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elected as president and vice president would you address ford mr.president or mr. vice president or mr. vice president or mr. president. [laughter] >> where you had this whole day where there were negotiations and it was carried out on national television between walter cronkite and gerald ford and the copresidency and rumors being passed along from delegate to delegate to network. and it all made it on to network television and it recycled back and so you had a day of madness whether or not there would be a dream ticket or a copresidency. would they address the convention in, you know, sin? -- unison. this is now 11:30 at night worth. this is the night ronald reagan has been nominated by the republican party. he tries three times and he finally gets it and he can't savor it because he doesn't have a running mate. at 11:30 that night, after all these negotiations and i need to tell you about henry kissinger's role in this. they go in the room for five minutes, the two of them in detroit, and they come out and reagan tells the guys -- tells peter and

gerald ford lost to jimmy carter. the republican party has been decimated in the ticket races of 76 and compounded by the fact they've been decimated in '74. and 1977 only one state in america has republican control of the governors appeared legislature, that's kansas. 49 other states had mir or total democratic control of the state governments. there's states in the south that don't even have elected republicans in office. that is how bad it days. and only 18% of the american people claim allegiance to the party and only 11% of the voters under 30 clean allegiance to the republican party. so, regan looks at the landscape and says we can do better than this. so, he goes out and starts giving speeches about the new republican party that he envisioned, the republican party envisioned cannot be the party of the corporate board room, it cannot be the part of the country club. it's got to be the party of the individual, not the state. it's got to be the party of the man on the street, the homemaker, the shopkeeper, the ent

it's a travis ford style of basketball team. tough defense. >> barry: here's a man in the middle, zimmermann on the wing. almost off the side of the backboards. stanford gets another chance here. we'll take a time-out. oklahoma state 53, the stanford cardinal 41. we're coming back. oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. >> barry: welcome back to the san francisco bay area. this is a big 12/pac-10 hardwood series. today's broadcast is on afn broadcasting to the u.s. armed forces serving in 175 countries and abroad and aboard ships at sea. they're watching around the world in iraq, germany, italy, southwest asia and japan. we welcome all of you. >> marques: my friend and chris and i were talking about it playing ball in ita

he must have left at the end of the ford administration. >> guest: january 1976. host cut in the carter administration came along, then the reagan administration then what, five, six years -- when was it in the reagan administration president reagan took office in january of 1981 -- when did they put the finger on justice scalia to become an appeals court judge? >> guest: it's interesting, in fact i just said he left in 76 but he actually didn't leave until 77 when jimmy carter was sworn in street he goes to the american enterprise institute, a conservative think tank and works his way to chicago university. he wanted to go into the reagan administration sooner than he was able. and actually this involves some deals you know, william fred smith. william was on lookout list for solicitor general. that is, as you know because you also held that job, is a very important job, it's the government's top lawyer for the supreme court, the office that is viewed with plastic and become all the men who've held that and have the first woman doing it all the men have warned th

so he became essentially a gerald ford appointee. and really cut his teeth in the wake of watergate and ford administration, and his very first assignment as an assistant attorney general was to determine who owns the watergate papers and tapes. no easy task when you have come into office, but his opinion on behalf of that office was that nixon owned those tapes, and other doctors from his tenure and congress quickly reversed that and that's why the american public has that. >> host: who did he replace as assistant attorney general for the office? >> guest: robert dix and. at the time another person who you are very ugly with, larry silverman, who has gone on to become a federal appeals court judge here in washington, d.c., mr. silberman was deputy attorney general. >> i'm sure that's what it was. >> guest: his job was to buy a new assistant for the office for the office of legal council, and a man by the name of john rose, sort of like your life, because you know all these players. jon rosen had been a longtime aide in both the nixo

he was convinced like everybody else in america that gerald ford was going to go on the ticket with reagan. >> so let me ask one more question before i throw it to the audience for any questions they may have and it directly follows on that and it goes back to jack kemp. why did his star not rise at least high enough to be more seriously in consideration for the vice president? >> there was a lot of affection

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so it couldn't do it directly so we raised money from the ford foundation, the gates foundation, and others. we cleaned up the dioxin and agent orange that was left at the da nang air base and contained it. the military and government has under bush and obama, and nobody has to admit fault or say we're liable. let's just clean it up like a good person would do if you have made a mess. and sometimes you just need practical solutions instead of everybody getting on an ideological high horse. we went to the air base, saw the containment projects, and helped with the rehabilitation centers, because instead of saying, we're guilty and pay for everybody who has a birth defect, creating rehabilitation centers and -- you can try to solve problems, not debate them. yes, sir? >> thank you. in view of the extensive interviewing you have done through the years, what checks do you employ when interviewing that someone is not fabricating their story? >> yeah. well, that's the mark of old journalism, which is who is telling you the truth and who isn't, and what marks do you employ? we all in life h

and so when the ford foundation and susan baris and many other people said you know vietnam is now one of our most natural allies, but there's one big thing stopping it. it's the fact that we left dioxin. we left agent orange at the banks and we sprayed it all over and we haven't cleaned it up yet and we forgotten about it. but in the account everyday barricades with birth defects. there's fishermen who can't fish in the legs because of the day off and we behind. and sometimes this is where the aspen institute can come in. the american government could not easily admit all the blame for this and then be liable for every birth defect or every possible, you know, illness or so in vietnam. but the american government obviously wanted to do some in. so it couldn't do it directly so we raised money for the ford foundation, the gates foundation than others. we cleaned up the dioxin and agent orange that was left at the airbase and contained it. the military has been good, the u.s. government under bush and now under obama has but two or 3 million each year to help with the cleanup. and nobod

ford? >> okay. let me start by most of the staffing gaps we identified in our work tended to be in the domestic offices here in the united states. i think typically what was happening was that ds would receive protective missions for things like the olympics where they needed to staff positions in iraq and afghanistan which was the highest priority and they tended to use agents that were here on domestic assignments and so the domestic offices here, they are responsible for things like passports, visas fraud, another investigatory type of missions that ds has. those were the shortfalls in terms of the mission. so we had some examples we cited in the report. i think one of the knicks and bulls as i recall was in the houston field office which we indicated they had about a 50% staff vacancies last year when we consulted with them about what the implications of that they told us it resulted in case backlogs on such things as the western hemisphere travel initiative, so some of the implications of the d

ford? the gao report identified the challenges ds faces of balancing security with slates the diplomatic mission. do you have any recommendations on how ds and states diplomatic corps core's can best achieve this balance? >> i think the key thing here is communication. there is sometimes miscommunication that occurs between security folks that work for ds and the diplomatic side of the house which is trying to accomplish a -- an outreach mission or -- reach a broader audience in an individual country. and then in many cases there is just a lack of communication about what types of security is necessary for them to conduct their work and how to get outside the building. so i mean i -- i would say at a minimum -- and this may be a training issue, we need to make sure that our security folks are sensitive to what the diplomatic mission is. we need to make sure the diplomatic folks are sensitive to security. the security mission that ds has. both ds and those in the field and the state departme

ford moars will offer youts and early retirement to,000 fact other workers. it is an attempt treduce costs by 2011. union workers have uil late januarto accept the offers with paynts of up to $7000. ford offered buyou earlier this year but on 1,000 employeeaccepted the offer. on wall street today, the do jones industrial average gaed 85 points to close at 10414. the nasdaq rose nearly 26 points to close at 2237. mexico city lelized gay marria today. the first ace in latin america to do so. the mexican capil's legislature voted redefine marriage as, qte, the free uniting two people. the city's may is expected to sign it into law. polish pole have recovered the sign stolen fr the main gate of the auschwitz concentration camp officials said today they arrest five men described as common cminals looking to make a profit. the thieves legedly cut the sign into three pieceso make easier to transport. the n could face up to ten years in prison for eft of an object of special culral value. the ash wits sign has come one of t defining symbolof the holocaust. i'll be ba

the henry ford clinic in michigan saw 191 hospital patients from canada and had about 1,400 outpatient visits from canada last year alone. those numbers have increased steadily over the past three years. in fact, cef knew from canadian patients have increased by -- revenue from canadian patients has increased by $7.5 million for the henry ford clinic in the last seven years. and although these clinics do not track why some canadian patients come to the united states for medical care, i believe the significant wait times in canada are one of the primary reasons that they choose to cross the border. i also believe that canadian patients come to the united states to reap the benefit of america's research and development and to access new breakthroughs in medical technology. many of my colleagues have her the story of shawna holmes. shawna, a canadian citizen, was experiencing numerous conditions, including headaches, fatigue, and severe vision problems. her primary care doctor in canada ordered an m.r.i. and i results suggested a brain tumor. shawna would have to weight four months to see

ford we felt was weak. carter we felt was weak and bad.ssets, it was like monopoly. cuban troops were running the portuguese empire in africa. that is so weird to say that now. it is likely colonization. cuban troops took over the portuguese empire when the portuguese gave it up in the mid-1970s. energy shocks, stagflation, all kinds of stuff. i think the mood was embattled. the mood changes when ronald reagan wins in 1980 but those first few years were grim. >> when you were asked "national at "national review" in those years you were experiencing his full charm which is a mixed billblessing. talk about that a little. >> the biggest blast of it i got, the biggest bolt was one day when he took me to lunch. i had been at the magazine a year and i was 23 years old. he takes me to lunch and he says, "rick, i have decided you will succeed me as editor. he also said when that happens you will all the magazine. -- own the magazine. i was flabbergasted. there was no preparation for this. no hands or anything i picked up. i had older colleagues. i

bill ford was one of the early thinkers of this.the chair of the board of the detroit economic club. and deliverew liveris has been . it has been a privilege to work with these two gentlemen. host: withe the detroit economic club? what is the relationship between detroit and washington, d.c.? guest: we have been around for 75 years, and have always said a close relationship with washington. back in the day, our speakers with ride the train from washington, come to detroit over the weekend, speaking at the club on monday, and then drive back. we have a long relationship. we started this three years ago. michigan was in a one-day recession. we did not know what was to come in the ensuing years, but we knew we needed to do something. and we brought leaders together. by the way, we did not know who the president would be when we started this. it looked like hillary clinton would be the democratic nominee. it is really about bringing people together with our mission in a bipartisan, not for profit way. we ask everybody to put their indus

was provided by the ford foundation, a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. >> i'm beth courtney, president of louisiana public broadcasting. >> and i'm jack hamilton, dean of louisiana state university's manship school of mass communication. recently, our two institutions collaborated with the fred friendly seminars and the columbia university school of journalism's workshop on race. we brought together a group of journalists, educators, and community leaders to grapple with questions many still find difficult to talk about and even more difficult to answer. when does race and ethnicity become part of the news? when do these issues matter in news reports? and how does it affect the newsroom itself? >> our moderator, charles ogletree of harvard law school, challenged our panelists with a hypothetical scenario. but while the people and places they encounter may be fictitious, the dilemmas they face are very real. >> we learned that the sort of events you might see in your newspaper on any particular day-- a prominent businessman returning to his hometown, a neigh

ford used to act like four or five different companies.is now trying to get out of bankruptcy after four years. you would have seen something close to an uncontrolled shutdown through the businesses that depend on the activity. it was fair 0000000000000000000000000000000a p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p,p, e8e8e8e8e8ksksksksksks ectors in home. mark pryor chairs the committee on consumer convention. >> work hard to protect them. senator klobuchar has introduced s1216. the safety act. today we'll consider her legislation and i commend her for her excellent efforts in this area and look forward to this afternoon's discussion and want the audience to know we're here because she requested this hearing as part of her leadership on this issue. we're joined by an expert panel of witnesses who have agreed to testify before us. they will share with us their insight regarding carbon monoxide poisoning prevention. i welcome them and thank them for their presence and contributions today. witnesses will present the remarks on one panel and they are alrea

by the way, that " you give from ford was the ending of the book. i wanted to mention that the end of the book was rodgers' rules. written in 1757, i believe, at norwich university is where i got from. really a good way to end the book. host: i saw them. there are so many, we could not put the ball on the screen. but they are in the after word of the book. frank joins us from victorville, california. caller: good morning, congressman fray. i am quite old now, world war ii vet and retired steelworker. during the war, i got a spaceship and went to radio school and ended up at a radio coast -- i got off a ship and went to radio school. i remember that a lot. we were a radio monitoring station that. i wanted to ask you -- i am sure going to read of a " political rules of the road." i am retired. we could sure use some political rules of the road for the southern california housing crisis, and i just read a book that maybe you would like, "the abc's of the economic crisis, what working people need to know." guest: i will try to pick that up. i think we n

ford? the gao report identified the challenges ds faces of balancing security with slates the diplomatic mission. do you have any recommendations on how ds and states diplomatic corps core's can best achieve this balance? >> i think the key thing here is communication. there is sometimes miscommunication that occurs between security folks that work for ds and the diplomatic side of the house which is trying to accomplish a -- an outreach mission or -- reach a broader audience in an individual country. and then in many cases there is just a lack of communication about what types of security is necessary for them to conduct their work and how to get outside the building. so i mean i -- i would say at a minimum -- and this may be a training issue, we need to make sure that our security folks are sensitive to what the diplomatic mission is. we need to make sure the diplomatic folks are sensitive to security. the security mission that ds has. both ds and those in the field and the state departme

ford used to act like four or five different companies.ogether and make them[> good morning, sir joining us from new york city. host:o( us why has the obama lagging on human rights? guest: there's been a determination from president obama and secretary clinton from the get go to say these are really an essential peace of the foreign policy he spoke about the need in the united states and afghanistan as well one challenge we face is the mult

received funds under tarp and ford didn't.nder this i suppose that we can assess ford a tax to pay for losses the taxpayers will incur on g.m. and chrysler. and we know that g.m. and chrysler were defined as quote-unquote financial institutions under the tarp statute so therefore, ford can be taxed under the gentleman's amendment. is that smart? is that fair? the answer is no. this is yet another tax to go on capital. you can't have capitalism without capital. and so we have $150 billion tax for the revolving bailout fund. we have an unlimited tax by the new czar to ban and ration consumer credit products that can touch small businesses throughout our nation. every time you increase the cost of taxes on capital, you get less lending, you get less credit, more expensive credit, and less credit is fewer jobs. i would think, i would think at a time when our nation has the highest unemployment rate in a generation that this is an institution that would be trying to create more jobs, trying to create more capital, trying to have sm

when carter and ford were contesting the presidency. governor carter if there's an oil embargo on us again what would you do? and immediately he said what i would immediately proclaim a food embargo on them. and, boy, you could have heard a pin drop between washington and riyadh there. that was when they viewed agriculture self-reliance and food production as a strategic issue and this is when they brought in their agribusiness that didn't exist before. they had rural middle class they didn't have before. they expanded their chambers of commerce. they became the world's seventh largest exporter of wheat, okay, inside of one decade and they became famous for exporting strawberries to france in january and tulips to the netherlands also in january. but they did it at great cost to their own natural water resources, their aquifers and they said we are going to stop the food imports because of the strategic value of water. so it's a gamble. it's a gamble in two ways. one, they don't have the control over it because it's in another country's

ford motor company is doing good.ut of a lot of the plants and paid off the workers. i am not going to say this for sure, but i think they asked the union to back down a little bit to help them get going again. it happened. general motors and chrysler should do the same thing. have the union work with the company to help everybody. thank you. guest: it is very interesting with what happened with the union over this process. they were deeply involved with the issue. while they were part of the negotiations, they had to take care of the cuts as well. it does not matter what happens between now and 2013, it cannot go on strike to change the convert. the other concession that uaw gave up is that their health care is now tied into an investment in gm and chrysler. the health care trust for retirees owns a majority of chrysler. they own a smaller stake in gm. 1.1 million people will be depending on those investments for health care beginning this year. that is a major risk for an industry that has not returned for sharehold

ford we felt was weak. carter we felt was weak and bad. the soviet union seemed to be picking up, they were getting park place here and hotels and assets, it was like monopoly. cuban troops were running the portuguese empire in africa. that is so weird to say that now. it is likely colonization. cuban troops took over the portuguese empire when the portuguese gave it up in the mid-1970s. energy shocks, stagflation, all kinds of stuff. i think the mood was embattled. the mood changes when ronald reagan wins in 1980 but those first few years were grim. >> when you were asked "national at "national review" in those years you were experiencing his full charm which is a mixed billblessing. talk about that a little. >> the biggest blast of it i got, the biggest bolt was one day when he took me to lunch. i had been at the magazine a year and i was 23 years old. he takes me to lunch and he says, "rick, i have decided you will succeed me as editor. he also said when that happens you will all the magazine. -- own the magazine. i was flabbergasted. t

he ran against ford and i felt he was our only chance. he didn't get elected, jimmy carter did. republican president since and i think we need all kinds of reform. i spoke up years ago when we started buying steel from japan and said we're pricing ourselves out much the market. we drove up the cost of everything and look where we are today. i had seven sons and the oldest one thing is 61 now. they were all born in a hospital and i was only getting a dollar an hour. i was a smallti-time cattle rancher. but i didn't have health insurance for the first one. but they were born in the hospital and i paid my bill and i walked out of the hospital. but everything costs too much now. everything they talk about jobs, we priced ourselves out muof th market. but i did want to say that haven't listened to "washington journal," in 1980 i was a cattle rancher from the badland and i was interviewed by somebody from "the washington post" and he pointed out that i kept up on politics by watching c-span. host: thanks and brian is still on the air. he hosts q&a every sunday night so i hope you will

the ford keys to the contest. >> craig: the capitals' power play has to be better than it was last night. they were 1 for 4. they have to get the puck behind the defense of the oilers tonight. for edmonton, superspace, they have to close up the space between blue lines and middle mph. they have a lot of species speed up the middle. guys have had speed and they have to use it through the neutral zone. >> joe: plenty of get up and go. this line can roar. good lift check by fleischmann. we near the two minute mark of the scoreless opening period. brule firing it wide. >> craig: that was a good play. the boards are very fast here. going right in there, like a guided missile they are show speed on early in the game. that means goalies and defencemen have to be -- extra alert. look at the quickness on the board. nice job. well known for throwing the mix off than around the net. good scoring dance chance. >> joe: the penalty leader digging in on the draw. you can see at the bottom of the screen for a moment, he has amassed quite a total for the last few years. bradley rubbed into the ball. a fo

ford we felt was weak. carter we felt was weak and bad. the soviet union seemed to be picking up, they were getting park place here and hotels and assets, it was like monopoly. cuban troops were running the portuguese empire in africa. that is so weird to say that now. it is likely colonization. cuban troops took over the portuguese empire when the portuguese gave it up in the mid-1970s. energy shocks, stagflation, all kinds of stuff. i think the mood was embattled. the mood changes when ronald reagan wins in 1980 but those first few years were grim. >> when you were asked "national at "national review" in those years you were experiencing his full charm which is a mixed billblessing. talk about that a little. >> the biggest blast of it i got, the biggest bolt was one day when he took me to lunch. i had been at the magazine a year and i was 23 years old. he takes me to lunch and he says, "rick, i have decided you will succeed me as editor. he also said when that happens you will all the magazine. -- own the magazine. i was flabbergasted. t

captioning funded by cbs and ford-- built for the road ahead. >> ♪ o, come, all ye faithful... ♪ >> pelleye third christmas of the great recession. wilmington, ohio, is one of many pockets of severe unemployment in this country, and just two days ago, 59 more homes went on the auction block. >> bid $114,000. >> pelley: 10,000 jobs were lost here, and at this point, the mayor is hoping for a christmas miracle. the town runs on hope at this point. >> the town runs on hope. ( chanting ) >> simon: he's one of the world's most important christian leaders, the spiritual guide to a flock of 300 million. he presides over part of the christian church most americans are not aware of. he does it from a country that is 99% muslim. come with us on this sunday before christmas on an adventure into one of the most spectacular and oldest of all christian enclaves, threatened today as never before. >> good. >> yeah. >> you always do. your hair is shorter. >> longer. >> i like it. >> safer: he's one of america's finest actors, who moves with equal ease from stage to movies to television. but for a man so sm

captioning funded by cbs and ford-- built for the road ahead. >> we need water.ed water. >> stahl: arnold schwarzenegger, the action hero governor, has thrust himself into a battle in california over water shortages that are so severe, a half million acres of its rich farmland are lying fallow. it looks like sand. it looks like a desert, actually. >> yeah. >> stahl: are you in crisis? >> we are. we have been in a crisis.... >> stahl: in crisis? >> we have been in a crisis for quite some time. >> logan: hank crumpton was the master spy who led the c.i.a. into afghanistan after 9/11, routing the taliban and al qaeda in just a matter of weeks. and, officially, you weren't here. >> that's correct. >> logan: we brought crumpton back to afghanistan, where he and the head of that country's intelligence agency warned america better win the war, because al qaeda continues to plot terror against the united states. >> the enemies we are fighting, they are truly forces of darkness. >> 3, 2, 1. one to base. >> kroft: there he goes. a small group of extreme sportsmen wearing s

here come the japanese planes flying from south to north on the west side of ford island. there were fiat -- flying is slow and i could suee the goggles. i look out there and hear the splattered concrete where the bullets were hitting. i jumped behind a tractor and did give me the protection i needed. >> to watch more from the national park service interviews, go2net -- go to, c- span.org. now i panel looks at the effectiveness of the government's policy to eliminate home foreclosures. this was part of the consumer federation of americas conference and is about one hour. >> we have a series of presentations about housing in this economy and particularly consumer issues in the housing economy and the unprecedented strengths we find ourselves in. we are here to cover an important issue and that is the effort to assist homeowners in find themselves unable to make their mortgage payments because they have a mortgages that have become an unstable and unsustainable or because they have lost jobs in this economy or lost hours in the economy and find themselves threatened with the

it provides -- with ford vice medicare and protects medicare benefits for america's seniors. let me point to another thing they keep saying. they keep saying that this bill cuts billions of dollars for medicare of vantage programs. hurting 511 million seniors enrolled in the programs today. well mr. president that is exactly what they said. this bill cuts medicare advantage and hurts those millions of seniors. wrong. not true. scare tactic, same procedure trying to distort and provide your. nothing could be further from the truth. this bill cuts down on overpayments, not benefits. what tax payer in america should willingly pay an additional amount for service more than the service is worth and more than we pay in the regular program? >> with the senator yield for a questioned? >> if we can yield on your time at the and i would be happy to do that but i want to start making points. overpayments -- it's the overpayments to the insurers that actually threaten medicare's future and that's what increases the cost for seniors. and 2009 medpac, the commission that advises on care es

in 1974, president ford signed a law that energy policy and innovation act. by 1980, imports of oil were higher than 1973. in 1978, president carter signed the national energy act. the goal was to add 20% of all the energy we use from the sun by the end of the 20 century. we did not quite get to 20%. in 2005, president bush signed the energy policy act with the goal of economic security. the result, the act of 2007. getting through the legislature is a milestone, but you do not get the ticker-tape parade until the results actually roll in. if you forget this, you will end up drowning in the river of failure. that is not a place that you want to be. our next phase is implementation. the biggest threat in this phase is over confidence. this often occurs when really smart, capable people become overconfident of their ability and failed to prepare for all the risks. i am sorry, i just could not resist that. implementing complex public initiatives is a lot tougher than it looks. the key to avoiding failure is to take failure seriously. anyone who has ever done a r

privilege to acknowledge and recognized the chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from mississippi ford opening statement. >> i appreciate the holding of this hearing. i would also like to take the opportunity to express my condolences to the family as well as the tsa colleagues who are here. it was a dedicated public server and his efforts in carter secured will never be forgotten. there is no doubt that the events that transpired last week raised several questions about tsa's operational procedures and practices and handling sensitive information. perhaps more importantly, this incident raises concern about the security of our entire transportation system. no actions, legislation, or press statements can on to the disclosure of this information. however, we can learn from the incident and move forward with security measures that inshore sensitive information will not be made available to the public. the event from last week served as a reminder of how critical it is to have accountability at the department of homeland security. i think it was the right decision from secretary of napol

on the other hand, robert bork, solicitor general in the nixon ford administration, said that he thoughtffice, he thought the anti- trust division was taking a division that was not as long, but ridiculous. he dutifully allowed the antitrust division, even though he personally thought they were not just wrong, but ridiculous. so how much did your own view and in to what to present to the supreme court? >> saying ridiculous is hyperbole, certainly. i am not surprised that bob would say that. but i see the role of solicitor general as a policymaker, not in the sense of government officials, but although we have very fine lawyers and solicitors general tend to have legal background, if we think a position is not likely to be effective, not the best way to present the issue to the court, counterproductive in some sense, i think it is the solicitor general's duty to let that be known, and indeed, in so many cases that have come before the solicitor general for resolution, it is not one entity that is only involved and effective. antitrust is taking a position that will affect the patent and t

>> the first one is a picture of gerald ford's funeral, that his family gave me. the casket was just passing by. and then a letter that he wrote to me that i was very proud of. and this picture was taken at the swearing in of the vice- president in january. and that i have a picture of my colleagues on the court of appeals for the seventh circuit. the one at the top is the court, my first court. >> you clerked for wiley rutledge, and as you come down the pictures, this court right now -- >> i served on the court until 1975. and this is the court that i joined along the bottom. >> let me go back to the second circuit. >> it covers wisconsin, illinois, and indiana. >> was a learning experience on the seventh circuit? >> i learned a great deal. i learned an awful lot about federal law. i served with some awfully good judges and learned a lot from them. in that picture, tom fairchild, i learned a lot from him. >> what is the difference between a circuit court of appeals and the supreme court? >> on the circuit court of appeals, you are more bound by precedent than you

a really bad idea was gerald ford's whip inflation now buttons.se buttonsçó were designed to actually be how we with double digit inflation. have the ideas like this come into play? well, ideas are the first phase in the process. you cannot have a successful initiative if you have a bad idea. bad ideas generally become reality when they are not exposed to criticism. this phenomenon is called poe's story syndrome. it is the biggest trap. it occurs when people shut themselves off from those that think differently than they do. eight years ago, a professor at the university of georgia study how the brain works. he wanted to conduct an experiment. he had art of republicans and ardent democrats-ardent republicans and ardent democrats watched the debate. while they watched the debate, he had their heads wired so that he could monitor their brains. they were wired up to an mri machine. çweston found that republicans thought that bush had won and democrats thought had -- thought that carey had one and both sides ignored it when their guy was consistent -

-- before we came to motown, traveling to the apollo, new new york in the volg volkswagen van, the fordruck with our equipment, and there was a bond that was born amongst the brothers at that time. because we were all trying to make it, you know, striving, trying to make things happen. >> larry: we'll ask you about the reality series in a moment, but as any fan of the jackson five knows, the group left motown for cbs and that was in 1976. except for jermaine, he stayed at motown. here's a clip from "the jacksons: a family dynasty," it's going to premiere next sunday, about that breakup. watch. >> the reason why i stayed -- the reason -- this really hurts. >> don't worry about it. >> the reason why i stayed in motown, because motown introduced us to the world as the jackson five and to be told that you can go to cbs and we're going to make you like the beatles, we're the jackson five, and that's all i wanted. so the fact that we started there, just to belong to where we started. >> when you came back to the group, it was one of the best, favorable memories of my life. >> really? >> yeah.

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he served as a speechwriter for presidents nixon and ford and is a columnist for "fortune" magazine. from new york, mark hill, associate professor at columbia university and nationally syndicated columnist. finally, joining me here in d.c., peter beinart, senior political writer for the daily beast and professor for the city university of new york and author of "the good fight, why liberals and only liberals can win the war on terror and make america great again." we're out of time because you are all way too well credentialed. moving along you've written a book that sounds just right for this time. what do you make of what's happened today and the news that a report was at the cia about this suspect? >> well, clearly, this problem of sharing intelligence continues to be a major issue but i think the larger context here is that as we move further and further away from september 11, concerns about terrorism receded on both sides of the aisle. the balance between privacy and security tipped back toward privacy. that vote in the house on not allowing these body scan machines was a total

we'll see you when you get home. ( ding ) captioning funded by cbs and ford-- built for the road aheadlly hard. and there's not a question you ask that i haven't asked. >> kroft: you'll hear those hard questions about afghanistan, and on a range of issues from the economy to the white house gate crasher. and you'll see a president who is intensely focused and occasionally angry. >> i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on wall street. you guys are drawing down $10 million, $20 million bonuses after america went through the worst economic year it's gone through in decades and you guys caused the problem? why do you think people might be a little frustrated? >> safer: i would imagine that when people ask you what you do for a living, it's not the easiest thing in the world to explain. >> i just say i make body parts. >> safer: he's not joking. by manipulating cells in the human body to regrow tissue, researchers have created ears and bladders and even heart valves. it's beating. the u.s. government and biotech companies are pouring hundreds of m

the second reform is one that life then boring people with ford about three years now. that's when it was conceived. and that is the national popular vote planned for the president, for electing the president. this is a way we can achieve the goal which is supported by 70% of the public pretty much everybody of having a presidential election in which people vote, you count the votes, the one with the most votes gets to be president. and better still it doesn't matter where your voting. it doesn't matter whether you are in a swing state or a spectator state. door vote should count. and the national popular vote plan does that by, and this is a little complicated. it had to be explained to me three or four times. let me have a show of hands. is their anybody here that does understand what the national popular vote planas? [laughter] one person. okay. two people. we are getting somewhere. here's what it is: states one by one would adopt a bill, an identical bill and which says we come at a hampshire or whenever the state, we signed up for interstate compact among the state