alger hiss is still alive. >> guest: i still don't know, and my inclination starts to think that alger hiss would not betray his country. c-span: you were in the press gallery when general macarthur made his speech. >> guest: high drama again. les and i had one seat that we sat on together that was right peering down over the house chamber, and remember, of course, that gen. macarthur had really had it out with truman. anyway, he had his day in congress. he made a dramatic speech and then he started out of the chamber, and mrs. macarthur was seated where normally the first lady sits, in that gallery. gen. macarthur stopped dead still and looked up and blew her a kiss, and he had just said before he left the podium that he remembered an old army barracks song, "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." the guy sitting on the seat next to us said, "hamlet, next week hamlet." it was pure theater, and so much politics is theater, don't you think? c-span: when you talk to those kids, how often do you say things like, "well, if you could have only seen it in my day"? what do they do when

perspective. 1948 when it richard nixon was part on the american activities committee investigating alger hiss for communism he never dreamed 24 years later he would be in china opening china to the west. when you have low light journey with a sense of adventure and openness and follow what is the merging what changes you can make. i have a confession. 19609 hours a graduate student at the university of texas austin. i was protesting the vietnam war and richard nixon i am on like today i would have no idea i would be here today celebrating his marriage so things do change. as a psychologist with a unique perspective believe it or not to do merrill wrote -- marital therapy one of the things i have always been fascinated by it is long-term marriages over the period of the of marriage when becomes interested of new developing careers then be other and then too many people see that narrative through the lessons of watergate. that is not a fair and accurate to see a 53 year relationship. to talk about three main myths that still crop up with the nixons and their marriage. to talk about the won

this industrial city last december back then reports emerged of numerous killings and violence after alger was attacked by militants belonging to al-qaeda linked groups and the free syrian army. they stormed into the city and they kept the civilians in their buildings using them as human shields which made our mission very difficult this is why it takes so long we want to avoid civilian losses. to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had been executed that people were be hadad and burned over ends and one claimed the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic which travelled to address hoping to verify these reports but there is still no way of getting into the besieged areas of the town to confirm if any of that actually happened we got as close as the army can they're actually to the old town. and the workers house in complex nearby a drama. both are now besieged by people because a lot of them were maybe some bankers here to separate other out by law and out room aliya and to prevent the militants uniting these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watching

richard nixon was a member of the house, un-american activities committee, and he was investigating alger hiss for communism, he never dreamed that 24 years later he would be in china opening china to the west. it's extraordinary when you take a life journey, and you have a sense of adventure this your heart and curiosity and openness and follow what's emerging rather than keep to a rigid path what changes you can make. and i have a confession to make to you all today along that line. in 1969 i was a graduate student at the university of texas at austin, and what do you think i was doing? i was protesting the vietnam war and richard nixon. and on that day i had no idea that i would be here today celebrating richard nixon and his marriage. so things do change. [laughter] you know, as a psychologist, i bring a unique perspective to this as well as a historian and a biographer because i've been working, believe it or not, i've been working doing marital therapy with couples since 1970. that's a long time. and one of the things i've always been fascinated by is long-term marriages and all tha

we really don't know, so at this stage, it's alger have you not clear and interior minister, the other very important post that we'll be waiting to see if he'll be out and somebody new in or whether those two important posties will stay the same and we'll see a few new faces. >> aljazeera demanding the release of its staff held 58 days now in egypt. they are accused of having links with a terrorist organization and of spreading false news. aljazeera rejects those charges. other aljazeera journalists from the arabic channel has been held since august, on hunger strike for more than a month protesting his imprisonment. >> now still to come on this news hour: ♪ >> an emotional public farewell to 21 afghan soldiers killed as they slept as kabul hint at foreign involvement in the attack. >> u.s.a. to see that green house gas challenge in court. >> $18 million on a player they already have. >> he is gay and has aids. that makes life doubly ditch in uganda. we've changed his name and hidden his face. this clinic provides services to people of high risk. he comes here to get life saving drugs

you say that horatio alger is dead. so how does this play into that argument? >> right.rtable fact. i think this is part of the same conversation. and this is not about blaming groups that are disadvantaged. the reason they are disadvantaged is slavery and discrimination. but there are still some people rising from very low -- you know, modest backgrounds to positions of affluence. >> and misery. >> and some groups more than others. there is a striking study in los angeles that, you know, children of vietnamese, chinese and korean parents, you think they must all be the children of engineers. that's not true. it's bi-modal. half of those kids -- some of them just have a grade school education and restaurant workers and factory workers and show the same amount of exceptional upward mobility. >> we have one more thing after we take a break. we'll be right back. nistan, in . orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection. and because usaa

it's called the horacio alger award.t it is about is the american way where in america you can start out with a lot of adversity, make it to the top 1%, make the american dream come true on your own, but along the way, share it with other people. they are missing it. they are splitting -- i don't agree with either one. i agree with the american way is, whatever you're making, work with your employer, show them how to do things better, how you can become more efficient and in the end you all make more money. that's the american way. not saying, "you must pay me at least this amount of money." i want everyone to make more than $10 an hour, more than that, but you have to work with the people who do it. >> the way it is being discussed to do that right now are, one, raising the minimum wage to the federal level, which you're saying no, you don't agree with doing it that way. and the other is raising taxes, and raising taxes in particular on the top 1%. the residents talked about it being a major push in the cities across th

you find that older americans still believe in the myth of horatio alger in larger numbers, where youngermericans are much less likely to believe that. much less likely to say that the rich people got there because of hard work and talent and are more likely to say that because -- that they got there because they were born into privilege. part of the corollary of this is a greater degree of class consciousness. the stereotype is that all americans think of themselves as middle-class. actually, a lot of young americans now referred themselves as lower class, referring to themselves as have- nots. this is an attitude historically associated with europe. clash cap -- class consciousness, the belief in rising economic economy, but we are now seeing much more amongst younger americans. , if theser beinart attitudes continue, what does it mean for the united states and its future? caller: in the essay i argue that it is not a bad thing that younger americans are rebelling against some of these myths, because those myths have not been working out for them in practice. what good is it to claim th