigged this pack so the lines are on the hooks on his back. >> i feel like these aren't tests. i feel like these are leaps of faith, because -- >> you'd die. >> right, you get one shot, that's it. >> it is dangerous. it can hurt or kill you. don't do this. >> don't worry, i won't! >> he jumps. canopy deploys did you see that jolt when the canopy opens, how to pulls him back a bit? they know in terms of distance it's a safe jump. the question is, did it rip? >> i bet it did that jolt

kennedy. he visited this great city. we have a john f kennedy center, we have kennedy way. i was not for changing the name. >> the kennedy center is currently undergoing a renovation. >>> all right. coming up on 4:43. i hope we're over the humidity hump. >> at least for now on this hump day. >> at least for now. >> it will be very warm outside but i feel like comfort is really what people are going for. fit is really hot and not too humid, we can handle. that it is when it gets sticky. >> i hear you. >> yes, my cats start to wilt, they are all covered in hair and i cannot do anything about it. >> if you don't turn air conditioning on. >> i gave in a while ago on that one. it will be a lot more comfortable on that one. still very warm. it is the scoop here. we do still have wet wet ter track on storm scan three but it is all rain that is long since moved out to sea. you will still be left with damp boardwalks and roads through delaware and beach towns there but you can see bulk of that rain is it is all moved out to seee. we are essentially at this point done with the front,

we mention two big speeches. the civil rights speech and the american university commencement. what do they represent in terms of john f. kennedy? >> we do not elect presidents to manage the government. we elect presidents and heads of state to lead the nation. both he and reagan, and our lifetime, it was their rhetoric, their words, their manner that reached the american people. going back to what bob said about smaller events, nobody remembers whether lincoln balanced the budget. they are judged on two or three big things and usually it's a total surprise whether it is benghazi or bp and the gulf or whatnot. it's a reactive job. >> president kennedy definitely recognized the power of words. we can all agree on that and it is true that the 1965 civil rights act was passed by lyndon johnson and we don't know whether if he had lived, if kennedy would have achieved that, but in his speech on civil rights he did frame the issue as a moral issue, and that language and that word, had incredible impact. >> those two speeches you mentioned, they were game changers. the american university speech said, we have to rethink the way that w

we had kennedy's jacket. the fibers went in. the shirt went in. with connally, they cleaned and pressed his suit. >> you found the maker of kennedy's shirt. is that correct? >> i went back and looked at them. >> on a separate trip with your wife in new york, you found the maker of the same material, the same shirt kennedy had worn? >> he had a label in his shirt , like shirts have labels, that said the address, i think on madison avenue. joan and i were walking in new york. i recollect it was november 9, 1964, the day my parents sailed for israel. i said, this is the place kennedy bought his shirt. i went in and they were tailor-made shirts. i found the bolt of cloth from kennedy's shirt. it was $24.95 as i recollect. i was tempted to have a shirt made, but it was a little beyond my reach. i said to the salesman, senator -- president kennedy bought his shirts here, didn't he? he rose and said, we never disclose our clientele. how did you find out? i gave him a snappy response and said we never disclose our sources. >> is there anything you would h

we now know things that kennedy didn't know. e had invaded, it would be a smoking pile of rubble. we stood tough, they backed down. now that we can look through the historians work, inside the historian's work, the national security agency who pursued the story, had access, went and did the basic fundmental work that analysts should have done at the time. where did they predict the internal, secret, official story. and then that historian wrote a qualified article off the coast of vietnam. we can look through the historian's work and then listen to president johnson's phone calls. one, that the north vietnamese attacks were actually provoked by us. they weren't the unprovoked aggression. top secret to test coastal defenses, to see how they would respond respond and to interset their communications among their naval head quarters. so this was one of the big secrets. >> i think we should explain this opland 34a. there's no question for what that had bearings on. we probably shot off a radar station and a few other miscellaneous bui

if we got the nomination, rather than bobby kennedy. hubert humphrey was a different story. hrey was a committed liberal, democratic liberal who is in tab at democratic establishment as vice president. i said we could have a real problem beating hubert humphrey who is the smallest candidate. so that is march 31st. four days later, dr. king was assassinated in memphis. 100 american cities went up in flames and smoke of fire and violence and looting in burning and there were federal troops in my hometown of wash in d.c., places i'd grown up an assembly with as a kid were being burned down. it is the worst series of racial violence in american history, 100 cities burning. and it was horrendous. that tremendously influenced the politics that year. the american people were beginning to say this country is coming apart and over in baltimore, which burned badly, stokely carmichael, racial and from the airy became a communist and went to ghana for jimmy. he was down there encouraging all of this burning and looting. the governor named spiro t. agnew out of the civil rights leaders sa

how do we do this? kennedy: with civilians -- i mean, what does it do for you? ou sleep better at night knowing that he says were going to lead a broad coalition? >> i think we have a great free-market economy though. charles: earlier in the show lou dobbs said, and this is a small portion of what we need, revisiting the entire afghan iraq war. if we can't go after an islamic state and how can we go for the bigger picture? kennedy: we are doing this for them anyway and i think that those guys can be crazy. charles: we have this all covered. if you want to stay on for the entire night, neil cavuto and lou dobbs. join us every night at 6:00 p.m. set your dvr if you can't watch the show. we appreciate we appreciate it. coming up next, the man that knows it all, lou dobbs on fox business. lou: good evening, everyone. president obama to address the nation on his strategy to defeat and destroy the islamic state of terrorists. president obama to make his case within hours of a barrage of devastating new polls that can show how his policies have become and how little sup

and was very close to john kennedy. >> we are 50 years later. how should we mark that day? mixedshould mark it with feelings. ily, this report which was hailed as the definitive answer to many of the questions asked about the kennedy assassination appears not to have been that. it is remarkable to discover who receivedident the report that day, lyndon johnson, ultimately decided the warren commission had it wrong. at the end of his life, lyndon johnson believed that fidel castro had killed president kennedy. and that the warren commission had somehow been misled. remarkable thing to discover that the president of the united states who commissioned the warren commission did not believe the findings. >> president johnson is thrust into power by the assassination. his initial instinct is not to have a federal investigation of the assassination. as it turns out, a presidential assassination in 1963 was not a federal crime. if there was going to be a trial, it would have to be arranged by local and state officials in texas. johnson did not want say the -- said he did not want "ca

i thought we could be johnson, i thought we could be bobby kennedy because he was on the left wing of democratic party tell was savaging the president constantly and if we got the nomination lyndon johnson would have been working for richard nixon rather than bobby kennedy but hubert humphrey was a different story, humphrey was a committed liberal, democratic liberal who was in tight with the democratic establishment as vice president. we could have a real problem beating hubert humphrey to i think is their strongest candidate. that is march 31st. four days later dr. king was assassinated in memphis, 100 american cities went up in flames and smoke and fire and violence and looting and burning and there were federal troops in my home town of washington d.c. places i had grown up and was very familiar with as a kid were being burned down. it was the worst series of racial violence in american history, 100 cities burned and it was horrendous and that tremendously influenced the politics of that year, the american people were beginning to say this country is coming up hard and over in bal

been very recently we found out details of these attempted plots and hopefully we have nipped then in the bud. >> kennedyopened the pandora's box by bombing them? >> for those of us who are a little skeptical of this poorly-led intervention, yeah, i do think that is certainly one of the possibilities and you know, when you don't have an endgame you can't anticipate what is going to happen in the middle. it is possible we could have opened pandora's box and also the tsa is toothpaste now not going to be allowed on planes? are we not going to be able to take clothes on planes or wear mickey mouse hats? these things are very serious. i'm also skeptical about the claims of the khorasan group because that seems like very convenient timing for both the war powers act and the authorization, the bush era authorization. >> you know, just kind of on the heels of that, kennedy, we know the president gets that briefing document. it is highest level. >> we don't know that he reads it. that is the problem. >> that is actually true, david. >> someone is reading it in the white house. >> let's hope. >> they're getting s

take a look at what happened in those years before i got to meet richard nixon. 1963 we had john f. kennedynated. in 1964 we had the first uprising at berkeley at the great campus disorders of the 1960s. this was the beginning if you will of the revolution. in 1965 folks out here will remember the watts riots, the worst race riot of its time since the civil war. you have the beginning of the revolution. he and i was a young man. i was an editorial writer at the democrat editorial in st. louis. i throw back to washington to hear martin luther king delivered his famous speech in the lincoln memorial. i was up in the memorial with him. it was a magnificent moment. one year later 50 years ago this month, i was then the sharper county mississippi before they found the bodies of the three civil rights workers in the civil rights revolution of those days which it started off so well was rapidly disintegrating into disorder and riots and black power and black panthers and all the rest of it. that was the world became into. let's take a look at what nixon himself was enough period. you know people t

kennedy went to the hill and got knocked down on the programs. to stimulate the economy we to have it primarily on the tax side. throughout 1961, the economy continued to grow, but slowly. unemployment was a problem but not a crisis. economist heller saw room for improvement but politician kennedy held back. then, in 1962, walter heller saw his chance. the economy sputtered in '62 and i pushed hard for a tax cut. the treasury resisted a big tax cut. i wanted a down payment in '62 to make sure we didn't fall into a recession and go ahead in '63. he didn't buy that. in '62, he bought the idea of an across-the-boards tax cut. every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create new jobs and new salaries. these can create other jobs and salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding american economy. although kennedy agreed with him, heller had galbraith to contend with. every now and then his shadow would fall across the white house when he'd come home to report from india. the president would say, "galbraith's been lobbying against your

it pertains to john kennedy he visited this great city. we have the john f. kennedy center. have ken dye way. i was not for changing the name. >> that center is currently under going a renovation. >>> also new at 11:00, police are investigating a gold theft in west philadelphia. own are in of a vehicle parked on 52 and street near market street said a bag of gold jewelry was taken. no word on the value of that jewelry. but anyone with information should call police. >> the cbs-3 i team getting answers for montgomery county residents living near a prison who say they never received any alert about an escaped prisoner. this is video of convicted drug felon rah hobby hanker son being taken back into custody yesterday. he allegedly broke out of the montgomery county correct al facility in eagleville and was on the loose for a few hours. neighbors who live nearby enjoying labor day want to know why they were never warn. >> we didn't know anything. so we were trying to find updates on my phone, and there was really nothing out there. >> i was having a cook out and i saw a policema

we do for you? >> man: kennedy's head is in a vise. khrushchev... woman: khrushchev was now feeling very vulnerable. and castro... man: castro is getting angrier and angrier. pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war in a battle to see who would blink first. man: all three believed that once the war started there would be no stopping it. "cuban missile crisis: three men go to war" starts right now on pbs. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. john kennedy: we happen to live in the most dangerous time in the history of the human race. man: i can so vividly remember my first flyover of cuba when i coasted out over corpus christi, texas.

before that there had been the debacle at the bay of pigs where the kennedy administration and the cia attempted overthrow castro. we now know the kennedy administration was trying to kill castro through these assassination plots. some of them involving the mafia. >> another page in his address has -- what is the significance of that? >> he is the fbi agent who we now know had oswald under surveillance for weeks before the assassination and actually went out to the home where oswald's wife was living to interview her. what she tells lee harvey oswald, he writes her name and telephone number. this particular piece of paper would create an in norm is a rift in the commission and the fbibecause it appears the try to eliminate this portion of the notebook when attended documentation over to the warren commission. apparently in an effort to prevent the warren commission oswald newg that this fbi agent had him under surveillance. a very dedicated member of the and thismmission staff type of summary the fbi had to see ifupposedly anything had been misstated in the typewritten version. he discovered the names were removed i

kennedy is also a stunt rider, sky driver and aircraft daredevil. he is guy you wish you were. incredible man behind the show and part of the show. we have mike kennedy via skype right this minute. welcome back, guys. >> i don't need to talk. i'm having fun listening to you. keep going. >> what can we expect from you this new season? >> we did a lot of fun stuff this year. we did a lot besides airplane repossessions, the crocodiles and some of the big cats. we did wingsuit flying to get into remote location which is fun. >> you talk about this like it is no big deal. what is the craziest encounter you have with someone whose plane is being repossessed. >> you get shot at. it's a very expensive airplane and good night wouldn't want to shoot holes in it. i thought i was safe, but i was wrong. >> talk to us about how it's possible for you to get in these airplanes. you don't really know what the airplane is until you get in it. how are you able to fly all these different planes? how are you able to operate them? >> they all have wings and fly by the same physics. >> you're the most interesting man in the world. >> the episode involves

after eisenhower, we needed kennedy. after reagan, we needed clinton. and after eight miserable years of george w. bush, america needed barack obama. [applause] president inherited a bigger deficit, more wars, bigger job losses, or as large a deficit as president obama. but thanks to his leadership, america is moving forward again. i think we are now at 54 months in a row of positive job creation. we still have more to do, but 54 creation.positive job that is 142,000 jobs, but urgent work remains to be done. there are still too many of our neighbors unemployed. in a battlehere every day, isn't that right, mr. chairman? it is a battle for the country we carry in our part -- in our hearts. these tea party republicans, funded by their wealthy economic royalist friends like the koch brothers, they see america as a business,, failing limited capacity, limited potential, limited opportunity. it is sad. they actually see our country as a place that only can afford anymore to serve the interests of the privileged few. for those who prescribe this future of less

we didn't have an opponent then. you looked at the total vote, you had write-ins for rockefeller, romney, bobby kennedy write-ins on thetic side. nixon got more votes. people weren't looking at it, than all the others put together. because of a little project we had. he got four times as many write-in votes on the democratic ball t as bobby can kennedy can. people doesn't notice, they should have looked closely because what that said is, look, the country's turning toward this party and somewhat toward this man who's supposed to be the greatest loser of all time. the big news, though, was eugene mccarthy who got 42% of the vote against lyndon johnson, the president of the united states. and johnson and hid people, i don't know what they were thinking of, johnson's name wasn't even on the ballot. the president of the united states was running as a write-in candidate in new hampshire. and so i was astonished that he did this. and half of mccarthy's votes were from hawks, poem who wanted johnson -- people who wanted johnson to be tougher on vietnam. so johnson's people handled it horribly. three or four days later robert

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at the same time you can certainly make an argument, we don't know definitively what happened in the kennedyassassination and are there possibilities that castro was somehow involved? we don't know. but to use this as the meat of putting something together, it ain't there. >> thank you. please, your question. >> bruce guthrie. quickie point, we did lose another war, which was the invasion of russia after world war i. ignoring that, did the tapes talk at all about how much nixon brought gerald ford in on discussions of vietnam and how he felt about how things worked out once he left and ford, you know, presided over the demise of south vietnam? >> thank you. good. >> unfortunately, the taping system did not run for nixon's entire presidency. it ran until -- you saw at the very outset of the program, alexander butterfield revealing its existence. taping was turned off in july of '73. even before ford became vice president. as minority leader of the house of representatives though, he was called other for both republican events and bipartisan stro congressional leaders and they received a very

. >> jimmy: when we were going to -- if you don't mind, we were going to d.c., you were getting kennedytwain. >> jimmy: the mark twain award and we are all on one bus and it was the funniest bus i have ever been on, it was me, martin short, rob reiner, john lovitz -- >> danny devito. >> jimmy: danny devito and robin williams. >> yes. >> jimmy: and that was it on the whole bus. and we are driving -- >> but no names. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: not to be name dropping. driving through and before we get to go into the kennedy center, they have a dog come over, it's a bomb-sniffing dog. and robin goes, he goes, with a a bomb sniffing dog he goes, "oh, i hope there's no copies of my movies on this bus." [ laughter and applause ] "quick! everyone throw "popeye" out of the window!" [ laughter ] everyone went around and rob reiner goes, "do they have any copies of 'north'?" and then i go "do they have any copies of any movie i was in?" and then john lovitz goes, [ john lovitz impression ] "i've never made any bombs." [ laughter ] it was so good. we were crying laughing. [ applause ] >> he had -- you

backcan we expect him in virginia? suzanne kennedy is live outside the jail with some answers. >> matthew is in his second day jail.t the galveston he remains in administrative segregation, where he has been since wednesday. we understand from authorities and the district attorneys office here in texas that the paperwork has been handed off to the texas governor and signed off on. all that is awaiting us now is final arrangements to be made by the folks in charlottesville to transport jesse matthew back to virginia. he made two court appearances yesterday. one in the morning, a second later in the day. it was at the second appearance that he waived extradition. he said he did not want to talk with the virginia authorities here in town. there were three investigators down here yesterday. he said he did not want local counsel. fugitive wasld arrested on a beach wednesday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. he had pitched a tent. his car was pulled over on the side of the road. it was only because of the awareness of a woman from beaumont, texas,

live at the kennedy center with more. normally we are reporting along the national mall for concerts like this, the weather got in the way. everyone had to ad lib. a little bit. they came prepared for an outdoor concert. >> i was of the opinion that we would not get in. to get headed out early a good spot on the west lawn. >> we took as selfie and then texted her husband and said guess what, we made it. but instead of sitting on the grass they ended up inside. >>he bad news is the concert will not be on the lawn, but the good news is it will be in the kennedy center. >> ♪ the bombs bursting in air. the impending forecast and possibility of thunderstorms where they would have to evacuate the capitol grounds, we decided that for the show to go on we would perform inside. in the end, concertgoers replaced a stormy night outside with world-class performances inside. the national symphony orchestra played a wide variety of patriotic and popular songs to honor america's workforce. including a showstopper from nicole parker. concert organiz

and for that we are very grateful for your leadership. [applause] >> president kennedy, in 1963, talked about the civil rights act this way. he said, who amongst us would trade the color of their skin and be content with those who counsel patience and delay? at the time, they said we can take another 10, 15 years to implement civil rights. it's ok, let's take our time. that means one thing to a -- it mean something entirely different if the color of your skin is darker. who amongst us would trade places with that person, and be content with those who tell us wait. now is not the time. we face a similar moment in history today. because this is an issue that is a civil rights issue. it is about the discrimination against our brothers and sisters simply because of the immutable fact that their illness -- >> -- that their illness, as immutable as the color of their skin, is an illness of the brain as opposed to an illness of any other organ in the body. shortly after president kennedy put the civil rights bill before congress, he took on another civil rights bill, the commu

windsor case and that justice kennedy wrote in a wrote about liberty and state authority and federal and it wasn't clear to anybody at the time where he was going with this. what we have seen in the aftermath is a lot of federal courts focus on the diversion of liberty with really much less care for state power and federalism. maybe justice kennedy is happy to watch this all play out in on the other hand maybe he's looking for an opportunity to clarify what he previously wrote. >> it is the case though is met that justice kennedy is the author of all three major decisions and likely it will be his legacy. it would be a little bit surprising if you would take a turn now when the polling numbers and the court in so much of the nation is moving in one direction or do you disagree? >> i'm not going to make any money betting on what justice kennedy is going to do that justice kennedy has written a lot in his career about federalism. he's written a lot in his career but individual liberty liberty. oftentimes it seems for him in rome as a means to the end of liberty. it's not quite clear how it's going to play out and i think he takes these two lines of justice kennedy'

. >> rose: and we conclude this evening with rory kennedy. her latest documentary film is called "last days in vietnam." >> the u.s. said we're just going to get the u.s. personnel out of the country. we don't have time to get the vietnamese, and the u.s. personnel, many of them who were left on the ground, said not so fast. we can't leave our vietnamese friends, family, children behind. and so this story ends up being a story about these extraordinary acts of courage and heroism on the part of both americans and vietnamese to save vietnamese during those final hours. >> rose: david sanger, maggie gyllenhaal, and rory kennedy when we continue. funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> there's a saying around here: you stand behind what you say. around here, we don't make excuses, we make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll

i don't think we can step back from that now because you are not going to get unilaterally disarmed simultaneously. >> although kennedyand breyer and ginsburg didn't change every single member. >> i think we are now in the world and i don't know that anyone thinks we are still in that. i just want to see if the other panelists think there is hope. >> don't think there's any doubt we will ratchet in this process. i think it can get worse and when you think you can't get any worse, it does. >> an interesting question is what happens when you have the opposite party control of the president. up until now the last few nominations we have had the senate controlled by the same party as the president so everybody is voting on a party line the nominee will sweep by. it won't be pretty but they will sleep by. things get much more complicated if the other party is controlling the senate because then of course everybody goes on party line and they reject the nominee. the president comes back to another nominee and they keep keep having partyline rejections over time. the president will move more towards the center in terms of th

after eisenhower were we needed kennedy. after reagan we needed clinton and after eight miserable years of george w. bush america needed barack obama. [applause] no president inherited bigger deficit, more wars, bigger job losses or as large a deficit as president obama but thanks to his leadership, america is moving forward again. i think we are now at 54 months in a row of positive job creation. we still have more to do but 54 months in a row of positive job creation. [applause] that is 142,000 jobs. urgent work remains to be done because there are still too many of her neighbors on them play. those that handle the politics of fear have no intention of letting out votes and we are out there battling every day. it's a battle for the country we carry in our heart. unlike th the republicans a bisn or stay partier publicans funded by their wealthy economic friends like the koch brothers, they see america as a small place, don't they? a tiny place. limited capacity unlimited potential unlimited opportunity. it's sad. they actual

. >> we had rory kennedy who made inood documentary capturing terms of recollection and in terms of video>> i am dying to see it. she focuses on the end. >> what to do you remember? last day, we all had these little radios you can pick up communications from the embassy. you could buy them for $20 in hong kong. we heard the embassy talking to the marines, the airfield. and they were under heavy fire and 2 marines were killed. the last 2 casualties of vietnam. it was apparent to us it was the last day. is he evacuation was going to come. want to the roof and we saw an airplane shot down and it made us a little nervous. they resisted these activation and they could have shot down a lot but they let us go. a huge panic broke out in saigon. thousands and thousands of vietnamese pressing against the gates of the embassy and trying to climb over the wall and marines trying to beat them back. a terrible panic. when the last helicopter as otherwas falling, the post guy and i decided it was time to leave. we could see the rain was falling on saigon. we go see the ammunition blowing up. as we cross

american history visitserican artifacts places.and historic next, we visit the national archives in college park, maryland, to learn about the kennedy assassination records collection. the warren report was released to the public 50 years ago on september 27, 1964. we will see video recorded by the national archives of many of the well-known artifacts of the investigation including the harvey oswald's rifle, the so-called magic bullet, and he originals up router film -- zapruder film. >> the collection was created because of the act of 1992. since the time of the assassination, there have been numerous official investigations starting with the worn commission -- warren commission. the church committee looked into it. in the early 1990's, there was a movie that came out by oliver stone. at the end of the movie, he made a point of saying that all the records have been open and available. >> mr. chairman, members of the subcommittee, my name is oliver stone. i assure you it is with pleasure and with some pride i appear before the subcommittee today to urge the passage of house joint provide for54 to the expeditious disclosure of record

through the witnesses, we have followed kennedy from the corner to the announcement of his death. will follow another man from that same dallas corner to the same hospital and his own death. his name, lee harvey oswald. dan rather reports. >> this is the way the police reconstructed oswald's movements. company'sked past the main office on the second floor, the same office where he had just been questioned. he went to the stairs and took them down to elm street. now began to chase. the people involved were cecil, a bus driver, who was going west on home. a taxi driver, waiting for a pickup at the greyhound station. a waitress, helen. she was on her way to work. and ted, a used car dealer. the time was about 12:32 or slightly later. the police had not yet sealed off the book depository building. there was lack of knowledge as to where the shots came from. oswald was able to walk out by simply walking out. he started along elm street on this route. at feel the street, he got on a street, he got on a bus. the officers are now surrounding and searching the building, the book depository

looking at footage released by the kennedy library this summer of president kennedy vacationing at his family home in massachusetts. we are joined here on american history tv by lawrence knutson, author of "away from the white house: presidential escapes, retreats, and vacations." you covered the white house and washington for many years. is a president ever really away from his job? >> caller: never really. they certainly try and i have since the first president, george washington, broke off from his desk in philadelphia. when the coach and four horses went home. they haven't -- president kennedy's speech writer and special council said what many presidents said that a president's office is where he may be. unlike congress or the supreme court, the presidency never adjou adjourns. >> what roll does politics play in presidential vacations, getaways? >> i'm not sure what. i think the need to get away is probably predominant as we have seen in recent presidencies. if you have your own home, you tend to go to it. otherwise, like president obama, you go to a place that interests you and you probably, because of security c