Who many of you recognize and i just wanted to say that we have hundreds of these programs on our web site a their youtube annel. You can look at the ones we have got already. Tonight we are going to be discussing catching the wind . . . An interesting analysiof the kennedy wave scene in three parts and also how it crashed, a very interesting and i take it from what i read this is the first lume of the 2volume ted kennedyiography through 1975. Welcome kneelin thank you very muchor joining us. Its great that you switched your career to writing these great fees. The first question i have is inert knowledge and at the end you mentioned the book started off as an idea to write a book about political morality. Did your publisher then say theres not enough material out there to make the book on political morality . He would definitely say that its interesting the origins of this book i was coming off of a ee of walt disney so this seems very much when i propose my next bk toike publisher whi
Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president Lyndon Johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. He was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing president ial elections. Richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first Vice President in history to lose a president ial campaign. He then made Hubert Humphrey the second 1968. As the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i democrat o
Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight. R. F. Craycray. First, stephen welcomes Kerry Washington and congressman maxwell frost. Featuring louis cato and the late show band. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen thank you very much. Thank you very much. Simple, beautiful. Lovely. Thanks, everybody [cheers and applause] good to see you. Nice to see you. Welcome back. Welcome back. Hey, everybody thank you so much. Welcome. Welcome one and all. In here, out there, all the ships at sea. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. [cheers and applause] lovely. Today was the fourth day of the escalating conflict between israel and hamas, and the news is both heartbreaking and horrific. But if you read any of that news on twitter, you might want to check someplace else. Because thanks to elon musk getting rid of twitters verification system, misinformation about israel and hamas has been spreading on twi
[eerie warbly music] announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight. First, stephen welcomes Kerry Washington and congressman maxwell frost. Featuring louis cato and the late show band. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen thank you very much. Thank you very much. Beautiful. Lovely. Thanks, everybody [cheers and applause] good to see you. Nice to see everybody. Welcome back. Welcome back. Hey, everybody thank you so m much. Welcome. Welcome one and all. In the year, out there, all the ships at sea. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. [cheers and applause] today was the fourth day of the escalating conflict between israel and hamas, and the news is both heartbreaking and horrific. But if you read any of that news on twitter, you might want to check someplace else. Because thanks to elon musk getting rid of twitters verification system, misinformation about israel and hamas has been spreading on tw
Tonight and get you home in time to watch the last word of the evening. [applause] its very important that we end on time to talk about the new book playing with fire theyve had several interesting careers back in the late 1970s and the wrongful death and Police Brutality and the plaintiffs lawyer made into a movie and they told me its actually going to be reissued soon. So if you dont have a copy. Then they got into politics for a time working for senator Daniel Patrick moynihan and as the staff director of the Environmental Public Works Committee and later the finance committee. After that he found his way into tv. Along the way they did some acting on some shows. I mentioned that they won an emmy for his work on the west wing. That is the last thing that he won until this week when he made it into the hall of fame. [applause] luther king and the Democratic Convention in chicago and the nomination fights in both party all against the vietnam war and civil rights movement. Its a water