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he had billy graham calling the baptists. cardinal cushing calling the catholics. henry ford calling the republicans. and jack valenti would have called the pope it needed. he sent pictures to their kids and cuff links to members, he knew their financial contributors and pressured them to pressure the members, he prayed at six different churches, threatened, cajoled, flirted, flattered, hugged, and finally got the bills passed. i guess that wouldn't work in today's sophisticated world but it sure worked then. back in a moment. >> schieffer: "60 minutes" devotes its entire broadcast tonight to its creator, the great don hewitt, the legendary producer who passed away on wednesday. that's our broadcast. hope you will watch "60 minutes" tonight. captioning sponsored by cbs

phone calls with his secretary of state deenrusk, presidential nominee richard nixon and billy graham. today on c-span radio. >> leading up to the august recess, house speaker nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders held a press conference to discuss the ongoing process of drafting health care reform legislation and a number of other issues on their agenda. this is just over 35 minutes. >> good afternoon. 35 years ago this week, medicare was signed into law by president johnson. here we are about to move closer to health care reform than we have ever been in history. when we have our third committee report out the bill. on that note we go home into august to inform the public of the considerable accomplishments of this congress, this new direction congress. right from the start, we pass an economic recovery package, the largest in history in record time. hundred days later, just over a hundred days later, we passed the president's budget on his 100th day in office. he signed legislation, for nondiscrimination in the work place, our colleagues will address many of these issues more s

how's billy graham? >> well, thank you for asking, larry. he's doing quite well. he'll be 91 this year of course but his mind is still clear, sharp. he remembers everything and he loves you and he's watching tonight. >> larry: your mother passed when? >> two years ago this past june. my father misses her so very much. she was his soulmate. they were partners in life together. they really had a real love story. he was i think more in love with her the last few years of their marriage than they were when they first were married. a great lover to. she was an incredible lady. a lot of fun. >> larry: she was. deepak, what part in all of this do you think faith played? >> i think faith always plays a great part. it sustains you, it in your turs you, it makes you feel hopeful. faith is always a very important player in every crisis. and if you stay there, then somehow the mysterious forces of the universe, mystery of god always shows up. >> larry: you believe in answered prayers, don't you? >> i do, larry. as a christian, i know my mother and father prayed for many for m

phone calls with his secretary of state, richard nixon and billy graham. today at 10:00 a.m.astern on c-span radio. >> president obama said today that the economy was in far worse shape than anybody realized last year and earlier this year. his comments last about five minutes. >> hello, everybody. >> how are you doing? >> doing good. well, i just wanted to say a few words about the economic numbers that we received this morning. the gross domestic product or g.d.p. is the measure measure of our overall economic growth as a motion. this morning the g.d.p. revealed that the recession we faced when i took office was even deeper than anyone thought at the time. it told us how close we were to the edge. but the g.d.p. also revealed that in the last few months, the economy has done measureably better than we had thought, better than expected. and as many communists will tell you -- economists will tell you, that part of the progress is directly tributeable to the recovery act. this and other difficult but important steps we have taken over the last six months have helped us put th

richard nixon, and evangelist billy graham's, today at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span radio. >> as expected, the judiciary committee voted this week to recommend that the confirmation of judge sotomayor as supreme court justice. watch the debate and hear the vote today at 7:00 p.m. eastern. next week, her confirmation moves to the senate floor. live coverage on c-span 2. coming in october, tour the home of the supreme court. >> he signed the declaration of independence. he was also murdered. bruce chadwick sunday on his book about the killings that shocked the new nation. >> joined the conversation on race relations with npr and fox news analyst juan williams, life c-span 2 -- live sunday at noon eastern on c-span 2. host: a vote yesterday on executive compensation. what took place? >> there was a bill to limit pay at banks, all banks, and set up a procedure where shareholders and companies would take an annual vote on the pay of the most highly compensated executives of a company. and a third provision required companies to have what they call indepe

he also spoke with evangelist billy graham. that is today at 10:00 a.m.eastern on c-span radio. >> now the center for disease control conference on obesity. the panelists share their insights in overcoming barriers to prevent obesity in the educational places in the workplace. this lasts about one hour. >> we welcome you to the panel. i want to give you a few instructions so that we can get through this in order. then i will do a proper introductions for all of you. in respect for our speaker is in the morning, please check that your cell phones are on silent or off for me. it is very important that we do not interrupt once the events get under way. it is also very important that we are asked for security reasons that you remain in your seats and seated until the time that president clinton exits the road. if you will take that to heart and remain seated from this time for the ending of the session. now we will wait a minute or so and there will be a video introduction that will initiate a live feed for the national broadcast. then i will give my official

c-span radio, radio,lbj phone calls, republican presidential nominee richard nixon, an evangelist billy graham today at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span arabia. >> secretary of state hillary clinton is traveling to africa next week. she plans to meet with african leaders. state department officials briefed reporters about the trip on this half-hour briefing. >>. afternoon, everyone. welcome. today we have ambassador johnny carson who will speak with you about the upcoming trip to africa. the assistant secretary will make some brief remarks and then take questions. before asking questions, if he could just identify yourselves and your news organization. i will turn this over to ambassador carson. >> robert, thank you very much. it is a pleasure to be with you this afternoon to talk to you a little bit about secretary clinton's forthcoming. to africa. she will travel to kenya, south africa, angola, the democratic republic of congo, nigeria, liberia, starting on august 4, returning to the nine states on august 14. the triple start at the u.s. sub-saharan africa trade and cooperation forum in nairobi,