by and large the american press did not report a great deal about the japanese americans. people outside the west coast didn't know or care much about the japanese americans, until the government moved them, and then people figured, where there's smoke there must be fire. the government must know what at it doing. and so for the balance of the war years, the press was fairly negative, until the exploits of the japanese american soldiers of the 442nd, in combination with the government efforts to present a positive public image to japanese americans to aid in resettlement of people getting out of camps, began to change the minds of newspapers. but there lots of important newspapers, like the denver post, which remained solidly antijapanese during the entire war period. >> so we had no courageous commentators who were standing up for them. >> not at the outset. the only national figures who really spoke out against executive order 9066 were the writer, pearl s. buck, and the socialist party leader, norman thomas. >> did earl warren, who was instrumental on the supreme court

when i thought i was always an american? there was a great deal of controversy in the camps and difference of opinion. so my character is one of those individuals who signed no, no. that's a form of protest. and because of doing that, he is taken out of the camp that he's in and sent to tule lake where most of the troublemakers were sent. then he gets out of camp and he comes back to san francisco and what happened in the japanese american communities is that many of the young men signed yes yes. many of them went off to war and became part of the 442nd, the 100th battalion, the mis, military intelligence, and were extraordinarily heroic and died in very high casualty rates in europe. and so when chet comes back to san francisco, those people who signed no no were looked upon as cowards. they were traitors. they sat out the war where these other people died. everyone a friend, an uncle or somebody they knew who had died, lost an arm, or was killed in service. chet comes back and he is literally spit on by his own community.

who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene happening in that area. there's this wonderful book called fillmore harlem west and also there's several other books that are about that particular era. but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that'

the american dream in reverse. kids are going to do worse than their parents unless we reverse current economic trends. mr. president, we can for about a lot of numbers, a few hundrede billion and trillion but the kid truth of the matter is behind iy my state of vermont and all fore ar this country there are real people who are hurting terribly. and as members of the unitednitd states senate, our job is to pan attention to those people andpas representing the most powerful special interest in the world who's around this capital every single day. mr. president, last year i asked my constituents and vermont toso share some personal stories witd me. i asked them basically you know, how you're doing in this recession and the stories i got back from vermont i am sure are absolutely similar to the stories that you would get in ay delaware or anyone would get in michigan or any other state in this country. but i asked them how are things going, and let me just tell you that as a result of the e-mail t but we sent out, we

he always felt he was under attack by african-americans and hated it. he explain the chain of command in the air force, general arnold got his from general marshall he got his from the secretary and he got his from mrs. roosevelt. these people hate the civilian pressure coming down on their heads forcing them to desegregate but had it not been for this they would have served in the pacific. a long answer to your short question. >>ur is that in your book? >> absolutely. >> we are a lot of time. [applause] >> thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> todd moye, associate history professor of the university of north texas and his book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". coming up in 15 minutes philip terzian will discuss his latest publication "architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower, and the american century". more of booktv's live coverage from the 2011 roosevelt reading festival hosted by the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york, after this break. >> part of this book group is an impri

they believed it was good for african-americans and americans in general. that was the divide between the naacp and tuskegee institute and that goes back to the founding of the naacp. were w. e. b. du bois argues against the pragmatic vision of tuskegee's founder booker t. washington, much more idealistic where washington is more pragmatic. it is a debate they had been having for 30 some years by this point but the program was created, african-americans did begin flying in tuskegee under the army's in 1940. they created the site the national park service now has as a primary flight training facility that would be managed by tuskegee institute. civilian instructors teaching african-americans to fly on a large scale for the first time using federal dollars. the fact that they forced the federal government into this to they side is giving african-american greater opportunities lead to greater changes down the road so in that sense the pragmatic side was right. once cadets graduated, they advanced to tuskegee airfield where they were taught to fly the army way.

the american experience, the american democratic ideal called for communal, fraternal action to provide for the general welfare. american historical experience always combined individual efforts with neighborly cooperation for the common good. we often think of american development in terms of rugged individualism and indeed individualism was important especially in the earliest days of colonial america. if you word a rugged, tough be personal strong individual you probably died. but think of those days of nineteenth century america. bond -- bar and raising was the neighborly operation. removing huge sums from farmland. there was a rugged individualism that was consistent fraternal cooperation. otherwise there would not be survival. working people could live in decent housing, for higher education for their children, and leisure to labor and rest secure in old age were the conscience goals of the roosevelt revolution and all were achieved. roosevelt understood that a healthy democracy demanded social and economic justice if it were to survive. this was especially so in the 20th century

the president ready to bring home the troops that's the subject of his big address tonight for the american people at eight pm but how many when and what will it mean for the rest of america's longest war. the end of the press conference everyone's been waiting for or at least if you're a reporter federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he took to the podium today with more bad news but is he misleading the tealeaves when it comes to the economy we'll bring you the details in just eight that. meeting it's wednesday june twenty second coming live out of washington d.c. and he's the captain of any watching our t.v. . well of all the server hosting contingency plans on the books here's one they probably missed a web server takedown and a seizure by the f.b.i. that's exactly what took place in reston virginia on tuesday f.b.i. agents raided a data center in the wee hours of the morning confiscating services used by and number of companies taking many sites offline and it's kind of unclear what the federal agents were investigating at the moment but folks say that it's unprecedented move by the ag

as asian-americans in this country. as we look toward the new year, i think we can say that the asian-american community has come far in san francisco since we first started immigrating here in the 1950's, and there were many challenges for our community, beginning with the first exclusion act, immigration and for men and women that came for san francisco, to labor issues, and also segregation that we faced. and that was then brought forward as a court case to look at what it means to be equal but separate in our public schools. there is much work we have done here, and now we see we have our first asian-american mayor, the first time we have seen four asian american sitting on the board of supervisors. it is certainly an honor and privilege for me to be here today. i want to recognize the history not only of our communities, but of many communities that have fought for us to be here today. again, happy new year. thank you for being here and joining in on the celebration. [applause] >> thank you, supervisors. assessor p

they were a little skewed see about americans and american? >> guest: well, the lebanese hospitality is legendary, and it's real. and dealing with hezbollah itself, i got both. they fed me -- when i went down to the press relations office, they gave me coffee, the dbt. they gave me food. they've really want and hospitable and welcoming me at first. and his hospitality was followed by threats and belligerence and eventually being blacklisted. and what started all this was i cracked a joke about hezbollah on my blog, and have absolutely no sense of humor whatsoever. and their press secretary called me, and i knew this guy. he was a nice guy up until this moment. he called me up screaming at me saying who do you think we are? we know who you are. we know -- we read everything you write, and we know where you live. this is for cracking a joke on my blog. i hadn't even written an article yet about these guys. >> host: they were reading between the lines tried i guess they figure the article i was going to ride was not going to be friendly. and they

american cities. unfortunately, the money is simply not there. we have plenty of studies that show the value of occupied homes. if you live next to a vacant property, very well documented. as are studies that show values increased for occupied homes when the vacant structures are removed. yet our inability to convince federal officials of this pressing need is continued to be a problem. demolition dollars continue to be problematic. mayors in weak market cities already now that. in ohio, we have passed one other innovation to talk about briefly and one before the ohio senate now. the first one, it's actually a number of years old now is house bill 294. it expedited the foreclosures of tax delinquent properties. the cities that were particularly hard hit, even tax delinquent properties that had been abandoned, vacant lots, structures, taking up to two years. house bill 294, i have copies of summaries of these bills for mayors that are interested. house bill 294 in ohio now takes the tax properties and

american has not increased.he buying power of those people at the top has increased astronomically in an unprecedented way in american history. but that is a serious problem from my point of view but it is not war. and so what is the appropriate level of critical analysis to bring to the attention of the american people that's very serious change? when barack obama tried that in the campaign in his brief exchange with joe the plumber, he was hamburg as a socialist. what he was calling for was a more steeply graduated income tax of the sort that we had from the mid-1930s until the 1980s, it period of the greatest economic growth in american history, the. with the steepest income grades and this deepest growth of american history. the dogma that high income taxes are inconsistent with economic growth lies in the face of all the evidence we have and yet it continues to be made as if it is self-evident. in "the audacity of hope" he offers a very sophisticated and also stuff that increasing inequality. explains the r

world of african-americans, but just a shadow over anyone who has thought about african-american identity. part of the idea's going back to the canine and engaging to block -- dubois political thought, if we arrive at some of the assumptions and our own thinking about many of these issues. >> in the west 113 years are so, what practical effect has dubois had? where is his lineage? >> of course he was one of the great inspiration's of the civilized movement. i think it is well known that john mearsheimer is deaf. i used that, roger wilkinson. the announcement of du bois as an epigraph. and he says there, you know, there is one thinker whose double overshadows both the movement happening here today is du bois. so real connection in between not only what is going on the level of contemporary writers. there is thinking about these issues, is used to my income having to do with identity, conflicts in the aftermath of segregation, the aftermath of obama, but also the voice has had an enormous impact on activists. >> what was his relationship, professor, with bush -- booker t. washington. >> tha

we in the african-american community have no time to waste. i am going to stand up with a bold stance. the black press needs to sit down with whomever is running this ship pier that does not know -- this ship here that does not know about oversight. anything other than that would be in dignity. here you have a department head saying it is an oversight. there has been an oversight on the african-american community for 40 years. my name is ace and i'm on the case. i have been here at silly call for 20 years and i have experienced the indignity of the african-american community. in the media, particularly. i meeting today with the city and county. i am in the city hall and now they are trying to get rid of me, y'all. but i done made history. never, ever has there been an african-american organization here. [tone] supervisor campos: next speaker, please. >> i'm the publish -- the publisher of the "west portal monthly" newspaper and the chair of the san francisco neighborhood association newspaper. if you have any questions regarding some of the ne

the british hated the americans. and they had no interests, whatsoever, to assist their former colonies. and some might be the amount of meat that the british that rendered their character incapable of incivilization. [laughter] >> what do you do like this, you go on a garden tour. washington had his aversion to britain had to admit that they created the best gardens and they must have looked rather odd pair walking together through these gardens because you have thomas jefferson all tall, thin gangly, all dressed up in french silk and kind of powdered hair, towering him 7 inches over john adams. a bit more round, a bit more stout. but despite their differences -- and there's actually one scene compared to a candlestick and a cannonball. but despite their differences, they both absolutely adored gardens. and they were both gardeners and maybe in a slightly different way so you have john adams who's very much a hands-on gardener who loved getting his hands dirty, who -- whenever he's away from his garden, which is in

the hated americans who were... mao regarded the americans as devils and he was like we're going to be pro-american because we need their technology, we need their military support, we need them as an ally against the soviet union. it's a totally pragmatic approach. and that produced 30 years of stability. so the question is will the people who have now lived through 30 years of stability and growth and prosperity and only seeing the china of the beijing olympics and not the china of the cultural revolution do they have a different world view? do they remember how difficult this was? probably not. lee kuan yew says not this generation who are going to be president but the next one, the people in their 40s not in their 50s. but i sense a growing chinese arrogance even people in their 50s and0s. look, how could you not? why do people get arrogant? we meet businessmen all the time. somebody gets very rich, he thinks god has blessed his world right? >> rose: right. >> countries that do well begin to think they have t se

flagged, american owned and american manned. manned not to be referenced to anything, either man or woman. that's what it's all about. we are, no matter what, the greatest power in the world. that's what we are. that's what we represent. and why would we not recognize that there are many things that we do best, and we ruled the high seas, as they said. now we're willing to sacrifice that to other countries that should not -- to other countries? that should not be it. trade, maritime, is a major component of our success and our ability to continue to be independent and we know, the gentleman from california and i, as we sit through many of our hearings, that the new military is looking at the -- a marriage with the commercial areas, the marriage with using all of the different ships plus airlines to transport things. that's the future. but to make that future a viable future and a cost efficient future, we have got to continue to make it in america. i yield back. mr. garamendi: -- >> thank you. another aspect that has to be discu

on american beef.

stop playing games of the american people. -- with the american people. i hope and i know what will happen in 2012. you will not be there in 2012 and the democrats will take back the house because you are destroying the middle class with all these cuts. the private-sector cannot go higher because people don't have money to spend guest: all the money that the federal government spends comes from the pockets of working american and. that is just a fact. what we are doing in the majority in the house and it was a majority that was elected overwhelmingly in november of 2010, was send a clear message that the american people who elected us to do this job felt that the federal government was doing far too much and was taking too much from them. the so-called stimulus comes from the american people's pockets. then the federal government takes that money and sent it through a bureaucracy and while these are well meaning people, i have seen bureaucracies firsthand now in this job in washington. it is not efficient. they don't know how to run a business in your com

why is this if americans like it and we're not it american support unemployment insurance and food assistance and yet what's happening congress right now i mean they're negotiating doing away with these things republicans have put proposed legislation cutting these programs americans oppose cuts to social security and medicare and guess what's on the table right now in this whole budget mess that started out with with the whole reagan idea of let's let's bankrupt the governments of the democrats can't play santa clause you know it's frankly not the republicans and it's not the democrats michael collins as a great blog it's called the money party dot org and he calls it that he says it's the money party and i think he's he's spot on i think he's nailed it they have one mission to make more money at all costs period now historically we have had if we look at presidents through the course of american history we've had a couple of presidents who've been willing to take on great well what michael collins calls the money which is been around for basically forever i mean really with the rise of the

american people not the american people never supported it in the first place at least according to opinion polls and that's why the constitution has this procedure that says before you go to war make sure you get the people to support it as shown by of a declaration of war in congress when you. people would never support this intermediate limited kind of intervention that is being done. the way nato is is tied somebody's hands behind its back the american public tends to be in favor of wars that america goes into when and the president would have had to go to the people and say here is our plan here's what we're going to do and instead we get invade we get the attack on the libyan army the khadafi dictatorships illegitimate armed forces but without a rationale really explain to the american people or without that i think you can ferret and get what you when you got democracy the way a democracy wins wars is by winning public support from that at home first when you have public support behind you then you have the support to stay in over the long term and already are out and when yo

i teach a class on a great documents or texts in american history during the 19th century called americancivilization. that has to do with the 19th century running all the way from total to dreiser in sunland and william grant sumner and others. i do graduate class is that relate mainly to 20th-century african-american history of, often and are refocus and context. this year i am preparing to put together a class on approaching american popular culture from the standpoint of its industrial structures. how do markets begin to merge in relation to the music industry from the copyright act of 1909 to the reemergence of new platforms of disseminating music in the 70's and 80's. how does the move is the -- movie industry move from its consolidation tourists disintegration and three tradition in and around fine and structures and so on and so forth. so it is a wonderful, wonderful opportunity and a great deal -- treat. >> we have been talking with professor adam green of the university of chicago. here is his book, "selling the race: culture, community, and black chicago 1940-1955". >> and here

is dripping with anti-american quis then and to that it fits right into the anti-american propaganda line of russia today citing citing an event and another said that russia today is a virally you're only how to pronounce that word anti-american propaganda channel every bit as dangerous as prague or the tast new news agency during the cold war so first we just want to ask what does it mean to be anti-american and we're certainly not anti american people i mean unless you consider covering the labor and economic struggles that the mainstream media doesn't really cover being anti-american people and is that anti american policy or status quo i mean for that matter along those lines was martin luther king jr anti-american or anyone else who is question the status quo throughout history. are we are anti-american to question the state of the economy or to question the official rhetoric of politicians for example that the economy is getting better even though unemployment is going up or to question the constitutionality of say the patriot act or the president being able to assassinate citi

her support definitely shows what the american people want i don't think you americans people are in favor of this reckless spending especially on the war front but it's important also realize that you know our leaders may talk about spending cuts in the future but that is a really mean anything you know they can agree to raise the debt ceiling now and say that you know they'll cut spending going forward you know you can only make cuts to the current year's budget because every year entails a new budget so cutting so saying that they'll cut spending over say five ten fifteen years in the future that doesn't really mean anything you know we're it's important to realize we are already in a state of default you know how many bushels of soy a reserve how many ounces of gold and silver can our lenders buy with all those u.s. dollar reserves no quickly i want to get to this project because you make a lot of points about what is a faded economy if we're already in default that does not sound good that sounds bad but here is what the president u.b.s. america is saying he's saying since i sat

i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it

we will develop for the american people a clear understanding of why we are americans and what it means to be american and why it would be utterly foolish to give up on the declaration of independence and the constitution to adopt some weird european socialist bureaucratic model. when we get done, we will sweep the senate. we will sweep the house. we will win the white house and then we will clean out washington. thank you, good luck. [applause] ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> that was former house speaker newt gingrich in new orleans last night. we will cover the republican leadership conference again today. ♪ >> cspan has launched a new website for politics and the 2012 presidential race with the latest cspan events from the campaign trail, biorhythm is on the candidates, twitter fees and facebook updates from candidates and political pundits. c-span.org us at/campaign 2012. >> "washington journal" is coming up next and we will take your calls and look at today's news. we will have more coverage from

for instance, i believe in american free enterprise, american opportunity, american freedom and liberty grew up poor. his dad went broke -- broke more than once. my dad learn to be a carpenter. he could not get the time or money to get a college degree. he did not graduate from college. when he got married, they were across the country and he filled the back of the trunk with aluminum paint and he sold paint along the way to pay for gas and hotels. my dad believe in america. he believed in the opportunity that america represented. he was able to grow up and become the chief executive officer of one of america's leading car companies. he also became the governor of a state where he once sold aluminum paint. this is a nation where the circumstance of your birth is no barrier to your achievement if you dream. this is a great land. [applause] i believe in free enterprise and capitalism, by the way. we need somebody who could stand up for those economic principles back in the world economically. i can do that because i have lived in those principles. [applause] i believe in the constitution

price, and some american, some other american company has an issue in china, market access, investments, something like that, that they want to get taken care of, and so they're going to the u.s. government, and the u.s. government is going to prevent some other unrelated company from being able to sell its oil company or whatever other asset it has to the highest bidder in order to get a tradeoff on behalf of some other u.s. firm. once you open up that box and start playing that game of taking away the market opportunities from some firms in order to fight a battle overseas for market access in other firms, i don't know where it ends actually, and i don't know how you go back and fix the math to make every whole from that kind of state intervention and economic outcomes. it may be that the tools and analysis that heritage has been able to develop now permit us to do that kind of intervention without screwing things up, but i'm still skeptical of that. i want to see a little better evidence we're ready to take that on before i endorse the idea of using this new positive leverage or what

did he mislead the american people?nly did he mislead the american people, he's caused our economy to go down to depths that we haven't seen. that's what's serious. >> schieffer: i have to say congresswoman i asked you a question and you, to my knowledge, i don't believe you answered it but i want to thank you. i know you're very excited about what happened out in iowa. we wish you the best. hope to see you down the trail. >> thank you, bob. >> schieffer: thank you. back with some final thoughts in a minute. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. or creates an

part of being an american -- part of being an american is learning english. if you do that and if you do that you will not see people walking down american streets carrying somebody else's flag. my friends, i started telling you this is a time where we are having a conflict of visions of the notion of individual liberty. we in this room recognize that is the core of who we are. i would like to think that the notion of individual liberty runs in the dna of the williams family. my grandfather was a unique man for his generation. one of the few black men of his generation that has earned a high-school degree. one is my mother and my uncle did the same thing. the school in west texas only went to the ninth grade. they said my mother to a catholic boarding school. she graduated from high school, went to college, and with the graduate school. when i came along my parents wanted the same thing for me. i went to catholic school k through 8. we still had segregated schools at the time. they sent me to a catholic boarding school in colorado. mom and dad had started cla

transformed american politics, and the american view of the world. and there was a sense we have to do something. >> what did eisenhower say? he said, beware of the military industrial complex. there's money to be made in war. follow the money. follow the money! >> i don't think that was the rationale. >> not in the president's mind, sure. we have grown accustom to war! war is the most evil feature of civilization today, and it always has been. it can only be made justified by a series of for four propositions, the first every which is the legitimacy of your national security as a towering need for this particular kinds of action to be taken. >> this is -- >> as soon as we get that straight. >> yes, but we are faced with a situation in which we're looking at a different kind of war. a different kind of war, people who come in and attack our civilians. >> waits a minute now! >> how do you stop them? we had a sense we have to do something about al-qaeda. >> we've been feeding off that for a long time. >> i'm not saying we did the right things. i was op

average americans. the very americans that our government now this president does not trust a decision on your health care plan. those americans risked everything so they could make that decision on their health care plan. [applause] we are facing enormous challenges today, but certainly of a different kind. they will test whether this generation will keep pace with those patriots and keep america the greatest country in the history of the world. today across america, people are looking for a leader who is optimistic and who believes that we must meet those challenges and we can meet those challenges and we can keep faith, not with the government, but with free people. [applause] in 2008, a weary to public, a troubled public from a financial crisis looked to a president, looked to elect a president who they could believe in. and that president, president obama, took that faith the american public gave him and wrecked our economy and centralized power in washington, d.c., and robbed people of their freed

should americans... again, should americans be told by democrats and by the president to expect that their benefits are going to have to be on the table in the future? >> well, again, if we are going to do that, it has knob the totality. you know, republicans have a view that it is only their way or the highway. it is their view that, you know, big oil should keep all their tax breaks and, to be honest with you, to suggest that the cost of gasoline is going to rise because instead of making $144 billion in profits the oil companies would make $142 billion in profits is pretty surrealistic in my mind. so, yes, everything, spending cuts, defense cuts, looking at entitlements under medicare and medicaid and revenues need to be part of the equation but for so long as whether we have this ideologically driven particularly in the house on the tea party, the focus, that no revenue whatsoever, including eliminating tax breaks for big oil, eliminating tax breaks for ethanol, eliminating other tax breaks that only

the school board initially was 50% african-american and soon it was a majority african-american. the same was true of the city council over time. mayor jackson became mayor and over time atlanta, like many other cities, became a black-controlled city. and the theory that the african-american middle class had was that same race representation controlled by african-americans would yield progress for the entire group. and what ms. matthews was challenging -- she was challenging that premise as early as the 19 -- late 1960s and the 1970s, certainly. and i can tell you that certainly it was the case that pretty soon in the evolution of the atlanta school board it became clear of the city schools, that having same race representation was not enough to make the city schools good schools for the majority of children and certainly for children who had the most needs. and, of course, those are typically going to be the children of the -- what william julius williams calls the truly disadvantaged, right? so the african-americans who are living in poverty. so i do think that her fears that t

chinese -- nobody, no american could buy chinese goods anywhere. so, we lifted that restriction so that as a tourist you could buy $100 worth of chinese goods. the chinese in turn released some people that had -- there was a yacht that had strayed into chinese waters and the occupants -- anyway, had been captured and they were released. so we had these signals, but we found it hard to establish contact because, for example, we sent it message through romania, or rather we told the romanians what they might tell the chinese. we chose the romanian channel because nixon had been in romania, and the romanians had been the most independent of the european communist countries. so, we thought they might have most ability in beijing. the problem was that the chinese communists didn't trust any one, so they were reluctant to be very specific through romania. and finally again on a trip around the world, nixon talked to the pakistan president, and that established a contact which we then used. >> host: let me ask you about the immediate backdrop to what you

executives and american. i have two words of the country's new dear to be screwed and he said it publicly and he advocated it as a policy and he did it personally due to frozen assets and financial sanctions imposed by the us europe and the united nations libya's sovereign wealth fund which arguably would be forgotten about unless one of the world's top financial firms is held accountable so americans have been demanding that for years without any success can't get docilely achieve what the american people and the american government can't or won't achieve i don't think so i think that they're going to get away with this you know big billion dollar boondoggle with libya just as they've done it with america goldman sachs is currently being investigated for playing a major role in the two thousand eight financial crisis a crisis that cost americans millions of their jobs homes and life savings and military conflicts currently divide the u.s. and libya uniting citizens of both countries is the financial game wal

american visa i'll get you one but you know he's in times. hello ed hello engineered thank you very much wealthier for being with us on the show and first of all i want to truly comment on something that we hear through the grapevine these days and that michael mcfaul and probably moving to moscow as the new american ambassador should we expect something from the from this and how problems it what would you say. well it's a rumor that this is really. but maybe we can speculate on the basis of the rumor. michael mcfaul is. someone who is known to be close to president obama he is a scholar not russia he's an expert field he's worked very closely with the members of the ministration spent some time also working with people on capitol hill so i think he summing that this is true and assuming that he is confirmed. then i think he would be a very good representative and in no way reflects negatively on the current bass remeasure barly who has the highest reputation here in russia i know and also in the united states and we would hope i would hope

the american patriot. it was a party newspaper for the american party which eventually folded into the republican party. they are opposed to people aggression and roman catholics and opposed to notaries, opposed to secret foreign orders and so on. they wanted to restrict immigration, but restrict the rights of roman catholics to vote and to hold office. now, the republican party was the justify spring of -- offspring of these two strings, the anti-slavery and anti-at that time -- catholic. keep in mind most of the republican party did not care about slavery where it already existed. they wanted to keep the territories white. they wanted to keep the slaves out of the territories, so white men could have opportunity there because they believed that any place where slaves go, whites cannot compete obviously because slaves don't take wages, so the republican party built itself and builds itself as the white man's party. here you have abraham lincoln don'ting steven douglas in the famous senatorial campaign. th

a part of it -- i could be way off here, but native americans are americans-americans, too. america in general, i think, is a humorous country often. i mean, that's what people say -- that's the reputation of americans in other countries. that we're funny. so why wouldn't native americans be funny, too? but some are just hysterical. this one woman in yakima, she's so funny. i tell her a joke she's heard it. and i said have you lived on the reservation your whole life and she will say, not yet. [laughter] >> just a take off on other jokes but in generally, i found that native people laugh at each other, certainly at nonnative people and at some of these assumptions and sometimes they just get absolutely outraged at the rudeness of nonnative people towards them and they make that into a joke. for instance, i interviewed an osage woman, a lawyer, who's very sophisticated. she works in washington, d.c.. she has her own law firm there. she goes home and she calls it oklahoma to the reservation. but she says sometimes people come up to her and they say, you don't look like a real