the farm was close to princeton. the fugitive buckner, like many other runaway slaves, decided to stay with someone who would employ him until he could accumulate enough money to make his way to canada. in 1849, buckner was mowing in matson's meadow when two men, one of whom was his former owner, approached buckner with guns pulled. after buckner was apprehended the slave catcher was marched toward princeton, the slave tracker's plan to take him to the illinois river where they could transport him down the river to st. louis by boat. a friend of lovejoy's, hensdale phelps, saw them on the road. phelps took a shortcut to lovejoy's house and told him what was going on. lovejoy immediately went to a justice of the peace and got a warrant for the two slave trackers to be arrested for rioting. when buckner and the two men arrived in princeton, the sheriff put the two missouri slave trackers under arrest, and a court hearing was hastily called. as the proceeding got under way, a group of pro-slavery men brought a wagon to

he took the train from princeton junction into princeton. and i did that for a long time.d then, solomon ochsner who is -- was a mathematician, was going on a sabbatical to harvard and he wanted someone to stay with his wife. i got the privilege of living in the house a few blocks away from the institute where i had my own bathroom and my own bedroom and mrs. bochner took me in hand, and i was born a redhead. she told me, akrevoe you look like a renoir painting and you should wear blue and green. so, it changed my life, as you can imagine. but, just going downstairs today, i saw a shot of me and the eniac display, so you never know where life takes you, do you? >> thank you. to me, the strangest -- [applause] all these papers at the institute are terribly disorganized and so we went down to the basement and looked at them. akrevoe said let me organize them. i didn't leave them in in the state of disorder. [laughter] and you don't have to pay me. just let me come in and the archives as you know they have to be preserved in the state in which they were found so they are stil

people from manchester were coming to princeton, people from princeton were going to manchester, the sort of arguing about what should get credit came later. >> and they do all come out of world war ii. in fact, the war ends, von neumann is headed back to ias, wants to transplant the entire team and take them all and continue the work, and eckhardt and mockly decline. gold steven goes, but eckhardt and mockly decide their going to pursue -- >> yes. originally, bigelow was supposed to be eckhardt. eckhardt declined. so there's a lot -- and people went back and forth. there's a great letter from johnny to his wife saying they've shanghaied two of our guys, and we've shanghaied two of theirs. just like what goes on here -- [laughter] they're always stealing -- >> exactly. >> and so in the end it became very bitter. and i, again, you can read some documents in this book that are pretty incriminating that the eckhardt-mockly company was doing quite well p they had a contract for three machines that would have put them firmly on the path that ibm took, and then they had their security ques

you took the train from princeton junction into princeton. i did that for a long time. sullivan barker who was a mathematician, was going on a sabbatical to harvard. he wanted someone to stay with his wife and i got the privilege of living in his house a few blocks away from the institutes where i had my own back remand my own bed room. mrs. solomon bochner took me in hand. i was born a red head. she told me akrevoe, you look like renoir painting and you should wear blue and green. it changed my life as you can imagine. just going downstairs today, i saw a shot of me in the eniac display. you never know where life takes you, do you? >> thank you. [applause] >> all these papers at the institute are terribly disorganized. we went down to the basement and looked at this and akrevoe said let me organize them. i didn't leave them in this state of disorder. you don't have to pay me. let me come in. it was preserved in this state in which they were found. they are still disorganized. >> one of the things george talked about, the institute itself to be brittle perhaps some of y

at princeton?two questions there, one was touring not ultimately much of a team player when he was at princeton was a morbid team player? >> he joined the red the team. >> a team of a different sort. >> has 4% long-distance runner, which was a long think my rather than 18 thing. c. had a reputation of being a loner. but i think he was just difficult to deal with. there is a fantastic man now, where he asked the poor people handling him have to ask if you want to work half time so i can play tennis in the morning when i feel like it. rather than feeling like he has to go to work in the morning. it is difficult to keep them discipline. >> these questions are for kevin morrow. he's very instrumental at the nationally cnn computing. can it really beset the best contribution was to just leave and let them get on with their work? the mac i would say that, but i don't know. i'm not about the x. i'm sure in and haven't done the look and or documents, but i think turing made great contributions. >> it may b

at princeton?two questions there, one was touring not ultimately much of a team player when he was at princeton was a morbid team player? >> he joined the red the team. >> a team of a different sort. >> has 4% long-distance runner, which was a long think my rather than 18 thing. c. had a reputation of being a loner. but i think he was just difficult to deal with. there is a fantastic man now, where he asked the poor people handling him have to ask if you want to work half time so i can play tennis in the morning when i feel like it. rather than feeling like he has to go to work in the morning. it is difficult to keep them discipline. >> these questions are for kevin morrow. he's very instrumental at the nationally cnn computing. can it really beset the best contribution was to just leave and let them get on with their work? the mac i would say that, but i don't know. i'm not about the x. i'm sure in and haven't done the look and or documents, but i think turing made great contributions. >> it may b

again, after the battle of princeton. putnam was there with 50 men, the british army in new brunswick and the rest of the american army is at morristown. so the bulk of the british army could come down and squash him in an instant, if he wanted to. there is a british officer who was wounded very badly at the battle of princeton. was not expected to live. asked for permission to have a british officer come out of new brunswick, take his last will and testament. agreed, but insisted it had to be done at night. what putnam dp is, in all the empty houses, he put candles to make them look like they were occupied. he then had his 50 soldiers march past the house where the last will and testament was being taken. sometimes one, two at a time. sometimes six at a time. sometimes a dozen. sometimes all 50. when he goes back to brunswick, he reports that putnam is in princeton with 4,000 soldiers. instead of the 50 he really had. okay? bakery boards for spies. washington likes to make up fake reports and send demands to british head

he is a "new york times" columnist in and a professor of economics at princeton. in 2008, he won a nobel prize for ground-breaking analysis on the international trade. he completed three decades ago since the financial crisis he has advocated for aggressive measures to revive the u.s. economy. he says that an expensive government spending policy has to be the best way forward. he writes about that prescription and more in this book "end this depression now." i am pleased to have paul krugman back at this table. welcome. >> hi, there. >> rose: nice to see you twice in one day. >> that's great. that's great. >> rose: let me begin by talking about the global economy and then solutions. what's interesting about this book is you say it's more about going forward and how we can change things than it is about looking at all the policies that created the mess. >> there are a lot of books, good books, about how things went wrong, about the various mistakes that were made, about the bubble and all of that and a lot of postmortems on policy in 2009. okay, the question now wh

this happened just before 11:30 at the intersection of princeton avenue and hartwick road. police say a 35-year-old man was about to get into his lexus when the men approached him. they say the suspects beat and robbed the man before taking his car. the car was later found in wheaton. police are not releasing any of the details at this time. the victim is expected to make a full recovery. >>> this morning, we know more about the man stabbed to death in northeast -- northwest d.c. that we brought you breaking news about yesterday morning. police say 33-year-old dwayne brisbane worked as a cat scan technician at washington hospital center and had been celebrating a promotion. they say he was stabbed in an altercation on florida avenue on his way home from a u street bar. he reportedly tried to drive himself to the hospital but crashed. >>> a new poll shows even with virginia governor bob mcdonnell as his runging mate, mitt romney would lose to the president in the commonwealth. public policy polling shows obama beating romney by eight points. mcdonnell has a 46% approval rati

>> yes. >> is that song the new princeton anthem?estion. >> i hope you copyrighted it. >> how has the head of princeton responded? how are they feeling about this? >> i haven't talked to her yet. i have a pretty awesome relationship with shirley tillman, from when i was and undergrad. >> wave to her. >> hi, shirley. ,,,,,,,, >>> welcome back to "cbs this morning: saturday." i'm jeff glor. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. >>> coming up, he was friends with two of the greatest sports figures in the 20th century. legendary sports writer frank deford. >> hethey're here and phone hom quotes from steven spielberg's movies, both released in the summer of 1982. we'll look back at what many consider the best season in movie history. 1982. >> it was a huge, huge turning point. >> including rebecca jarvis's favorite movie "rocky 3". >> who knew. i'm not so sure about that. >>> also, we're going all america on the morning "dish," richard blais will help us celebrate the holiday weekend with his butcher's cut burger, vodka battered onion rings and to wash

on and shirley tallman, the president of princeton university.[laughter] so there's your invitation, john. one day i was getting a little carried away on the air. one day i was getting carried away on the air and i used the phrase i really believe in. i know there are arguments on the other side, and i know not everybody in the room will agree with me but i happened to utter the phrase taxation is theft. he called me and said george, you're killing me. i said what you mean i'm telling you? he said when you see something like taxation as theft, like in boxes filled with e-mails saying why not use a that kind of stuff? [laughter] john is a champion of human freedom who has the gift of explaining in a way that everybody can understand, and nobody can find him disagreeable. i was looking at a piece of his literature from something from reason advertising some speech i'm going to be getting in november, and there was a picture in this recent publication of john stossel about two or three weeks ago playing volleyball on a beach in california with a bun

>>> also later, matt, al, natalie and i will be taking to the water for competition against the princeton crew team. >>> let's begin on a thursday morning with the president's announced support for same-sex marriage and the impact it may have on the presidential race. chuck todd is nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent. hi, chuck, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt. according to aides, the president told staffers a few months ago of his change in position on gay marriage and instructed them to figure out a time and a place to go public with this change sometime before the convention. now, aides admit they had no plans to do it this week and admit that it was joe biden's comments on "meet the press" that pushed up their timetable. >> i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> reporter: with those words, president obama shifted the issue landscape of the 2012 campaign. the president called his personal support for gay marriage the completion of a long evolution and credited his wife and two daughters for his change of heart in an interview w

commencement speech, princeton will feel obliged to admit them. [ laughter ] >> exactly.t happen. >> thank you both. great to have you both. i appreciate it. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and before we go, a programming note. we're going to re-air on msnbc today at 2:00 p.m. and again tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. again, that's on msnbc tomorrow. >>> also, check out my interview with ashley judd on our website. it's our press pass this week. that is all for today. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." and as we leave you this memorial day weekend, we honor and remember all of the men and women who have given their lives to this nation. god bless our troops and their families. [ mechanical humming ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. ♪ then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx. this is the next chapter for lexus. this is the pursuit of perfection. the economy needs manufacturing. machines, tools, people making stuf

he went to princeton and then dropped out to fight in world war ii. as a b-25 navigator, he was shot down, captured by the germans. spent two years as a p.o.w., came home, finished princeton, then yale law school, then was a rhodes scholar. at the justice department, he fought segregation in mississippi, fought constantly with j. edgar hoover at the fbi. for good measure, he later went on to the state department and then private law practice. nick katzenbach was 90 years old. >>> when we come back, living the american dream. a good old fashioned success story. >>> finally tonight, a purely inspiring story of success and drive. a man whose persistence and desire to make a better life for himself gives a whole new meaning to the term "work study." our chief education correspondent rehema ellis has his story. >> nearly 20 years ago, this man left his family in the former war-ravaged yugoslavia, heading to america with no money, no job, and no english speaking skills. >> i moved to escape from the political problems. >> he landed a job at columbia univers

from princeton and from oxford. my guess is that nobody else besides richard lands holds degrees from princeton and oxford but also as he does a master december gree from the new orleans baptist theological seminary. richard? >> thank you. this sunday will be my last sunday as the interim pastor. they have a new pastor and they're very excited about it. sometimes people ask me, you preach every sunday in addition to everything else you do? i said that's the last thing i would give up. the thing i look forward to the most every week and the thing i find the most fulfilling every week is preaching to the same people and being in touch with a local body of christ. and that leads me to say i'm neither a physician nor a lawyer. i'm a baptist minister and an ethicist. and i do think there are unprecedented threats to our religious freedoms. 20 years ago, i was in debates with people of my own dmon nation and in american christianity in general who were concerned about what they say as threats to the establishment clause.

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from princeton. i suspect we can use the word unprecedented about richard land in this respect, my guess is that nobody else holds degrees from princeton and oxford but also in masters from the baptist theological seminary -- seminary. richard. >> thank you. this sunday will be my last sunday as the interim pastor. they have a new pastor and they are very excited about it. sometimes people ask me, do you preach every sunday? i said that as the last thing i would give up. it is the thing i look forward to the most. it is the thing i find the most fulfilling every week, preaching to the same people and being in touch with the local body of christ. that leads me to say, i am not a lawyer. i am a baptist minister and an ethicist. i think there are unprecedented threats to our religious freedom today. 20 years ago, i was in debates with people in my own denomination and in american christianity in general. they were concerned about what they saw as threats to the establishment. i said i am sorry. i do not

he's going to be addressing princeton graduates june 3rd.ou for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> maria, let's pick up on that piece of the commencement address that i just played. the power of pause. what was the advice that you thought was so important for graduates to hear including someone in the audience who was extra special? >> my daughter was in that graduating class. i think we're in a rush, all of us to go out, and to be first in every business we're in a rush and i wanted to tell these young people, they're going out to uncertain times and they know that far better than most of us and it's okay to pause, and it's okay not to know the answer, to that question everybody is asking them, what are you going to do, where are you living, how much are you making, what's your job. and the concept of pausing not just when you graduate but throughout life is a very powerful concept i think and there's so much outward communication. i wanted to talk about the benefit of communicating inwardly with yourself throughout your life and you h

my own institution of princeton university, five years ago, salutatory graduate. the top graduate in greek and latin was a dominican who came here at age 2. and when he graduated as a salutatorian of princeton outed as an illegal migrant and forced, forced, to take a full scholarship at oxford university to study a ph.d. in classics. we end up deporting one of the top graduates of one of our top universities rather than making use of his productive skills we actually paid for. so where does this leave us now? well, we're actually a lot closer to comprehensive immigration reform than people think. illegal migration actually is zero. it has been for three years. in 2008, the illegal population in the united states peaked. between 2008 and 2009 it actually fell from 12 million to 11 million people. since 2009, it's held steady at 11 -- probably trending downward. on a net basis, illegal migration is now zero or negative. the border is in fact under control. the number of apprehensions -- 22,000 officers and they're having a harder time finding anybody to arrest. appr

and she saw something on tv when she was in sixth grade in princeton, new jersey and got hooked on the civil war and went back to israel, came back here and wrote a dissertation on how much people basically on the disruption and mobility of human beings during the civil war, then when we went to israel we met these people who wrote on the civil war including the american civil war as a case study of thing likes innovations and communication and networks and technology and things like that. we're a little insulated. i don'ts think that -- i don't have any sense that there is some upward trend in international interest in the subject. what do you think, david? >> i think we can say there is no lack of interest in this american problem of race and our pluralism and our history with this dilemma. that's what's always fascinated the rest of the world about us. i taught 20 years ago i taught for a year in germany after the ken burns film series came out. i taught the ken burns film series all nine parts with a german class in munich, at the very same time german national television was runni

james madison was a hebrew major at princeton, and he failed. [laughter] he had to go back and spend an extra year at princeton. it's a hard language, trust me. don't tell james madison that. so deeply ingrained was this notion of the new israel, america, at the conclusion of the american revolution in 1783, it was a debate between the u.s. leadership over what was going to be the great seal of the united states. and a group of american lives thought it should be the bald eagle. but another prominent group of americans said no, the image of the united states' seal should so moses leading the children of visual out of bondage and into the promised land. it was this heated debate, and america became this close to having moses as its nationals in symbol. but you should know the authors of the moses see where none other than thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin. so they had internalized the biblical narrative. for many of this generation of founding mothers and founding fathers, the fact that they were the new israel meant to have a kinship relati

a graduate of princeton and served for, i think, two years. but at least for a period of time as an lds missionary in europe. now, as i understand the rules about living and working as an lds missionary, you're pretty much on task 24/7. and one of the rules is that you don't watch tv. while you're on a mission. i take it that was hannah's lot for those two years. whether she's better or worse for it, she can say. but she's kind of made up for that because now she seems on intent on appearing on as many television programs as is humanly possible. and among them is fox news, hannity "the orailly factor." she's one of the leading religious liberty lawyers and she'll speak first. >> thank you. can you hear me? is this microphone on? thank you for the introduction. my joob on the panel this morning is to give you an overview to the threats of religious freedom in america today. and i'm going to do this primarily through the lens of litigation, the beckett fund for religious liberty is a nonprofit, nonpartisan litigation shot. and what we do is defe

he's going to be addressing princeton graduates june 3rd.ou for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> maria, let's pick up on that piece of the commencement address that i just played. the power of pause. what was the advice that you thought was so important for graduates to hear including someone in the audience who was extra special? >> my daughter was in that graduating class. i think we're in a rush, all of us to go out, and to be first in every business we're in a rush and i wanted to tell these young people, they're going out to uncertain times and they know that far better than most of us and it's okay to pause, and it's okay not to know the answer, to that question everybody is asking them, what are you going to do, where are you living, how much are you making, what's your job. and the concept of pausing not just when you graduate but throughout life is a very powerful concept i think and there's so much outward communication. i wanted to talk about the benefit of communicating inwardly with yourself throughout your life and you h

the person who invited us was actually an israeli who was trained by mcpherson at princeton who came to the united states with her father on a fellowship as a little kid. he was a historian of early modern europe, i think, and she saw something on tv when she was in sixth grade in princeton, new jersey and got hooked on the civil war, went back to asia and came back here as a grad student and wrote a dissertation on people and the disruption of the civil war. then we met all these people who wrote on the civil war, including the american civil war, a case study of various things like innovations and communication and networks and technology and things like that. so -- but we're a little insulated. i don't think that -- i don't have any sense that there is some upward trend in international interest on the subject. what do you think, david? >> i think what we can say up here is there is no lack of interest in this american problem of race and our pluralism and our history with this dilemma. that's what's always fascinated the rest of the world about us. i taught -- 20 years ago i taug

james madison was a hebrew major at princeton and he failed. he had to go back and spend an extra year at princeton, because it's a hard language, trust me. where's the hebrew teacher? i'm sorry, i shouldn't say that. easy language. just don't tell james madison that. and so deeply engrained was this notion of the new israel in america, that at the conclusion of the american revolution in 1783, there was a debate between the u.s. leadership over what was going to be the great seal of the united states. and a certain group of american leaders thought that it should be the bald eagle but another group said no, the image of the united states, the seal should show moses leading the children of israel out of bondage and into the promised land. there was this heated debate. america came this close to having moses as its national symbol. you got the folically challenged bird instead. but the authors of the moses seal were none other than thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin. so they had internalized the biblical narrative. now, for many of this gene

commencement speech princeton will feel be on liked to admit them. >> not!on't happen! >> thank you both. great to have you both and i appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. >>> and before we go here, a programming note, we will reair on msnbc today at 2:00 p.m. eastern and again tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon tomorrow. check out our interview with ashley judd on meet the press.com. if it's southboununday, it's "m press." we honor and remember all of the men and women who have given ♪ ♪ [ lauer ] this is our team. and unlike other countries, it's built by your donations, not government funding. and now, to support our athletes, you can donate a stitch in america's flag for the 2012 olympic games in london. help raise our flag, add your stitch at teamusa.org. >>> paying tribute. the nation pauses to honor u.s. servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. >>> wipeout. a crash at the final lap of the indianapolis 500 hands a scottish driver his third indy win. >>> and long span. celebrations in california's bay area as the golden gate bridge tur

commencement speech princeton will feel be on liked to admit them. >> not! won't happen! >> thank you both. great to have you both and i appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. >>> and before we go here, a programming note, we will reair on msnbc today at 2:00 p.m. eastern and again tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon tomorrow. check out our interview with ashley judd on meet the press.com. if it's southboununday, it's "m press." we honor and remember all of the men and women who have given their lives wow. this is new. yep. i'm sending the dancing chicken to every store in the franchise to get the word out. that could work. or you could use every door direct mail from the postal service. it'll help you and all your franchisees find the customers that matter most: the ones in the neighborhood. you print it or find a local partner. great. keep it moving honey. honey? that's my wife. wow. there you go. there you go. [ male announcer ] go online to reach every home, every address, every time with every door direct mail. ♪ [ lauer ] this is our team. and unlike

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commencement speech, princeton will feel obliged to admit them. >> not!thank you both. great to have you both and i appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. >>> and before we go here, a programming note, we will re-air on msnbc today at 2:00 p.m. eastern and again tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon tomorrow. check out our interview with ashley judd on meetthepress.com. that is all for today. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." as we leave you this memorial day weekend, we honor and remember all of the men and women who have given their lives for this nation. god bless our troops and their god bless our troops and their families. -- captions by vitac -- are you guys okay? yeah. ♪ [ man ] i had a great time. thank you, it was really fun. ♪ [ crash ] i'm going to write down my number, but don't use it. [ laughing ] ♪ [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] the all-new subaru impreza®. experience love that lasts. ♪ [ male announcer ] new lashblast 24hr with anti smudge power will last through all your drama. who knew lashes this