he s remembered fondly? something like that. that s a phrase that has come to us after years of conservative backlash. so he probably wouldn t have used exactly that phrase. but there are lots of statements are kennedy speaks enthusiastically about the power of the federal government to address social problems and inequality. problems that no other institution in american life besides the federal government can address. and he believed in that. what are the policies that he embraced that have lived on beyond him? legislatively, he did not get most of his agenda through. he had a block and conservative democrats who were standing in the way of a lot of his agenda. but he put it on the table. he was the one first talked about a war on poverty. he was the one who first introduces the landmark civil rights bill. again, it s passed under
welcome back, everyone. checking top stories, george zimmerman s estranged wife shell e shellie says he has become a monster. he was arrested for allegedly abusing his now girlfriend. shellie said it s made her question everything including the night trayvon martin died. i think when people hear of all these incidents following the trial, it does cast further doubt on his actions that night. sure. do you feel that way? yes. does it cast further doubt for you? further doubt, yes, absolutely. but yet? it casts a lot of doubt, like you said. because like i have said, i don t know the person that i ve been married to, so of course i am going to have questions and doubts but i wasn t there that night. george zimmerman denies
they did enough to beat the fall cons. a-rod s grievance hearing wrapped up yesterday. this comes just a day after the yankee s third baseman angry storm out the hearing and decided not to testify in his own defense. a-rod s lawyers are already vowing to challenge the ruling in federal court if it doesn t go their way. turning on bleacher report, it happened again. for the second straight day, a fan hit a half-court shot winning $20,000. and he s the fifth fan to knock down the shot this year. and he s the only one that got to celebrate with jay-z and beyonce. gillette teechls up with people to shave their beards and auctioning off the razor along
5,000 invited people. you have to have a ticket to get into the plaza. all the streets are cordoned off for the ser money. this is the first official ceremony for the city of dallas commemorating this day. and city officials are quick to point out is what they don t want this day to be about is the way he was assassinated here on the streets of dallas. they want this to be a celebration of his life. the sound checks have been going on in preparations for this event. you ve seen the images played out on the large screens out here in the blaz za. imagines of camelot. the video images of john kennedy and jacqueline onassis. the archival photographs playing here just feet away where president kennedy was assassinated on elm street. we re standing over just in the
will be exactly 50 years since president john f. kennedy was shot in dallas. and the people there and across the nation are commemorating his death. after all, jfk is the most popular president of the last half century. with 90% of people today proving of the job that he did. but some historians and experts say he lacked a substantial legislative record. how does he shine so brightly? as david greenburg writes, i would submit that kennedy s hold on us stems from the way he used the presidency. his commitment to exercising his power to address social needs. his believe that government could harness expert knowledge to solve props. in short, from his liberalism. a very provocative piece. is the message that he was a big government liberal, that s why