. >> this was home. this was where his heart always was. he once said to his friend and neighbors, my heart has always been here and always will be. and it was. this is where he drew strength and happiness throughout his entire life. franklin d roosevelt was born and raised in this house. and he was buried right here on the estate as well. the roosevelts originally had a different estate a little bit down the road from this property. and the house burnt to the ground in 1865. and then fdr's father mr. james roosevelt purchased this property to be their new home in the hudson valley. fdr's parents were james and sarah delamore roosevelt. and mr. james roosevelt had a wife before sarah. her name was rebecca holland. and she passed away in 1876. and four years later in 1880, mr. james married miss sarah. he was 52 years old. and she was only 26. so she was half his age. and james and sarah only had the one child, franklin delano roosevelt. when mr. james roosevelt, fdr's father, bought this house in 1867, it was a 17-room farmhouse, about 110

so it was -- it was not a fun time. you know, you look back on those times and you think, well, it ended up accomplishing what it set out to do, but then it was kind of sad on the other hand and there was a lot of dissension because of it. so it really caused some hard feelings. as i say, newt was aware so he understood and realized that he didn't have any choice but to step down and somebody else take over. >> you ran for leadership in the republican party a couple times and i think for most people they don't know what goes into those races or those kind of campaigns, so can you talk about that? >> yeah, those leadership races, you know, both times i ran i shouldn't have run. i ran because other people encouraged me to do it and that's the wrong reason to run, seriously, you know, you need to have a commitment on your own part to do it and i was never one who wanted to be a part of leadership. i ended up there not through anything i did, but i wasn't one to go out and seek that, per se. anyway, i was encouraged one tim

it was vietnam. it was power. it was devastation. the next day, he made an appearance before the kids were left and he apologized for feces -- profusely for being yellow in not joining them, and he was usy touched because bunch of -- bunches of them said, right --write it. he wrote it. i have found this book fortifying and i have read it twice. party isthe democratic not enshrined in chagrin and dismay. there isn't that rift. the intensity of his response to a different set of circumstances what i mentioned have just his so powerful to read emotion and sensibility in his literature. i felt stronger just by reading this book twice. thank you very much. [applause] abe: thanks, david p we are going to switch to a more visual element. first brought to us by patricia kelly. she is a associate dean at carr university of art and design and british columbia. holds a phd from the university of british columbia and has roots in chicago. she is a former professor at depaul very she -- depaul. she has wrote our and politics chicago style in 2008

there was a film that was taken out. the kids seemed full of passion and emotion and caught up and not a great deal of thought, frankly. i can understand the passion and the immediate aftermath of that killing down there in broward county. that's what you have got. you have so much passion. you can wave a magic wand and put an end to the school killings and we can't do it. the gentleman says, i think the generation does -- and you can never know exactly but the generation of the 1960s, was intelligent. even on the lash raul side. it was mature. it knew where it was going. it had the idea. some of it in columbia, mark penn, i put a statement denouncing them. >> i think we should thank the caller for his service and volunteering for the draft. my brother is a vietnam vet. i'm supportive of those veterans. i'm a little bit leery as a team teacher. it is a sign of aiming to look back to a golden age and say this new generation does not know thinking. this generation has passion, as you say, both who went through that horror

was he was only in the theater 44 45 days. he was in 27 firefights. he was only 19 years old. think about it. rough times, and thank you for the mother's day wishes. . think there was that moment there was a moral crisis and some people looked in the mirror and said, i don't like what i see when i see a america today. .t became this test did you wear your hair long and did you have a beard? at one point early in history, the peace corps, the peace corps thenteer had a beard and peace corps made him shave it because it looked too much like fidel castro. there is this weird thing that happens where we become very attuned in a way to the fashions that seem to speak volumes and say things about who we are identifying with. so, there were terrible times, and for the young men who served , some of them in toward incredible circumstances. terrible, terrible events. two george, next -- to george next, in gainesville, florida. caller: good morning. a happyish everyone mother's day. i want to ask dr. kramer. i grew up in florida. soldiers in the vietnam war. my question, as i have come

union was and where the cold war was heading? how that was a driving force in his vietnam policy? >> the major buildup of u.s. forces occurred just before 1968, starting in 1965, and at the height u.s. forces reached about a 525,000, which is an astoundsing number in a fairly small country. in 1968 after the ted offensive which was military victory for u.s. forces but was a political disaster because it made clear that the -- the veietnamese communist had far greater strength and staying power than the u.s. government had been letting on, particularly secretary of defense mcnamara. so it was a turning point in the war because until that time there had been majority support diminishing but still majority support in the united states for the war. public support from then on never was majority again and increasingly it turned against the war. so johnson was consumed by that and it led to short order not to seek re-election and begin to de-escalating the war. >> the johnson white house putting together films that highlighted what he

she was nervey and she was very strong. like few women of her time she participated in the nation's divisive struggles over slavery, westward expansion and the war with mexico. when her husband grew depressed over his constant struggles with the bureaucracy, and i can assure you they were no different then than they are now, he quit his job and they went to california for the gold rush. rose would return to washington a year later traveling alone through the jungeles of panama, and this was a time when travel was obviously a great deal more difficult than it is now. in fact, i think you could say that rose and robert had what today we would consider a commuter marriage. in 1854 robert died in an accident in san francisco. leaving rose with three daughters and pregnant with a fourth. the last child she named rose after herself. and little rose would become her constant campaignon. as years went on she lived two blocks from the white house. on july 10, 1861 she sent a coded message to confederate leader bowry guard. that gave

>> i was in the marine corps. i was in areas where it was used. but at the same time, let's again take a look at the framework under which this war was being fought. i think it was the most complicated war the united states has ever had to fight. it's not necessarily a negative thing to say at this point that maybe a stalemate given the strategic circumstances and the power of the anti-war movement here was an acceptable goal at a certain point just like north korea versus south korea, just like east germany versus west germany. that's what a lot of people looked at what we were going to do. can you preserve a portion of a country and develop an incipient democracy and have something different come out of it? south korea versus north korea is a great example. the other thing i think should be remembered is that there were at the extreme left, there were people who had revolutionary goals in this country that didn't connect with vietnam at first. mocratic the great example of that, the students for a democratic society, the sds, which was the vangu

it was 1945 when i was born. in those days, any place in the united states that was very difficult, a lot of issues raised. included particularly in many of the native functions during those times. they were not -- my grandmother and mother were not -- they didn't participate as much in native functions. when i was very small, my grandmother would take me two different parties, they call them. some people call them hot lunches. -- pot lunches. i remember doing that. my mother was sort of ostracized . she did not participate in many of the native functions. of course, i wasn't very welcome in most of the white functions. i picked a lot of barriers. i have to say i was an unsupervised while child. to the degree that when i was 15 years old, my mother had had enough. she moved us to california, where i stayed for 25 long years and never came home. when we moved to california, my mother took the soonest opportunity to go up on her own. she ended up moving to washington dc -- washington, d.c., and staying on the east

when i was growing up, my mother was urging me to go to college. my mother was a widow. she had to boarders to feed us and everything. so in that time, i worked for a lady at work in a dress shop and i got to learn a lot from my teachers as well. i know i wanted to really be a lawyer but i knew that we , couldn't afford it, so i settled on journalism, and i followed my nose that way. i went to the university of nevada one year where i worked as a secretary. i went to the university of missouri the next semester because that had the best journalism school in town, but before i did that, there was a man who came in -- i forgot to mention that i also worked during the weekend. that was in a weekly newspaper in nevada. that man was a politician. he was also state senator, charles russell, who later became governor. that was the path that i chose. i went to the university of missouri for the first semester of my second year, and again, i keep forgetting about the summer i spent and my first political experience. jim, whond had been a member of the house here was running for t

what was happening was a reaction to that. nixon was the politician who understood how to thread that needle, how to position himself as the candidate who was not a radical, who is not extremist, the variousstraddle elements of the republican party and take the party, and the nation, forward. in many ways that reagan campaign was a template for nixon. emphasize lawn order, the idea that the country was unraveling. law and order, the idea that the country was unraveling. the berkeley protests, the antiwar demonstrations, the columbia university unrest. themewas able to hit the that the non-shouters, as he called them, the quiet americans, primarily appealing , middle-class, suburbanites, white weking-class americans, that have to crack down on the supreme court justices who are too lenient on the politicians who have raised expectations who have failed to calm the cities. i think the caller is right that pivot, ae 1968 as a the post-1945 american worker when the country emerged as the lone superpower, untouched by the bombing.

he was right. there was a huge division.ne thing worth pointing out about the new hampshire vote is that 20% of mccarthy supporters about it first -- voted for george wallace. it was not an antiwar vote that we think of today. it was not a bunch of hippies think we should bring troops home. they voted for mccarthy because they thought he johnson should escalate the war to get it over with. they wanted a way out of vietnam. they did not care if it was from withdrawal or escalation, they wanted to bring troops home. one thing about mccarthy is that he did not run on this antiwar platform. he ran on a senate protest vote to send a message to washington about how you feel about the war. in that sense, it was incredibly successful, because he did bring in people who not just opposed the war to the left, but he could bring a more moderate conservative voters who supported the war, did not support the same goals as the antiwar activists, that were upset about how the war was going. >> four days after the new hampshire primary, robe

it was important to them. it was just another facet of what i did when i was there. steve: our focus is 1968 and this program, the media in particular. daniel is joining us from pennsylvania on the independent line. 1968, i could not tell whether journalists were liberal and conservative. today, it seems more flagrant that journalism today is more liberal. back then, you couldn't tell whether they were liberal or conservative. >> apparently you don't watch fox. [laughter] for me, photographers, i will say, speaking for myself but particularly knowing a lot of them, we really don't take sides. i was brought up that way. i think the lines have blurred a lot between commentators, people like sean hannity who are definitely not journalists, and people who are true reporters. those are the kind of people i have always worked with. i think that is part of the problem. you don't know why somebody is saying what they are saying. normally, a reporter is going to give you the straight facts. you're right about the impression. i think people think that. i don't believe it is tr

bush was antifree trade. he was anti-immigration. he believes that international institutions that -- i think there's a tradition on the right that hasn't always been ascended but there are lines that we can draw from trump to say the 1960s elements of the republican party in the '60s. >> first pamela from maryland. democrats line. good morning. >> caller: yes, hello. thank you for taking my call. i wanted to say that an earlier caller kevin is absolutely correct about the republican party and particularly the movement how it's undergirded by race and class. and an anonymous interview is 1981, lee atwater, he laid out, he spelled out the southern strategy that was used. and he said you can say the "n" word. in 1968 you can't because it'll back force on you. say things like states rights. civil unrest. and fiscal responsibility. then one of your guest there is said ronald reagan was the electable gold water. i'm looking to the radio, so i can't see who said that. but goldwater was a vocal opponent. and he wants his home state of louis

was as honest as he was. his mark on the history of this nation was as significant as anyone has made in this nation's history. >> thank you, john. jonathan white? >> i think that a big part of lincoln's success as a lawyer came in his preparation for being president as a lawyer. and lawyers often get a bum rap in our society. present company excluded, of course. >> be careful with that. >> but lawyers go through a certain sort of training where they learn legal reasoning, they learn logical reasoning and lincoln had an incredible knack for solving problems, for looking at seemingly intractable problems, figuring out how to find a good solution, so that sort of logical reasoning part of a lawyer's career i think did well for lincoln during the civil war. another thing that lawyers try to do is persuade people. they try to persuade juries. lincoln was a master persuader, a great communicator. you can picture lincoln leaning over a jury box talking in a foc folksy manner as he tries to convince them of his side

tee2 she was at a boarding school when kennedy was ambassador. and now is a nine and i have to tell you when we were in school together everybody thought tee2 had a vocation and now she is a sister of the sacred heart. because joe kennedy's plan to be the first president of the united states. and you will not elect the first catholic president of the united states on the arm of a woman and a full leg black veil and white whipple. not working for him. it is a vision indeed that will not happen. so sarge worked for him and was immediately smitten because she was very bright the only one of the kennedy sisters to have more than a catholic education to be a substantive singer as well as sarge. so they dated seven years. and father called her down to say tee2 you have a vocation but it's not at the convent that is to bury sergeant shriver and have his children. he has told that story hundred times but he would never say it on the record so the year before the father died after three priest told me the story they will tell you the story what really hap

he was talking about how progressive he really was. there is a lot of similarity, and the big differences are temperamental, i think. >> tr would later beat up on wilson badly for the slowness of his entry to world war i. >> yes, they disagreed about that. >> wilson's first term, what you consider his accomplishment? >> the economic reforms we talked about earlier. that's huge. no previous president had ever passed so much major legislation in such a short time. i think only lbj and fdr surpassed him. >> do you think he intellectually understood banking and finance? or was he relying on advisors? >> i think he had to rely on advisors. he had a central idea, which was bankers should not control the bank, the government should, through an agency like the federal reserve. other european countries had central banks by this point. we were the only ones that did not. he just kept his eye on the prize of having this taken out of the hands of bankers. there had been a series of bank panics and it was thought that if you had a federal reserve,

he was really a bitter man in those days. >> he was angry for the way he was treated.was angry bause his staff were not asked to be part of the new administration. he was angry, because he thought george bush was playing to the most conservative elements within his own party.th and foose reasons, he felt alienated. >> narrator: mccain positioned himself as the voice of dissentl in bush's rean party. >> mccain came out of the 2000 campaign drawn to th that he had become a brand.ep hesented something to the american public of independence, pragmatism, bipartisanand he moved very aggressively to maximize the leverage of the brand legislatively. >> narrator: mccain fought the bush administration's tax cuts as benefiting the wealthy. qnd while he supported the i war, he criticized the president's strategy as inadequate. >> demonstrators gathered ouide iraq's abu ghraib protesting treatment... >> narrator: but it was theof abusraqi prisoners by american soldiers at abu ghraib that most enraged the former p.o.w. >> he was incensed. he thought it was sh. >> i'm gravely concern

not only was it remote, but it was surrounded by hills and it was hard to defend. bennie adkins: absolutely. a mountainous country. .ll types of insects, reptiles the major infiltration route for in north vietnamese moving to the south the enemy's country. katie lamar jackson: if i recall, it was also understaffed, even when you got there. bennie adkins: it was the indigenousd there.did want to be we found out at a later time, many of them were petty criminals and they had sent them to take that location them out of saigon jails. we did not know that. we found out the hard way that some of them were supporting the north vietnamese. this campr jackson: was different from some of the others you had been in on the theious tour because affiliations of indigenous troops were different. bennie adkins: that's right. not only the mountain personnel, some of the south were ofse soldiers different ethnic groups. for instance, some training we were doing, sometimes we would or threeork with two people to do some teaching. katie lamar jackson: there you all are. you start to n

they didn't tell me what i was crusading for i i was afraid to ask what it was i was the crusader for and they told me that if i did not get out of the county i would be shot in the back or worse of mine and i really took their advice and let you know on station. that i ever found out what i was. i write i don't think he was overtly parent hiding but a highly suspicious he didn't trust the government. and gone through a police raid i guess of the black panthers in oakland and was walkin the far left wing side during or leading up to the war so he had some real concrete reasons to not be the term special in terms of the good of the government still and i had a poster at one time that said just because i'm paranoid doesn't mean you are not out to get me. and it in a sense it's quite true. or were pretty sure that. my house broken into my files were being opened my papers were still are safe i see are very far out if i see my own yard. except that in the house when i check the storage drums of the hollow scanners i'll pretty well know pretty soon what everyone in my house is doing and wh

now, in part this was because he was constrained. he had to deal with the democratic-controlled congress, one that became more firmly controlled by democrats following the 1974 midterms. but he signed a tax bill favored by democrats that called for greater tax cuts than ford favored. he did this because yes, there were tax cuts involved but he also felt if he didn't pass the bill, the democrats would call for greater government spending. he signed energy legislation that didn't do everything he wanted. but he signed it because there were things in the bill he liked. it promoted energy conservation. it set up a strategic petroleum reserve and gave ford the ability to recommend a decontrolling oil prices. now, there was a price to be paid for this willingness to compromise for the willingness to reach across the aisle and at least work with democrats. his decision on issues like energy, on taxes, and other decisions he made such as nominating nelson rockefeller who came from the liberal wing to the republican party, upset conservatives

one was terrified. the other one knew what was waiting for me out there was much better.eedom. i proceeded to walk to the edge of the house. and i looked at the creek and around the side, and i could see no one. nothing. no movement. and after that i just bolted. >> reporter: kevin knew, as many 14-year-olds do, that water obliterates footprints, might hide his route of escape. and so, with his heart pounding and his ears straining for the sounds of pursuers, he picked his way down the creek bed and into the jungle. and then he heard it. the bird call. >> it wasn't just a bird. this was more of like a -- an alert call that the terrorists used to communicate with another. so i knew that the signal had been put out that i had escaped. >> what'd that do to you? >> as soon as i heard it, i knew i had to get out as fast as i could. i had to run. >> i guess it's one of those moments in life where you either grow up and deal with it or you decide to give up and stay a little boy. >> those were my two choices. are you going to panic or are you going to -- are you going to man up

he worried about the debt reagan wa was incurring. he worried about the growing parspa partisanship he saw on capitol hill, and i think it could be argued if ford was alive today he'd be seen by many republicans given the environment today as a rhino, a republican in name only. meanwhile ford being an individual who was pragmatic and wanted to reach across party lines developed a friendship with another ex-president, a democrat, jimmy carter. the two of them criticized israel for standing in the way of the peace process, argued against impeaching president bill clinton in favor of censuring him. they argued the ban of the assault weapons set to expire in 2004 although bush allowed it to expire that same year. in part it was to get together funds for the ford library museum, both of which opened up in 1981. but he was almost making money for himself and his family. he made large amounts of money from his speaking engagements, memories and from sitting on corporate boards. and some people accused him of being only interested in material

there was a feeling it was not being shared equitably. and there were strikes all over the country in that spring, far more than we would ever have today. this is a picture of a streetcar strike in washington, d.c. the crowd of people is trying to prevent what the management called replacement workers, what the circus called scabs, from getting to the streetcars. it was also a great year in the ferment of the women's suffrage movement. in this movement believed that time had come for a constitutional amendment to extend the vote to women all across country. they thought the time was really right and the opportunity had presented itself. in the previous fall, 11 states out of the 48 states that then where women places could vote. the suffrage organization, they wanted to push for a national suffrage amendment. they began picketing the white house every day, starting january 1, 1917. everyday, there was a group of picketers on pennsylvania avenue train to get into the white house. every day, it was organized by a different affiliate organiz

to who she was and who her father was.ry. >> let me ask you this, professor. if you were going to teach a course on aretha franklin, what would the course description say? >> well, first of all, it would begin with the legendary clarence levon franklin, her father, out of new bethel baptist church in detroit, michigan, mississippi bred, tennessee touched, and yesterday a man whose genius rose to phenomenal heights. he crossed this country as a caravan of soul with gospel singers on the road, and we would have to start with his legendary genius. it was in his legendary verbal womb aretha franklin jess tated. she didn't come from nowhere. she came fully formed it seemed out of the genius of her father. yet i would start with black preaching, the black church, the black gospel tradition, what it gave to this country, what it meant to this world, and then i would speak about what detroit was undergoing in the days in which she came to maturity in the '50s and '60s. i would talk about her relationship to that church and then th

nobody was supposed to know she was living there. he was living there in secret.no one was supposed to know we wanted it. take the body with you. you're going to kill him. the trial. take the body with you. we offered an incredible amount of money, which we did to some generals to keep their mouth shut. there was a process for doing it already been some other book some other time. the government figured out a way to do it. it involved oil. so i actually thought in my naÏvetÉ. what i didn't understand at the white house, they sort of double cross. so you can understand his running for president and they have the photograph going like this. for a lot of people it was wait a second, you cannot take a photograph of it? you don't photograph the situation room meetings. come on. it was all political. if you remember the first story, bin laden hiding behind two women with a k. 20, who is a murderer. that's their job. it was just what they call, they have a phrase. they have an ugly phrase for some kind of a -- when a mission is just a straight up murder. they do it. that

the thing about john mccain was despite that experience this was someone who was gracious, in was someoneivil who did have a sense of proportion about life and maybe the best example of that, i think, was as you know andrea and you reported and we've talked about this too, in the 1990s when there was a movement to restore relations with vietnam, another kind of person who had gone through 5 1/2 years in the hanoi hilton would have said absolutely not. i'm a holdout. last country on earth we should restore relations with is vietnam. but john mccain was someone of the first. he said this is the time to restore that relationship and to do it with healing. it says so much about him. >> and exactly. end did it for a democratic president who wanted that policy but didn't have the political weight with the military to do it himself. >> absolutely. >> not served in vietnam because bill clinton had been scory ated during t during the '92 campaign and so -- having not served and on the two sides of the war and anti-war debate helped bill clinton effect that policy. thank you, again, michael. our fr

with when he was in the federal government so that was the signal maybe horton was more important. so at this stage what i would like to do at five minutes left i want to hand out a packet of some of the pr that horton disseminated before pearl harbor or if you want to come forward to pick it up. i don't want to waste time i'm just distributing it. just about everybody has gotten it i also have a packet about the posters after pearl harbor if we don't have time we will make them available. as you are getting it i would like see the first poster in the pamphlet. it is the one to all defense workers not to the public at large but the defense workers. january 41 before pearl harbor and what i think is important here is that he talks about i appeal to you the defense workers in defense of what you are doing. if you drop to the first headline after the text, let's get squarely behind our presidents. in other words he is dairying isolationist and daring isolationist and daring the conservative coalition to say that's propaganda. that's bureaucratic propaganda i i think he was stepping up

at that point nancy was not there but she was later on. you had women in positions to be moved up and i think the men begin to feel the sense of pressure that the women conquered. since we were members of caucasus, i had my name on a lot of caucasus. i was a cochair of the rural caucus. i was an active member of the cd -- cbc, the congressional black caucus. i was the chair of that foundation but your interest is so diverse. the women caucus, they've helped each other and i think you begin to understand the strength of that. the fact that i was working in nutrition and tried to get members to see the value, not that they didn't, they just don't want to pay for it. i was fortunate and blessed to have the women caucus who helped me put pressure on the agriculture people so i could get my bill. rose-- they reminded me how outside of the agriculture, making sure i was successful in getting things through. we found ways of connect thing when we were on that committee. there were people who would tell me how they could assess in terms of that. t

i was very uneasy. i knew something was wrong. >> sheryl's car was parked well off the highway.white. >> it was pretty clear it wasn't some place she would have parked it as well as the tire looked like it had been purpose flattened on the vehicle. >> an abandoned car, a flashed tire. >> lord, where is she? >> searchers, law enforcement, volunteers began fanning out into the adjacent 57,000 acre appalachia national forest. all of them with dread in their heart. >> i would be devastated if this happened to my family. i want to help. >> there were massive searches in town, thousands of people showed up to comb the woods looking for her. it was clear very early on that this was unusual for her. she would not have gotten in the car with someone. she just wasn't the person who would have disappeared. >> tallahassee democrat senior writer jennifer portman covered the story. >> we're talking about north florida in the panhandle area. people are bound by their schools, by their it family, their churches. >> and sunday school teachers with children and a grandchild don't go missing. >> t

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that was my upbringing it was the that. and then the with this one knows the book then he died my mother was the only one that all that remained was the strict upbringing and the belief that. with maybe that's why i have such special memories of my relationship with my father he loved me very much and i loved him very very much. when he died i thought my life was over still living as it once was. with. this new girl sometimes we get snow here in the winter while not a single snow flake pulls there this is carrot town. i'm not. an auntie outa are you excited. much to this song. you just. can't get it on the fourth or fifth i feel different things sometimes i get well up so many memories are coming back to me and it fit that. like everything at once after federal hit left up to. our left here at forty seven and now at seventy one i'm coming back on it with an effect. on the. i don't know i have quite a different feeling here that. my mother was eight when her family moved from siberia to cairo tau the town by the black mounta

i was interested to find out. same hangar. it was locked and secured so it was all right. and the french army officers then drove lindbergh into paris to stay at the ambassador's residence. a bunch of other things happened to him. he did not have pajamas obviously had to borrow the ambassador's pajamas. he fell asleep in the bed and woke up the next morning and the world was not the same and his life would never be the same. right? that takes you through the book more or less. i wanted to concentrate specifically on the flying. because nobody besides lindbergh had ever written this before from the cockpit. lots of books have been written about his life, biographies, etc. i think the best one is about that fake and it is called lindbergh. but only nine pages are devoted to the flight. because he is not pilot. so i wanted to take you through it, had use it -- have you sit in the cockpit with him, fill -- feel the controls, push the pedals, move the stick. feel him you know, fight off fatigue and dizziness and hallucinations and everything that happened. and take you all the

and what she was doing and why he was doing it. so looking at propaganda from pa bureaucracy there seems to be the unspoken acceptance if you go back to 19th-century america there 19th century america there were no bureaucracies. there were units of government of course but there was no public relations by those industries but they believe they are the contact in the federal government. and fdr says they have a right to know what they aree doing any if there are programs offered to be eligible for. if they don't know that it existed is the bureaucraticf equipment if a tree fell in ther forest and nobody was there didn't make aeei sound? so the growth of the alphabet and the public relations to tell the american people what they are doing those accepted norms n were that agencies could engaget in press relations of a reporter asks a question the reporter writes the story to put outleas press releases. that is note propaganda it's th theoretically limited to facts and agencies could issue reports usually to print or to congress with

he was so intense, and he was so quick.this guy writes so many jokes before the show it's not even funny. it's unbelievable. kind of what we do here, dennis. comedy writers. >> you're the guy at school who did all the moerk and asked if there was anymore to do. >> that's a good point. if you would try some comedy writing -- >> i got to know greg doing tough crowd, his takes on the topics were more insightful, more son skies, funnier than anything i could come up with. i loved it. >> what was so great about greg, which would be really helpful today, is an intellectual, contraryian working class point of view. >> will there ever be a candidate that can relate to both races? >>. >> they keep trying to paint dean has having race issues. he can't possibly be racist, he's from vermont, you can't hate black people until you're around them a lot. >> i feel bad for white dudes, man, white dudes can't be racist. i'm walking through harlem. i'm kind of lost right now, but i see a few black guys walking towards me. i can't run. if i st

that was a joke. i was called a couple of times. the first time he called, he asked how long i was taking off, that's how long are you taking off? -- how long are you taking off? i said two weeks. he said you will miss a lot. he called a second time and let go of it. he tweeted me. we were both coming from the g7 in northern quebec, which was a very interesting meeting. he went to singapore for the north korea and china meeting. we were going back to washington . and he was in singapore when he tweeted that i had a heart attack, which was very kind. it sounded worse than it actually was. >> why did you take the job? larry: oh. good question. i have known president trump for many years. not intimately, but i have known him for many years. interviewed him many times on various tv and radio shows. helped him with his campaign on tax cuts and the economy. we talked about coming in at different points. i was still working as commentator for cnbc and my radio show, just finished the book. i wasn't really in any rush to jump in. i did this

the regiment he said he was and was not at the battle. that commander he gives is on a commander at that battle. the details he gives of the battle are correct, but clearly, of anyot on the roles of the unicef audit that battle. roles of any of the units of that battle. he maintained he was a veteran of the mexican war. one would suppose to be a mexican war veteran, you would have at some point travel to mexico, and he clearly did not do so any -- and he clearly did not do so. at the outbreak of the civil war, he tried to join northern infantry units, but he was too old and he did not serve in a unit at the beginning of the war. he did manage to go to frederick, maryland and get a job as a wagon driver teamster for a union regiment. and apparently, at the battle of falling waters early in the war. he would tell the story that he was actually on the site of the battle. but it doesn't appear that he was there either. and what is fascinating about it, he is presented as being a combat veteran of many wars, and it appears to me that the first

that was it. that was it! but just to say, you need -- you see, today, you know, i could sol solve, ladies and gentlemen, in no time, i could solve 50% of your crisis, that you read the paper and you read the crisis, i could -- i could put it out there and tell -- i tell my wife, she can tell you, she's right there, i don't lie to her. i said, i know exactly what happened there. i will tell -- i know what happened! this has nothing to do -- but you know, in washington, the remedy to everything is more money. we need more money. you know what? i want to be very honest with you. money stinks. i don't have any money. never had, never will, and i don't want care. i'm a happy man. because i do my job the right way. i want to produce the best i can. whatever we put in front of the president and first lady, i always wanted it to be so well received. and i always thought, if i can give them a sweet moment with my dessert, when they go through so much every day, and also the beat up they get every single day. i mean, w

this was, but, mf was the short name. and they got that name because after you took your first drink, those of us who were uninitiated, we drank it and people said mmmm, that sure is a mooma. [ laughter ] >> but after we had our mf and after we did our dancing and our singing we would sit down and we would plan the week's activities. there would be a takeover of a welfare office. okay. we would take over quite often welfare offices. because we needed to get checks for women who had been denied. we would take over the housing authority, and this was a napa solicited movement, because they were displacing people and not putting them anywhere. and later, with the black organization of students, their time was yet to come. we supported the black organization of students when they took over rutgers university in 1969. so this was our coalition, this was our group. and we were, there was another group that came along during that period of time, and it was called, the committee for unified newark. which started out as a united b

it was a special thing. at the memorial it was a surprise speaker. i was in tears when it happened.i remember reverend corey said please stand for us. new orleans mayor, latoya cantrell. she walked down the aisle of the church, stood at the podium and recognized the lounge as part of city history. it was incredible. an incredible moment. the pastor allie was in the front row when that happened. the threat of the metropolitan community churches strong and weaves throughout the history. they been kind of a wandering flock. they've had countless ministers and church buildings. it still is not very popular to call yourself a gay christian. probably better now than in the early 70s. but, it is still highly controversial even in the lgbt community. that often times does not embrace queer spirituality. some are so burned by organized religion when they were younger. anyway, it still exist. >> i've not read your book yet, but i will. >> i'm wondering in your travels did you come across mike's name. >> i did. he is like a french quarter character. >> he was a religious man. the preacher and

it was time which was we all i liked his moustache his beard he was big and had adult complection i got my complexion from him and. when they adopted my father murdered him i was in a state of shock for a whole year. it's like it's hard to describe the has always been this hand that you've been able to hold on and suddenly it's taken away from you that it was an incredible shock when that hand was taken away jenna and even today i am in need of my father's advice and i need orientation and i still need things that no one else can give me and if you even bless. you've been so can you but i believe that my father finds a million ways and moments to be with me he companies me along my path used to come in. and if you can i mean it seemed like there was nothing more we could do it was as if our every attempt to learn something about those who disappeared hit a wall of silence until nine hundred ninety nine that is when the deity or merely tapped the military log book appeared. in the log book league guatemala's military secret service recorded information on people who between nine hundred

earl the whole time he was on the road he was. scared to have it. out as they were me my mom did it means that a promise once or. a motu was a need to see the mom would have me. two weeks before earl's date of execution the guards came to transport him to the death house in richmond. a charity mob put him in a way saying hank i shackles and they walk him out. literally drug him out and me everybody's banging on the door here at the casa guards. joe reached out to his caseworker marie deans to see if anything could be done. i called mary in a panic and set out. all of this god or not but i don't think he did i'll break this god knows what's going on when early arrived at the death house he was handed over to jerry. i receive error from mecum ber and when he came in i gave training to the infirmary he was given a complete physical. at that time we only had. death by electrocution chair so he didn't have a choice you could how do you know how you had led to the one through to your home and have a deeper hole we got with the he said h

john was very heated. i was taken by surprise at how heated he was. yet as we've heard so many times over the past several days, john mccain never let a public policy disagreement impact personal relationships with his colleagues. a couple of hours later we were back on the senate floor, and i wanted to continue the argument, and i started to approach him on the floor to continue the argument. i guess i wanted to get the last word, which might be a mistake with john mccain. but as i got close to him, john mccain lifted up his arms and reached out to me, embraced me and said "i'm sorry" and he apologized. it is not common for elected firms in any government, at any level of government to apologize on a regular basis, but of course it's not common, but john mccain was uncommon when it came to being a unique public official. john worked with so many of us on many issues. i didn't have the chance to work with him on a long list of issues, but i do remember one that had a particular impact on me, and that was his work as a vocal advocate for the people of

it was a dream i didn't even know was possible that i was able to achieve through a variety of circumstances and here i was basically after just over six months putting an end to the dream. and whatever your partisan strikes are, whatever your personal ambitions are, for me this was making a decision and stepping down from her role that was so real to me. and knowing that there was no turning back. you can't un-resign. you can't take it back i knew it was the right thing to do for myself and for the president. it was an unbelievable honor to serve he wanted to change, i think rightly so. i had become the story too often and admittedly was a bit of distraction from what he was trying to communicate and get through and let the focus be on his agenda and his policies so he wanted someone new, i respect that and my view was i wanted to give the president and his choice, anthony, and opportunity for a clean slate. i walked in and i detailed that the oval office is probably 25 yards in the press secretary's office is equidistant from the briefing room to the oval office and i walked through in the

whether he was right or wrong, he was, you know, he was not as part of one of thinking is a moves was to try to move every african-american to liberia and to create a state effectively there. that is not something many abolitionists in the north supported. so i say this just as background to say, yeah, that lincoln on one hand you could say in retrospect lincoln didn't do enough and on the other hand you could say lincoln did exactly the amount that he knew was palatable for the country at that time. and i think that is one of the reasons he is so well regarded today is because he had a very good feel for what the country would expect, how he could go about not crossing the political lines. >> he was a politician. he did sign the emancipation proclamation and he did make it possible for you know, they are to be a truce. >> when he signed it, many said to to him he wasn't going far enough in the investigation proclamation and others said he went too far. >> you talk about the lincoln douglas debate and the relationship between that experience obviously we know his political career. but

it was a terrible job.he supreme court visiting court does appeal court virtually had no authority with a very small docket. it was terrible payday had to get on the worst run around the country on circuit to go to the taverns nobody wanted that job it is surprising that in desperation adams offers the job to marshall and he takes it. so let me read you what the supreme court was like at the time john marshall arrived there in 1801. this was from the is from the middle of my book because frankly much of my book really is about family life and contributions to the secretary of state and then when we get to the supreme court. washington in 1801 was congress and treasury secretary called a hateful place devoid of any real society or culture it was scarcely 3,000 inhabitants colluding 600 flames clustered around the capital packed with members of congress sometimes to to a bad a dry goods store and a shoemaker but the rest of the city still consisted largely of swampland and brush. and separated houses so the i