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u.s. senate. but in jack's first appearance on national television, he seems undecided. >> are you going to run? >> well, i think that we have a good chance at carrying massachusetts in 1952. and i'm seriously considering running. i'm not sure yet what exactly i'm going to do. it's still a year away. >> jack felt the pressure. i think papa really wanted him to go for the top. and that was it. >> in the 1950s, it would be unheard of in the united states for anyone with presidential ambitions to think of running as an unmarried man. it was absolutely essential in joe kennedy sr.'s mind that jack be married. >> jack's pal, charles bartlett, plays matchmaker inviting jack and a female friend to dinner. >> this young unmarried lady was jackie bouvier. and he followed her out to her

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>> in the midst of the honeymoon, jack decides that they're going to leave acapulco and go to northern california to visit with his navy mate, paul "red" fay, and paul takes home movies of the visit. in one scene jack grabs jackie very briefly and twirls her around but lets her go almost as if he's a teenage boy and he feels a little bit awkward to show affection towards his wife. then he grabs the wife of his friend paul fay, and he puts his hand on her derriere. so one wonders is this a foretaste of what is coming in the marriage? >> i asked him, you're trying so hard to be president. why do you jeopardize it by going around with girls? and he said because i can't help

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it. >> jackie would always put on a brave face regarding her husband's absences. >> jackie i think probably being married to a senator would compare with being a doctor's wife. a senator must be on call at all times. >> i suppose it is like being married to a doctor in that they have late hours, they go away with short notice. >> jack's affairs are not the only thing he's hiding. >> the great secret about jack kennedy is not his sex life. it's his health. he is a sick man. >> the joke always was that if a mosquito bit jack, the mosquito would get sick. >> there wasn't a day of jack's life that he wasn't in pain. >> jack suffered from a very debilitating back issue. >> jack finds a doctor who says

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>> jack thought that bobby was a prude and a moralizer and was annoyed by him. he said that bobby was a pain in the ass. >> my father and john kennedy were not very close as they were growing up because there was a big gap in age between them. >> he was considered as the grunt of the family. he was unathletic in a very athletic family. >> and what that did with bobby is it gave him the determination to prove to his dad that he mattered, that he could do these difficult tasks that joe threw his way and the most difficult of all at this point was making his brother a u.s. senator. >> bobby rises to his father's challenge and takes on a new role as the kennedy family fixer. >> bobby finds the campaign in a shambles, all these old hacks sitting around. and bobby tells the hacks to shape up or get out, to quit loafing and knock on some doors.

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severe back pain, jack kennedy finally makes a momentous decision. >> he was having an operation that could cost him his life. >> the surgery goes very badly. he develops a life-threatening infection. >> his father wonders, am i going to lose now my second son? >> he's actually given last rites. and yet miraculously he pulls through. >> the doctors had inserted a steel plate to try to settle his back, and jackie has to take over the job of trying to change the dressings on this gruesome wound. >> jack recovers with jackie's support, but he believes his days may be numbered. >> if you think you are going to die young, then you will act differently because you know

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favorite daughter kick, and yet for a family that's endured so much tragedy, they don't look like it. they look like they're at play all the time. >> 25-year-old aspiring attorney robert kennedy has given the dynasty its newest member. >> bobby marries ethel skakel who gives birth to the first grandchild of joe and rose kennedy, kathleen. >> john, known as jack, is eight years older than bobby and at 34 is in his third term as a congressman, yet he still leads a bachelor's life. >> jack was having a lot of fun not being married. he had lots of girlfriends. he was a party boy. he was a playboy. he was regarded by his peers in congress as being a bit of a dilettante. >> joe yearns for his son to become president, and the next logical step is a seat in the

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kennedy and her daughters and jack kennedy would go to a fancy hotel in massachusetts and they would invite all the ladies of the town to dress in their best finery and come to have formal tea with the kennedys. it was really one of the first times that women got involved in politics in a very sustained way. >> jack's sisters and his mother rose would wear what we call poodle skirts, then they would stand up and they'd reveal that their skirts are embroidered jfk. >> but his father joe understands that jack needs far more than fashion and fine china. >> joe kennedy didn't like what he thought was a lethargic campaign that the official campaign manager was running. >> joe wants his third son, bobby, now a lawyer at the department of justice, to take charge. jack is unconvinced.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181124:01:24:00

disobeyed his father totally. >> bobby kennedy and jack kennedy run around on the convention floor trying to round up delegates. it's very unorganized. it's very amateur. it's enthusiastic, but they don't really know what the hell they're doing. >> -- becomes the vice presidential nominee in one of the most thrilling wire-to-wire finishes that any convention has seen in years. >> it's close. they almost do win. ultimately they lose. >> senator john kennedy of massachusetts. >> this was hard for him. this was the first time jack kennedy ever lost. >> ladies and gentlemen, recognizing that this convention has selected a man who has campaigned in all parts of the country -- >> he makes clear that he wants the entire convention to rally around estes kefauver. >> i know this convention will make estes kefauver's nomination unanimous. thank you. >> there's a tradition in american politics on knowing how to concede so this is the first step to a future victory. >> jack has turned defeat on its head.

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>> daddy was organized, he was straightforward, he held people accountable. and jack liked that. >> sometimes in politics you need somebody to be the bad cop. bobby was willing to be the bad cop. >> the charismatic jack, with his enforcer brother bobby, defeats henry cabot lodge to win the senate seat. >> kennedy wins what was one of the biggest upsets in maybe the state's political history. >> it was jack's victory in 1952 that gave kennedy the idea that he, in fact, could win the presidency. >> but if senator kennedy wants to make the white house his own, he needs to follow his father's advice and show the world he has a good woman at his side. this is dell cinema technology

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your time is short on this earth. >> tension mounts around convention hall in chicago and delegates stream in for the big session. >> it was not long after jack's back operation, but he wanted to prove to everyone that he was vital and fit. >> at the democratic national convention, jack surprises everyone by announcing his candidacy for vice president. >> jack looks at bobby and says, bobby, would you call dad and give him the news? >> joe kennedy wanted his son to be president of the united states, but he didn't want him to try for vice president and lose and somehow blot his copybook before he was ready for the real run for the white house. >> the old man just rages obscenely over the phone, you boys don't know what you're doing. almost like a father talking to a bunch of 5-year-olds. >> at this point jack kennedy, for the first time in his life,

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