kennedy. barbara perry, former judicial fellow at the u.s. supreme court, recounts the transformative effect mrs. kennedy had on the office of the first lady from her renowned celebrity to her engagement in the arts and the championing of cultural institutions. this is about an hour. >> thank you, don, so much for putting this series together, for that very nice introduction. thank you, too, to mary and flesh shah as well. don and i were chatting just beforehand that it's especially appropriate to talk about jacqueline kennedy at a historical society such as this because it was jacqueline kennedy who kicked off the movement to have historical societies for our branches of government. so it was the white house that had the very first historical society founded by mrs. kennedy in 1961, and then the capitol historical society, don tells me, followed just one year later in is the 62, and then -- 1962, and then a few years later 1974, the supremes as we call them, the u.s. supreme court historical

kennedy which that upset kennedy because the chancellor was running against them and kennedy saw this initially as a stunt for his election campaign. but then saw how outraged west berliners were. how much this endangered the prestige and the credibility of the united states at which time he sent some token troop reinforcements vice president johnson and general clay, the hero of the berlin airlift to reassure berliners that he would still defend berlin. the fear was that west berliners having seen this would flee out and just leave. and then east germany would win the city by default. so kennedy -- kennedy had to respond to that but billy before an saw families that were separated. lovers were separated. working people were separated. students were separated from their schools, workers suffered from their workplaces. it was a dramatic moment in history. >> i mean, people woke up in the morning, right as you describe very well and suddenly there was this barbed war. there was a beginning of the wall of a concrete wall and was refined. if you could mention some of the very dramatic and

why kennedy canceled his industry. he had become the most common explanation is that you become very concerned about public and international actions had been stirred up by the first round of airstrikes. it had become clear that the whole world realize the united states was behind air attacks almost a moguls first bombs fell on the 15th. and kennedy was concerned about provoking something, about lighting a match that would lead to a great nuclear problem. so with the advice of his secretary of state and russia, who called off these airstrikes. among the cia planners, they discovered this on the evening of april 16. they were horrified. it had been understood innovation had a chance cast of air force had to be taken out. at the moment kennedy canceled the strikes, everyone understood exactly what it meant. it was doomed. this was confirmed the following morning before the brigade had even completed its land. castro's plant show that over the bay of pigs and very quickly sunk to supply ships. the four other brigade ships

kennedy endorsed him. i hope he doesn't associate himself with kennedy's performance in 1961. >> host: in the last couple minutes, what would you like your readers to take away? what are the main things you would like them to take away from reading your book? >> guest: in some ways we're lucky with the cold war because we had an iconic symbol, the berlin wall. >> host: uh-huh. >> guest: of what happens when unfree systems are not resisted by free systems and so we see this and i want people to take away the fact that there are consequences for presidential decision. this one -- it was 30 years of extended cold war. and president kennedy could not have known it was going to end 30 years later. >> host: yeah. >> guest: it could have lasted forever. >> host: yeah. >> guest: where, you know, would we have wanted to go to war? no. would one want to take action to accelerate the liberation of tens of millions of east europeans, poles, czechs, hungarians, astonians? so i think i want people to reflect -- and perh

but kennedy admits it himself. he says at the end of the year in a conversation with ellie able who was the... his... my dean at columbia university journalism school but at that time he was the detroit news bureau chief, the washington bureau chief and ellie able came up to him and said "i want to write a book about your presidency, the first year of your presidency." and kennedy said "why would anyone want to read a book about an administration that has nothing to show for itself but a string of disasters." and if you look at it, he's right. the bay of pigs, botched invasion of cuban exiles that he allowed to go ahead but didn't give the teeth to succeed. the vienna summit with nikita kruschev by kennedy's own account to the "new york times" he was savaged, he calls it the worst day in his life, felt he showed kruschev a lot of weakness, and then the building of the berlin wall which i think was a total outgrowth of the bay of pigs and the vienna summit where kruschev was relatively confident that he could go ahe

and teddy was mesmerized. >> the day i met with patrick kennedy, it was a special day for the kennedys. ground breaking for the new edward m. kennedy institute. how significant is today for you? >> it's obviously great to see my father's legacy still so alive and well and see so many people turn out to honor him in this way and to keep his legacy alive. on the other hand, it's just a reminder that i don't have him in person anymore and that it has to come through this building and memories in order for me to, you know, think of him and he isn't just in front of me or by my side or able to share a conversation. >> do you think about him every day? >> it depends on the situation and clearly i just took my fiance to meet my aunt and it was moving to me because i hadn't realized that i didn't get to introduce her to my dad. yeah, he is with me every day. >> that would have meant a lot. on this bittersweet day, kennedy wanted to talk about a new campaign. he calls it moon shot. ramping up research on the brain and all kinds of brain disease. the cancer that killed his father but also things

rose kennedy. and i believe she started the entire process of kennedy imagery by creating images herself of her children, her husband, her family and her son as president. and so i hope you will look for this in the next couple of years. rose, mother of the kennedy image. there are books available in the back about all of these first ladies about whom you've heard here at the society. i'd be happy to sign mine for you. and i would just like to say we have about ten minutes or so if you have questions. please, please, feel free to ask. finish who would like to throw out the first question? yes. >> could you touch upon how she handled when all this was going on as far as scandals with her husband? >> yes. the question is did i touch upon the so-called scandals of improprieties, particularly of her husband, is that touched upon in my book? >> of of course, this is a bookf facts, so one cannot ignore that. in fact, what i think she was trying to do with teddy white that week after the assassination was

you're watching "patrick kennedy coming clean." t rare and magical fruit, which provided for their every financial need. [ thunder rumbling ] [ thunder crashing ] and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last. but with their raymond james financial advisor, they had prepared for even the unthinkable. ♪ and they danced. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. >>> welcome back. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. there's another thing you should know about patrick kennedy -- he's getting married to a sixth grade history teacher with a 3-year-old daughter. the wedding is set for the second week of july. what are your days like? >> i make sure i try to get all my e-mails and phone calls out of the way during the day so that by 3:00 when my fiance comes home and brings her daughter, we're able to play, have an early dinner, then get her to bed. we have a long bedtime routine that involves sharing stories and i'll read curious george one night or fancy nancy another, and that's the best therapy i've ever had. >> w

kennedy. other first ladies? your first impression, your first memory of a first lady? yes? >> i was born in washington shortly before the new deal. my mother was a reporter she covered eleanor roosevelt. i got invited to the white house. >> wonderful. we have someone here in the audience who is based in washington at the start of the new deal. her mother covered eleanor roosevelt. this lady was invited to parties with eleanor roosevelt. this is a wonderful thing about speaking in washington d.c. because you have everyone here has a story, an interesting story. i must say i've given this talk very -- fairly frequently. i asked this very question, who is the first lady can remember and a nice lady and a friend raised her hand and said mrs. calvin coolidge. i said, we have a winner. no one has yet topped that for going back any farther. other more recent first ladies? anybody want to offer that is your first memory? yes. >> i remember thinking how goofy looking mamie ivan howser -- mamie eisenho

kennedy. jfk. and then, there was bobby. >> we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond or go beyond these rather difficult times. >> and teddy, the third to reach the u.s. senate. the three handsome brothers carved a legend in the stone of national politics. >> too many of our senior citizens are being forced to choose between neglecting their ailments or being pulverized by them. >> at home, there was ted and his wife, joan. teddy junior, kara, and patrick. who was the youngest by six years. there were many bright days to remember. and dark ones too. by the time patrick was born, his uncle, the president, had been murdered. and before he was 2, his uncle robert had been murdered as well. >> saw a wrong and tried to right it. saw suffering and tried to heal it. saw war and tried to stop it. >> it was july of 1967, patrick's birth made headlines. just five days old, and people wondered if he would run for president. >> did you sit around the dinner table, i mean the same issues that he w

robert kennedy in my alternate history has taken john kennedy's senate seat in massachusetts and teddy would have been too yet. in that year of the robert kennedy of 1960 was more of a cold war kind of guy than he later came to be. there is nobody pushing for the other way out which means not to give away too much the result of the cuban missile crisis are really different from the one that some of us lived through and read about. that is one. the second story, obvious personal connections, another attempt on a life of another kennedy on june 4th lead digital 1968. robert kennedy has finished his victory speech and because of the decision to spare him another rally he goes to the kitchen at the ambassador hotel but unlike reality, something changes. here is another of those discoveries that threw me for a move. i was reading oral history in the john f. kennedy library and cable across steve smith's oral history where i blame myself sometimes because i was always in the habit when i was around the senator of walking in front of him, not for security but to get him through faster. had he

kennedy. handsome, brilliant, wanting to be a great historical president like lincoln, franklin and roosevelt, but fearful they only became great in times of war. illiterate until his '20s against him, formed through war, survived world war ii, survived stalin's purges but very insecure and resentful of american millionaires. and then the other cocharacters you talked about, the west german leader, 85 years old, conrad. founded west germany, brought germany back from the ashes of world war ii, and then walter oldrich, probably the last-standing stalinist. conrad distrusted kennedy, thought he was not experienced enough, didn't have enough backbone to handle the soviets, and walter distrusted kruschev, and a lot of that story is about him leveraging his weakness into forcing kruschev to approve the wall. so it was a great cast of characters. i don't think even fiction could have given me a better cast. >> host: now, you also have some interesting minor characters in the book. they didn't play a

kennedy which upset president kennedy enormously because running for chancellor and kennedy saw this as initially as a stunt for his election campaign, but then saw how outramminged west berliners were and how much this endangered the press stege and creditability of the united states at which time he sent troop reenforcements, vice president japson, and -- johnson, and the hero of the berlin air lift, to reensure berliners he would still defend berlin. the fear was west berlin would just leave and then the east germany would win the city by default. kennedy had to respond to that, but billy saw that families were separated, lovers were separated. you know, working people were separated. students were separated from their schools, workers separated from workplaces. a dramatic place in history. >> host: people woke up and there was the barbed wire and the concrete wall, but just, if you could mention some of the very dramatic and sad stories of people who still tried to get out, and how the rules changed for the east german border guards on what they were told to do. >> guest: the sto

kennedy. from the outset, nixon realized that fidel castro was either going to be an opportunity or a problem for him. pretending on whether castro was still in power or gone by election day. in the fall of 1960, john kennedy was beating the eisenhower administration over the head with fidel castro. kennedy didn't realize that no subject rosed american voters more than the sector of communist cuba. and in every stop, he reminded voters that the island was near eight minutes away. and he blamed eisenhower and company, including vice president nixon for letting this happen. imagine being in the shoes of richard nixon. he had a well earned reputation as a communist buster, and along comes the democrat from massachusetts, suggesting that he, richard nixon, was not quite anti-communist enough. kennedy somehow managed to out flank nixon as an anti-communist hawk. probably the best example of this occurred in one the nixon kennedy television debates. not the first, the one that's most famous, but the

i am not sure kennedy had those skills. fell last five 4/6 months of kennedy's life was beginning to emerge from a cautious politician, not all that interested, he was in foreign policy. in then as a moral issue that is where they get so speculative but it is a good question. >> at this point* we're doing with john kennedy and the assassination. when i first read the book or that particular section within the first context of the first 15 pages where you hypothesize that johnson will become president, i was shocked at that and came to a different conclusion that the country would have been so shocked by that particular assassination that they would have sought in another year of our two years of eisenhower. i was curious. >> if it would have occurred. >> let me just answer. they couldn't not as a to term president but this is a case where you pay your money. that is what i meant. you know, the parallel universe theory? it is in finance that means somewhere somebody has written a book but look, what i sketched out was my ver

. >> reporter: there, she met kennedy, a home-grown activist born and raised in kibera, a place with little sanitation and extreme dangers, especially for girls. >> it's difficult for an american girl to come and live. >> kennedy was a street boy, struggling, fighting, making his own way. earning a dollar, two dollars a day. he would give it all away. instead of asking them to pay back the loans, he would ask them to pass it forward. >> reporter: the two work together, encouraging each other's goals. jessica won the trust of the neighborhood, and kennedy eventually won a full scholarship to wesleyan university in connecticut. for both, it opened a world they never imagined possible. >> kennedy always talked about wanting to build a school for girls and the other services the community really needed. >> reporter: jessica also coaxed kennedy into applying for a $10,000 grant. suddenly, they could see a dream realized. >> it was a frenzy. the whole school, i think we built it in four weeks. >> reporter: since 2009, 64 little girls now have free access to health care, food, and a good ed

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because endeavor is launching into a 53.6 degree inclination on a northeast trajectory from the kennedy space center, the primary abort landing site is in spain with marone spain and france available as alternate sites as well. once endeavor lifts off and clears the fixed service structure, it's onboard -- its onboard guidance will put it on the proper course and trajectory to achieve its desired orbit. at main engine cutoff, endeavor will be in a 136 by 36 statue mile orbit, and about 30 minutes later that will be refined using the orbital engines placing the orbiter many a 202 by 141 statue mile altitude for orbit operations. today's launch actually serves as the first in a series of rendezvous burns designed to allow the orbiter to catch up with the international space station. docking is scheduled for 6:15 eastern time wednesday morning. at launch time the space station at an altitude of 220 statute miles will be located southeast of halifax, nova scotia. 73 paces from the shuttle flight control room resides the team overseeing operations aboard the international space station. that

taking off if the kennedy space center in cape canaveral florida. every time you see it, it gives you chills. let's go to bob at the kennedy space center. hey, bob. >> i gotta say. i gotta tell you. you can hear the, feel the vibration when they goes up through the clouds. it goes from zero to 17,000 miles per hour in 8:30. it went right through the clouds. there is fear of danger if the cloud is there over the top, it could be canceled. as long as it's 5,000 feet in the air, it's safe, not too thick. so they can in terms of visually, they can see what's doing. headache sure it's going in the right direction up through the sky. it's not just the radars they need. they want to have people placed around the area here in florida to watch it as they go. but there it is. it's unbelievable sight. >> the last flight of space shuttle "endeavour." the second to last mission for the space shuttle program. commanded by mark kelly, the husb >> eric: we'll follow the endeavour mission for you. it's 5:59. thanks for joining us. >> kristen: i'm kristen sze. sunny

kennedy was of white northern european heritage. george herbert walker bush is of white northern european heritage. but michael dukakis? bush. he's whiter. chris: bush attacked four years later on clinton. >> this kind of attack shows just how separate the bush campaign has become. yes, i did go to moscow by train in 1969. i struck up a conversation with the man on the seat next to me. he gave me a package to take to moscow and leave it across from lenin's tomb. >> isn't it true that you burned an american flag in red square? >> i tried to burn an american flag once. i didn't like it. gave off toxic fumes so i didn't inhail. chris: ask and when bush 43 was running against john kerry, there was those infamous swift vote ads. saturday night life was on the case. >> i started taking sniper fire. three of us were pinned down. that's when john kerry turned to me and said you know, i don't think americans pay enough taxes. >> kerry ordered us not to shoot the enemy because he was against the death penalty. >> everyone thought it was an am

and number three, marry a kennedy. but anyway. >> reporter: they married 25 years ago on cape cod, have four children, an estate in brentwood. but look more closely, and perhaps there were clues of cracks in that perfect facade. at a women's conference she created shriver said the passage of time means different things to different people. >> for some it's time to get married. for others time to leave a relationship that just doesn't work anymore. >> reporter: this past weekend at their nephew's graduation shriver was not wearing a wedding ring. in a joint statement the couple talked of a time of great "personal and professional transition" since schwarzenegger left office. "we came to this decision together," they said. shriver has admitted she didn't want her husband to run for governor, but she supported him, even in the face of allegations of sexual harassment. and over time she became a pioneering first lady. >> she was a kennedy. that gave him legitimacy as a politician. >> reporter: the family has been through a

kennedy launching us to the moon was delivered before a joint session of congress 50 years ago today. he set a deadline of 1970, and while he did not live to see it, we made it by the summer of '69, and the kennedy library today released audiotapes on a meeting with the head of nasa on the subject. the president can be heard worrying that will seen lie a stunt. >> but he seems jurally convinced it was for the good of the nation. >> i think it would be an asset, this program. i think it's setting up a lot of things, but a lot of people may say, what are we making the trip for? but at the end of the day, we're glad we made it. >> the irony is, of course, we're about to end the manned space program when the last shuttle launches this july. neil armstrong was one of the three astronauts writing in today's "usa today," quote, john f. kennedy would have been sorely disappointed. >>> and for oprah fans, of course, today is right up there with the end of the space program. today's last oprah winfrey show. it's hard to compare her influence with anyone else in the modern era. the lives she's c

but justice kennedy, who wrote the opinion said, we're not about to start stepping into other venues. this is unique to california. they have had decades to try to fix this problem. the state has been under court order for a long time to try to reduce the population. and he did spg very unusual in his opinion. he appended three pictures to it that showed the telephone booth size cages. gwen: yeah, we just showed it. >> yes. it's perfect to show how dramatic the crowding was. so, no, major. over many, many years, california has had a problem and this is very unique to that. >> can you talk about the arizona decision? what was at stake in that immigration decision and how does it project forward to the other arizona law that's much tougher and more controversial? >> yes. in fact that one was controlled by the conservative on the court with justice kennedy with him there. the other one was obviously with the liberals. what conservative majority and an opinion by chief justice roberts said was arizona has a law that the justices upheld. if you knowingly hire any illegal immigrant, your bu

kennedy wrote a prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance including adequate medical care has no place in civilized society. now, this case produced an extraordinarily heated debate between the conservatives and liberal justices, and dissent justice samuel alito said the court was, quote, game building the safety of the people of california. he added, i fear that today's decision, like prior prisoner release orders, will lead to a grim roster of victims. now justice alito referenced a smaller release in philadelphia back in the 1990's that resulted in thousands of rearrests and almost 10,000 new crimes. but justice kennedy downplayed that threat to the public, he said that was overblown and suggested that the state of california could take up to five years to cut the prison population and could also decide which inmates they were going to let go. kennedy acknowledged that even doing those things still would mean an unprecedented release of prisoners. >> mitchell: you mentioned five years, jan. how soon could these prisoners actually be on the street? >> reporter: the court sai

kennedy's life. this is the red room, and the reason i show this is that was the first room that she completed in her restoration, but this was the day of her husband's funeral. and she insisted that she meet those who were coming from afar, those who were diplomats, the diplomatic corps from abroad. and so she stood with her brother-in-law, senator edward kennedy, to her right, and she insisted on greeting everyone who had come to pay their respects to her husband. on a more glittery note, again, we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time that she was in the white house, and it was only a little over a thousand days, she and her husband threw 16 state dinners. in the first term, full four years of the w. bush term, they held, i believe it was two. now, mind you, 9/11 happened during that time, there were security issues, but the bushes, the second bushes from texas were just not as interested in that. they weren't as interested in state entertainment. they weren't as int

and, of course, senator robert kennedy also contributed to getting me out of jail. it was a national story. in fact, talking about cesar, three hours after senator kennedy was in delano with cesar, three hours later he was with the kids taking that famous picture that you'll see in the book. anyway, apparently president clinton saw the documentary and saw the poster. that's supposed to be me here with the long nose. they said, hey, i have a long nose. invite that dude to the white house. so, wow, i got invited in 1996 to the white house. damn. hey, born in l.a., don't steal nothing. [laughter] so i see president, i see president kennedy, he could have been a tight end for the university of arkansas. he came in with a great big smeal, and i didn't see monica lewinsky anywhere, but he had a smile on his face. [laughter] so, you know, i had to tell him, and this is the serious part. we're getting down to what hector asked me. i had to tell him in 1996, my president. i thought i was a -- [speaking spanish] i guess. but, you know, my president, we have the dubious distin

jack kennedy never had to talk publicly about gay rights. suddenly everybody has to in politics. this also leads the republicans or conservatives who are leading this charge vulnerable because if you are going to say you are against gays getting married you better make sure your own marriage is on the up and up. >> host: five minutes left. next is california. >> caller: i would like to say that i have been a big fan of larry flynt for long time and thank you for everything you have written. i am so excited about your book. my oldest son -- my question was i have a 14-year-old son sitting in church with aids and if he thought his book would be appropriate but he is an avid historian and very mature and after listening to your stories it is so historical that i believe it is a perfect book for a budding historian. >> guest: as far as the book goes, it is very much proper for of 15-year-olds. i'd like sue and i was publishing house where for 15 years and with a lot of teenagers in puberty. not that they were illegally supposed to read the magazine but that is the way it happened. >>

kennedy" before it was decommissioned four years ago, today on what would have been president kennedy's 94th birthday, the navy said the next u.s. air carrier will also be named "john f. kennedy" in honor of his service in world war ii. >>> that brings us to the story of veterans of world war ii on this memorial day weekend. recently two dozen service members from tennessee and mississippi ranging in age from 83 to 95 got to make a special pilgrimage to washington to see the world war ii memorial, their memorial, for the first time. they arrived to a hero's welcome, 66 years in the making. marines, army infantrymen, and air 4 gunners, even a few women who served, known as waves and whacks, to the crowd, there was just one name for them, heroes. >> couldn't imagine anything like this before. in fact it was a greater welcome than i got when i came back from europe. >> private parnell, you have not changed a bit. >> reporter: it's been a lifetime since they flew over the targets, stormed the beaches, and won the big one. >> hello, my world war ii warriors. >> reporter: but it all comes flo

that's catherine in the kennedy space center. we're going to continue our live coverage throughout the morning on endeavor's final mission. again, lift off scheduled for 5:56, just about 16 minutes from now. we're going to bring you that live. >>> we're all over it. time now 5:40. the bike race is scheduled to start today after stage 1 was canceled because of -- cancelled because of winter weather. it had to be cancelled yesterday because of snow and ice. look at this. now stage 2 is set to take off at 10:15 this morning. it will land in sacramento. the weather could once again be a problem. this will take cyclist over the pass which closed over the weekend because of the weather. >>> wants to be known as the fun small town in america. the town is making a push to get the being rights by winning a contest being held by u.s.a. today. now people can go on to facebook and vote for top towns in several categories along with most fun, people can also vote on most beautiful, patriotic. the visitor bureau says the most fun category fits

it was really candid, a kennedy talking about what it was like to be a kennedy as a drug addict, a sitting congressman getting these drugs from constituents, people in his office, it was remarkable. >> did he get help along the way? what i mean by that, he's surrounded by family and friends and people who would want to help see him succeed? or did he consider a lot of that being a kennedy, a lot of that enabled him to continue what was an addictive lifestyle. >> right. you asked the exact question. i think it's both ways. on one hand, it was a very welcoming, opening family and on the other hand it sounded like he was a complete loser, this is his language, not mine, because he was a kennedy. he's supposed to have strong perseverance type, the images of kennedys that they put in their minds and instead he was in and out of rehab so many times. >> sanjay, tomorrow, special on sunday, right? >> sunday night. we're going to talk about his plans to address these problems. >> please know, you are welcome to come in on my show. >> i was starting to get hurt feelings. i've never been invited. so

justice kennedy refuted that. he said that the lower court here had taken testimony and had statistical evidence from expert witnesses that showed that prison... the reduction of prison populations in at least a half dozen other states had not put the public safety at risk. he felt that the lower court here did give adequate weight to public safety concerns. >> suarez: were the dissenters, well, at least have a bit of a point when they say that through this ruling the federal courts have a big say over what happens in state prisons? doesn't this ruling do that? >> ray, to be honest, i think this court does not want federal judges running prisons or any other kind of institution. they have felt that way for many years. but this was a case, an unusual case, where the complaint and the court proceedings had lasted for almost 20 years. it was clear from the oral arguments in the case that a number of the justices felt very frustrated by the delays and the inability of california to follow the various court orders. the

justice kennedy refuted that. he said that the lower court here had taken testimony and had statistical evidence from expert witnesses that showed that prison... the reduction of prison populations in at least a half dozen other states had not put the public safety at risk. he felt that the lower court here did give adequate weight to public safety concerns. >> suarez: were the dissenters, well, at least have a bit of a point when they say that through this ruling the federal courts have a big say over wt happens in state prisons? doesn't this ruling do that? >> ray, to be honest, i think this court does not want federal judges running prisons or any other kind of institution. they have felt that way for many years. but this was a case, an unusual case, where the complaint and the court proceedings had lasted for almost 20 years. it was clear from the oral arguments in the case that a number of the justices felt very frustrated by the delays and the inability of california to follow the various court orders. there

kennedy paid a visit to canada, they were treated as conquering heroes. too short. we have just--have you talked to sy hersh on this program? you know, we did a television series about the other side of kennedys in conjunction with sy's book. a lot of people objected to seeing another side of the--of the kennedy white house at the time, yes, but unrequited, unhoped. but i remember--do we all not?--the hope and the--and the sense of commitment to the rest of the world and the sense of potential accomplishment that so many people had during the kennedy presidency, the degree to which he attracted talented people to come and serve in the administration. people were profoundly angry when we took a look at the other side of the kennedy white house. c-span: did you interview john f. kennedy? >> guest: mm-hmm, only once and only on the road. c-span: how old were you then? >> guest: never sat down with him. c-span: do you remember? >> guest: in my 20s--yeah, in my mid-20s. c-span: you picked in this book a photo at the lincoln memorial... >> guest: right. c-span: ... from b

justice kennedy refuted that. he said that the lower court here had taken testimony and had statistical evidence from expert witnesses that showed that prison... the reduction of populations in at least a half dozen other states had not put the public safety at risk. he felt that the lower court here did give adequate weight to public safety concerns. >> suarez: were the dissenters, well, at least have a bit of a point when they say that through this ruling the federal courts have a big say over what happens in state prisons? doesn't this ruling do that? >> ray, to be honest, i think this court does not want federal judges running prisons or any other kind of institution. they have felt that way for many years. but this was a case, an unusual case, where the complaint and the court proceedings had lasted for almost 20 years. it was clear from the oral arguments in the case that a number of the justices felt very frustrated by the delays and the inability of california to follow the various court orders. there were

you know, i had the honor of speaking today at the kennedy library. and for an irish catholic kid from scranton, it was a gigantic honor. i was asked to commemorate john kennedy's famous speech challenging our nation to go to the moon. when president kennedy made his moon shot speech in 1961 there were those who said, and i was a senior in high school, i remember the sense of enthusiasm, but i remember the naysayers. some of the adults in my neighborhood, the development we lived in who said we can't afford this kind of silly commitment. we can't afford at this moment that moment in our history to make such an investment. but just like there are those then, today they are the same people. and there are many of our republican colleagues who are seeking to stay and gain office, who say we can't afford today. literally, this is what they say, we can't afford to make the investments in education, in early education, in access to college, we can't afford to make the investments in innovation and technology and science. we can't afford -- they acknowledge a

kennedy was two weeks old when she had her first operation. she's had two more open heart surgeries since. he reconstructed tiny blood vessels small as strand of spaghetti. >> sew them to construct a new set of larger pulmonary arteries. >> everyone is proud of the little girl and definitely shown she is a fighter and can handle it. >> dr. handly was not available to talkitous. he's probably still operating at this hour. kennedy will need more surgeris and regular check ups over her lifetime. for now, she's celebrating one year at a time. >> she looks terrific. thank you. >> and all right, talk about the cool weather out there. >> boy, it was colder today spencer. >> temperatures dropped 10-15 from yesterday's high in many locations. the clouds were slow to burn away. here's a live view from the high definition cam rampt many of the clouds burned away now finally and we have plenty of sunny skies and clouds are moving inland right now. we have high temperatures. larger numbers there in the yellow . negative in the blue indicate how much lower

kennedy, loved the arts. so she would use each and every one of these state entertainment occasions to bring artists to the white house. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> and we are back here at the second annual gaithersburg book festival in gaithersburg, maryland. up next, edward dolnick on isaac newton and the birth of the modern world. >> good afternoon and welcome to the second annual gaithersburg book festival. my name is kathy, and i'm a city council member. gaithers been -- gaithersburg proudly supports culture, and we are please today bring you this event. a couple of announcements. for the consideration of everyone here, please silence any devices that make any kind of noise. your feedback is critical in helping us to improve this event. surveys are available here at the info desk and online at our web site. everyone who submits a survey will be entered into a random drawing for a nook color, so, please, be sure to fill one out and submit it.

kennedy's life. this is the red room, and the reason i show this, that was the first room she completed in the restoration but this was the day of her husband's funeral, and she insisted she immediate those who were coming from afar, those who were diplomats, the diplomatic corps and she stood with her brother-in-law, edward kennedy to her right, and insisted on greeting everybody who came to pay their respects to her husband. on a more grit note, we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time she was in the white house, only a little over 1,000 days, she and her husband threw 16 state dinners. in the first term, full four years, of the w. bush term, they ahead believe it was two now, mind you 9/11 happen during that time. there will security issues, but the bushes, the second bushes, from texas, were just not as interested in that. they weren't as interested in state entertainment. the weren't as interested in bringing people from abroad and entertaining them at the white ho

happy birthday to kennedy. they moved here to be closer to the doctors at the hospital. >> celebrate her birthday every year. >> every day. every day. >> jeff ranieri is here with us. take it away. >> you may not be celebrating the forecast as we head into the weekend. big-time changes. you may want to enjoy the sunshine we're going to get in between. we have the wind i can kickinging up in advance of the fog returning tonight. winds at 16 and current temperature of 56. highs today on the cooler side. it was the south bay that had the warmest conditions right into gilroy with low 70. 71 in the valley and weather watcher calling that in. los gatos calling in those upper 60s. 58, livermore, and currently 66 in santa rosa. throughout tonight, the fog comes back. it's going to be chilly with temperatures in the 40s and throughout thursday we'll have more afternoon sunshine, even a little bit of warming. but here's the thing you want to focus in on. this weekend, late season rain, even the possibility of thunderstor

but now patrick kennedy is coming clean. in an exclusive conversation with our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. and so many interesting things came out of this interview. you know, when it comes down to it, none of us know what it's like to be part of the kennedy family. >> yeah. in some ways what patrick described, it was very challenging for him to be a member of the family. and, you know, he was in rehab while in high school for cocaine, to give you an idea how far back this extends. most people remember the embarrassing moments. but even as a sitting congressman, as you might guess, a lot of this behavior was taking place. just the full extent of it, i don't think people have heard. i asked him specifically about that, carol. take a listen to this. >> how many times did you need to go to rehab? >> i would say i've been to rehab easily over half a dozen times. >> was there a time when you said this isn't working and this just doesn't work? >> well, one of the things that i knew i needed to do was to live a l