beatles. that is worth imagining. if kennedy lived, jeff greenfield, thank you. we ll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern. andrea mitchell reports is coming up next. huh.fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids were actually a mistake? uh-oh. geico. fifteen minutes could save you.well, you know. of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza®. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didn t get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza®. he said victoza® is different than pills.
john f. kennedy had not been assassinated? would he have won re-election? would he have achieved the same landmark civil rights victories as his successor? those are some of the questions posed by jeff greenfield in his latest book if kennedy lived. jeff, congrats on the book. thank you. perhaps maybe in response to some of those questions you write in the book, a detached, dispassionate president might not have had the commitment to fight hard for a civil rights bill or commit the nation to, quote, war on poverty. that same approach might have prevented a president from escalating a war out of a refusal to be the first president to lose a war, as lbj once famously put it. you think maybe not as good on civil rights, better on vietnam. if you re doing this at mat history not as a sci-fi thing, what you do in a sense is you learn as much as possible from oral histories, from documents, from assessments, and in effect
with a new book if kennedy lived. an alternate history. we ll get into that in just a moment. also with us in washington, editorial director, ron fourney. yesterday president obama defended obama care, his signature piece of legislation while admitting the roll out has been flawed. experts from some of america s top private-sector tech companies who by the way have seen things like this happen before, they want it to work. they are reaching out. they are offering to send help. we ve had some of the best i.t. talent in the entire country join team and we re well into a tech search to fix the problem and we re confident we ll get all the problems fixed. so here s the bottom line. the product, the health insurance is good. the prices are good. it is a good deal.