. >> jeanne kirkpatrick, former u.n. ambassador -- the answer to the question was you, you are the reason they would do it. jeane kirkpatrick had been ambassador to the united nations. president ronald reagan and president gorbachev were meeting in reykjavik, iceland. we got to kirkpatrick to come on to talk with social studies teachers. she did no other media during the summit. she told us explicitly she did it because it was to help educators. when she was leaving the green room, a reporter from another news organization, and after to do this program and they asked her to do his and she said," no." >> week in and week out, there were some kids who would say where they were from and surprise you with what came next. they destroyed whatever stereotype you might have about regions of the country, about gender, about race, about in, or whatever. what did it feel like in the control room when those close-up moments came? >> it was probably more whooping and hollering then you would expect. the reaction the boiler room -- th

where during the early and mid-80's when it jeanne kirkpatrick was telling us as central america was the most important place on earth because of their communism was facing down free enterprise right in america's backyard as people said of the time and the waltons got interested in this. they have business connections in panama and travel to the area. he. >> and set up a scholarship program. to bring young people from central america that they were afraid or in danger of being won over to come as some up to arkansas to study and christian colleges to study business, marketing, these kinds of a free-market oriented disciplines and then to go back to central america and help build a sort of pro american pro u.s. pro free-market alternative two that. now, that is one way to tell a story, but if you know the history and central america and the '80s, it is as you say a much darker story. the u.s. was deeply involved in creating and propping up dictatorships throughout the region that were grossly viciously murderously lacking in respect for human life for any sort of values of freedom tha

i was one in jeanne kirkpatrick was the other. it's a very democratic state and for the more i have a metabolic urge to write. i can't write an explosion and therefore i would find the life of public office almost interminable hearing where you sit and listen to other people talk, it would be tiresome. >> host: philadelphia next for george will, independent line. >> caller: mr. will, first of all, you are one of my favorite commentators. there are a couple blind spots with global warming and that kind of thing. i want to go back to their original discussion about today's column about tobacco and i think it is mary -- it is really fascinating to me the dichotomy they are talking about here. the there is a diggs solution here that nobody is -- not nobody, it is going to be bigger and bigger topic all the time and that is the legalization of marijuana. that could replace all cigarette revenues in the space of about a week. surely you know another of the history of this country, you know who harry is lawyer was and william randolph he