bobby kennedy was three things. he was a catholic, he was joe kennedy and rose kennedy son and loyal to the kennedy family and the third, the pillar that he stood on was he was a democrat and he was going to support even though he detested lbj, he was going to support him in 1964. we have microphones. people have questions they would like to ask. maybe you can get the microphones over there. do you want me to pass it? >> right here. >> weber kennedy was thinking of running for president . wrote him a letter. stay out. you're going to divide the antiwar movement. three weeks after he announced he sent me a letter and he said , as you see i have entered the race. [ indiscernible ] >> as you can see, i have entered the race but i disagree with you. i am adding my voice to the antiwar movement. i said to myself, you just -- he just signed his death warrant. when he announced he was going to run, that was it because there was no way that the people were going to allow him to be president. >> i would like to make a couple

the other half of bobby kennedy back then was bobby kennedy the realist. he knew some day he wanted his brother to be president and new someday he might run for office himself. so he went to the funeral, he showed up for his buddy, joe mccarthy. weigh he was going to make sure nobody was going to see him. anybody 0 who saw him wasn't going to talk about it. the two sides of bobby kennedy, the loyalist side, the realist side and that's who bobby kennedy was back then. >> he starts out as the ultimate cold warrior, much like his dad, joe kennedy was. i want it take you from that years, 1957, to a moment that i think was, if bobby kennedy had any single epiphany moment in his life, that was in 1963, in november of 1963. bobby kennedy on a november day in 1963 had come home from work at the justice department, with a couple aides. and he had had a swim at his pool at the estate in hickory hill, just outside of washington in mclean, virginia and he was settling back to have a great lunch and eventually go back to work. at that moment when he just started eating

kennedy's vice president, bobby kennedy was atty. gen. and treated lbj very poorly when he was vice president. that is a euphemism, they hated each other, despised each other, johnson becomes president when pres. kennedy is assassinated, bobby kennedy as his atty. gen. for period of time but friction is tense between them. interestingly when you look at the archives bobby kennedy even then was giving interviews to the kennedy library not to be released for many years and starts ripping on lyndon johnson, a horrible guy, while he was doing that he was trying to maneuver himself, the presidential running mate in 1964, lbj gave serious thought to be on the ticket for one reason, he was afraid of nelson rockefeller got the republican nomination he was going to have to reach out to kennedy supporters and put him on the ticket. once barry goldwater got the nomination johnson told his reporters i don't need you anymore, he didn't want to say publicly i don't want bobby kennedy to be my vice president, he said i have decided that none of my cabin

bobby kennedy -- he was a young true believer for bobby kennedy. he later became the aa for senator kennedy -- senator ted kennedy when he was the majority whip. he was at true believer in the kennedys. he gave me my first job. it was not exactly what i wanted but it was a good job for a while. i would work in the office for the day, starting at 3:00 every day. i was doing two jobs. i could almost right a book about how much i learned as a cop here. i learned a lot. i learned a lot about the guys who live out in the country. they have a point of view. one of them said, you know why that little man loves his country, it's because -- one thing i learned about the capital police was there was one democrat, one senator, who always made a point of saying hello and actually greeting all the capital police when he went by in the morning. he made a real effort to say hello to them as equals and important people to him. that told me so much about him. he was well known are looking out for those in the country who had gotten bad treatment from police. he wou

bobby kennedy was not there in chicago mccarthy wise. there is a story in the book that really happened. mccarthy said people brought their signs to the convention hall and had them stored in the lockers but through some accident the national guard made all of the signs unusual one -- unusable. there was a story i did not know until i research the book and really had not been written about very much. once johnson dropped out his poll numbers shot up 50% in one day unprecedented nobody had this type of crime. and that was sacrificing into soonest johnson saw that why do i need to get out of the race? lyndon johnson behind the scenes? coming up to the convention was plotting to work it out to get a draft because humphrey was a weak candidate he thought eugene mccarthy was a fluke and johnson was getting pressure. it was almost set up. johnson had mere daily invite him to chicago for his birthday party he wasn't going to the convention but going to the birthday party to announce he was going to russia soviet union as the first president to

believer in bobby kennedy. he had been coordinator for kennedy in the '68 presidential campaign in the rocky mountains. he became the aa for senator ted kennedy when he was majority whip. he was a true believer in the kennedys. he gave me my first job coming back from the peace corps. the job wasn't exactly what i wanted but it was a good job for a while. i would work in the office during the daytime and then i'd be a capitol cop starting at 3:00 every day. i was doing two jobs, and i can tell you, i almost wrote a book how much i learned as a cop here. i learned a lot. in fact, i learned a lot about the guys who live out in the country who vote conservative and are very patriotic but they may not agree with a lot of people in this room. but they have a point of view. and one of the old cops said to me one time, you know why the little man loves this country? because there's always god. i learned a lot from those guys. one thing i learned about the capitol police and those guys who work here, like the superinte

learning about bobby kennedy. is chris still here? i flew back from phoenix this -- monday, and i finished the last 125 pages of chris' book. i'd really not read it, for the purpose of being here, but i got to know bobby better who announced for president. and i think barbara lee is right -- had fate allowed him to survive he would have been the president of the united states. and what i got from chris' book was a little more of the depth of robert kennedy. of the humanity of robert kennedy. of that idealism of robert kennedy. the deep and abiding intellectual integrity that he had and displayed every day of his life. and that is why we honor him. remembering him, feeling sorry for ourselves that we didn't have him as our president. he would have made such a difference because he brought such moral commitment to that job, and like all of us, he grew. we all grow. we all become more knowledgeable. we all become more sensitive. and he did that. which is the mark, of course, of a wise human being. and in chris' book,

almost beat nixon, bobby kennedy would have taken them. i'm not certain about that given the electoral college, if wallace would have surprised him. going back to getting the nomination, i think bobby had a strong shot at it. one of the things i write about in my book is in 1964, when bobby was first deciding how he was going to pursue power, he went a conventional route and thought, if i want to be president, i should be vice president. he immediately looks at it through the lens of convention delegates and where the power is. he is going through doing things he has to do. one of the ways newspapers helped me as i could track where he was planning on going and who he was meeting with. but he knew he could maybe rely on a great emotional appeal, and so did lyndon johnson. he actually moved the kennedy tribute, the tribute to john f. kennedy, later to after the balloting for vice president and president, so that the outpouring of emotion, the kind we saw at the 1964 convention where bobby stood there for more than a dozen minutes just eatin

then they go back and forth and kennedy is appalled on bobby kennedy is expecting them to be grateful for what he has done for black americans and negroes and they say we are not grateful. sorry. so the reality is this man interjected some serious rhetoric they probably never heard from black people he wanted to talk about rage but did not know how to confront it when he saw it. he was a tough slb and as a result remember he was a henchman. the aggressive advocate for mccarthy in the 50s to transform himself into an advocate for the poor but in between he was caught to advocate for justice at the same time trying to moderate in one sense modulate the tensions going on between black people does that sound familiar? he would say we can't the two aggressive because white people want to come back into the fold if we alienate them too much they will not come back. that sounds familiar so the black people said bull crab we will not have it and then the rain got involved and for three hours bobby kennedy had to hear stuff he was not use to hearing from people he didn't want to listend to esp

supporters, there was a great, you know, dislike of bobby kennedy. here's a homemade sign in iowa at a campaign rally in the spring of 1968 supporting mccarthy and then handwritten in marker on the post is, bobby, go home. there's a real sort of -- you were either with gene mccarthy or you were with bobby kennedy. and kennedy and mccarthy did not like each other very much either. and mccarthy, you know, faced with a far more glamorous telegenic, well-financed opponent would sort of say things like, well, he plays touch football but i play football. but kennedy was extremely good at calibrating himself to the -- these -- the larger cultural zeitgeist, to reaching out, not just to college students, all of whom -- nearly all of whom were white -- but reaching out to a multiracial coalition of democratic voters, of people who

and there's my friend, bobby kennedy. sitting down with pierre salinger and katie o'donnell and two or three of the other kennedys in the kennedy campaign. and what if i join you and it was like being in the arctic. >> and so i didn't have breakfast with robert kennedy. as time went on and we, and on the campaign itself, we were really traveling together, the frost war wore off and found him to be extremely approachable and unlikable. so there was always that, that side of him. and i think that's why even now, there's a soft heart and the journalism for robert kennedy. >> when you were doing your research, how useful did you find those newspaper accounts? what kind of a source is journalism for historians? >> robert kennedy was probably the most-covered person in that period. just because so many people saw that he was a future president. i think one senator anonymously said do you treat robert kennedy any differently? no i treat him the same way i treat any other future president. and that's how the press treated him, to

bobby kennedy was changing. he was transforming. later on, of course, in the '70s when he was able to lay claim to his black identity, that added another layer to the complicated and nuanced understanding of race and it's penetration with gender and sexuality and class. when you think about those people locked in battle, they were locked in essence with an idea that they grappled with it. victor hugo was right. they were living in the midst of the opening of that. we talk about it now as being woke. they were awake before woke was awake. they began to give us the language for how do you deal with people you disagree with but you learn from. bobdy kennedy was not a great fan of martin luther king jr. at that meeting he wanted to talk to people who were not beholden to an organization or an affiliation with an institution but who were free to speak their minds, their hearts and their souls. even though he got more than he before gained for initially, he learned to hear it. if this president ever did, it would be world changing and tra

bobby kennedy wanted the negroes to be grateful. as you know, with all do respect to the extraordinary trajectory later on a bobby kennedy, the kennedys, especially john kennedy gained more in depth as he did in life. he was torn between two forces. on the one hand, there were white bigots he had to appease in the south. like carol cox who he put on the bench who literally called black people makers from his elevated judicial bench. then the georgia governor who robert john kennedy, jfk call to get martin luther king jr. out of jail. he placed a well-timed call to the governor, they got king off before the election. kennedy became president. he also told him, i will not use federal forces to intervene on behalf of nick gratian. then he's telling black people, i'm going to help you civil rights. bobby kennedy was a younger brother, less knowledgeable but more inclined to have conversations like today. he stepped into the room. it was their penthouse on central park. he started up and said, i am trying to figure out what rages going o

to me that was bobby's finest hour. i wanted to share with you the time i met bobby kennedy. we moved to washington when i was eight and my father worked on the equal employment effort -- office. we got a chance to go to the white house. jfk was out of the office and we were disappointed but we could meet the attorney general. here came bobby and he said, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and he walked over to me, the eight-year-old and the least among us and asked me my name and how old i was and what grade i was in. he obviously knew how to address an eight year old. i thought the warmth and the vulnerability was there. >> pardon me. anyway, we all thought that bobby was ruthless. i saw that kindness because of the way he related to me. many years later i campaigned for him as a junior high school student and i celebrated those remarks when king was shot. i cut out the newspaper article . i read about it in books and 10 years ago on youtube i discovered you can actually see the film of that flat bread -- flatbed truck and you can see the hesitating grace of robert kenned

that the god, bobby kennedy served so well. will send his spirit upon this mourning. to guide our feet in the ways of peace. his grace will open our eyes to new vistas of human daring. open our heart to the most vulnerable among us. open our hand to embrace the cause of justice. above all, bobby kennedy still lives because the one in whose name we make this prayer, the one who was the source and summit of his life, the one who was crucified and yet rose triumphant. he still lives. thus faith, hope, and love will never die. amen. >>> on behalf of my mother, ethel kennedy, and our very large family, i want to thank the staff at arlington cemetery for being so kind and accommodating and flexible. i want to thank president clinton who graces us with his presence. thank you so very much. my family and i also thank those who devoted their time and talent to making this service possible and to each of you for sharing in this commemoration. it is tough to lose a parent. it was very painful to lose my father. half a century later, each of you have come here. many traveling fro

i wanted to share with you the time i met bobby kennedy. we moved to washington was i was -- when i was eight, and my father worked on the commission for equal opportunity, and we had a chance to go to the white house. jfk was out of the office and we , but we couldted meet the attorney general. here came bobby. ladies, good afternoon and gentlemen, and he walked over to me, they rolled, the least among us, and asked me my name and how old i was, what great i was in. he knew how to address an eight-year-old. and on herwarmth ability -- and vulnerability. pardon me. bobby was all thought ruthless, but i saw that kindness because of the way he related to me. later as a junior high school student, i campaigned for him and i celebrated his remarks when king was shot. i cut out the newspaper article. i read about it in books, and about 10 years ago on youtube, i discovered you can see the film of that one on the flatbed truck. hesitating grace of robert kennedy. and what might have happened if he had been elected? with great respect, i disagree

to me that was bobby's finest hour. i wanted to share with you the time i met bobby kennedy. we moved to washington when i was eight and my father worked on the equal employment effort -- office. we got a chance to go to the white house. jfk was out of the office and we were disappointed but we could meet the attorney general. here came bobby and he said, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and he walked over to me, the eight-year-old and the least among us and asked me my name and how old i was and what grade i was in. he obviously knew how to address an eight year old. i thought the warmth and the vulnerability was there. >> pardon me. anyway, we all thought that bobby was ruthless. i saw that kindness because of the way he related to me. many years later i campaigned for him as a junior high school student and i celebrated those remarks when king was shot. i cut out the newspaper article . i read about it in books and 10 years ago on youtube i discovered you can actually see the film of that flat bread -- flatbed truck and you can see the hesitating grace of robert kenned

for above all, bobby kennedy still lives because the one in whose name we make this prayer, the one who was the source and summit of his life, the one who was crucified and yet rose triumphant, he still lives, thus faith, hope, and love will never die. amen. >> on behalf of my mother, ethel en kennedy and our very large family, impacted to thank the staff at arlington cemetery for being so kind and accommodating and flexible. i want to thank president clinton, who graces us with his presence. thank you so very much. my family and i also thank those who devoted their time and talent to making this service possible and to each of you for sharing in this commemoration. it is tough to lose a parent. it was very painful to lose my father, and yet a half a nothing further later, each of you have come here, many traveling from far, as far away as italy, ireland, and australia. you share our deep sense of loss and our happy memories. your presence is deeply moving to the -- and a tribute to the love that my father inspired. thank you for remembering. there is much to recall. his room was next t

there's a real sort of -- you were either with gene mccarthy or you were with bobby kennedy. and kennedy and mccarthy did not like each other very much either. and mccarthy, you know, faced with a far more glamorous telegenic, well-financed opponent would sort of say things like, well, he plays touch football but i play football. but kennedy was extremely good at calibrating himself to the -- these -- the larger cultural zeitgeist, to reaching out, not just to college students, all of whom -- nearly all of whom were white -- but reaching out to a multiracial coalition of democratic voters, of people who had fond memories of and loyalties to his brother, john, and to these other members of -- working class members of the roosevelt coalition, the new deal coalition, to build support around his candidacy. and so by the end of march, you have johnson realizing that it's just untenable for him to stay in and saying he's getting out. but it just gets more crazy from there. if that had been all that happened in 1968, that would be enough of a story, right? but there is so much more

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kennedy, making people understand that conservation and environmentammism was good for public health. people needed clean air and clean water and that species needed to be saved. we once had a billion passenger pigeons and not one alive today. but a species like the polar bear, who get very stressed right now, american public has to say, no, enough is enough. we need these species. i have three little kids running around here. all little kid love animals and wildlife and this book tells tee story our how wildlife was saved not just in alaska but in america. >> host: walt disney. >> guest: disney's seminal in my book because he did some documentaries on alaska that were game changers. one called seal rock and it was about -- he won the academy ward and it had only seals in it and it was about stop slaughtering the northern fur seal out of existence weapon need to protect seal life and did one called white wilderness, the big bad wolf, something you could kill or hot and they're almost treated like very minimum. desany went 180 the other direction and did a documentary with them as lit

followed by the bobby kennedy campaign. those were insurgent campaigns on the left side of the party, running against the more moderate democratic establishment. we saw that model again with bernie sanders in 2016. so there are all sorts of dynamics that began in 1968, that we continue to see in our politics today. host: coming off of that question that we asked today, you see that same opening happening in the form of cortez and what happened last week in new york? guest: it is really hard to say, especially in house races. there are so many of them. and there is always a rush, as soon as anything like this happens, there is always a rush to attach a large and important explanation to it which has nothing to do with local politics. and that is always countered by the tip o'neill saying that all politics is local. and it takes a while to figure out and find out what these things mean. i mean i was working in the , united states senate in 1994 in the midterm congressional election of the clinton presidency's first term, and

bobby kennedy. remember barbara jordan's speech? ronald reagan's speech in 1964. we are finding the best language and there is word and people who can bring us together. the question is, are we going to listen to them. howie: thank you very much for coming in. a 28-year-old socialist who beat a high-ranking democrat is front page news in the "new york howie: the need world went highway when joe crowley was clobbered by alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> how are you feeling? can you put it into words? >> nope. i cannot put this into words. howie: whatever the implications of this unknown winning the race, the media were blind side. the times never ran a separate story on alexandria ocasio-cortez. some omr. crowley got creamed. so much for the gray lady and other outlets knowing who to take seriously. it was like missing donald trump's victory in 2016. i'm howard kurtz. come at me on facebook @howardkurtz. keep itself if you can. i post a lot of original content and videos on facebook. it's about a fascinating conversation today about passion and politics on both sides. i

he did senator ted kennedy's house, bobby had -- bobby kennedy's paul house. -- pool house. i knew senator ted kennedy. we were in the same class at harvard and ratcliffe. but i was not a close friend, just said hello. , jack let a glamorous life. much more glamorous than i was leading. the kennedys were one of the chief people i met. then i ended up taking ted kennedy and his wife and two children as their escort translator to the soviet union in 1974. brian: i want to read what you said about jack. he was controlling, insanely jealous, and wanted me to be at his beck and call, regardless of my children and other commitments. he had an explosive temper and, when angry, would frequently keep me up most of the night. sleep deprivation became a constant part of my life. how did you deal with that? how was your way out? ms. kennan warnecke: in the end, leaving. i walked out the door. and this is partly what may be become a photographer, i started studying photography, which jack hated because i -- because he would he could not call me up when i was in the photo lab. he would ca

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he was reflecting on the assassination of bobby kennedy, 50 years ago, this week. i think it is quite poignant for what we are talking about today. it is our political, social and moral imperative to survive, and honour those who gave their lives to protest. [applause] with that, i will say, once again, we will never go back. we are generations of strengths happy lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender pride. thank you for being here today. [cheers and applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you. george, stay here for a second. two quick things. first of all, i would like to recognize our district attorney he was here today as well, with us. was clause second, kate, celebrate, we named it kate kendall day in san francisco. but i'm proud to announce today this is lgbtq pride month in the city of san francisco. [cheers and applause] all right, everyone. and droit the refreshments and happy pride, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people ca

senate historian emeritus donald ritchie to discuss bobby kennedy's political legacy a half century later. this is an hour and 10 minutes. ray: robert f. kennedy was running for president of the united states when he was assassinated in california, just hours after winning the california primary on june 5, 1968. and he died a few hours later on june 6. 1968 was one of those years that historians and journalists alike call a watershed.

the son of the late bobby kennedy is part of the legal team with cases pending against monsanto. >> it is a company essentially bad for families and farmers and bad for other food supply. >> reporter: johnson, who has undergone several rounds of chemotherapy talked about his two sons and wife and how life had dramatically changed after his diagnosis. now, everyone is watching this case because it is the first to go to trial. it will give us an idea how the other lawsuits might go. live in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> "7 on your side" is here and every complaint you send is read and dealt with. >> rachel from santa rosa has a problem canceling her account with at&t. she said she had already moved out of her home and closed her account. rachel was still getting charged $143.83 every month. we called at&t and they closed her account right away and reimbursed her the money. i want to thank at&t. >>> a couple of problems with their refrigerator from sears and the water dripping from the ice maker and not working properly. the couple called sears and a tech called out and th

kennedy for a moment, because last month was the 50th anniversary of his assassination which i remember as a child, one of the first memories i have is the slow train with your grandfather's casket on it. i guess the question is all we americans feel like we have some ownership and relationship to your family. we have our own stories about your grandfather. but what stories do y'all tell in the family? what are the things that you choose to remember, the stories you like to tell? >> so, stephen, it's -- there's the stories that i think you know and that a lot of americans know. the role that he and his family, his brothers and sisters have played in our history, the cuban missile crisis, the standing in the schoolhouse door, the civil rights battles, his obvious campaign for the presidency and the turmoil we saw in 1968, and that the important to me and my family. the there's the other side which doesn't get told, he was a dad, he was a broth snore father of eleven. >> yeah, which is a lot, turns out. ( laughter ) so it's those stories i kind of draw most on. it's the stories of them as

good thing i still have my bobby kennedy pez dispenser. >> seth macfarlane pushes the envelope more than i've ever seen anyone else do. >> screw this. i just came up here to buy some fireworks. >> it's a little bit hateful, a little bit hurtful because, my god, it's so [ bleep ] funny. >> sorry, wonder woman. i got three kings. now let's see your pair. all right. robin, what are you looking at me for? look at her. >> animation allows you to do whatever you want. it's probably the freest form of show business there is. >> down in front. >> in that sense, it's a comedy writer's dream. if i were 23 again and starting over, i would beeline towards animation. >> you may not be old enough to drive, but if you are a safe passenger, you have a job to do. gary is checking to make sure that the parking brake is in the proper release position. all clear, gary? movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep. to help you lose your dad bod, train for that marathon, and wake up with the patience of a saint. the new sleep numbe

. >> bobby kennedy was assassinated, and it was a saturday morning, and they had the funeral procession, which was airing on all the channels. >> the only alternative for a sports-crazy kid... ...an independent tv station airing a raucous battle. >> they were skating at this wild, blinding speed, hitting each other, banging each other. people are falling. >> he's hooked and unable to avert his eyes from the veteran vixen with the bod of a 25-year-old. his strange inheritance contains the proof. >> these are her shorts while she was on the midwest pioneers, and she was already at this point, 41 years of age. >> they're very, very, very small. >> "if you got it, flaunt it," the saying goes, and ann does. >> i wear hot pants. i mean, at 42 years old, people say you shouldn't wear hot pants. i say, "hey, look, when you're my age, you should look so good in hot pants." >> as jim grows up, he doesn't outgrow his roller derby fascination. he takes up skating himself, and after high school scores a job on the track crew with the hometown bay bombers. it's a skate in the door. >> one night, i wa

i'm going to read chris matthews biography, bobby kennedy. i think chris matthews has done an excellent job in this regard. of course, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of senator kennedy. these are three books at the top of my list to read the summer. >> book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list on a book tv on twitter. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. . .

he did senator ted kennedy's house, bobby kennedy's pool house. turbine orsis's wind something like that. i knew senator ted kennedy. we were in the same class at harvard and ratcliffe. we vaguely knew each other from back then. but i was not a close friend, just said hello. it was a very glamorous life for me for a while. much more glamorous than i was leading. the kennedys were one of the chief people i met. then i ended up taking ted kennedy and his wife and two children as their escort translator to the soviet union in 1974. brian: before we get there, i want to read what you said about jack. "he was controlling, insanely jealous, and wanted me to be at his beck and call, regardless of my children and other commitments. he had an explosive temper and, when angry, would frequently keep me up most of the night. haranguing me although he knew i needed to get up in the morning with my children. sleep deprivation became a constant part of my life." how did you deal with that? what was your way out? ms. kennan warnecke: in the end, leaving. i think

followed by the bobby kennedy campaign. those were in search and campaigns on the left party, running against the more moderate democratic establishment. we saw that model again with bernie sanders. so there are all sorts of dynamics. we continue to see that in our politics today. host: coming off the question we asked democratic viewers in the first segment today, do you see that same segment happening in the form of cortez and what happened last week in new york? hard to say. especially in house races. there are so many of them. , asthere is always a rush soon as anything like this happens, a rush to attach a large and important explanation to it which has nothing to do with local politics. and that is always countered by the chip o'neill saying that all politics is local. and it takes a while to figure out and find out what these things mean. i was working in the united in 1994 in the midterm congressional election and the speaker of the house, the democratic speaker of the home ins defeated back his own reelection campa

he was reflecting on the assassination of bobby kennedy, 50 years ago, this week. i think it is quite poignant for what we are talking about today. it is our political, social and moral imperative to survive, and honour those who gave their lives to protest. [applause] with that, i will say, once again, we will never go back. we are generations of strengths happy lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender pride. thank you for being here today. [cheers and applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you. george, stay here for a second. two quick things. first of all, i would like to recognize our district attorney he was here today as well, with us. was clause second, kate, celebrate, we named it kate kendall day in san francisco. but i'm proud to announce today this is lgbtq pride month in the city of san francisco. [cheers and applause] all right, everyone. and droit the refreshments and happy pride, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a h

kennedy. i think chris matthews has done an excellent job in this regard in the course to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic assassination of senator kennedy so these are three books at the top of my list to be this summer >> so what we do at some point as cornell lasted on to say is small exercise is not to play jokingly that creative in us a shared commonality and to carry this life in this moment right here right now is all that we have in the infinite expansion. so i feel that it will not need many of you with much hope after this talk but something far more dangerous or disconcerting or traumatic or what i suggested is compatible when it comes to discussing race where concepts like this we must not dare to be adventurous and remain in place but without the plenty of the years and with courageous professions with race and experience we must allow the strength those unpredictable spaces of those norms and that embodied orientation. and then be vulnerable to be wounded and rethin

in june 1968, just a few days after bobby kennedy had been assassina assassinated. chief warren told lyndon johnson that he was going to retire as soon as possible. chief justice warren did not want to run the risk that richard nixon was going to win the election. he said he was out. at '68, lyndon johnson had an opportunity to choose the supreme court justice. he was not going to pick not just any justice, he'll get to pick a chief justice. johnson decided he'll elevate somebody that was already on the bench and already on the supreme court as an associate justice. it was a dias i can. he was actual lyanne old frielyf lyndon johnson. republicans put up the wall. slow walk the nomination hearings and when the hearing finally did take place, senators learned that not only judge fortes have been hanging around the white house of meetings and they learned that he had been taking money from a local university to teach a course. he's been moonlighting and putting 40% of his salary on the court. >> democrats started taking back their support one by one and he had to withd

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in june, 1968, a few days after bobby kennedy had been assassinated. chief warren johnson told the president he was going to retire as soon as possible, as soon as a successor would be named. he did not want to run the risk it might be richard nixon to win the election and thereby get the opportunity to replace him on the supreme court. he said he was out. at 68, lyndon johnson suddenly has the opportunity to choose a supreme court justice a few months before the presidential election. he wasn't going to get to pick not just any justice, he would get to pick a chief justice. johnson decided to elevate somebody already on the bench, already on the supreme court as an associate justice. it was a complete disaster. abe fortis had been on the supreme court a couple years, a friend of president johnson. when he said he wanted to elevate him from from a regular seat to the chief justice, republicans did a slow walk and when the nomination took place, senators learned not only had the justice been hanging around the white house for meetings and pressuring cer

he was reflecting on the assassination of bobby kennedy, 50 years ago, this week. i think it is quite poignant for what we are talking about today. it is our political, social and moral imperative to survive, and honour those who gave their lives to protest. [applause] with that, i will say, once again, we will never go back. we are generations of strengths happy lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender pride. thank you for being here today. [cheers and applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you. george, stay here for a second. two quick things. first of all, i would like to recognize our district attorney he was here today as well, with us. was clause second, kate, celebrate, we named it kate kendall day in san francisco. but i'm proud to announce today this is lgbtq pride month in the city of san francisco. [cheers and applause] all right, everyone. and droit the refreshments and happy pride, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. how you feeling? this is a really special day for us. it's our opportunity to acknowledge many of the amazing young people

speaking to a nation then deep in the throes of the cruel injustices of apartheid, senator bobby kennedy began his speech by describing, and i quote, a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued but relations with whom remain a problem to this day. a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier, a land which was once the importer of slaves and must now struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. kennedy then paused before famously concluding, i refer, of course, to the united states of america. then as now, the differences between the united states and south africa are significant. yet americans and south africans share more than we might recognize or want to acknowledge. on the positive side, we share remarkable constitutions, inspiring foundational documents in south africa's freedom charter and our own declaration of independence whose fundamental principles are profound and inspiring but whose lived experiences have so far fallen short. we also share a deep commitment to democracy. society's grounded in the rule of law, a vibrant free press, a capa

he did senator ted kennedy's house, bobby kennedy's pool house. jackie onassis's wind turbine or something like that. i knew senator ted kennedy. we were in the same class at harvard and ratcliffe. we vaguely knew each other from back then. but i was not a close friend, just said hello. so we saw it -- i mean jack was -- it was a very glamorous life for me for a while. much more glamorous than i was leading. of course i was impressed by all of those things. the kennedys were one of the chief people i met. then i ended up taking ted kennedy and his wife and two children as their escort translator to the soviet union in 1974. brian: before we get there, i want to read what you said about jack warnecke. "he was controlling, insanely jealous, and wanted me to be at his beck and call, regardless of my children and other commitments. he had an explosive temper and, when angry, would frequently keep me up most of the night. haranguing me although he knew i needed to get up in the morning with my children. sleep deprivation became a constant part of my li

in june, 1968, a few days after bobby kennedy had been assassinated. chief warren johnson told the president he was going to retire as soon as possible, as soon as a successor would be named. he did not want to run the risk it might be richard nixon to win the election and thereby get the opportunity to replace him on the supreme court. he said he was out. at 68, lyndon johnson suddenly has the opportunity to choose a supreme court justice a few months before the presidential election. he wasn't going to get to pick not just any justice, he would get to pick a chief justice. johnson decided to elevate somebody already on the bench, already on the supreme court as an associate justice. it was a complete disaster. abe fortis had been on the supreme court a couple years, a friend of president johnson. when he said he wanted to elevatery from from a regular seat to the chief justice, republicans did a slow walk and when the nomination took place, senators learned not only had the justice been hanging around the white house for meetings and pressuring certa

the son of the late bobby kennedy is part of a legal team with cases pending against monsanto. >> a 50 year chemical attack on the american people and they made huge profits in doing it. >> johnson, who has undergone several rounds of chemotherapy, talked about his two sons and wife, and how life had dramatically changed after his diagnosis. everyone is watching this case because it is the first to go to trial. it will give us an idea of how the other lawsuits might go. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo is in the bay area for a two-day summit with australian leaders. abc 7 news was at stanford's hoover institution this morning as pompeo and australian minister of foreign affairs julie bishop posed for cameras. a small group of protesters rallied outside. >>> east bay congresswoman barbara lee is jumping into the race to become the highly influential chair of the house dramatic caucus. if she wins, lee would be the first african american woman in either party to hold a house leadership post. >>> the bay area tomorrow is expected to get abo

he was reflecting on the assassination of bobby kennedy, 50 years ago, this week. i think it is quite poignant for what we are talking about today. it is our political, social and moral imperative to survive, and honour those who gave their lives to protest. [applause] with that, i will say, once again, we will never go back. we are generations of strengths happy lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender pride. thank you for being here today. [cheers and applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you. george, stay here for a second. two quick things. first of all, i would like to recognize our district attorney he was here today as well, with us. was clause second, kate, celebrate, we named it kate kendall day in san francisco. but i'm proud to announce today this is lgbtq pride month in the city of san francisco. [cheers and applause] all right, everyone. and droit the refreshments and happy pride, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> okay. we are all now?

kennedy justice department, working on civil rights. real hero but nobody could call john door a partisanower or a figure. and they understood that this from the center. it had to be bipartisan for the accept it. and that's why the vietnam war, the invasion of cambodia, other things had been suggested to be part of the impeachment proceedings were set aside. they had as much trouble pushing aside the lefties who wanted to all sorts of issues, and the people on the far right who nixon.ind no wrong with then you had these members that you really didn't know about. a man... no. well, butler was one. but from virginia. or from south carolina. mean.ow what i >> james mann. >> james mann looked like a founding water. we imputed them. we thought they were all james madison. were very serious. james mann was a real conservative on the democratic democratic.rn democrats.outhern and man was very involved -- mann was very involved in this. was paul subbings from baltimore, who was very involved in shaping article two. together.orked and there were

he did senator ted kennedy's house, bobby kennedy's pool house. jackie onassis's wind turbine r something like that. i knew senator ted kennedy. we were in the same class at harvard and ratcliffe. we vaguely knew each other from back then. but i was not a close friend, just said hello. so we saw it -- i mean jack was -- it was a very glamorous life for me for a while. much more glamorous than i was leading. of course i was impressed by all of those things. the kennedys were one of the hief people i met. then i ended up taking ted kennedy and his wife and two children as their escort translator to the soviet union in 1974. brian: before we get there, i want to read what you said about jack warnecke. "he was controlling, insanely jealous, and wanted me to be at his beck and call, regardless of my children and other commitments. he had an explosive temper and, when angry, would frequently keep me up most of the night. haranguing me although he knew i needed to get up in the morning with my children. sleep deprivation became a constant part of my life