and taking responsibility. he did it on civil rights when you had rioting in civil rights demonstrators beaten, and he had not properly prepared and planned for that eventuality. he blamed himself for that. self other instances during the kennedy administration when he did that. i think americans respect that. they admire it when a president does it. and when a president obfuscates it actually intensifies the problems he is dealing with. >> neil: sometimes as the press conference went on and i was listening -- very, very long appearings. i know he is a great lawyer and has legalees responses -- he could benefit from a short, terse jfk remark, and i'm reminded of this, after the bay of pigs fiasco and then-president kennedy talk about it. this is sport sweet. >> there's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and