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Kennedy has the advantage. he understood how a message had to be delivered. cool is in the eye of the beholder. >> i don't know what we do without television. >> more than anything, it was this connotation of youthful ease. they were very adept of creating this notion of a romantic vibe, ideal of what the white house was all about. >> despite the cultivated image, the reality was more complicated. >> the kennedys really had an acute understanding of the importance of a visual. images you see are images of the family playing football, on boats sailing, a healthy, robust perp, when, in fact, he ...

They draw on a rich history of resentment through oppression through civil rights and black policy. ♪ >> we're tell you how to act big on a tactical matter and defend black people in the black community. you became hip now. >> young people are drawn to the black panther party, drawn to the uniforms and rhetoric and leaders who are handsome, charismatic, well-spoken, and, really, operating in the tradition unlike anything anyone has seen up until that point. ♪ >> the black panthers scared the hell of all americans at any given time, and that's never unrelated to cool. >> what king represent...

Were fed up with politics as usual. war, scandal, turmoil left the country ready for a change. >> everybody's just kinds of tired. they are tired of the war in vietnam. they are tired of economic difficulties. they are tired of generational conflicts. they are tired of the culture changing. often camming from the margins of society. >> many yearned for a simpler time, a time of strength, of values, of heros. >> what will you doing in here? >> now, that's a silly question. >> reagan was what americans wanted when they were tired of cool or fearful of cool. he was sort of the antedote to the pol...

>> a unifying force for us. we represented something, and we had rules and laws about wearing those clothes like, if you were wearing these uniforms, you're a servant of the people. >> they incorporate elements of black culture, an affirmation of the dignity of black humanity, and in the process, what they do is signal to the world as james brown sung, "i'm black and i'm proud." >> what was cool for us then was to look more in line with what we really are, and that is african-american people, and so it was all about style. it hadn't been created yet so we created it. >> black panther's got the...

Was ready for, you know, obama to be president. >> it was just a cool cat who was also very smart, and i think that quality came through every time we saw him speak. we wanted to follow him, and that made obama one of the greatest leaders of my life. there would be plenty of challenges during obama's presidency from senator opposition to tense showdowns over the policies. >> i wouldn't feel comfortable if i didn't have at least one heckling. >> reporter: mostly, obama did not confront, for better or worse, he played it cool. >> he survived eight years of constant attacks on his character, lega...