well, i'm here at the early childhood education center in springfield, massachusetts, which has been closed for months. child care was already hard to find before the pandemic, and now parents are stuck. no idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer child care options. the devastation is enormous. and the way i see it, big problems demand big solutions. now, i love a good plan, and joe biden has some really good plans. plans to bring back union jobs in manufacturing and create new union jobs in clean energy. plans to increase social security benefits, cancel billions in student loan debt and make our bankruptcy laws work for families instead of the creditors who cheat them. these plans reflect a central truth. our economic system has been rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else. but we can build a thriving economy by investing in families and fixing what's broken. joe's plan to build back better includes making the wealthy pay their fair share, holding corporations accountable, repairing racial inequities and fighting corruption in w

if it had been a success, springfield massachusetts would be today's city which i as it so happens, springfield massachusetts is full of anyway. we owe our very existence to the car to the car's back seat of her if you check our parents wedding anniversary with our birthday they might find that a little too close for comfort as to where we were conceived. there was no premarital sex in america before the invention of the combustion. you couldn't sneak a girl into the wreck room of your farmhouse because your mom and dad didn't have a car so they couldn't commute so they were home all day working on the farm. and your farmhouse didn't have a wreck room because recreation hadn't been discovered due to all the farm work. saturday night you could take a girl out but it was hard to get her in the mood to put you bust into her corset because you were facing behind and of a horse and it spoils the atmosphere. so while the car was as if it destroyed the american nuclear family and anyone that has had a nuclear family can tell you that was a relief to all concerned. and they caused america to be paved.

james' pulpit becomes the ymca training center in springfield, massachusetts.mber 1891, he's tasked with creating an indoor activity for a group of young men during the winter. so, he dreams this game up? >> he had to start from scratch, and that's when the thinking started. >> the light bulb goes on one night, and he's ready to start the next morning. >> evidently, he asked the maintenance man there, "i need a box -- you know, something you can put a ball in." and he came back and said, "i can't find any boxes. i got a couple of peach baskets." >> oh, my -- for peaches. james hangs one up at each end of the gym, 10 feet high -- only because that's where he could get the nails in. he picked up a soccer ball because it was big enough where you had to hold it out. you couldn't hide it. the arched shot came from the little game of "duck on a rock," a kid's game in canada. >> then, he calls the boys in. >> he describes the first game. he said, "i had multiple black eyes, a dislocated shoulder, one guy completely knocked out." >> but the new game's a big hit. his yo

if the motorbike and company if it'd been a success springfield, massachusetts, might be today's motor city full of abandoned houses, and upon, drug dealing, violent crime and racial tension which as it so happens springfield, massachusetts, is full of anyway. but we owe the american car, we always a lot more than the entertaining spectacle of detroit's various felon mayors. many people my age we owe our very existence to the car or to the cars backseat. where if you check our parents wedding anniversary with our birthdate and find them a little too close to comfort that is probably where we were conserved. there was no premarital sex and america before the invention of the internal combustion engine. it's true. you couldn't sneak a girl into the rec room of your farmhouse because your mom and dad didn't have a car so he couldn't commute so they were stuck home all day working on the farm. your farmhouse didn't have rec room because recreation had not been discovered due to all the farm work. on saturday that you could take control out in a buggy but it was hard to get her into the moo

we are about to hear from senator elizabeth warren who is speaking tonight from springfield, massachusetts, and john dickerson. she was the last woman standing in the 2020 primary before she dropped out. many people thought shes with one of the leading candidates to be vp. will she still be infeungs? >> i think she will be which is amazing because she and joe biden had a bit of a history they fought over the course of her career. but she will be speaking in her role tonight. >> o'donnell: let's introduce now as they introduce senator elizabeth warren. >> tonight we heard from the people who make america work. people who put their lives on the line to keep our country going and since covid-19 hit, they're taken one gut punch after another. and what is the covid fallout done to our babies? well i'm here at the early childhood education center in springfield, massachusetts, which has been closed for months. child care was already hard to find before the pandemic. and now parents are stuck. no idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer child care options. the devastation is enormous. a

james naismith was a christian missionary, and the game, shortly after it was invented in springfield, massachusetts, brought to china. it has been global since its earliest days. and i think when you think of the two most popular global sports, i don't think it is an accident that both involve round balls, one you kick and one you use your hands. i think there is almost something evolutionary about it, about round balls, and i think most people, even if you are not a basketball player, whether you are balling a paper and shooting it into a garbage can, or you are a little kid -- i have a young daughter, when she sees a little ball, she kicks it or picks it up or throws it. david: are there any more franchises that might be for sale, by the way? adam: not that i'm aware of. david: some of these people that have bought these franchises have done extremely well. the 76ers were bought a few years ago for $300 million or 400 million dollars, the bucks for $400 million or $500 million and when steve ballmer came in and paid $2 billion for the clippers, with the other owners happy because it made their te

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which is it so happens, springfield, massachusetts is full of anyway. but, we owe the american car, a lot more than that entertaining spectacle of the fallen mayors. many people my age we were very existence to the car. to the car's backseat. where if you check out our parents wedding anniversary with our birthdates and combine them, a little too close to comfort, that's probably where we were conceived. there was no pre- marital pretty true. you cannot sink a girl into the rec room a farmhouse, patient almanac, they do have a car so they can commute so they were to accommodate working on the farm. here farmhouse didn't have a rec room because recreation had not yet been discovered due to all of the farm work. so the saturday night you can take a grande in the buggy but it was hard to get her into the mood to let you bust into her corset because you were to facing behind in the horse. just kind of spoils the atmosphere. so the car let us out of the barn. mother car was at it, it destroyed the american nuclear family anyone who is headed in the american

whites were it wide and low saxon protestant so when i went to get my first newspaper job in springfield massachusetts people kept saying what are you excited know what they were talking about. but springfield was a city where people who couldn't get a job in austin couldn't get a job in new york would come to springfield a city of about 170,000 everybody was either irish or tying in our french-canadian and it was important for them to know i came from sin and go valley. what? but that was in springfield and this country, it is the great meeting place for people from all over the world and somehow they are free and it's a fantastic accomplishment. they started to say america is a wonderful country. >> there are some of course you probably don't know what i'm talking about the sum that criticize some of your looks and some of the characters are one-dimensional or simplistic or play the stereotype. say that i take that with pride. if i had to find some complicated side of the great lawyer i will send you a postcard. his name will come to me. i brushed that off. >> what about the main character of miami

. >> i'm here at the early childhood education center in springfield, massachusetts, which has been closed for months. >> stephen: "breaking in wasn't easy, but i had a plan, and a crow bar." warren left a secret message in her set. the blocks behind hir said, "b.l.m.. that's really nice. somewhere a very confused worker at the bureau of land management is feeling pretty good right now. suddenly, he appeared, former president barack obama. >> good evening, everybody. >> stephen: oh, my gosh! he's really there! it's everything i missed! obama! the constitution! a president! hair cut! he's looks so fresh! the constitutional scholar obama came straight out. >> embedded in this document was a north star. >> stephen: and a treasure map, written on the back in secret code. it was up to nicolas cage to find it. obama said he really thought back in 2016 things might go better. >> i did hope, for the sake of our country, that donald trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. >> stephen: look, sir, i know you're the guy who coined the "hope" slogan, but even your poster doesn't buy

who ran against biden and harris in the primary, spoke from an early childhood center in springfield massachusettsthree colorful letter blocks stood out behind her and they spelled out blm, the initials of black lives mater. >> we build infrastructure like roads and bridges and communications systems so people can work. that helps us all because it keeps our economy going. it is time to recognize that chilildcare is part of t the bac infrastructure of the nation. infrastructure for families. make preschool universal, and rage -- raise the wages of every childcare worker. >> former president barack obama spoke just before kamala harris accepted the nomination on wednesday night. speaking from the museum of the american revolution in philadelphia, obama warned president trump was a threat to american democracy. president obama: i have sat in the oval office with both of the men who are running for president. i never suspected that my successor would continue my policies. i did hope for the sake of our country that donald trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. that he might come

i am here at the early childhood center in springfield massachusetts which has been closed for months. child care has been closed for months and now there are fewer child care options. the devastation is enormous, the way i see it, big problems demand big solutions. i love a good plan and joe biden has great plans for new union jobs in clean energy. plans to increase social security benefits, cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt and make our braps laws work for families instead of the pretors who cheat them. our economic system has been rigged to give ball outs to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else but we can build a driving economy by investing in families and fixing with what is broken. joe's plan includes making the wealthy their forshare. holding the corporations accountable. repairing racial inequalities and fighting in washington. let me tell you one of my plans, child care. as a little girl growing up in oklahoma, what i wanted move most in the world was to be a teacher. when i had babies and was juggling my first teaching job it was hard but ki

richmond and educated washington university and started his journalistic career with the springfield massachusetts union newspaper. correspondent for the washington post, foreign news prize for his coverage of the cuban revolution. 1962, he moved to the new york tribune where he had to. writers assigned the sunday supplement which later became newspapers in 1962, 63 afforded him the opportunity to travel to socal to write an article he sent his notes to his editor who published them verbatim, and as a long spontaneous letter dispensing traditional listing conventions and describing visit and personal voice. thus was born the new journalism. the rest they say is history. this was collected in the book, streamline leaving an instant bestseller top journalists in america and numbered his days at the daily newspaper correspondent. ask published on the same day 1968, the electric test solidified his reputation as the observer documenter of contemporary american experience. 1970s saw radical and captures, 1976 and madmen quitter where the generation was coined. other tom wolf contributions include troph

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>>host: springfield massachusetts you are next. >>caller: wonderful program. growing up in massachusetts with an interesting confession. but i'm calling using the cia to look into their private life always what a contradiction that was he so ahead on civil rights so what was the thinking behind that? j edgar hoover? >> you are right he was a force into his own that doesn't mean he didn't have a responsibility and into the private lives in case some dirt could be found to be discredited. and then people were gathering together but also because they didn't like the substance. so there was a tendency to look at mlk just in case they might need something for someone who believes in civil rights the idea the civil liberty is violated is not tenable. >> can you explain this photograph? >> this is great and has a stor story. the guy holding crutches is one of my sons joe we had just come back from iraq graduated from harvard college and instead of going to graduate school that fall ended up joining the army instead and as soon as he finished basic training he was sent

. >> host: springfield, massachusetts, you're next for doris kerns goodwin. >> caller: wonderful programanks for c-span. couple things. growing up as a red sox fan, i've had some pretty interesting confessions -- [laughter] especially in 1978 as a young man. >> guest: i know what you mean. [laughter] >> caller: the reason i was calling was actually about leadership done johnson. about the -- lyndon johnson. he used the cia to look into martin luther king's private life? i always wondered what a contradiction that was because he was so, you know, ahead on civil rights. what exactly was the thinking behind that or was there any, or was it just, i guess, j. edgar hoover was a big part of this? >> guest: i think you're wright. i mean -- you're right. j. edgar hoover was a force unto his own right. that doesn't mean that the president didn't have a responsibility to rein him in, but that was hoover's specialty, to look into the private lives of these speakers in case some dirt could be found so that they could be discredited if he didn't like what they were doing. and for people like hoover,

when i went to get my job and think that massachusetts and they would say what are you and i didn't know they were talking about. springfield was a city where people who didn't get a job in boston or new york would come to springfield and say about 170,000. irish, italian. it was important for them to know where you came from. i said i hope they come from shenandoah valley. but that is the education of. it's a great reading place for people over the world into somehow i get here and it is and it's a fantastic accomplishment. there are some of course we probably don't know what they're talking about, but criticized some of the books, some of the characters are one-dimensional or simplistic or play to stereotypes. >> if i have a complicated side of the house -- i will send a postcard. >> host: what about the main character in "back to blood" figure have t had to admit thats real and that the characters all have a choice to. but the they have in common andt did the morality or choices have in common? >> guest: i didn't mean to write about it i walk in a lightweight for the characters to arrive and probably because i got a grea

massachusetts people were saying what are you? i don't know what they are talking about. springfield was a city where people who couldn't get a job in boston couldn't get a job in new york going to springfield, a city with 170,000 and everybody was irish, italian, french-canadian and it was important to know where you came from. i came from shenandoah valley. what? i was in education. this country is - the great meeting place for people from all over the world. a fantastic accomplishment. >> there are some, probably don't know what you are talking about, some who criticize some of your books, some of the characters are 1-dimensional or simplistic or play stereotype. so is dickens. >> tried to find some complicated side of the lawyer in great house, the name will come to me. >> what about the main character. >> admits he was real. what your characters may, charlotte simmons, the man in fool, what did you feel they had in common, what his morality or choices have in common. >> what i mean about human voices, is a little bit backwards. oke, i walk in and wait for the characters to arriv

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