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>> woodruff: on the daily download, ray suarez talks with lauren ashburn and howard kurtz about debate watchers using twitter and other social media. >> warner: and gwen ifill sits down with author ted widmer. he's been listening to once-secret tape recordings by president john f. kennedy. >> it's really a remarkable chance for the american people to hear what it is like to be president in a very visceral way. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> computing surrounds us. sometimes it's obvious and sometimes ...

history tv is featuring american's first ladies. who do you think was our most influential first lady? vote and join the conversation with us on facebook, at facebook.com/c-span. you're watching american history tv on c-span3, and we're observing this presidents' day weekend, taking a look at our nation's first ladies. up next is caroline kennedy, she introduces a discussion about the oral histories recorded by her mother, jacqueline, in 1964. they were released just this last fall. >> good evening. you've read the news stories, bought your copies of the book, watched the abc prime...

still so expressive in that very attractive way she had. she had see a painting she saw and liked and she would clap her hands together to let me know that she remembered that and liked it. when she met, one of the elevator men, who works here now, who had been maître d' when she was there, she hugged him immediately, and that was great to be able to have that one chance to show her around. >> first lady laura bush, thank you very much. all day today, american history tv is featuring america's first ladies. who do you think was our most influential first lady? vote and join the co...

only i have been told that the treaty publisher said we should lose nothing by the change for he never heard such a speech in public in his life. all agree that taken together it was the sublime ever exhibited in america. >> john was whether his family suffered too much for his lack of attention during a quarter-century he contributed to the creation of the nation. abigail pushed him to go forward without regret. >> philadelphia, december 17, 79 feet. my dearest friend, i began to doubt whether i was in the way of my duty and a free in gauging public life. my family of children not t...

recently offered a different job, weren't you? >> guest: i was offered a different job, yes. >> host: what was that other job and why didn't you take it? >> guest: i was offered a television related job, another organization and i very seriously consider taking it but in the end i love working at "the new york times." it's a place i am incredibly proud of going into work everyday and proud of the reporting that everyone i work with does and the reporting i do and my editors, and i don't think you can really get that at many other places. when i look at the effects, when you talk abou...