better served by somebody of their own kind. yeah! it s hot as blaze out here. how about i if get you folks david follows in love with politics. you got my phone. yes, sir. good. one that includes whiskey drinking and story telling. david crockett was a politician. the frontiersman was part of his image making campaign in order to get elected to a population that did not want to hear from the old time politicians. after dabbling in local politics, crockett makes a bid for a seat in the tennessee legislature. as he builds momentum, his detractors begin mocking him in the press. referring to him as the
and the new frontier to the 60s of the beatles, drugs, and protests. it took four years until the gene mccarthy/bob kennedy race of 1968 to bring back the hopes that died that early friday afternoon of november 22nd. myself, i was lucky to spend the last years of the 60s in the peace corps in africa. it was a life changing experience. i had jack kennedy to thank for it. i will never forget listening on the short wave radio as americans stepped on the moon. that other jfk program that changed everything. senator pat moynihan of new york that worked for president kennedy and loved him once said to me, the country s never gotten over kennedy s death. you, chris, haven t gotten over it. i ll always take that as the deepest, warmest compliment. it was as if the old news frontiersman was welcoming me into a compact of those who would know and live the loss. i m chris matthews. thank you for joining us. the energy, the faith, the
on that note, good morning to you. welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin. just hate when that happens. just ruins your morning, doesn t it? good morning, everybody. zoraida and i are here to bring you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 in the a.m. let s get started. first, donald trump sucking the air out of the whole evening, stealing mitt romney s thunder after last night s texas primary victory. romney now has more than enough delegates to clinch the republican nomination, but not everyone is talking about that this morning. instead, it seems to be all about the trump and barack obama s birth certificate again. the donald campaigning with romney in las vegas yesterday, reviving that old debate over whether the president has born in this country. let s just say he was. it s been proven. but it s triggered this spirited exchange with wolf blitzer in the situation room yesterday. a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. how can you say t
we don t know if kennedy would have responded to a gulf of tonkin incident, on and on and on. but you cannot say that john f. kennedy wasn t looking for a way to get out of that mess. i absolutely agree with you. we don t ever know the future when someone has been killed. i absolutely believe based upon his experience in going over to see the french war, opposing the entry of u.s. troops, certainly the use of u.s. firepower, he always knew the issue was nationalism and all the more troops we could put in there would simply increase their nationalism. they would resent us even more the more troops we put in. and that turned out to be the case. completely agree. and also keep in mind in connection to our previous the comments we had. there was such a thing as you know of new frontiersman. there was something different about jack and bobby kennedy s relationship to the military than, say, lyndon johnson. and, you know, a lot of people were loyal to the kennedys. stewart udall as int
entry of u.s. troops, certainly the use of u.s. firepower, he always knew the issue was nationalism and all the more troops we could put in there would simply increase their nationalism. they would resent us even more the more troops we put in. and that turned out to be the case. completely agree. and also keep in mind in connection to our previous the comments we had. there was such a thing as you know of new frontiersman. there was something different about jack and bobby kennedy s relationship to the military than, say, lyndon johnson. and, you know, a lot of people were loyal to the kennedys. stewart udall as interior secretary. even though they stayed on with johnson. kennedy was getting his footing. he had won the big showdowns in berlin by not being a militarist. and he won it in cuba by not being a militarist. the notion he d squander his entire presidency on the gamble of vietnam wasn t in the cards and he was backing away from overcommitting the united states in the fall