you speak positively about senator fulbright's. -- senator fulbright. for those who do not know the name -- you wrote about the fulbright national program. who was t? >> senator will buy -- senator fulbright was from arkansas. he was a rhodes scholar. he went into politics when he was young. the fulbright program, which pays for exchange scholarships and exchange programs around the world, came out of an idea he had a using the excess money that came out of world war ii. he used it to pay for this scholarship program. he went to the senate and worked his way up and became chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. at a time when the committee was much smaller than it is now and the staff was 16 people. he studied foreign policy and went out of this way to talk to leaders that we disagreed with. during the period i work for him, during the 1960's and the -- the period i worked for him, the colde 1960's and war, he said, you had to understand the other side's point of view. he had a committee that was understanding and bipartisan. both subcommitt

i was -- i was so impressed with fulbright scholarship to m.i.t. correct? a modest guy. but you're also a chemical engineer? >> yeah. >> jay: okay. >> i'm a smart actor who plays dumb characters. [ applause ] >> jay: yeah, okay. smart actor plays dumb characters. do you know how rare that is? >> yeah, it's rare. >> jay: i mean, what did you want? did you want to be a chemical engineer? is that what it -- >> yeah, my dad was an engineer and i tried to impress him, studied engineering, then i changed my mind. became a starving actor in new york. >> jay: okay -- so your dad's in sweden. >> yeah. >> jay: he sends you to school, to m.i.t. >> mm-hmm. >> jay: okay, how did you get into acting? how did that happen? >> i don't know. i don't know. it was just kind of crazy. i met this girl, grace jones. >> jay: this girl, grace jones. okay, yeah. >> she was a famous singer back in the '80s, and then she took me around in new york and i met andy warhol and a couple people like that, and then, you know, i got into acting school and before i knew it, i had a role in a b

because of his work, he was arrested several times and fled abroad where he was awarded a fulbright scholarship here at syracuse. so he was offered a share of the american dream, to study here and a celebrated university, all expenses paid, and the chance to escape his own country, which was on the brink of civil war. >> but, his friends explained, he could not stay. >> having witnessed what he has witnessed, i think it was just unsettling to him that people can live lives so calmly and quiet. >> do you think it -- he was right to go back? >> for him, it was at of the question to stay. people were struggling and dying there. this is how he saw it. it might be wrong or right. i do not think it is built. i think it is love. >> i have the same situation in my country in a different way. we always say the world is just watching what is happening and not doing anything. we did not want to be part of this world who is watching and not doing anything. >> went back to homs earlier this year to make another film describing the reality of living in a city which has been bombarded with heavy weapons now f

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>> guest: well, i went for--for a year to the london school of economics on a fulbright, was married at the end of the year and then came back to do my graduate work at harvard. c-span: who'd you marry? >> guest: i married charles maier, who is a historian, now a professor, at harvard. c-span: you got your phd in what? >> guest: in american history. and i work with bernard bailyn, who was an eminent historian of early american--of early america at harvard. c-span: so along the way, what did the old fireman think of all this? >> guest: he watches with great pride. and people are very nice. he--collects all the books, and when people come in, he says, 'let me show you what my daughter did.' and my mother rolls her eyes and most people say, 'he has a right to be proud of his child. take it with very good grace.' c-span: are they alive? >> guest: my parents are both alive and well. c-span: and did her your mother ever have an interest in history back in those days? >> guest: no, i don't think so. it's my peculiarity within the family. c-span: so after you got your phd, then what? >> gues

she is one of the new iraqi fulbright scholar studying in the united states.d horrific horrors, including the gassing of her village by saddam hussein. she told me that when people look at iraq, what they don't see is that iraq is a country of 25 million people, each with their own hopes. as we watch the people of iraq and afghanistan take the per se steps to build free countries, i am reminded of what block of kabul once told me -- vaclav havel once tell me. he was then president of the czech republic. he said to me, laura, you know, democracy is hard. it requires the participation of everybody. i think how long it took us in our country, even though we were given such a perfect document by our founders, it took almost 100 years after the founders declared that all men are created equal, to abolish slavery. not until 84 years ago this month that american women get the right to vote. [applause] our nation has not always live up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. they expose our flaws and they lead us to mend them. we are the benefic