when i truly realized how many of my friends and people that i had served with her couple of years and how many people died unnecessarily, it got to the point that i was spared -- i didn't come to jesus but i knew one thing, that i could never complain about anything ever. the one -- there are times -- i have managed to, in a way, whenever i got close to anything to complain about, would find some sound reason to say that i can't afford to go back on my word. a perfect example was my brother. my best friend, smarter, better looking. everyone loved him. when god took him away when he

was 52, with the young wife and three kids, i was so -- i was just about to break my word when i can almost hear, "how many people had a brother like you had? they give you total love, everything you own to him?" i said, "nope." my mother was 94 years old. a healthy woman, a lovely woman. i didn't even come close to complaining when she was sick, thanking god that i had her. i can't imagine anything that has ever happened to me -- it works so well that i tell anybody that if you want to have a better life, less stress, when you are about to complain about anything, even if it is just the weather, you take a deep breath.

all you have to do is try to think about the things that you should be thanking god about, how lucky you are. it even gets to the point when people say that i have a problem -- i say, i know, and that's why i'm lucky, i know i have a problem. the worst thing is not to know. >> do you know anybody today that you were in the war with back in korea? >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. but most all of them are dead. most all of them are dead. when people say that they knew me in korea or whatnot, 1950 i was 20 years old. i joined in 1948. thousands of us have volunteered to go into the service. a lot of us knew each other. this was the first truman draft. if you went in for one year, you wouldn't have to be drafted. i dropped out of school and went

in, all these unpatriotic reasons, and a lot of us realized how good it was compared to the economic conditions we were living in. we were able to get discharged for one year and reenlist for three years. when we went to fort louis washington, those that did not unless for the three years, there term expired after one. they wouldn't have been there in korea. they wouldn't have gone to korea and they went back home untrained. but when the war went on, they had to the fill that six-year commitment.

it was one of the worst things that ever happened in the military. the war that was not well planned and his situation that there was no excuse for. one might say, a scholar like you, you may want to find out why general macarthur had all of us after his landing -- we fought our way up past the 38th parallel, sitting on the border of north korea, separated by the river, september, october, to november 30 and the chinese were able to go over the river and come and surround us. i am now a patriot and in order to makes sure i haven't had a bad day since i cannot relive that massacre. it would interest anyone as to why macarthur had a sitting up there for months.

>> you were 20 then, and now you are 84. how different is the world look to you? >> i've never compared. each day is a changing day. there are things, as a kid, i never knew existed. i try, with the youngsters that i talk with today, to share with them that i didn't even know what to dream for when i was a kid. it's terrible when you have to go into the military in order to get some idea about the rest of the world. the rangel scolars allows

minorities to be trained into the state department and foreign service. the whole country doesn't know about the rest of the world. when you get there, it is key to find out how infinitesimal you are, how great the world is, how many cultures and colors and things are, and you represent the greatest country in the entire world, you represent the president of the united states. the same has to be true when a person is born in a rural area, an urban area, with a restricted education. the world is what they can accomplish. i think our failure to understand the importance of education -- i cannot believe why this is not a national priority. i know the constitution didn't spell it out, but if there is anyone idiotic enough to believe

that our national security does not fully depend on how smart our country can be -- they are out of it. and while we do pretty good at higher education, it has no bearing on reality. we are fighting about charter schools and traditional public schools. we can't find a way to teach our kids. this is absolutely ridiculous, and there is no question that any child can overcome many of the environmental problems that they face. and guess what? i am the classic example. when the army took me, it allowed me to believe i was somebody. just exposing them to buy this

out there. you can come home with some self-esteem, of course, with me as with so many others, what you realize is that the military very seldom teaches you how to build. they teach you how to kill in a very insensitive way. they teach you how to ignore your human instinct in terms of the value of life as it relates to be enemy. they do a pretty good job of it. you can ask my son the former marine how easy it is to remember how superior you are when you are trained that way. but when they are discharged, there is very little transition training for civilian life, in that the respect and honor that you can demand in the military does not exist out here, besides "thank you for your service." it's never, "what can i do to help?"

"do you have a job?" "did they train you to do anything?" education means so much. even though we are way ahead of the rest of the world -- you take the population of india, china, see how far they are moving. it's just a question of time before, technology, education, population, it is going to determine who's in charge of the world. >> you have been in congress for 22 turns, 44 years. you just won the primary. is it going to be your last term? >> yes, and i am so fortunate that i can plan a transition that is going to be in the best interest of my wife, my children, my grandchildren. to be able to see the whole

world in a different light and my political addiction to it. >> let me show some video from the night you won reelection. before we do that -- 700,000 constituents and you got a little more than 22,000 votes. your opponent came within three percentage points. you talk about democracy -- 22,000 people are going to put you back in the congress out of 700,000. >> it's like life and death, you can't be in the middle. i don't remember anyone ever asking anybody during their career how many votes did you win by. you are in or you're out. i know one thing that is exciting. when you go to thank the voters for your support, you will find

nobody who said that they voted against you. >> here some video on the night that you won reelection. [video clip] [cheering] >> thank you, thank you, thank you. ♪

i didn't see any green cabs. thank you. where is my wife? i made so many promises to my wife. bring out my wife. alma! alma! alma! alma! alma! alma! alma! alma! >> green cabs, what is that about? [laughter] >> we had a big controversy over

which cat scan pickup people -- which cabs can't pick people up in the street. yellow cabs had a tradition to not go into minority neighborhoods. they decided since i was a working man's candidate and always have been, and everyone thinks they know enough about anything -- when they endorsed me it was very exciting because most of them were immigrants from the same country. it was a big political asset because when cabbies are with you nobody can be against you. you got in a cab -- voted for rangel. >> how long have you been married? >> over 50 years. that is one of the reasons why i'm looking forward to the

transition in these two years. already we are planning on honeymoon we never had -- a honeymoon we never had, things that i could have done. just before the last election, the one before this, i went into the hospital for very minor procedure -- a very minor procedure. i became infected with the virus in my spine that i did not know was life-threatening. but with the type of personality in the overabundance of self-esteem that i have had i never had been so helpless in my life. just pain and nothing to do about it. my wife gave me so much love and care that i couldn't see where my mother could have done better.

i was so stripped of everything, and i never really thought as much about her into the kids as i did in terms of that time. i asked my wife, how come you tolerated this? she says i know we're married. i knew you. i just didn't want to interrupt anything that made us happy, made you happy, and apparently -- i felt -- how many times have i ever asked her, what would you like to do? when i couldn't remember ever doing that and i thought about all the countries that we have traveled with -- to, but i never really knew. i was always on a congressional trip or dealing with the heads

of state, but i never saw the cultural parts that she did. so we decided to take a very small trips, far more frequent, get to -- not get to know each other, realize we are old in age, have pretty darn good health. instead of going through periods of stress, we are just going to be planning the next getaway. we started doing that locally. we went to new orleans, and i never knew people could be so friendly. we spent all the time in the world -- if you look like a registered voter you can't get rid of us. but going up to people and just -- we don't do it in new york unless -- we don't treat each other the same way.

in new orleans, it seems like they love themselves, they love their town, they love anybody that comes along. we went down there, and i was hardly recognized but they loved everybody. >> explain your district. i know it has changed its numbers. where is the physical -- >> it is the smallest geographic district in the country. because we have the same amount of people in high rises -- when you come to my district, not the new district, but you could walk around my district from the southern point at 90th street from river to river, which is a small island that you can't go beyond, to the northern tip.

which would be about three or four miles. you could walk around the circumference of it. now i have drawn a map that goes up a strip of the blocks and then explodes on the other end of it. that is the new part of the district. my district was created in 1946, in an effort to consolidate the harlem community that was basically -- they became negro, and now we were african-american. it was the very first public official -- i was the first public official to be elected to the united states congress from

the black community of new york. i succeeded in the 1970 -- it was banned from the city of new york based on a civil case that involved accusations that he made from the floor that were true but he didn't come back from the trial. the governor sent me to where he was, because i was complaining as a state legislator, it just wasn't fair for you to ban the united states congress, that he cannot come into his district except on sunday. so when the governor told me, "if you want to go back i will remove the criminal bail." my wife and i went down there. it was abundantly clear that he was not coming back home. the political vacuum that existed by that time at harlem, it was the entire thing.

he had no competition but he had a whole lot of people that were getting antsy because he was not home. they thought -- he did not know me but everyone assumed that we politicians were together and they were ready to get rid of him and me and anybody else in the democratic ticket. i tried to explain it to him, but he assumed i wanted to the seat. quite frankly, i had never made any money. i was in the u.s. attorney's office, i got a chance to go into private practice. i went home and told my wife, i can see our way out of poverty. i could be a state legislator, practice law, go into washington.

my mom was born in new york, i just -- washington, d.c., for all practical purposes, was the south. i wasn't prepared to go south. i was scared of that. i succeeded with six candidates in the race. i only won by 500 votes. there was a vacuum that was there. one of powell's people had challenged me, which was a meaningful challenge. twice, he had his son -- he had two sons -- >> both of them. >> one became the third, one the fourth. they were sons by different wives.

the youngest challenged me and i beat him. then he challenged me again. he was one of my strongest supporters for the seat this time. so it would be that the seat only had to congressman since 1946. >> i want to show you some video of adam clayton powell back in 1968. >> ok. [video clip] >> it means black dignity. surely as you are proud to be white we are proud to be black. black is beautiful, baby. it is pretty. [applause] i say to my brothers, baby, don't worry about the white chicks. black is beautiful. black is beautiful. black power means dignity.

it means we're going to walk side-by-side with you, or through you. we are going to be with dignity and integrity. we don't want any more than you have and we aren't going to accept any less than you have. [applause] >> what do you see there? >> i see there a person that was ideal to fulfill the lack of self-esteem that black folks, most black folks, had in this country since slavery. when i was a kid, it wasn't nigger. it was to call them black or african. this is a white country, and later you were, the more accepted you were. powell was the exception to that. it wasn't until the united

nations that young people -- people were black and beautiful. the criteria of beauty has always been -- i said, "what is beautiful?" what contributions have you made? what are you proud of? even today, when the president was greeted by a black mother and her son, and the son looked what contributions have you up and said, "can i rub your hair, mr. president?" he put it down and looked up with pride and said, "the president has hair just like mine!" you can save what that means to people. malcolm x to go one step further, in terms of saying that you should not be ashamed of the way you look. you should be proud of the way. you can overstate it but depends on how far you have to go in order to get people to realize

that god has given them the same genetic ability to do what everyone has done. the opportunity just need to nudge. when i talk about education, i am talking about releasing 2 million people with potential from jails that they never would have been in if they have the ability to do something positive. i'm talking about people and rural areas who are scared to death of leaving those rural areas because they think it is too competitive in the north. i'm talking about a country that really believes it can go beyond where they are. i am talking about immigration. we shouldn't be afraid to say i know what i know. let me see what you know and what you are going to bring to my country so we can be one, stronger and never. adam powell -- i could never do what he has been able to do, to

talk about black power. but everyone knew exactly what he was talking about. the more he showed how much he could do, the more kids -- he would take a particularly dark person to the dining room in the house of representatives. how could anyone -- it was the depth of racism in this country. >> there are now 43 black people in the congress? >> that's right. there were whites that truly believed -- most people did not have to say it. blacks avoided the very thing -- embarrassing themselves. the civil rights movement was revolutionary.

martin luther king -- people that came here from africa had to be the equivalent of george washington in terms of not having a whole country and getting america to realize that we are one country whether you like it or not. the constitution drafters were not even thinking about you but it was flexible enough to include you. like now, we had a court without bias. that was what the authors of the constitution wanted. that was all he had to dream for. i came from selma to montgomery. i never believed that blacks

would be able to obtain the right to vote. i said, "how could you put your life on the line and believe the depth of racism could be overcome with marches and civil disobedience and lack of violence and praying?" he said, "the united states are free in court. i truly believe and most of us believe that i had to do the right thing." i said, "do you still have that belief?" to believe that the court could vote against this motion because of the secrecy of the document is what this country is all about. >> back in 1970, you were elected to congress for the

first time. we have some video of you walking down the street in harlem. [video clip] >> i went to school across the street and used to get my lunch at this place. sausage and rootbeer. it was a nickel. >> that was a freebie. [laughter] >> one of the big criticisms against powell was that he really didn't represent it -- he spent time elsewhere. what you going to do in that respect?

>> spend my time in harlem and >> spend my time in harlem and in washington. >> you are telling the people here that you are really going to represent them, that you are not going to let them down. >> that's right. >> you're doggone right. [laughter] >> that's really strange. a random -- i won the primary and walks the streets to thank the people. when it comes to the question of harlem, my wife and i almost had a problem. she said that i promised to retire in florida because she's tired of the city. i tell her, i never drink enough to promise you i would ever leave new york city. i was born and raised on 32nd street.

i did move once and that has been my whole life with the exception of washington. >> what do you remember? do you remember that walk? >> of course i do. that was across the street from where i live now. they had a big barrel -- my mother went to the same school, ps 89. i had no idea of the opportunity that would be opened to me and the things i have been able to do because of the support that my community has given to me. >> you graduated from new york university. now, since 1970, you will be in january the second longest-serving member of the house of representatives.

did you ever think you would spend that much time? >> no, no. but i never thought about anything in terms of -- i thought about seniority but i didn't talk about how many years. i never thought about living this long, keeping a job this long. i thought, like everything else i would done, -- had done, i would move on to something. i built in restrictions on where my mind wanted to go as it related to city office or citywide -- statewide office. i have never had to make a political -- i never had to make a legal, a legislative decision based on the politics back home.

i've never had to weigh it. even when they allowed me to get involved with my draft movement which was controversial, but i said then nsa now, if congress is prepared to put troops in harm's way let that be prepared to put their own family in harms way. to be able to contradict some of our national policies, especially as related to south africa, to be open about it and sane about it, to be a spokesman for the entire -- rudy and antitrade bills in africa -- those things energize

me to such an extent that if i ever became a mayor and had to weigh exactly what impact would my position be on this group or that group or which group i needed when i get reelected -- my but in congress, i was one of the first to endorse him for governor. he reminds me that i did it because he was going to get me his ways and means. he became governor. but in his campaign i was a surrogate for him upstate. people loved me. some of them said, if there were any other colored people like me they would want them to come back. they understood me because they watched "the jeffersons."

a no colored kid could make it in this great country. i would tell this up to my wife, who knew more about it, coming from the south. there is so much to overcome in this country, that i could make a contribution where i am -- but if i had to make decisions to stay where i am, that is a profile i never remember having to take. >> do you have an opponent in the fall? >> i have a couple, but none of the republican ticket. >> you have almost always been the primary. >> there are many districts that we face as a nation. whether it is republican or democrat when you win the election, after you win the

primary, it means that you don't have to politically do what is in the best interest for the country. i think that when you talk about the tea party, they fight their primaries because they come from basically republican states. states that used to be dixie trek states. if you ask them to do what is in the national interest, they don't have to do it. that is why the republican party -- they are not in trouble in the house of representatives now because getting reelected is not the problem. but they are in deep trouble on the national level, because they don't have a candidate acceptable to the tea party, that's acceptable to middle america, republican or democrat.

and so gerrymandering, the state draws the lines, which legislature goes where, the republicans concentrate on governance and state legislators. they have drawn more congressional lines. they are right now being challenged in court. it will cut for purely political reasons. sometimes at the detriment of the minority communities. in other words, if there was a group in texas that would be 60% minority into different areas, if you put them all in one district it means that the other district will not have minorities. that type of thinking has

existed on the state level in terms of how they can manipulate the system. a lot of people don't know that when the republicans won over the majority of the seats in the house of representatives, collectively, the democrats had thousands of more votes than they did. but the way they were split up, the republicans gained more seats. >> politico back to the night of your reelection in the primary answer video. a lot of people have watched this video. [video clip] >> i want to thank the men who gave me the strange ego to consider running for reelection. johnny green, [indiscernible]

the imam that pray for me. the rabbi who came out for me. there are too many of you for me to thank individually. but i want each one of you to go home and no this was your victory. [cheering] you can rest assured, i will be thinking about you. thank you. [indiscernible] thank you so very much. thank you. >> that goes on.

you think jimmy the doorman? >> he went throughout the campaign on his own and with videotape us for posterity. not a bad practice -- you named jimmy the doorman. >> you think the pastors and deem him and rabbis. -- and imams and rabbis. and i'm wondering what happened to the separation of church and state? >> an interesting question. i chose to believe that every religion has something about jesus telling you what you have to do to get to heaven. the long, drawnout story with these rich people -- they said, you never came to me.

he said, i am talking about my brothers and sisters that you denied. i tell the rabbis and the ministers, what do you think the health care bill is about? what is education about? what is affordable housing about? what his piece about, and not war? what is a livable wage about? every religion has it. there is no pursuit of happiness unless you can have some equality of life issues that we're dealing with. i would go into the church and the temples and the meccas explained to them -- and explain to them, you have a moral obligation. that is what i'm talking about.

if anyone else can do it, a nun, a priest, anime him -- but what am i doing if it is not to improve the quality of life and do it in a patriotic way? the stronger my children and my constituents are, the stronger my country is in the stronger my values. we can show other countries through the way we live these principles. my bill, was the first bill we ever had. newt gingrich was my first witness. president clinton traveled to africa to talk about it. in august, 50 heads of african countries would be here to talk about the expansion of trade.

by perceiving that, the president and members of congress and the 500 african students that wanted to learn more about the united states of america. acquire those talents and economic reasons to take back home. i said, that should be run by heads of state. with all the money that china is pouring into africa, it would mean nothing if they don't have the principles of these young people. that is one of the other programs that i started with scholars in the state department. when i first came in to congress, it was pointed out, everybody would want to know which -- now that there are 43 of us with so many young people to train the school with the state department's and making go to foreign service.

now our state department is represented overseas as we are. >> here is the first video we could find in our archive of your appearance on c-span. as of 1985, on the floor of the house. [video clip] >> and it seems to me that somebody, somewhere, recognizing that the leadership -- that no votes would be taken. they got together, and said isn't this the time to bring this issue to the floor? you can take my word on if you want but i know darn well that you know it is wrong to do something. i yield. >> i assume the gentleman willing knowledge that time after time in the house chamber, the minority, the republicans,

are not getting notice of when things are going to be brought up. he was specifically asked the question about legislation to agriculture. we would know that. >> you ask the question for the sole purpose of determining whether any votes will be taken on monday. once the leadership told you that no votes and be taken and then you said -- >> if the gentleman will yield -- we have a right to make a statement. [gavel] >> i think that was bernie frank. >> it was. that was the african-american votes not being counted in the indiana election. when you look back, things have shifted since then.

republicans took over the house. are you complaining -- were you complaining of the same things they were complaining about? >> the only thing the republicans have going for them is that they are the majority. as a democrat, i should take some joy in knowing that they are so completely divided that they can't move forward on anything. but as a patriot and as an american it is really sad to see how such a small number of people can take advantage only of the majority. these arguments that we used to have, republican the democrats, were based on consensus. we're mostly want us to the same thing but had different ways of wanted to do it. when you find a group of people that control the majority and will not do anything, our primary goal is to get rid of the guy that is president.

no matter what he wants to do, we have to be against it. be prepared to destroy the reputation of the congress and the republican party. we don't have exchanges like this on the floor. for them to repeal a law -- to try to repeal a law that has been sanctioned by the president and has worked for thousands of people -- the immigration laws that have to be changed, the infrastructure laws which are being debated -- they don't want these things to be argued on the floor. they would rather see the president in court, to get emotional issues, none of which moves our countries people forward. >> you suggest in the past that their opposition to the president is partly race. >> i requested not to talk about that too much and i think the

reason for it is that it is just too darn obvious as to what it is all about. i think if you take a look and see which counties in which congressional districts, which areas of the united states, had the most prejudice, it would be the slaveholding states. it would be the confederate states. it would be the states that thought the union. those that hated lincoln. if you look at it today, they changed parties. dixiecrats became the tea party. the embracing of the confederate flag. your place of birth. a lot of attention was given to him. the fact that people can say, we have to take our country back,

and lawyers now -- it is not what the written word is, it is how you say that in determining what you really meant. people said, please don't bring up that race thing anymore. >> why did they ask you to not bring it up? >> people who wanted to avoid controversy instead of dealing with the substance. i have accommodated that because i don't see any purpose in doing that. most people know. if the president was not black and was white, this type of animosity would not be directed at the president of the united states of america. i have people that say, why don't you just deal with getting something done positive? and quite frankly, if i thought that making comments about the depth of the racism in the united states would automatically change it, i would do it.

it was a dramatic change in the civil rights movement. yes, i did say it, and no, i will not run away from my answer. i will just be talking about it because i think it is clear and it is not my job -- my job is to make you treat all people like they are equal and to treat them like they aren't titled -- are entitled. >> clinton endorsed you in the primary. why didn't barack obama? >> i wish i could answer that. i wish i could. it is a very awkward question. the president and i had talked about this. he has talked about my legislative record.

i am the main sponsor of the affordable care act, the chairman and getting it out. so much legislation has been supported by the democratic party, the country, and the president. but we have yet to talk after the election, even though i have been in his company several times, and intend to be even more. but i would like to believe it was just as awkward for him as it is for me, since my constituents haven't had a problem with me in over 40 decades. that was long before he was even known. >> one last item. this is an old issue, but it is still got to be somewhere in your mind. i'll ask you where you are on this issue.

[video clip] >> many pledged four years ago to create the most honest, most open, most ethical congress in history. this is consistent with that pledge. at the hearing, the council said clearly, that rangel's a pattern of misconduct appeared to -- but did not excuse his misconduct. in light of that consideration, a bipartisan majority included it was appropriate to recommend to the house that he will be censored. >> i do believe that there should be enforcement, there should be sanctions. if you are breaking new grounds, i ask for fairness. i think the president and the history of this great country -- has anyone ever suffer the humiliation of a censor, when the record is abundantly clear

never challenged, after two years of investigation, council and committee found no evidence at all of corruption. >> had a feel about that today? >> the same position. but there is an explanation for it. whenever any member of congress is facing an embarrassing question before your election, and it reaches the point that instead of talking about what you want to talk about, you are talking about this person who has been accused, whether they have given you -- contribuited to your companion, whether you're about to vote for or against them. ms. pelosi told me, charlie, the democrats love you.

but before this election, they love themselves better. if you listen clearly to me and to the so-called chair lady of the committee, i was accused of no crime, in violation of no laws, except the regulation but i should not have taken money from for-profit foundations. because i did it on stationery that said the house of representatives, i did violate the house rule. sloppiness in terms of not doing the proper reporting on one sheet even though it was accurate on the other. there was no evidence or attempting to hide anything. i called for an investigation of my own 20 years. i know that there is no one in

the house of representatives that can say that i deserved to be censured. but i also know that i always have a hard time -- if my election depended on defending -- instead of saying what a great congressman i am, nobody that has a safe district in november voted against me. >> how much it all cost you for defense? >> millions of dollars. i have a settlement with the law firm based on the condition that i would not talk about the settlement in terms of their services to me during that period.

>> so you are debt free at this point. >> no, i am in the course of an appeal in federal court because due process was not included in the way this case went. it is clear that the constitution says that the house of representatives shall exclusively -- it is interpreted to be that they determine the conduct and whether it is right or wrong. it doesn't say you are entitled to due process. but our lawyers believe that we drafted the constitution, which is based on due process, and could not possibly exclude rules for the house to determine the conduct of its members and that due process should be included. we don't know whether we're going to be successful in policy because it is clear that the

supreme court doesn't like eating involved in disputes with the legislative body, no matter who they think is right or wrong. we are saying, don't get involved in this, please. >> charlie rangel, 44 years in the house of representatives, thank you so much. >> thank you for giving me this opportunity. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us on q-and-a.org. their also available at c-span podcasts. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013]

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the 25th. as the midterm election approaches we want to begin today with the key voting block. toican-americans with a plan bring in more black voters and candidates to the republican party. phone lines are open. host: let's begin with a look at the headlines this morning. , freempshire, james foley now, memorial services held yesterday in rochester, new hampshire for that american journalist to is killed by isis. "om "the boston globe," militants freeht