louvre which is still there, where morse and his family say that i cannot later on yet it is where mark twain state. it is where nothing a hot thursday. history is everywhere in harris. that is one of the things that so impressed the people when it went over.

i think you can find things in philosophy and in other writing mark twain said i was dead for billions of years before i was born and an inconvenience me in the slightest i mean that's consolation if anything have you seen people dying if you've been with them who are a lot of people die absolutely ok but i did say it's great that i mean i think what dana was or said that death. death is one of the reasons people have religion people don't want to die they don't want to think they're going to not going to go on forever not see their loved ones and and i understand that that desire and that that wish but wishing it doesn't make it true and and. you can happy without you can recognize that if you believe riches if you believe you go on somewhere you're in a no lose because if you've done you go somewhere you win and if you don't go somewhere you don't know absolutely you can't lose yeah it's like the famous scientist niels bohr had had a horseshoe on his lap and people said you know why do you have a horseshoe and you don't believe in that stuff and he said no i don't believe in it but i

. >> mark twain says history was not repeat itself but it rhyme. there is a lot of rhymes.h gothrie and steinbeck helps of american. "geico sportsnite" says 25% unemployment rate and a decline of production by 50%. >> it is not really the same situation as the country face. i think americans are in a position now to be understanding about the great depression. >> that empathy brings people together. >> when we find ourself in the condition where government betrayed us and business cheated us, and all of a sudden we are victims of all of this. >> he says people try to figure out how to response to the crisis, they turn to the music. >> people asking us for change and people sleeping in the streets. politicians still have not have a way >> since the grapes of wrath was published, some 14 copies have been sold. the board of supervisors banned the book from libraries and schools in 1939. the farmers went so far to recruit one of his workers to burn a copy of leaders found the book show them in poor light. the first edition of hard back s 619 pages and sold for $2. 75. a mint co

connecticut, where you can still see what mark twain fell in love with. the arthur vining davis foundations, dedicated to strengthening america's future through education. the park foundation, dedicated to education and quality television. by the corporation for public broadcasting and the generous contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by general motors] man as twain: "i think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then ti

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mark twain once said the only sure things are death and taxes and since you can't invest in tax why not invest in death in the population is getting old and would be reasonable to think that companies like carriage services, which runs funeral homes and cement tears and chemmed corporation which runs hospice facilities might be a good investment and you would be right. a basket of those stocks which include hill brarngsd which makes caskets, is up 5% just this month. those baskets of casket are c l called a motive. the other are china, internet and natural gas gluten. joined by john schwartz of "usa today" and colleen taylor of tech crunch. so i have to ask but a death basket. it is something that makes sense all of a sudden, as people get old. what are examples of these baskets work out for? >> you might ask a question, does pay to lobby or not? the kings of k street -- >> being the home of lobbyists. >> a lot of what we do is not just the stock selection of help people discould have here are the biggest lobbyers in america but a lot around the waiting methodology. these things, basket

and hal holbrooke does the best mark twain. none of these things wouldn't have happened without dick smith, the veteran makeup artist, a yale grad, world war ii veteran who started here at wnbc tv here in new york and found fame, fortune and hollywood. he gave brando jowls. dick smith was 92 years old. >>> lyndon johnson was known as an arm twister on capitol hill, but he's got nothing on alaska republican congressman don young. watch this. congressman young was caught by our own producer, frank thorp, grabbing the arm of a congressional staffer like he was a misbehaving 3-year-old in the checkout line. the staffer was trying to keep him from entering a meeting through a wrong door. the veteran congressman ranks fourth in the house. he has apologized. >>> the army has done this a lot lately it seems, and it means everybody has to get new stuff. they're changing camo patterns again. the current pattern was known as digi camo. when it came out ten years ago. the new stuff updated to look like some of the old stuff features muted

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you get mark twain before he was mark twain. you get guys who knew what they were doing. they were experienced in life. there are people who will go in with police men because a lot of times that the police and the opium den proprietor were friends. >> of course. you would have to be. >> the biggest thing about smoking opium is that the no one cared if the chinese smoked opium. if it had stayed a chinese-only habit, no one would have care. once it starts to go into the white groups -- there are a lot of articles about white female prostitutes. they feel so sorry for them because the chinese might be seducing them, because that leads to the downfall of the american race, quote-unquote. stay out of california because it is a much more intricate community. go elsewhere. >> california tolerated drugs more? >> that could be. the difference between your opium in my opium is [laughter] they are processed much differently. smoking opium is out of the closet. it is down with the chinese. you go down to chinatown, wherever it may be. with it, most of them are in the west. it is mor

and mark twain observed the river plays havoc with boundary lines and jurisdiction. it is terrible way to divide the continent in half. the claims of european monarchs to vast north american domains were absurd. britain said there were no more rights to the continent than he had to the empire of china. to the residents there are real consequences that unfolded in the 1770s. the fortunes of native people along the mississippi river rose and fell as a result of land transfers negotiated by people in far away paris. west of the revolution, and this is a book that is officially being published on monday but it is available now in the back of the room. in this book, i describe how this line flooded the canadian prairies with traders greedy for beaver furs. britain had title to this vast part of the continent they were not able to work in until now. it was flooded with traders in search of beaver. beaver were what were called eco systems engineers. and that is because the rodents create, destroy and modify habitat. one ecololist made the point that the changes on the earth

. >> williams perform several times at the mark twain award at the kennedy center and was a guest at the d.c. improv back in the early 1990's, and today, there was a photograph of williams as mork in his honor. there have been reactions since the news of his death was made public. >> i admired him. he is a legend. only one.t the everybody in america tonight, i , feel like, wow, i got punched in the stomach. >> there will be a non-toxic, and he leaves behind a wife and children. coming up. 5:30 and 6:00, the effect depression can have on a person publicly and privately. >> and the subject of a video is speaking out. 7 photojournalist recorded this cell phone video of a police officer reportedly grabbing a teenager at the shopping center by the throat. we are live in germantown tonight with the new development of this exclusive story. kevin, what is the latest? we now know that officer was responding to a call of a teenager smoking marijuana at the shopping center, and he was coming down the street when he said he saw a group of teenagers fitting that description and got them in the al

died and what i discovered about lefty is he was a highly intelligent guy with a voice between mark twain and the great sportswriter and very much belied the public image one of his famous gloves is aviation. and in 1937 he stopped pitching in the worl world famous game in front of the packed stadium to watch the airplane flying overhead. this is one of lefty's -- what is less about the story was the bottom of the inning and there wasn't quite as inflammatory as it came down through history but it was a big deal nonetheless. what i discovered is that he had acquired his love of aviation as a six-year-old boy in 1915. what i discovered is not only was link in the most famous aviator of the greatest aviator of that age but with apologies he was probably the greatest aviator of any age. the things he did was so astounding people wouldn't believe if he did with hundreds of thousands of people. in the country where the population was 75 million estimated 20 million people saw him fly. to give you an example, at the first great airfare. he wanted to break the altitude record that was 11,200 fee

mark twain contributed to that booklet.he went to her friend, emma lazarus, a poet who had gained fame for her poetry bringing to light the plight of refugees from the russian pog rims -- pograms. she said, would you write a poem? she thought it was a scheme of ego and said no. her friend said, what if you think about the refugees? she went back and gave the poem. it was published in the newspaper and people loved it. it disappeared. there was no sign of it anywhere. emma lazarus died a year later. when theme years later friend decided to put it on a plaque at the statue of liberty and paid for that. even then, no one paid attention to it. it was not until a journalist around 1950 saw it and wrote about it. it started to have more meaning to people. it encompasses the way we think of the statue of liberty now as being this greeting point for immigrants. it is a meaning even more elegant than what bartholdi thought. when the island was considered as a processing station for immigration, he said that would be an abomination a

a grammy for a comedy album in 2002 and appearing multiple times at the kennedy center's annual mark twain awards. >> enjoy the evening. yet throughout the many highs, he struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, and with depression. and would make reference to it in his comedy routines. just this summer he checked himself into a rehab clinic to help maintain his sobriety. and today, the coroner said a preliminary investigation revealed he had been seeking treatment for depression. robin williams was 63 years old. >> brown: and we're joined now by budd friedman, he's the founder of the improv comedy club in hollywood, where williams often did his standup comedy act as a young man. and a. o. scott, who followed his movie and television careers as the new york times chief film critic. budd friedman, what do you remember of those early performances? what did you see in the young robin williams? >> i guess what is memorable, i've never forgotten his first time on stage. he knocked me out. he went all over the place physically and mentally. he was a joy to behold. he became a regular at the im

i think it was mark twain who said a lie goes halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. everyone should relax. and then you'll know -- people will know what i know, which is no military has done more to put civilians on the other side out of harm's way. and this is happening, i heard something else, in the statement. what we do in afghanistan what we do in iraq. israel is under assault. we've had 3,000 rockets every single day. we have two-thirds of our people in bunkers. so imagine how the united states would reaction if 200 million americans were sitting in bunkers. i don't think they would use less force than israel was using. >> this is the number two guy at the united nations and the u.n. deputy general. he said you can't be precise with a jet fighter going after a guy on a motorcycle. >> maybe he's a military expert but israel is pretty precise and we have a situation where our own homeland is under attack. imagine 200 million americans who day after day, 100 rockets are being fired. do you really seriously want to tell me the united states military -- >> do yo

louvre which is still there, where morse and his family say that i cannot later on yet it is where mark twain state. it is where nothing a hot thursday. history is everywhere in harris. that is one of the things that so impressed the people when it went over. keep in mind that everything here was still relatively new. independence hall wasn't even 100 years old. we think of it as an historical building, not even 100 years old. when they got to the cathedral, a great gothic cathedral that was built before columbus ever sailed, that to them was an overwhelming experience in itself. sumner caught a prestige of age. there is the router would fully with a loop on the left. c-span:.you have your own painting the boat? >> guest: the painting belongs to me. it's an engraving, part of a collection i have, this one right here. if you can bring up that picture that is then the very back page comedy and sheets of the book. the opening and she is of the avenue of the opera looking up. now, the end she. there you go. now that picture if you took her wagons and horses that view from the hotel loses exactly

mark twain murdered dhi hi wheeler were graceful compliments he called it.raceful first four feet off the ground, the writer of a highroller must account for more than a few anxieties to die. i felt the allure of the bike and wondered if the skills and courage required to master one. i connected training for the hoh are probably tears about the history and practicality of writing them. answered countless questions about how a person got on and off the wheels without breaking his neck, secretly wishing i could speak from experience. hi wheeler's required no balance and an ample attached to the frame for visitors of all sizes. i plotted how i might give one a try. one night when no one was in the exam i would take the bike off its track into museum central corridor in a sling up the baking across second floor to the first lady sound and pass the star-spangled banner. the crash of plexiglass as they rode into one of the exhibition cases or worse ran over jaclyn kennedy's down and became entangled in it or even worse that cracked my skull under greenhouse giant

the hotel d' louvre is where morse and his family stayed when they came back later on, it's where mark twain stayed, it's where nathaniel hawthorne stayed. history is everywhere in paris, and that is one of the things that so impressed the people when they went over. keep in mind that everything here was still relatively new. independence hall wasn't even a hundred years old. we think of it as an historic, old building. wasn't even a hundred years old. and when they got to a coo three drag, great, gothic cathedral that was built before columbus ever sailed, that, to them, was an overwhelming experience in itself. sumner called it the prestige of age. there's the route of italy with the louver on the left. c-span: don't you have your own painting in the book? >> guest: no, i don't have -- a painting that belongs to me. it's not a painting, it's an engraving. that's part of a collection i have. this one right here. if you can bring up that picture that's in the very back page, back -- the end sheets of the book. there are two, the opening end sheet is of the route of italy and the back end she

as mark twain once observed, the river plays havoc with boundary lines and jurisdiction. if you can avoid to divide the continent in half. on the face of it the claims of the monarchs to the domains were absurd. as even some colonists recognized. britain said one had no more right or times of the continent any add to the empire of china. nonetheless for local residents and a massive land transaction had very will consequences. with complex and varying ramification that unfolded in the 1770s. the fortunes of native people along the mississippi river rose and fell as a result of land transfers negotiated by in different aristocrats in faraway paris your so this is a book which is officially being published on monday, but it is available now in the back of the room. in this book, "west of the revolution," i described how this line, this border, flooded the canadian prairies with traders, greedy for beaver first. this is why think we cultivate an emerging market written -- burnet title ii this past new france, this as part of the continent that it hadn't been able to work in

mark twain once said the only sure things are death and taxes and since you can't invest in tax why notpulation is getting old and would be reasonable to think that companies like carriage services, which runs funeral homes and

i mean, it's a foundational piece like i suppose mark twain is here or any one of our, you know, bigtimeis is theth centuy writers -- 19th century writers. what do they make of this? >> that's a great question. >> okay. >> and i feel like i should drag antoine up here to answer that. let me give it a shot, and if antoine who was born in russia and spent 17 years there and read it in high school, if he had something to add, i would love to invite him to do so. but "war and peace" has for 25 years, 30 years, i think through the whole soviet period has been required reading -- >> i'm sure. >> -- of every soviet and then russian school child. tenth grade is the grade they're required to read it in, and there's a well known secret that the girls read the peace section, and the boys read the war section. [laughter] and they're both missing the point for reasons that i talk about in the book. so that's a double-edged sword. because on the one hand, what it means is that everybody is familiar with this classic. even more so than americans are familiar with our own classics. but it also meant tha

finally, tous, lieutenant general mark twain clark.as an army brat, youngest member of the west point class of 1917. he was wounded as a 22-year-old battalion commander in world war i. then he was stuck at the rank of captain for 16 years during that sad, neglected period between the wars. he subsequently skipped the rank of colonel altogether. at the beginning of the italian campaign, he is 47. he is among the youngest american lieutenant generals in our history. a year later, he will become the youngest american four-star general. he is meticulous, highly intelligent. he is something of a screamer. carries a four leaf clover in his wallet. he is also aloof. said, conceit wrapped around him like a halo. incidentally, he was jewish. he converted while he was at west point to the only proper religion for an american officer who wanted to become a general at the time, episcopalianism. clark draws sharp rebukes from marshall,al george c. the army chief of staff, and eisenhower, for his compulsive self-promotion. instructse photographers t

[laughter] >> you may know i -- i heard that mark twain's wife, olivia, was his editor in some ways,ially for his performances, of which there were many. twain got so good at delivering his lectures that they were smooth, almost perfect, and people began falling asleep. livey said it's because they're so perfect and flawless that people fall asleep. when i was teaching, students fell asleep for the opposite reason. so she said, you have to do something about it. so twain built in deliberate errors, to keep people awake. i want you to know now, when you see a mistake, it's in the script, it's here, i'm just trying to keep you awake. mark had the idea. i'm going to use it. i wonder what mark would have done if he had a little technology with him. he loved inventions. and he lost a lot of his money on certain new products, one of which was a typewriter. i like inventions, too, and i'm working now on one that i call zap apps. i don't have a cell phone but i guess one day i will. what i want to do is have one app that, when i'm in a place where there is a loud person on the phone, speakin