in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's public television stations and brought tooday by your cable or satellite provider. >> no one is going to deny that that senator all of these trips on his private jet are that campaign contributions were made and nobody will really deny that senator menendez did lobby with various executive officials and it is why he did it. why did it happen? the government is alleging the because of this corrupt relationship so menendez was acting in exchange for the gifts and the senator is claiming week could see is my friend. >> sunday night on "q&a," former federal prosecutor and law school professor randall talks about the ongoing trial of new jersey democratic senator bob menendez and other public corruption cases sunday on c-span's "q&a." >>'s, discussion of counterterrorism strategies since 9/11. a discussion on counterterrorism strategies since 9/11. the panel discusses the counterterrorism policies of president trump and president obama's administration's. >> stop momentarily here. welcome to new america. we're here on the 16th ann

where history unfolds .aily in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable public television companies and is brought to you today by your local cable or satellite provider. >> this week on "the communicators congo a discussion of -- the communicators, a discussion of telecom in washington this fall. joining us are three working reporters covering this issues, covering congress, sec, our other agencies. john hendel is with politico. lydia beyoud is with event driven. and tara jeffries is with bloomberg bna. before we get into these issues, i want to ask you all an opening question to see where we go. the influence today of some of the larger tech companies, and here in washington. is it growing, is it outsized? lydia: that's a great question. we are seeing a pivot. in the trunk administration, away from well-recognized influence by tech companies like google and facebook, towards skepticism. influence under the previous administration is under a different light here. tara: i would agree. i think the trunk administration has not shown the same focus on tech groups and companie

that was a debate in which the leading figures were reagan and his friend bill buckley done on public television. i think most people thought buckley won. it didn't get much notice because most public tv stations ran opposite the super bowl. and it was on public television which was not as much of a force as it is today. buckley and reagan fenced and had a good time with the architect -- argument. one of buckley's second was george will and one of reagan' was a retired admiral named john mccain. and there were a couple of interesting stories about buckley who was one of the few but very prominent conservatives who supported the treaties. he had again down to panama and interviewed torrijos and concluded that he could be trusted and it would be in the best interest of the canal and united states to recognize that panama had some pride of the same sort we had a couple of hundred years earlier. buckley went out to visit reagan a few months after that debate in 1976 -- 197 77, sorry -- no 1978. it was early 1978, february, around the time of the super bowl. and reagan called him and said when you co

created as aan was public service by america's public television companies and is thought to today by your cable or satellite provider. >> each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. next, we tour the presidential vehicles collection at the henry ford museum in dearborn, michigan. transportation curator matt anderson shows of cars used by presidents truman, eisenhower, carter, and reagan, and the lincoln continental that john f. kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated. matt: my name is matt anderson. i am curator of transportation here at the henry ford. we are inside the henry ford museum of american innovation. just outside our driving america ext,

c-span, where history unfolds daily. 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's public television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. touringyear, c-span is cities across the country, exploring american history. a look at our recent visit to concord, ne new hampshire. americantching history on c-span3. historicalthe fifth society in the country. it was founded by a woman who wanted to preserve new hampshire history. we're going to look at the core exhibit about new hampshire history, which features a number of object considered iconic objects of new hampshire history. the first item i want to show you is a dugout can do. -- a new. canoe.gout this is one of the oldest items in the collection. 500 years old. where stone age people. they do not have tools, anything they had came from natural resources they found around them. this canoe would've taken about one month to build. they would've started with a slow burn, a very controlled burn on the top of a large pine tree and then they would've taken a stone tool to dig it up. because of the high a

. >> welcome to our viewers on public television and around the globe. right now, traffic is a mess. it is time for the you and general assembly. president trump will make his first address as a head of state. expect, we what to now go to laura at you and headquarters. >> the pressing problems of the week.will be debated this it is everything from the conflict in syria to the iran nuclear deal, the threat of north korea, and climate change in the wake of all of the hurricanes. the talk of the town is president trump and there is trepidation at united nations headquarters. body he declare this world obsolete? it turned out, not so much. here is my calling. looked to thep united nations as a real estate opportunity and build a tower opposite of it. he wanted a contract to perform refurbishment. people thought he would take a wrecking ball to the world a-day, the club that he thought people will would talk and get together to have a good time. he came not to talk of demolition, but reform. he mentioned his previous life. >> i saw great potential. nations be

. ♪ jane: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. known as the last major stronghold for the islamic state. tonight, an exclusive report from the final stages of the battle in the syrian city of raqqa. the offensive, led by arab and kurdish fighters, along with american and british support, started in june. at that time, i.s. controlled most of raqqa. the bbc is the only broadcaster to gain access to the heart of the stronghold in syria. quentin sommerville and sentaman darren summer way this report. this is a war of annihilation, says the united states. raqqa is the battleground and the victim. the coalition targeting fighters of the so-called islamic state. more than 5000 hit raqqa last year alone. an entire city has become a no man's land. no life, no people. for years, i.s. terrorized the streets. now, hundreds of those who called raqqa home have been killed by coalition bombs meant to free them. the u.s. led coalition disputes the figure and says this is the most precise bombing campaign in history. the men of the kurdish-led de

in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's public television companies and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. "washington journal" continues. host: we are joined by michael greenberger, the director of health and homeland security at the university of -- the director at the university of maryland center for health and homeland security, here to talk about federal disaster relief in the wake of harvey. thank you. remind everyone what the center for health and homeland security does. we just celebrated our 15th anniversary, and for those 15 years, we have been an academic consulting operation getting planning advice, training advice to governments, federal, and we are also work with the state department to get that kind of advice to foreign countries. we have trained about 40 foreign countries in management, and basically our mission is to help governmental and institutions, and large rabbit institutions to prepare for, protect against, and respond to huge catastrophes, such as the one in houston now. host: according to accuweather, it talks about h

. ♪ jane: welcome to our views on public television in america and around the globe.ngyang is now threatening to detonate a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. it comes after an exchange of insults between donald trump and kim jong-un, who called the u.s. president a mentally deranged dotard. we have the latest from the south korean capital. reporter: for the first time ever today, kim jong-un stared into a camera and addressed the u.s. president directly. he called donald trump "mentally deranged," and said the president would pay dearly for his threats to destroy north korea. it did not take long for mr. trump to tweet's response. he said kim jong-un of north korea, who is obviously a madman who does not mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before. york, northr in new korea's foreign minister mate another extraordinary threat, to drop a hydrogen bomb into the pacific. the decision to conduct the strongest ever hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean. , norter: here in seoul signs anyone is particular worried by all of this. this city has lived

public television broadcasting. advertising calling for participating in there were a friend and i know it's seen by the constitutional court. my professor of the. public service broadcaster they have they now said one day considered to be political instrument only station their. media have established a frame of reference which reflects only the nationalist version of reality they haven't even had to work out that. they've simply excluded more than half of the catalonians population from their frame of reference. hundred or not even to. as the catalan media both of her independence and we defend that there is a majority of people who want to sort out the future of catalonia and decide it with their votes what divides the kaplan people is how to achieve this and this division is also visible in the catholic media. couldn't see. if you look at thirteen daily newspapers they have different editorial lines some support the right to vote on october first some are against that i don't see a coherent unified message it's e

. >> reporter: he was a registered contractor that appeared on public television last year warning about the unscrupulous members of his own progression. >> on top of that there's contractor fraud out there without a doubt. >> reporter: but now they say mcalister defrauded them. so this is $20,000. >> correct. >> reporter: this is a series of checks totaling $37,000 all cashed by mcalister's firm. but they tell us he never even started work and now months later, they can't even find him. >> these people are taking money and living up a lifestyle not realizing the damage they're doing to people. >> like that would be the kitchen. >> reporter: he shows us the over grown lot where his once damaged house stood. he said mcalisteral tore it down but rebuilding never started. eventually we found a series of concerns about trey mcalister. of the 61 home owners that signed contracts with him, the state says 25 have now filed complaints against him. as those complaints surfaced atlantic city police stepped in alongside state investigators. police say the allegations are all similar, that mcalister

welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe.he humanitarian crisis affecting the rohingya muslims of myanmar has reached catastrophic levels according to the united nations. thethe secretary-general has cad on the authorities in myanmar, a mainly buddhist country, to suspend their military action against the rohingya people. he warns of the crisis is destabilizing the entire region. rita chakravarty starts our coverage. rita: the end of a long journey. rohingyay muslim people live in bangladesh -- arrive in bangladesh, fleeing persecution in buddhist dominated myanmar. bbc filmed it in flames last week. the government said the fires were started by rohingya villagers. we found some of those villagers here in bangladesh. these two watched the bbc's pictures of their village. they say the government's version of events is false, and they blame the police and buddhists who they call rakhine. >> the rakhine set fire to our homes. they only kill muslims. they even tried to kill people as they tried to escape. a revenge is district, a

laura: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. the conditions in puerto rico are increasingly dire more than a week after hurricane maria ripped through. federal aid is arriving, but there are serious questions about whether it is coming fast enough, and desperation is setting in. much of the island is without power or running water. supplies that have arrived are stuck in a bottleneck. a brief time ago, i spoke with san juan's mayor, carmen yulÍn cruz, and asked her for an update on conditions. mayor cruz: they are dire conditions, horrific conditions, devastation like i have never seen before. we still don't have power in puerto rico, and presumably won't come back for the next six to eight months. people do not have running water , most of the population. as you leave the metropolitan area of san juan, conditions worsen. i had a crew that just made their way into san juan today simply from the mayor of a municipality at the center of puerto rico, asking for food and water, because they say people are drinking out of a creek, th

jane: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. german chancellor angela merkel may have secured a fourth term in office, but her party, the christian democrats, lost over a million voters to the far right in sunday's election. mrs. merkel says she wants to win them back, but she starts in a weaker position and has to build a new coalition government. more on the challenges ahead. reporter: in the heart of german democracy, the far-right is seats inh dozens of the bundestag. germany's parliament is a building that consciously preserves the scars of the second world war, reminding germans of the destruction the far-right visited on europe. far from power, angela merkel has endured with her position as germany's preeminent politician unchallenged. with a fourth term as germany's weakened.r, but chancellor merkel: we have wished for a better result, of course. we are trying to analyze the votes we lost, especially those that went to the afd. we want to bring those people back by addressing some of their issues. reporter: this is where

jane: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. in central mexico tonight, they are still searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake which has already claimed more than 220 lives. dozens of buildings have collapsed, including a primary school where 21 children are known to have died. the bbc's aleem maqbool is in mexico city with the latest. aleem: it is, today, the full scale of the disruption in mexico city has been revealed. more buildings we by the fighting force of the earthquake , collapsed overnight. this is just one of the terrifying dramas playing out here, children trapped under rubble, confused and scared. the first one gets pulled out, and then the other. they were among the young peoples trapped when the primary school collapsed. it happened at lunchtime, moments after the earthquake struck. at least 20 children are known to have been killed here. many more are missing. this school has become the grim symbol of mexico's loss. i am desperate. i wanted to get the children out. i want to see something. >> this is

♪ anchor: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. a member of donald trump's cabinet has resigned. the secretary of health and human services has quit after his use of private charter flights created a firestorm of controversy. the president made his displeasure known and then we got news that mr. price was out today. another one bites the dust. why did he have to go? reporter: if you get elected on a slogan of draining the swamp, having your health secretary take $1 million worth of private jet flights, some two dozen since may, is hardly going along with that kind of ethos. i think he was in an impossible position. the moment i realized he was in serious trouble was when donald trump came out this afternoon, spoke to reporters and said what a fine man he was, i will make a statement later. when you get "fine man" and a statement is to come, if he is safe, you endorse him again and you don't need to say that. i thought the fine man thing, price laugh to go. and he is gone. anchor: he's not the only member of the cabinet under fire f

welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. this afternoon, a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck mexico. there are reports that the buildings have collapsed in the capital, mexico city, and the death toll is rising rapidly. the quake happened just hours after drills were held on the anniversary of a devastating quake that killed thousands of people in 1985. james cook starts our coverage. james: mexico city is one of the most densely packed places on earth. more than 20 million people live in this metropolis. any powerful earthquake here is especially devastating. struck aroundr lunchtime, prompting panic. these mobile phone pictures show what appear to be columns of dust from collapsed buildings. fires are being reported, and people are urged not to smoke because of the danger from gas leaks. an already, rescue work is underway. it is not clear how many people may be trapped. this is not even the epicenter. seismologists say that was 70 miles to the southeast in neighboring puebla province. these distressing pictures app

welcome to all who is on public television in america and around the world. it's one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the atlantic and right now hurricane irma is sweeping across the eastern carribean leaving a puff of destruction in its wake. at least ten people are known to have died and almost all of the buildings on the island of bombay to have been destroyed. porto rico was also in the storm's path and it's from that that laura because stops all coverage. hurricane erika a storm this size of france has carved a destructive path through the kind of being. ical three people were killed as women's after the islands. do you like came out the clear it began. i felt lucky to have survived such had a flying storm. but a. goal. don't go away and no more. this family to me felt blessed to be alive and that the only damage was attacked and power line and falling trees in their street. big cat eight month old aren seeks. there is a collective sigh of relief here impressed thirty because that is what can be done up to thirty feet waves threw up day brie and

welcome to obvious on public television in america and around the globe. arcanum has already left devastation in her wake she's chanting towards her biggest target yet. right now florida is bracing for a direct hit. a government that is warning that all twenty million residents should be prepared to evacuate if needed. the bbc's janna brian is in miami frost awaiting a hurricane that is why that than the state itself and she starts on coverage. below it really is hard to imagine isn't it because here i am on miami's iconic south beach in glorious sunshine with little more than a stiff breeze blowing but yes. florida is bracing itself for the storm of the century. especially after what they saw happening in bab buddha. that took a direct hit people were made homeless there in survival mode mode. and if that's not bad enough then now preparing for hurricane who say. well the b. b. c.'s or becca was the first foreign correspondent to reach the island. and it's from that that she sends this report. the island of barbuda was once carribean paradise. now i it is

in 1979, these and was created -- c-span was created as a public service by america's public television companies, and is brought you today by your cable or satellite provider. will come to concord, new hampshire on american history tv, the seat of government since 1808. today, the centrally located capital city has a population of about 43,000 people. over the next 90 minutes, and cooperation with our comcast cable partners, we will explore the history of the city and its place in american politics. coming up, the

welcome to our views on public television in the u. s. and around the globe. north korea is begging for war that was the view of america's ambassador to the un today off to kim jong in conducted his latest nuclear test. in response the united nations security council met in emergency session and president trump has spoken with his south korean counterpart. about strengthening the country's military defenses from sold the b. b. c.'s give to them i stopped for coverage. a day off to north korea's most powerful nuclear test. the south displayed it's. missiles were launched from the ground and the air. it was a test strip. south korea showing off how we could attack pyongyang's nucleosides. this is a strong reaction from a country that two months now has been desperately trying to avoid conflict in the korean peninsula. but in new york at an emergency un security council meeting. south korea's closest ally said pyongyang seem to be heading the other way. nuclear powers understand their responsibilities kim jong un shows no such understanding. his abusive use of mi

welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. trump administration is ending the legal protection the immigrant children brought tail unlawfully by that parents. the obama policy known as dacca gave legal status to almost eight hundred thousand young people and is the dream as. former president obama called the decision cruel and wrong. in a moment we'll hear from one of the teenagers affected a fast this report family mobile. anger and what scene of the white house once again being anti immigrant. its decision affects those brought to this country illegally as children. one to president obama will offered an amnesty. the us attorney general announced its been scrapped the effect of this unilateral executive amnest. among other things contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences. it also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs. humana is one of the hundreds of thousands affected. now feel full she'll lose

welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the fly. tonight's mexican officials have announced that no children remain alive in the rubble of a school which collapsed during monday's powerful earthquake. the days a rescue is have been searching through the wreckage a scene repeated across the buildings across the capital. the death toll currently stands at more than two hundred and sevent. michael legally not bullets in mexico city and he sent this report. all. the rescue efforts became all the more desperate in mexico city. his home moments who. didn't all the confusion one really knew what the ambulances were carrying away. the new rue my of life in the rubble the call went out for doctors who the soldiers have been deployed. the focal point became the school where children and teachers had been missing. for time we were given access to the schoolyard with rescue workers. white beside the collapsed three story building. yeah some america what does a dramatic moment where it was announced all efforts were now to be focused on a thirte

welcome to our viewers on public television in the u. s. and around the globe. right now hurricane and i pounding islands in the carribean and has its sights set family impression rica. the category five storm is packing winds of a hundred and eighty five miles per hour. potential for a deadly storm surge. and florida officials have already called for evacuations ahead of an expected landfall bad this weekend. bbc's nor baker and puts a weekend and has this report. would it say it's like to be at the heart one of the strongest storms reported in the atlantic. wings like njit poured through the eastern kentucky in. the capital product but he can fit riffs phones. devastated parts greatest tenor trees. barnes and sometimes. two people have lost their lives. river of to choose the. i one firstly to say a few words to express our profound compassion. and solidarity. tall fellow citizens would today affected. by harken oma on site multi. an insane balance. these pilots flew into the i store. our unique view of the sheer scale of this hurricane. and that its core are

welcome to our views on public television in america and around the globe. is it the residents of houston needed anything more to worry about concerned today was centered around a flooded chemical plant which caught fire. it comes as the white house announced that president trump will be donating one million dollars of his personal money to relief efforts. and as we've seen the cleanup and recovery will be massive the bbc's orchard valley and it's in the hard hit town of richmond texas for us tonight laura. again you might think that the flood waters here should soon be receding as they already are in houston. but unfortunately you would be wrong and that's because the rifat brown sauce behind me has yet to christ and smile and search and reached its peak that one hundred. until tomorrow off too numerous to jesus christ of fifty six feet so that means the flooding half is still going to increase in people have had to abandon. that mobile homes here in this pub will they can do is watch and wait anxiously to see just how more damage how much more damage. will

in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is broughto you today by your cable or sunlight provider. >> florida senators nelson and .ubio toward key west they were escorted by members of the u.s. navy and coast guard stationed at key west. [indiscernible] >> i'm surprised. i know it was thus up to desk gusts of the category 4. i was with the captain at the marriott. we shared a room that night. we watched trees come down. >> this year was completely evacuated. -- this here was completely evacuated. >> wind damage. kept [indiscernible] >> we don't have a category five rating. [indiscernible] >> that is something we have to look at. our heroes, we are going to go to the prison and wait out the storm. >> every storm that comes through here. >> they were thinking of going to the prison. [laughter] >> thank you, sir. [indiscernible] butt looks small from here some significant damage. >> the mobile tower, you line up right there. >> the pickup truck with a radio. , we are without a tower. >> category a personnel. we made a decision peter have

there was another debate tonight between the smaller parties, several of them on german public television candidates clashing with one another and it sort of revived a lot of people's hopes about germany's political culture because you had actual debate taking place which we did not see last night. so this third place question will be absolutely central when it comes will be absolutely central when it comes to the coalition building that will happen after september the 24th. matthew, thank you very much. on wednesday i will travel to germany and we will be live on thursday to covering the election campaign in germany. this is not a planned double plug for politico, but thank you to matthew, and this is in an article they are running about the brexit talks. uk seeks continuous talks to propel brexit resolution. it quotes a senior uk government officials saying they wa nt government officials saying they want a change to the current one week a month format that the warm is taking and they want more talks to resolve the major issues. another thing to talk about is that on tuesday the british

even pbs-- public television-- has started talking specifically to young people to hear their stories and to kind of get their stories out. so we're going to take a listen to one particular story. let's take a listen. >> i would say that i am intelligent, funny, i would say that i am very determined. i am artistic. i'm a hopeless romantic. i'm an independent person, and i have type 2 diabetes. "i told her the news and she said, 'i'm sorry.' this serious look was on her face. i said, 'don't worry, i'm going to do what i have to do to benefit myself.' she said, 'i feel so bad for you. why'd it have to be your health?'" when i found out i had diabetes, i was very shocked. i thought that was something that only older people got. i was 12 years old. i thought i was like, the only person that got it at such a young age. i didn't know anybody else who had had it. i thought that everything was going to be downhill from there. i thought i wasn't probably going to get past my 30s. "i said, 'stop apologizing; this isn't taking over my life, just one part of the many that i will overcome in this

this week probably wednesday booker revealed his decision during an interview with new jersey public television i'm signing onto medicare for all which is i'm excited to do this week senator sanders and myself and others are going to be announcing some legislation i'm signing on to some other of my colleagues all of us working towards this understanding that if you look at american history it's always been a batsman towards greater equality greater access greater opportunity and. in my opinion burning could have won the presidential election and now it appears as those policies are winning over the democratic party is single payer now pretty much inevitable as the democratic mainstream democratic party position i should note we've got i think nine or ten democratic senators who are saying yes that means there's thirty some odd who are saying no so valerie you're nodding your head or you're just an optimist or yeah no i'm just really thrilled because i've been on this show with you before where this has been a topic and i think that the american public has pushed the issue so far that our electe

created as aan was public service by america's public television companies and is thought to today by your cable or satellite provider. >> each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. next, we tour the presidential vehicles collection at the henry ford museum in dearborn, michigan. transportation curator matt anderson shows of cars used by presidents truman, eisenhower, carter, and reagan, and the lincoln continental that john f. kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated. matt: my name is matt anderson. i am curator of transportation here at the henry ford. we are inside the henry ford museum of american innovation. just outside our driving america exhibit, where we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. we are actually standing in front of a series of presidential limousines, which tell the story of the development of presidential transportation over the last 117 years or so. right behind me is the 1902 carriage used by theodore roosevelt. the automobile really becomes a force in the united states st

notice mostse most publics tv -- public tv stations ran it opposite the super bowl, and it was on public television, which was not as much of a force then as it is today. reagan had a good time with the buckley -- one of georgeckley's second was will, one of reagan's was a retired admiral named john mccain. there is a couple interesting stories about them -- about bill buckley, who was one of the few conservatives who supported the treaties. he had gone down to pam all and looked around and concluded that it would be in the best interests of the come now and the united states to recognize that panel mock had some pride of the same sort we have had a couple hundred years earlier. buckley went out to visit reagan a few months after that debate in 1977 -- it was early 1978. february. around the time of the super bowl. said, whened him and come up, be sure to look carefully. and when he got there, there were some color -- some crayon signs. it said we bought it, the second one said we built it, and the third one said we are going to keep it. buckley wrote that he thought it was essential for reagan to

i worked on a show called "stand-up," a public television show in colorado springs and i was a guessducer -- country music dj at the same time. "standoff" was a show, you had a host, and two gas, and they would debate issues. i helped for the show together, so i guess that would be my first one. >> kimberly: also, white house press secretary. [laughter] >> dana: i started in media and then went to politics and then came back. >> juan: okay. my first job in media, it was kind of odd, i was working my way through college at a that's now gone called the philadelphi. before that, i was the editor of my high school paper, doing that for the first job i really always thought of in media was when i was at "the washington post." they start you doing obituaries. >> dana: that's good learning. >> juan: man, it's a terrific thing. if you make a mistake, if you misspelled -- if you put too few ts and jesse watters, unacceptable. the family will call the publisher. >> jesse: i was editor of "the sarah friar" rang first media job. you know who else was the editor? bill keller. [laughter] isn't tha

who nobody had ever heard about except he headed up the crime commission that got a lot of publicity on television. so the primary breaks ride open -- wide open with taft, eisenhower, and the incumbent president. so we have a lot of artifacts. eisenhower was a popular figure at the time, although he could not campaign yet in new hampshire, not during the primary. so his name was floated out there. he was considered a hero of world war ii. he was renowned for his work as a nato commander, but he could not come to new hampshire. taft did campaign in new hampshire. maybe he should not have. he was not a good vote getter or a popular figure. so new hampshire said, i like ike. and eisenhower won the primary. much has been made about the fact that we are the first in the nation for the primaries. we did not mean to do that in 1962. it was almost by accident. the decision was made to hold the primary election on the same day as the town meeting day, a way to get a big crowd there and he would not have to have two different elections, which cost a lot of money. the decision was made in 1949 to hold the 52