will be exactly 50 years since president john f. kennedy was shot in dallas. and the people there and across the nation are commemorating his death. after all, jfk is the most popular president of the last half century. with 90% of people today proving of the job that he did. but some historians and experts say he lacked a substantial legislative record. how does he shine so brightly? as david greenburg writes, i would submit that kennedy s hold on us stems from the way he used the presidency. his commitment to exercising his power to address social needs. his believe that government could harness expert knowledge to solve props. in short, from his liberalism. a very provocative piece. is the message that he was a big government liberal, that s why
0 and actually wound up doing some good, that s the good stuff. it could also affect other people. certainly their families, certainly their families. beautiful. what a great good stuff. all right, time for cnn newsroom, we head you over to john berman and christine romans. hello my friends. have a great weekend. . you deserve it. it is friday and newsroom starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you are a looking at live pictures of eternal flame lit commemorating the life of president john f. kennedy, assassinated 50 years ago today. that s a live picture of arlington national cemetery in virginia. we re remembering jfk s life throughout the day here on cnn 50 years later. good morning, everyone. i m christine romans. i m john berman. carol costello is off today. we re going to have more on the jfk remembrances later but first a 22-year ban now getting a second look and that means talking on the cell phone while flying just might become a reality. t
i have taken some flack for that from my left. quite a lot, actually. we will begin another discussion about a different kind of history. he was not really a journalist. and also not an historian? he was an historian who was trying or teaching a version of history to my mind was simplistic, but also romantic in a way which, i think, verges on almost falsehood. he used the term the 99% before that became popular. the 99% are always virtuous and right. somehow they always keep losing to the 1%. he has, to my mind, are outmoded and erroneous interpretations of the civil war which he sees in beardian terms as the northern industrial interests vanquishing the south. you think the abolitionists were banned. again, just like a lot of popular journalistic versions of history. that sold more books than anyone on this panel. probably anybody out there combined will ever sell of their books. it has had an impact on the people on the left to be activities. it gives them a narrative
friday morning, february 25th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the early show here on a friday morning. good morning, everyone. i m chris wragge. i m erica hill. good to have you with us. the latest this morning on the crisis in libya. mandy clark joins us this morning from the city of durna. good afternoon where you are, mandy. reporter: good morning, erica. now, we are on our way to the city of durna for demonstrations. today expecting to see the largest demonstrations in libya because anti-gadhafi forces have called for a day of rage. benghazi is the biggest city to fall into rebel hands and last night a scene of wild celebration. the city saw some of the worst fighting. my people are dying in here because moammar gadhafi is killing us because we are dying, because we are fighting until we die. we are we have no mercy. he has no mercy any more. reporter: on the other side of the conflict, pro-gadhafi state tv showing demonstrators arrested. they a
republican campaign consultant bill whalen says whitman couldn t afford to pull negative ads, she s trailing but there are others she should have handled it one would have been let s done sit down and we ll bring governor schwartzeneggar into this. let s take a look at the ads. that is one thing we get lost this debate. abc 7 s political analyst says whitman could have gone positive because that what campaigns do. that, again is standard play out of a play book. start positive. go negative and then, come back, positive. it was likely both campaigns were headed in a positive direction anyway. won t have been much to say that is where we re going to go. whitman is defending her ads saying voters want to know. and a new poll has brown up by seven, fox news poll has brown up by nine. ask ren snath candidate is scheduled to return to the campaign trail tomorrow after being released from the hospital today. she was admitted yesterday. she is a breast cancer survivor and w