in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effective >> i want to learn more about it. >> social networking and e-mail. >> i want to know how to use it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use digital tools and those who don't. >> with young people, having computers and i just don't know. they're doing it

s. he spent about six months declining very rapidly. >> what about allen dulles? i know you said he had alzheimer's. >> allen dulles died ultimately of heart failure but he had a whole series of ailments. he became quite heavy. he couldn't move very well. , you see a lotes more mixed reviews. by the time he died in the late 60's, many of the cia plots had already started to come out. the negative sides of his record were becoming clear. when foster dulles, that hadn't happened yet. everybody was morning him. >> you talk about something -- you had to write this a long time ago. exceptionalism. you define it as the view that the united states has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther and lives at a higher moral plane than other nations was to them, the dulles is, not a platitude but an organizing principle of daily life and politics. >> i find it remarkable to read this book in the context of what we are living in these days. it was the dulles proposed's idea to never negotiate with your enemies. that is the policy of the united states for almost all the period of the last 60

s, we must now address the needs of working sons and daughters. this is a critical piece of the puzzle in taking on the alzheimer's challenge. most importantly, our resolution is about the lives that could be improved with better treatments and cures. earlier this year, i met with 30 minnesotans who were here in washington, d.c., each having been touched by alzheimer's. i have been at rallies. i have seen those purple shirts in our state, thousands and thousands of people gathered to say we want to cure, we want better treatment, we don't want to lose our loved ones like this. one way we can help stem the tide of this devastating disease is through research. as my colleague from maine mentioned, the mayo clinic does fine research in these areas. they have found ways to identify alzheimer's earlier through testing. at first you might say well, how does that help to get a cure? how are we ever going to know what treatments work best and what a cure is if we can't first identify it at early stages so then we can see improvements? because if we identify it too late, you're never able to test to see if treatments work. university