at that point we were going through the pat roberts influence in american politics and the moral majority found that tyrannical as a political egos. he was saying to the universe. he was threatened by the way of taking it on, but he was saying to the university students, you know, use your mind to reason, think, be independent. we lost a part too early. we have, in my judgment, too few in our life anymore. i also quote john gardner, the founder of common cause and had his own kind of populist was about how we should conduct ourselves in our civil and social society. >> to you feel he was saying that because in some way young people and adventures enough when they go into school? >> i think this is a pretty adventurous generation. i don't think that they have this course of their once did because they find it in instrumentation. they have safe landed on the screen. how much they serve that to get that kind of wisdom, i don't know. they're utterly fascinated, with good reason, by the new technology. i have a line that i used to go to university campuses. i never expected in my lifetime some

>> pat roberts basically came from a very hard background, very fundamentalist mormon family. he was kicked out of his house when he was 18 for admitting to premarital sex and then he decided he wanted to be an astronaut and he changed his whole life and became james bond and he majored in geology and physics and astronomy and he learned how to fly airplanes and scuba dive and spoke five languages. then he got into nasa's johnson space center. at the co-op's center for college kids but it's a feeder to the astronaut training program so he was achieving his dream. he was a standout there. is a big star. he became the social leader of the co-ops and then he fell in love with a young intern and we have all done something stupid out of love. what he did was he stole a 600-pound safe full of moon rocks from his professor's office and as i said spread them on a bed, had sex with his girlfriend and try to sell them over the internet to a belgium gem dealer. >> whose name is? >> his name was axil ammerman. you could not have invented this guy. he has never been out of antwerp in his l

i want to thank senator pat roberts who was with me yesterday at the 236th birthday celebration.and most especially thank the senator from north carolina, kay hagan, who is with us today, for her leadership on this issue. truly we can make this veterans day special. for all of us in this nation, if we approve this congressional gold medal to men who step forward to serve and fight when this nation failed to appreciate their service and valor, and now we have the opportunity to make good on our commitments to them as veterans, to all of our veterans in this measure. i am proud to join colleagues on both sides of the aisle in nearing now the number that is news to approve that measure. and i hope that we can reach that kind of bipartisan consensus on that legislation but also on the broader vow to hire heroes act that can lead us back to the kind of bipartisan approach on so many issues that we need to emulate in this body. i want to thank my colleagues for supporting this measure, and i yield the floor. thank you, mr. president. hague mr. president? the presiding officer: the sena

robert hall has this report. >> the sound of a bugle echoing across pat raid ground of camp bastion in afghanistan. the defense secretary paying his tribute to the campaign, a reminder today's act of remembrance spans conflicts stretching back over nine decades. painstakingly restored by the imperial war museum for this anniversary, the stark images from the first world war battles on the son which claimed more than 57,000 lives on the first day alone. a four-year conflict which ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. the hour went on a cloudy morning in 2011, a silence spread outwards in the busy heart of london. the record number of copies sold this year, around 46 million, suggested growing level of public engagement with this act of remembrance. two short minutes in cities, towns and villages where many had time to consider their linked with the past. >> two minutes when families and friends could reflect on their own, more recent losses. >> the worse bit for me was stood in front of so many closets with photographs of people and lives have been killed and i know their

((pat on cam))consumer reports just tested something... that security expert robert innthe process.(sot)"we tested cross-cut shredders. they sliie ppper both vertically and horizontally, so it makes it hard for crooks to reassemble your doccments." (v/o))he shredders tested ranged in price from 40 to 270 doolars. some you empty by just pulling out a drawer... others are like a wastepaper basket. (sot: mandy walker) "with those, you have to lift the shredder mechanism off the basket to empty it. some of themmare pretty heavy,,so that can be kinddof difficult. also they tend to be top heavy, so they mapptip over asily." (natsot: tipping over )(v/o)in the tests... some machines others.(natsot: shredding)(v/o) onn of the most expensive, from swingline... can shred 100 pages at a time. ut it can be ough to ffed in just a fewwsheets.by far the best shredder was ttis 270-dollar time. it has a pull-out drawer phat's easy to empty, and it shreds cdd, dvds, anddcredit cardss for far less... this 90-dollar royal is aaso a goodd choice. it can't handle quite as much paper... but

president nixon and his and his his a propagandist pat buchanan tried to undermine public broadcasting to. to get me off the air try to get robert macneil off the air try to get sandy britt ochre off the air not because we were liberals but because we were reporting what they didn't want reported alternative to the official white house next only in view of reality robert doe who was then senator from kansas and senate minority leader tried in the late one nine hundred eighty s. to defund public broadcasting then along comes newt gingrich the late newt gingrich in one nine hundred ninety three and for trying to defund public broadcasting and then you had george w. bush and kill the thomas and his henchmen and the corporation for public broadcasting trying to do the same first of all they don't believe in public funding of of media as a matter of principle but secondly more importantly they do not believe there should be truth tellers who are countering the official view they do not like independent journalism let me repeat that is not true of the present president of the corporation for public broadcasting or the present presiden

robert f. kennedy prize and a finalist for the los angeles times book critic award. a frequent contributor to "the new york times." he has written a book about alaska. let's hear from patn south carolina. caller: good morning and happy thanksgiving. i hope all lot of them -- i did watch that, and there were very nasty. all them were, to that man. you were saying they were having the black friday. you should have had that today. people should stop and think. look into what you're buying before 5:00 a.m. this morning and see if she needed or wanted. -- or want it. host: joseph from minnesota. caller: i saw this exchange and it is troubling to say that a congressmen would actually in dignify himself and congress by addressing a person in that matter. that was on call for -- that was uncalled for. i concede mr. brinkley -- i can see mr. breeden was probably not a happy camper to begin with. the congressmen should tell themselves above that. he basically dragged himself into the dirt. i'm looking at the video. he started out by introducing him as garbage rice. he was trying to column by his name, which is dr. brinkley, by describing him as garbage brinkley. mr. brinkley jum