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i was delivered by a midwife and the midwife of my mother conspired instead of registering me december 249th they did in january 1st 1930. if there was a draft, it would have me as later year. it was so prevent me from going to war but i ended up. >> tell me about your family. >> beautiful family, wonderful neighborhood. primarily italian. some jewish but primarily italian. we had lots of activity because of the abundance of males. a lot of sports were involved. no baseball. no baseball fields. >> how many siblings? >> two more. an older brother. they are both deceased. >> all boys? >> yeah. >> what school did you go to in new york city? >> ps 112 was my grammar school. >> ps 112? >> yeah. >> your grammar school. >> in brooklyn. junior high school was shallow junior high school from the 9th to the 12th grade. no, the junior high school was the 10th to the 12th. what's >> what's the name of it? >> shallow was the junior high school and then texile. it was a school sponsored by some textile guy. part of the curriculum is you had to take one season, one semester of textile. >> kind of int

i was delivered by a midwife. the midwife and my mother conspired. instead of registering me on december 24, they decided to do it on january 1, 1930. so in the event there was a draft it would have me as later , year. it was so prevent me from going to war but i ended up going to war. professor han: tell me about your family. mr. conte: beautiful family, wonderful neighborhood. primarily italian. with some jewish but primarily italian. large families. we had lots of activity because of the abundance of males. all kinds of sports were involved. softball, basketball, touch football. no baseball. no baseball fields. professor han: how many siblings? mr. conte: two more. an older brother. they are both deceased. professor han: all boys? mr. conte: yeah. professor han: what school did you go to in new york city? mr. conte: ps 112 was my grammar school. professor han: ps 112? mr. conte: yeah. professor han: your grammar school. mr. conte: in brooklyn. junior high school was shallow junior high school from the 9th to the 12th grade. no, the junior high sch

the midwife says that she believes that the baby weighs about 78. about 8.5 pounds at this moment.o brought a lot of positivity and law enforcement ter and smiling to this house hold. bonnie's husband mike was just diagnosed with testicular cancer one month ago. this is a way for mom to feel positive mom to feel energetic and for dad to look at the video and laugh and love his wife and really focus on the positive time of life. >> did it work? did the baby come right now? >> we can find out because we have bonnie and mike via skype from gainesville, florida "right this minutes". >> you're still carrying little wilam, right sf. >> i'm 40 weeks and two days now. >> you are amazing. as are you, mike. our big question is how are you doing? how are things going? >> everything is going great. i feel really great. i should be through in may. we're really excited. >> is dancing something you guys regularly do as a family or is this just your thing, mom? >> i actually never dance nd. a friend of mine told me start walking, start moving start dancing. i just turned it on. it was an instructi

i was delivered by a midwife. the midwife and my mother conspired. instead of registering me on december 24, they decided to do it on january 1, 1930. so in the event there was a draft it would have me as later , year. it was so prevent me from going to war but i ended up going to war. professor han: tell me about your family. mr. conte:

if you remember mom, bonnie was going to do a home birth in the tub sheep had a midwife who barely made it there. this was a crazy, simple birth according to bonnie two hours. >> wow. >> so "thriller" worked. it worked more than a week later. but the timing couldn't have been more perfect because it was in between mike's chemotherapy treatments. he was able to be there at the birth in the tub with mom, able to cuddle with his brand-new son. and to meet little will. a and check back in we have the family via skype "right this minute." you must be moved by the photos the process. >> beautiful process. everything went smoothly and perfect. the video, it's so touching. i mean every time we watch it almost like brings us to tears and stuff. >> isn't it funny, people all over the world kind of following this. >> we've been contacted by many folks, everybody wants to meet him. americans they don't realize that labor and delivery can be so beautiful and special. and it was everything that we hoped and planned for two-hour labor, he was born into our arms no intervention it was beautiful. i woul

i was delivered by a midwife and the midwife of my mother conspired instead of registering me december 249th they did in january 1st 1930. if there was a draft, it would have me as later year. it was so prevent me from going to war but i ended up. >> tell me about your family. >> beautiful family, wonderful neighborhood. primarily italian. some jewish but primarily italian. we had lots of activity because of the abundance of males. a lot of sports were involved. no baseball. no baseball fields. >> how many siblings? >> two more. an older brother. they are both deceased. >> all boys? >> yeah. >> what school did you go to in new york city? >> ps 112 was my grammar school. >> ps 112? >> yeah. >> your grammar school. >> in brooklyn. junior high school was shallow junior high school from the 9th to the 12th grade. no, the junior high school was the 10th to the 12

if he was the midwife at the birth of his country, he was also the unavoidable presence in american paintings it emerged. in early america, many regarded portraits as ungodly and in effect, no artistic culture in the colonies. in washington's time, art moved from the drawing room and displayed in galleries and public buildings. charles wilson peele made images popular as he painted the well-to-do and a show that they would be remembered after they were gone. charles trumbull's aspirations were loftier and he painted nothing but history. savage, whose flair, was greater than his skills with a brush but nevertheless reached and his object that audience was the emerging middle class, men and women who could identify. the stone would, rugged man became the paradigm of the founding father. more than jefferson or adams or hamilton or others. none of them had the unimpeachable mix of selflessness and implied power. and the age before photography he left no negative legacy. he only -- seems only man of america to do right on all fronts. the washington we know today through his worse and testimony of

or if they want to go in the provinces, we can find maybe some midwife to shadow. [laughter] the possibilities are immense but at this point, i don't know. i have only been your first lady for four months. please, bear with me. >> thank you for being not only insightful, but inspirational for a lot of the people in this room. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> this week, while congress is in recess, booktv and american history tv are in prime time. wednesday, it is world affairs talking about china's secret plan to replace america as a superpower, the egyptian revolution, an emerging crisis in europe. thursday, politics and the white house with david axelrod, mike huckabee and april ryan. friday, biographies of robert e darley and joseph stalin -- robert e. lee and joseph stalin. on wednesday on c-span3 "the birth of a nation." the showing of the entire 1915 film, followed by a re-air. thursday, historians debate the social changes of the 1970's at the 2015 american hist

julia is a midwife who wants to set the right example for patients. linda is the first in her 60s.he challenge at 67 years old. robert a 34-year-old attorney from new mexico saying being diagnose with type ii diabetes. erica got fat eating drinking and having fun. george chip says he's tired of watching people in his community die from preventable diseases. all six of them came together in atlanta this past week to get started on their injury knee. eight months of swimming biking ahead of them with the goal of completing a triathlon with me september 20th. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, atlanta. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours but aleve can last 12 hours. and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are ya? good. aleve. proven better on pain. >>> all right, all across the midwest and the northeast, 100 million people are in the path of a big winter storm. let's get an update on where the storm is now and where it is heading overnight from tom. how bad it is going to get, tom? >>> already over a foot of snow i

but while it was in operation, it was a potent force as sort of midwife, bringing to birth an entirely new cohort of citizens for the united states. if it had been able to do more, go further, work faster, then perhaps the history of reconstruction itself might have been very different. certainly the officer who was in overall charge of the freedman's bureau, oliver otis hower, former major general in the union army, and a man of exact ly the kind of devout faith and morality that lucas was talking about as being part of lincoln's ideal of what has to guide the country and yet andrew johnson, as a president, and the democratic opposition that sidney was talking about, really succeeded in emasculating the freedman's bureau, and in the end, sinking it so that what could have been a major transitional agency, really is prevented from serving that purpose in american life. >> beautiful answer. lucas morel was there any thought regarding colonization to send, to send the freed slaves to other areas of the u.s. territories, similar to andrew jackson's movement of people to oklahoma from nort

or if they want to go in the provinces, we can find maybe some midwife to shadow. [laughter] or something -- i mean i think possibilities are immense. at this point, i don't know. bear with me. >> you have your work cut out for you. i want to thank you for being not so insightful but so inspiration for a lot of people in this room. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> on the next "washington journal" daniel helper discusses how foreign policy issues are impacting 2016 presidential candidates. then adam green looks at the political and legislative agenda for progressives in the 114th congress. after that, william braniff talks about this past week's white house someummit. plus, your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweak. " washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> the academy awards are sunday and here on c

you have to train nurses, midwife wives. we still have not got to the level yet where somebody can walk less than one hour to get to a health care facility. with that kind of system you need your community health workers to provide services for preventable diseases, improve your organization system, improve your human resource for health capacity. strengthen infrastructure, supply chain and these services. but how do you leverage now these resources for ebola to get the health care system? and the united nations has also been very, very much helpful in the system with the organization, and for the first time the united nations established the united nations mission on ebola response for the first time for the u.n. security council to approve establishing a separate mission for ebola. we think that was very, very much useful. this multinational partnership >> can you say a word about two issues, and then i'd like to open to the floor? first is the regional context. there's a lot of diplomatic activity at a very high level. tr

you have to train nurses, midwife wives. we still have not got to the level yet where somebody can walk less than one hour to get to a health care facility. with that kind of system you need your community health workers to provide services for preventable diseases, improve your organization system, improve your human resource for health capacity. strengthen strengthen infrastructure, supply chain and these services. but how do you leverage now these resources for ebola to get the health care system? and the united nations has also been very very much helpful in the system with the organization, and for the first time the united nations established the united nations mission on ebola response for the first time for the u.n. security council to approve establishing a separate mission for ebola. we think that was very very much useful. this multinational partnership was critical in the response. >> can you say a word about two issues, and then i'd like to open to the floor? first is the regional context. there's a lot of diplo