he needs a one-on-one debate with george bush to make his case of why he'd be a better nominee than george bush. as the debate negotiations are going on, reagan creeps in the polls and now this table is turned so bush wants the other candidates involved. then the federal election commission steps in and says, no, this newspaper cannot pay for the debate. it's an illegal corporate contribution so the reagan campaign steps up, okay, we'll pay the $3,000 for the debate. now you have again the tables have turned again so that this is now the new hampshire -- the nashua telegraph is only three days before the primary. and reagan is surging in the polls but he hasn't caught george bush yet but he wants the other candidates involved to dilute the anti-reagan vote. bush puts his feet in granite and says absolutely not. these other candidates are not going to be involved. reagan says i'm paying for this. i think they should be involved. so what happens is that you have this famous confrontation at nashua high school. there's 2500 people there. it's hotter than blazes inside. somebody described it -

administrations of presidents carter, reagan, george h.w. bush, president clinton, and george w. bush. that is 33 years. 33 years. and all of a sudden my colleagues want to change our policy on federal funding of abortion. mr. president, we shouldn't be making this type of sweeping policy change in this health care legislation. and the nelson amendment is necessary -- is a necessary addition to the bill in order to protect our current policy and the unborn. i understand that not everyone in this country agrees with my position on abortion. and, again, i know that this issue deeply divides americans on ethical, moral, and religious grounds. while i have said that i don't agree with abortion and believe roe v. wade should be overturned, the nelson amendment -- and this is really important -- does not prevent anyone from seeking an abortion, it does not overturn roe v. wade and it does not place any new restrictions on access to

, so he calls george bush, and george bush is blown away, no idea. he was convinced like everybody in america gerald ford was coming on the ticket with reagan. >> let me ask one more question before i throw it to the audience for any questions. it directly falls on that, and goes back to jack kemp. why did his start off rise at least high enough to be more seriously in consideration for the vice presidency? >> there was a lot of affection on the part of the delegates and governor reagan for jack kemp, and that comes through and all the people i talk to and material i went through. there were probably -- the biggest thing that kept jack kemp off the ticket with reagan is that the aides felt like it would be to match to ask the american people to swallow the ticket of a former movie actor and pro football player. it might have been too much to ask the american people in 1980 and that's probably as much as anything because really the delegates would say the vast majority of the delegates but a great number of the delegates really wanted -- really wanted

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who were too young to ever see him play the game despite all of his accomplishments in baseball, george kell was simply a good friend and neighbor to those who knew him best. throughout his life he kept returning to his hometown of swifton, a place he loved like no other. he was an active and respected member of the community, serving on the arkansas highway commission for 10 years and his career gave him the opportunity to see it all. but he knew there was no place like home. kell died in swifton in march of this year at the age of 86. it was a tremendous loss that was felt by his friends and family and the state of arkansas. george kell's enduring popularity is evidence by the fan mail he continued to receive long after his retirement.

and he calls george bush is just blown away. had no idea. 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

he says, hello, george, may i call you george? what are we going to talk about?e sort of sensed as the time developed that would ever happened in policy, whatever substantial issues to challenge them, that these men were going to get on. that is exactly what happened. they had a very good weekend together. the best conference was probably when they had the colgate moment, which you may remember, the press conference that did not do justice to the nature of the relationship, which was promising. as we look at what happened from that moment until june of that year, they met at various international meetings from time to time, my memory is a little confused, but i remember them saying the president just got back and the only person he talked to was tony. it was a slow leak warming relationship all through -- it was a slowly warming relationship all through that era. >> i just have to more questions. during that time, focusing on iraq, where their members of the administration that you were talking to at that time who were beginning to contemplate removing saddam hus

in spite of how irritating i am bill george envoy put up with me. in spite of my two a m calls andrea, she just gets the voicemail this ubl call me the next day. in spite of my nonstock travel around the world my white still finds value in having me overcount. so, the five loss of love leadership, loss creates leaders. i don't believe you could have a rainbow without a storm first. it is a scientific fact. nobody whitson the pad morning and says i want to start cancer foundation. who starts cancer foundation's? or people who love people who have been afflicted with cancer, that is where, so we passion is a motion made intelligence and properly focused. passion as the motion made intelligence improperly focused. number two courage is nothing more than your faith reaching for your fear showing action. courage is nothing more than your faith reaching through your fear and is playing itself in action. nobody he was ever been courageous when somebody says what about courageous, or it will tell you i was shaking in my boots when that happened. nothing was

george bush left approval ratings in the low 30's.at this time of year, his numbers were probably around 70. so it is all in front of us for president obama, and we have to remember that. we need to take a deep breath with these polls. 53 -- 53% approval ratings when you have 10% unemployment? that is pretty impressive. guest: there is a fallacy that we fall into, assuming that trend follow current projections, six months later we could be saying that he was great, or maybe he was just as bad as a push. host: is there a concern on your part that the bush administration, clinton administration, obama administration will be defined by the polls and other than by the offense, or how they handle them -- events, or how they handle them? guest: i do not think so. bush left with a record low numbers. guest: truman left office with lower numbers than george bush. presidents are judged by who came after them, what happened, the fruits of their labor. when the post-mortem of the eisenhower was written, everyone talks about the shah in iran. eve

george bush left approval ratings in the low 30's.at this time of year, his numbers were probably around 70. so it is all in front of us for president obama, and we have to remember that. we need to take a deep breath with these polls. 53 -- 53% approval ratings when you have 10% unemployment? that is pretty impressive. guest: there is a fallacy that we fall into, assuming that trend follow current projections, six months later we could be saying that he was great, or maybe he was just as bad as a push. host: is there a concern on your part that the bush administration, clinton administration, obama administration will be defined by the polls and other than by the offense, or how they handle them -- events, or how they handle them? guest: i do not think so. bush left with a record low numbers. guest: truman left office with lower numbers than george bush. presidents are judged by who came after them, what happened, the fruits of their labor. when the post-mortem of the eisenhower was written, everyone talks about the shah in iran. eve

president obama and former president george bush talk about volunteer is a at the george bush presidential library. later, astronauts discuss the legacy of the apollo 11 moon mission. on tomorrow's "washington journal," we will speak with clark kent ervin, henry farrell, and a look at the president vacationing in hawaii with ken walsh. >> a rare clips into america's highest court threw unprecedented conversation with 10 supreme court justices about the accord, their work. five days of interviews with supreme court justices starting on monday on c-span. get your own copy of the supreme court on dvd as part of c-span's american icon program. one of the many items available as c-span do.org/store. >> the center section. it is the primary entrance. it is where presidents arrive and depart from. blair house is on the inside block. 1 we 109 room, 70,000 square feet. to put into perspective, we have 5000 square feet larger in the white house is. >> the primary mission is to be a guest home for world leaders to come here. it is used for that purpose. it has never failed. >> since 1942, just about

we were sorry to learn of the passing of our colleague george michael.the definitive word on our sports teams. he changed our expectations of what a sports cast on the news should be. i had the pleasure and challenge of competing with george on a nightly basis. george raised the bar to a standard that we all achieved. he is a good man and a talent. we will never forget you, george. >> steve: he was so good on the air, that whole news team became a part of your daily life. ryan gomes is in the game. a foul on caron. there is four minutes to play in the second quarter. w is on a 13-1 run. wilkins misses that, another rebound and misses that. gomes is there, he is fouled and he scores. >> phil: that was shear determination especially on the part of wilkins. he grabbed several rebounds in a crowd. you see oberto. >> steve: before that field goal, the timberwolves missed a beautiful pass. >> phil: i don't know if he saw oberto. you can see the two exchanging high 5's. >> steve: flynn goes in and scores easily. arenas nice move off the glass, couldn't get it t

. >> t other night on a charl gibson's "abc wor news" prram, george stephanopoulo d a graphic behind himand he showed harry truman's number is going down becau of the korean war, lyndon johnson'because of the vietnam war, and george bush's because of iraq. >> i love the historical analogies, particularly wit vietnam. but we spe more than $1 trillion and 5000 liv chang a few shadowy figes and the bills for one reason, nlear weapons. in these earlieroris -- obvisly, in the cold war, we we worried about the soviet unio -- this is alabout new york and washington and n francisco going up in radioactive du because of jihadists getting nuclear weapons. it see likeuch distant, remote kind of ridiculous that. and yet the consequences are pret great >>. at is whyhis war ibout kistan, not about afghanian. ife abandon theegion, pakistan to lost, and the loss o pakistan to radical islam uld be catastrophic. but let me jt say aord about the politics of this. why are peoplsurprised? are we al suffering of and mia? for the last five years, the democrs have argued that afghanistan was the the good wa

> my view, and i think i have said this in the book, given the nature of the relationship between george w. bush and tony blair, we could have achieved more by playing a tou gher role. for example, and this is not the first time i had said it, if we had made it a condition of our participation that india inde -- indeed, we should have been detailed planning for what would happen if we were to remove saddam hussein, it could be a very different outcome. >> in the end, we were left with the choice to be able to ongoing with the state's, taking us into some uncomfortable areas, or should we part company with the united states with all the downside is that that would entail. -- all the down sides that that would entail? >> it would depend on when it was done. it did not necessarily mean parting company. if, for example, and i wasn't fair, but i am pretty sure it happened. if crawford had said, i want to help george on this, but we will not be allowed to take in any individual operations. we have absolute clarity about what happens in iraq if it comes to that, removing saddam hussein, it woul

george kell post office.george kell played baseball for 15 years and in that time established his place in history as one of baseball's greatest third basemen. over the span of his career he played with the athletics, orioles, the red sox, white sox and not only was he a 10-time all-stars he was also elected to the baseball hall of fame. his passion for the game continued. it led him to become the broadcaster for the tigers. he broadcast every game from 1959 to 1996 missing obviously only one season in 1964. he was well loved and respected by fans and players alike. it's appropriate that we honor this local icon by supporting 3634. mr. speaker, i'd like to reserve the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. speaker. whenever a former member of the red sox is recognized, i have to join in those accolades, and i'm very pleased to support the resolution offered by my friend, mr. berry from

he is started the same way he started the george mason game with a nice, easy game. >> down. the rebound. chris johnson. here comes london, finds chris johnson, back the other way. flyers looking to get set now in the half court. london up top with it. they double team him, swinging around. somebody is open in the corner. it's marcus johnson. now, they pick him up. dayton up 2-0. >> it starts at the high post and looks for a little dunk down for the low post to chris wright. >> stolen back by chris johnson. chris wright picks up the loose one, gets the bucket. >> derek: they are being very aggressive tonight, taking the ball to the bass kempt as you said, only two points in the last game. he already matched that in less than two minutes in tonight's ballgame. give the credit to chris johnson. he had the hand up after the bad pass and was able to knock it down. old dominion looking for their first point. that's leeway outside. darius james with it on the left point. >> you can rest assured that the monarchs will be looking to lee on this play down court here. he is really the

he says, hello, george, may i call you george? what are we going to talk about?d that would ever happened in policy, whatever substantial issues to challenge them, that these men were going to get on. that is exactly what happened. they had a very good weekend together. the best conference was probably when they had the colgate moment, which you may remember, the press conference that did not do justice to the nature of the relationship, which was promising. as we look at what happened from that moment until june of that year, they met at various international meetings from time to time, my memory is a little confused, but i remember them saying the president just got back and the only person he talked to was tony. it was a slow leak warming relationship all through -- it was a slowly warming relationship all through that era. >> i just have to more questions. during that time, focusing on iraq, where their members of the administration that you were talking to at that time who were beginning to contemplate removing saddam hussein with force? >> i did not see tha

sending this message to george sean carter and iris carter in allentown, virginia. i want to wish you a blessed and memorable holiday season. i'm proud of you, sean. keep pressing on, babe. >>> security at local emergency rooms is in question after a man fires a flair gun inside of a maryland hospital. digital correspondent kristin fisher has more from prince georges hospital center in cheverly. >> reporter: 39-year-old evan gerald graham walked in the emergency room on saturday night. but when he became disorderly with staff, he was asked to leave by a security guard. >> pulled out a flare gun and pointed it at the security guard. after that he fired two shots in to the air, struck the ceiling of the hospital. >> reporter: fortunately no one here was injured in the incident but that's not always the case. health care workers are twice as likely as those in other fields to be injured in a violent act at work and the emergency room is by far the most dangerous place. 20% of emergency departments report that gun organization knives are brought in to the er on a daily

as george orwell reminded us years ago, one of the temptations to which intellectuals are susceptible is to assume that whatever is happening right now will continue to happen, that tomorrow will inevitably look just like today. in some ways it will, but in some ways it won't. certainly, the future is preconditioned by the past. but it is not predetermined by the past. we are creatures of our mental constructs and our life experiences, yes, but we are not robots. the longer i study history, the more i -- impressed i am by the importance of contingency, the unforeseen and the unforeseeable, in the shaping of human events. american conservatives, i believe, instinctively look upon our history in this way. not simply as a burden and constrained constraint, but as possibility. they should therefore take heart, and indeed are already doing so, from the knowledge that this moment, too, shall pass away. secondly, in their fixation on the sound and fury of the stormy present, it is easy for conservatives to overload and undervalue one of their most impressive achievements during the past 40 y

they have associated them with george bush.g on the republican line from doylesto doylestown, pennsylvania tkpwhrao i would like to say something about your guests. i believe they are the same that are on fox news and haveç spre the sail garbage about iran and said the same things about the war. basically those people have no idea that [inaudible] it was a [inaudible] building and it came down. tkpwhr first of all, we appreciate your joining us. we appreciate both jonathan broder and barbara slaven to be with us but there is the theory that the planes didn't bring down the world trade tower. guest: it is a little early on a sunday morning. i wanted to go back to the early question bucking about this issue of failed states because there is infrastructure out there. we have the i.m.f. and world bank and united nations with all of its many organizations. you have some very good organizations like unicef, world food program that provide all kinds of memb kinds of emergencyç help even places that are falling apart and sometimes at

i said, if presidents are stocks, buy george w. bush. if it moves at all it is going to go up. it cannot go down. i said more seriously, look at grant. he was in the cellar for 100 years and he did not deserve to be there. he was put there by elite historians like henry adams to thought he used the wrong forks, he was put there by a completely converted racists who were the dunning school and they were southerners and it was "the birth of a nation" with footnotes. the insurgents one. i think bush, we will see. he made it possible for the insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama?

reagan taking george bush because of these lingering issues being left unaddressed. this one day of what is just madness in detroit where they try to put together the copresidency which some of you would remember the gerald ford, the dream ticket where, you know, he had reagan running for president and they tried to get gerald ford it off serve -- to run as vice president. i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation. because if you had reagan and -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president, would you address ford as mr. president, mr. vice president or address him as

this didn't happen on george bush's watch, it happened on its watch. its behavior towards the afghan election was a little bit like the famous deer in the headlights, it could see the problem coming but seem mess merized until it was run over. here again, we don't have a time machine and go back and fix it.

and the family beauty and idealist who married the george washington of china. and when she died a few years later, became a communist. after them, came the eldest brother known as tv. a brilliant economist and then mailing. there were two younger brothers, but they did not figure heavily into the chinese power structure. certainly, the most famous was mailing, who became china's face of the world during the middle of the 20 century. she was as well known as she was, representing not only her husband, but her country. drove her older brother absolutely crazy. the brother thought that he should be running china. and if china had not been at war at the time and need a military time at the helm, he may well have been right. tv did not get along with chiang. dtd get along with his other brother in law, the husband of his sister. a gentleman named h. h. couldn't. the very first thing i was told about h. h., was that he was the 75th lineal descendent of confucius. like any normal stupid american, i burst out laughing. until i was informed in all seriousness that they

in ohio, george voinovich. in oklahoma, tom coburn and james inhofe. in south carolina, jim dementhe and lindsey graham. in tennessee, alexander and bob corker. in texas, john cornyn and kay bailey hutchinson. in utah, robert bennett and orrin hatch. in wyoming, john bo rah sew and michael enby. please remember these names. these are people who have stole health care for this country -- who have staaled health care in this country. they watched as day after day, month after month, people get sick and even die because they have no health coverage. i assure each and every one of you that have done anything to obstruct health care, people will remember. maybe not the people who die, but the people who loved them. the people whose names i read at our website, namesofthedead.com. these are people who are gone but the names, the list grows every single day until we solve this problem. then in the end, when we do solve this problem, and it's inevitable, every other industrial country in the entire world has health insurance for everyone, when we do join the r

>> i am an educator at george mason university. i teach graduate students courses in american government and urban policy and that sort of thing. i'm also interested in a larger world. i try to do as much media as i can and write a little bit, columns. i am somebody who is trying to go beyond just the ivory tower walls of academia to speak to a large audience. that is a good deal of it. "the huffington post" and my own web site came about out of some frustration and i am writing columns and submitting them all across the country. not one was published. i got one published by the "topeka capital journal" years ago. i was so frustrated,i decided to go out and write my own columns on my own website. i knew someone who knew somebody at "huffington post." the next thing you know i was there. that opportunity has opened up other opportunities. >> give us an example of what that does for you. >> it is actually pretty amazing. i have come to learn that many news producers go to "the huffington post" and i have ended up on radio or televisi

kerry, jane, sally, george and john. remember those things.harry wants to know what jane, sally, george and john are thinking about a given issue. and jane wants to know what harry, sally, george and john, each of the others want to know what the other four are thinking. hairy problems to know what jane thinks and maybe even harry wants to know what jane thinks sally thinks george is saying to john. so if we go through all of those, there are five factorial possible interactions of interest that that's 120. actually, only 60 of them are really important. at least according to my model, and a smart person can keep that straight in your head. if you have 10 decision-makers, still a very small problem. there are 3.6 million possible interactions and factorial. nobody can keep that straight in at. again, we really don't care about all the. i care about a little over 5000 of them and nobody can keep that straight in your head. now think about writing down a model. a model is equation is. it's a math. but the math means that the logic is transparent

george bush said brown was doing a good job when people were drowning in katrina. we don't reduce people to a sound bite and their worst political moment. the system itself is broken. it's dysfunctional. you can't isolate that with napolitano. >> that is why we came out with the director of intelligence to coordinate all of this. and that's his responsibility. >> i'm going to have to have a quick show of hands from all of you. who believes that anyone on the top levels gets fired over this or is this just a big bureaucratic mess? anybody getting fired? >> i think -- >> nobody. >> some lower level person will be fired but the bureaucracy will still be just as incompetent and will run more of your lives every day. >> i hope it changes. >> they should staff these departments with what if not bureaucrats? political appointees? it is an odd statement. >> lively, energetic people who are motivated. >> i'm sure people would be heartened to hear you don't think they're lively or care about the security of the country. >> i don't care if they're heartened or not. they're cl

there are chapters about vancouver island named oprah winfrey and there are cranes named tex and george and falcons named scarlett. these are very personal issues to the people involved, aren't they? >> guest: absolutely. and it's interesting because when i began studying the chimpanzees i had no idea that from the point of view of strict science i should have given them names, not names but numbers and while i didn't know that it seems ridiculous to me. so, the chimpanzees had numbers and i described their personalities and minds and feelings and when i got to the cambridge university to get my ph.d. i was told this was wrong but thinking back to my childhood teacher i knew that the scientists were wrong and i was right because that was my dog, and you can't have some kind of animal share your life and not understand it. of course they have personalities, minds and feelings and of course they deserve names, but even today there are people who feel and probably rightly that if they start talking in these terms about their animal they will be less eligible to get grants from surgeon orga

caller: good morning, george w.k obama.ç host: çthere is a drop to low levels by banks, and the çóbank that once had home loans freely, and many are effectively locked out. and the scarsity has not only hurt homeowners but brought repercussions at a time for improvement hinting at recovery after a recession. thank you for your comments and this the be available in "time magazine" on thursday. next we will look at how insurance for those 65 to 74 how it would work. and first we look back at the past events of the week from cartoonists. >> political commentary, michael frau -- fauntroy, our guest tonight on c-span's "q & a." >> this week on the communicators, more on the wireless industry and a perspective from at&t mobility. "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome maria freese, he's a policy director to conserve social security and medicare. good morning. guest: thank you for inviting us. host: what is where you are reaction from senator reid, to allow those age 64 to buy into medicare, those could

like george washington, monroe craughwell in a modest virginia farm. after the war he decided against full-time farming. he went back to finish his education at the college of william and mary and studied law we under thomas jefferson. monroe then chose public service as a full-time career. the first american leader ever to do so. by the time he died, he had held more offices than any public figure in history. state legislator, congressman, ambassador to france, to britain, minister to spain, fourth term governor of his home state of virginia, u.s. secretary of state, secretary of war, and finally to term president of the united states, the fifth president. as governor of virginia he became the second most powerful figure in america. virginia than was america's largest, wealthiest and most heavily populated state with 20% of the american population. it stretched all the way to the mississippi river and all the way up north to the great lakes. it was enormous. and the prestige and importance of its governor was akin to the governors of california, illin

they have associated them with george bush.ke. so, it is a constant truck to try to maintain the coalition.ç host: sheila has been waiting on the republican line from doylesto doylestown, pennsylvania tkpwhrao i would like to say something about your guests. i believe they are the same that are on fox news and haveç spre the sail garbage about iran and said the same things about the war. basically those people have no idea that [inaudible] it was a [inaudible] building and it came down. tkpwhr first of all, we appreciate your joining us. we appreciate both jonathan broder and barbara slaven to be with us but there is the theory that the planes didn't bring down the world trade tower. guest: it is a little early on a sunday morning. i wanted to go back to the early question bucking about this issue of failed states because there is infrastructure out there. we have the i.m.f. and world bank and united nations with all of its many organizations. you have some very good organizations like unicef, world food program that provide

i am a george washington university. i was interested in what he said and i worked-- wonder what role the tendency would play? >> yes, it is a rather vigorous expression right now. i don't know it is particularly dominant but it is certainly a form of cultural critique, and let stoker take that appeals to many younger conservatives, especially those who have some religious and theistic inclination. it can be kind of colorful. rod dreier who wrote the book on the phenomenon is a writer a talent, and his written quite vividly about some of these concerns and i have noticed that among conservatives and so forth as some of these concerns expressed in the movement are mainstream. what is probably not mainstream is the, the call that he has sort of made to conservatives to withdraw from the larger culture and set up their own alternative culture. that strikes me as unrealistic and overly idealistic, but certain issues that they care about in terms of lifestyle are ones that resonates some and it is not-- i don't know whether i

of ronald reagan who went on to win 49 states three years later and it's lower by 21 points than george herbert walker bush and lower than 10 points by jimmy carter was at this time both of whom were denied a second term, so when he talks about the long-term, he's talking about 2012 whereas democrats who are nervous right now are on the ballot in 2010. >> brown: was it a good year for american politics? >> not exactly. we've had a bad -- a bad decade for american politics. >> brown: you don't know -- decade -- >> a bad two centuries -- it's been fine. you know, the anger after the fight for health care is worse than ever, he promised a new age, we're not red america, we're not blue america, that hasn't worked out, not his fault, as long as you have a congress run by john boehner and nancy pelosi you're going to have a partisan congress, as long as you promote your leadership on the basis of fund-raising you're going to have this. i don't necessarily blame him but it hasn't worked out. >> brown: bad year, indifferent year? >> it was not a happy year -- the pledge of the campaign to be tr

army lieutenant colonel who had some 800 soldiers in baghdad as part of george w. bush's search was still finding a reason every day to see it is all good. >> host: the topic until 10:00 eastern the best nonfiction book of 2009. ayn rand must the topic of a couple of books including jennifer burns, we covered and even and we offered back jennifer burns, goddess of the market is the name of the book, ayn rand and the american right. and any event that is coming up on c-span, booktv, rather, in depth, michelle malkin and her new book, culture of corruption. this is mazar arizonan. aaron, you are first of. you're favorite nonfiction book of the year. go ahead. >> it's so hard to pick just one. but i don't think of the city of hope can melt until 2000 and that's up there. marcus's book taking on the system was good but i think my favorite would have to be jeremy scales blackwater. when i read blackwater and just on topic of -- >> what do you learn out of the black water? >> ravee in depth -- the in depth that jeremy goes into, his investigative journalism is amazing. e

. >> guest: and my favorite story of the whooping cranes is george all troubled who has gone so much for the cranes. there was one female and they wanted captive gene but they've been hand raised so she wouldn't meet with a crane. so george mid-court ship toensing with her for something like a month, twice, and she did lay an egg and they were able to artificially inseminated, so her genes are all over. it's one of my favorite pictures in the book. >> host: when you first entered tanzania what equipment did you take with you other than pen and pad of paper? >> guest: we couldn't afford much. who was going to give money to this young on trinkle? it was crazy, wasn't it? louis leakey went on and on and finally, a wealthy american businessman and leader said for six months we will see what happens. the british authorities and then british protector of tanganyika, this young girl will not take responsibility so that is why i had to have a companion and volunteer which was amazing to she was there the first four months. and so, fortunately before the six months money ran out i had seen th

gershwin, may i please have a picture of george to hang in my room?"re are we going to mail the letter? we don't know where ira gershwin lives. we're from indianapolis, indiana. well, my aunt suggested we mail the letter in care of the society of composers, authors and publishers, i think one lincoln plaza, new york, n.y., something like that. and ask them to forward the letter. four months later, an eight and 1/2 envelope arrives in the mail. >> reporter: a correspondence ensued, culminating in an invitation to visit gershwin's home in los angeles and play the famous piano where the brothers composed some of their most famous works. ♪ glazier, sitting with us now in the "gershwin room" at the library of congress in washington, surrounded by mementos of their work, was then 12. >> he asked me to go over to play the piano, which is behind me. this is where they composed "they can't take that away from me," "a foggy day," "loved walked in," "shall we dance," "nice work if you can get it," "let's call the whole thing off", "love is here to stay," not to m

overall, their views were much closer to those of margaret thatcher than those of helmut kohl and georgesh. it was very dangerous for a variety of reasons. their theories predicted massive change are almost always associated with war. you saw this as a moment pregnant with the possibility of war. that is what motivated the back to the future arguments. the bipolarÑi divisionñr of eure has maintained peace. rapid unification of germany will in fact and bring that will d -- bring back multi-clarity that will bring war. that was his argument. -- it will bring that multi- polarityw3Ñiçó that will bring . there were a lot of reasons. the bottom line is that scholars were behind the curve and overestimated the risks involved with rapid unification. this is connected to the conduct of style but i am talking about. Ñialmost the clearest case we he is theçó expansion that began to hit the radar screen in the middle of 1990. we had a powerful scholarly consensus against the idea that nato was central to europe. i do recall a lot of historians were not at all shy about applying the historical knowl

it happen on george bush's watch, but he put it on place.it was thrilling to be in jack kemp's presence. he was soaked abelian and energetic -- energetic. >> george w. bush. >> i'm going to see what i said at washington and lead just before he left. there was a dinner with contributors and i was giving a talk, and they were asking me as a historian, not a conservative, what about this guy? a very negative group of people. and i said if president our stocks, by george w. bush. if it moves at all, it is going to go up. he did not deserve to be there. he was put there by historians like henry adams, by in completely converted racists in the deming school at columbia here in new york city, reconstruction, all southerners, and it was "birth of a nation with footnotes." and we will see, but bush at least made it possible for insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama. >> i went down to the inauguration. i was doing that for the news hour, and i did that work the news hour, and there is an historic quality which never can be taken away. it is o

he said, "don't you remember george mcgovern?here he had a life advertisement going and he had a dog in it and he got mad at the dog and took a swing at him, allegedly." that incredible negative impact. i had forgotten about the thing. the other goal is always asked for the vote. that came from tip o'neill. he had this lady and he said, "how are we doing?" she said, "here is the list, nine votes for you." "your name is not on the list." "congressman, you never asked for it." host: former congressman lou frey, thanks for stopping by. guest: that you very much. by the book. buy -- the book. we need to teach our kids about six. hos -- about six. -- civics. host: we will come back to the question we asked at the top of the program, for those of you out of work, what is it like for you try to find employment in this economy? first, a news update from c-span radio. >> the first major afghan military operation since the president announced the troop surge has begun. a military spokesman says about 1000 marines and afghan troops launched

he worked a while for george bush in the white house as chairman of the council of economic advisers. and i think you really are two very simple answers. one is simply a failure of imagination. a lot of people have likened this to 9/11, and it is a metaphor that makes me uncomfortable because a lot of people died in 9/11 and this hasn't been that kind of event. there were people who said maybe someday some terrorist will seize an airplane, but really the people who defended our country did not think it possible that someone could commandeered three or four airplanes and fly them into the pentagon and the world trade center. this was a similar thing. it simply didn't occur to the people who were responsible for managing the financial system that so much of the financial system could be built on a single premise, that turned out to be wrong. that housing prices across the united states will not fall everywhere. we might have the balls in one community or another but they wouldn't fall everywhere. and it turned out that we had a financial system that was a house of cards built on this ve

there is more of a continuing here with previous administrations before george w. then they may have been willing to admit. there is a lot of continuity. they are very, very different, clinton and bush, but i think it would be wrong to see the bush administration simply as an unusual and a typical aberration. it is not like that. >> that brings this question to a close. just to say we will of course be pursuing that to assume there is a documentary said rival, we will have still being added. that concludes the first of our sessions on the dimension, and tomorrow, if we pursue the same thank, it will be on the united states and the interrelated united nations aspects. with that, i think everybody who has -- thank everybody who has spent time here this morning and our witnesses. thank you. c-span3 c-span2 [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> embedded in afghanistan, a freelance journalist observing how the u.s. uses a unmanned vehicles for drones. >> there are two units. one handles the no

there are no bailouts as we had under george bush. we are trying to end this recession and you do it by restoring confidence in the financial assistance. and i urge an aye vote. madam speaker, i am pleased -- i would urge passage of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. perlmutter: and i move the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the previous question is ordered. the ayes have it. mr. sessions: madam speaker. i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from. -- the gentleman from texas. the yeas and nays are requested. and those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. and members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commer

there is a letter george washington wrote during the campaign for ratification to somebody who had written him criticizing the design of the constitution and said yes i know your right. this certainly not -- it is far from perfect. it's full of compromises. but don't worry because after a generation of experience with it it will be redesigned essentially that we've put in this mechanism for the amendment. it doesn't require unlike the articles of the confederation it doesn't require unanimous consent of all the states to do it. we will be able to fix it, so don't worry. it's turned in to be harder to fix than we thought it would be. and in the broad sense the constitution. the way we do things, the subtle way of doing things. that is easier to amend, and the abolition filibuster is one thing we can do and electing a president by popular vote is another thing that we can do. and do we get from the state's top would be very much in the american tradition. that is how we got popular election of senators. by the time the amendment was passed, most senators were being elected by popular vote. i

that was passed under george w. bush. the deficit, it is like $148,000 per person now. host: thanks for the input this morning. it is christmas morning. here are some photos of the gathering at the church of the nativity in bethlehem. also, soldiers in afghanistan. the pope benedict yesterday's celebrating christmas eve services at the vatican. he was knocked down by a woman in the crowd. you have probably seen some video of this by news programs. he was ok and help back to his feet. that woman is the same woman who tried to reach him at midnight mass last year. favored political story of the year, omaha, neb., here is julie. caller: it is it snowing blizzard in ahman. host: how much snow you have this morning? caller: i think about 11 or 12 inches on my driveway. host: still snowing? caller: oh, yes. i am a true democrat but i am very disappointed -- i know kay bailey hutcheson and the other gop have challenged the constitutional right of this health along -- of this health bill. the what i'm ashamed of with my par

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with the leadership of former president george w. bush members of both parties in congress and the american public including many in our audience today we have made america the world's leader in fighting the global hiv/aids pandemic. the pepfar program and other international efforts have given millions of people access to treatment services were done previously existed. and it may president obama announces the administration will build on the successes bedevilling pepfar funding over the second six years, expanding support for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases, ramping up assistance from internal chaliff khalfan importantly integrating these programs in order to better respond to the lives people live and the health challenges they face. holding the international aids conference in the united states in 2012 will give us an opportunity to reflect on our accomplishments in addressing hiv/aids but also give us an opportunity to learn from our global partners. the president is thrilled the international aids society will hold

it turns out composer george fridrick handel, which means "market in german, was not only a musical whiztrepreneurial one. >> the dominant pattern in the 17th century as handel got started was you either worked for the church or you worked for the nobility. >> reporter: harvard's mike scherer has written a classic on classical music and economics: "quarternotes and banknotes." "opera was the road to independence from the patronage of court and clergy," he says. >> and the composers competed as freelances to have their compositions chosen to be operas. >> reporter: handel, on royal retainer in london, jumped into the game, according to m.i.t. musicologist ellen harris. >> his first opera is "rinaldo," 1711, and it was a huge hit. he probably would have gotten a flat fee for writing the opera and that probably was about £200 and he would have had a benefit night, so he could take the box office from that one night. could have brought in £500-600. >> reporter: the currency conversion web site, measuring worth, calculates that would be something like 800,000 pounds today, well over a million