among the letters are astonishing are from harriet newby to dangerfield. part of what is astonishing is most of the slaves were illiterate obviously. it's unusually to have them illiterate and we have their letters. and he goes there really joins brown's band to rescue his wife and children. and the tragic part of it is he's the first of brown's band who is -- he's gunned down in the street in harper's ferry. his body is desecrated by angry whites. 50 miles short of his goal of rescuing harriet. and the virginians collected these letters that he had from harriet that appear to have been on his person and published them. the governor of virginia published all the documents, and they didn't see any indictment of slavery in these letters. they just published them. you just read these letters that are heart-breaking saying, you know, come save me, dangerfield, because like many virginia slaves of that era, she was scared she was going to be sold to a gang labor plantation in the deep south, and that's exactly what happened. six months later she's sold to a pla

and they have to know the story, and with dangerfield newby, they have a coat with two notes. in one pocket is the actual letter that you write about here from his wife saying, husband come, come get us now. you can buy us now. come now. and in the other, of course, is a note from john brown saying we must free the millions of enslaved. and the man is looking at it saying, which do i do? can you tell the rest of the story? >> yeah. i think it's not known enough that this was among the many astonishing things about brown and his band. this was a biracial guerrilla band. and in this tiny mountain hideout -- you should go to the kennedy farm. it's a little log cabin. it's like one of those little log cabins here in waterford. you had roughly 20 men and women crammed into this little hideout all that summer. you can imagine how tense and sweaty it was. they're all writing letters to their lovers and family, essentially farewell letters beus

years later, it was easier to write for guys that had characters, like rodney dangerfield. he had that thing, i do not get no respect. it was easy to say, i never got any respect. even as an infant, my mother would not breast feed me. she said she liked me as a friend. [laughter] see, that was easy. these -- the catskills were dying. i said, ok, i am going to live with my parents forever. i am go to work in this delicatessen forever. i took these jobs that these old guys would not apply for me, and i made it into a stand-up routine for myself. there were two big clubs in new york. i will go on stage, deliver the jokes, and maybe a manager or agent, the kind of people who used to hang out there, would like my material and give me a job. this is where richard pryor started and lily tomlin and others. the first date -- the first week of was working there, i met a guy who is also starting up. his name was billy crystal. he lived about 3 tons over from where my parents live. he had a little blue volkswagen, used to pick me up every night. drive into the city. we would get on sta

. >> andrea: that was better than rodney dangerfield. >> bob: i would haven't taken the advice. >> gregommencement address what would you say? >> andrea: you never stop paying your dues. we were fed so much positive, you are ready to go. you're not ready to go. they tell you, you're ready. you're so not ready. another thing because the kids, the egos are blown up. they don't tell them life and success is sweeter when you're self-made. that is really true. they will tell you women, you will get out and not make as much money as men. it will be unfair playing field, gender studies. ladies, that's not true. >> greg: the good old days. >> bob: become a greek waitress at a greek restaurant. >> andrea: don't do that. >> eric: a lot of people come up and you did well in wall street. should i go into that? i want to get in trading and corporate world, the wall street world. that is not where the power is anymore. the money and power used to be on wall street. it's shifted to washington, d.c. so my only advice is if you're into that sort of thing and the money and the power, head to d.c. >> dana

in the words of rodney dangerfield, it looks good on you ... >> is that a tattoo? >> no, that,,

. >> like rodney dangerfield come out, tough crowd.thing with president bush, you know, we really loved president bush, we will always love him and the reason is, it was very obvious, that he loved us. and that he wore his heart op his sleeve, did a lot of things behind the scenes, going to walter reed, didn't hear about it, it wasn't a photo op. president obama, who we serve with pride and to the death, hard read. before the presidency his voting record. i think he has a greater appreciation of what we do. when he comes into a place like that, a more closer look at him. >> i was not trying not to be unfair, other than the people who are paid to clap, the secretary of defense and, you know, the highest-- >> looked like they were looking around, going, wow. >> yeah, even the crowd behind him unless they had been told don't do a thing, that was about the quietest crowd, i know as a speaker if i'd gone into a room like that, i would have said thank you very much, and exited. >> thank you very much, good night. tip your waitresses. no, i t

. >> sort of like a rodney dangerfield moment.t get more respect. >> he can get more respect than he used to. >> that's for sure. i interviewed him in february of 2011 in a krispy kreme. he had just given a speech where michelle batch man wasta at this event. she got much more praise and cheers and standing ovations thank he did. he has been able to reverse those fortunes. >> he won 11 primaries. it's gotten to the point where math matly he is not going to be able to catch up. he is going to stay in this thing. they pretty much admit it's not matter of getting to 1144 themselves but denying mitt romney getting 1144. he is the face and voice of social conservatives, of the religious right. we will have to see. >> we will talk more about the louisiana primary with nia nia malika. not just louisiana but what's coming up is more important and how president obama's campaign is shaping up as well. >> this is the bell press show. >>(narrator) the sheriff of wall street. >>the leadership of high finance just doesn't get it. >>(narrator) t

but still the dollar is getting no respect as the rodney dangerfield currency. >> i think it's important to note if you replay the tape back to 05, '06, '07, a lot of the discussion was not only are countries accumulating vast reserves, but why are they holding dollars? the fact of the matter is, though, in a period of crisis the dollar was a great thing to hold in october and november of 2000. and i think whereas i agree with tim, one could have extrapolated a much larger role for the euro, at least for the foreseeable future the euro's likelihood of becoming reserve currency is really limited by their own -- and you can't beat something with nothing. global reserve current si serves a purpose, and the u.s. as i and others have written enjoys a real privilege. there's a real benefit to providing the global reserve currency. and i can see why a lot of countries would like to have that, but for now there's no viable alternative. >> we're still 25% of global gdp, we have very broad, deep capital markets, so you have a vast array of risk assets to purchase, we have political stability, econ