robert kennedy and mrs. kennedy then backed away from the casket and turned and walked towards the elevator on the second floor and she handed me the scissors and they went to the second floor. a return to the scissors and i noticed there were particles of hair left. the max and now they are going to take the president's body by motorcade on to the capital. and as we showed you in the photographs before all this happened, there were always crowds and people screaming and hollering and shouting and we were working on this book. one of the most painful things that clinton says from this time is that that possession to the capital, there were no screens screams were shouts or chairs. there was only this sound. [drums beating] [drums beating] [drums beating] [drums beating] [drums beating] >> we got into the rotunda. mrs. kennedy and caroline and john were there and at one point john got rambunctious, so we had to take them off to another room, away from where the cowboys. and mrs. kennedy and caroline approach

mrs. kennedy and mrs. connolly were in the area between trauma room one and trauma room two, but mrs. kennedy periodically would go into trauma room one to be there to observe what was going on. but as they were both seated out there, it was a small walkway between the two rooms, and they were both right in that vicinity. >> and agent landis was always with mrs. kennedy while clint was on the phone, somebody was always with her. yes. >> [inaudible] the funeral and had the party for. john-john, where were you 50 years ago 7 p.m.? >> 7 p.m. 50 years ago i was in the white house in my office on the ground floor waiting to see whatever mrs. kennedy needed, standing by. >> [inaudible] >> birthday party was going on, and that was on the second floor, and we allowed that to be very private and family only. and that's the way they wanted it. did you have another question? >> [inaudible] >> first of all, thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> american hero, as far as i'm concerned. my question is about -- [in

waiting to see whatever mrs. kennedy needed. i was standing by. the birthday party was going on. and it was on the second floor and we allow that to be very private with family only and that is the way they want wanted it. did you have another question? >> thank you. [inaudible question] [inaudible question] >> the question is about george hickey. there has been a television program on a book written claiming that george hickey who is manning the rifle, that he accidentally shot the president and that was what killed the president and a lot of people are believing this. >> we met years ago he was still alive, and the story came out in a book. he sued the entrance to the publisher. the publisher did not want to go to court because they found out that we have photographic proof that hickey could not have done it. so they settled with them out of court. now that he is dead, there is nobody left to assume. and so they sold this thing to production company and some detective down in australia put in his 2 cents and they resurrected that theory. it didn't happen. the gun he was holding

kennedy at that time, mrs. onassis did fight to get more money from the family and that she was successful in doing that. so there's no love loss between the two of them, probably. the . she was successful in doing that one. there was no love loss. two-hourur left in the look in her life and her ccomplishments and role of the first lady. how the alked about press interfaced and how they been gentler, there are two issues we could talk about. first, his health. there are severities for his addison's e and disease. he sufferede rumors from addison's disease, which he did. > rumors spread by lyndon johnson and others. >> there was an effort from his entourage saying he did not suffer from the classic kind of addison's disease. that what was done. years, we've gotten access to the medical records howing he suffers from all sorts of things, bad stomach, bad back, all sorts of things. medications. you can look at it one way or the other. you can say this is a terrible cover-up. we should have known. probably we shoul

a couple of questions, actually, first for mr. kennedy. >> mr. kennedy. >> so you had touched briefly when we went through the presentation, the next steps and comments to the eir have closed, but as these projects are brought forward to us, they are not brought forward to us in stone, are they? they are brought forward to us with recommendations from staff on what actions we might take? >> yes. excuse me, yes, recommendations from staff. >> so there will be the opportunity as we move forward on each of these different segments to modify things, to change things, to try to make things work better for everybody? >> if i could just add. i think there were some comments about the outreach process to-date, and i am sure that there are always ways we could be doing better in terms of doing outreach. i think the primary focus of the outreach to-date was to try to help people understand what was in the body of work that was being cleared environmentally? and that is the process that is underway now. we expect to have environmental clearance as sean said

>> the question is when was last time he saw mrs. kennedy. and what were your feelings when she passed and when john junior passed away as well. >> well, i saw her, the last time was in june of 1968 that robert kennedy's funeral. i was at that time the agent in charge and i brought president johnson to the funeral and i saw her and spoke to her briefly. but that was the last time that i saw her. and she got married outfall as you know. was it a question? >> were your feelings when she passed away? >> when she passed away in may of 1994, it just so happened that that day i had an appointment with president clinton and yet asked me to come because he wanted to talk to me in the oval office. so i went there and in that evening after i went home, i found out that her condition had worsened that we discussed about how sick she really was. that night i found out that she had died. i was very sad. i really wanted to talk to her again. but i also knew that she heard my voice, it was going to be a memory of what had happened back in dallas. and i did

thank you, mr. kennedy. good afternoon, supervisor. >> good afternoon, commissioners, director reiskin, mark farrell district 2 supervisor. thank you for hearing me today and allowing me to speak to you. i will do my best to keep my comment brief. i was just briefed by our controller's office about the mayor's transportation task force and i know the extreme challenges that we have, financially, especially as a transportation system. you have my commitment to work together inside of city hall, certainly now as chair of the budget and finance to find solutions to that. i agree with the sentiment of the task force and co-chair has it all san franciscans should be able to choose among many high-quality transportation options. so the tep's end, i want to speak about you today, because it affects the district that i represent in a large fashion is the elimination of the 3 jackson line. i am here to tell you as someone who was born and raised in district 2 and raising my children there, i have ridden the 3 jackson

. >> caroline finally said that mrs. kennedy thought a lot of me and whatever i wanted to do, that was fine. she didn't have any problem with it. >> all right, last question. ma'am? >> [inaudible] >> you're asking about the writing process and how difficult it was? >> [inaudible] >> when he goes through -- well, it was very difficult. we had an office, we had two computers side by side. we spent almost 24 hours a day together for many months, and i didn't live through this time, so all of this is his memories. we would -- there's a lot of video footage, as we showed you tonight, and so we would watch those videos together, and it was very emotional. and he would tell me what happened and certain things would bring back memories to him, and there were times, you know, we did, we had to stop because i could see how difficult it was for him to relive all of this, and at one point i said, okay, this is the last book. we're not going to make you go through this again, so let's just get everything out there in this one, becaus

in 1960, didn't kennedy said mrs. johnson won texas for us. when approached about the issue, how did she reply? not sure she ever replied to that question. >> i'm not sure it was a question that would have been her.ssed to kennedys.ected to the >> next call from john in charleston. are y'all?ning, how >> we're great, thank you. >> i appreciate c-span having first ladies series. wasquestion i had, how mrs. johnson treated on the lady bird express. to charleston, 1964. the congressman accompanied her, a big powerful congressman in the state. and he kind of went out on a her butdo the trip for i think she was treated pretty bad in charleston but overall was she treated the rest of the south and what was their relationship with the rivers and the johnsons? >> a little later on we'll have from the lady bird express but it fits nicely with southmpaign style in the we're talking about. >> in 1964, we were in a whole different place because the signed the 1964 civil rights bill in the summertime andthe south was up in arms mr

thank you, again, mr. kennedy and look forward to working with you as the process goes forward. with that, we'll take a >> item 12, approving the conceptual traffic-coaxing project for the dewey boulevard. >> we have a brief overview, and there is a well-written staff report explaining what we are proposing and we have gotten a lot of written feedback on this. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thank you, director reiskin and directors. my name is nick carr and i'm the project manager for the dewey boulevard area traffic-calming project, a project looking at the local streets and forest hill and upper golden gate heights neighborhoods. i'm going to put up the map of proposed traffic-calming changes, developed through this project and quickly go through the community process that was involved. we're here today seeking approval of a conceptual plan for this neighborhood for traffic-calming. if approved many of the traffic-calming measures within this plan will still come back for an additional layer of legislation or detailed design work with stakeholders, who may have concerns

thank you, again, mr. kennedy and look forward to working with you as the process goes forward. with that, we'll take a 10-minute break. thank you [ applause ] >> item 12, approving the conceptual traffic-coaxing project for the dewey boulevard. >> we have a brief overview, and there is a well-written staff report explaining what we are proposing and we have gotten a lot of written feedback on this. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thank you, director reiskin and directors. my name is nick carr and i'm the project manager for the dewey boulevard area traffic-calming project, a project looking at the local streets and forest hill and upper golden gate heights neighborhoods. i'm going to put up the map of proposed traffic-calming changes, developed through this project and quickly go through the community process that was involved. we're here today seeking approval of a conceptual plan for this neighborhood for traffic-calming. if approved many of the traffic-calming measures within this plan will still come back for an additional layer of legislation or detailed design work

. >> do you agree with mr. kennedy's assessment that this was not factored in? >> i don't know if this was factored in or not. for the amount of money we paid to government contractors to build the site, collecting social security numbers, birthdays, you've got to know that the data needs to be secure. why they didn't include it in the baseline is beyond me. >> what would you give health care.gov then? i'm not trying to scare people. i know how good you are. >> i don't know how they are securing data. based on what i have seen, you know, it's got to be in the low digits. the skills they need to create a decent website they didn't deliver failed. security is a higher skill set that you need to have. >> great. >> that's scary. this is interesting to me. you are a white hat hacker. so you get paid to hack into websites but you do it to tell company ifs their website is secure. >> yes, sir. basically companies hire us. i used to do it in the marine corps working for the intelligence community. in the private sector companies hire us to break into the website. it's a

with edith wilson and certainly all of the -- mrs. kennedy, mrs. johnson would have come to the white house as senate wives -- when their husbands were in congress because they would have been invited to those functions. >> we are talking about family life and how mamie's job was to preserve and encourage it. we will return to their farm in gettysburg and learn more about family life. >> alice evans is with the national park service, a park ranger and mamie expert here at the eisenhower house. how much square feet does this property have inside? >> inside, about 14,000. >> what room are we in now? >> we are in the porch. one of the most important rooms in the home. this is where they lived and mamie said we lived on the porch. this room was really the private life of the eisenhowers here and the family center of the home. >> and it was set up with couches and chairs and over here a tv. >> sign of the family of the 1950's. the television. they were our first presidential couple to really watch television together in the white house. >> what would be

i understand two presidents, kennedy and hoover never received an income as president. did mrs. ford receive any kind of income after president ford passed away? >> first of all, you are right about hoover and j.f.k.. and in fact they rejected federal salaries as president. in hoover's case he never accepted payment for any of his various positions whether secretary of commerce or the oover commissions or whatever. the question about whether mrs. ford -- >> did she get a widow's pension? do you get compensation if your husband dies and he served as president? >> i don't believe you do. i don't think so. so back to the amount of time -- > no, in terms of a payment or pension, no. there is an office of course, the president's office remained in operation and she had the frappinging privilege . >> what is the franking privilege? >> it is basically free postage and of course the secret service protection until the end of her life. >> did the public pay for that office? >> so there were benefits not salary? >> abs luletly. >> steve ford talked about his dad being on the road sometime

. >> shawn kennedy with the mta. >> thank you. >> i also see a note that, mr. k, it looks like a request from colleague commissioners that the mta think about a maintenance plan for the escalators as was brought up by commissioner kim. i'm just wondering if you are comment on that? miss lombardyo is here as well. >> thank you for your very good comments and commissioner king as well. we can incorporate that into board's packet. my understanding is that the new federal guidelines when you put in a new escalator you have to build a new canopy for the very reasons you cited and the rules for replacing a rehabilitated, you can cross the line whether it's a new escalator and you have to put up canopies. it's a trade off. i can request a response to that particular angle as part of the board packet. >> commissioner campos? >> i appreciate that, but i don't think that the committee should send anything out until we have fully vetted it. so i would hold on to the $3.7 million until we get that. >> that's until next month. >> yes. i think the message we need to send to

kennedy. we want to recognize and thank you and mr. bera's trip of their in terms of the oversight of this committee and also the troops in afghanistan. we also want to recognize joe wilson for his trip there and his son's service in in the army in afghanistan. mr. wilson, it is your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for your interest in the security of afghanistan, american security even prior to 9/11. people need to understand and i want to thank each of you for the difference you are making. it originated out of caves in afghanistan. we should never forget that. that is why am grateful for our military service. i have had the opportunity, seen the progress that has occurred. i have been there 12 times. my national guard unit, former unit, they served their and led by general houston. -- general bob livingston. it was the largest deployment of troops from south carolina since 1600. they developed a great affinity for their afghan brothers. i appreciate the chairman referencing my youngest son. first lieutenant hunter wilson. he retur

kennedy isn't going to refer you to do an autopsy. the police were called and it in the local authorities and the secret service agents who are now furious they are furious their boss has been killed and that they didn't stop it and they are in no mood to let the texas officials keep the president's body. so the role the coffin right through this group of local officials and put it in the hearse and drive to air force one and it's only then the texas autopsy had occurred that we might have been scared 50 years of conspiracy theory. they even argue that the doctors at bethesda naval hospital were traders who did a fraudulent autopsy to conceal the conspiracy to call the president until the plane landed most people couldn't know where the president was coming. jackie decided on bethesda. under the theory they would have had the doctors working at walter reed and bethesda and half the hospitals in washington of the very medical officers that cared for the president would conspire to conceal the role. it is an absurd and if only that had

i understand two presidents, kennedy and hoover never received an income as president. did mrs. ford receive any kind of income after president ford passed away? >> first of all, you are right about hoover and j.f.k.. and in fact they rejected federal salaries as president. in hoover's case he never accepted payment for any of his various positions whether secretary of commerce or the hoover commissions or whatever. the question about whether mrs. ford -- >> did she get a widow's pension? do you get compensation if your husband dies and he served as president? >> i don't believe you do. i don't think so. so back to the amount of time -- >> no, in terms of a payment or pension, no. there is an office of course, the president's office remained in operation and she had the franking privilege. >> what is the franking privilege? >> it is basically free postage and of course the secret service protection until the end of her life. >> did the public pay for that office? >> so there were benefits not salary? >> absolutely. >> steve ford talked about his dad being on the road sometimes 2

an update. >> good afternoon, mr. kennedy. >> good afternoon directors. my name is sean kennedy and i'm the planning manager for the tep, the transit effectiveness project. and i'm here to offer an update on where we are with the program and then discuss our outreach efforts coming up over the next 6-8 months. you know, san francisco is a wonderful city, and it deserves a world-class transit system. since 2006 we have been working with the community, as well as this board, transit operators, and other stakeholders to put a plan together to develop a system that will accomplish that. but we are faced with three big obstacles. one, we have an aging infrastructure. we have the oldest -- one of the oldest fleets in the country transit vehicle-wise. two, we have a dense and congested city, we're the second densest city in the united states, besides new york city and we operate in a con strained right-of-way. a lot of competing interest for space and roadway space and there is really no room for expansion. so there is a lot

mr. kennedy, i'm sure we'll be talking to you a little later on. miss boomer. >> we have members of the public here and also in 408. so if you hear your name in 408, if you would make you your way to this room to address the board. [ reading speakers' names ] >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i grew up on the 39. i rode the ecar, which was a streetcar the size of the cable care. i'm a native and i ride the no. 3. i ride the no. 3 from one terminus to the other terminus. from walnut and california to bart or muni. and the california street doesn't do that. it doesn't stop at a connection. you have to walk a couple of blocks. and during the winter, during rain, and all of that kind weather, but i have also rode the cable car when it went all the way to presidio, the california cable car. thank you >> thank you sir. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> mark christenson, third generation san franciscan. very simple put there are elements of the transit effectiveness project that need to be reevaluated before implementation. there are two elements tha

in the way that lbj did and the nixon did, although nixon, you know, mr. forces, but kennedy, what you know about him as an anti-communist and not one to lose, would he have also gone and jumped into southeast asia with both feet? >> guest: i examine that question at length because i have great interest in it. here is my conclusion. kennedy deserves part of the blame for vietnam. you cannot exonerate him. put a lot of advisers and some troops in there. exactly. he started the trend, but here is why i believe he never would have done what johnson did. johnson put 535,000 troops in vietnam. first of all, if there is one word that describes president kennedy in office it is cautious second, you always look to a politician's base. you know this well. what was kennedy space,

. ♪ please mr. kennedy i don't want to go ♪ >> what my whole life will be like. we should develop hobbies. >> i weave. >> like baskets? >> yeah. >> really? >> no. >> i'm sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. >>> that was a look at five of "new york times" film critic tony scott's best movies of the year and tony joins us now. i can't wait to hear about this. okay. best one. >> best one for me was "inside louie davis" the cohen brothers film about struggling folk singer in 1961 in new york like two days before bob dillon shows up and changes everything. the music is fantastic. the performance by oscar isaac who did all of his own singing and playing is phenomenal. it just kind of won my heart. very sort of, you know, melancholy film. >> justin timberlake is in it. >> john goodman. and usual sort of cohen brothers tricks. so the story you think is going one place or no place in particular it ends up coming around to something else. >> this is a reality check. how far are y

. ♪ please mr. kennedy i don't want to go ♪ >> what my whole life will be like. this whole going away to college thing. we should develop hobbies. >> i weave. >> like baskets? >> yeah. i do it in the garage. >> really? >> no. >> i'm sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. >>> that was a look at five of "new york times" film critic tony scott's best movies of the year and tony joins us now. i can't wait to hear about this. okay. best one. >> best one for me was "inside llewlyn davis" the cohen brothers film about struggling folk singer in 1961 in new york like two days before bob dillon shows up and changes everything. the music is fantastic. the performance by oscar isaac who did all of his own singing and playing is phenomenal. it just kind of won my heart. very sort of, you know, melancholy film. very funny. just a very interesting portrait of a talented artist as a failed human being. >> justin timberlake is in it. >> justin timberlake with a beard. john goodman. and us

out of time. >> we go now to mr. joseph kennedy from massachusetts. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for your service. i was fortunate to visit afghanistan several months ago and had and then -- had an extraordinary visit. thank you for all that you do for our country. i wanted to speak first to special representative dobbins. bit of oned focus a program that has come up in a number of meetings that i've had and some constituents were concerned about -- contractors and translators. those who have performed an extra ordinary service to our military and civilian courts in and are nowhanistan subject to death threats for their work with us. these are programs that have run into fairly severe challenges. 2008 and eaa, congress created visas for iraqis that work for the government for at least a year. created underere the afghan allies protection act of 2009. you can give me an -- can you give me an outline to the best that you can, how many afghans are eligible for that program, how many have been processed to date, what that timeline is and , thethe backlog might the causes of

mr. kennedy suggested the agreement gave manchuria to soviet russia. china shall retain full sovereignty in manchuria. not that many years later he writes the most persuasive letter to "the new york times" about why bobby kennedy will be a good senator from the state of new york and why he deserves to run. so's not inflexible in terms of making judgments about things. but for me at least, watching that mind at work and watching him on the american landscape and not just going with the winds, but making strong judgments, this was an area that he knew well and probably did know a lot more than bobby did about what happened at yalta and was not afraid to pull his chain. >> well, in fact, that brings up a point which is he did become -- he got to know bobby very well when he was working in the white house for president kennedy, and he became very close to him. and i used to visit my father when i was at law school when he was living in new york and i was living in cambridge, and he would take us -- he would often take bobby and myself and others out to din

and pat says i would be happy to debate mrs. kennedy. i want to talk about clothing because that's not a very important issue in this day. i do think clothing makes a statement. one of the things that pat did was she appeared in a magazine -- i believe it was "mccall's" in a pants suit in 1972. this was a big deal. she never wore pants. dick didn't like pants. she never appeared in public in slacks. the fact she would appear in a magazine in a pants suit is making a political statement. i think by the time you said, you do have pat nixon coming into your own. she'd gone to africa, china, the soviet union, here she is in pants. >> i'd like to ask you about the social events in the white house and their significance. the video white house and how important an event was that and how did it strike politically given the president's standings in the polls at that time? >> probably pat nixon's happiest day in the white house. i don't think there's any doubt. it's an infection point. right after that, you have the pentagon papers controversy and

we had seen mrs. kennedy's unforgettable white house tour. but of it -- it was an org orgestrated presentation. people were not accustomed to a first lady being asked or answering, as i say, the kind of questions. her view was people were talking about all over america. why shouldn't the first family have the same? >> and they covered issue such as divorce, use of marijuana, her daughter's dating and sex before marriage. things of those nature. >> absolutely. sexual appeals talked about her use pillow talk to get a woman in the cab innocent. she also mentioned she was getting a woman on the supreme court. >> caller: hi. i love the show. thank you. i've read somewhere that chef older than president ford. >>. actually he was five years her senior. we talked about the use of the white house for entertaining but entertaining has a political purpose. to start that we go to the ford new seem in grand rapids the cure rater show an element of style and how she approached thats a penalty -- aspect of her job. let watch. >> hand and hand with her lough

kennedy. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker. fellow members of the u.k. youth are limits, we're not know what we wanted to do until we came -- to we gained a little bit of work experience. the cables across the u.k. are entitled to one or two ways of working syrians -- work experience. this is no longer compulsory. do you agree with me that it should be? we all know young people in our local areas whose work placement in the past have involved making shadowingocopy and rather than the high-quality working sprinkler they deserve. high-quality work insurance and guidance is about as aspirational, as proactive, and comes rather than the -- it is focus upon. it benefits and inspires. y.p. represent 11 to 19-year-olds, and voting in favor is more inclusive than those we represent is not just asresent the smaller such voting for 16 and 17-year-olds. youth unemployment is a huge -- better quality careers advice, working sprint. -- work experience. a report finds that young people who take part in work experience are 40% less likely to be unemployed. we need tou.

mr. kennedy: i want to thank my colleague from illinois, mr. schneider, for your important work and leadership on this issue. i rise in support of h.r. 3212 and i want to thank and recognize my colleagues on the foreign affairs committee, chairman of the subcommittee, chris smith and chairman of the full committee, mr. royce, for their porn leadership and hard work on this bill. mr. speaker, as a co-spon so far this bill i speak on behalf of all left behind parents and in particular, on behalf of a constituent of mine from newton, massachusetts, colin bower. colin was granted -- granted full custody of his children in 2008. in 2009, the boys' mother unexpectedly took them out of school, boarded a planen,, pled to egypt and has never since returned. through all that time, she has refused to return the children. it has been nearly two years since colin has spoken with his sons and seen his sons. despite the custody ruling of a court and a subsequent egyptian court order to visit with his children, he's been denid opportunity to see his children t