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