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people. but why, some say, the moon? why choose this as our goal? we choose to go to the moon in this decade and to do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. >> powerful words from the late president of the united states as read by david mccullough, the biographer of the late president. we're going to continue our special coverage in a moment. >> one we are unwilling to postpone. start a poem. or finish a symphony. it's been to classrooms, boardrooms, even to space. and we can't wait to see where you'll take it next. introducing the thinner, lighter, more powerful ipad air.
massachusetts. let me get bowing of your reaction. jerald, can first to you, this unbelievable approval rating for the late president. what do you make of that? >> it's because kennedy was all about the unfulfilled promise of what his presidency would have been. cut down only 2 1/2 years into his presidency. everybody looks and says if he had stayed for another 5 1/2 it, 6 1/2 years he would have done civil rights like lbj, ended veet fam on a quick note. that's what we thought at that time. that's the hope that was cut down by the assassin's bullet. >> 90% approval is unbelievable, when you think about it, david. historians at the time, journalists, folks at the time, certainly nowhere near that kind of approval. but 50 years later, people look back and obviously like him and admire him. >> well, i think he stands for his generation. the gi generation, the greatest generation. he stands for a different time.
filled with a sense of industry bourn of tragedy. driven to improve the substance of dallas, not just the image of it. today, because of the hard work of many people, dallas is a different city. i believe the new frontier did not end that day on our texas frontier. and i hope that president kennedy would be pleased with our humble efforts towards fulfilling our country's highest calling. that of providing the opportunity for all citizens to exercise those inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. the city of dallas will continue on that course. the man we remember today gave us a gift that will not be squandered. he and our city will forever be linked in tragedy, yes, but out of that tragedy, an opportunity
american politics and in american life which in many i was now looks like an acge of innocence in which we all shared a belief in the ideals of america both at home and abroad. he embodied that. he desperately wanted to make peace in the cold war. and he took some big steps towards doing that. at the same time, he wanted to find new national enterprises that we could go on that would make us proud and bring us together. and the moon program was the best example of that. i think there is a sense that in some ways at least we have not had as capable a president as him in the years since. and again, i think that the nostalgia for him among people your age and mine and older, wolf, is that he represents an america when our political system worked much better than it does now, when the nation had
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c concludes our program. we thank you for your attendance. >> we'hat a moving hour this ha been. john king, ed lavendera are standing by, both at deala plaza watching what is going on. john, ed, the missing man flyover by the air force, i anticipated that would be the concluding moment. did it happen, not happen, was it canceled because of bad weather? do you have a clue? >> we have no official word yet, wolf,a as to why it didn't happen. it's a cold and rainy, pretty dismal day here in dallas. one has to assume it's just not safe to have a low flyover at this moment in the weather. we'll try to get official word. as the ceremony breaks up, a very solemn ceremony, as your previous guests have been talking about, as dallas tries to turn the page and remember. it is worth remembering as people reflect on this day, after this solemn ceremony, you see the crowd leaving.
over at the white house, flags already at half-staff in memory of the late president of the united states. this moment of silence will will be a powerful moment of silence all across the country, indeed around the world. you can't overstate the affection the american people have more president kennedy. just take a look at this brand new cnn/orc poll. it shows 90% of americans todayed approve of the way he handled his job as president. no other past president even comes close. ronald reagan places second with 78%, followed by bill clinton who got 74% approval rating. at the bottom of the list george w. bush with 4%. richard nixon had the lowest score, 31%. let's bring back more of our panel in miami, the investigative journalist gerald posner and historian david kaiser joins us from watertown,
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ed, you've lived in dallas for a long time. the city has struggled in dealgh the assassination. they're doing something very different today. explain what's about to happen. >> it's interesting listening to john's perspective having grown up in the northeast. i grew up in dallas and have come to dealey plaza since i was a little kid. this is a city that has struggled deeply with how to handle the situation. i think the fact it's taken 50 years for the city of it dallas to do al official event liking this kind i have speaks volumes to that. in in fact, there are conspiracy theorists would gather on the grassy knoll and observe the moments ef silence, they're the ones that would put the x on the roadway which the city of dallas earlier this week paved over. they said they didn't want people tripping on the roadway. a lot of peopl tnk they didn't want people seeing the gruesome nature. they don't want people talking about the actual gruesomeness of that assassination. they want people talking about