and his family, robert kennedy andnd his family and ted kennedy as well. john clinton was there, the hero of the hour. he adjusts orbit off the earth and everybody wanted to talk to john glenn whon would soon run for the senate or ohio for the first time. lester pearson was the canadian liberal party leader was fair. he had when the notebook grease prize for his work on the suez crisis and he would be elect the prime minister the following year. robert frost was there. of course frost had become famous for his reciting of the palm of the maturation in 1961 and president kennedy coming in now, a couple months was sent into russia onm a special missin to the soviet union. catherine porter was fair. one novel she had mostly wrote short stories, but are one on that very day reached number one in "the new york times" best seller list. mary hemingway as you mentioned in the introduction she sat at president kennedy's table, but she also plotted argument with him over the policy. hemingway had lived in cuba for 20 years and she had a particular perspective on the

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kennedy and his family and ted kennedy as well. john glenn was there, the hero of the hour, he sat at mrs. kennedy's table. he had just orbited the earth. anyone who wanted to talk to john glenn would soon run for the senate for ohio for the first time, lester pearson, canadian liberal party leader, won nobel peace prize on suess crisis, he would be elected prime minister of canada the following year. robert frost was there, he was 88, he was a magnet all evening for people. of course, frost was -- had become famous for his reciting of the gift outright poem in inago intraiciÓn -- inauguration and president kennedy would send him on a mission, cultural affairs mission to the soviet union. katherine anne porter was there, she had written one novel, she mostly wrote short stories but her one novel on that very day reached number one in "the new york times" best seller list. only nobel female was there, mary hemmingway, as mentioned in the introduction, she sat at president's kennedy table but she also got into an argument over cuba

kennedy: hey, john brennan. you called the president's claim there was no russian collusion hogwash. and you said you know america worked with russian spies during the 2016 campaign. if it's actually true, how do you know? and why didn't you ever tell anyone? as you know, the president yesterday revoked john brennan's security clearance after the former intel chief's reported attacks on the commander-in-chief. the president called him a partisan hack. brennan said in a "new york times" op-ed, trump is desperate to protect himself which is why he made the politically motivated decision to scare into silence rotters who may -- on the g silence others who dare to challenge him. richard burr questioned brennan's story, asking, his statements purport to know as fact that the trump campaign excluded with a foreign power. if his statements are based on intelligence he received while leading the ci tax, why didn't he include it in the assessment released in 2017. if his statement is based on intelligence he has seen sin

kennedy. kathleen kennedy townsend, thank you very much for being with us here on c-span. >> good to be with you, steve. >> joining us here in washington is michael cohen, the author of the book "american maelstrom: the 1968 election and the politics of division." coming the out in paperback late they are year. let me give with you. president lyndon johnson, a key political figure in what we're talking about. what was his standing as the year began? >> johnson was in a tough political position, the war in vietnam had become a stalemate. there was a growing opposition to the war within his own party and also on capitol hill. popular support for the war had dipped. so he was in a tough position. he was facing a primary challenge within his own party for the nomination. for the nomination for eugene mccarthy and then the tet offensive occurs and that's the moment the end of johnson's presidency in some respects politically. it showed that the administration was lying about the war. that the war t

kathleen kennedy-townsend the of senator ter robert f. kennedy. to both of it's latest stories on the future of the internet. then matthew hennessey, author of zero hour for gen-x. the millennial generations ffects politics and culture. 7:00 a.m. monday morning, join the discussion. >> tomorrow, first lady e.j. manuel speaks at a cyberbullying prevention summit from rockville, maryland on carreno at 9:15 a.m. eastern. this week, president trump heads for west virginia for a rally in charleston. that is live tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> monday night on the communicators, former f.c.c. chief economist thomas hazlett talks about his book. from herbert hoover to the smartphone. we have only scratched the surface in terms of how many spectrum we have put out. the majority of the air waves are still squandered. they are allocated to things that were set aside 50 or 60 years ago. the technologies are gone and the applications are moot, but we are blocking the new stuff that waits. we need to come up with better mechanisms. a lot of my

kennedy: welcome back. u.s. intelligence officials confirmed to fox news that north korea is continuing to work on its nuclear program. satellite photos indicate activity at a factory in north korea that builds long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles. secretary of state pompeo remained optimistic about north korea keeping the pledge made at the summit. >> progress is happening. we need chairman kim jong-un to follow through on his commitments he made in singapore. kennedy: not appears the north korean leader is not following through. how should the president respond? how should john bolton respond? we'll ask lee zeldin. do you believe the north koreans have kick started their nuclear program? >> i'm seeing a mixed bag. you at the same time are hearing reports about another site where kim jong-un has pledged to be break down that other site and it seems like he's following through on that. you get a mixed bag where you have the remains of 55 hopefully american service members. kennedy: we don't even know.

kennedy: how does that happen? the people with the guns are on the side of the mullahs. >> it doesn't happen until segments of the security structure break away. unlike the shaw's military, the mullah's military concentrate the power and guns into the revolutionary guard corps who are awarded a whole bunch of the pie. the regular army, navy and air force don't have the influence and power. this is the difference between the islamic revolution and the shaw. sadly, i would love to sit here and tell you, grab a gun, grab 10 more guns, but that's not iran in 2018. this isn't 2009. the average iranian protesters know how to hide their i.p. address and cell phone address. kennedy: can you wage revolution digitally? >> unless it fires a gun you cannot, sadly. kennedy: you and i talked about this many times. the reason we have a second amendment in this country is some make sure everybody has the ability to protect themselves. as you point out here, whoever has the guns has the power. >> that's how it worked for us. i woul

kennedy: what? messiah bernie is going to keep people from dying because they only die as a result of private healthcare is telephones. sow canadians are i am, so canadians are immortal. people will still die when bernie is president. and there is no guarantee people will live longer or better because of anything in this utopian stomach churner. what is proposed is a 40 person * pay cut for d a 40% pay cut for doctors and providers. if you like your doctor you won't be able to keep your doctor because your doctor won't be a doctor any more if you cut their peso dramatically. '. ken from had to take -- if you had to take that of a bath doing more work for less money? voters may be confused to about the future of healthcare. but the dysfunction won't be cured by the pill of socialism that can't provide answers to critical questions like how do you pay for it? not enough people are dying to find out. tom perez, the president of the dnc says alexandria ocasio-cortez is the future of the democratic party

kathleen kennedy-townsend the of senator ter robert f. kennedy. to both of ritter: c-span's narrator: c-span's "washington journal" life every day. .oming up, gideon rose then matthew hennessy, author of ," on ther for gen x millennial generation's impact on culture and policy. join the discussion. tomorrow, first lady melania live speaks at a summit from rockville, maryland, at 9:15 am eastern. this week, president trump heads to virginia for a rally in charleston where he will talk about jobs and the economy. that's live tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the american institute of certified public accountants met recently in washington, d.c., for a conference to discuss changes to the financial auditing process, cyber security, and other issues. part of the event

kennedy: all right. so, you know, you have the kids who were saying that they were being taught how to shoot up banks and a school and that the dead child, their presumed relative, they were told was going to be resurrected as jesus and was going to lead them which groups of people to attack. >> yeah. that's the big one, okay? there's a 3-year-old that's dead. one of the defendants actually abducted his son from georgia, and he's not being released because he's going to be extradited to georgia on the abduction. but they are in the process of trying to figure out how that body died. there's one of the children that has a firsthand account of how. they were trying to extract the demons from him. right? i don't know why the state and the prosecutors are sitting on that. because if there's a murder, if there's a manslaughter, if there's a child abuse that results in death, they would have had a much better argument. but they're holding back for some reason, and they didn't charge the terrorism act. so the j

kennedy, one could ask? running aprivilege of program at the university of virginia for about eight years before i became the director of the nixon library and one of the things i learned -- i learned a it, but one of the things learned was that we historians have a habit of slicing and dicing history. we become experts in certain fields. somebody will write about vietnam, somebody will write about cuba. presidents don't have the luxury of dividing their time that way. the tapes reveal their constantly making decisions on the fly. they have to operate on less information than you assume. off have to trade sometimes. they're worried about something at one part of the world and something else somewhere else. so i thought we have all of these tapes from the kennedy era a taped about 260 hours. most of them are not about cuba. i made a point of thinking about doing this book and then i went to work for the government and learned a lot about nixon and that's a different story. since that time, i've learned that i

kennedy did not know what to do. the united states was a charter member of the southeast asian treaty organization and as such had an obligation to defend the territorial integrity of a country most americans and even some presidents could not find on a map. among the other charter members and the united kingdom. as the situation deteriorated in laos, the southeast asian treaty had devised military plans to make military contingencies. these plans involve the deployment of nuclear weapons. this morning, we have been talking a lot about the shaping of the cold war under truman. the korean war, not only s the cold war, but involves american boots on the ground in a struggle against communist in the developing world. 10 years after the start of the korean war, it was still an open question whether the united states whatever -- would ever make a similar commitment again in the developing world. eisenhower administration was intervening on the side of the french and into china. but did not, and large measure because the b

justice kennedy took this seriously. matter, justice kennedy will have the deciding vote. he didn't approach it at all. rigor that hernal would decide how exactly would not merely me up, from our perspective, but as a logical matter and a matter of precedent. talk about it quite a lot. what are the best ounterarguments for this position, we're discussing at a conference, what are the necessary things to indicate matter and from the facts. he approached it with a great rigor. i also say, i think he did that because that's the way he approached every case. perception that it must have been justice kennedy who was the deciding vote. bviously history will tell us as you look at some decisions that was the case. i don't think it's always the case. a surprise that there are situations in which it may not have been justice kennedy who the final vote to join a 5-4 but somebody else. reason kennedy for that as well took so seriously persuading his colleagues that this in a oaching rigorous manner. they'ree to the justice talking about being nervous. >> it's interesting because what

so had john kennedy. we brought him into new hampshire for two days, maybe three days, and then fly to key biscayne where he could relax, and then take it easy and go into wisconsin. we paced him very well. we knew it was a marathon. it was just tremendously well advanced. we were up there whipping everybody to come out and look how many came out voluntarily, et cetera. we had a terrific crowd, 3,000 people, and that was the kind of event nixon wanted to do. >> and barbara perry, that exchange, by the way, with a world war i veteran, and he makes mention of vietnam. clearly that was the driving issue of 1968. can you explain what was going on here in this country, how americans were viewing the war and why they were turning against president johnson? >> we mentioned the tet offensive. that was in january of 1968. i'm glad, actually, there are no videos of me from 1968, but i will say that i was a 12-year-old in the sixth grade. my brother was ten years older than i and graduating from college, small catho

at the kennedy confirmation hearing as u.s. senator support of kennedy's nomination. it strikes justice kennedy is terribly unfair that anyone with individual potential should be limited by a group to be treated in accordance with their membership rather than what they deserve to receive as individuals. that perfectly sums up the humane element of the kennedy jurisprudence when the government treats people differently because of their race, even if the treatment is positive only strict scrutiny will do. it is worth noting however that really this is strict scrutiny according to justice kennedy because his formulation of this test doesn't find much agreement on the court that the growing race based cases with the reading of the constitution that is nothing like the absolutist within the jurisprudence of the conservative party. somebody vitamins to write about a justice still on the court so that justice will one day issue an opinion. [laughter] now he is really opposed to race-based classification. i treating the individual differently nevertheless his solo concurring

kennedy: dogs rule. >> i knew i loved you, kennedy. kennedy: president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani doing some damage control after a viral comment he made about the troops. watch this. >> i'm not going to be rushed to having him testify so he gets trapped into perjury. when you tell me he should testify that he's going to tell the truth and shouldn't worry. that's so silly. it's somebody's version of the truth, not the truth. >> truth is truth. >> no, truth isn't truth. >> come on, chuck todd. just an hour ago. giuliani tried to explain what he went to martha maccallum on fox news channel. >> i'm talking about in this particular situation, one person says the flynn conversation took place. another person says the flins conversation didn't take place. what's the truth. you you tell me how you figure out the truth. >> iter it did or it didn't. >> it's like the tree falling in the forest. did anybody hear it? how do we know what the truth is? kennedy: will that get rudy out of his latest jam? let's go to tonight's panel. mark lauder is h

>> i was always surprised given that justin kennedy -- justice kennedy was so long on the bench. i thought that the time i was there he would have had his opinion set. i was surprised that he would read closely these amicus briefs. the court could get 10 or 20 or 50 briefs. would show up and say, did you see what's so it is so 16 of this break. i would say, justice i have not gotten to these brief set. -- briefs yet. not bestly would controlled by any sources but i think he thought they were all ballot to look at. the court received a lot on this next case. -- the court ruled that detainees have the right to appear in front of a judge and know what they are being to pain for -- chief among these are freedom from arbitrary and unlawful restraint and the personal liberty that is secured by here is to the separation of powers. it is from these principles that our opinion does not undermine the executive's powers as commander-in-chief. the exercise of those powers as indicated -- vindicated, not eroded, when confirmed by the judicial branch. within the constitution's separation-of-po

palm beach florida is the oldest daughter of senator kennedy, kathleen kennedy townsend. thank you for being with us on c-span. >> it's good to be with you. >> in washington is michael cohen, and author of a book coming out in paperback later this year. president lyndon johnson, a key political figure is what we're talking about. what was his standing as the year began. >> the war in vietnam had become a political stalemate and there was a growing opposition and the population of the war had dipped. he was facing a primary challenge within his own party for the nomination from eugene mccarthy and then the tet offensive occurred. it showed the administration had been lying about the war. and things had fallen apart in vietnam. from that point forward it became clear that johnson politically would be hard- pressed to survive within his own party much less the opposition. >> what was the tet offensive? >>> it was a surprise offensive was the 1968. the viacom corollas took over the embassy briefly. the provincial capitals were attacked. the city of way was taken over by the n

that is where justice kennedy came out. it was not easy to get there, from the government perspective. i was there at the time. we are about guantanamo bay, not within the u.s. aboutare often questions how the constitutional provisions provide outside the u.s. do they provide outside -- do they provide outside the u.s. at all? we have military bases in cuba and everyone admits that cuba is sovereign over the territory. how do we say that the risk of habeas corpus applies? justice kennedy wrote this opinion that was pragmatic to say that maybe not as a de jure matter, but as a de facto matter, the u.s. has control over when time obey -- one time guantanamo bay and it was a critical point at where we were in the war on terror and the government perspective. abilityt recognized the to challenge detentions and it can't change the cases we would see to come in the d.c. circuit. eventually coming back to the supreme court. this is going to be something where the court would make clear it was going to play a role. >> your thoughts

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writes about the political career of kennedy shriver sister jean, robert and ted kennedy. they also talk about the book the politics and prose bookstore in washington. this is one hour. >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for coming out to politics and prose on this beautiful day. my name is jenny and on behalf of the staff and owners here, welcome to the store. we are really excited to welcome eileen mcnamara to talk about her new book, "eunice." a couple of housekeeping notes. first if we can take a second to silence our phones, that would be great and also when we get to the question and answer portion if you wouldn't mind using this microphone here in the aisle soe can pick up your voice, that would be appreciated. now for the buck. eileen mcnamara spent about 30 years with the "boston globe" and she was one of the first to write about the abuses in the catholic church. two awards from her list of accolades are the pulitzer prize for commentary and in her latest book she argues that eunice kennedy left the greatest after her impaired sister rosemary, eunice used he

kennedy: breaking news. new york republican chris collins is speaking after his arrest today on insider trading charges. >> because my focus is to defeat the charges in court, after today i will not address any issues related to the case outside of the courtroom. rest assured i will continue to work hard for the people and constituents of the 27th congressional district of new york and remain on the ballot running for reelection this november. thank you very much. and have a great night. kennedy: there you have it. he's not stepping down. president trump's legal team. we'll shift gears. president trump's legal team telling robert mueller, take a hike. they rejected the special counsel's terms for the sit-down. and they gave him a deadline. wrap up the investigation by september 1. mueller reportedly wants to question the president about obstruction of justice related to the russia investigation. but the president's attorney says any questions related to obstruction would be quote legally inappropriate. this

you engage with justice kennedy. justice kennedy was not into long memos. i would just like to sit and talk about the cases, and we would do a memo, but just a brief, two-page memo of everything justice kennedy had read. and he just wanted to talk about what the principles were, what the president -- what the precedent was set on them, what had been done in recent years. and justice kennedy was interested in these big, teutonic like -- titanic like cases, what was this fact, what was that fact during trial. so i would go through with him and discuss at length, and it was just an incredible experience. i would have justice kennedy in mynto an easy chair chambers, and i would have to pinch myself, my gosh, i am talking to justice kennedy about this case. it was just an incredible experience. host: why do you think it mattered to him to know the details of particular cases? ishan: when the case is reached the supreme court. it is really on the individual case. that frames that particular -- that frames justice for that particular person. and justice kennedy wa

. >> kennedy: we are going to hawaii and we can have. my girls are so excited. they're already packed. what you do is, you've got to stay off social media if you're going to stay off work. if your boss is emailing you and they are checking your instagram importer there like wait a second, you been posting memes of your trip and pictures of your food. i emailed you. i want a response. if you're going to connect, you need to completely disconnect. one of the great things in the article was mindfulness. you have to be present wherever you are, and if your vacation goes in fits and starts, wherever the starts are, that's where you have to be and keep your mind out of work. >> tyrus: juan, you are on vacation. how much work did you do? >> juan: i ended up having to do some work because i wrote a column. i tell you what. it's interesting to me, the number of americans who don't take vacations. i was surprised at this, but -- it's part of your compensation. it's part of your paper and more and more people don't take vacations because they worry

kennedy: how do we do it? it's better for us, it's better for them, it's better for the world, it's better for peace if their government is overthrown. we don't want regime change and another theater opening in the middle east. how do you do it other than wishing and hoping? >> i want regime change. i just don't want regime change at the point of one of our guns. but i would love it if there was a revolution from within that overthrew the mullahs and the revolutionary guard. i would love it if they had a democratic popular uprising to get back to being a regular country. you delegitimize the regime by not cooperating with them to continue on the path of exporting terror over their neighborhood. if they lived up to the deal becoming a normal country, you wouldn't see runaway inflation and all of these protests. kennedy: what have we learned not to do with north korea and iran? what are some of the lessons. here is what not to do. applying those lessons to north korea. meaning is it imperative that we do not eas

kennedy: shrapnel. i hope they are wearing eye wear. >> a lot of people are going to give up in the middle of it. when i was a kid, i hated putting together models. i used to do the planet of the apes models. even i got bored doing it. i had my dad do all my models which is kind of sad. putting 3d in front of something makes something seem so much different. and fascinating and scary. kennedy: people will go to king kinko's. they said we'll sue you and we'll win. this is a first amendment issue. we have every right to put this out. >> the instructions to make an actually competent gun are already out there. i think even "reason" magazine ran an article on how to make your own gun. it was in their last issue. they used readily available materials off the internet. kennedy: your book is fantastic. monologue from "the five." there were parts of the monologues you didn't like and you left them in there and you aided some notes. >> there is more commentary in this book than monologues. i look at some of the

kennedy: i understand that. but to say the country has never been great. >> we are the great economic power of the 20th and 21st century. but it will be like the deplorables. it will be truncated and stamped across his forehead for years. kennedy: what does fully engaged mean? if you are 100% voter engagement, are you saying america sucks and we should give up? >> the strategic analysis to get america to the place where he believes every man, woman and child is equal. >> he's running on an arranged marriage platform. >> it's bad enough that he needs to come out and clear up -- kennedy: michelle obama said for the first time in my life i am proud of this country. those things can come back to haunt you. because you give your enemies leverage. don't explain anything except for coming up we have millennial women. they have the power to sway the mid terms this november. but a new poll says that doesn't necessarily mean a blue wave is coming. re cardholders 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels.

kennedy: i understand that. but even -- i just want to be careful that when we talk about this story, we are talking about a young woman and a tragedy, and the failure of decency and somehow another human being seeing so little. he's able to cross over to the other side end her life. that's what we should be talking about. i hope it doesn't just become a clarion call for immigration and create another wave of anti-immigration. >> what i think is sad is you have politicians putting their political intentions over public safety. sanctuary cities will entice more people illegally into this country. more people will die, more children will be molests. sanctuary cities, talk of aboicialing i.c.e., these are enticements for people to make that dangerous journey. i'm trying to save some lives. i have seen some horrible things in my 34 years. congress can't point their finger at i.c.e. and say nazis and if you don't like the laws, change them. kennedy: we have to figure out what kind of country we want to be. in terms o

there are 896 places in the world named after john kennedy. we reached out to hundreds of them from the kennedy center to the airport. it's not just telling the history but why it's relevant today. we use this expression of visionaries never go out of style. we think about will peace, the peace corps is just as relevant today. next year we have a country that will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of landing on the moon. today we think about big ideas, we think about a big idea with us in your company or organization we call it a moonshine. it's a way to think about it in the weight it brings us together. looking at those key points this is a commemoration of a centennial or next year celebration of the landing of the moon. thank you for your leadership. >> anyone else have a question to raise with the group? i want to put these guys on the spot. other than the president you worked with or represent today, give me your two favorites -- favorite presidents and first ladies. >> i would say abraham lincoln. i would love that opportunity. i woul

kennedy. i keep hearing intimations of a deal at some point in the future. are you prepared to deal with bobby kennedy? >> are not prepared to deal with anybody as far as my candidacy is concerned. i committed myself to a group of young people and i thought rather idealistic adults and i said i would be their candidate. i intend to run as i committed myself to run, in the situation develops a convention where i can't win, i will release my delegates. i don't have any power over them anyways, i don't have a block of delegation i could trade with and i did -- if i did have, i wouldn't trade with them. as far as i'm concerned, it will be an open and free convention. andll run as hard as i can stand as firm as i can. if i find i can't win, it will say to my delegnot john f. kenn. he never really got over the way that bobby kennedy got in the race in 1968. the morning after. vice president biden came and speaker nancy pelosi and steny hoyer and lots of brothers and sisters, cousins, grandchildren,

kennedy. and two weeks later, president johnson stunning the nation announcing he will not seek reelection. and then two weeks later, dr. martin luther king, jr. assassinated in member 'tis, tennessee. and then hubert humphrey announcing he is enter. and then robert f. kennedy assassinated. richard nixon accepting the nomination in august of that year. late another august, hubert humphrey accepting the democratic nomination in chicago amidst the riots. richard nixon is electioned president on november 5th, 1968. we want to welcome barbara perry was the director of presidential studies of the university of virginia's miller center and then pat buchanan who was worked on the campaign of richard nixon. where were you that? >> i was in richard nixon's campaign. we were having an argument. nixon was moving towards a more doggish position when we got word from cbs that lyndon johnson had asked for him sunday night. with nixon going to wisconsin the next day, he told me, pat, i want you to be at la g

kennedy, how she -- -- also, mrs. kennedy, of course, but mrs. johnson, how she presided over the white house and mrs. bush, who loves the outdoors and loves flowers and plants and natural landscape and the national parks, always looked to mrs. johnson as an example of, you know, someone who so appreciated our natural beauty. and mrs. bush would say, would look at mrs. johnson and say, oh, she loved flowers. but really what she was was our nation's first conservationist first lady. so i think that her presence and one of the personal recollections i have of mrs. johnson, which is seared in my memory for the rest of my life is linda johnson rob, who we all heard from last night, of course, on the descendants panel, but linda had called me when i was chief of staff to mrs. bush and said, i'm bringing my mother back to washington for what i know will be her last time. to see some of her friends, of course, she had a stroke, she wasn't speaking, she was in a wheelchair, but she was still very vibrant. and she said, do you think we can come to the whi

kennedy. much, i thank you very have never been to texas, and this is the closest i will get for a while. >> the two men had a report and rapport, and they knew each other. that makes this photograph even more interesting and personal, because this is one of john f. kennedy's last public appearances before he was assassinated in dallas. we also have in the papers, a his copy of the itinerary for that shows one president kennedy and miss -- mrs.were going to a liv kennedy were going to arrive in fort worth, what their schedule was going to be. the itinerary for november 22, 1963. it is a poignant document because it goes through the entire day, and of course, we know that president kennedy did not complete this schedule of events. these are in the collection as well. jim wright wrote about his experiences that day, being with president kennedy in the motorcade. these are the diaries kept by speaker wright during his tenure in congress. these did not come to us in the original accession of his c

that was -- i was in the kennedy administration, if you will. and the most important part about that personally was that because he decided to run for senate, i had the chance, fortunately, to go to work for him in the campaign. and then i worked for him. much of what i did was about civil rights and poverty and i worked for him until his death. mark: so, let me go to alabama again, bernard. build the story up to a place where we can talk about today and really kind of explore about that moment as we lead up to 1968. you -- after the freedom rides, you can talk about that if you like, but end up working for the committee in the south -- working for the nonviolent coordinating committee in the south and you took up a job that nobody wanted. in georgia, in selma. i mean, the south, where people were afraid to actually take a certain position. talk about that moment, because when you went to organize in a place where -- where people were actually terrified to go. dr. lafayette: yes, it was a continuation, actually, from the sit-ins to the freedom r

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kennedy, marthen luther king and now robert f. kennedy. so kennedy's assassination, just like king's assassination precipitates a broader national mourning mourning. and now it throws the democratic nomination into even more turmoil. it's not clear who, if anyone can bring them together. but in the meantime, the republican party is the republicans are debate hog is going to be their nominee. and by the early summer, it is clear that the person who is going to be the nominee is the most unlikely of candidates. richard nixon. why is he unlikely? well, he's lost. a lot. he lost to the, to kennedy in 1960, narrowly, but he loses. he runs for california governor in 1962, and he loses to pat brown, the liberal that ronald reagan later defeats four years later and famously says you're not going to have richard nixon to kick around any more after that. he had a very adversarial relationship with the press. he saw them as certainly as the enemy and is highly adversarial. and as recorded again an again in the history books, the pivotal, a pivotal mo