on the 13th of september, 1862, he came across a marvelous he came across a marvelous coup special order 1891 outlining how lee was conducting his campaign. mcclellan has sent this message down to washington, lee has made a gross mistake. i have his plans. i'm going to defeat him. i'll send you trophies. and then came in rapid succession the battle for the south mountain on the 14th of december where mcclellan's battle went into battle cheering, less than two weeks after they'd been defeated at second manassas. they seized passes over the south mountain and fought lee on the bloodiest civil day in the civil war, along antiem creek. he should have soundly defeated lee's army. part of his army wasn't even employed. that would be fitzjohn porter's fifth corps. but later on the 17th as they held a little council of war many of the generals said let's go after lee again. remember, general, my corps represents the last reserve of the last army between lee's great force and our nation's capital. and that's really all it took. there was no more attack. soon after the battle was concluded at shar

it was a marvelous thing to see. at the end of the first civil war trip, i was able to bring my dad on. he came to my hotel room the last night, knocked on the door. he said, judith, i would never presume, but do you think you could get jim to

marvelous experience. >> all of this paid off, eventually, because that landing was not a piece of cake. >> no, the landing i don't think there was anything really prepared us for the intensity of the landing. if i back up a little bit, one of the mission rolls, talking about game plan, that was given to me exclusively, where i had to make a decision is in the preparation for the mission. headquarters people, the program managers and chris craft, was concerned that if we would crash and not have enough date to to figure out why we crashed, we would be in jeopardy of the not only losing the lunar goal, maybe the entire program. so, everybody wanted to make sure that there was some formula that would be used by the team to say okay, we got enough data to continue. i fought this particular rule because they wanted numbers with this thing and i fought this all the way through the process of building the rules, going through the reviews, the mission review, et cetera. and i wanted very simple one that says the flight director will determine whether sufficient data exists to continue the miss

and it's marvelous what could be done by such an event. i just wish we could recreate it, do it again today. >> perhaps some time in the future, maybe on a mission to mars or something similar, there might be such a moment again. do you think that might happen? >> i sure hope that my children and the youth of america can find this kind of a dream that we're given by president kennedy. because it was a dream we lived. we were so fortunate and proud to be americans and living, and to be challenged by such a magnificent set of goals. i don't think anyone ever considered themselves overworked or underpaid. the pay was the job we were doing. and it was an unbelievable time. and we were privileged and proud to be born and a part of that very violent decade. >> there were other missions still to be flown, gene. they were tremendously important in your life as well. let's not leave apollo 11 until i'm convinced you'd said what you really wanted to say about it. >> the final thing, i saw neil armstrong. we had celebrations and all of this kind of s

in a chapter with a marvelous title the historian writes, the failure of mcclellan's peninsula campaign was not alone a military failure. it represented also the downfall of the limited war for limited ends that mcclellan favored. from now on the north would fight not to preserve the old union but to destroy it and build a new one on its ashes. a concept so dear to men like mcclellan when eventually reconciliation some sort of gentleman's agreement was being washed away by increasing tides of blood, tens of thousands of casualties and millions of broken hearts. and, of course, it was some of mcclellan's old comrades from the old army who had presented mack and abraham lincoln with so many problems during those battles and oft repeated anecdote had lincoln speaking with the tired now general winfield scott during a visit to the military academy at west point in the late spring of 1862. and lincoln is said to have asked this question -- general scott, why is it that you were once able to take the city of mexico in three months with just 5,000 men and we've been unable to take richmond wit

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and then to marvel at how, as adults, we could reengage ourselves with things that got us around the city for our high school jobs to, school and back home and to reengage not only youth here but seniors and residents of all walks of life to be able to bike to work in clothing like this not just some bike to work day. every single day would be a marvelous thing to see and experience and again, to unleash that secret that our neighborhoods could be that much stronger if we had the bicycle balance that we should have. this year we're also challenged, and i want to speak to all of you who who are going to be reviewing the sensitive areas around market street and polk street and the wiggle, which i got to experience earlier this year that. wig is very challenging. it was evolved organizically by those who wanted to deal with the elevation challenges of that street. but as we rode that street, the thing that i remember the most is how close it was to so much automobile traffic. and the need to really work on issues of safety as we go through market street, as we go through polk street, ho

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it was such a marvelous performance that when joe became mayor, he adopted that as one of our two official anthems. thank you for performing first in san francisco. [applause] tony, you have helped us celebrate so many milestones in our city. you have helped us after earthquakes to come back and revive the spirit of our wonderful city. you have designed the wonderful art pieces to raise funds for those who need that service. you help us to reopen. after earthquakes, you have helped us climb -- not half way, you have helped us climb all the way to the stars with the -- a nation of our cable cars. you have just -- i in your career, you have generated more love and more nostalgic for our bay area -- more nostalgia for our bay area than all the songs and all the movies and all the television shows associated with us combine. for that reason -- it is really for that reason, tony, that it is my pleasure if you would please come up, to declare today, valentine's day, february 14, 2012, as tony bennett day in san francisco. [applause] and also, on behalf of all of us and with all of our love and w

mayor, that was a marvelous message. some of the people here are here to share this moment with you and say congratulations. names have arrived on these little yellow cards. first and foremost i should acknowledge, the closest thing that we have to a president, charlotte's secretary, george schulz. [applause] diane acknowledged, in a group of mayors, identifying the ones who are here now. but this city has a legacy of all the people who have served and continually participate. not only is gina here, but kathleen alioto is here. [applause] a true son of san francisco, kevin shelley is here. of the supervisors, john of a los -- avalos is here. in the citywide elected officials, bill cain is here. on the state level, tom [unintelligible] [applause] the board of equalization member, betty yi. [applause] and, of course, mr. mayor, i refer to -- is that yours? [laughter] >> i believe so. >> two children. already proposes and ready to seek headlines. emily more arrests. [applause] state comptroller, john chomp. [applause] and y

is there for 19th century vernacular english is marvelous. and his eye for detail is brilliant. i'm just going to go back to my little red west talking about ballet in the previous hour. unit, the terrible thing, peter, and i don't, i'm not a great one for teaching writing. i think it's very hard to teach but i do believe that the deeper you can dig, you know, you don't say a guy climbed into a car and drove away. it's better to identify what kind of car it is. and what i love about george macdonald fraser is he is dealing with something several generations removed from his own time, and get the detail in the books is absolutely beautiful. >> host: in your book "lights out: islam, free speech and the twilight of the west" you have a column in there about a speech you make where you say that muslim is the new gay. what does that mean? >> guest: i was -- i was getting a's each at the heritage foundation, and somebody asked question about what was a venue canadian sitcom called little mosque on the prairie, which to go back to where we came in, i think it's a hit that i sorely thin

the marvels, which i don't speak about much, because they are less interesting than the flaws, the marvels are, you know, how much we do with intuition and how good our intuitions are, you know, so i will give you some examples, you can drive without thinking about it, you know, that is the same machinery that does intuition, i can tell you a sentence, one of my favorite experiments is people listen to sentences and british upper class male voice says and i am not going to try it. >> it is a great story. >> says i have lodged twos all down my back and he takes about a third of a second and the brain reacts with a surprise. >> rose: yes. >> that is extraordinary, you have to figure out -- >> rose: a man with a deep british voice would not have tattoos. >> that's right. >> rose: but you know the amount of world knowledge that has to be brought to bear on that problem within a third of a second for the brain to recognize that there is an incongruity, this is extraordinary. so and intuition is like that, so that a chess player who record recognize a chess situation very quickly, i recognize my