but, hey, t. how long are you going to keep doing this? keep doing it as longrk, andy is going to continue. it will be here for a long time. this is the 22nd year worcester has taken on his christmas keith project at arlington and other veteran cemetery s in all 50 states and overseas. more than 540,000 wreaths and google donated 50 poo thousand to help worcester continue his work, and that s it for today. comp on, guys, come on in. with three of the wallace grandchildren here, we want to wish you a great week, a happy new year, this is caroline, james, and william. have a very merry christmas from our family to yours and we ll see you next fox that s it.
three children without him, it seems almost impossible. reporter: as the media storm began to swirl around her, marie tippet found her thoughts going to the one person who could truly understand her ordeal, jacqueline kennedy. certainly sympathize with her. reporter: the two young widows saw their husbands laid to rest on the same day and somehow in the midst of her grief, first lady found time to write a condolence letter to marie tippet, this never before seen letter was as direct as it was unexpected. dear mrs. tippet, what can i say to you? my husband s death is responsible for you losing your husband. wasn t one life enough to take on that day? i lit a flame for jack at arlington that will burn forever. i consider that it burns for your husband too and so will everyone who ever sees it. with my unexpressible sympathy,
in fact, with three children, without him it seemed almost impossible. reporter: as the media storm began to swirl around her, marie tippet found her thoughts going to the one person who could truly understand her ordeal, jacqueline kennedy. i can sympathize with her. reporter: the two young widows had their husbands laid to rest on the same day and somehow in the midst of her grief the first lady found time to write a condolence letter to marie phipppet. this never before seen letter was as direct as expected. dear mrs. tippet, what can i say to you? my husband s death is responsible for you losing your husband. wasn t one life enough to take on that day? i lit a flame for jack at arlington that will burn forever. i consider it burns for your husband, too. and so will everyone whoever sees it with my unexpressible
teacher, a great historian. he said to me once, bobby said, the united states is the only country in history that believes it was born perfect and strives for improvement. you talk of jackie kennedy. tom brokaw had an extraordinary interview with the widow of the police officer slain that day, never before seen letter. let me play a bit of this where tom brokaw is reading that letter from jackie kennedy to mrs. tip pet. what can i say to you, my husband s death is responsible for you losing your husband. wasn t one life enough to take on that day? i lit a flame for jack at arlington that will burn forever. i consider that it burns for your husband too and so will everyone who ever sees it. with my unexpressible sympathy, jacqueline kennedy. this is the thing you always want is somebody just to
filipino american community as is our country blessed with that. and many of these families have family and friends in the philippines. to see the loss of life, the property damage in terms of how are these people ever going to be made whole is just so very, very tragic. i it was emotional for me on monday in arlington when we were there for the placing of the wreath. some of the filipino vets who risked everything for our country, one of the ones that i met at arlington was in we re going to step away as she talks to her constituents about the tragedy in the philippines. let s go back to christine romans for a second. you were mentioning some bright notes to obama care. i think it s only fair that we relay that those facts to our viewers as well. one of the bright notes is the expansion of medicaid for the poorest americans to sign up for medicaid. and that has been going pretty