Make your parents happy and avoid combat. That wasnt it. I wanted to do something positive, i joined the peace corps that summer. Host okay, all right. Well, why this book now . Guest well, i started working on it, i did jack kennedy a couple of years ago, and before that kennedy and nixon. I knew the story, and what i came to believe was how powerful bobby was. He was the leader on civil rights. He was the one that talked jack into the civil rights push in june of 63. He was the one who really got him through the cuban missile crisis, who advised bringing the turkish missiles in as a negotiation and answering the first letter from khrushchev. He also was the one that went to the excom group, the top advisers to the president , and said we cant be like the japanese, we dont believe in sneak attacks. Were not going to kill a whole bunch of cubans in some sort of big raid on cuba and kill a lot of russians. Were not that kind of country. So hes a moral compass. Thats the reason. And righ
Spend half ofla the your interested have been made i am glad you called pergonal switching gears. The newest book is called Bobby Kennedy. You refer to him as a misfit . Imagine growing up the younger brother of joe kennedy, jr. Both sixfooters confident in a diligent this little guy you call him arunta the irish kid that would not get the land and so i think what happened is to develop into the. Then in with the was interested in those places. But he cared about the pow. And had to do the fact he was overlooked. He had that tremendous affection for girl in blesses read though long way. Isnt the Irish Catholic . In ben condemning him. In with the reagan airport. And then he drank themselves to death and was so distraught that he drove through the airport three times. And said that is what made a difference. Bin to have no benefit to anybody. Just to show respect. Chris matthews was your earlier. Using the phrase in the 1968 campaign looking for the national soul. What was, he looking f
Into eric garners case. This mornings cover of the new york daily news, we cant breathe, a chilling reference to eric garners chilling words on that afternoon in new york. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. In new york city, protesters stood near feet away from Police Officers chanting and raising their hands. Elsewhere throughout the city, others shouted. Police are not above the law. At one point, protesters started knocking down Police Barriers just a block away from the annual Tree Lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Plaza. There were at least 30 arrests throughout the city. From philadelphia to washington, d. C. , and in california, protesters fresh off demonstrations over the ferguson grand jury decision were out in full force. Just moments after the grand jurys decision was announced, the Police Officer seen putting garner in an apparent choke hold released the following statement. Officer Daniel Pantaleo says, quo, i became a Police Officer to help people and to protect those who can