Happy (100th) Birthday, Mr. President

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 1, 2017

Happy 100th birthday, Mr. President Kennedy. Douglas Brinkley, history professor at Rice University and CNN Presidential Historian, and Stephen Kennedy Smith, lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, fellow at the Connection Science Group at MIT, take this opportunity to reflect on his life and impact on America and their new book JFK: A Vision for America  (Harper, May 2017).

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