so at this time i will yield such time as she might consume to congresswoman yvette clarke. ms. clarke: i'd like to thank the gentlelady for yielding and i'd like to associate myself with your comments, remarks, and historical context for this congressional black caucus' c.b.c. hour commemorating caribbean american history month. i want to thank you, my colleague, donna christensen, for all

abraham clark in his answer replied no. francis lewis was a new york delegate and saw his home plundered completely destroyed by the british. his wife was captured and treated with great brutality because of her husband. john hart of trenton, new jersey returned home to see his dying wife. but soldiers rode after him and escaped into the woods. the soldiers ruined his farm. hart, 65, hid in the woods as he was hunted. when he made it home, he found that his wife had been buried and his 13 children had disappeared. he never saw any of them again. judge richard stockman, another new jersey signer, had rushed back to his estate in an effort to evacuate his wife and children. the family found receive puge with friends. judge stockman was found in the middle of the night and arrested and put in jail. congress arranged for his parole. when he returned home to find his estate looted, he did not see the triumph. john morton was a british sympathizer, but once he came to sign the declaration of independence, he changed his mind and

clarke, for one minute -- 90 seconds. the chair: the gentlelady from new york is recognized for 90 seconds. ms. clarke: i would like to thank ranking member king for yielding and urge members of the house to support the king-clarke amendment to the 2010 homeland security appropriations act. neither the president's budget request for fy 2010 nor h.r. 2892 includes funding for securing the city's initiative. this initiative has created the department domestic nuclear detection office, which is charged with directing the nation's capability to detect and report unauthorized attempts to develop a transport nuclear or radiological materials. this amendment restores the federal commitment to this critical anti-terrorism initiative and funds it. since coming to congress in 2001, i have worked with my colleagues on homeland security to protect our nation against dirty bomb threats. in fact, my bill, the radiological materials security act would help secure domestic sources of radiological materials that could be used to make a di

to review the charges truman was acting out of political expediency comment clark, i considered to be the architect of the 48 presidential campaign strategy, appointed at a 43 page memorandum he gave to truman in november 1947. clifford advised truman to concentrate on winning the south and states west of the mississippi which would allow him to discount the electoral votes of new york as well as new jersey, illinois and ohio, states with a substantial jewish population. he argues a jewish vote, if it existed was only an issue in a new york city. truman would be much more likely to win if he made policy based on the issue instead of merit. clifford turned out to be prophetic, if the jewish vote was a key to victory in the 1940 presidential election, then making policy to gain the votes prove to be a dismal failure per kabbalah states with a significant jewish population, truman only one illinois. a third explanation that has been given for w why t acted as he did, is he did it because he was a religious baptist day and christian science is the belief in biblical process of -- propheci

the only one that traditionally goes blue is clark county, which is vegas. the rest to vitiligo read. i'm proud to say this last election. it has made as a swing state for a number of election cycles. >> it is now represented by a republican. >> has been a republican for a long, long time. >> one of my colleagues is of representative. now, i do want our audience to know that if you have any sense of reading for fun or if you are a teacher or if you have any interest in education or in children or in politics you will want this book. now you just heard how do it was to have these people who were your campaign is with you. i was impressed by the honesty of this book. this is where you also said later on your opponent at the time do is now the governor of the state. >> says. tease our governor. >> crafty enough not to a attack ms. cahill and her cute little volunteers. and here is ms. cahill in frustration, if i could read. his ginger response was surely politically motivated, but while a campaign spearheaded by students made it very hard for people to attack y

christensen: thank you, congresswoman clarke, for your remarks this evening and thank you most of all, though, for your leadership on behalf of the caribbean countries. we appreciate the work that you do, both on your committee, your subcommittee, the subcommittee that you chair on homeland security, and in all of the work that addresses issues in the caribbean. thank you for joining us this evening. i would like now to yield such time as she might consume to the gentlelady from texas, congresswoman sheila jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: let me thank the gentlelady for yielding to me and allow me to acknowledge as well the congressional black caucus for the collected effort that they have made and thank our president chairwoman for the 2004 resolution, house resolution 517, that ultimately was proclaimed by the president of the united states. this is an enriching day and an opportunity for us to emphasize the vastness of diversity that is is in this country and i stand here as a caribbean american proudly exercising and relishing in the history of my ancestry. let me also acknowledge th

fortunately, truman's advisor clark clifford who replaced samuel rozman who became, in effect, the first national security council director. he told truman it was not thinkable to reverse partition. that what the u.s. should be doing is get the arabs to accept it and if the arabs do not condemn them as the aggressors. clifford told truman that warren austin's speech in the state department position was completely fallacious and that partition is in really in complete harmony with the policy of the united states as it has been stated to allow trusteeship to become policy now would actually lead to the very military involvement truman wanted to involve. -- avoid. he said austin's position would harm the u.s., would harm we know unity and he told truman, quote, we crossed the rubicon in this matter when they passed the resolution at your insistence. if we backtrack the arabs the arabs will treat us, quote, with contempt in light of our appeasement. so anyway, austin did give the speech which became as a bombshell because no one had expected it. rabbi silver had speaking rights at the u.n. a

it's where lewis and clark and this epic adventure of theirs decided to spend the winter, mind you. they spent the winter in what is now just an area about 40 miles north of bismarck, north dakota. and we celebrated the 200th bicentennial of the lewis and clark expedition and we had a lot of people come from around the tworld see that. the fact is, every -- the world to see that. the fact, is every state in this country has something that it is anxious to show the twocialtiond say look at us, look at what we're doing here, look at how beautiful this part of america is. and so what has happened is we have been unilaterally disarmed since 9/11 to say, well, we're worried about who's going to come into this country. we certainly want to keep terrorists out. we sure do, absolutely. but that message ought not be mixed with the message that we don't want to encourage foreign travelers to come to this country to vacation and to experience what america is. so at last, at long, long last, a group of us, republicans and democrats, have said, you know, if we disagree on so much, how about if w

. >> guest: the times shelley berkley in the district of mullah politician clark county las vegas wasthe largest population center so very rural and mining and ranching. >> host: the district you reimputed >> guest: the largest metropolitan area if you didn't count of north las vegas a real would have been reno and in carson city. >> host: did you have all of reno? >> guest: yes. >> host: so now this is is it fair to call this a fairly conservative district? >> guest: very conservative, yes. the only state in tradition that goes blue is clark county, las vegas and the rest typically go read it. washo can go either way it depends on the candidate and i'm proud to say it went blue as did our state but it's made a swing state for a number of election cycles. >> host: it is now represented by the district in which you ran is represented by a republican. >> guest: and has been for a long time which is dean heller. >> host: one of my colleagues. i do want the audience to know that if you have any sense of reading for fun or if you are a teacher or have any interest in education or children

clarke: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank you, my colleague, the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings. i rise in strong support of h.r. 2110, the foreign affairs authorization act. this authorization includes provisions that keep our country safe, advance human rights, and promotes gender equality across the globe. in the 111th congress i introduced -- 110th congress i introduced h.res. 554, linking drug trafficking to rising crime rates in caribbean nations. the measure calls for increased cooperation between the u.s. and caribbean officials to combat drug trafficking and promote counterterrorism. karacome, made up of 15 countries, including trinidad

: at the time the district one which is metropolitan shelley berkeley, a great woman, metropolitan clark county las vegas, was the largest population center so very much mining, ranching. >> host: the district iran? >> guest: yes,, the largest metropolitan area if you didn't count the largest area would have been reno and then carson city. >> host: did you have all every now? >> guest: yes. >> host: so this is fair to call this a very concerted district? >> guest: fairly conservative, of the 17 counties in a state the only one that traditionally goes a blue is clark county which is las vegas and the rest typically go read. it depends on the candidate, and in this last election as did our state that has made us a swing state for a number of election cycles. >> host: is now represented by the district in which iran now represented by a republican. >> guest: and has been for a long time with his team heller. >> host: one of my colleagues is the rep. i do what our audience to know if you have any sense of reading for fun or if you are a teacher or you have any interest in education or in chi

the 17 counties the only one that traditionally goes blue is clark county which is las vegas and the rest to the klayko command. now lashawn can go either way it depends on the candidate and i am proud to say that it went blue the last election as did the state but it has made us a swing state for a number of election cycles. >> host: now it is now represented by the district in which you ran is now represented by a republican. >> guest: and has been for a long, long time which is dean heller. >> host: dean heller is one of my colleagues, representative. now i do want the audience to know that if you have any sense of reading for fun or if you are a teacher or you have any interest in education or children or politics or government, you don't want to miss this book. now you just heard how cute it was to have these people who were your campaigners with you and people couldn't reassessed -- resist. i was impressed by the honesty of the book and this is also when you said later on in the book when your opponent, jim gibbons at the time, who is now the governor of the state? >> guest: ye

caller: yes, this is martha clark, and i would like to ask mr. will, why do you include insurance companies to the health equation. they bring nothing to the table. they make money and prevent health care. guest: that seems to me as a eccentric view of the current function of insurance companies in the country. i don't know how to grasp they prevent health care. are they trying to make a profit? yes, and you make a profit by providing what people want to buy. and therefore the market is benign to give products and in this case health coverage that people want. and those countries that thrive are doing just that. host: what are you reading this summer? guest: elmer blore has a new novel and i am listening on tape the history, called the waking giant. lots of stuff. host: there are predictions that books will go to all news. guest: i like a book in my hand, but i am a fossil. host: with regard of newspapers, and what do you think of the business and the journalists being replaced by much coverage on the internet? guest: it's stunning and you can't

even those like the general, clark who was the head of the navy, even those who had the reputation for having figured out how to deal with donald rumsfeld had mixed feelings about that relationship. host: did the most give you good access? guest: yes, i cannot complain about the access. also, donald rumsfeld who opened doors for me with different people. it was also helpful to go back and talk with both former officials and retired military officers after they had left and had time to reflect. host: a question about his resignation from twitter. guest: by the time he stepped down his only major supporter in the administration was dick cheney. that relationship goes back many years. it was donald rumsfeld who brought dick cheney and back in the nixon administration. they were close and had a long- term relationship. but by the end in the bush administration donald rumsfeld had very few voices of support either within the administration, congress, or the senior military ranks. host: why did the president wait until after the elections to accept his resignation? guest: the president was a

>> david clarke? >> the book made into the hbo movie. >> aren't you michael smerconish? national syndicated radio talk-show host, regular author radio guy who cares a lot about issues than you care about. >> is this for real? twice still need to be concerned? >> the swine flu? it's not predictable it's pointed to but it's not acting any more severe than a regular seasonal flu it is just out of season. it means it probably is more unpredictable than the standard viruses that go around seasonally so i always have to overemphasize the caution but the way that its acting now it doesn't look like it is going to explode into 81918 tie. what we are the most concerned about and watching is we are coming out of the flu season so it doesn't spread very well in the temperate climates. we won't know until the fall and winter of the next season. if it comes back with a vengeance we will be in trouble. the good news is we will likely have a vaccine by then which takes about six months to get the vaccine. >> pure -- purel. >> the lot of the things you hear is a lot of pro forma type of

tim clark from this fed said that you're claim to be surprised seemed somewhat suspect. the federal government wrote this claim is not credible. and there are more like this. it's clear the fed think that you either knew or you should have known about these losses sooner. i have to say, everything that was happen manager the financial market last fall, your claim that you had no idea about merrill's losses until september is remarkable. the fed either seem to think you are not being forthcoming about that, or you were completely clueless about the merger and the situation on wall street. when exactly did you know about these losses, and why didn't you know about them sooner? >> thank you for the question. the financial marks in the fourth quarter of 2008 suffered a massive credit meltdown. something that probably had not been seen during -- had not been seen during our lifetimes. we saw that happening in september, and october, and we knew that that was -- we saw things that was evidenced in our own book that suggested that things were getting -- were baà did you move fo

. >> rob: and i had to see guys like clark, mike schmidt, dale murphy. and they are swinging as hard as they can, you know. and so, okay, occasionally, you will drop the slide another there but you will throw mostly fastball. a willie harris is like an ozzy smith. he is just trying to put the ball in play off your 95. >> bob: nasty breaking ball and willie hits it pretty well. >> rob: and then you speed his bat up and he pulls his breaking ball and you are like, what am i supposed to throw this guy? >> bob: right down into the picnic area. they tried all kind of gimmicks over the years to get people into this building. last year, they finally figured it out: win. >> rob: win and they will come. >> bob: the rays, by the way, are averaging 22 1/2 22500. kansasity, oakland and cleveland all have lower attendance as does baltimore. >> rob: you have to see jose aquendo over the years. he was one of the toughest outs for me. >> bob: swoo switch hitter. >> rob: switch hitter, from the left side, trying to slap the ball and you throw him a breaking ball and he w

forcibly truman's adviser clark clifford who had replaced rosenmen and became the first national security director told german it was really not unthinkable to reverse partition that what they should do is get the arabs to accept it and if they do not come much condemn them as the aggressors. clifford told german that warren austin speech from the state department position was completely fallacious and partitioned was in complete harmony with the policy of united states as has been stated to allow trusteeship to become policy now would actually lead to the very military involvement truman wanted to avoid. he said his position would harm the less, heart western unity and he told truman "we crossed the rubicon on this matter when the wind adopted the partition resolution largely your assistance program free backtrack to appease the arabs they will treat us "with contempt in light of our appeasement" end quote. so any way warren austin did give the speech which became as a bombshell because no one expected it, rabbi silver had speaking rights at the u.n. as a representative of the jewish age

activist had reached a level we could have only imagine and the assassination of fred hampton, mark clark, the fbi and chicago police department we now know but covered up by the city and re-enacted as if they have provoked the attack and assassination in. constant a rest of white radicals really for a lot of new since the events. massive demonstrations against the war which by then who knew it would go on five more years? but about 1,000 people per day were being killed in the southeast asia. though bubble polarization, the militancy and resistance was the normans and in that framework, once we dropped out and changed our name and just tried not to be caught and regroup it was a relief to be outside of that bernadine dohrn where did you grow up bernadine dohrn? >> guest: chicago, my home town. the northside. then my parents moved to milwaukee i graduated from high school in milwaukee and it is my 50th reunion year for high school that is the ones you have got to go to. i had a wonderful childhood, not money come i am the first person in my family to go to college. my parents had a high s

the joseph professor of public interest law at the university of the district of columbia, david clarke school of law. i am also privileged to serve as many of you know as a the president of the leadership conference on civil rights and for those of you who don't know what the leadership conference is the nation's premier civil and human rights coalition with over 200 national organizations working to build an america as good as its ideals. and so today the introduction of this year's black juror is a very special honor for me. there are few individuals and i can honestly say without fear of contradiction, even if you're in congress who exemplify the integrity, the passion and commitment to building and america that we all want to live then. ted kennedy is one, john lewis is another. and so is the man i am privileged to introduce this morning, senator patrick leahy of vermont. [applause] now as of the son of irish and italian parents in vermont, a state where his father was used to see signs like -- no irish need apply, or no catholic supply -- and during a less progressive era, i suspe

i have heard, the people involved, a really great guy who is a son of clark durant, who is still a businessmann the troy -- in detroit, who runs a charter schools and private schools for inner-city kids. those three guys really started building it. >> in this imprimis, i saw some where there is a $608 million capital endowment campaign to run for 2012. my first question is, why is it $608 million? why not just $600 million? >> that is an excellent question. i think it is because we add up what we think we need and multiplied by the number that it takes to get that much out for year. i think he came to that, and i think there was some demand that arose. it started out to be $500 million, and we have made that. diaz and ledges and all that, we have gone past that. not by much, but a little. -- dips and pledges. we are still working on it. when we redid the budget, that is what came up. another issue has won with rush limbaugh. do conservatives need to get beyond reagan? here is one by mark steyn who lives in new hampshire. there is one by a john o'sullivan margaret thatcher. did i read you have

what judge clark had said, all of those people and what reagan said. so what i have tried to do and this is to go in and find what reagan did. the reason why i feel strongly about this is that if you talk a lot about what people will tell you, i think there are probably around 300 books redmont reagan and they all have a different view of reagan and why he is doing something so the only way to find out what he is doing is to get-- that is where you find out what happens. and, what we are doing, we end up pulling out i think it was 87 of these classified documents that showed what he was doing and what was happening. and, i think we can say no, i think we have the first letter number one up here and we will show you. there is. there is. that is the first classified documents. that is the first side that shows the varies people around the president, the vice president and so forth. and, as i was reading through this i opened up the second page, and as you go halfway down, it shows that reagan is doing and he is telling these people casey is very importan

host: clark on our independent line. go ahead. caller: this is interesting, this discussion. i want to suggest to anyone who is interested in this subject to google the cato institute and click on the policy analysis of multi-state tobacco settlement. this will show you that the contingency lawyers, the tobacco industry, and these people who are in clusion to create a monopoly and fix the prices of tobacco products across the states. there also was a few court case that showed that second-hand smoke posed no risk. these are in all the major newspapers across the country in 1998. i don't know how the exact newspaper date or article but i'm sure you could find these. the amount of information that's going around about smoking is not quite acroot. it's the epitome of junk science. i'm not saying that cigarette smoking does not pose a risk but what i'm saying is it's very much exaggerated. guest: well, part of this whole debate has been this big battle has been going on for years and years over people's choice to be able to smoke and the health of other people or perhaps the heal

relationships reflect on their dealings with rumsfeld and even those like general abizaid and durham clark the head of the navy, even those who had the reputation for having figured out how to deal with rumsfeld had very mixed feelings about the relationship they had. >> host: did most when you asked for interviews give good access? >> guest: i can't complain about the access and i also zero rumsfeld thanks for that. he opened a number of stores with different appeal. it was helpful also to be able to go back and talk to both former officials and retired military officers after they had left and had time to reflect. >> host: question from to utter regarding his resignation who was the group that supported him and who was against him? >> guest: basically by the time he sat down about his only major supporter in the administration ballistic cheney. of course that relationship goes back years because rumsfeld brought cheney into the executive branch in the early days of the nixon administration when rumsfeld hundred cheney to be the chief of staff of economic opportunity so they worked close

this is martha clarke in that rock landed and out like to ask mr. well, why you included insurance companies in the health equation at all. they bring nothing to the table are in the business to make money and to prevent health care. thank you. >> guest: that seems to me is an eccentric view of the current function of history of insurance companies and our country. i don't know quite how to grasp the thought of there to prevent health care. are they trying to make a profit? yes and the way you make a profit in this country is providing something that many people want to buy in there for the market is i think in nine in that sense that it gives a profit oriented company an incentive to provide products in this case health coverage to the people want in those countries that thrive in excess of the decades are doing just that. >> host: what are you reading this summer? >> guest: well, elmore leonard has a new novel out and george bell, this is a new novel about so i am reading some novels. in listening to recorded books and driving over here and will l

he tried to make general mark clark the great world war ii hero the first ambassador. there was a change human cry against that that truman drew it back realize politically this would be a mistake. >> it was either jimmy carter or ronald reagan who actually didn't have the political cover to appoint an ambassador to the vatican. so eventually it became a nonissue of. >> so when it breaks down, where did the catholic vote go in 1960? >> it overwhelmingly went to john kennedy. he received a historic vote. interestingly enough he received almost exactly the same protestant vote that edley stevenson's had in 1956. but it was the catholic migration than that provided him a tiny, teeny sliver of a victory that he got in the united states. >> there's another new book out on the 1960 election, what's the fascination with this election? >> i think it's the two characters. arguably kennedy and nixon were two of the brilliant political minds in america produced in the 20th century. and to put them together face-to-face in this election with religion hanging over it, there were re

. >> host: the commentary clarke writes cash for clunkers those kia writes what he sees as the problem with the bill. he says the main problem i think is one that was pointed out last week by law and that it is poor but targeted, you can trade in an sec that gets 70 miles and by one that gets 19 miles with 3500. >> guest: it's a point of view this it aims at helping the auto industry. i guess it's gotten to the point of view that if you sink this is an attempt to clean up the environment you may be disappointed. >> host: good morning, carol and republican. >> caller: good morning and thank you. i'm concerned about as americans stepped into these high gas mileage cars they save 1.8, was going to make up the tax revenue that comes from that gasoline that we use? we are going to lose all that revenue somebody is going to have to step up somewhere and i wonder if you can give me a little bit of light on who is going to make up those taxes. >> guest: i think that cutting gas imports as you are probably aware the u.s. gets a lot of its gas from the middle east, canada, elsewhere. that's kind

relationships reflect on their dealings with rumsfeld, and even those like general abizaid, like fer clark, the head of the navy, even those who had the reputation for having figured out how to deal with rumsfeld had very mixed feelings about the relationship that they had with him. >> host: did most of them when you asked for interviews give good access? >> guest: yes i can't complain about the access and i also zero rumsfeld qassam thanks for that. he opened a number of doors for me with different people. it was very helpful also to be able to go back and talk to both former officials and retired military officers after they had left and had some time to reflect. >> host: question about his resignation from twitter. regarding his resignation, who was in the group that supported him and who was against him? >> guest: basically by the time he stepped down about his only major supporter and the administration was cheney. of course that relationship goes back many years. it was rumsfeld who brought cheney into the executive branch into the nixon administration when rumsfeld hired janney to b

[laughter] one of the figure i would like you to touch upon at a little more length is clark clifford because he seems to have played an instrumental role, and to what extent is this a function of clifford's convictions? how is it he came to be the counterweight to george marshall in the final arguments that were offered to truman? >> as i said in my paper he was influenced by rosenman and spent a lot of time with him and i don't think he had strong feelings about zionism before. but he became a zionist. he was extremely instrumental in what happened and laying out all the arguments for truman that countered state department arguments. and i think he genuinely believed in zionism. >> let me ask one final question then we will turn to the audience, and this brings this forward to the present with the remarkable statement of kennan's that you read. you could argue at many points his argues were borne out. at least until 1973 it stopped the flow of oil, but moderate governments were overthrown in iraq and libya, and egypt, and syria and so long replaced by extremist governments. the sovi

the commission has for the members, clark ervin, robert henke and the zakheim. the precipitating event for german tierney him fighting us is the official release of the interim report to congress in title, at what cost gum contingency qatar entity in iraq and afghanistan. reporter none fisa longstanding issues for awarding managing in auditing the vital contracts of support logistic security and reconstruction missions. these include shortages and the federal acquisition workforce, a poorly defined in executed contracts, inadequate planning, we provisions for accountability, unnecessary work and costly rework. problems that are undermining attainment of national objectives in wasting billions of taxpayer dollars. we will describe some of our preliminary observations. as congress intended the interim report is preliminary and handed it. at what cost provides an interim statement on key focus areas and results which are listed in the report. since 2001 congress has appropriated, as was stated here, over $830 billion to fund the u.s. operations in iraq and afghanis

activists had reached a level that we could have only imagined, the assassination of fred hampton and mark clark, the black panther leaders, that was covered up by the city and reenacted as if they provoked the attack and the asass mission. constant arrests of white radicals for nuisance events and massive demonstrations against the war which by then was -- who knew it was going to go on for five more years, but about a thousand people a day were being killed in southeast asia, so the level of polarization, in the country, the level of militancy and reresistance was enormous and in that framework, once we kind of dropped out and changes our names and were just trying not to be caught and regroup is what a relief to be outside of that caldron. >> where you grow up? >> guest: chicago, my hometown. eugene field day school on the north side and my parents moved to milwaukee, and i graduated from milwaukee and this is my 50th reunion year. i'm going back to my 50th 50th reunion for high school. >> whoa are your pains? >> guest: dorothy and barney. i had a wonderful childhood. not money. i'm the first

we were like fred hampton and mark clark just handmurderred by the nib and the chicago police departmentousand people a day or being killed in vietnam. pay attention to the real issues and you couldn't because of the manson thing. so i gave a speech saying, dig it, charles manson. and i meant it in the most ironic terms. how could i possibly support a mass murderer who was a racist and hated women and children. inconceivable so of course i never supported him but that one sentence gets repeated and tagged with me ad nauseam. >> host: next question from though audience. >> i'm from chicago and i appreciate the fact that the two of you appeared to have lived your values, and that's something that i think we all admire. whether we agree or don't. i'm a former educator, retired, union member. i appreciate that comment, your support of the unions. my question, you have stated some very valid values, goals for education, the fact is we have this umbrella of no child left behind. if you had the choice, ifoff had the power, what would you do? >> guest: i think i appreciate your bringing that up

he was writing down what every single person said. , what casey said, judge clark, all those people. because of what reagan said. so what i have tried to do in this is two go in and find out what reagan did. the reason why i feel very strongly about this is that if you talk a lot about what people tell you i think there are about 300 books written on reagan and it all have a different view of reagan why he is doing something but the only real way to find out what it is doing is to get something he has written or said. that is fine you find out what happened. and what we are doing we end up with pulling 87 of this classified documents that showed what he was doing and what was happening. and i think we can say now, i think we have the first letter and will show you. that is the first classified document. that is the first sign of it that shows of the various people , the vice president and so forth. and as i was reading through this i open up the second page to and that as you go down about halfway down it shows that reagan is doing and he is saying is very important with cia, and he

caucus, cheryly chisholm who has also been mentioned this evening, led the way for congresswoman clarke and i. as a pioneering minority woman, her legacy holds the door open for many more african-americans and women. then there was mervin, melvin evans, victor frazier and all who have served as resident commissioners from puerto rico as well as their heritage who are also caribbean americans and who serve today and have served in the past in this body. many more of our nation's leaders trace their roots to the caribbean such as our former secretary of state, colin powell, attorney general, eric holder, assistant secretary of the exterior designee and supreme court nominee, sonia sotomayor. but there are many others. we may look back as far as the period to the 1900's', to the 1920's, which marked the initiation of mass labor migration from the caribbean to the united states and the formation of the first large caribbean communities here in this country. we should not forget world war i, when the recruitment of labor from the caribbean became empirtive, more than 100,000 caribbean labore

tom clark? >> mr. speaker, can the prime minister tell the house of his reaction to recent events?oes he agree that the imprisonment illegal as it is prodramatic campaigners and the sham trial does nothing for the bottomless standing in the international community? >> well, let me first of all concongratulate late my right honorable. it's unacceptable not just to us but the international community. the last meeting of the european council we sent a powerful message if action is taken in burma to free him, then we are prepared to take further sanctions against the regime. i've also talked to the u.n. secretary-general and encouraged him to visit burma. i hope he will visit burma to send a message to the regime as soon as possible. >> in may 1997, there were 1,826 people unemployed welling borough. it had risen an increase of 84%. whose fault is it the last conservative government, b the previous u.s. president or c the prime minister who claimed he had ended boom and bust? >> mr. speaker, the figures are all the more reason to support our policies to get people back to work. were it

however in an e-mail on december 19th, that bank supervision office of the new york fed, tim clark, stated that lewis's claim that they were surprised by the rapid growth of the losses seem somewhat suspect. chairman bernanke, given that shortly after the deal was announced in september, bank of america has installed 200 people at merrill lynch to thoroughly review their books and you believe mr. lewis was honestly surprised by the acceleration of losses? >> i have no way of knowing. we did have concerns about the quality of due diligence but i have no direct evidence that he was in fact informed about the losses. >> well, 200 people were installed at merrill lynch so that seems like they were going to take very deeply. somewhere the due diligence kind of fizzled out. and i just think that bank of america's due diligence was not as thorough as it should be. do you believe that there were insights into merrill lynch's books that the government had that bank of america did not? >> i can't answer that with certainty. we would have had some information about merrill lynch because we were worki

reached a level that we could only have imagined, you know, the assassination of fred hampton and mark clark, black panther party leaders by the fbi and the chicago police department we now know but then covered up by the city and reenacted as if they had provoked the attack and assassination, constant arrests of white radicals, of us, really for a lot of nuisance kind of events, and, you know, massive demonstrations against the war which by then was who knew that it was going to go on for five more years? but where about a thousand people a day were being killed in southeast asia. so the level of polarization in the country, the level of militancy and resistance was enormous, and in that framework we once we had kind of dropped out and changed our names and were just trying not to be caught and to regroup, it was kind of a relief to be outside of that caldron. >> host: bernadine, where did you grow up? >> guest: chicago. my hometown. yep. eugene field grade school on the north side, and then my parents moved to milwaukee, i graduated from high school in milwaukee, and this is my 50th reunio

presentation and the7+÷ wedding coordinator would be sitting there in this immaculate suit looking like clarknt or a calvin model saying we could 13 courses or 18 courses and i was sitting there quite amazed by all of this. and i remember asking, well, could we have two or three? and he was mortified by my suggestion and said, absolutely not. my reputation would be demolished no one would come to me again to plan a wedding. these are your options. and we sort of silently sort of not and went along with the next step in that wedding empire of that coordinator which was photography. and we were handeds&÷ a big boof photos to show us, you know, if we went with this wedding coordinator what could we have in terms of wedding photography. i started to go through these albums and it was quite astonishing. there were photos of young couples galloping off onto horses in the desert and frolicking in the ocean waves and finding each other dressed, of course, in a tuxedo and ball gown on a grand estate and we were told, of course, this could all be set to music and we could have a dvd made of it. that ou