too many people we leave behind. the famous and the not so famous. some known to all of us, some known only to their loved ones. to all of them, we ll be saying hail and farewell. cowan: from pioneers to trailblazers on the ground, to legends of rock and roll. cowan: we lost so many this year, and that s before we count those most of us didn t know. this morning we say good-bye to those who brightened our lives during a year that was otherwise so very, very dark. cowan: what better time, what better year, for our story on the best-laid plans. with so much up in the air, susan spencer will tell us planning ahead may never be the same. reporter: it s almost new year s, but if you ve got no plans, well, you ve got plenty of company. if you look at the calendar and you re dispairing that it doesn t have the activities you enjoy, that you once looked forward to, i can imagine that would be a real struggle. reporter: not making plans? why every day is blursday, la
house, where president trump added fresh fuel to the fire in the controversy over whether and when to send kids back to school. earlier i spoke with dr. yvonne maldonado. thank you for joining us this morning. at his briefing last night, president trump said he d feel comfortable sending his son and grandkids back to school because he said kids don t transmit the coronavirus very easily. he also said they don t catch it easily. that seems to conflict with some of the research that we ve seen just this week. i want to get your thoughts on that. well, i don t think we really understand exactly what s going to happen with children. it does look like they are less likely to get sick, and maybe to transmit, than older children, and certainly adults. but we do need to have them go back to school very carefully and make sure that they re socially distanced, that the older kids wear masks, and especially the teachers take all the precautions not to get infected. and the other b
one of the most seminal days of my life was november 22, 1963. as an eight-year-old, i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. it isn t unusual for someone like me or anyone of my generation to remember where he or she was, but it seemed to me to change something, and from he developed a fascination. as i grew up, my friends were andrested in captain kirk the new frontier and i was interested in jfk in the old frontier. lookingdent, i had been , and as a washington correspondent as well, as a way into the kennedy story can story. there were studies, heavy amoirs, there was scarcely part of jfk s legacy that had not been dissected and expected inspected and examined. i wondered if there was something new to say. then i came upon, innocence, these two days in june. we are on the eve of the anniversary. what could i say that was new? when i thought about it, i said to myself, my goodness, two extraordinary speeches, one at in then university morning, one on civil
book, which focuses really on two days in the kennedy presidency june 10 and june 11, 1963. why did you decide to write a book focused on only two days of the kennedy presidency and why did you pick those two days to focus on? andrew: thank you, colleen, it is a great honor to be here with you, and the white house historical association. particularly meaningful for me, because it was founded by jackie kennedy in the white house 60 years ago. i had been looking for a way into the kennedy administration for some time. hard as it may be to believe, one of the most seminal days of my life was november 22, 1963. as an eight-year-old, i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. it isn t unusual for someone like me or anyone of my generation to remember where he or she was, but it seemed to me to change something. it developed for me a fascination. as i grew up, my friends were interested in cap tim cook and the final frontier. i was interested in jfk and the new frontier
antiwar protest. first, president nixon in a televised white house address a few days earlier. tonight, units: will attack the headquarters for the entire communist military operation in south vietnam. this key control center has been occupied by the north vietnamese and viet cong for five years, in blatant violation of cambodia s neutrality. this is not an invasion of cambodia. the areas in which these attacks will be launched are completely occupied and controlled by north vietnamese forces. our purpose is not to occupy the areas. once enemy forces are driven out of these sanctuaries and once their military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw. these actions are in no way directed to the security interest of any nation. any government that chooses to use these actions as a pretext for harming relationships with the u.s. will be doing so on its own responsibility and initiative and we will draw the appropriate conclusions. now, let me give you the reasons for my decision