and my father was constantly traveling. sometimes we would go with him. meeting with as many world leaders as would see him. and calling on all of the relationships he developed when eisenhower sent him to 53 countries as vice president on the goodwill trips. that was his passion. he felt he could serve the country. but it's interesting to watch the primary. it was very uncertain that he could win the nomination. he did. but in '68 the first primary was in new hampshire. he won 70%. these are huge numbers when you think of what romney and gingrich and others are pulling in. then he went onto nebraska and we were there. the whole step of the way. nebraska, california. oregon. anyway. so it was an uphill battle. but the way he did it we just to go out and campaign. and win the primaries. then he got the nomination. if he hadn't won the primaries he wouldn't have won the nomination because he wasn't the choice of the republican party. >> this is the year before both republicans and democrats adopted the binding primaries and were awarding delegates. it was t

your father and who he was.it tell me a little bit about your father and who he was.t tell me a little bit about your father and who he was. tell me a little bit about your father and who he was. >> was was a reporter for the hometown paper. he started covering them when they were the 11th air assault division. basically followed them through, somehow got himself on the troop buses and took the troop ships over to vietnam with them. so he actually traveled on the ships with them. a lot of the guys into to the know them then, got to trust him. which was important for a reporter.hem then, got to trust. which was important for a reporter.iem then, got to trust him. which was important for a reporter.m then, got to trust h. which was important for a reporter. landed in vietnam with them. >> how did he get himself embedded? >> early embedding. he was just so persistent. but even more than that, i think that the public information officers saw a great deal of -- they just felt as though they could trust him and they felt as though he could take the story back to the hometown where the wives

they -- >> would your mother have said the same thing about your father? >> no, i think he, i think he was more -- >> your father? no way. >> no? i thought, well, he was such a great family man. i mean, the way i knew him. i don't know. you mean like politically he wasn't as noble. he never spanked. >> people with that kind of drive develop a sense of what they're going to be rather early in life. the thing that makes me smile a little bit listening to julie is julie wrote this wonderful book and one of the collections that she breaks in that book is an amazing cache of letters that richard nixon wrote pat nixon from the south pacific in '43, '44 and '45. he's not telling her in these letters that he's going to go out and become president, i don't know what he's telling her. it's there to see. as the story goes, bill clinton's classmates were saving his letters and little things that he wrote and at the age of 15 and 16, he wasn't captain of the football team, he wasn't this, but he exuded an extraordinary sense of himself. i'm sure linden, lucy have stori

lee never knew his father, really, and always tried to figure his father out and even after the war, lee did a new introduction to his father's reminiscences of the revolution and lee repeated all of the old myths about all he moved to alexandria to further the education of his children. no. he moved to alexandria because he didn't know stratford anymore and he was trying to recoup his financial reverses and convince somebody else to invest in something silly. anyway, lee spent much of his life trying to figure out who his father was and in some ways never came at peace with that, and i think he finally figured out that he was going to have to figure out sort of not be his own father, but accommodate for the absence of a father just like he accommodated for the absence of many other things. yes, sir? [ inaudible ] >> he had another son called black horse lee. he inherited what was left of the plantation at the house and he was ordered to stay with friends because she had nowhere to go, but we don't hear much about -- >> we hear as much as we need to. black horse herring, you know, i

my father was a cop. >> his father, john adrian, sr.as a police officer for amtrak and had recently passed away. >> the death of your father had a tremendous effect on you. >> absolutely. he was more than my father. he was my best friend. >> he went to catholic school. he was very sociable. >> valasquez' mother, maria, a labor union organizer, said her son was a typical all-american boy. >> he had a lot of friends. i used to feel like a attacks driver driving them to the movies, taking them bowling, doing all kinds of things. >> only child? >> my only child, yes. >> maria said she was stunned when she heard that her son was wanted for killing a retired cop. >> i called my son and i said, what's going on? he didn't know what was going on. >> valasquez said he had nothing to fear, so he turned himself in and agreed to appear in a line-up. but it was at that line-up that eyewitnesses identified him as the shooter, and john valasquez was charged with first-degree murder. >> you said you had nothing to do with the crime, you were nowhere clo

, who i thought was my father, was not my biological father. my family dealt with it. it is out in the open now. for years, i thought this person was my biological father. i found out years later he was not. my mother and family had a difficult time trying to figure out when i should know that family secret, as it were. they wanted to make sure i could handle it. they did not want to tell me too soon. every parent has secrets. but it is a matter of finding out when to share these secrets. you wanted to know the secrets and be part of the adult world. >> nobody told me. tavis: maybe you were too young to be told of the point. how you know? that is my question. you cannot tell a kid everything at seven or eight. >> you tell them when they ask a question. you tell them in an age- appropriate way, which is as simply as to karen, and to the point. you know, i am not an expert on any of this. we are just talking as friends. tavis: absolutely. you are not an expert, but your books raise these questions. that is what i am talking about. when certain bo

i think it does come from my father. as she said in that clip, and he tended to view things in that big picture sense of democracy, battling against other ideologies, freed them and a world in which democrats could persuade. my mother was the one who took that the picture and helped my father and understand and recognize that it is changing the lives. >> one of the things in the background is the fact that you are born to jewish parents. what year did you do this? y? why? >> i very much consider myself to be jewish. >> do your children practice? >> we honor both traditions is the way i would put it. it was actually my mother who ism when ito mormon is som was a child. i did have the blessing and opportunity of having a very american experience and ability to create a hybrid of who you are and what you believe in. >> are you attracted to him because of the mormon tradition that's what i was not. he joined the mormon church after he met me. latter-day saints is an interesting one. it is very close to do deism. there are mo

my father had been taken to a slave labor camp. hungarian troops were there. my father escaped. he previously was recaptured and badly beaten. he managed to escape a second time. he made his way back to budapest from the countryside. he found refuge in one of the statehouses. he was blonde. he was blue eyed. he looked "aryan." he was in a stolen hungarian uniform. he would deliver medicine. it was very dangerous. there are some incredible stories we have of close calls. >> what is the impact on me being the daughter of to holocaust survivors? is there any? >> it is profound. it is something i try to pass along to my children. it gives you enormous perspective on life. you learn to look at things through a very different lens. in our family, not only did they personally face existential threat to their existence, but they face them as part of a targeted race. a lot of terrible things happen around the world every day. whether through violins or car accidents. we can see existential tragedies that the fall families. what made the holocaust so scary and the impacts of profound on s

he couldn't live down who his father was. >> reporter: jason barely knew his father who changed his name to jay white. he believes he stayed away purposely trying to protect him from his family's history. >> and your father? what would you want him to know now? >> what i want him to know is just he missed out on a lot. yeah. >> reporter: charles manson jr., aka jay white, missed out on grandchildren. jason and his wife audrey are raising three boys in dover, ohio. >> i see my kids, you know. and that's kind of why i get shook up at. i would hate to see them grow up without a father. that's important. very important. >> reporter: jason still has feelings for a father he never met. it is the same primal instinct driving this man. >> i live in uncertainty and chaos. >> matthew roberts has been haunted by the possibility he is the son of charles manson. we told you his story previously. adopted to a good home, he sought out his birth mother when he was 30 years old. in 1998 he found her and she delivered the shocking news that he was conceived in 1967 in san francisco where she met manson at

anyway, the father of his country and here is the immigrant without a father. it is not the kind of ideal relationship washington has with lafayette. that was the perfect father/suns substitution. washington had no children. lafayette's father was killed in battle. of fatherless young man, when they meet a just bond and it is great. there are clouds and storms with hamilton. they have a fight during the revolutionary war. washington tells hamilton to come meet him. he wants to talk about something and hamilton says i will be right there and when he arrives washington says you kept me ten minutes waiting. you showed me disrespect and hamilton says if you feel so then i must resign and he just resigns right there and washington after half an hour sends somebody else to talk him out of that but also says if you think i fed you disrespect and i am out of here. it is a tribute to washington that hamilton starts talking him for of field commanders. washington gives it to him. he gives him a field commander for the battle of yorktown so hamilton is able to lead a ligh

a father a former drug dealer.elling drugs he says to support his family. want to jail. mother, heroin, crack. your father, at one point even held you up as a 1-year-old child as a decoy because he was being threatened by another family member, ended up getting shot. what happened to you, what made you survive? >> you know i stayed with my dad for a certain period. certain period of time. then eventually i moved with my mother to jersey. it was seven people staying in a one bedroom apartment, no heat. i mean -- sometimes no lights. you know, my mother she was on crack. at one particular time. and eventually, you know i moved back to grand rapids michigan with my father. you know, i asked my mother can she move back, also, and she eventually moved back to grand rapids michigan. and i was happy when she moved back. but she was back on drugs. i seen my dad, sell my mother drugs. just those are things i went through in life. but i am a strong individual. i can get through anything. all it did was make me a stronger per

my father was then vice president. we got to abraham lincoln and under his portrait it said "america's first republican president." i said to my father, was george washington a democrat? i was so upset, very upsetting. >> david, you have chronicled your grandfather's life most likely as don mentioned in "eisenhower's war" nominated for a pulitzer in 1956. what do you find most remarkable about your grand father. >> we have something in common. you wrote "second act." in the post presidency we cover in "going home to glory," i think this is where character is most accessible. a president is surrounded by aides, a wartime commander is surrounded by aides. to get to know my grandfather in that capacity, i had to study his life. i was drawn to the world war ii subject. sole zen neat sen says that in every life there is an event that is decisive for one's personal convictions and one's future. there is a point in dwight eisenhower's life, the fall of 1943 where everything that happens to him to that point is very interestin

. >> tracy, tell me a little bit about your father, and who he was. >> okay. dad was a military reporter for the "columbus ledger inquirer" which was basically the hometown paper for the first cav. he started covering them when they were the 11th air assault division. basically followed them through, somehow got himself on the troop buses, and took the troop ships over to vietnam with them. >> wow. >> so he actually traveled on the ships with them, a lot of the guys got to know him then, really got to trust him. >> right. >> which was important for a reporter. and you know, landed in vietnam with them. >> and how did he get himself kind of embedded? >> early embedding. he was just so persistent. but, even more than that, i think that the public information officers saw a great deal of -- they just felt as though they could trust him, and they felt as though he could take the story back to the hometown where the wives were waiting, and that kind of thing. so, and he was just a very persuasive man. >> so was he -- he was a career journalist? this was what he wan

my father was the vice president. and we got to abraham lincoln, and under his portrait it said america's first republican president. and i said to my father, was george washington a democrat? i was so upset. very upsetting. >> david, you have chronicled your grandfather's life, most notably as don mentioned, in eisenhower's war, which is nominated for a pulitzer prize. what do you find most remarkable about your grandfather? >> mark, we have something in common. you've written a book which chronicles post presidencies, which i think is important. in the post presidency that we cover in"going home to glory," i think this is where character is most accessible and stands out. the president is surrounded by aides. the wartime commander is surrounded by aides. to put my grandfather in that capacity, i had to study his life. and so i was drawn to the world war ii subject. in every life there is an event that is decisive for one's personal convictions in one's future. there is a point in dwight eisenhower's life, the fall o

my father dinka was the genius replied the apprentice. he taught me what 7 generations have learned, i am the 8th. i had bound [inaudible] who answers to moses shannon. both mean safe water. he seems more confident now, wiser. playful mostafa. i had so much to tell him, he could not see me. he could not see me or hear me in this strange land. he touched the spotting smiles. [inaudible] with birds, flowers and animals inspired. i turned to someone tell moses, shannon is going to free you one day. they can find joy, [inaudible] in my mind, i have always been free. free as the wind, thank you so much. [applause]. >> welcome to town. it is nice to have you here. >> good to be here. i want to start right in about this book, um by having you read us, this letter that your brother wrote to you when he was at the university of pennsylvania and you were the younger sister that starts right down there. remind us roughly what the year was. >> the year was 1965. the moral of this story is never have a younger sister who never throws away a piece of p

finally handed over to his father david after a five-year international battle. we could only guess what he was feeling. but tonight in an exclusive interview, you'll find out. >> what do you remember about that day? >> getting dragged through streets full of cameramen, a lot of people pushing. >> sean, finally opening up about his years living on another continent thousands of miles away from home. >> my mom married another person and she said this is your dad. >> never knowing how hard his father was fighting to get him back. >> since you didn't know your dad had been there, were you angry that why doesn't he want to see me? >> reunited at last. but after so many years apart, can this father and son find their way forward? >> he did have his guard up. >> and after all he's been through, what this boy says he knows for sure. >> do you feel that deeply in your heart? >> yeah. >> what so many have waited so long to hear. sean's story. >>> welcome, everyone. i'm lester holt. it was one of the most remarkable stories we've ever told on "dateline." the five-year batt

i mean, loving fathers, but difficult fathers. so, i mean, that's an important, that's been an important theme. and so here's mine. i mean, my symbolic, my professional father. and he, you know, he, he picked up on my writing at a point, i was 15 years old, and he reached out. i sent this thing in, and he said, this is good. and i'm going to publish it. i mean, bill was very, bill was very generous, and he was also very interested in other people's talent. one of the things that gave him the most pleasure was to find someone else. not just younger people, but people his own age, younger, older, whatever, to find someone else and feature that person, to present that person. to be like the discoverer or the impresario or the, you know, i thought of him sometimes as like a blue jay or one of these birds that collects bright things, you know? and he just loved doing that. and he loved, you know, publishing these people and putting them out there and showcasing them. and he took pleasure in their success. that was something very, very

my father is my foster father and there was always in my life this level of awkwardness because i was not biologically his own son. and he and i never got to have the conversation that i imagined here on page in this piece. so, there is a lot of truth in it. and here we go. someone else's child. >> i'm going to write a poem about you, i said. shall i tell the truth or make something up. what would you write about me. i'd write about the small things like catching my first perch on a cane pole and slapping you up side the head with it. it was the last time i fished you know that you cussed the water black mad. i never touched a fishing pole again. why would you want to write that? silence. do you remember when mom tried to teach me how to ride a bike? no, he said, let me hear it. why i can't ride a bike. i out weigh my mother by 50 pounds though her effort to help find my balance is more colossal than any man. my father root indeed pockets watches us at a distance like we are on a channel he'd like to turn. that's a sad poem, he said. cant you write nothing happy? not with you in it, i

so if i have always said to my father, why don't we have many fathers like you. and actually i made an official complaint. i asked my father, why don't you have a coalition of fathers who should be supporting their daughters so that we keep the ball rolling and really have a huge effect? and i think my father is getting that. i think he will be soon that hero. >> one of the questions i asked before that you didn't have time to answer, maybe you could briefly tell us. how did you go from your first education project to educating so many young girls and then having a community college and your other training programs? how did you grow this thing and how did you get financial help from others? >> definitely. so i knew that the need is great, but i couldn't do it alone. as a teenager i couldn't do anything. but i knew that there must be a way to change this perception. and i believe that the status must be changed. so the initial support that i got it was from my father. i really wanted him to support me in taking me to afghanistan because i couldn't travel myself al

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my father would not want that to happen.or something to go awry, a couple of drums doing out of control, a bomb going off in new york city, suddenly [inaudible]. who is the sounding board? general petraeus? he is probably one of the most respected men in the army. c-span: who talk to you? >> guest: nobody really try to talk to me. i talk to dick cheney and henry kissinger. cheney was working on his book and then had a heart ailment issue. kissinger never really nailed down. by then i was arty pretty far along on the film. c-span: the most label new thing in your film? >> guest: i would say honestly -- honesty is really the shell of my father's forthcoming testimony before congress was really revealing to me. it shows push and pull that all these secret operations are now under the [inaudible] c-span: the name of the documentary is "the man nobody knew", who is william colby, we are out of time. thank you very much. >> guest: thank you very much, brian. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visi

my father was disappointed. i expected- by that time, i was old enough and really informed of what the world looked like enough to not to be disappointed. my father was disappointed. before he went to saudi arabia- and he made umrah, the lesser pilgrimage. he made umrah, where you go by yourself, not with all the muslims- the annual pilgrimage. and he made the lesser pilgrimage to mecca, he went to pakistan, he went to egypt. and most disappointing for him was what he saw in saudi arabia. he expected a beautiful place, you know, the best place on earth, and when he got there, it was just the opposite. as far as physical conditions, it might have been almost the worst place on earth, you know. and he came back and he stopped, he changed his emphasis from religion to business, in economics- that's how disappointed he was. and he told us that we can't look to go there; he said we have to find our life right here in america. he said that everything we need, we can have it right here in america. so he changed his dir

father alfred is one of our programs. a 12-month recovery program for men to the gentleman who byrd as bad in that program also help us out in the dining room. some of them do blessings. -- they also help us out in the dining room. they do blessings and some have gone on to work in the area restaurants. they also serve an important symbol for our guests. because some of the gentleman in father alfred's center stood in line for a while, and now they are in a recovery program and rebuilding their lives. for some of our guests to continue to struggle in their addictive illnesses, when they see these gentlemen in the dining room, it gives them a little ray of hope and the sense that they can also take the first brave step and start anew. joining us today is one of our father alfred said the participants who has been volunteering. he will say a few words. please help me in welcoming keith. [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for joining us today in i believe a very joyous occasion. i am 37 years old, and i am an

one of my father's aides was a congressman. he was sent out by my dad to basically not scmooze the governor but go out and keep giving him good reports about the nixon campaign, etc. he would go out and call on reagan. you know, it was just great because he kept, you know, trying to influence what was going on with eisenhower and reagan and finally what was -- >> sending people to see eisenhower to try to convince the general that reagan was not a right winger. >> it was a funny relationship. >> it was a funny relationship. many of eisenhower's friends became members of the so-called governor's cabinet in -- reagan won in 1966 and served two terms as governor. these are prime movers behind the reagan campaigns in 1976. would he be pleased with where they are? >> i don't think he would be surprised. it died a month before it came out. it was called beyond peace. the title of the book is from his last conversation in 1976 when moa said president nixon is peace the only goal that america wants? you know? is that it? my father said

my father was a kind of district attorney without portfolio. other jewish fathers play golf. >> this is a jewish district attorney. >> originally from mexico. his whole passion in life is corruption. the family own add discount store. that wasn't where his heart would you say. he was running this family business and his heart was exposing theing bad guy. for a reporter it became the most fantastic training ground. at dinner my father would talk non stop, the mayor is a crook, the senator is a crook, i am going to get that guy. he would have campaigns, whistle blowers, he had stocking bag stuffers. there was an extrodinary house, lucky house, very grateful for all of that who is hilariously funny. he is holder sister, anita brenner was older, worked in the "new york times" in the 1930s. there are many pictures of anita in those family scrapbooks. unfortunately my father hated his older sister, rather than getting to have wonderful times of gertrudestein in mexico, all i heard was she is a monster. they didn't speak. the idea of her, the largenes

my father had a difficult relationship with his father from mexico. we knew our family had this chain of nurseries from mexico. i never understood because my father would change tg subject when his name came up. our grandfather was an orchardist at the turn of the century. >> which you hadn't even known. >> i didn't know it until i discovered this at the archive when i was trying to page through all of these things. then i discovered an obituary that had been written about our grandfather when he died when we were much to young to remember him. it was very, very long in the texas at the time. it detailed every, all the rare plants, specimen plants, horticultural, introducing them to texas. i was so excited about all of this. i used to say to my brother, this apple thing, you have gotten from your grandfather who had a reverence. he would say that is ridiculous. when my brother announced he was going to give up his life as a trial lawyer to be an apple orchardist. my father said i have one thing to say, jews don't farm. but they did. his father clearly

>> his father lost his job. he began to work as a laborer limping around the camp, and they had a very strained relationship after this execution. he said, i am so sorry we were selfish to have children. i hope somehow you can get out of here, and he said, i do not care what he said. >> is he alive? >> shin escaped a decade later when he was 23. >> the year he escaped democrats was 2005. the escape was an important part of the book. one thing i want to say about the experience of the execution is said he was raised in such a way he did not really loved his mother. he did not have feelings of affection or trust to his father and his brother, and i ask those things, how could you not look her in the eye when she died, and he said, these people are competitors for food, and they did nothing for me that was useful as he saw it. >> what about god? >> he never heard about god. learning to trust other people is something he has had to do since he got to south korea and the united states. he has seen other families, oth

that is the founding fathers constitution. that is the constitution as i said in the book over and over again, ratified. that process is very important that all ratification process. the constitution meant nothing until the states decided to ratify it. so that's the over all subject of the book. and going to read you a quote in a few minutes from a founding father of north carolina. and i will refer back to that quote quite a bit. but often time you will get the statement, the founding fathers which is combative group of people that didn't quit eating. what founders are talking to as well as some of the big names. or maybe you know some of the names. you part of alexander hamilton. you've probably heard of james madison and john jay, the authors of the federalist papers. e85 essays in defense of the constitution. so most people that read the constitution and think that they understand the constitution look at the document and maybe look at it for newspapers and say that's a. but it's deeper than that. in fact, it goes much dee

we'll speak with the father in a moment.y snowe has more on the father's effort to uncover the truth. >> reporter: 10-year-old akian chaifetz was diagnosed with autism, stu says his struggle isn't his condition, but bullying by staff trusted to care for him. he documented it in a public way on line hoping other children won't suffer the same cruelty. chaifetz says problems started when he was told his son had punched a teacher an aide. >> i've never seen him hit anybody, that didn't make sense. >> reporter: frustrated by lack of answers, he put a recording device in his son's pocket. horrified to hear what was on it. >> oh, boy, knock it off. >> go ahead and scream because guess what? you're going to get nothing until your mouth is shut. shut your mouth. >> more than six hours were recorded. chaifetz says the toughest part was listening to akian ask if he could see his father. >> my son when he transitions back, he lives with me full-time, he has a little natural anxiety, he says may i see dad after mom, which is highway of

his father kenko was found dead under the rubble of the house. body of his mother sadako was recovered a month later. he was reunited with his mother at the morgue. >> translator: i caught sight of one of my father's yellow gloves in the rubble. i looked under the debris and saw his face. >> reporter: onodera said he's begged repeatedly for his father's forgiveness in front of his body. >> translator: i have been talking about the disaster, but i have never told anyone that i begged my father and mother for forgiveness. >> reporter: onodera kept wondering whether he should speak about his remorse in front of a large audience. he felt that speaking about his repentance was not the way to salvation. onodera showed his script to his wife, kaiko, and asked what she thought. >> translator: i thought if he had the chance to express what was bottled up inside him, it would ease his remorse. >> reporter: on the 18th of last month, 2,000 people came to watch the recital. ♪ >> translator: i used ten bottles of water to try to wash the mud off my father's b

polk had a chance to reward his father. his father was arrested for downtown fighting, listed as a fray. and james k. polk got him off the hook with a $1 fine plus court costs which i think is pretty good for one of his first bases there. to come ahead, careful, the door sills stick up. i know it gets confusing when i point out sarah's things in that she never lived in this house. the james k. polk was here up until his marriage. other than the white house there is no home standing. >> significance to the jewelry? >> actually belonged to sarah. just we have only a few pieces here. we know from accounts she had a fondness for i guess what they call organic jewelry, it's stones, coral, things like that. not necessarily fine gems. costume jewelry never the less. portrait of sarah over the fireplace, less than a year she died. here she is as a new widow with 42 years ahead of her. i did mention the fact they are -- she was living in nashville in the 1860s during the civil war, that was a tricky situation for a native southerner