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The 50th anniversary of john f. kennedy s assassination brings me to my question of the week. who was the only u.s. president so escape two assassination attempts in the same month? was it grant, jackson, ford, or truman? stay tuned and we ll tell you the correct answer. this week s book of the week is the man he became. the author looks at just one aspect of franklin roosevelt s life. his struggle with polio and he shares remarkable light on the man who became america s greatest modern president. he shows that it was fdr s battle to overcome this disability that most profoundly turned him into the man he became and the president he became. now for the last look. death. destruction. hunger. fear. shattering images continue to ....
You should thank us for it. i have to stop. thank you so much for coming. thank you for watching state of the union. i m candy crowley in washington. if you missed any part of today s show you can finds on itunes. search state of the union. fareed zakaria gps starts right now. this is gps the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. we have a terrific show for you today starting with china s important announcements. beijing says the one child policy will be relaxed after more than 30 years and it will abolish its labor camps. what s behind these decisions and others? what do they mean? five decades after shots rang out killing president john f. i can, robert carroll will tell us ....
We hope for change but in his dying days, chavez picked up a mini me to stay the course. the only reason venezuela has been able to survive given this record of ruinous policies has been its oil wealth, which has given the government the revenues that cushion it from the effects of all its disasters. the sad reality is that venezuela is wasting the world s largest oil reserves. it could be as wealthy as saudi arabia or qatar. it could outstrip mexico and brazil. instead, it s beginning to look more and more like north korea. up next, i have one of my favorite historians on the show. robert carroll. he takes us back to one of the most important moments in the 20th century. the assassination of john f. kennedy when we come back. t, i p minimize my blood sugar spikes. then, a way to support heart health. ....
We are back with robert caro, the great american historian talking about john f. kennedy and the assassination. you know there are people who look at where johnson was dead in the water, a life magazine article was about to come out. you describe an investigative story that would further undermine him. people look at all that and say this assassination really not only made johnson president but saved him from what might have been a complete collapse and is it possible that had the assassination not happened, johnson would have been so humiliated he would have had to resign? johnson to answer that part of your question, johnson himself felt that whether he had a second term or not, he was finished. that s the word he used. i m finished. you know how we know that he really felt that way, he told ....
Caisson. behind it, a single sailor holding a flag. kennedy had been a naval lieutenant. that s the president s personal flag. great black horse prancing there. forget politics. forget tragedy. this is a drama such as you have very few you have very few comparison to this in all of history and drumming it into history and the american people is television. everybody is watching. the nation is united in a way, united in watching this in a way you say when did this ever happen? and it feels to me that it s always about where america was in 1963. america was literally on top of the world. it accounted for 35% of global gdp. it had not had a major stumble ....