she wrote to charles schulz.n people each week. charlie brown, lucy, linus, they were all white. glickman told schulz he should integrate. - okay, that was pretty dope of that lady, but, uh-- [cheers and applause] yeah, but-- but at the same time, also kind of a weird reaction to a tragedy. i mean, martin luther king is dead, there's chaos in the streets, and her first reaction is, "maybe charlie brown can help." like, i wonder if there's some nice suburban lady today going, "did you know they're putting kids in cages? "we gotta get garfield on the case. where is he?" [laughter] and-- and the creator of "peanuts," charles schulz, he made sure that franklin's arrival was a statement. his first appearance in the comic strip was at a beach swimming with white kids. and that may seem trivial now, but don't forget, for many people in 1968, blacks and whites swimming together was not a normal thing, and this image was seen by 100 million people. 'cause "peanuts" in the '60s had the same kind of cultural dominance as "f

because if you look at what's happened in the past 20 or so years, charles schulz, carter's chief economic adviser wrote a book. allegedly, you can take private interests, create incentives and use the entrepreneurial impulse to achieve public goals. well, that turns out to be mostly malarkey. and you've got so many case studies of this from vouchered schools to privatized highways, to privatized prisons, to privatized parking meters where the power of the entrepreneur is such that the rules got ganged. and you have corruption introduced that dwarfs the normal sort of corruption that sometimes aapplicafflicts the p sector when the public sector is just doing the public job. you also have case after case when something is working perfectly well when it was a institution like fannie mae gets privatized and then gets corrupted and then gets complicated so that it's too transparent to regulate. you've got aborted cases of attempted deregulation. like airlines and trucking and electric power. where the logic of some progressives in that era was, okay, the agency has been corrupted to a point wh