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and tom brokaw had steve on stage all day long. was katie on d-day on those commemoration events and brokaw look, you can talk about the d-day museum building anytime you want, you know, so steve did i thought, oh, man, you know money's just going to come pouring in well wrong that too. so but it was he our our visibility up and it was up and down and steve and were still teaching doing our job at the university we on the board but the board had its own life and chairman and and anyway had never hired an executive director because didn't have the money to do it or didn't make the money available for that. and so it was really a volunteer board times and went broke a couple times mean except that federal money of 4 million we were just living on fumes and steve was having to write checks out of his own checkbook to pay for the one half time secretary that we had and so it was a it was and it kind of is one of those times now. i was on sabbatical back to teaching after 20 years at as a vice chancellor and i was in middle of sabbatica
and tom brokaw had steve on stage all day long. was katie on d-day on those commemoration events and brokaw look, you can talk about the d-day museum building anytime you want, you know, so steve did i thought, oh, man, you know money's just going to come pouring in well wrong that too. so but it was he our our visibility up and it was up and down and steve and were still teaching doing our job at the university we on the board but the board had its own life and chairman and and anyway had...
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i was opening the mail as a desk assistant for tom brokaw.e received love letters, we received hate mail. it ran the gamut. but i came across this letter that looked a bit different. i opened it, you know, it said, 9/11, death to israel, allah is great. this is really creepy. and i saw this brown substance that looked like it was a cross between brown sugar and sand. and i took the substance, i dumped it in the trash, folded up the letter, put it back in the stack of mail, gave the stack of mail to tom's assistant. 10 days later, when i woke up and my glands were enormous. i basically had no neck and i had a really high fever. and it was like a super intense flu but in a totally different way. because i had lesions all over my legs. they look like dark bug bites. i'm freaked out. that time span and the next week or so is when bob stevens opened his letter. [ominous music] when i came back to work, we learned that tom's assistant was also ill and had been out of the office. and i mentioned that there had been a letter that i came in contact wi
i was opening the mail as a desk assistant for tom brokaw.e received love letters, we received hate mail. it ran the gamut. but i came across this letter that looked a bit different. i opened it, you know, it said, 9/11, death to israel, allah is great. this is really creepy. and i saw this brown substance that looked like it was a cross between brown sugar and sand. and i took the substance, i dumped it in the trash, folded up the letter, put it back in the stack of mail, gave the stack of...
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we were getting information from newspapers and from tom brokaw at 6:30.these kids largely get information from social media and from algorithms and what they are being fed. not just things that morehouse but getting these snippets of information. that doesn't show the entire story of joe biden or the narrative of this presidency. >> for someone like you, of this generation, from your perch at the washington post as an opinion editor, will how do you frame this moment for your cohorts and colleagues who are emerging into this space? the young men that are sitting here listening. what you say to them? how do you help to find this period in american politics? >> likely i don't to do it alone. that would be a tall order and i have amazing colleagues. we have done a great job covering the campus protests. and really, we looked at it as documenting history. we have a series the voices from students around the country coming and talking about what the experience was like and being there and when the graduation was interrupted and what they are doing now. and it
we were getting information from newspapers and from tom brokaw at 6:30.these kids largely get information from social media and from algorithms and what they are being fed. not just things that morehouse but getting these snippets of information. that doesn't show the entire story of joe biden or the narrative of this presidency. >> for someone like you, of this generation, from your perch at the washington post as an opinion editor, will how do you frame this moment for your cohorts and...
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maybe that sounds sentimental, the winds of war meets tom brokaw, but it happened. it happened not that long ago. for so many people to suspend those values is something they're going to have to answer for forever. the good news is, there's time. there's time to reestablish those values. >> all right. >>> closing arguments are scheduled to begin this morning in donald trump's criminal hush money trial. the defense will go first with trump attorney todd blanche expected to spend several hours on his summation argument. he'll try to convince the jury the government did not meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, that trump not only falsified business records but also had an intent to defraud that included, quote, an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof. the profession cushion will follow blanche, reminding jurors they can trust the paperwork they've seen and the witnesses they've heard from. the arguments could take up most of the day. once finished, there will be no rebuttals. judge juan merchan will then give the jur
maybe that sounds sentimental, the winds of war meets tom brokaw, but it happened. it happened not that long ago. for so many people to suspend those values is something they're going to have to answer for forever. the good news is, there's time. there's time to reestablish those values. >> all right. >>> closing arguments are scheduled to begin this morning in donald trump's criminal hush money trial. the defense will go first with trump attorney todd blanche expected to spend...