being one of them, william fulbright. know, moderate, relatively younger senators and certainly house members who saw this as, you know, once it had passed, you know, this isn't so bad. they saw an emergent south that was biracial, and they realized if i'm going to be here for another 20 years, i kind of can't keep being, you know, voting against civil rights. now, not everybody did that, and a lot of them did oppose it. but you had somewhat easier passage because of that. also voting rights was somewhat different from, i think civil rights made it easier for voting rights to pass, but also something very specific. it also had the immediate sort of context of selma march. the selma march was so important, and johnson gave yet another one of his important civil rights speeches where he finished by saying, i think it was at the end, we shall overcome, quotes the movement directly this the speech. and it was sort of, you know, the sequel that's kind of a guaranteed hit because the first one was such a success. now, that said

pakistan is maybe the biggest% but -- participant of the fulbright.owever in case of police and law enforcement it has happened i think frankly quite late and not much that is being done. because in like the military commander relationship or department of defense and other organizations, very clear demarcation of responsibility, full engagement of military of partner nation. when it comes to police, and the united states there is no single office which can coordinate any law enforcement partnership. state department, yes, at a low level. very, very small level. i really hope there will be more funding to go to-itis. there's a history. -- to go to ins. this is make it which i want to write my next book. partnerships as a new model for intervention. if we have to intervene in a failed state, what is the first things that you will do? always support. the difference between the roads in karachi is, cross a certain limit, i get a ticket. in karachi or elsewhere you cannot do that. everything comes down to law enforcement. and the rule of law. so thank you

i dutifully did that and said we have the same problem with senator fulbright in the foreign relationsommittee. next day is an above the fold headline, "kissinger aide attacks fulbright for leaking." >> which he was doing. >> which he was doing. i get a call from al haig, henry wants to see you. i figured cap, -- i figured, well, what am i going to do? >> this is not going to be a good meeting, you can tell. >> where am i going to work after this? i come in and he says, go on in. henry is sitting at his desk. "lehman, the secretary of state has said you must be fired, that you are poisoning relations which he has been working on for years to improve relations with senator fulbright, so i was called into the president's office and president nixon said , i know bill called you, he called me and said you should fire this fellow lehman." nixon said, what do you think, henry? henry said, i was thinking of promoting him. [laughter] >> one point gets back to the system. you made an important point. neither nixon nor kissinger wanted yes-men or yes-women. they wanted honest points of view and

is an above the fold headline, his and your aid -- attacks fulbright -- -- "kissinger aide attacks fulbrightr leaking." which he was doing. , henry call from al haig wants to see you. >> this is not going to be a good meeting, you can tell. >> where am i going to work after this? in.me in and he says go on henry is sitting at his desk. "lehman, the secretary of state has said you must be fired, that you are poisoning relations which he has been working on for relations withe , so i waslbright called into the president's saide and president nixon i know bill called you, he called me and said you should fire this fellow lehman." said, what do you think, henry? henry said, i was thinking of promoting him. [laughter] one point gets back to the system. image an important point neither nixon nor kissinger wanted yes-men or women. they wanted honest points of view and debate before a decision was made. that once the decision was made if you were on the losing side, you carry it out loyaltly. if not, you resigned. that is how i got to be a special assistant. the first year i was in the executive off

fulbright scholar who earned her ph.d. at stanford. thank you for being on the program. >> glad to be here. >> what is the rolling jubilee? >> it's something we can think of as a social hack. it's an action that allows us, that in fact forces us to rethink, to reimagine what we thought we knew about debt. in the past debtors experienced debt as isolating, shameful, a reason to be afraid, a reason not to open the mail, a reason not to pick up the phone. and the rolling jubilee and strike debt work more broadly in saying what if debt was not about individual isolation, shame, fear, what if debt was a platform for collective action? so the rolling jubilee, by buying up what's called distressed debt for pennies on the dollar and then sending a letter to the debtor saying, hey, we've forgiven this debt, we don't try to collect it. we abolish it. we ask people to rething that and say, wait a minute, you can buy debt for pennies on the dollar? most think if their debt is a thousand dollars, it will cost a thousand dollars. they don't know tha

she is currently a fulbright scholar but also a teacher in brookline, massachusetts. she asked what should a teacher do when they catch students bullying other students? you're welcome. >> great. i think it is a great question. i thing number one that all teachers, all members of school faculty, whether it is the custodian, the lunch line person, the school bus driver, any time they find or somebody brings it to their attention, i think they have to stop what they are doing, address the situation, and refer where appropriate to the next person that can intervene. here is why. if they see it and they see the student committing the act of bullying and they don't do anything about it, it sends two signals. one, you got away with it in front of an adult. that means you can do it again, multiple times. to the child who is being bullied, who sees the adult in their peripheral vision, it says to them i am all on my own. no one is helping me here. i am not afraid of the bullier. i am very concerned about the children being bullied because that child may become so fearful they

you and i remember senator fulbright and others who work informed.lation ship of the president to the foreign-policy experts within thedemocratic party and evil republicans. >> the republican party right now on the hill, john mccain and others, and some within the democratic party, diet feinstein , -- ane feinstein as well >> they are not happy. >> they are not happy. there is a core group of hawks who feel that america is not flexing its muscles enough. those are the people you see on the talk shows that are not the rank-and-file. >> where is john kerry in this? he has been kind of missing in action. >> arguably, he is about to make the most important trip this week. that is, the nato summit. and then he's going onto the middle east to try to read -- try to build this regional countries,f states, that have an interest in dealing with the islamic state thread. these are countries that do not get along already on a range of issues. but maybe, just maybe, the islamic state will be a unifying factor. >> what countries? jordan, mayber, iran as well. thes

benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and william fulbright as our heroes. are they there today?is the system the founders set in place is so open to penetration that it is geared to block government power and block government from being a tyranny. then nothing can get done. of rising partisan division and there is so much wealth floating around the stymiedgovernment gets and can't do the things it needs to do to solve national problems. you have stasis. >> are there too many checks and balances? in this are so many partisan divide, there is so much money, nothing gets done because everything can get blocked. >> you can see that in the kansas senate rate. >> you talk about this gridlock, isn't that something that investors like it? they say that coming into a midterm election and is a good thing to have a gridlock. we know what to expect. whatthink certainty is investors want. if you have a policy in front of you that you can understand and analyze and handicap and see how it will impact or print wefitability, this is what care about. how does the policy actually impact the compa

finally, as the media began to report from vietnam you saw this with the fulbright hearings and congress began to take a more active role in that war. the american people turned against the war over time and, of course, we eventually came -- pulled out of vietnam. iraq is a very, very different situation for sure. every war has its similarities, i guess, with previous wars and some differences. into iraq case, we went the war under president george bush while we were still fighting in afghanistan and went in in a fairly powerful way. made a lot of progress in a short period of time on the ground militarily but, of course, did not begin to resolve the internal problems on the ground there. in both instances the congress i think played a very secondary role to the executive branch in aking the decision to go in. guest: you have about five minutes left with our guest. go ahead. caller: yes. good morning, representative. i have two questions. i am not a birther or 9/11 truther. i just want to know, did the question of building seven come up and how it collapsed, during the commission, and, a