far beyond the capabilities of randolph hurst. the war that hurst denounced for so long would soon save his empire. the united states was at war and the country was clambering for the news that hurst was willing and able to provide. after decades of anti japanese propaganda, the war finally validated hurst distrust of the japanese. but at the same time, he was now afraid japanese submarines would take their revenge by shelling san simian, high atop the enchanted hill. so hurst and davies moved out and left the castle and moved to the timber rich estate in northern california. he would spend much ! >>> in his 70s, hurst survived his woes. in his 80s he still maintained active editorial control over his newspapers. but in 1947 at the age of 84, he became too ill to live in the isolated splendor of his castle. he would be forced to leave for the last time. after he told morgan he wanted a bungalow he would go to beverly hills to die. near his doctors he would hang on for four more years still unwilling to give up the life he had so e

and, of course, king knew as his aide's knew as philip randolph's jumped on board as soon as as randolph and king were there and all the other civil rights leaders were on line because nobody wanted to be left out and this is june of 1963 at that time. and the leaders decided that they'd hold the march in late august giving them a grand total of eight weeks to plan the largest civil rights demonstration in america's history. so philip randolph deputized a man whom you'll see in the book to run logistics for the day and he was someone who was a long time aide to philip randolph in labor and civil rights causes and also someone who had some long familiarity with king during the montgomery bus boycott randolph went down montgomery and helped king do errands and do typing and be an extra pair of hands to help out and so you put together a small staff and started putting together the plans for getting 250,000 people to the nation's capital. >> and we'll pick up in the first chapter of my book with the reaction of most of the political establishment in washington to the prospects of the march.

randolph. isn't this something that outrages the public.e in florida -- don't people in other states get what is going on here? i know in florida, scott is very low in the polls. i mean, to me i don't see how people are even passively letting this go down like this. >> well, unfortunately we don't have the recall provision in our state constitution like wisconsin. so given that we also have a republican legislature that won't impeach him, we're going it have to put up with him for four solid years. that's unless the doj diets him on indicts him on on medicare fraud, before he was governor. he is unpopular and people need to keep hounding him where where he goes in this state and remind him that his policies are job-killing anti-middle class politics. >> florida state representative scott randolph, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you very much. >> republicans are taking to the wrote, bus tours to meet corporations. i mean, voters. that's the next story. as luxury s.u.v.s, it helps to have the quality and craftsmanship of your leath

philip randolph said you have got to do something. roosevelt said make me. when he presented him with a plan for a march on washington on n the middle of a war. when you're fighting for democracy all over the world but you have anti-democracy forces at home, he said let me sign the executive order and get you black people off my back. i think positive action might be equally effective no matter who ever is in the white house. this is not an anti-obama type of statement. we have people making very tepid remarks about some things a the president said. let me be clear. i support president obama but let me also be clear. i am very unhappy with the direction of economic policy. >> for the folks inside the obama camp wh they will tell you in a private conversation, they won't tell us in the private conversation. >> we won't have a private conversation. tavis: we know these private conversations are being had. there are two overriding thoughts. they know negros are not going nowhere. they know black people are going support this president. there is no need to put u

guys like william randolph hearst. these were very right wing chance.itique was always that these guys were, you know, the newspaper was always doing the bidding of big money or something like that. but he deliberately flip it on its head identifying instead of, you know, the publisher, a guy like colonel mccormick, the real problem in journalism was the professionals, the problem with professionalism, these people who have variegated the power of the publisher to themselves in their little black of professional writers or whenever it is and are making news decisions for the entire country. what's funny is as that has become less true over the years. fox news, a in talk radio. almost completely conservative with an exception here and there. as this has become less and less valid as a description of the media environment we live in, it is not everywhere. the liberal media bias is everywhere as it has become less true. a fascinating story. >> well, i am going to defer to jesse's comment. i do want to say something aboup this idea, this interest.zpzp and i

philip randolph shared. [applause] when martin luther king, iii, an afl-cio began talking about posting a job and just this symposium during this historical week, we knew that we wanted to highlight the needs of america's struggling families, the families that dr. king devoted his life to fighting for. we wanted to hear from those who were unemployed but want to work, hear from academics who study the effects of economic and social injustice on all of our communities, and hear from students who dare to dream. hear from workers who want justice and a voice at work. and here from civil rights legends who have devoted their lives in a search of the american dream. for months now, the lives of millions of americans have been shaken up by the economic uncertainty, just as our nation's capital literally shook this week. we hope that the discussions, like the one that we will have today, will shake our elected officials to move with boldness and a fierce urgency of now. we call on our leaders to respond to the desp

guys like william randolph hearst. these were very right wing chance.que was always that these guys were, you know, -- the newspaper was doing the bidding a big money. but still, deliver leafleted on its head. instead of the publisher, the real problem in journalism where the professionals. irrigated the power of the publisher to themselves in their little clique, they're a little like a professional riders a whenever it is and are making the decisions for the entire country. what's funny is as that has become less true over the years, fox news, a.m. talk radio. almost completely conservative with an exception here and there, this has become less and less valid description of the media environment we live in. it's not everywhere. it's everywhere now. a fascinating story. >> well, i am going to defer to just his comment on that. i do want to say something aboux this. this idea of this interesting is.çprp i think their is a really good to journalism's dollars and there are ways to change the discourse of journalism without necessarily heavenlying on the q

and a dream that he it and -- a dream that he and the african american labor leader a developer randolphd. [applause] when we began talking about coasting aid jobs and justice -- call hosting a jobs and justice symposium during this week, we knew that we wanted to highlight the needs of america's struggling families, the families that dr. king devoted his life to fighting for. we wanted to hear from those who are unemployed, but want to work. hear from academics who study the effects of economic and social injustice on all of our community. and you're from students who dare to dream. hear from workers who want justice and a voice at work. and you're from civil-rights legends you have devoted their lives in search of the american dream. for months now, the lives of millions of americans have been shaken up by the economic uncertainty. just as our nation's capital literally shook this week, we hope that the discussions like the one we will have today will shape -- will shake our elected officials to move with boldness and a fierce urgency. we call on our leaders to respond to the desperate

randolph's nissen fundoplication, it's all yours. j.d.: there's nothin' you can do to stop it, even if you wanted to. keith? elliot. i didn't go home to see my family. i went to see your father to ask his permission to do this. oh! elliot... will you marry me? [door opens] [melody gasps] no way! j.d.: yep... such is life. from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show with jon stewart." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show," everybody. my name is jon stewart. we have a good show. we have a good show. our guest tonight, austan goolsbee. [laughter] that's my crypt keeper impression. "goolsbee." all right. turns out you were right the first time. all right. we often hear about how divided our country is and just how hostile the opposing parties in our political debate have become and the fear these divisions are so entrenched as to be permanent. well, i'm going to show you something right now. >> six-year-old lucy magnum is the brave

randolph responded and said, "mr. president, this will be an orderly, nonviolent protest." we left the meeting, coming out of the white house, whitney young, others, randolph, and we said we had a meaningful and productive meeting with the president of the united states. we told him we needed jobs. we needed a civil rights bill, but we also needed jobs. if you days later, on july 2, 1963, the six of us met at the old commodore hotel in new york city, and it was in that meeting that we invited all major white religious and labor leaders to join us. one of the labor leaders, walter, uaw. we issued the call for the march on washington. we met here, right down the street here at the capitol hill hotel. over and over again. we planned. we organized. we just did not wake up one morning and had a dream that we would walk on washington. we organized and had a plan, and it had -- if it had not been for organized labor, we would not have made it. thank you for all that you did and all that you continue to do. organized labor and the civil rights movement is like a glove on the hand.

that is how they take pages from the biography of william randolph hearst.@÷@m i have another model i thought would work. no. [laughter] >> thank you. we have commissioner copps here last week but in prior decades the sec is regulating from afar so perhaps you could bring context where we are in what you said the also about to the sec report about perhaps giving demand more than at has been i think it interesting thing for me is it did its job. in some ways was the capstone on top of the debate we have been having and collapsing pieces a in all may world demand but here we are. the report the when i got to actually read stock about what can we do? they drug their hands said it has become something i was joking that we cannot do anything about it. the obama doctrine has been infected the way they seem unwilling to use the powers that they have to say you are using the public airwaves for free that comes with responsibility. even when we're getting a call it is part of what they do each and every day. it is important to recognize people do and don't need to be

are slowly realizing they're a long way from seeing the benefits of their own revolution william randolph who's written extensively on egypt's uprising says they fell prey to a political game and there has been no revolution in egypt i said so in an r.t. interview in late january believe exactly that would be the outcome because this was incited from the outside it was designed to get rid of mubarak who was a thorn in the side of the obama middle east policy and put the same people in there with it with a different face at the top a lot has changed and it's largely unfortunately changed for the worse the economy plunged since the events of january. tourism is not going to be bombed back anytime soon but even even still there was a rather healthy growth curve in the last several years even on the broad was still in power and that that has dramatically changed for the worse this never was about democracy in the first place a lot of us were brought onto the streets under the illusion that it was and now you have the muslim brotherhood positioned to become the leading political party in the i

the naacp, phillip randolph, the most import african-american labor union in the country, the presidents of historically black colleges and universities, formed a coalition in the 1930s, 1940 to plus for african-americans inclusion in the air force. they saw this as the tip of the iceberg. and forcing the federal government to create greater opportunities for african-americans, giving them a chance to prove their patriotism, the competency so that they could use that to further civil-rights goals after the war. they were able to force president roosevelt to create the program in 1940 and the wave that came about as interesting. the naacp had been calling for this in 1937. every year at their annual meeting they passed a resolution that the united states army air corps, all the branches of the armed services but the air corps in particular because this was considered the cream of the crop, the most technologically advanced, if you think about what pilots looked like in the 1940s with their leather jackets and stars and bottles these with a masculine ideal of the day. every blue wanted to

ourselves on the back for being america fourteen trillion dollars and here to discuss this is anthony randolph though director of economic research for the reason foundation thanks for being here tonight so let's look at what happened obviously the dow closed below six hundred points six hundred thirty four points i believe and everybody was expecting this right most people lost that marit last time i started out and a lot of people were expecting bad news they thought that they might react negatively today but then u.s. treasury didn't really do all that bad so how do you describe that actually the treasuries fell today which meant that there was more demand for us coming out of this and i think what that probably speaks to is investors are the ultimate arbiters of what the credit rating of the united states is you can have these ratings agencies say all they want we concluded we should probably be criticizing them and taking everything they say with a grain of salt because of their failures during the housing bubble crisis so one rating agency says look we have problems with the political sy

now, a man claims he was attacked inside the home of zach randolph of the memphis grizzlies.says several beat him with pole sticks. police searched the home yesterday. zach randolph was home at the time of the attack but reportedly he's not a suspect in the case. >>> 7:25. we want to check in with sal, keeping a close eye on that two- alarm house fire in redwood city. that's right. this brought a lot of firefighters to the scene. for a while, there was a lot of thick, black smoke on hastings avenue, which a residential neighborhood -- which is a residential neighborhood. it's about halfway between 201 and redwood city. it's not a major thoroughfare. but if you live in this neighborhood and you are wondering what all of the motion was about -- commotion was about, it was for all of this -- for this fire. the build something severely damage. no major injuries. highway is slowing down on 880 getting there. nothing out of the ordinary. on vasco road near camino diablo, this is a popular shortcut because of a very serious accident involving a motorcycle and cement truck. the medic

in any new revenues so who exactly paying for this a good idea to discuss this with me is anthony randolph so director of economic research for the reason foundation anthony thanks for joining us tonight don't tell me you think this thing's a good idea that said we'll do ok thank you let's talk about why it's so terrible first off you didn't deserve i'm success here you know to say what you want and no one was actually trying to create jobs of this book never it was this an attempt at some kind of stimulus ever and i actually disagree with the last thing you said there is two point eight trillion dollars in revenues that come out of this and that's the end of the bush tax cuts in two thousand and thirteen this entire debt ceiling deal is essentially an analysis of projected spending over the next ten years so we're going to cut two point four trillion dollars but it's all for it's out of the ten trillion dollars we're going to spend or above the certain of what we're at right now over the next ten years from now that becomes like seven trillion dollars but that actually anticipates taxes g

and add to that a little dose of william randolph hearst. a very famous newspaper man and also someone who had napoleonic tendencies, and add to that the name of pd barnum, and because it's the 20s and because of norris and some of the things he did, put a little al capone in there because he was very much into winning battles and fighting battles. he built first baptist church from a few hundred peoplin' 1909, to a church that would drew sometimes 10,000 people by the middle of the 1920s. there are churches in america bigger than that now. lots of churches. but at that time there weren't. this was unheard of back then. it really was before the name was used, the first megachurch in america. he didn't do it without controversy. there was an area in ft. worth during the days before world war one called hell's half acre, the redlight district of the town, where the brothels where and the gambling houses and bars were and so forth. it was a place that all the cattlemen that were coming up, driving the cattle up the chism trail would stop, and t

now and i will speak with anthony randolph the about the new debt deal and how it might do everything except what the american people need like create jobs first and we'll speak to david sirota and we'll ask who we should really be angry with washington is going to tell you that there are gridlock is real but it's not wrong that our political parties are a little too much the same and then what do you know a u.n. report shows that the weapons that were given to african troops to fight the al-shabaab in somalia they're just ending up in the hands of al shabaab so how does not kind of thing happen before we have all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to. all right so the debt deal is done to need to know voted on passed that we're not going to default but on bad news right good news because of the time being we'll be defaulting on our debts and investors fleeing because the markets and the economy to crash in general all of the markets aren't doing so good right now also bad news because of co

randolph, he who mounts a wild elephant goes where a wild elephant goes. mounted many wild elephants? >> yeah, i mounted one right now. you never know. yeah. >> do you feel like life's about mounting an elephant, about taking risks? >> it can be. it can be. i mean, you can get in trouble, too. >> what's been the biggest gamble that you've taken, do you think, with your career? >> before you said the word career, i was going to say marriage. i was deathly afraid of getting married. my theory is that death is the last step, that marriage is the next step because this is the woman, now of the other women, the fear of marriage is really the fear of death. and getting back to the movies, what was the question? what was -- well, the biggest gamble professionally. >> well in a funny way, we touched on this earlier, even though crazy heart was taylor made, the director, scott cooper was -- he wrote it with me in mind. all of these things. >> it's not about being able to fulfill your own expectations? >> yeah. that's the big thing. >> because as a musician yourself

and add to that a little dose of william randolph hearst, a famous newspaper man somebody who had napoleonic tendency is. after that a great deal of p. t. barnum that sensation and showmanship and because it is the 20s and norris of what he did put a little bit about capone in there because he was very much into winning and fighting battles. he built the first baptist church from 190921 that would draw sometimes 10,000 people by the 1920's. there are churches bigger than that now but at that time there weren't. this was unheard of. back them. it was before the name the first megachurch of america. but not without controversy. there was an area during the days before world war wind called the red light district of the town where the of brothels were and it was a place all but cattlemen it was the picture of pledge cassidy and the sundance kid was taken. but norris decides he would take them on to shut it down. he was a crusaded pastor cleaning up the city and along the way made a few enemies. one day his church blew up and burned. rumors were circulating how did this happen? was it the work o

. >> jan randolph. thanks for your time there. >>> let's look at this part of the world now. most asia-pacific markets ending friday moderately higher, rounding out a week of, well, what could be described as extreme volatility. better than expected data out of the u.s., including lower jobless numbers and cisco helping to boost investor confidence. let's go to all of the details of friday's action. tgif. >> back to you, andrew. most of the markets did end higher today, except for japan. the nikkei ended down 0.2%, failing to stay above that 9,000 mark, after touching it briefly this morning. automakers were the big pull, with nissan falling nearly 2%. and the yen has been gaining strength all day. it's trading about $76.71 to the dollar. that's hurting exporters in japan. in hong kong, the hang seng is up about 0.1%. we're seeing this is the third week in a row this index will be down overall. there's one major performance to fengs. that's li & fung, it beat first-half net forecasts. they're one of walmart's main clothing suppliers. in shanghai, that was up about 0.5%. it's

. >>> jan randolph there. switching gears, sexual assault charges against dominique strauss-kahn are a step closer to being dropped. in an about face, the district attorney dismissed the charges. that recommendation must still be approved by a judge. the district attorney's office says it's because of new evidence and questions about the accuser's credibility. >> housekeeper claims strauss-kahn, a former french finance minister attacked her in a new york hotel. she's also filed a civil suit against him and counter suing for slander, andrew. >>> legal shenanigans or certainly legal developments. made mention of an attorney after goldman sachs investors. the bank's stock dropping by 5% on monday to a new low this year. that was in response to lloyd blank fine retaining a high priced attorney. this is taking a u.s. investigation very seriously after lawmakers released a report in april saying the bank misled both clients and congress. >>> make sure you stay with cnn for continuing coverage of the battle for tripo

they came at a call of randolph, who was the president of the vice president of the afl-cio and a trulyistoric figure in the history of the american labor movement. the buses, the signs, the food were all paid for by working men and women of america and their unions, the distributive union, the packinghouse workers, the united steelworkers, and most of of the united autoworkers. there is always a temptation at a moment like this to sugarcoat the past, to pretend that everyone was on the right side, that all of us did exactly what we should have done in the way it should have been done. the truth is that that day, the afl-cio building was closed on the day of the march on washington in 1963. the historic fact is that although the afl-cio endorsed the principles behind the march, the federation had not endorsed the march itself, even the major unions of the afl-cio were making the very march possible. martin luther king jr. often said it was not just african- americans who needed to be freed from the burdens of racism. the labor movement is rightfully proud of all working people did it to

and add to that a little dose of william randolph hearst. he was a very famous newspaperman, and also someone who had the poly-on it tendencies -- napoleonic. and add to that p.t. barnum, the sensation, and showmanship. and then because it's the toys and because of norse and some of the things he did, put a little out of the end of because he was there much into winning battles and fighting battles. t-bill first baptist church from a few hundred people in 1909 to a church that would draw sometimes 10,000 people by the middle of the 19 choice. their churches in america bigger than that now, lots of churches, but at that time there were not. this was unheard of back then. it really was. before the name was used in the first mega church in america. he didn't do it without controversy. there was an area in order worth back during the days before world war i called hell's half acre, the red light district. it was with the brothels were and where the gambling houses work, all the bars were and so forth. it was a place all the cattlemen that were c

i found a reference by john randolph, a congressman, virginia. the earliest reference i confined to the mason-dixon line as a line dividing free states from slave states. he said on the floor of the congress, we who belong to that unfortunate portion of this confederacy, which is south mason-dixon line and these to the allegheny mountains have to make up our minds to perish or resort to the measures which we first proposed. so it is interesting that as early as 1824 and earlier already out in the open was the idea of southern independence from the union. so it was at that point that we started seeing the shorthand with the mason-dixon line. if you look closely, you will notice that parts of sleep on in areas and north of the mason-dixon line. delaware it goes up above. what is now west virginia. at that time still virginia. the panhandle sticking happen. you may be a will to see her out. >> new hampshire did not officially abolished slavery until the civil war. shorthand came into our language, but i want to talk about it because livery is one of

created by cable and provided as a public service. >> in a moment, randolph babbitt will be speaking at the forum in washington. the obama administration delayed a rule calling for airline pilots to receive more sleep. you are watching live coverage on c-span. >> we are going at 8:10. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [unintelligible] >> mr. babbitt has been delayed. here are some remarks from hilary clinton from earlier, talking about obama's statement calling for the syrian president to step down. and all assets were freezed belonging to the syrian government. >> good morning. for months, the world has borne witness to the content for their own people of the regime. in peaceful demonstrations, syrians are demanding -- demanding their universal human rights. the regime has responded with empty promises and horrific violence, torturing the leaders of the opposition, laying siege to cities and slaughtering thousands of unarmed civilians including children. the government has now been condemned by countries

randolph babbitt will be speaking to the group and about half an hour. we will have his comments live. with the new school year getting under way, our guest is arne duncan. >> what to me with shocking was that these assassinations were welcomed and congratulate td. these are not terrorists or al qaeda. ordinary pakistani to feel that their religion is threatened, that the country is becoming too secular and that blasphemy is something to be defended with your live. >> pamela constable sunday night on c-span's "q &a" >> you'll also visit mount vernon weren't recent discoveries have shed new light on the george washington, the gardener, painter. susan eisenhower talked about her grandfather, dwight eisenhower. if the complete weekend schedule at c-span.org/history. >> here is the key. we were stunned. it is so clear. if the schedule benefits cannot be paid, they will give only the payable benefits. that may sound like garbage. that is a real gut rancher. did that will hit in 2037. last may, there's more coming in than going out. you get to this point. he w

host: a gentlemen in randolph, vermont responsibilities s responds to -- responds to the commen about repatriating says when you mention repatriating -- guest: i think it is unfortunate that most of the jobs american companies are creating now are offshore because of the lower tax rates. we need to do something to equill celebrate that and -- equill celebrate that. i say more and more of the funds continuously flow into the united states. i'm not talking about a one-time tax holiday. perhaps that will make joan more annoyed but i was speaking about something permanent rather than temporary. host: here is another e-mail. if you want to send us an e-mail send it to journal at espn.org or twitter.com/cspanwj and y can have this conversation with each other on our facebook page. here is another e-mail, christian. guest: the rating agencies are private institutions funded under the new law. they will be supervised by the s.e.c. we go through this every crisis. the rating agencies, standard & poor's, et cetera, do not have the best possible track record. they mickelsssed a number of cr. the

host: a gentlemen in randolph, vermont responsibilities s responds to -- responds to the comments aboutatriating says when you mention repatriating -- guest: i think it is unfortunate that most of the jobs american companies are creating now are offshore because of the lower tax rates. we need to do something to equill celebrate that and -- equill celebrate that. i say more and more of the funds continuously flow into the united states. i'm not talking about a one-time tax holiday. perhaps that will make joan more annoyed but i was speaking about something permanent rather than temporary. host: here is another e-mail. if you want to send us an e-mail send it to journal at espn.org or twitter.com/cspanwj and you can have this conversation with each other on our facebook page. here is another e-mail, christian. guest: the rating agencies are private institutions funded under the new law. they will be supervised by the s.e.c. we go through this every crisis. the rating agencies, standard & poor's, et cetera, do not have the best possible track record. they mickelsssed a number of cr. there

up next we hear from randolph babbitt, head of the federal aviation administration. he address of the airline pilots association annual air safety conference to discuss airline security and the new rules. his remarks are about 15 minut minutes. >> thank you. oh, my. thank you. lee, thank you for the incredible gracious introduction. really super. i appreciate it. this is really great to see all of you here tonight. i have been up on this podium with different formats before but it's always great to be back you. i literally came straight from the airport. i was in mexico this morning, and meeting on safety issues with our colleagues from canada and mexico. we had a productive meeting preparing for an upcoming icao meeting. but it is always great to come home, and although i can't say that a lot of places, i speak this is all for me. it's great to be here with all of you. [applause] >> a lot of what i do now i don't get to go and see this many friendly faces. so particularly nice. but as we get started i would want to take a second here and i want to thank alpa and gen

host: a gentlemen in randolph, vermont responsibilities s responds to -- responds to the comments aboutriating says when you mention repatriating -- guest: i think it is unfortunate that most of the jobs american companies are creating now are offshore because of the lower tax rates. we need to do something to equill celebrate that and -- equill celebrate that. i say more and more of the funds continuously flow into the unitedtates. i'm not talking about a one-time tax holiday. perhaps that will make joan more annoyed but i was speaking about something permanent rather than tempory. host: here is another e-mail. if you want to send us an e-mail send it to journal at espn.org or twitter.com/cspanwj and you can have this conversation with each other on our facebook page. here is another e-mail, christian. guest: the rating agencies are private institutions funded under the new law. they will be supervised by the s.e.c. we go through this every crisis. the rating agencies, standard & poor's, et cetera, do not have the best possible track record. they mickelsssed a number of cr. there are a

randolph babbitt spoke for 15 minutes. >> thank you. thank you for that introduction.it is great to see you here tonight. it is always great to be back here. i came straight from the airport. i was in the mexico this morning talking about safety issues, and we had a productive meeting. it is always great to come home, although i cannot say that of a lot places i speak, this is home for me, and it is great to be here with all of you. [applause] a lot of what i do now i do not get to go and see this many friendly faces, so it is for being ourhers allies on so many fronts, especially during the last trying four to six weeks. as most of you are aware, we have been through a very challenging time with our lapse in the reauthorization. that authorization failed to be continued, and the subsequent effect of that is we have to furlough 4000 faa employees. we had to issue a stop work orders, we had to issue more than 250 of those across the country. we also had to ask people working on contracts who had no ability while the money in the trust fund to issue the checks, and that

philip randolph, wilkins, johnson and thousands of other courageous women and men came here to washingtonerica to take action. give us the balance, dr. king asserted, during that pilgrimage of freedom at the lincoln memorial, we will nonviolently, route ranker, implement the supreme court decision of may, 1874. after dr. king testified for drauks, our nation responded -- democracy our nation responded with the voting rights act of 1964. democracy advanced. however, less than four decades later with bush vs. gore we learned that the will of the american people does not always prevail. yet, like dr. martin luther king jr. we kept the faith and we march onward. another eight years pass and our faith in democracy, our confidence in our own competence as citizens was reaffirmed. and in 2008 we elected president barack obama to the presidency of the united states of america. but i believe that if dr. king were here, i believe that he would cite jeremiah 15: 9 and there it said, my sun went down while it was still day. dr. king lived only 39 years, but in those 39 years he did a whole lot. he af