leanne gregg has our report. >> reporter: john mccain and sarah palin back together again for the first time since losing the presidential race in 2008. >> the maverick back to the united states senate. >> reporter: mccain launched palin's national political career two years ago when he picked her, a relative unknown outside alaska, to be his running mate. now palin is returning the favor. in arizona, to lend her newly established star power in mccain's toughest re-election battle ever. >> we need you. we need you now more than ever. and i would be honored. i would be deeply honored if you would give me the opportunity to continue to serve. >> mccain, a four-term senator is spinning off a primary challenge from former congressman and conservative talk show host j.d. hayworth. >> arizona conservatives view john mccain as someone who campaigns in arizona as a conservative, and returns to washington to that mantle of maverick and legislates either moderately or in some cases takes up the liberal banner. >> reporter: that's where palin, a favorite of the anti-government conservatives, hopes

two leann once wrote a peace i have quoted in here somewhere but i cannot remember which page that said king "i have a dream" speech had been so misinterpreted because king said might dream is deeply rooted in the american dream. after 1965, he made it pretty clear that the american dream had so many flaws that we are not really going to solve all of our problems until we confronted much more radical points of view and actions. and that to is the antiseptic hero that we earned every january on his birthday. i wrote a piece, and op-ed piece on this for the fredericksburg paper that the mcclatchy people got it all over from to know alaska to the caribbean. and every response i got says word you get such a crazy idea? that is an idea people will not accept. young people or old people as an american ballet to think that is part of the real legacy. >> i would just add one thing with the history of snic will we often think about it is it collapsing 1958 or turned radical as a bridge rail of the earlier ideals and one reason why i talk about snic how they'll learn their civics lessons to will

couples like leann and jay gibbon of georgia, both lost their jobs in this recion.ey spent six months callingf amking to modify their mortgage. when bank of america announced a new trial program to modify mortgages for custors underwater, the bank told us 1 million customers more than 60 days late. so we asked why does this new program only aim to help 45,000? this plan to help 45,000 is about 4% of that total figure. >> yes, that 45,000 would be 4% of the 1 million customers. >> why has it taken more than six months to try to help us, now that we are on the brink of foreclosure? we still haven't heard from anyone. >> leann, if you give me your phone number i can understand exactly what happened to your account. >> reporter: we watched as so many of you got back on the phone after learning of bank of america's new program. >> i had heard there may be a new program. >> you'll call me back you think today? >> i apologize to those customers we haven't provided the level of service our customers demand and we expect. >> reporter: as for the gibbons, that couple from geo

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and, contrary to the image in 1973, there was a study by psychiatrists at washington university, leann robins, and she interviewed many veterans who tested positive for haeroin in vietnam and less than 10% used any drugs at all back in the u.s. and many did use alcohol, and some did use barbiturates but heroin use was especially low, and those... a number of less than 10% was extraordinarily higher rate which robin contributed to the removal from the pernicious ocesocial environment of vietnam and 1.3% were drug dependent and less than 1% addicted to opiates and drug abuse and crime rates were generally exaggerated in the media creating a climate of fear that allowed for the escalation of the war on drugs. in 1980, the "washington post" telling the editorialized a decade of -- ago, reports of widespread heroin use by u.s. troops in vietnam spawned fears servicemen would come home with drug habits leading to a generation of drug enslavement, crime, and ruined lives. and today is clear those fears were grossly exaggerated. generally, you know, vietnam veterans got tarred by the stereotyp

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he is aware of the thousands who have e-mailed us like jay and leann gibbon. jobs, begging their bank for six months to modify their mortgage, yet nothing. >> you know, we're raised to do the right thing and -- you know, we're treated like a number. >> what about all this talk from washington that after the bailout, the major banks would help home owners? >> it's just not happening. >> reporter: his bank alone holds tens of millions in deposits. in the last year, how many loan modifications have you seen in your particular bank? >> completed? fully completed? zero. >> reporter: and he says it's no accident, that run-around you're getting at the bank. revealing what he says he's been told by higher-ups, that when customers ask for mortgage help -- >> have them call the 1-800 number. >> what happens when these customers call the 1-800 number? >> they get the complete run-around. >> reporter: then loyal customers come back to him. >> there have been pleadings, come to me crying, tears. >> reporter: mortgages, he says, are just the tip of the iceberg. angered by w