ford very well. he interned for president ford. he he wrote for president ford. he directed the ford presidential foundation library and museum, along with a half dozen other similar organizations. he's lived over the ford's burial site right there, river house, looking down on the the building and the burial site for more than a decade, but not looking down in a sense of pride, but in great humility. he has, you know, to write this book. he spent more than ten years reading thousands of source documents. oh, my gosh. so much that he read conducting more than 170 interviews, writing four drafts, 40 drafts, and whittling the whole down to 700 narrative pages. it's not too much to say that this is the book. i think richard was meant to write. now, in addition to richard norton smith, we are also delighted and honored to host heyneke meyer on this stage. now, everybody in michigan and across the midwest now knows who hank is. he's got some 240 meyer super centers that make up one of america's largest family owned companies. while hank is the co-chair and ceo of meye

and president ford thanks him. former president ford thanks and sits back down. and you can see carter is sort of collecting himself. now fast forward to 2007. fast forward to the moment when president carter is giving the eulogy for his friend and president carter at sort of the climax of the eulogy, he says, i cannot think of a better way to talk about my friend jerry than to repeat the words that i repeated so many decades ago. i want to thank carter clutch. as you can tell, he's fighting. he says. i want to thank my friend for doing all he did to heal our land. this iteration is really what a great political friendship as well. president carter said. this may be your line page, but i love this line. president carter and president ford were on stage together and they were asked about their friendship. and president carter said of all the former presidents, we have the best friendship of any of them, including adams and jefferson. look at what they came over, came. how did this happen? paige can speak beautifully to this as well. but it happened because at the

r ford christmas. oh, so excellent. enjoy that. great. thank you and thank you so much. what you do as archivist and a museum to encourage these conversations and to encourage the study of history. it's incredible. thank you so we have your.

this is the media environment that gerald ford inherited. ironically , in his efforts to restore integrity to the presidency , he actually advanced these two components of richard nixon's media politics, his showbiz style and his cable niagenda. here is how it works. gerald ford confronted the a challenge of how to communicate, govern and then win an election in a political environment that one journalist characterized as disillusionment that have or turned into ridicule. he faced a cynical press corps, who had witnessed nixon lying and saw the events that went into to manipulate. th for ford, entertainment became a way to restore that trust by personalizing and humanizing the presidency. he notably wanted to do it ti differently than nixon. and to use popular culture to d bring the celebrity making t apparatus that nixon had so w carefully put in. he wanted to bring it into public conversations about how the presidency operated so that people could understand it r rather than being manipulated. he wanted transparency over secrecy. his new p

plants, not as ford joint ventures, which is what ford wanted. finally, if, for example, ford decides it no longer needs to transition as many people as possible and a transmission plant and they would like to transfer them to a battery plant and they make lower wages, well, those workers will go to the pay they made before and not the newer wage. host: (202)-748-8000, eastern and central time zones. (202)-748-8001 mountain and pacific time zones. electric vehicle owner, (202)-748-8002. alex is next in detroit. caller: good morning. i want to talk about i am the son of a great migration guy, my dad, in the 1950's. moved to michigan, got a job, and i got a job for gm, became a skilled tradesmen, i family did really, well, and my family is really well off as we speak. and people need to realize that as an auto worker, we really form the middle class, and it is disheartening to hear some of the negative stuff, not necessarily on the phone calls, but what people say about the golden parachutes and all the stuff that is just not true. the fact of it i

we have one of the ford president ford's family members, greg ford, a nephew of president. mrs. ford, welcome. glad you're always glad you're here. so, yeah, go ahead and applaud. absolutely absolutely. now, those of you who ve been to this gig before know thai have tried every which way possible humanly possible to introduce bill in new way. so one year, in fact, we used hihaiku poetry. remeer that year? haiku etry to. introduce him because he's the author of a lot of haiku poetry thatnded up in a boo another year we looked at, oh, this was this was rich. we looked at his student evaluate options. and i had never managed the two decades i've known bill to embarrass him in a goonatured way until i read the last student evaluation from a young woman who said, and you know, the best thing besides the great storytelling. he's hot. right? so i' run out of ideas for introducing him. so here's what i'd like to do. you all though, bill, u've been coming back 90% of the size. how many of you have heard bill in person? yeah. so i'm going to ask you the questions. where does h.w. brands t

since we are here at the gerald ford museum, where does gerald ford, a president popularly known more for his media struggles and triumphs -- how does he fit into this narrative ? to answer these questions, i want to dig into three key, very memorable moments, in evolution of the entertainer in chief over the past century. to show how these well-known moments reflect shifting ideas about the power of media in american politics and also the very policies that are shaping the business of television. on the surface, richard nixon's decision to appear on tv as a last-ditch effort to get votes in 1968, it may appear the same as ron nesson, gerald ford's press secretary -- his decision to appear on saturday night live and bill clinton to appear on mtv in 1992. i certainly make the argument in the completion of my first book that each involved a strategy of using entertainment to bipap -- bypass the press. my new book shows that there is more to the story as well. and unpacking the shifting media landscape from nixon, to fort, to clinton illuminates changes in how popular culture is used as

fored and mrs.-- ford and mrs. carter, i think, found each other in that conversation, and they became very close. and that's why they'd go back and government. they alls had something to work on and talk about. >> right. and the mental health issues, you know, much like addiction this cup's gone through -- country's gone through a crisis. people talk about that now, but they weren't. i mean, 40 years ago that was not a conversation. the samee thing with mental a illness. when people are having a mental health crisis, you know, none of us became -- she worked so hard to destigmatize the conversation, but it wasn't until -- whereec it really becae destigmatized.e parents could be talk about what their children were going through, when parents were going through it, when elderly were igoing through it. i think both of them were trailblazers in a way that just in the 21st century we're now seeing these are conversations you cans have at the dinner tabe and are conversations that were supported. both men had very stron

and since we are here at the gerald ford museum where does gerald ford, president popularly known more for his media struggles and triumphs, how does he fit into the narrative? to introduce questions don't want to go into three key memorable moments in the ablution of the entertainer in chief over the past half-century. to show how these well-known moments reflection of the ideas about the power of the media in american politics and also the policies that are shaped business of television. on the surface richard nixon's decision to appear on less than as a last-ditch effort to win votes in 1968 was the same for his press secretary and build clinton's decision to appear on mtv in 1992. i certainly make the argument in the conclusion of the book that each involves a strategy of using entertainment to bypass the press and speak directly to voters to show their personalities on the campaign trail. in my new book i'm talking to shifting media landscape of nixon to ford to clinton. and illuminates the significant changes in how c popular culture is used as a political tool and as a consequen

these were splashed onto the pages of ford's paper, which was distributed in ford motor dealerships across the country. ford also cited the publication his fall series in book form. it was titled the international --, and it ran to four volumes, never that the protocols was exposed as total make believe in 1921, which was basically right in the middle of henry ford's anti-semitic screed of a 92 part weekly newspaper series. ford's weekly international -- essays continued without pause. ford dealers kept the latest issue of the dearborn independent under the front seat of every newly purchased model t ford saw to it that the four volumes of the international -- were translated and published worldwide in 12 international editions, including one in germany and. stick a pin in that other americans organized an anti anti-semitic publicity campaign of notable and notably gentile americans. prominent public figures like wilson, clarence darrow, w.e.b., and william jennings bryan all joined the fight, calling ford's uttering, quote, un-american and un-christian. the former president, william howar

of ford. this is this is a great place. think about these things. and he is a representative of midwestern culture. he comes out of that culture. he represents well. but anyway, so the grange is a farm organization, started in minnesota in the 1870s. it spread throughout the midwest and it is able to succeed and take off very quickly because of the existing civic infrastructure that already here. and then after farmers alliances begin to form this later on, more into the populist party in some places but the populists are more active in the south and on the the populist were less successful in the midwest because. they already had a lot of influence, agricultural influence and and via the alliance etc. so yes, i do have a section in the book on importance of these agrarian societies and these agrarian clubs because let's face it, most of the 19th century that i'm talking about here, the rural midwest is up of farmers in the 1880s and 1890s are still. 80 and 90% of most of these states are our

, ford motors. know, basically created the modern means of -- the sort of modern factory method of assembly line production. brought costs down in doing so, paid his workers a higher wage than others. also, a raving anti-semite. that's like my two sentences on ford. the last part of that, that last sentence, like, i knew it. but when you read it in your book, when you reencounter henry ford on the subject of the jews, and what, and the lengths he went to, i really don't think that he -- i think that you need to kind of reverse the order of that bio. in the two sentences. it's like, this guy was wildly dangerous and bad, and aligned with the worst forces basically in history. >> i knew about ford's anti-semitism, i think, as if it were a private vice. no, he was a different thing. it was one of the things he contributed to this world. you want mead to read that part. do you mind if i read that? see who's coming to town. happy holidays! [crying] and with ring cameras, capture all the holiday magic. wi

about ford this year. i went to the ford library last week. is lucky enough to be able to go there and see the exhibits and and hear a very excellent presentation. but when i read your book, i mean really. ford it's political culture is not kind to gerald ford. talk to us a little bit about that. well, there's two things going on with gerry ford. number one is that he has a couple of well-publicized stumbles where he falls and one of them was they weren't really his fault. one of them, he was trying to help betty. and a slippery floor. but regardless, these stumbles led to this impress of him as a klutz. now, mind you, gerald ford was probably the best athlete ever to become president. he was expert skier. he was a good tennis player. he was a football player in college and was drafted into the nfl. he didn't play, but he was drafted and so ford was a tremendous athlete. but there was this perception of him as a klutz and because people didn't know his history. so that's one aspect. but the second thing is

that's my like two sentences on ford, right? i knew it but when you read it in your book, when you re-and counter henry fords on the subject of the jews and what and the length that he went to, i really don't think that we need to reverse the order of that bio in the two sentences. because it's like, this guy was wildly dangerous and bad. and aligned with the worst forces basically in human history. >> i knew about fords antisemitism, i think, as if it were a private vice. no, it was a different thing. it was one of the things he contributed to this world. john medary this part? >> i would like you to read that. part >> do you mind if i read this part? [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ teeth sensitivity is so common. it immediately feels like somebody's poking directly on the nerve. i recommend sensodyne. sensodyne toothpaste goes inside the tooth and calms the nerve down. and my patients say you know doc, it really works. the subway series is taking your favorite to the next level! like the #20. the elite chicken and bacon ranch. built wi

ford white house with a new book out about gerald ford and richard norton smith. i went to the ford library last week and was likely enough to be able to go there and see the exhibits an excellent presentation. when iwh read your book politicl culture is not kind to gerald ford. talk to us a little bit about that. >> they are two things going on with gerald ford. number onene is a couple of well publicized stumbles where he falls and one of them, they were falls. one of them he was trying to help betty ford. the stumbles gave an impression of him as a klutz. gerald ford was probably the best athlete to enter the presidency was a skier and a football player in college. he was drafted to the nfl and him gameplay but is drafted. he was a tremendous athlete but there is a perception of him as a klutz. that's one aspect for the second thing is the culture is changing at the time. and what's happening to the presidency and the evolution and culture are important factors in what's going on. but for the culture changing in that 10 or 15 years before you could make fun of

when i read your book, really ford, political culture is not kind to gerald ford, tell us about that. >> there are two things going on. what is he had some well- publicized stumbles where he fell. they were really his fault. he was trying to help betty on a slippery floor. regardless, the stumbles led to the impression of him as a klutz. gerald ford was probably the best athletes already present. he was an expert here in tennis player and he was drafted into the nfl. he did not play but he was drafted. ford was a tremendous athlete but there was perception of him as a klutz for people who know his history. that is one aspect and second is that the culture was changing at the time. that's what i'm trying to get into the book. the culture is changing and that 10 or 15 years before you could not make fun of the president on tv. with an attempt to do a skit show about lbj it was , botched by the sensors. and then there was a guy who did a record about the kennedys and basically did different accents from different kennedy brothers. it was not really that funny but there is a legendary mom

we're talking about ford and gm.there's absolutely no hurry to buy them because we're in the wrong part of the business cycle for anything auto-related. so take your time and wait for more weakness before you pull the trigger. and tesla, it's always going to be great it's just that it's greater at some points than it is in others like right now marty in new york. marty. >> caller: hey, jim, great show. >> thank you, marty. >> caller: after occidental's earnings calls this week what are your short-term and long-term thoughts on the stock? >> well, i don't really care for it it's been bid up by warren buffett, frankly i think it would be lower if it weren't for mr. buffett's buying i very much prefer coterra which had a much better quarter and i think that's the one you want. i think that's the one you should buy we own that for the charitable trust. george in texas. george >> caller: yes, sir. how are you doing, jim >> i don't know, george. i'm talking about these autos and i'm just sick that they're doing so poorly.

henry ford. of course ford was the founder of the ford motor company, the prefecture of assembly line production, one of the wealthiest and most influential men of earliest when the century, one of the great industrialists of the world history. and he was also, as many people know, an antisemite. but the zealousness, the viciousness with which he pursued that cause of hating jews, but cause of global persecution of jewish people, that, i think, has been a bit under emphasized in our collective recollection. it's not an asterisk to henry ford's legacy. it's right at the center. in fact, before the rise of adolf hitler, henry ford was probably the most powerful antisemite in the world. this is a topic of rachel maddow's remarkable book prequel, and sympathizers of fascism around will return those who defeated him. this past week and they get a chance to speak with reva for a live episode of my podcast, why is this happening? and she read is an excerpt about henry ford's story. >> he was one of the

and then there is henry ford.and, it's so funny because, i know, again, the broad strokes of henry ford. early industrialists, ford orders, created basically the modern means -- the so-called modern factory method assembly line production. brock them in doing so, gave workers a higher wage than others, also -- that's like my two cents. the last part of, that the last sentence, i knew it, but when he read it in your book, when you re-encounter henry ford on the subject of the jews, and what lengths she went to, i really don't think that we -- i think that you need to kind of reverse the order that bio ended two sentences, because it's like, this guy was wildly dangerous and bad and aligned with the worst person basically in human history. >> and i knew about forwards antisemitism, as if it were a private vice. no, he was a different thing. it was one of the things that he contributed. >> do you want me to read apart? >> i would need to read a part. >> you guys mind? [applause] [applause] having triplets is... -amaz

i mean really, ford, their political culture is not kind to gerald ford. talk to us a little bit about that? >> well, there are two things that are going on with gerald ford. number one, he has a couple of well publicized stumbles, where he falls. one of them, they were not really his fault. one of them he was trying to help steady and the slippery floor. but regardless, these stumbles led to this impression of him as a klutz. he was probably the best athlete to become president. at the time, and he's a tremendous athlete, butut theres a perception of him as a klutz and because people didn't know his history, and so that is one aspect. but the second thing is the culture that was changing at the time. that's what i'm trying to get at with the book and what's happening to the president and the evolution of the culture, they are both important factors in what is going on. so the culture is changing in that 10, 15 years before you couldn't make fun of the president on tv. there is an attempt to do a sketch show about lbj in the 1960s. there's a guy named von

middle east, you talked about proportionality and the true nature of israel, let me ask ambassador ford, what do you think of it all, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu has ruled out growing calls for a ceasfire, what do you think is the strategy here, what is israel playing at? well it's not certain but who does a strategy other than continuing with boming indefinitely, he does not appear even sort of an exit strategy, and he can continue this for a while, but there are growing limits, one of those limits is international public opinion, which the images around the world have seen. today that that that that front in in the war is definitely moving against israel, there is an international camer for a spire which is beginning to be reminiscent of vietnam in in america itself, even among the jewish community in america, some of the leaders of opinion, honorable jews falling on their country to support seesfire. um, in in this country, the situation has been made worse by the the posture adopted byassama, leader of the opposition labor party, has got himself into a position wh

, the founder of the ford automaker to react.raeli children grow up with a grudge and hatred against. on the other side they treat palestinian children as criminals. jews in israel treat the people of palestine exactly the same way that the nazies treated them in the past. they constructed a ghetto with high walls for palestinians. يا جاءتنا يا حبيب الروح بالدم تبديك يا عصاب بالدم تبديك يا حصاب علىصاب على صوب. عبديد المال عبيد النفود يا ابو خاص ما يحناك ويا مقاوم ما يعني بسصحته الشاش المرشود ومن لا يكون معك هو فقنا. ماضل مكان نشرد وين نشرد بيتي راح انا انقشف انا بيتي وين اروح انا لقيت وين نروح احنا ماضلش مكان نسكن فيهجه كلامك للاعلام ما ضلش مكان ما ضلش مكانيسان عمره 2000 سنه 385 مسيحي محتمين في الكنيسه بدنا نتهجر على سيينا كلمونا قالوا لنا لازم تطلع على الجنوب لازم تطلع على الجنوب لازم تطلع على الالجنوب البدنا نطلع من غزه بدنا نوت في غزه موتونا في غزه نزلوا سالوق مباشره الطابق المبنى فيه 385 نفق طبقين صار جوره تحت الارض وفي الكنيسه الثانيه فيها 500 هلقيت حتمشر ان شاء الله احنا كنا مخليين بالكنيسه كلنا حوالي 400 واحد مسيحي وقاعدين

here is a ford engine on a novator, and such a question is very practical, how does it cope with ourilitary diesel engine? in general, it's great, we didn't have any problems with the engines, er, in general, it seems that the engine was repaired only once out of the entire number of delivered cars. i.e., he is so capricious and he and we perform certain actions with a purpose simplification of emission standards, reduction of e-e pickiness about fuel, but in general it is really good there in terms of its technical characteristics and not pickiness of the engine. how do you keep in touch with the military regarding - well , improvements, improvements to the car, and, well, first of all, unfortunately, our war has been going on since 2014, yes, and all these cars that we supplied before since 2015, they are always accepting participation in hostilities, yes, that's why our cars did not take part in hostilities there from february 24, 2022, but before that they accepted, and such requirements, request recommendations were given to us constantly , they are constantly used by designers,

, the founder of the ford automaker to react.ainst. on the other side they treat palestinian children as criminals. jews in israel treat the people of palestine exactly the same way that the nazis treated them in the past. they constructed a ghetto with high walls for palestinians. خلي الهدي يرجعه. que viva palestina libre, viva, que viva cuba libre, viva, se hace la guerra, que viva la paz, podemos promover un mundo en el que todos vivamos en armonía. sigamos. when palestinian journalist shirin abule was killed by an israeli sniper on may 11th 2022, the israelis meant to get across a clear message that they don't want any narrative of the... than their own under decades old occupation of palestinian lands and their aggression. it wasn't the first time israelis sought to put gag on the alternative narrative, and every time it has failed. watch the history of the israeli measures and palestinian counter measures in this documentary. israel has free 39 palestinian prisoners, all women and children and exchange for 24 captives held

, the founder of the ford automaker to react. arabs. on the other side, they treat palestinian children as criminals. jews in israel treat the people of palestine. exactly the same way that the nazis treated them in the past. they constructed a ghetto with high walls for palestinians. we must not become part of south africa's problem, we must remain part of their solution. we must not aim to impose ourselves our solutions, our favorites in south africa, damn it, we have favorites in south africa. the favorites in south africa are the people who are being repressed by that ugly white regime. we have favorites. i also want to say a word about the situation in israel. the more we learned about the attack, the more horrifying it becomes. more than 1,000, 1,000 innocent lives lost, including at least 27 americans. these guys make, they make al-qaeda look pure, they're pure, they're pure evil. i say from the beginning, the united states make no mistake about it, stands with israel. united states stand to do. paris au mois de juin et ca

gerald ford became best friends. in fact, president carter gave the chief eulogy at gerald ford's funeral. you're going to be hearing about what she did in america's georgia and getting rid of the stigma of mental illness. she thought it needed to be on par with physical illness. and she pioneered and championed that. today we're more used to it. but when she was doing it in the 1970s, there was no spokesperson that was as brave as she was. and, you know, she really -- it's easy to roll out numbers. she traveled 150 countries with her husband. she went everywhere around the world. she built houses with habitat for humanity in the heat, you know, hammering nails, without complaint. she would do great outdoor adventures. she loved the outdoors as much as her husband, and they would go fishing and camping. they'd go to the mountains of north georgia and go all over the place. when you look at their legacy, the carters, how much of american land, national monuments, wildlife refugees they worked to save, it's quite remar

, the founder of the ford automaker to react.udge and hatred against. on the other side they treat palestinian children as criminals. jews in israel treat the people of palestine exactly the same way that the nazis treated them in the past. they constructed a ghetto with high walls for palestinians. الله اكبر الله اكبر, الله الله اكبر الله اكبر يا ابو غيده سير سرير سامعيني سامعينات شو يابا يابا نحن بني ادامله تواجدوا هنا قبل ابو العائله ist die stimmung gut, ich lernte ihn, zweifellos tut, vor 9 monaten oder gut zu heißen, bzw. zu solchen taten aufzufordern. formalien, die polizei aufladen. ich muss sagen. spdd.通過口 i believe that working together we can make history. people in israel marked parim as a holiday to comemorate the saving of the jewish people from annihilation at the hands of the kamanite empire in persia, as it is recounted in the book of esther, they've been using the occasion to play the victim, but what is the reality and is there truth in it? watch this documentary to gain some insight. in the gaza strip, palesti

, the founder of the ford automaker to react.ian children regretfully. stay behind the walls and witness their homes and land being confiscated. israeli children grow up with a grudge and hatred against arabs. on the other side, they treat palestinian children as criminals. jews in israel treat the people of palestine exactly the same way that the nazis treated them in the past. they constructed a ghetto. with high walls for palestinians. we're taking a look now at live images coming through the iraqi prime minister um muhammad sudani is visiting the islamic republic is being received by iran's president and we are looking the images that are coming through based on the reception that he is getting. now this is deemed to be uh an important visit not only in terms of uh the visit itself, but also the reasons behind it, which uh may have the uh war on ghaza to be one of the key issues that will be discussed, here he's being received and being given a warm welcome by the iranian president of mic. um, taking a look at the gaz of war,

, the founder of the ford automaker to react.rudge and hatred against arab. on the other side they treat palestinian children as criminals. jews in israel treat the people of palestine exactly the same way that the nazis treated them in the past. they constructed a ghetto with high walls for palestinians. the reaction is to support yaaba, always was, always will be of innocent palestinians in the state of israel terrorizing. اونچه که دولت های اسلامی باید در اون پافشاری کنن قطع فوری این جنایت هاییست که دارن در غزه انجام میدن این بندران ها باید فورا قطع بشن راه صدور نفت و ارزاق به رژیم صهیونیستی رو ببندن. همکاری اقتصادی نکنند دولت های اسلامی با رژیم صهیونیستی در همه مجامع جهانی با صدای بلند این جنایت رو این فاجعه آفرینی رو محکوم کنن بدون تردید بدون لکننت۔ اسلام این رو فراموش نکنند که تو این قضیه مهم و تعیین کننده اون کسی که در مقابل اسلام در مقابل یک عده یک ملت مسلمان در مقابل فلسطین مظلوم ایستاد آمریکا بود فرانسه بود انگلیس بود البته قدرت استکبار با بمب و فشار نظامی و گنباران و فاجعه و جنایت پیش میاد قدرت ایمان در همه اینها غلبه پ