. >> tom bradley from south philadelphia heard the news as he entered chickie and pete's sunday name. >> i lift. tebow is a legend. bradford will get hurt. sanchez will benched and tebow will bring us the super bowl. >> why was he out of football the last two years. >> because everyone is jealous. >> in south philadelphia has an opinion on tim tebow. now we just wait to see what chip kelly nass store for a guy who hasn't been in the nfl for over two years. james palmer at chickie's and pete's in south philadelphia, "eyewitness sports". >> cheekiness out. i think he's most famous age let in philadelphia right now. >> name recognition absolutely. >> but here's the thing it's not about selling jersey. it's not about selling tickets. those are done. this is about winning football games. if they think he can help rye not. >> i want to see what roll chip let's him play. he's not a stand up quarterback and that's what people have tried to make um be. >> it will be interesting. no doubt about it. >> the eagles and chip kelly just continue to keep fans on their toes. what do you think of this

and looking for tom bradley.an for city council, long story short, again, lost the city council race but i can't begin to tell you, peter, the lessons i learn in losing that race. lessoned that have stuck with me all these years. and i'll put it this way. one of my books maybe the -- i don't recall but i actually shared one of this lessons, and the point of the lesson was that sometimes in our lives -- how was it -- rejection is direction. sometimes in life, rejection is direction. in my case, i lost that city council race. i was rejected by the voters but it directed me to where i needed to be. there's no way i would have found my way into radio, commentary and television commentary, and writing books and doing what i do now in public radio and public television every day, sitting here talking to you for three hours on c-span none of this would have happened to me had i won that city council race. i'd still be fitting potholes and getting cats our of trees in los angeles. so i was hurt when i lost the race but m

i was out of indiana for so long -- i went to l.a., took the job for tom bradley my career took off and i was off and running and i had forgotten -- not forgotten, but what is ironic, because i'm the eldest of all these kids hey had brothers and sisters who i put through college. i worked really hard to get them through school. ahead brother graduate phenomenon morehouse, one from hamilton, one from indiana. i was actually paying to help send my brothers and sisters to college so they could graduate so my siblings, who are younger than me, technically got their college degrees before i did. i had a counselor who called me every year who saiddown, have to finish this course. she hounded me every year because she knew i was that close to finishing the degree. and every year she would call me and say it's a new school year. are you going to take the class by correspondens? i can rank for you've to take it in los angeles. one class, tavis. she called me every year. and hounded me to take the choose, and year one went by, year two year three four five, just so many years went by, and one yea

>> guest: i was a kid working for tom bradley. at the time i was on loan to, speaking of dr. king, i was on loan to the southern christian leadership conference of greater los angeles. sclc, as you know is the only organization king founded in his lifetime. so i was on loan from the mayor's office to sclc l.a. to work on the very first-ever king holiday celebration in the city of l.a. so sclc was in charge of it, i was on loan from the mayor's office to help them organize this first annual king celebration in the city of l.a., and i was in the office one day, and it turns out dr. west was good friends of the executive director of that organization and he was in town and popped in to say hello to his friend who was my boss a guy named mark thomas who is now the most powerful black man in the state of california. he's the head he's the chair of the l.a. county board of supervisors now which makes him the most powerful black man running all of l.a. county. he was my boss then a great elected official in california now. he and dr. west were good friends, so west popped in to see

>> when i was a 21-year-old working for the mayor of the see tom bradley.two a good hoosiers' hanging out in 7 california. welcome back to l.a.. we are excited about this festival. this is the 20th year, it means something for city of this size to put on a festival where most of these activities are free and open to the public. too many of my friends on the east coast think smart television or book readers are smart people, only live on the east coast. there are a lot of people on the west coast who love to read and have things to say about our country and my show is based in southern california. this is one of those annual events that i love, it showcases the best and brightest, booktv and c-span. i met my angelou as a kid working for the mayor of the city. the mayor was out of town one day and as is often the case when the mayor couldn't attend an event, i was the stand in, to use all hollywood term was a stand in for tom bradley. i would go to different venues indications and offer a welcome or present a proclamation, things you do when you are the aid t

office of legislation and tom bradley and laurie houseman of the congressional budget office. i'd also like to recognize chairman hatch and his very capable and dedicated staff. they worked many, many months on this issue constantly reaching across the aisle and former hatch staffer dan todd, current staffer christian welsh and erin dempsey particularly deserve recognition. i want to close by thanking my finance staff personal staff affectionately known as the health team. some like karen fisher, matt caseman, juan macado and former staffer david schwartz survived two democratic chairmen and more doc fixes than they could possibly wish to remember so this is an especially significant moment for them. others like hannah hawker and jan phillips provided insight and counsel along the way. one last point if i might mr. president, having tried for years to specialize in health care, going back to the days when i was codirector of the oregon gray panthers, i thought that over the years i had picked up a little bit with respect to health care policy and came to really understand the