he was a navy man. well, he was. he was assistant secretary of the navy as a young man, at age 31, in world war i. and very effective assistant secretary of the navy. so the second book i'm working on is on, it will be called "young mr. roosevelt," and it will be about president roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy in world war i. so that'll be about a different war. i hope then i'll turn to something else. if i'm still up to it. [laughter] are there other -- yes. >> what do you think explains the difference of the treatment in japan on hawaii as opposed to on the mainland of alaska? >> it was a terrible thing. we incarcerated the japanese on the west coast. of we sent hem to -- we sent them to concentration camps called lightly relocation camps saying that we could not take a chance on the security of the west coast because there were so many japanese living there. they had to give up their property, they had to give up their schooling, they were sent to places like utah and montana and idaho into very bleak

she was in l.a. for the grammys, ironically to attend an event hosted by her mentor, the man that founded her, clive davis, tonight. people mourning her death all over the world. we're going to continue our coverage of this story out of los angeles. whitney houston, dead at the age of 48. stay with msnbc. we'll be right. ♪ is easy to achieve ♪ learning to love yourself, it is the [ woman ] we take it a day at a time. that's how it is with alzheimer's disease. she needs help from me. and her medication. the exelon patch -- it releases medication continuously for twenty-four hours. she uses one exelon patch daily for the treatment of mild to moderate alzheimer's symptoms. [ female announcer ] it cannot change the course of the disease. hospitalization and rarely death have been reported in patients who wore more than one patch at a time. the most common side effects of exelon patch are nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. the likelihood and severity of these side effects may increase as the dose increases.

so she was supportive. she was crying at the time. i almost cried as well. >> narrator: an earlier reconnaissance mission had been abandoned because of high levels of radiation over the reactors. tungsten plates were now bolted to the helicopter to protect the pilots from gamma rays. the crew knew that they had to drop the water on the move, from 300 feet. if they went higher, they'd miss. if they went lower, they could receive dangerous doses of radiation. >> (translated): at the time, it felt like, "this is it. this is finally it." like a tingle down the spine. >> narrator: their target was beneath them. >> (translated): i will never forget what i saw. the bones, the skeleton of the building. the walls were strewn everywhere. incredible. >> narrator: the world watched the mission live via a camera placed 20 miles from the plant. >> (translated): the wind was bending the water, so we sprayed it like this. we could see the steam, so i knew it had gone in. "we did it. we did it. we did it for everyone." that's how i felt. >> narrator:

it was -- it was actually a very interesting experience for me. i was graduating. it was my senior year at g.w. here in washington. somebody picked up a little article in "newsweek" magazine saying that the american government was going to put together a show and they were looking for 75 american russian-speaking guides. and i was very fortunate. i came from a russian family. tan ya being a russian name. we spoke russian in the home pip had a great advantage over a lot of people because i didn't have to struggle with the language. and i went down to the usia office and had a very short interview and it was accepted pretty quickly. but there was a great batch of 75 young people. some -- i was one of the younger ones at the time. there were people who had finished college, done graduate work all the in the russian area. russian area programs, literature, history. they knew quite a lot. we had a really intelligent group. and i just kind of fitted into this. what you're seeing here is just a shot of me working in the model house. it must have been in the fall because y

it was felt that he was hurting the republican ticket. i don't think -- i don't think he did hurt the ticket. i'll tell you, when we got into the white house, when we delivered the des moines speeches and some of those other speeches and during the great battle over the november speech where nixon on november 3rd called for the silent majority to stand up with mihm against the 500,000 demonstrators that came to washington, d.c. to brake the president. agnew delivered that sfeech in des moines attacking the networks for the first time, by december he was the most admired man many america. >> let me go back to iconic moments of '68 and bob lick ter will weigh in as well. as you look at the demonstrat n demonstrations going on in the streets of chicago and around the country, richard nixon kept talking about the silent majority. these are scenes you remember so very well. burning the american flag. get out of vietnam. a lot of uncertainty about young people that felt they would be drafted into the war that they didn't know what the purpose w

so it was a good idea. he was -- he was a hard man. he was a hard man, but he was always who worried about the men. he did a lot of things he shouldn't do, but he did it. i'll tell you things that he did and surprise you. so here we go. first, i'd take him somewhere. he'd have to say -- one knee on the ground and put your foot in the truck, the jeep, and say a prayer. then he'd get up and start swearing like hell. i'm gonna get them. every time he got in the jeep. the word hell was a great word. everything he said, hell this and hell that. that was the word -- he always said hell, hell. the drivers i was driving through a town, where are you going, general? i'm going to burn that son of a bitch paper tiger. he wanted to go to berlin and i had on the jeep. bradley called on the radio. he said, george, you're gonna stop right here. don't go no further. we're going to cut off your gas and water and this and that and then the telephone and you can't talk to nobody, so forth and okay. so he got back, he wondered why, and he told him, russia

it was not as big a deal as was it was made out to be. what happened was as you can imagine there is quite a disparity in height between the queen and michelle obama and they were standing at this reception for all the g20 leaders and first of all they were sort of comparing their shoes and then they turned to two ladies in waiting who were standing and they started to sort of demonstrate how tall she was and how short she was, and quite naturally as they were showing, demonstrating, they put their arms around each other. you know it has long been said that you shouldn't touch the queen although there have been many people who have over the years and she has become much more relaxed about it. michelle sort of lingered abed enrapture on the shoulder. nobody took offense, except the british tabloid press. they decided to make a big deal out of it, but i talked talk to people of buckingham palace and they said everybody was in a very good mood that day and it was kind of in the spirit of how everybody felt. nobody took offense much less the

that was bresnev. at the end of the session nixon said we really put your kitchen on the mab, didn't we? and i said you bet. harrison salisbury said we'll call it the sokolniki summit. that is the name of the place in moscow the exhibition was going held. well, nobody elected sokolniki, i said you mean the kitchen conference, had the benefit o illiteration, he paid it back by calling it the kitchen conference. our kitchen became famous. >> you want to add something? >> bill and i met there, and later on we became partners in business in new york city. life time friends. terrific guy, wrote column, what happened there, i don't think it was that clear, is that the ap guy was in among the crowd and couldn't move and so he looked at bill and bill signalled, he passed the camera along. >> jason, let's look at the picture. >> and then to bill to take it he was in the kitchen, so he took it and the guy is frantically waving, i sadsadooh head seen him, and bill had forgot to open the lens. so he took it again

she was angelically celebrated today. >> one thing i felt was sad was aretha franklin was too sick toat would have been nice to add to the extraordinary mix. >> i thought they would do the virtual thing. >> dee d she sent a message her leg was bothering her. >> she is dealing with health consequences. >> we are looking at pictures as people are streaming their way out of the church, new hope baptist church which did a wonderful job hosting. literally today we are on this relatively saulish church here. >> not a small city. >> no. big city. >> i thought marvin winans, what do you call that, a eulogy, a sermon? >> black folks call that having church. >> it was free spirited and uplifting. anyone watching would have felt so engaged. >> i like the way he said, god says, i got you. it's prioritizing, the message of today. so relevant, obviously. >> there is a story i heard many times about the set of "the preacher's wife." whitney sang a song and they were like, cut, cut. miss penny, with all due respect you can't cut the spirit. she is singing. >> that might work for people, but doesn't w

most interesting was he was just learning how to use a computer and he was told by everybody that he thanks to the internet and these cell extractions. >> it's kind of fascinating to be able to talk to some of these people that i meet online and stuff. to help me to adjust back into society. they're not convicts. they're not in a pecking order state of mind. >> he was kind of excited by the fact that there were so many posts, so many people responding positively. mostly because i think they were women who found him very attractive. >> i watched this episode last night and became infatuated with this man. he is so sexy. he has an amazing body. >> suddenly he's in this little bedroom, i think his childhood bedroom, on the internet watching himself and then hearing about these people responding to seeing him. >> 8,890 views in two months. good grief. >> i just thought what a surreal experience. i wonder how he's processing all that. >> being able to talk with all these people, it is helping me to adjust to society a little bit because i can't go nowhere. >> later the topic turned to his

the focus was upon what was done, not about what was -- not on what was inherited. that gets you the social gospel, into your obligations to do for those who are in need, et cetera, et cetera. this becomes absolutely crucial to the man which lifts him above any sort of narrow denominational identity. that i think made him great, too. he could be a member of a community, no question about it. that was his strength. but he could step outside the community in terms of his being able to relate to people. who had other identities. it's a great struggle, i think with niche. who was the most repugnant that he could encounter. he had to struggle with coming to grips. he always loved haguele, of course, as most young men do, you know. this business of getting past that and if you could then deal with alternative ideology outlooks which were in variance with what you believed in then you were getting somewhere. that's your invictus theme. >> right. dr. king says isn't it something that well, he believed the greatest christian in modern times was not a christian at all and tha

. >> it was, absolutely was. stand by that. i stand on that. i stand on whoever flew her out to perform at that party, should have provided someone to be there, to somehow look -- just keep the riff raft out of the situation, keep some of the dangerous people away. >> was she very vulnerable do you think? >> yes. >> even to the end, to that kind of situation? >> i am. i'm very vulnerable as a -- you know, i'm not -- i will never do cocaine again, i know that. but we are a highly sensitive people, entertainers. >> let's take a short break. i want to continue this after the break. this is fascinating to get your perspective. thank you very much indeed. a very sad thing for you to have the last interview with whitney. appreciate it. we'll be right back after this break. ♪ beth! hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed. these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right -- whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than tho

wellington was a tightly knit place where everyone was in hard times. the outlook was so stark that they all had to pull together. one of his childhood friends reported in the local oral history, in the winter, the eastern sky was cold, bleak, and empty, and sometimes you wondered if you'd already died. white later told a journalist, i suppose you could say that by the standards of today, we were all quite poor. although, he didn't necessarily feel poor because everyone was more or less the same. everybody worked for a living. everybody, everybody. the dissonance between that world and the art of cheesy headlines and mock heroism must have been a shock to the system for him. he and his brother had no doubt what grounded their values. asked why they held this or that conviction, sam white would say simply, we learned that in wellington. as if it were a course in ethics as well as a location. in many respects, byron white was never far from wellington. even after his parents retired to fort collins, he stayed in touch with former classmates and his favori

it was the color of their skin. in the 1940s our country was seg grairtd gated. they believed that black men couldn't fly in combat. seasoned airmen would have to prove them wrong. they did. by war's end they claimed thousand aviators. they flew 15,000 combat missions destroyed 250 enemy planes and never lost a bomber to an enemy fighter. join us tonight on war stories. the red tales. saga of the tugs gekee airmen. >>> i have never felt i couldn't do it. >> flying was something i really wanted to do. >> before they could fly the tuskeege airmen would have to overcome a country separated by prejudice. >> you stepped off the sidewalk --. >> theaters, you had to sit in the balcony. >> this was the time. >> first time, it was in kindergarten. we were singing a song and singing the words, wine, wine make her baby, cool and one, two three. >> new yorker was born in 1920 to jamaica immigrant parents. >> that evening, my mother said, son my father -- i knew he was angry. he said, son, i'm not angry with you. that is hateful word. don't every use it again. >> they are the

he was such a hard racer. and he was rough. but i was like a surgeon. >> charlie: you ever you wera fine-tuned surgeon. >> i could wreck a guy and made him feel he did it himself. >> he knew he wrecked it. >> charlie: have you ever wrecked dale? >> we wrecked each other a lot. i can't say i wrecked him. he recollected me more than, i think he came out on the top of that deal. he wrecked in rich mawnld and the all star -- richmond and the all star race. if it's going to keep me from winning he would wreck me. it was going to keep him from winning i would wreck him. >> charlie: you would rather see anybody win but dale you earnheart. >> i think that's a fair statement. when we got on the racetrack we were strong willed as it comes. we were strong-will competitors. >> charlie: is stewart, does he have any of dale earnhart in him. >> he has a lot of aj ford in him. you asked me about indy cars. tony can drive anything. tony is one of those exceptional talents that can win in an indy car. he can win in a stock car or a midget or dir

her diaper was full. >> thompson: how old was the baby?three months. >> thompson: how long do you think that she had been abandoned for? >> hours. >> thompson: dr. vas would later say she left the child alone for just ten minutes. >> she told me that she would go home and get a bottle of vodka and go sit in the garage. >> thompson: dena ammons is a nurse who worked with dr. vas. in an affidavit, she said vas became unreliable at work and grew unable to care for herself or her children. >> i always considered dr. vas a friend. you get to know your doctors pretty closely. she started to change, though. during the last year of her residency, especially when she was pregnant, she became very disorganized, her behavior was very strange, very bizarre. i told her i was concerned about her and the baby. and... and she just said, "don't worry, i'm a doctor, i know what i'm doing." >> thompson: dr. vas recently had her medical license suspended for alcohol abuse. frontlinpropublica, and npr contacted dr. vas several times, but she declined to commen

she was fighting. she was absolutely fighting, and she was winning. because she really looked great in the previews that i saw come i ing. and i thought that it was a wonderful thing that they gave her that opportunity to come back in that way. what a wonderful thing. >> you have lived your life in the public eye. you're performing tomorrow night in charlotte. you're still a very, very active performer. what type of toll does it take on a legend like you are, and like whitney houston was, not only the actual tour dates, but also having the paparazzi and people watching your every move? >> well, i think for the more experienced artist, one is pretty much used to that. but for a young artist, perhaps of whitney's age, it may have been very disconcerning to her. i don't don't know. >> you will be perform iing tomorrow night. will you be doing some sort of tribute to whitney? >> yes. there will be a moment of silence and tribute for whitney houston here in charlotte. there's one other thing i would like to say though before i hang up. and that is this. i

it was a living room war. >> vietnam was an abration. the administration wanted to show how you tough america was being on communism. you went out there as a correspondent and you were allowed to go where you wanted to. >> a lot of the reporting from vietnam which was clearly one sided. we saw the horrors of it and so on but did not hear much of what was happening on the other side. >> oliver: at its peak over 600 journalists were covering vietnam. the military invested men and material to record the war. like christopher jensen. >> i was attending photo journalism courses and it occurred to me maybe what i ought to do it enlift in the army. if you enlisted it was three years but the mill tar arery would train you in a specialty that you requested. >> oliver: jensen became one of 300,000 soldiers trained by the signal corps to shoot pictures. the military's role in documenting wars is easy to overlook. much of the film you see of wars past was shot by troops, not independent journalists. >> dominating the main highway to the north. >> on

was naked. >> it was a trick. they are known for that. [laughter] >> dave, would you share the story of the oscar meyer wagon interception with your child? >> i have a theory of parenting which is that your function as a parent is to embarrass your children. i embrace that. that is your job, to be embarrassing to your children, just as your parents were embarrassing to you. i was at the miami herald and i got a call from the oscar meyer wiener company, talking about bringing the wienermobile to miami. there are six of them. a lot of people do not know that. [laughter] this nation leads the world in wienermobile technology. although, iran is a developing more. [laughter] not for long. so they called me up and say we're bringing the wienermobile to miami, would you like to drive it for a day? i said heck yes. i knew exactly what i wanted to do. i wanted to pick my son of that middle school. [laughter] there he is in peer pressure hell. i will never forget. there are all these mothers in minivans. and behind it is th

it was easy for us to laugh. the church was what we knew. it was our private bond.of it and cissy not having any of it. mostly the days at church were good ones for us, and we both remembered how our parents tried to explain god and the plan he had for our lives. and we agreed that there was this feeling, this promise that if somehow we listened carefully, god's voice would somehow come to us. i told whitney that i always worried god was going to ask me to be a preacher. i wasn't sure how much fun ours had. whitney told me she wasn't worried at all. she wasn't waiting for no whisper. she told god that she was going to be like aretha, like her famous cousin, dionne, like her beautiful mother, cissy. there can be little doubt in this room that she has joined their ranks. and as the debate heats up this century, and it surely will, about the greatest singer of the last century, as the lists are drawn, it will have little meaning to me if her name is not on it. [ applause ] but as sure as i am about whitney's place in musical history, i'm just as sure she came home from

>> she was very energetic. she was outgoing. she was uplifting. anybody she would meet, no matter what your circumstance, she would encourage you. >> but someone ginger met turned out to be her killer. someone who dismembered her body, disposing of it in a trash can filled with bleach and cement. >> we're just going to go in to take a look. >> detectives kisner and boucher knew the suspect was still free and they desperately wanted to know who it was. this one had to be more difficult than some of the others. >> to think that somebody could do that to another person, holy cow, it's got to be surreal. this was something you see in a movie but you never expect to actually see. >> see on the job. >> as in the movies, sometimes clues surface at exactly the right moment. it's been 48 hours since ginger's body was discovered. detectives continued to let us stay close as they tried to figure out what happened. >> second night in a row and probably the second night of several more days with very little sleep. >> four hours last night, four hours tonight,

i told him, i was like, dad, just stop. i was like, you did what was right. i'm not mad at you.glad to be home. and i'm glad to be here with you.

how famous was he, how celebrated was he. how was he viewed. >> well, i think very famous, very el bratted. >> and considered, was he considered different then than he is today? has his fame grown or has it been revisionism. >> i think it's the same kind of fame. i think in that search the work is so authoritative. it shows you how to read it, what it means. it creates its mood and voice so well that i don't think we read dickens differently now than they did then. i think the richness of the language, the comedy, the unforget ability of the characters. you know, it's, the only difference is that we're not reading it in serial form. we're not reading it in installments. which i think created that whole business of installment publication, created a waiver, readers interact with text. >> the popular readership has very much been a continue out, but its critical reception has been subject to great deals, vicissitudes it, this wonderful count, henry james little boy, seven years old, crawled underneath his parent's table and hid

>> i was actually trying to get a race war started. that was my goal.gh racial incidents to get the blacks all stirred up and they would start killing whites and the whites would retaliate for that and it would go back and forth until a full-scale race war was going on. >> joseph wanted blacks and jews to fear that anywhere they went, they would be gunned down. that is such a grandiose scheme and it's unrealistic. having unrealistic goals is consistent of people who demonstrate a psychopathy disorder. in fact, that's one of the traits of that disorder this they have unrealistic goals. that never would have happened. yet, he believes he was capable of being able to accomplish that. >> i guess if i would have been able to do it long enough, they would have had to give me national publicity. blacks all over the country would be afraid to walk down the street. i would be terrorizing the united states, just one man. they don't want to freak out the blacks all over the country. >> that must have made you feel important. >> no, just the act i was trying to do,

and he was thankful that the process was coming to a close. and he stated, that he was not guilty. >> innocent people go to death row and more of them die. this was enough to cause any government to stop and take stock of where this was regard to the death penalty. in regard to that question, it always comes down to the morality of it all. >> let's start with questions for the panelists. george, thank you for being here. i know that we welcome and appreciate you being here. the remarks that you made, this has caused concerns for many opponents of the death penalty to have celebrated the fact that san francisco moved away from this and did this rather convincingly, and i want to put the question out there. are you in favor of the death penalty? >> the answer, this is no. but it is important to recognize the role that i play. i think it would be inappropriate for me to say, categorically -- if you look at this, clearly, and understandably, when she was rewarded, there are other death penalty incidents. we know that the death penalty -- 60% of ev

it was his eyes. it was his eyes. i didn't explain why i was attracted to him. i was.o. >> at the time of the incident, travis was living with christina. but danielle and sarah both had their eye on him. >> christina and danielle were competitive against each other because they both had a crush on travis so they were competitive, a lot of tension. they didn't care for each other. >> the day after the alleged kidnapping danielle called oklahoma avenue and spoke to christina and then to travis. she had an odd question to ask. >> you contacted certain individuals at the home after this incident took lays? >> yes, i did. >> you mentioned my clients christina who was your friend in high school, correct? >> not friend. >> you spoke to her about the availability of travis? >> yes. >> potential relationship with travis? >> yes. >> there were a lot of girls that were interested with travis but they didn't have a chance. they thought they did. they tried to get him to like them. tried to do anything. they tried too hard. obviously he didn't like that. >> you said you talked to t

so the story was told he was asked what he thought of richard nixon by reporters, he thought nixon was full of manure and his aides said "couldn't you get the boss to be more elegant?" and she said "you have no idea how long it took me to get him to use the word manure." (laughter) so all these years later... >> and if i could just add about lyndon johnson-- although i will defer to bob carroll-- but the dysfunction of the congress that we've been living with for these last years now points to even greater ability he had in those years to get congress to do his will and make changes for the country that have done... improved us forever. three great civil rights laws, medicare, aid to education. we now see that in a different way than we did when we took it for granted in the '60s. >> when you see lyndon johnson take over after kennedy's assassination. kennedy has two must bills, the civil rights bill and a tax cut bill that's going to boost the economy. most of them are absolutely stalled in congress and the tax cut bill, he comes in, he knows that kennedy can't get his budget passed b

he was on the side of the table. it was his wife, dolly, who was seated at the head. she was running the dinner. she was calling for the service, pouring the soup or asking them to pour the wine and conducting the conversation. they developed this while madison was president and it shocked them at first. that was not the role the women took on in the house. that was the man's role. dolly was so good at it, everyone fell in love with it. couldn't be bothered with what sat where. it tells you a lot about the relationship between james and dolly. they were complementary. she was 17 years younger and even though she was raised a quaker, she had a flair putting people at ease for really knowing them as people and caring for them. she loved the lime light. between the two of them, madison gave that role to her and he focused on the government and politics. from this room, we will go to the adjoining room which is madison's library. we are entering the library and this is one of the most important rooms in this house. he added this on to the house and created a very spacious

it was just silly, was born. and it probably out not to go on, but it certainly didn't seem like it should be something that so consumes us as a culture when we doing things like sending drones over to the pakistan-afghan border shooting up wedding parties. i just didn't come away with it, away from it with a kind of horror that i expected. i watched it for about an hour, and then i left. so, animals, here's the point where abuse becomes abuse. borders, are we abusing ourselves? my conclusion for the animals is, well, it's summed up by what a possum has taught us, and maybe some of you here will remember. we have met the enemy, bogle taught us, and he is us. i think we have to look at ourselves, and particularly this case in ohio where those animals were out there who are the wild animals that are out of control? they are uzbek we're the ones. and with calexico, with the border, i have an exchange as i left the border region and i don't know if it's the case appear. i don't think it is but on our southern border

the first thing i thought was, this was different.f course, that sparked a conversation, hey, what's this about? >> i got bored just the other day, so i decorated and painted my cell different. just -- i wanted it to be red so it looked like the walls was bleeding, but it's black. it looks all right, too, though. >> after two decades in prison, shephard had less than three years left on a group of convictions related to armed bank robbery. he dreamt of opening a legit tattoo parlor on the outside when he ran an elicit one on the inside. >> this is the studio right here. it depends on what you're getting. if you're getting your back done, i have you lay down. and vice versa. and i have a cell house job. i can take garbage bags, tear them open, lay them down for sterilization. >> he turned it into a business. he had a list of clientele. he had all the materials he needed. he kept track of everybody's schedule. and he was a walking billboard for his own tattoo artistry. >> i have all kinds of crap on me. devils and vikings. reapers and c

and he was a marine. he came in and his arm was damaged. it was totally wrapped up. they're sticking needles and stuff in him and doing procedures on him and i'm helping the nurses as much as i can there. and then the nurse says, hey, if you want to do something for him right now, hold his hand because this is really going to hurt him. the last thing i remember doing is holding his hand for him and he -- and in the throes of his pain, gripped my hand. he was alive enough to feel the extreme amount of pain. but he wasn't able to scream or voice it, and then he got evacuated and died on the way to the hospital in germany. >> after his tour ended, fish returned to the united states. during a random military drug test, he came up positive for marijuana and was released with an "other than honorable" discharge. soon after, fish says he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> they put me on medications for it. you start smelling things that you used to smell over there and you start kind of seeing things and you hear an alarm or something and it will trigger somet

he was petrified that the country itself would fall apart if sedition was allowed, disloyalty. >> i was going to ask you to comment on the milieu been read. the answer is, they had been read. the postmaster was reading the papers first and delivering them later. he was introduced to the world beyond his up to by the newspapers that covered springfield and chicago and even washington. it awakened the world in him, but it awakened it in a way that was extremely partisan. he read democratic and republican papers. in that world, he developed greater ambitions. i think they were fueled by what he read was possible from the newspapers. of course, educated himself in the law just as he educated himself in the bible, geometry, shakespeare. >> the military thought this was necessary for the war effort in one way or the other, guided or misguided as it might have been. but was that because lincoln created an atmosphere that said go ahead and do it or was it because they were going to do it and he would react to it and perhaps allow it or perhaps not allow it? >> lincoln is known as the great pard

again i believe he believed that from the day he was born this was a job that he was singled out to do. i think every person whoever worked with neil had such a respect for the very quiet, confidence that he exuded, his incredibly professional demeanor, he was literally a man for all ages within mission control. i think every person today has that same respect, even it's increased. after the mission, the one time that i ever remember neil talking, almost with boyish glee was he was sitting over in a corner i think over in the conference room, i think 9:30 in building 1, and we were just shooting the breeze. all of a sudden he just says "you know, i think this says a lot for american craftsmanship" because in those days american craftsmanship was in question. were we capable of building the high technologies that seemed to be coming from europe at the time. the european standards were the ones everyone was trying to emulate and there were questions whether we were capable of competing in the world of the '60s and '70s and neil proceeded to elaborate on his feel ings about american craft

but the first big fight i had with colson was when he was putting too much pressure on mcgruder, he was trying to get mcgruder to do things in my office -- i protected my office and very carefully so -- the credibility of that office was totally important to me. that's the kind of thing i would disagree with colson about. i was trying to point out to the president his credibility was the key to the whole thing. >> tell us about mcgruder, what kind of person was he? >> a very nice young guy, was very weak. he would let himself get pubbed around. i was surprised how tough colson could be because normally i could call someone in that was junior do me and say this is how we've got to do it, and he would agree. colson wouldn't move one inch. >> tell us about the relationship between rogers and the president? the president brings bill rogers in at a very difficult time in '73 when he's about to fire ehrlichman and haldeman. it was a strange relationship. >> bill rogers and dick nixon were close personal friends through most all of his career. he was his best friend in the eisenhower cabinet.

and he was so inadd mirrorad with this woman when he heard me sing he was sobbing and he was hugging and just amazing and so i really wanted to tell you that story to put the 2 songs together for you to give you a sense of what this was like for me. [music] ♪[music] [applause] >> so now you know -- [laughter]. so this next piece actually another one of the beautiful gems that i found in new york in a yiddish archives it's been lost for so many years. i was lucky to perform it in new york for october for a big jewish audience and people fell in love with it. it's a true story and something that still exists now. this means god watches over -- this piece a girlfriend her boyfriend goes to war and she says, i was lucking to be in love for a little while. i had love and everything i could ever want and now he's off at war and i'm alone. and i don't know what will happen after this. will he kill another mother's child. will i have to live with that? god watch over my belove ed and all the mother's sons. [music] [applause] >> so, not sure how much time we have left? keep going. all right.

he was here a little while ago. he was here a little while ago. we went into training then different types of training. physical training, nasa to this day starting back then leaves you on your own to stay in shape. however you want to do it. running, jogging, swimming, playing handball, whatever you want to do. be in good shape at flight time. we got into academics, so on, systems, emergency, simulator, those are standard. you have seen those. or know of them. there were different types of they weren't sure what we were getting into in this new environment in space. they put us through training on things that didn't have to be done that aren't done now but at that time they thought it safer to do these things so -- they didn't want to leave any stone unturned if we were going to go into space. in a slowly removing room in pensacola where they do sea sick studies down there, the doctor down there was the one who is the world's greatest expert on motion sickness. he had a room where you sat in there and slowly revolved. you didn't know that from lo

i would like to know who was allowed to vote. was it the landowners, or was it the elite? who was elected to be voters? >> well, it changed as time went on. but at the outset, it was property owners in most states. but white males, 21 and older, who had some property. now, in some states, the property qualifications were very low. in pennsylvania, for example, quite radical, and vermont, too. but you have to keep that in perspective. we are the largest elector of any state in the world. and we did even in the colonial period. two out of three white males could vote in most colonies. now, compare that to england which itself was considered a democratic state by european standards, one out of six adult males could vote in england. so by any standards whatsoever in the 18th century, we had the largest most democratic policies in the world. women, of course, did not vote yet. that's the 20th century, except in some states. that was a 20th century accomplishment. certainly black slaves did not vote. at the time we had the largest electorate in the world in the 18th century. >>

yeah, that was awesome!ll always >> in her nearly 30 years as an entertain entertainer, whitney houston establish herself as one of the most admired and influential singers of her time. michelle franzen has more on whitney houston's illustrious career. ♪ how will i know >> reporter: whitney houston reigned as one of pop music's superstars. >> she influenced an entire generation of young singers, everyone from mariah carey to adele, who owe a huge, huge gratitude to whitney houston. >> reporter: all who are now mourning her loss. in a statement mariah carey said she's heartbroken nand tears over the shocking death of my friend, the income portable miss whitney houston. christina aguilera said we have lost another legend, love and prayers to whitney's family. she will be missed. jessica simpson, i found my voice singing whitney houston's music. today i lost my idol. ♪ and i will always love you >> reporter: even dolly parton, who wrote the song made famous by houston in "the bodyguard" said, i can truly say fr

he was convinced he was going home that day. problem for the prison, because nobody could dissuade him from this notion. >> i've been in prison since november 3rd, 1988. for a crime that i was charged with and i'm not guilty of. >> okay. what's going on today? >> that's why i'm leaving prison. >> is it time for you to leave? >> my prison time has expired. >> what are you doing sitting here? >> to be released from prison. >> how long have you been waiting here? >> approximately 14 minutes. >> in reality, he was nowhere near his release date. he's serving 110 years for murder and attempted murder. >> which one of these cells was yours? where did you sleep at night when you were here? did you sleep in one of these cells when you were here? >> the more i asked for details about him leaving, he started to shut down. it was almost as if i was breaking his belief system. the staff then started to move in and they were making it very clear to him that he was going to have to comply and go back into his cell. >> hey, mike. come on in. >>

it was a song whitney loved and was chosen by her family. i asked kim what will be in her mind when she sings that song on saturday? >> i feel strong because i have to represent what i know she would want me to say and feel and make the people there feel. whitney was a caring and loving person. in that regard, i'll make sure that my delivery will be some form of strength, especially with her daughter there and her mother there. we all share a special relationship. i want to be strong enough to build them up as well. >> reporter: some of the other names that we'll be hearing about on saturday, alicia keys will be performing as well as people like aretha franklin. stevie wonder, kevin costner, her co-star from "the body guard" will speak on saturday. in addition to that, roberta flack. a long list of entertainers coming out to pay their respect. >> bobby brown will be there. there were reports he was asked not to attend. clearly, that's not the case. >> reporter: true. what we are hearing from bobby brown's people is there were reports because

of bloomington, indiana, which was -- it was kind of odd. i think he didn't come into his own until the sumpter crisis. another place, forgive me harold, i don't mean to turn on the moderator where i want to disagree with a little bit with-b what you said in your introduction to the panel suggesting the north was the sort of overwhelming favorite going in and the south was scrappy little underdog. first of all, let's not forget that, of course, the north needed to win the civil war, whereas the south simply needed to not lose. i think the south in some respects was militarily better prepared in early 1861 than the north was. they had been organizing troops very actively in many places actually since mid-1860. and the north was much slower to do that. one of the few places in those first weeks of the war where union force hs notable success was in st. louis, missouri, where actually these predominantly german wide-awakes had been drilling since early that year and where they staged basically a successful coup against the pro-cessation state g

i mean, i was 22 and she was 18. try to get a record deal for this young girl who sings at church. no one showed up. we were amazed that no one showed up, but at the same time, 1982, there were groups. there was blondie, heart, whispers, i was all groups. rolls-royce. put the girl out front and have the band. no one really was interested. a year later clive davis calls me and says, they tell me you're the guy had that put the band together. i want to do it again. i've signed her. we want to showcase her to the world. he wanted to showcase her to the top producers and top song writers of that time. we sat and talked and working with whitney was, you know -- there was such a creative energy. the two of us together, i feel like she was my gift and i was hers. we really have this collaborative thing that happened, and really, we were set to take on take on and set this music business on fire and we did. >> and so when you're faced with a challenge like, okay, it's super bowl time, and you're going to sing a song that eve

it was love. it was my sister, and as i said on different telecasts -- >> it's okay. >> i love her, and she's my sister, and she'll always be my sister, and i love her dearly. >> reporter: you also told me that we had reported that bobbi kristina was taken to the hospital earlier today and also yesterday. you were with her today. >> i was with bobbi yesterday when i landed. i went straight to the hotel. i was with her. she was doing okay, and as to be expected, she's overwhelmed. it's her mother. and she knows how much her mother meant to the world, and bobbi kristina has a huge heart, just like her mother, and she loves hard, but she's going to pull through because we're going to be there to pull her through. she calls me auntie kim so i have to be that more than i ever was before. >> reporter: you sat with her. what did you tell her? >> i told her god is real and the power of god is real. if she depends on the strength of god she's going to make it. she looked me in the face yesterday and she sa

i was listening and lionel was talking about the same thing.hard to grow up on stage and pretend it never happened and nobody knows. it's hard to do that. it's hard to be in the position where as you are out front and every day all day long people are seeing and hearing about you. something negative goes on and it's magnify and you have to go back and face the public. >> smokey? i think you hit the nail on the head there. they are the same issues like amy winehouse and michael jackson are not as famous. they are not speculated. thank you so much for taking the time to call in. >> piers, before we let smokey go, can i ask you something? >> for being positive, you want to focus on the positive and you are exactly right with that. what will you always love about whitney houston? >> whitney was family and i will always love whitney about whitney. whitney was family to me and i will always love her. she is one of the greatest voices in the history of music. that's what i say. >> thank you, smokey. >> thank you for letting me jump in. we will go to b

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