they did not believe that john f. kennedy would do anything. he had really dragged his feet. they did not believe the country was ready for something momentous, but then you have birmingham, and birmingham was not only in itself an important thing that had to be answered, but it also raised important issues, not just for the country but for the world. eagles on tv and on the front pages of newspapers children being attacked by dogs, and not only did people have concerns about the children but they understood this is why we have to do something, because we live in a world, we live in a country where this is ok for some people, and we need to stop pretending that states and local comenments, the south will around, and we need federal legislation to do something, and that convinced not just liberals, not just john f. kennedy, but conservative republicans in the midwest you had really resisted civil rights legislation up to that point to get behind comprehensive action, and i think that is what really brought it to the four. -- the foare. clay, let me put some more detail on this

f.org. this is going to be a busy weekend obtain sunday is april 20th i think you all know there you go a whole other party that happens in golden gate park. every year this day an estimated 10 to 15 million people par take it the activity in addition to our normal crews we have 25 people to dispatch to clear up more than 10 thousand pound of trash. that's an unpermitted and we're grateful to the mayor and supervisor breed for cooperating several city departments including dpw and mta the department of park and traffic and juvenile probation to better insure that our parks are healthy and safe there will be a lot of resources invested in pedestrian safety and traffic and parking we're encouraging people that choose to come to golden gate park on sunday to be healthy and safe and abide by the park rules owe procedures the police department will be closing parts of john f. kennedy directive and cannon street and strike parking regulations will be imported the juvenile probation department

kennedy institute and john f. kennedy library and our great audience here in boston and online. thank you for being with us. [applause] we hope you won't stand up yet. we up to see you on june 21st for the release of the final recommendations and asked the panel to stay seated. i welcome former secretary, co-chair of the commission to the stage for closing daunts. >> thank you. it was terrific. outstanding. i wish you had some strong views it really disturbs me. i want to think again on behalf of the bp see, the kennedy institute, heather and the kennedy library in much ray grayson and our great moderator who has been responsible for all of the stories. [applause] i served in the house for 18 years, and there are words inscribed above the speaker's chair by daniel webster. i used to look at this periodically. they said the following. let us develop the resources of our land, called forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its interests to see whether we also in our day and our generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered. and i thought to myself,

i did not know that john f. kennedy did as well. >> at least one or two recorded examples of him using the "n" word when he was starting his politician career. the fact that they came together to grapple with this problem 100 years after the civil war is in some ways all the more remarkable. >> you have the anecdote of not only kennedy using the "n" word as a young man but also expressing concern about some young black female supporters sitting with his sisters and then when he's president, being uncomfortable with the idea of sammy davis jr. bringing his white wife to the white house. he was upset about that. >> it was on lincoln's birthday in 1963 and kennedy was furious that sammy davis brought his wife. heroes don't come in a perfect package. we take what we get. >> his book captures the power struggle between the house and congress to get the civil rights act approved. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. i'll be back at 9:00 p.m. for a special edition of "the lead." wolf blitzer will be here in one m

as we close, i remember what john f. kennedy wrote. that the stories of past courage can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration, but they cannot supply carriage itself. courage itself. each man, each person must look into his own soul. it will take plenty of courage to make change. i hope we will find it to strengthen democracy and ensure can continue to do things to be remembered. thank you for being here. i appreciate it. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> tonight on c-span, a political discussion with anna navaro. and david bender. they were at the university of colorado at boulder to discuss congress and potential presidential candidates. here is a little bit of that. >> people who tell you that they think they know what is going to areen in 2016 really smoking something that is not legal here in colorado. [laughter] legal here in colorado. [laughter] there are some clues. i will debit the sheldon adelson primary. [laughter

cafeteria counters and the 1964 civil rights act, fist proposed by john f kennedy taken up by lindon banes johnson passed 50 years ago, this june. that is why president obama, president carter, clinton, both president bushes have been in attendance there in austin texas to commemorate this landmark legislation, and also we might add, to sort of rehabilitate the image of lindon banes johnson, of course known as the master of the senate, thrust into the presidency, used all of his wiles that he learned why the majority leader, to get not only the civil rights act passed the voter rights act, medicare, medicaid passed under his watch, and yet his tenure, his leggingsy has been weighed down over the course of these years by the vietnam war in his responsibility there for escalating it. but now, we have president obama obviously the residents here obvious to many the first african-american president obviously a beneficiary in a direct way of that landmark legislation in 1964, will be speaking to the assembly. they have already heard from president clinton, carter, to speak in just a few m

you reach some of john f. kennedy's old speeches about taxes and high tied lifts all boats. it sounds like reagan. >> it's simple to me. the american public will go along with a plat tax but not if you're not going to chchange t way you can pervert the tax code. if we can figure that out we have you on board. steve, can we figure it out. >> one the simplicity is best defense. right now you make a change in the tax code before anyone realizes what has been done where everyone sees what you're doing. super majority before you can change it. so you have to have a real national consensus before you can change it. and simplicity is the best defense. >> why not. let's do it. speaking of taxes, still ahead, super model gisele is getting audited and blaming the forbes rich list. and find out why and how they can help you on to that list. but first, is the agency in charge of environmental protection out to bulldoze the entire housing market? what's happening in your backyard and around the country will shock you. >> the land owner that even has a seasonal puddle could be subject to

f. they indicated to me that that's not the reason the staffing changes were made irrespective of the language spoken and of course pointed me to their translation services. >> so i guess the question then is whether they have any bilingual staff that are providing services or they're just going to rely on translation services. >> i could find out. i don't know if there are any bilingual staff in the program. >> okay. >> our role is what? >> i believe it's the reduction of hospital services. >> this would have to be a closure. it doesn't sound like there's a change of functions, but the staff saying the patients' needs aren't being met so it's a bit of he said she said. so the commission doesn't have an official role. i think as the dph continues to vest gats, investigate it may be more clear. >> commissioner sanchez. >> i would just follow up on commissioner's comments. this commission was an active partner within the discussions reviews and recommendationings regarding the status of sa

. >> no one was hurt after a delta flight made an emergency landing at new york's john f. kennedy international airport. the officials say the plane went off the runway into a grassy area after landing. the delta flight 886 was scheduled to listened at la guardia but diverted to kennedy. it was scary and passengers said they needed to land at kennedy because they had a longer runway which would better ensure safe landing. the f.a.a. is investigating. >> this morning, we are getting a first look at the cell phone video of an emergency landing in the capital of brazil. the pilot lands the plane safely on back wheels only. this video was posted on youtube. the front landing gear failed to deploy and no passenger was hurt. >>> ft. hood rampage, the texas army post is the scene of a deadly shooting spree if the second time in five years. >> the fast food protest in oakland and some workers say they are being ripped off. >> subway project is bringing more than a speedy trip to san francisco's chinatown, and the squeaky invasion is being you know, from a young age. i definitely w

you reach some of john f. kennedy's old speeches about taxes and high tied lifts all boats. it sounds like reagan. >> it's simple to me. the american public will go along with a plat tax but not if you're not going to change the way you can pervert the tax code. if we can figure that out we have you on board. steve, can we figure it out. >> one the simplicity is best defense. right now you make a change in the tax code before anyone realizes what has been done where everyone sees what you're doing. super majority before you can change it. so you have to have a real national consensus before you can change it. and simplicity is the best defense. >> why not. let's do it. speaking of taxes, still ahead, super model gisele is getting audited and blaming the forbes rich list. and find out why and how they can help you on to that list. but first, is the agency in charge of environmental protection out to bulldoze the entire housing market? what's happening in your backyard and around the country will shock you. >> the land owner that even has a seasonal puddle could be subject to

he brought up the civil rights bill and said pass this as a testament of john f. kennedy. >> one of the things about lbj, he was in the best sense of the world brilliantly opportunistic. >> reporter: joseph califano was part of johnson's domestic policy team. >> the assassination of kennedy, he used other things to get the civil rights act of 1964 passed. >> reporter: getting civil rights bill through the congress controlled in part by southern segregationists took all of lyndon johnson's guile. here he is using his persuasive powers on congressman russell. >> i think may have been one of the moments when johnson in talking with russell who had been his mentor for years saying, dick, if you don't come with us on this, i'm going to have to run over you. >> i'm about to sign into law a civil rights act of 1964. >> reporter: and president johnson got what he wanted. >> america is different today because of the work of lyndon johnson. >> reporter: at the time congressman john lewis was a 24-year-old civil rights campaigner. >> the signs that we saw in 1963 and '64 tha

here, john f. kennedy gained in death what he didn't necessarily earn earn in life, an ernest reputation for the achievement of civil rights but the so-called redneck president from texas did more for black people, i would argue than any president since abraham lincoln, he joined the figureable in 2,000 the greatest americans to ever live, martin luther king in a kind of fellowship of common ideas, along with many others, but the civil rights leader and the president joined together to forge connections that were both prophetic and also politically savvy to forge difference and democracy in this nation, the tragedy is we have come down from that mountain, the supreme court has said that the very means by which we have achieved justice in terms of voting rights is a significant symbol that we no longer needed, that kind of logic is askew so what we need to do is recuperate and regenerate the same kind of prophetic passion that lbj and mlk had together. >> tavis smiley what is your take on where we a

he brought up the civil rights bill and said pass this as a testament to john f. kennedy. >> one of the things about l.b.j. was he was in the best sense of the word, brilliantly opportunistic. >> reporter: joseph califano was president johnson domestic policy chief. >> the assassination of kennedy, he used brilliantly among other things, to get the civil rights act of 1964 passed. >> reporter: getting the civil rights bill through a congress controlled in part by southern segregationists took all of lyndon johnson's geill. here he is using his persuasive powers on georgia senator richard russell. >> i think this may have been one of the moments when president johnson, in talking to senator russell who had been his if you don't come with us on mentor for years, saying dick, if you don't come with us on this, i'm going to have to run over you. >> i'm about to sign into law a civil rights act of 1964. >> reporter: and president johnson got what he wanted. >> america is different today. because of the work of lyndon johnson. >> reporter: at the time congressman john l

one of the human heart the act on materially was john f. kennedy's and that made all the difference. >> john kennedy taking the stance to define a in on national tv civil rights as a moral issue, we won't do it just because it is good strategy or because we are forced to do it but because it is right. that night they shot medgar evers in the back because they understood the climate, the whole issue had changed. when it became a moral issue for the president of the united states who was dragged kicking and screaming into civil rights it is like slavery becoming a moral issue. not just an issue of policy but they recognized this ultimately meant war. >> this reminded me that early on, thurgood marshall had no sense of who dr. king was. who is this preacher down south? as late as the 1960s the naacp is worried about him and lax collection of money, taking money out of their coffers etcetera but the strategic difference is such that thurgood marshall is of the opinion that dr. king is a great speaker. he is a wonderful speaker. he can change he

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f. >> you're going to shut your mouth or i'm going to have some duct tape with that. >> reporter: some now questioning if he went overboard, asking, how much is too much emotion for a judge to show on the bench? >> while i sympathize with the judge's position, i think it's unbecoming of a judge to yell and scream at a defendant in that way. >> reporter: but tonight, judge mcbain not only stands by his sentence, he defends his reactions. >> you stabbed, you stabbed, you stabbed, you stabbed until he was dead. >> reporter: saying he wanted to give gamet something to think about while she spends life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> it's a cold, calculated murder and i wanted her to understand she deserved what she got. >> reporter: we reached out to gamet's attorney to get his reaction to those tense moments in court. we did not hear back. the defense is planning to appeal the conviction because gamet maintains she acted in self-defense. >>> when we come back here on "world

gwen: john f. kennedy started civil rights and lyndon johnson finished part of it. but he wasn't the last president to have to speak to that issue. >> oh, no. nor is it over now. and that's one of the things president obama said. others followed. it's a continuing struggle and a continuing campaign that other presidents who follow president obama will have to pick up at the time and swim with. gwen: it was really interesting to me to hear george w. bush talk, something he said before, it takes time before people begin to understand a president's accomplishments. >> he's betting on it. he feels very confident that history will redeem him. he's told his friends that. he's not in any hurry to prove it. other presidents come, i guess, into retirement with lots of years ahead of them and begin long campaigns to make sure that the historians get it right. that tends to be more typical. george w. bush is a little more unusual. gwen: listening to president obama's speech, did it sound like ruminations of a second-term president to you? >> it sounded like someone who has now

his name is john -- >> john f. kennedy. >> mccain. >> not john mccape. >> john kerry. >> what is john kerry's job. >> wait, was i wrong about the talk show host thing? >> yeah. he's secretary of state. >> what do you think he's up to right now? >> doing stuff for the state. >> which state? >> new jersey. >> she must be a genius. >> terrible. >> we have the nba. we have the wnba. now there's a new league so men and women can play together for gender equality. >> and we asked if you think this is fair or foul. your response is up next. >>> time now for the good, the bad and the ugly. who said republicans can't get along? bill clinton sitting alongside george w. bush and laura bush at the ncaa championship game. and next, the vandals in san francisco flipping over smart cars. look at that. police say it's a felon vandalism charge. so far no one has been caught. >>> and finally the ugly. this texas woman calling cops about her bad pot that the drug dealer sold her. police showed up at her house and quickly took her awa

i would get presidents elected under the old system starting here with the john f. kennedy. his father had all the money in the world. the kennedy quip. close, helection was said, my father said he would buy me the presidency, but he was not going to buy a landslide. can you get money out of politics? the answer is no. you cannot. and it's like trying to stop water from running down the hill. you can build a dam that can store a little bit of it for a but itnd divert it some, is going to run down the hill one way or the other. what we have heard -- done with campaign-finance reform -- i weaken the parties in taking control of campaigns away from the candidates. it is improper to give that much money to the party. it is improper to give that much money to the candidates. but since we have something pesky in the constitution called the first amendment, you can express yourself in a political campaign. and if you can't give the money to the party, you can't give is much as you want. you can't give to the candidate is much as you want, then you become sheldon adelson and you buy

kennedy institute, and the john f. kennedy library, and our great audience. thanks so much for being with us. we hope you won't stand up yet. we hope to see you on june 24 for the release of the commission's final recommendations in washington. i would ask the panel to stay seated. i welcome dan glickman, a co-chair of the commission, for closing thoughts. >> well, thank you. it was terrific. these panelists were outstanding. senator bennett, i wish you had some strong views. [laughter] it really disturbs me. i want to thank again vicki kennedy and the kennedy institute. i want to think heather campion and the kennedy library. trey grayson, and our great moderator, susan page, who has been responsible for all the stories. i served in the house for 18 years. there are words inscribed above the speaker's chair by daniel webster. i used to look at this periodically. they said the following, let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, carve out all of this great institutions to see if we also in our day and in our g

and by the way, in chicago a lot of people voted for john f. kennedy and democrats said we have to do something about people voting. we are not going over there. [ male announcer ] if you suffer from a dry mouth then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. [ crickets chirping ] but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? [ exhales deeply ] [ male announcer ] well there is biotene. specially formulated with moisturizers and lubricants, biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. [ applause ] biotene -- for people who suffer from dry mouth. neil: half of us are so leery about getting entrenched in another crisis around the world that we want no part of it. it's never been that high for quite some time. >> they don't share it at all. i just came back from a week in the former soviet nations. i was in russia, i was in finland, poland, latvia, estonia. and they see the real hazards that lie in front from a an aggressive vladimir putin. >> you ask me a good question. i thin

she sang at john f. kennedy's inauguration in 1961 and she sang again in 1963 at the seminal civil rights march on washington for jobs and freedom and then she sang several times at constitution hall, this time invited by the dar. anderson's dress as seen in the old black and white news real did not stand out but on display currently at the smithsonian, her dress is as vibrant as her voice. and the messages. >> as reply predecessor hayward are ickes said she made a statement had did in fact change the world. >> i want them to see that my face is black and i want to see that my face is white. i want them to see my soul, and that is colorless. >> from every mountain side ♪ ♪ let freedom ring >> a voice we should all hear. please remember with if you would like to comment on the stories you see flit, log onto the website, al jazeer jazeera/americatonight. you can join the conversation on twitter or facebook at any time. remember we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. a 16-year-old suspect is be

john f. kennedy picked his brother. richard nixon chose john mitchell. bill clinton chose web hubble to run the justice department. ifor the president you do not want a superaggressive attorney general. >> i understand that. i've mentioned all of these investigations right now, and you might know something -- that are ongoing, and the president when he was telling bill o'reilly, not a smidgen of impropriety when it might have been wising for her to say see where the investigation goes. i talked to the conservatives who say they've not heard from anybody. so i'm beginning to wonder in the irs case, and suspect in the benghazi case, whether this is cover or whether anything is really going on here. >> well, look. ultimately the congress, let alone one house of congress, or one committee, is not a free-floating prosecutor. they can hold them in contempt. then that gets referred, if it's criminal contempt to the federal prosecutor, the u.s. attorney in the district of the district of columbia. in holder's case the administration invoked executive privilege t

. >> john f. kennedy was a maximalist? >> absolutely. maximalist in the sense that he convinced the american people that eisenhower was not doing enough, was not vigorous enough, was not an activist. kennedy said of eisenhower's tenure as president that it had been eight years of drugged and fitful sleep. you don't get nastier than that. >> that's pretty bad. >> there was a kind of commitment on part of the new frontier to get out there and position the united states in different ways. >> "we can go anywhere and do anything we want because we are america." >> absolutely. kennedy was not crazy about it. he understood it was necessary and he wanted to try to limit them. >> i was reading some stuff recently. he said, look, it's crazy that we can deal with part of the world. we have to recognize limits on american power. >> kennedy did not act that way in every respect. >> he would say that occasionally. >> he was very nervous about what american power might do, what kinds of risks it might create, particularly in a nuclear rage at a time wh

we had john f. kennedy and bill clinton. let's check the facts. will we ever have another? no. not in this crazy day and age. >> it is racist. >> by the way, he helped lincoln look so good because he was so bad. what did lincoln do? buchanan was so awful that lincoln gets the glory. >> you know his nickname was "the cannon." but i have no idea why. why do we care so much if our president is married? >> i didn't know we did. i have no idea that we cared about something like that. >> i care. >> you know what? it doesn't make a any difference to me one bit. >> then shut up. one thing we should say -- >> there are other people on the show. >> one thing about buchanan is we can't just simply say he failed to prevent the civil war. there was a lot going on there. >> and every president failed to prevent the civil war, if you think about it. >> they could have ended it -- >> the civil war happened. that means every president failed to prevent it. >> somebody has to stand up for buchanan. >> you can use that for every tragedy, pearl harbor. >> shut up. >> i want to talk. have i more to

she canning for john f. kennedy's inaugust race in 1961 and again in 1963. at the seminal march on washington for jobs and freedom. then she sang several times - at constitution hall - these times invited by the dar. anderson's dress, as seen in the old black and white news reel did not stand out. on display at the smithsonian, her dress is as vibrant as her voice and the messages as prest. >> i think you seized the day in a moment like this. like first lady eleanor roosevelt did. >> do you see when i sing, i don't want them to see my face is black, i don't want them to see my face is white. i want them to see my soul, and that is colorless. [ singing ] >> a voice we should all have. please remember if you would like to comment on the stories, log on to the website aljazeera.com/americatonight. join in the conversation on twitter or facebook at any time. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow. >> 100 million indians go to the polls on one of the biggest days of the world's biggest election. >> hello, you're watching al jazeera, live from doha. also co

john f. kennedy signed this 50 years ago. >> so the ledbetter law is allowing a women of opportunity in the workplace who feel they are discriminated against or not being paid equality to bring their claim against their employer. so the basic law is still in place that under the equal pay act of 1963, no employer is allowed to discriminate based on sex and so forth. so let's look at how we -- >> but they do. >> they do, agree with you, and i think this is an republicans as well as democrat, let's loo look at how we get those women -- you find a roy to enforce it. >> what is the current issue in terms of equality at the work place? what's the issue now, facing the two parties. michael's party and your party. what's the issue? >> equal pay and equal treatment. and that's exactly all the women expect to be treated equitably and fairly and they need to get that pay. even though we've had that law, i didn't get the equal pay. and i didn't know. i didn't know, i didn't have a way to know. with that

. >> john f. kennedy's catholic faith nearly derailed his presidential bid. to quell fears, he gave a major address to the greater houston minist ministerial association in texas. >> he had to make peace with parts of our country. >> i am the democratic party's candidate for president who happens also to be a catholic. i do not speak for my church on public matters and the church does not speak for me. >> he gave such an eloquent explanation of how you can be a patriotic american and a catholic and you could serve as president that he took a great deal of the poison out of the water. >> kennedy won the white house and became the first and so far only catholic president of the united states. he kept a careful distance from the vatican, but when the world was on the brink of nuclear war, he turned to the pope for help. in october 1962, the soviet union started stockpiling nuclear missiles in cuba. u.s. navy ships formed a blockade around the island. kennedy was in a stalemate with the soviet leader nikita khrushchev. >> i call upon chairman khrushchev to halt a

f. they want to present to him a kinetic opportunity as allen puts it. there is a terrorist in somalia whose a want to go after and they think they know where he is. there is the series of training camps and a graduation ceremony going on for these terrorists. they don't know exactly where he is in this camp but feed you we will just take out the whole series of camps and get him so obama is kind of thinking about this and he has got his civilian advisers there too, secretary of state, secretary of defense, national security adviser, he decides he is going to pull the room and he says one by one, what do you think about this? what he is doing is kind of a subtle challenge to the joint chiefs's power, basically in biting dissent. none of them are actually willing to say what they really think, but then, against ball, there is the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he puts his hand up and says i think you need to think carefully before you do something like this. this would bas

>> his name is john -- >> john f. kennedy. >> excuse me? >> mccain? >> john -- not john mccain. >> john kerry. >> what is john kerry's job? >> wait, was i wrong about the talk show thing? >> yeah. >> he's the secretary of state now. what do you think he's up to. >> doing things for the state. >> which state? >> new jersey. >> do you know who this is? he's been in the news recently. >> i don't watch the news. >> i can tell. >> albert ian stein? >> he has long hair. >> this is the president of russia. >> irrelevant. >> maybe if you're a ukrainian. >> vladimir. >> vladimir. >> the russian! he is trying to bomb the ukraine. >> vladimir putin. >> excellent. any advice for vladimir putin? >> bad guy. >> bad guy. >> bad guy? pronounced bad g. it's french. >> are you afraid of him? >> no. >> this is america. ♪ ♪ >> last one, this is an easy one. >> oh, katy perry. >> katy perry. >> katy perry. >> she kiss add girl. >> who do you like better katy perry or miley cyrus. >> jam so hard to miley, she's awesome. >> that's funny. that's really funny joke. >> do

in 1963 john f kennedy signed equal pay act. employees should not discriminate based on sex. nine people opposed it. they were democrats. >> interesting, right? 64 civil rights act, lyndon johnson, he couldn't count on people like al gore's father. and robert berg. they're the party of the civil rights act with lyndon johnson. >> this is obama playing politic was peoples' lives he's more concerned with democrats getting voted into office in the fall than with women getting jobs tomorrow. >> you're going to speak out more, i can feel it. am i right? >> yes. i am >> you really, i love you're stepping out. >> thank you. >> and you have baptism by fire. it's great to see new person. we love having you. we hope you come on often. >> thank you. >> quick programming note. a special edition of "fox news reporting" terror strikes boston, and boston strikes back. boston strong we approach the one-year anniversary of the boston marathon bombing for the hour. we'll watch the series of events as it happened tomorrow night, 10:00 eastern. hope you'll set your dvr for "hannity" the series.

my sense is that the bill was so far down the track and john f. kennedy invested so much political prestige in it. he was a cautious politician and liked to win. i think he couldn't have walked away from the fight. it may have taken longer. he may have had to compromise in ways that l.b.j. was unused to. i'd like to thing he had it past after the 1964 election. i don't think he could have abandoned it. >> you brought to life what life was like on capitol hill, in the senate, how it was controlled pretty much by the southern delegations who were opposed to integration, you almost describe it has three different parties. the title of your book is two parties. you had the southern democrats, northern democrats and the republicans. >> you had at least three parties. the interesting reality was that the republicans were willing to make common cause with the liberal northern democrats. the pro-civil rights democrats, and in the end it passed the senate 73 to 27, with 27 out of 33 republican votes. >> there was a higher percentage of republicans. >> far

now he's saying he's going to sign something that's going to change all that when in 1963 john f. kennedy signed the equal pay act. employees shall not discriminate based on sex. there were nine people that opposed it. they were democrats. >> lyndon johnson, he couldn't count on people like al gore's father and robert byrd and a lot of democrats. he went to the republicans. and yet the republicans have this perception of being anti-minority. they're the party of the civil rights act. >> this, to me, is obama playing politics with peoples' lives. he's more concerned with democrats getting voted into office in the fall than he is with women getting jobs tomorrow. >> you need to speak out more. i love that you're stepping out. >> thank you. >> it's great to finally see you in person. we love having you. i hope you come on often. >> thank you. >> that's all the time we have left this evening. tomorrow night at 10:00 eastern, a special edition of terror strikes and boston strikes back. you'll be able to watch the series of events from that week with no commercial interruption. don't mi

in his time as president, john f. kennedy pardoned 472 people. when lyndon johnson became president he more than doubled the pardons, in 1974, president gerald ford commuted the sentences of everyone who had dodged the vietnam war draft. carter did one better and issued a blanket pardon for anyone who had dodged the draft. so it was not just making the sentences disappear. it made dodging the draft disappear as a crime, as well. the presidential power to spring people from prison and to essentially annul convictions is kind of a peculiar thing in our criminal justice system. right? it is kind of a kingly power. the guy in the top comes in like a lightning bolt and declares somebody innocent. feels weird, but it is in the constitution that the president can pardon people and commute their sentences. the way it is done sort of seems like a black box. like it is the antithesis of the due process that at least is in theory at the heart of our criminal justice system. it seems like there is no process. but there is actually a process for these things.

my sense is that the bill was so far down the track and john f. kennedy invested so much political prestige in it. he was a cautious politician and liked to win. i think he couldn't have walked away from the fight. it may have taken longer. he may have had to compromise in ways that l.b.j. was unused to. i'd like to thing he had it past after the 1964 election. i don't think he could have abandoned it. >> you brought to life what life was like on capitol hill, in the senate, how it was controlled pretty much by the southern delegations who were opposed to integration, you almost describe it has three different parties. the title of your book is two parties. you had the southern democrats, republicans. >> you had at least three parties. the interesting reality was that the republicans were willing to make common cause with the liberal northern democrats. the pro-civil rights democrats, and in the end it passed the senate 73 to 27, with 27 out of 33 republican votes. >> there was a higher percentage of republicans. >> far higher. >> and it was a dif

. >> john f kennedy's catholic debate nearly derailed his presidential bid. >> he had to really make peace with different parts of our country. >> i am not the catholic candidate for president. i am the democratic party's candidate for president, who happens to also be a catholic. i do not speak for my church on public matters and the church does not speak for me. >> gave such an eloquent explain nation on how you could be a patriotic american, a catholic and how you could serve as president. he took poison out of the water. >> he became the first and so far only catholic president of the united states. he kept a careful distance from the vatican. when the world was on the -- the soviet union started stockpiling nuclear missiles in cuba. u.s. navy ships formed a blockade around the island. kennedy was in a stale meat with the soviet leader. >> i call upon the chairman to halt and eliminate his provocative threat to world peace. >> the kennedy white house reached out to the vatican for help. the pope delivered a message to moscow and taking the microphones of vatican radio in french.

i like john f kennedy and ronald reagan who inspired virtual legislators of politicians and became generational touch stones. proechl has had so far little influence. that's all the mark remarkable that he tapped into volunteerism and community service that pollsters say is widespread and intense among i don't think people. can president obama tap the energy of young people again? to achieve big things in the last three years of his presidency. howard dean was governor of vermont, governor it is so fascinating and dreadful. i'm lucky to meet some really good ones. they talk about joining teach for america, or a city year or in a rare case, too rare, i would argue, because i was there and learned so much from it, the peace corps. you ask who wants to run for office, it's the odd duck. very few people. you as a young guy were so successful in politics. you as a young guy and the president, what can other people on the progressive side do to get people to get off their butts and run for office. without that it's not going to work out very well for that point of view. >> well, there's two problems,

ever since 1960, when then senator john f. kennedy appeared on the tonight show with jack parato talk about his presidential run. late night has been as much a stop for political candidates as for celebrities and cultural -- ronald reagan on the tonight show five years before he ran for president. and from bill clinton playing saxophone on the arsenio hall show in 1992. each delivering letterman's top ten list. president obama has appeared on late night tv more than any other president and democrats have far more than republicans. though both obama and mitt romney slow jammed the news with jimmy fallon in 2012. and even as the audience has fragmented with much of it migrating to cable, late night tv remains a cultural touch stone. so it is with a kolber style tip of the hat that we know that dave letterman will retire from late night next year. letterman made the announcement on his show last night, starting the clock on the end of a tv era. who call the letterman the best there is and ever was. and from president obama, who i

. >> no one was hurt after a delta flight had to make an emergency landing at new york's john f. kennedy international. the plane went off the runway and into a grassy area after landing safely last night. delta flight 886 was scheduled to listen at that guardia but diverted to kennedy. passengers say it was scary and they were told they needed to listen at contain difficult because it had a longer runway to ensure the safe landing. >> this morning, we are getting a first look at an emergency landing in the capital of brazil that happened last week. watch as the pilot lands the jet on the back wheels only. officials say the plane's front landing gear failed to deploy. all 49 passengers got off safely. >> the morning news continues at 6:00 with these new stories, including the major league baseball star underfire for taking time off for the birth of his son. >> a california grandmother frozen alive and her family reveals how it happened and what they doing to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> michael finney teams up with reveal hidden tricks of deceptive >>> live from the kgo-

i would get presidents elected under the old system starting with the john f. kennedy. his father had all the money in the world. he said, my father said he would buy me the presidency, but he was not going to buy a landslide. can you get money out of politics? the answer is no. if you cannot. it's like trying to stop water from running down the hill. you can build a dam that can store a little bit of it for a while and i've heard where it comes, but it is going to run down the hill one way or the other. done withve heard -- campaign-finance reform -- i realize i'm very much alone in this, but here we go -- in the name of campaign-finance final is weakened the parties in taking control of campaigns away from the candidates. it is improper to give that much money to the party. it is improper to give that much money to the candidates. since we have something pesky in the constitution called the expressendment, you can yourself in a political campaign. if you can't give the money to is party, you can't give much as you want. you can't give to the candidate is much as you w

john f. kennedy won the presidency and the election in 1960. he went to washington and was sworn in as president in january, 1961.