jack kennedy, young, vigorous, dynamic. it was a very useful foil. now, it really wasn't true. scholars have known for a long, long time that, actually, behind the scenes eisenhower was very powerful, that he knew how to manipulate people, he could be pretty brutal, actually, about it. but he operated by what a princeton professor many years ago called the hidden hand theory of government. he was very adept -- i guess he learned this through his military career -- at operating behind the scenes so you couldn't really see his hand at work. all of this is interesting political science, but again, i'm interested in the human dimension here. and i spent a lot of time with ike's son, john, who's 90 years old but has all his marbles, and we were talking about the balance between the genial ike and the cold-blooded ike. and i said, you know, 50/50? and john eisenhower said make that 75% cold-blooded. this is his son, we're talking about. richard nixon, who was eisenhower's vice president, said that eisenhower was more complicated and devious than most people realize, and then nixon sa

along comes jack kennedy, he also loses -- jack kennedy loses his sister in a plane crash, in the 1940s, she went down with her husband, a big romantic couple went down. and later on, teddy went down in a plane, and was badly hurt, but the pilot was killed, as was another passenger. and so -- and then, of course, many years later along comes his son. so you think about john kennedy's life, jack kennedy, president kennedy's life, he had at least four members of his family who were killed in the air. >> you've heard it described as the kennedy curse. but just to look at -- >> the kennedy curse. >> david gergen, thank you so much. >> thanks, brooke. >> 50 years ago, back at camp david. appreciate it. >>> now parents and chauffeurs and drivers around the world. listen up. this car and its on board vacuum cleaner being called a dream come true. we'll show you the hot new cars and hot new vacuums apparently. that's at the new york auto show. that's up next. what's better? doing two things at once or just one? [ all kids ] twooooo! [ moderator ] you sure? i am absolutely positive! [ little boy

kennedy famously talked about a fifty percent of the cost of all the hospitals in america been paid for by the federal government up at that point sixty two now we have a recent gallup poll that shows that seventy seven percent of americans support government programs to put people back to work on infrastructure and that that would create jobs i mean you know isn't this isn't this this is not rocket science what i brought you know you were just where you are in the world did you just have your previous segment was about how you're going to have a duty to get america from honduras or something but we're it's really the literature that they should already have trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see you know let's go after government ways even the reader's digest said we waste a trillion dollars a year would not be a great downpayment on infrastructure the amount of waste in court in america is mind boggling i absolutely agree with you can i go as well your ways it was no worse than i got as ways to let them do something about it but that here's the question here is the sol

mean that was when we stopped where we build a lot of schools while hospitals before that you know jack kennedy famously talked about a fifty percent of the cost of all the hospitals in america had been paid for by the federal government up at that point sixty two now we have a recent gallup poll that shows that seventy seven percent of americans support government programs to put people back to work on infrastructure and that that would create jobs i mean you know isn't this isn't this this is not rocket science what i brought you know you were just lawyer in the world did you just have your previous segment was about how you're going to have they didn't tell you that i met from honduras or something that was really good the other day that they should already have trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see you know let's go after government ways even the reader's digest said we waste a trillion dollars a year would not be a great downpayment on infrastructure the amount of waste in court in america is mind boggling and i absolutely agree with you can i go as well your ways it w

kennedy was laid up with a bad back injury nixon sort of helped the reorganization of the senate but she wrote to him and said you are one of the most wonderful people. so i won't call them friends. they were politicians no one is really friends in this business. >> o'neill and ronald reagan must have been friends. >> but they were friendly colleagues, roughly the same age and kennedy was playing rough. nothing was called back and he felt he was being roughed up. they were saying terrible things about him, it was a rough campaign and when it was all over people were still arguing about that and don't forget if he had won the illinois and texas she would have won and he always felt he got royal least if in that election. >> there is a renaissance and i caught some of this when i was both at the library because of george w. bush because people were looking back to richard nixon and saying you can have a good government republic at once the government to be efficient and that certainly has to grow all the wonder mixed and it did grow. the republican party is so different now. there was

it reminded me of the old lloyd benson moment where he said, senator, you are no jack kennedy. dianne feinstein is the last person who needs to be lectured about the rigors of the constitution and what limits may or may not be about the second amendment. >> if there's anyone who knows a lit bit about the horrors of gun violence, goldie, as you say, it's dianne feinstein. she became mayor of san francisco in '78 because a gunman assassinated the sitting mayor and murdered gay rights pioneer harvey milk. we saw senator feinstein sticking up for herself. take a listen to her back on that day when she confronted gun violence firsthand. >> both mayor musconi and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. >> goldie, i would only point out that the day those assassinations happened, november 28th, 1978, ted cruz was just 7 years old. so how come he's now lecturing senator feinstein about firearms? >> you know, to say that there are no limits on the second amendment is like saying there's no limit on the right of free speech. of course there's a limit on free speech. there's lib

invited them to the wedding when jack kennedy was laid up with a back injury nixon helped in the senate and protected him and mrs. kennedy wrote to him and said you are one of the most wonderful people. i won't call them friends, they were politicians. no one is really friends in this business. >> o'neill and ronald reagan must have been friends. >> yeah right. [laughter] there were colleagues and roughly the same age. nothing was held back. she felt she was being roughed up and they were saying terrible things about him. there was a left leaning campaign for the more he thought when it was all over that he had been stolen, she thought that he won. if he had one illinois, and he always felt that he got stiffed in that election. >> there was an interest in ethnic sam and i caught some of this when i was at the library because of george w. bush, because people were looking back to nixon saying you can have a good government republic that once the government of the efficient. although under mix and it did grow. the the republican party is so different now because there is no room for nixon

>> in washington host of msnbc "hardball" and author of jack kennedy elusive hero, chris matthews and along with the post, e.j. dion. >> we have so many good catholics here. except for -- let me restate that. we have so many catholics here! e.j., let's start with you. i know that this is an interesting selection for you. because this is a pope who does focus on the poor, has focused on the poor for years. but is probably not quite as progressive on some social issues as you'd like. talk about the new world pope. >> well, you know, there are a lot of ghendimensions here and t on the role of women in the church and rights of gays and not see much change here. but to elude something that cardinal barnicle said early in the show there weren't a lot of blue state cardinals in that conclave. so you weren't going to get somebody out of this round that was going to make a lot of change in that area, although i think room for him. on the poor, he has been very strong. he is not left wing. he was critical of the theological thinking and line of thought was condemned by pope benedict when he was

he said jack kennedy, before he died, had no intention of withdrawing from vietnam. thank you. >> guest: no, you're absolutely right. and, um, i'm sure many of our viewers have seen jfk, the oliver stone movie. and the premise of that is that johnson has kennedy killed in order to sell more bell helicopters, because bell helicopters were gonna -- were used in vietnam, and they were made in texas. now, a small problem with that. nobody even thought of using helicopters in a widespread, anti-guerrilla move until 1966 which is made famous in another book, "we were soldiers once and young," when the 7th cavalry taliban began using -- began using helicopters to drop troops into a hot zone. so the notion that johnson has the prescience to say, oh, we're going to be needing bell helicopters here pretty soon, it's just nonsense. >> host: next call comes from cliff in claireton, pennsylvania. >> caller: yes, professor. >> guest: hi. >> caller: yes. you mentioned that you weren't a conspiracy theorist on the jfk assassination. >> guest: right. >> caller: i was wondering if you

he said jack kennedy, before he died, had no intention of withdrawing from vietnam. thank you. >> guest: no, you're absolutely right. and, um, i'm sure many of our viewers have seen jfk, the oliver stone movie. and the premise of that is that johnson has kennedy killed in order to sell more bell helicopters, because bell helicopters were gonna -- were used in vietnam, and they were made in texas. now, a small problem with that. nobody even thought of using helicopters in a widespread, anti-guerrilla move until 1966 whic is meamou .. 7th cavalry taliban began using -- began using helicopters to drop troops into a hot zone. so the notion that johnson has the prescience to say, oh, we're going to be needing bell helicopters here pretty soon, it's just nonsense. >> host: next call comes from cliff in claireton, pennsylvania. >> caller: yes, professor. >> guest: hi. >> caller: yes. you mentioned that you weren't a conspiracy theorist on the jfk assassination. >> guest: right. >> caller: i was wondering if you were aware that hunt, former oss, former cia and watergate burg

that's like accusing franklin roosevelt or jack kennedy for the mistreatment of blacks in america. you know, he did what they could and they couldn't change it overnight, but gradually, they changed the issue of racial injustice in america and i think that's what pope francis tried to do and i think people will recognize that. >> let's talk about cardinal sean o'malley of boston on the short list to become the pope an article in the boston herald thursday, you wrote "cardinal sean's best days are still ahead of him. among the cardinals, he is a young man at 67 and just starting to make his mark internationally." going forward, chow cardinal o'malley, how could he influence the vatican and is there a chance he could very well still become pope one day? >> just being himself. i think that is the success. i know him very well. and he is so engaging, such a humble man and everybody likes to be around him. and it's not that he's a politician, it's no that the he tries to steal the headlines. he just is what he s i have been in politics 40 years, craig and found the best politicians and

t like my mom always thought jack kennedy could do nothing wrong. the biggest thing that converted necessity to being a republican is when i watched the democratic convention, and on the floor, they had the vote to put god and israel back on the platform. why on earth did they ever take it out? that was like the beginning, the wake-up call for me. and then the other day, you guys were talking about chuck hagel and the new missile sites and everything. i listened to all the callers that were calling in, and they failed to mention that they're not very detail-oriented. one of the things chuck said was, we had to get an impact constituted friday the e.p.a. i thought to myself, my god, the e.p.a. is going to be able to roll with the defense department can or cannot do for the good of this nation? not one caller picked up on that. to me, it's just ill-informed people i mean, you have to open your eyes. like i said, he was a true liberal, i truly was, but my eyes were opened a while ago. that's the problem, just being informed. host: bob from philadelphia

he said jack kennedy, before he died, had no intention of withdrawing from vietnam. thank you. >> guest: no, you're absolutely right. and, um, i'm sure many of of our viewers have seen jfk, the oliver stone movie, and the premise of that is that johnson has kennedy killed in order to sell more bell helicopters, because bell helicopters were used in vietnam, and they were made in texas. now, there's a small problem with that. nobody even thought of using helicopters in a widespread, anti-guerrilla move until 1966 which is made famous in another book, "we were soldiers once and young," when the seventh cavalry began using helicopters to drop troops into hot zones. so the notion that three years earlier johnson has the prescience going to be needing some bell helicopters here soon, it's just nonsense. >> host: next call comes from cliff in claireton, pennsylvania. >> caller: yes, professor. >> guest: hi. >> caller: yes. you mentioned that you weren't a conspiracy theorist on the jfk assassination. >> guest: right. >> caller: i was wondering if you were aware that howard

if you think about why people use to go into public service, somewhat ted kennedy or jack kemp, these great leaders who went into how people because they cared and because they thought it was a form of service, i don't think if those people were young today they would do that. they wouldn't go into politics. they might start organizations in inner cities. in fact, that so many of them did in the later parts of their lives. so we need to call young people back to service. we need to call this brain drain, all the young talent that's going out of politics and into doing great work in these other sectors back into the political process. >> host: how do we do that? how does the political class and the current apparatus attract more young people? >> guest: it's very difficult i think at this point because the young people were going into politics, a lot of them are coming to the same sort of career approach, rising up through the ranks, runnin runnir city council and then wanting to run, and a young career politician is no better than an old career politician, someone who has ambitions of

or jack kemp to help people because they cared i don't think of those people if they were young today they wouldn't do that. they might start organizations to focus on education in inner-city is and in fact that's what many of them did in the leader parts of their lives. so, we need to call young people back to service and this sort of great young talent getting out of politics and in doing great work in these other sectors back into the political process to get >> host: how do we do that? how does the political class and the current apparatus attract more young people? is it irrepressible? >> guest: the people going into politics a lot of them are coming through the same sort of career approach rising up through the ranks of running for city council and wanting to -- a young career politician is no better than an old career politician. there needs to be a generational commitment to do this. if you have a group of people to do this than you could make an impact. it's not to be someone like a jim webb who came to congress could make an impact and then sort of checked out and said there

if you think about why people used to go into public service, you think about someone like ted kennedy or jack kemp or these great leaders who went in to help people, because they cared and thought it was form of service. i don't think if those people were young today they wouldn't do that. they would focus on education in inner cities and that's what many of them did in the later parts of their lives. so, we need to call young people book to service. we need to call the sort of brain drain of all these great young talent going out of politics and into doing great work in other sectors, back into the political process. >> host: how does the political class and the current apparatus attract more young people? is it irreparable. >> guest: it's very difficult because young people going into politics, a lot of them are coming through the same sort of career approach, rising up through the ranks of running for city council and then wanting to run -- and a young career politician is no better than an old career politician. someone who has amibition in the future. we need people with a sense

or jack kemp or these great readers who went in to help people as a form of service i don't think those people who are young today would do that. they might straight organizations to focus on organization in inner cities and impact that is what many of them did in the later parts of their life. we need to call young people back to this brain drain of all this great young talent going out of politics and doing great work in some of these other set is backing of the political process. >> host: how do we do that? how does the political class in the current apparatus attract more young people? is irreparable? >> guest: it's very difficult at this point because the young people going into politics a lot of them are coming from the same approach, rising up through the ranks of running for city council and wanting to run. a young career politician is no better than an old career politician. we need people who have this sense of service and the sense of getting back into politics. i think it's a really tough question and there needs to be a generational commitment to do this. this generation ne

and, in fact, the aircraft that john kennedy's brother, jack went down, was impartially unmanned aircraft way back then. and, of course, a really have a significant role in vietnam. but that is where we look at when they came into the modern age, you've got to look at the first stage, 12 years ago off the can touch the conflict of afghanistan, when the first predator was used in that conflict. it really did kick off the ground or in afghanistan, and uas came of age. now the next step of course as far as all of us is concerned is the integration of uas, and what will that mean from a standpoint of faa's ability to complete a very ambitious rule-making new test flight, all around 2015. i think that is critical for all of us because we understand that this has tremendous economic benefits for our country. we are talking about something that really will be a game changer from the standpoint of exports, and transform the way our society works in many ways. the teal group has suggested that uavs, that spending will double in the next decade from 6.6 billion, that 11-point for. at the same time,

you can look back as far as world war ii, and, in fact, the aircraft that john kennedy's brother jack went down was a partially up manned aircraft way -- unmanned aircraft way back then. and, of course, they really had a significant role in vietnam. but that said, i think when we look at when they came into the modern age, you got to look at the first stage 12 years ago at the conflict in afghanistan, and frank pace says this as well, when the first predator was use inside that conflict, it really did kick off the ground war in afghanistan, and uas came of age. now, the next step, of course, as far as all of us are concerned is the integration of uas into the nas. and what will that mean from the standpoint of faa's ability to complete a very ambitious rulemaking new test site all in the realm of 2015. i think that is critical for all of us because we understand that this has tremendous economic benefits for our country. we're talking about something that really will be a game changer from the standpoint of exports and transform the way our society works in many ways. the teal group h

. >> i felt very sorry for jack ruby. he looked along. he looked forlorn. he looked pitiful. he never said anything. he never smiled. i made eye contact with them. his eyes were never fixed. he had a vacant stare, i guess you would say. he looked like he was feeling his way through the world. i felt sorry for him. >> this saturday at 7:15, part of american history tv on c- span 3 . >> what you do about the israeli-palestinian conflict? untiltook the president june 2012 to develop an answer. his answer was, two states for two peoples. a jewish state and a palestinian state. but only when the palestinian state will be a decent, stable, peaceful, democratic, non- corrupt government. first, that means arafat has got to go. gives ant abrams inside view to the bush administration's successes and failures with the middle east peace process. part of booktv and c-span2. "washington journal" continues. follow stateprez and local government issues for bloomberg news. at line of a story recently wrote, north carolina governor signs a

and suddenly kennedy is killed. that was the end. he was already meeting with republican national committee chairman i think the weekend after kennedy was shot. he could feel it coming. he had told -- there's a big columnist, i'm not going to run again in 1964. i won't run in 68 or 72. he meant it. pat nixon was thrilled to be in your. he would've been bored, he would've and rustlers. he would've and elder statesman, but he would have had a normal, prosperous elder statesman life. and then. >> he was in dallas spent he was. >> i'm not suggesting that. no, no. just because i'm wearing black doesn't mean i'm going to go into that wormhole. but he gives a press conference in dallas before the assassination, of course to andy criticizes kennedy's leadership. that's strange for someone who's enjoyed walking his dog in new york. >> he was going to be a big spokesman for the party. he spoke in washington, and he was happy to criticize kennedy for the bay of pigs invasion. but it wasn't as if he was running for something. he was a good repub

jack ruby shot and killed lee harvey oswald. the man arrested for the assassination of president john f. kennedy. hear first-hand about the trial from a juror who kept a diary of the proceedings. forlorn.ked .e just looked pitiful he never said anything, never smiled. i made eye contact with them -- him. his eyes were sort of fixed and had a vacant stare, i guess you would say. it looked like he was feeling his way through the world. i really felt sorry for him. >> this saturday, part american history tv this weekend on c- span three. 5-4he supreme court ruled that using a drug sniffing dog immediately outside a suspect home is an unconstitutional search outside the fourth amendment and requires a war and. -- weren't -- warrant. >> we'll hear argument first this morning in case 11-564, florida v. jardines. mr. garre. >> thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court -- in the three prior cases in which this court has held that a dog sniff is not a search, this court has emphasized that a dog sniff is unique, both in t

kennedy. hear first hand about the trial from your jay rose that about the diary of the proceedings. >> he looked alone and he looked forward. he just looked pitiful. he never said anything. never smiled. i need ytoy contact with him [inaudible] he had a vacant stare if you will. >> recently in new york university hosted a discussion with serbian political activist. she discusses the role of new media and political revolutions and compares violence to nonviolent struggles. in addition, he analyzes such movements as the green revolution in iran and political uprising in europe and syria. the founder and of a key organizer of the serbian nonviolent resistance group that helped overthrow the serbian president slobodan milosevic in 2000. the fine hard school of culture education and human development posted this event and it is just under 90 minutes. >> all right. thank you, everyone for coming. i am a visiting professor of the media partner communication. it is an absolute thrill to introduce you

kennedy. hear first-hand about the trial from this juror. who kept a diary of the proceedings. >> he worked alone, he never says anything, i made eye contact with him. >> part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> next on booktv, former ceo of american international group, or aig, maurice greenberg talks about the rise and fall of the international insurance and products company. his book is the aig story. >> good evening to all of you. first, i would like to welcome you to the center for national interest. i would also like to welcome mr. bloomberg to the center. starting at its development and advancement, devoting time and energy and passion to the center. so i thank you for that. hank has not only made a contribution, but he also, as i think a number of you know, has made a contribution when your vice chair on foreign relations. i had to mention that because i happen to be ahead of the washington office. my first meeting was an interview. pete peterson was the chair. so the this actually put the fear of god in me. because he

jackie kennedy liked this painting of his. she saw this in the magazine right here. >> she saw this in the magazine and she wanted it to give jack. >> reporter: it was an anniversary gift. jackie later appeared in front of it in this newspaper photograph. >> i love what she says. it's by far the prettiest picture in our house and the only one i've given him that he likes. >> that was a pretty good compliment was it not. >> reporter: a few years later he was asked to paint a picture of the president sailing. >> it was commissioned by the two sisters to give their three brothers for christmas. >> reporter: he did sketches of jack bobby, and ted aboard the sailboat very sailboat. >> i had a call from audrey your mother, my wife and she said, don't you have the radio on? >> we interrupt this program for a cbs radio net alert bulletin. >> reporter: it was the afternoon of november 22nd, 1960. the president had been shot. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> reporter: what did you think was going to happe

kennedy. hear firsthand about the retrial from a juror who kept a trial -- a diary of the trial proceedings. he looked alone. he looked forlorn. he just really looked pitiful. he never said anything, never smiled. i made eye contact with him. fixed, with sort of a vacant stare, i guess you could say. he looked like he was just floating away in the world and i felt sorry for him. >> part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. year, we received a record 1893 entries from over 3500 students for the c-span student camera video, -- competition. watching the winning videos with their messages to the president daily for april beginning at 6:50 a.m. eastern on c-span. see all the winning documentary's on studentcam.org. , the supremeweek court ruled 5-four using a drug sniffing dog immediately outside a home is unconstitutional search and requires a warrant. the court's decision limits of the police's as a trained dogs outside a home. justice scalia, who wrote the opinion, said the home is fi