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Plenty of pomp and circumstance for the white house. this morning, president obama awarded the presidential medal of freedom to 16 people. those included former president bill clinton and oprah winfrey. the obamas and the clip tons then together made their way to arlington national cemetery along with some of the members of the kennedy family. and there as you can see the laid the wreath at the grave of john f. kennedy. this of course is two days before the formal 50th anniversary of kennedy's assassination in texas. but behind the photo ops, president obama is struggling. his signature piece ...

>> before we get to details about that, though, what's happening in wyoming, does it surprise you to see the vice president getting personal in his daughter's race? disparaging senator enzi and saying they were never really friends when you're getting something completely different from enzi. >> it's very interesting, obviously. he loves his daughter, wants her to succeed, no question about it. but it is the first time the vice president's really kind of weighed in that way, in a republican primary battle. it tells you about what a small place wyoming is. this is a family state. only about 600...

But, in fact, that's not what happens, because in part, what happens in localities and states is often not good for people of color. >> that's right. and don't forget, richard nixon had something to do with this as well. richard nixon adopted the southern strategy. that was a deliberate strategy to reach out to southern white voters. let me give you a statistic. in 1968, richard nixon's worst state, when he ran -- when he first ran for president, was mississippi. he got about 17% of the vote, because george wallace got about two-thirds of the vote in mississippi. >> that's right. >> in 1972, r...

Her cry as the only black person in the u.s. senate, jesse helms is the personification of that. never repented, never apologized. it was the whole point of his politics. jesse helms. now, watch this. >> there's another story i heard of jesse helms when he first ran, that he opened the mail and out fell a check for $5,000 from john wayne. so he spent some time trying to track down, it's not easy to figure out, how do you call john wayne, but he managed to figure out how to do so and he placed the call and the duke answered the phone. and apparently jesse helms said, you know, mr. wayne, this i...

Of jesse helms when he first ran, that he opened the mail and out fell a check for $5,000 from john wayne. so he spent some time trying to track down, it's not easy to figure out, how do you call john wayne, but he managed to figure out how to do so and he placed the call and the duke answered the phone. and apparently jesse helms said, you know, mr. wayne, this is jesse helms, um, i just wanted to thank you for your tremendous support in this race. apparently john wayne said, who?! and he said, well, jesse helms, i'm running for senate in north carolina. and apparently wayne said, oh, yeah, y...