The Funeral Train That United America
LEGENDThe photographs from Bobby Kennedy’s funeral train show what is possible in America, and what politicians should work for again.
No One Knew JFK Like Jackie
No one understood JFK better than his wife, says Chris Matthews after finishing Jackie O’s oral history of Camelot.
How Kennedy Brought Down Nixon
As the late senator's memoir hits bookstores Monday, Chris Matthews digs through White House tapes to reveal how Ted Kennedy drove the Watergate probe—and helped topple a president.
Chris Matthews on the Buckley Mystique
The MSNBC host celebrates Christopher Buckley’s lively tribute to his parents—and says Losing Mum and Pup answers JFK’s key question about biography: What were they really like?
The Ted Kennedy I Knew
The MSNBC host says a new biography reveals what made Kennedy the greatest US senator of modern times—and why he never dropped the torch.