in any event the aflcio had gone to congress to take away our funding for the philadelphia plan or like plans. the senate passed a rider to the appropriations bill disapproving the philadelphia plan or like plans. boy, i was up against the wall. at that point i got a phone call from an editorial writer at t"te washington post" by the name of mckenzie that i think subsequently went to "the new york times." i understand you're up against the wall or about to go down the drain, but i want you to know, i'm going to save you. the next day there was an editorial in "the washington post" blasting or at least criticizing the civil rights groups for not standing up for the philadelphia plan because of pressure from the aflcio. at which point, the leadership of the civil rights, particularly joe rowe, as i recall, went into action at the house and killed the appropriations rider. thereafter the philadelphia plan was challenged in federal district court in philadelphia, i think it was, and then up through the third circuit. we prevailed. in those days you couldn't lose on the left side of any civi

is there's a sentence in their statement about birth control where the executive committee and the aflcio said we know that these attacks on unions around the country and these aattacttan working families around the country had having aa disproportionate impact on families and we're not going to tand them. that's from the labor unions. they're with us and we're with them. we'll all work together. one thing i want you to do as you go back home and work to organize your communities and organize friends and get them engaged in voter education and mobilization is this. talk to the candidates. make sure the candidates know how to talk about these issues that so disproportion naturely impact women. if the candidates are talking about women and p if you scratch the surface of almost every issue that is facing us today, p if you scratch the surface of it just a little bit, what you find is a disproportionate impact on women. get the candidates to talk about how this impacts women and you will find women say to themselves, oh, so that person actually cares about me? actually understands what's goi

. >> that agreement set off an aflcio trunk who ripped the president on that.h this deal? >> well, over the years parade union the defenders of democracy have been targeted for assassination in columbia. they haven't made progress. they haven't done the things necessary to demonstrate that they are serious about it. and the president agreeing to bring them the free trade agreement removes all leverage they have. today the ranking member of the house ways and means committee agrees with us and says that they haven't made enough progress to give them the trade agreement that the president apparently is going to give them. >> stand by. we are now watching live pictures of a 747 on top of that the space shuttle discovery. the most travelled vehicle. it's now landing in dulles airport. it will then go to the smithsonian for its permanent display. it took off about 7:00 a.m. eastern time. after doing several fly bys over the capitol and the mall it is now finally landing. what a beautiful shot this is. you will never have seen such shots like this in the washington,