winston churchill he napped and saved western civilization from the nazis. to elizabeth would you think about firing your top research scientist or sales person if they performed better if they had a nap every day. >> i would say go to bed early and we need you on the job. >> but would you fire them? >> i would not fire them. >> if it was good enough for winston churchill why not? yes. >> also worked in bed which bring's last week's conversation. we were talking about how yahoo is making people come back in to work. what are we bringing them back in to work for? just to go back to sleep. it is a ridiculous thing. >> also ronald reagan used to take naps and was quoted assaying no matter what time it is wake me up even if it is in middle of a cabinet meeting. >> if it serves the shareholds and people are more productivity if they are napping on the job that is something the individual corporations hud be do. should not be a one size fits all solution. some will do this and some will not and the mash return ares will decide what is policy going forward i think.

bob, you know, i think it was winston churchill that once said you can always depend on america to do the right thing. after exhausting all other possibilities. and my late mother used to tell me, she said, "you know, the good old days were never the good old days." twef had a democracy for 235-odd years and it works in the end and that's what's in important. in terms of the charm offensive look the president's job is to lead congress. >> and find it fascinating people criticize him for taking people too dinner. he should be doing that every night. they criticized him for playing golf with people he has to deal. he should be doing that every weekend. you always can work better with somebody that you have a chance to build a social relationship with. qwestering is here. it will go on for a while. it's not going to be the end of the world as we know it. and everybody was saying, oh, we're going to-- the worst-case scenario is exactly what we're going to implement." and now they're into the real world and they'll try to find ways to do more with less, and then hopefully congress will com

but, beyond your training, you also pointed out how winston churchill said that no state representativeome military experience. now, that's, that's about as political as you made it. talking about that war experience and the fact that it tests one's mettle to serve the public in a greater way. >> the thing that's special about military service and i write about it it a lot, is that you are involved, particularly as an officer and that's a different perspective that's in reque"damn few" the t perspective the way we think about this job. and you have the brothership, you participate in world events and influence world events and seal training is phenomenally tough and we're all in the fight together ap a special group of folks to be a part of? to be sure. and one thing i want to talk about, before we leave you, sir, you talk about the new direction for the seals, the global pursuit team. tell me about that, that's enabled you to capture of folks like usama bin laden and help american hostages as well. >> sure. i think after a decade of sustained combat the military at large will look how

he was vastly better than any other world leader, including winston churchill, who talked a lot, but didn't do anything for the jews and was not even after the horrors of the concentration camps revealed continue to revere franklin roosevelt. his severe criticisms of policy towards someone didn't emerge until critical books are written in the late 1960s. >> host: professor allan lichtman, was there an opportunity to change or to effect was about to happen in germany? >> guest: it would've been difficult to change the course of events. hitler had his own plan for world domination. he had his teacher had a jews in this persecution and daughter was not secondary. i was primary to his ideology and approach to the world. people wondered including the united states and i posted it comes why in the world during this terrible struggle of world war ii with tens of millions dying in the fate of the world in the balance would germany divert resources come in our misery services to hunting down and killing someone. for hitler, the killing of jews was never a diversion from the war. it was a prim

strongly that a built environment defines us and is a picture of who we are to others and as winston churchill said we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us. i believe that i'm a person who can be a bridge to the public from the formal way of defining architectural history to one that is applied, to help turn the fear of owning an historic resource to one of pride to be refreshing and adding to san francisco history in a way that noger diminishes that history nor diminishes the needs of the public. when i came to san francisco in 1989, the first project i worked on was the renovation of rehabilitation of temple emanuel on lake street, a building by legendary architects that includes the office of babe he will and brown and bernard bay back. i worked on historic buildings all over san francisco including in district 1 i'm the lead architect for the alexandria theater. in district 2 in the presidio, i renovated one of the office quarter houses. district 6 the rehabilitation of the hibernia bank building that the historic preservation commission with no debate or criticism. hibernia ba

again, quo tote -- to quote winston churchill, it is a terrible system. it is just better than any other one. i met with the brazilian supreme court. they have just met with the united states supreme court less than a month ago to deal with their issues. in brazil, every matter that comes before the supreme court of brazil, they had 80,000 cases last year, 80,000, obviously, no justice. you cannot have a system that wants to review 80,000 cases. i do think our appellate system could use some tweaking, but by and large, the florida -- i am not sure i agree with that -- almost certainly respected -- the florida supreme court's motto is, you'll appreciate this, i will not give you the latin version, but the translation is "soon enough, if correct." that is the actual motto. sometimes soon enough is not soon enough. you are correct. as you know, professor, the supreme court of the united states takes such few cases that usually the intermediary court decision is the final one. we have to fill the bench. it is going to be worse every day if we have an empty fe

if you do not believe that, imagine a world war ii with britain led by a 25-year-old winston churchill. right? you need wisdom. you need wisdom. society's need wisdom and knowledge. they value older people. but operationally, functionally, you know, we slow down. we're less precise. we remember less. we're less effective than we could or should be. we asked the question of how complicated with the training be, and what did these things are reimbursable -- reversible? i will tell you, everything is reversible. everything can be improved. every dimension of the physical, functional brain can be reversed in a positive direction. it is all reversible. we're constructed to be basically reversible. so, first of all, we look at the process of the brain as it relates to the alertness of the brain. look at recovery. we look at the process as it relates to the intentional control of the bravin. we look at the accuracy as to how the brain receives information. is schematically approved by training. we can speed up the brain almost always by two to three-fold in an old animal or human not so far a

that i'm sure he committed you know the use of gas against the kurds but who used the gas first winston churchill used gas against the iraqi national liberation struggle in one nine hundred twenty and i argued that why shouldn't we use poison gas against uncivilized tribes and so now we can down more then we can down saddam hussein for using poison gas of course he should be condemned for it but does that mean that we support a military invasion that has destroyed a country and frankly brought another group of thugs into power and created this kind of international scene conflict within the country itself this can all be attributed to the united states and its mission to control the oil of the middle east t.v. if you make a broad really frank you've been on the program tonight that gives a shit fools. it said nine twenty six moscow ton of extent of big business influence over politicians is up for discussion under section x. in the cars report on it after the break. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to it there w

winston churchill famously referred to lend lease aid as quote, unquote the most unsorted acts. the u.s. was in fact only willing to provide this aid after really milking britain tried. we forced them to solve a their major subsidiaries of british companies in the united states. there's even evidence that fdr's administration was willing to take it to the empire. but here's a nice quote from henry morgenthau speaking to the u.s. treasury representative in 1940s. he said there's one thing i know i can say that we don't want any of those islands. i know he doesn't want jamaica. i know he doesn't want trinidad and i know he doesn't want reddish sky in that. last night in fact, the u.s. was more spontaneously generous during the second world war to china and the soviet union than it was to britain. it seems rather remarkable today. the mindset during the war was really focused on britain as our main rival. this is all overthrown three years later with the marshall plan in 1947, but that's another story to be told that my next book. one of the reasons for the collapse of british impe

we demonize the un usually even winston churchill at the un's beginnings said that it is better to do that than war. the un is a wonderful opportunity for the entire world to gather. to disagree sometimes raucously in what is not a neat process the necessary process to resolve disputes. we have got to embrace its. got to embrace our differences and embrace these human-rights conventions but we don't do that. we almost celebrate our ignorance. i am talking about all of us of all classes, whites and the blacks from the top of government to the bottom of society. we do that. because we are the most powerful country in the world we do the world no service when we do that. leadership should be principles and we should recognize our opportunities leading to save us from ourselves. we don't know the point at which we will have done so much damage that it will become unlivable. when we have overheated the environment so irreversibly that no one can live here. but we can't support the kyoto accord which may be in its self too little too late. we can't because we are exceptional and we listen t

winston churchill people said was a great friend of israel and came to the founding in the 1920s andported the zionist cause of the return of the jews to the homeland. he didn't send the royal air force to bomb the tracks, the railroad track to auschwitz. ifial detects its very existences is threatened israel will have to do what is necessary to deitself. hopefully we won't have is to get to that point but israel must reserve the right to defend itself by itself. that is a clause that president obama used in a number of his speeches. >> mike: we hope it doesn't come to that but i is have every confidence if it does israel will act always in its best interest which is really the best interest of the world. dore, thanks for joining us. a real pleasure. >>> this week, colorado became the first state outside the east coast to pass tough gun control laws in response to last year's shootings in a movie theaterrer in aurora, colorado and at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. several sheriff's say they will not enforce the new laws in their counties and i will ask one why,

he was a particularly colorful character named william stevenson a canadian millionaire by winston churchill and sent to america in 1940. his name william stevenson comegys famous to many of you for his code name intruded. there were a series of best sellers written after the war the man was one of them. he commissioned many of his own officials reports so that the history of the irregulars activities in america an official, officials, it's very difficult to tell what's what and is cleaned up in 1945 and 1946, let alone leader in the 50's and 60's and 70's as america and england wrestled over that period if history. all that said we don't think that the actual size concentrate on a particularly colorful trio, ian fleming who is known to you as the author of the james bond books, and david ogilvy who went on to become the founder of the advertising giant. about your own inspiring carriers it was more a case of the fact that reality fell sadly short fiction. i think that it's no coincidence all of those men made their post courier famous fabulous as a storyteller of one sort or another. and i

did, as in it might simply to be on the so-called winning team, but this is very much like winston churchill's comparison can we go back to hitler, siding with someone like hitler that is bandwagoning with saruman in a fantasy world is a lot like feeding a crocodile hoping u.s. the rational thing to do is to actually doing the weaker side and try to balance because american revolutionaries said, you must hang together, or hang separately. >> my favorite model is constructivism. how can we see the international relations theory of constructivism in the "lord of the rings"? >> the answer is we see in so many places because to do this anyway that is accessible as we do now, we actually try to avoid sort of technical jargon -esque kind of discussions. and saying in a way, it's not just guns and tanks or nuclear weapons that matter. is the power of ideas. if we look at the story of the "lord of the rings," here's one example of this. that actors, the actress, i've complex story so bear with me as i bring in more of them, if you look at a character like the ring bearer, he is looking at will notice

this landscape was painted by winston churchill. this is a barn painted by dwight eisenhower. even president joe biden takes time out to paint. he got a gold star. more of a drawing, i guess. let's look at more of the bush paintings. because this is a president bush painting. i don't know if they're seashells or uncooked loins of meat. and look at this one. this one is thee matical icathe. the cat got stuck in what looked like a pumpkin. i think this is about the war in afghan stap. we are the cat and they are the pumpkin. not all of these paintings are cute. some are down right sexy like this portrait of vice president cheney washing a classic car. or water boarding it. it's hard to tell. i love the idea that george bush is at home painting pictures of pets now. i really -- it tickles me to no end. let's play a little game here. i'm going to show you a painting. you tell me if it was painting by former president bush or a child. we went online and we found some paintings made by little kids and let's see if you can tell which are which. ready? was this dog painted by a presid

winston churchill, would be hard because he's dead, but you know what i mean. >> i do, but fundamentallye they can meet in the middle because obama is looking at his legacy. neil: okay. gary, we could look at this and say is the administration by not going as aggressively on spending thing signaling we think we could grow out of this, and do you, a finer market minds i know, see anything that would hint of that being the case because that's the only way you can get out, only cut so much, and if you really do need to boom your way out of something like this. >> well, the only boom thing that i can see is, you know, and you talked about it in the earlier segment is the whole, energy fracking. if that takes off, kind of like the internet did in the late 90s, maybe we can grow our way out of it, but as long as government's growing at the rate it is now, every dollar we spend, send to government whether it's via tax cuts or closing loopholes is a dollar spent infirst timely, and i just -- inefficiently, and it's flat lining at best. neil: if we sputter back, and it's a point, peter, many have

where was winston churchill when all this was going on? >> just say thank you.r the american people. >> mr. feldman, you are obviously trying to be deliberately offensive. you are exactly how i imagined an nra lobbyist to be. >> i'm trying to speak the truth. >> you're not speaking the truth. >> you may not like it. >> you are making jingoistic points. let's talk about this freedom. let's talk about this freedom. how many existing gun control laws are there in america, do you know? >> i've heard about 20,000. >> do you know how many weapons, individual types of weapons, guns, would still be available to the american people if every single one of senator feinstein's proposals were brought into law? do you know how many? >> piers -- >> do you know how many? >> here's the point. when i was at the white house with the vice president -- >> do you know an answer or not? >> -- back in january, if you focus on the gun, you miss the opportunity to zero in on the problem, which is never the gun per se, but always in whose hands are the guns. >> how many people -- >> when

. >> let me quote winston churchill if i might. >> sean: i love when liberals quote churchill. >> let>> said if you don't have the ability to change your mind, are you sure you still have one. look the fact of the matter is-- >> change your mind for, against, and for again. >> hillary clinton is coming out and disingenuous, but the fact of the matter is republican governor of ohio did this days earlier the rnc put out a report saying we need to quote, unquote, evolve and party of stoogy old white men-- >> i know you want to turn this into a republican issue. when obama does it at one point he has a real position, he's for it. >> sure. >> sean: then he's running for president, polls don't show he's in agreement with the american people and then he's against it and gets reelected and now i can be for it again. now what? that is what everything everybody i know, dennis praguer, hates about politicians. god bless her, i like hillary clinton in some ways, i've got to tell you something, that's so phony, i want to read this prompter and tell you. it didn't seem sincere. >> we've got to be c

i've heard people say winston churchill was a great friend of israel and he came to in the 1920's andupported the zionist cause and return of the jews to their ancient homeland, but he didn't send the royal air force to bomb the tracks, the railroad tracks to auschwitz. you know, britain had other things to do at the time. he s so even if you have the best of friends, the closest of relationships, ultimately if israel detects its very existence is threatened by an iranian nuclear missile, israel will have to do what is necessary to defend itself. hopefully we won't have to get to that point, but israel must reserve the right to defend itself by itself. by the way, that's a clause that president obama used in a number of his speeches. >> mike: well, we hope it doesn't come to that, but i have confidence if it does israel will act always in its best interest, which is really the best interest of the world. thanks for joining us as always, a real pleasure. [applaus [applause]. this week colorado became the first state outside of the east coast to pass tough gun control laws in response t

. >> rose: you said something-- or quoted as saying something i frequently quote myself, winston churchillfamously said when going to10 downing, everying i've deputy in my life-- he said in '41-- has prepared me for this moment. you said something similar, everything you have done in terms of your professional life have prepared you to take command of this new american airlines. >> i feel that way. i started my career at american. i loved american. i loved the culture, the her tap, the people. in that sense i'm an insider to american. but i also left american and did a number of other things, went through a number of restructuring type issues at northwest and america west, and went thugh merger th airways, all those things and went through an attempt to merge with delta that wasn't successful. but all these things prepared us to learn to be prepared for this. and i think we executed the pursuit of the merger very well, because of all that we had learned. >> rose: douglas parker, thank you for coming. >> appreciate it. nice to see you. >> rose: bernard henri-levy is here, a 47 author and ph

. >> winston churchill who was the great political painter, he called depression the black dog. -- >> there we go. >> maybe this is a message. message in a bottle or message on a canvas. >> tied a bow on that one. >> i think they're good. >> i'm on the record of saying they're good. thank you to rick, tommy, lee and wes, that's all for now, i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon when i'm joined by the nation's katrina sarandonheuvel. and many more, andrea mitchell reports is coming up next.

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. >> this is winston churchill. he said the secret of all success is moving from failure to failure with enthusiasm. my goodness. so you try to do wifi and you fail. you are just all hogs and no cattle. you can deliver a darn thing. it's terrible. the whole thing is risk-averse. standard operating system. the only way you get fired, this is an exaggeration of privacy. but one way you get fired is by not doing their job effectively and trying to do the job of someone else effectively. those of the standard operating procedure. we had this and i was stunned by this. >> listening to the radio, performance abuse and disciplinary records. performance. it can't not be considered with regard to the promotion. it says the performance cannot be considered. you are automatically eligible for promotions. you could spend 27 years and had an exceptional job. that person may not be promoted. >> your predecessor said we gave too much vehemence, we gave too much because we were democrats when things were riding high. and it's regre

to paraphrase winston churchill, the eu will always do the right thing, but unfortunately, only after every other option has been exhausted. and they are exhausted the other options, larry. but the rule for uninsured creditors and failed banks should always be you fund it, you own it. that's the only thing that insures market discipline. >> i wish we had done this in the united states, okay? i wish going back to 2008 and 2009, we had given more thought. instead, we guaranteed all the deposits and all the debt. we didn't guarantee the stockholders, the shareholders, that's for sure. but i'm just saying, i like this template, ben. and can it be used other places in europe and the u.s.? >> i do like the template, larry, i think we should have done it in the case of aig, particularly their uninsured, unsecured creditors in the cds market. that was ridiculous baling them out. but here's the problem with the cyprus bailout, larry. you remember, the bailout plan that was rejected last week, would have imposed a haircut on insured depositors. and we're seeing the after effects of this right n

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on this day in the year 1946, a former british prime minister named winston churchill ratcheted up the cold war when he he coined the phrase iron curtain in an address to the united states. churchill condemned the soviet union's expanding control over eastern europe. an iron curtain has descended amongst the continent. had been pal with brit britain and the u.s. world war ii. soon after the war's end churchill warned that nation was taking advantage of the power vacuum after the fall of adolf hitler. his met for reason natalled with officials around the grown. for his part joseph stalin denounced the speech as war mongering, but churchill sounded the alarm. 67 years ago today. and now you know the news for this tuesday, march the 5th, 2013. i'm shepard smith. we're back tomorrow for "studio b." noon pacific time, 3:00 eastern time. and at the fox report tomorrow right before o'reilly time. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> it's happening because a choice that republicans in congress have made. they have decided to protect tax breaks for the well-off and the well-connected

in the introduction, the wise words of a famous part-time historians, winston churchill quoted the further backwards you can look him in the further forward you might see. to understand social development , we need to look back a long way into the past. that is all the way to the end the last ice age about 15,000 years ago. the reason i say that is to make sense, you need to look at the point in history when you first begin to see different kinds of societies that. in different parts of the world and the world starts to warm up on global warming that has now -- global warming has impacts depending where you live other planets. the end of the last ice age, the effects with some part of the world -- all over the world from the flame within the most and the more benign climate. .. one on this map, draw the western end of the old world. and this is the first part of the world where agriculture begins. for good geographical reasons. the societies from this initial core i call this unimaginatively western societies. the other end of asia, now china, agriculture starts the. the societies that fro

were interested in a man called martin gilbert, who had done all the official biographies of winston churchill they've recently done a biography of de gaulle. so knowing they were a scientific publisher and were now doing trade books, it seemed ideal for me. so i contacted them without mentioning my relative at all -- it was no influence at all in this -- and they were interested. c-span: is it an american company? >> guest: oh, yes. yes, and i think it's from the 19th century. c-span: and then you have your dedication. and who are these folks? >> guest: my wife, martine, who came to every archive. we worked together. every word of the book, she went over and often criticized, and i rewrote frequently from her point of view. danielle, my daughter who lives in leesburg and works in washington, dc. she's the president of pogo, the project on government oversight it's a watchdog group that investigates fraud and abuse in government and in big corporations. my grandson and my granddaughter, alex and emma. c-span: and where are they? >> guest: my daughter and my grandchildren live in leesburg. my w

it kind of remind me of that maybe apocryphal story about winston churchill arguing with the woman, and he offers her $10 to sleep with him, and she says, no, what do you think i am? got it backwards. first he offers her a million dollars, and she says, of course, and then he offers her ten, and she says, no, what do you think i am, and he says, well, we've established what you are, we're just negotiating the price. it's just that it's up for negotiation. where i do think carney and the white house have a fair point is that i don't think this is all about selling access. i think this is a way to fund president obama's theory about a community organizer approach to the presidency where he's going to build up a parallel structure outside of the democratic party to implement his own agenda, and the only way you can do that is if on the side you sell a little access to the white house to raise money to do it. so i don't think it's all about selling access, i just think selling access is an integral part to it. jon: and just so viewers understand, this is what used to be the obama for americ

even winston churchill at the u.n.'s said that it is better to geagea than war war -- jaw jaw than war war. so the u.n. is a wonderful opportunity for the entire world to gather, to disagree sometimes raucously. it is not a neat process, but a necessary process to resolve disputes. of we ought to embrace it. we ought to embrace our differences. we ought to embrace these human rights conventions, but we don't do that. we almost celebrate ignorance. and i'm talking about all of us of all classes, whites and blacks from the top of government to the bomb -- to the bottom of society. we do that. and because we are the most powerful country in the world, we do the world no service when we do that. leadership should be principled, and we should recognize that perhaps our opportunity is fleeting to save us from ourselves. we don't know the point at which we will have done so much damage to home earth that it will become unlivable. when we've overheated environment, the environment so irreversibly that no one can live here. but

chairman, north korea remains as winston churchill once said of the soviet union a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma. we have only the slightest idea what the leaders are like or what they are thinking. this includes the new 28-year-old leader. that is why the opportunity presented to the starting to dennis rodman's recent visit should not be completely dismissed as trivial. by my calculation, dennis rodman has now spent more face time with north korea's new leader than any other american. as i recall we were dismissive of the invitation that the ping pong or tennis table to china while playing in a tournament in japan in april, 1971. china was the legacy of the korean war and an ongoing great cultural revolution was much of christ then as north korea is detected today. however, it should be noted that this so-called diplomacy changed history with the american president named richard nixon are writing less than a year later. it is my understanding the president loves basketball. sometimes on diplomacy. as i noted in the recent article, the corrine and newspaper it now seems

were rather artificial drawn -- artificially jaunt around 1920 or so. , remember a great quote winston churchillused to brag that he created the country of iraq sitting around one afternoon on a map. there aren't a lot of reasons why that region is -- there are a lot of reasons why that region is so volatile. my viewpoint from the time i was in the reagan administration was that we do not belong as an occupying power in that part of the world. i question the tilt toward a rack. -- toward iraq. we tilted toward iraq in 1987, and kuwait at that time ironically was the major ally of iraq. later on, we decided that we were going to war against iraq because they went into kuwait. that is how complicated that region is. that is why the united states does not belong as an occupying power. we can assert our interest without going through these costly occupations in terms of human costs, national treasure bring in a war will cost of $2.2 billion, in terms of our strategy. i wrote in "the washington post" in september of 2002 that china would be looking at our invasion of iraq as an enormous strategic win

chairman, north korea remains as winston churchill once said of the soviet union a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. we have only the slightest glimpse of what its leaders are like or what they are thinking. this includes the new 28-year-old leader, president kim jong un. that is why the opportunity presented its when a basketball star named dennis rodman and his recent visit should not be completely dismissed as trivial. by my calculation, dennis rodman has now spent more face time with north korea's new leader than any other american. as i recall, mr. chairman, we were dismissive of the invitation that the american ping-pong or table tennis team received to visit china while playing in a tournament in the japan in april 1971. china, with a legacy of the korean war and ongoing great culture revolution, was much a pariah state as north korea is depicted today. however, it should be noted that this so-called ping-pong diplomacy changed world history with the american president named richard nixon awe arrive -- nixon arriving in beijing less than a year later. it is my unde