This concludes the observance. These be seated for departure of the president of the United States. Thank you for joining us today as we celebrate and honor all who serve. [applause] the role of u. S. Intelligence of monitoring drones from other countries. Federal contractors and hiring procedures. Washington journal is live every morning starting at 7 00 on c span. Coming up, our first ladies Series Features Jacqueline Kennedy. A veterans Day Celebration ceremony at the world war ii memorial. I think every first lady should do something in this tradition to help the thing that she cares about. I just think that everything in the white house should be the best. The entertainment that is given here. Children are the same the world over and so is our feeling for children. I think it is good in the world, there is quite enough to divide people, so we should cherish the language and the emotion that unites us. Jacqueline kennedys 1000 days as first lady was defined by images, young mother,
Im not going to give away all of this stuff, but the most consequential question is what happens with vietnam and civil rights. And what about the 22nd approach is . They can be a huge debate. The conservatives will tell you that he ran as a hawk and he often said that we are not going to leave vietnam than we would have the same advisers as Lyndon Johnson. The army couldnt get the troops there kennedy was on the phony, are the troops . Theyre on the way. So you have that. And in an effort to kind of bring reality some fantasy together, i construct a meeting in which most of the participants speak the words they actually spoke at one time. I just put it somewhere else. Theres a man, an unsung hero of vietnam, civil serviceman named paul, head of the vietnam working group, and in a meeting with the other big shots had the temerity from the back to say, maybe we shouldnt be there . And a couple weeks later they got rid of him. Now, kennedy was one guy what wanted as much information as p
Welcome to cspans first ladies, influence and image. Tonight we tell you the story of Jacqueline Kennedy. We have two guests at the next table at the table to tell you more. A president ial historian and author of many books on the presidency, with a special focus on the cold war era and Kennedy Administration. Is a uva political scientist and as part of the modern first ladies serious she has written a Jacqueline Kennedy biography. I want to start, before we get into details on the white house years, with the assassination and the imagery of the assassination. Anyone who was alive at that time has those images in their mind. Subsequently, because of the power of the internet, we were talking before about the collective consciousness. People have experienced this since it happened. She was just 34 years old. Just 34 years old. From the moment at dallas, we know so much about the story. You forget he was shot into her arms. For five minutes they were there and she felt that they left th
Rev enough agents checking expense accounts. Want government to go back to he tell bills to fine out who was with you . These are real quotes. Now, if the kens were prepared to do this to stop a steel price hike, what they do to keep the presidency in their hands . Some of you know i worked for Robert Kennedy. No public figure i admired more. But this this dark side. They get away with it but people know that something is up. One of those underground things that know. Its all kind of underground. Last, 1968. What happens . So here are two notions. If theres no war in vietnam, then Richard Nixons most powerful argument for the presidency i know the world, i know the soviet union, i can bring peace to vietnam is irrelevant, and the republicans can find somebody who could actually win elections, say the governorship of california by a million votes. Reagan made a very lame last minute bid for the nomination. Take away the vietnam war, nixons strong point, and i realize the idea of a first
President kennedy and his funeral cemented her in the public consciousness. Welcome to the cspan series, first ladies, influence and image. We have two guests at the table, to tell you more about her story. He has a special focus on the cold war era and the Kennedy Administration. Robert parry is a political scientist and as part of the modern first ladies series, he has written the Jacqueline Kennedy biography. Before we get into more details about her white house years, i want to talk about the images of that assassination. Anyone who was alive at that time has those images in their mind. This is a collective consciousness. She was just 34 years old. Just 34 years old. We know so much about this story. He was shot and into her arms, for five minutes they were there and she felt that they left the hospital to go back to washington, but they had to do something to make sure that he had the historical reputation. What would a 34yearold woman have have the sense of that experience . What