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stonewall jackson. he was, you know, he never commanded a theater exactly, but he did commend the valley. what was it about jackson? >> most it was the fact is men believed in him. it wasn't necessarily that the south as a whole, he was right first, a major from vmi. but the people he brought to the war have known this guy enough that they would follow him, these young men would follow him because he had a sense, not a destiny. he didn't think in terms like that. he thought of updating the goal, what i have to do to complete this job, and whether it was just training the troops in the rain, or taking harpers ferry. it was all the same to him, methodical, grind it out, but it can be done. he never had a sense of defeat. that was passed on to his name. i think they would basically follow him anywhere. and has legend grew certainly the leadership of the south and robert e. lee bought into that, that stonewall could get the job done. and he proved it over and over and over again. but he had his faults. ther
stonewall jackson. he was, you know, he never commanded a theater exactly, but he did commend the valley. what was it about jackson? >> most it was the fact is men believed in him. it wasn't necessarily that the south as a whole, he was right first, a major from vmi. but the people he brought to the war have known this guy enough that they would follow him, these young men would follow him because he had a sense, not a destiny. he didn't think in terms like that. he thought of updating...
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if you have given jackson an army like grant had -- >> that is the great game of stonewall jackson is that if he had lived, fill in your own theory. unfortunately stonewall jackson didn't live, and because of that, lee did indeed lose his right arm on the battlefield. it had nothing to do with his brain that his operatives in the field was stonewall being able to follow up. we have to remember the battlefield was such a confusing place, the same kind of role was played by stuart, and if jeb report to the building around the union was doing this or that, that dave lee a lot more information sometimes jeb didn't make it and that left the great general as we would find out at gettysburg until it was much too late. the tactics worth one thing, as stone will's the ability to foresee down the road was amplified by many of the officers who salles each other and worked together in the war with mexico. they knew each other at west point. this was a family reunion in a very strange sort of way to a point where lee said they are going to give me a general i don't know that i don't know how to de
if you have given jackson an army like grant had -- >> that is the great game of stonewall jackson is that if he had lived, fill in your own theory. unfortunately stonewall jackson didn't live, and because of that, lee did indeed lose his right arm on the battlefield. it had nothing to do with his brain that his operatives in the field was stonewall being able to follow up. we have to remember the battlefield was such a confusing place, the same kind of role was played by stuart, and if...
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he was friends with andrew jackson. their friendship but i think permit that kind of teasing or what we would see is completely inappropriate statements to make to a president. but i think it was that kind of friendship forged on the american frontier, you know, in those heydays of the 1830's and late 1820. junius in fact in addition to be a great drinking buddy vendor jackson also worked with sam houston for the first president of the texas republic. they were very close friends and there's this kind of masculine camaraderie that all circulates around the tavern that they shared. so i think his threat was a joke crowded by alcohol. >> and there are two questions here that are similar so i'm going to kind of combine them. one ask if you can elaborate on john wilkes booth service and the other one asks how do we know that john wilkes was dead since those records were burned? >> only answer that in two short parts. what i found in my research -- i mean, it's very tip go to document the doings of the secret organization, b
he was friends with andrew jackson. their friendship but i think permit that kind of teasing or what we would see is completely inappropriate statements to make to a president. but i think it was that kind of friendship forged on the american frontier, you know, in those heydays of the 1830's and late 1820. junius in fact in addition to be a great drinking buddy vendor jackson also worked with sam houston for the first president of the texas republic. they were very close friends and there's...
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jackson knew about this. of course he knew about them since he was the charnel council that are numbered. well, this might as you might imagine becoming a leading opinion in over the years the supreme court came case after case has relied on it, as has our court, for the proposition various constitutional rights of his sixth amendment are not held by aliens who are outside of the sovereign territory in the united states. and that is where the matters stood as far as law is concerned on the morning of september september 11th, to the isn't one. in the aftermath of the tax neither president bush for his legal at pfizer's could have to anticipate would have come next as a result of the using guantanamo which did it purposely in light of eisentrager told prisoners elsewhere. the first wave of guantanamo cases reached the court in december of 2002. late in december. the issue was a statutory one at that time, not constitutional. did the federal habeas corpus statute gives the district court's jurisdiction to revie
jackson knew about this. of course he knew about them since he was the charnel council that are numbered. well, this might as you might imagine becoming a leading opinion in over the years the supreme court came case after case has relied on it, as has our court, for the proposition various constitutional rights of his sixth amendment are not held by aliens who are outside of the sovereign territory in the united states. and that is where the matters stood as far as law is concerned on the...
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jackson liked the story and published a humorous peace which he sent out on the wire. some of the networks picked up on the story and the washington post published it right on the front page. the title was rabbit attacks president. what started as an innocent story turned into another political headache for president carter. he was in such bad shape by that time that the story actually mattered. republican senator robert dole of kansas who was planning to run in 1980 joked that the president should, quote, apologize for bashing a bunny in the head with a paddle. are am sure the rabbit intended the president no harm. 4 singh was simply doing something a little unusual, trying to get aboard the president's boat. everyone seems to be jumping ship. in this book i wanted to try to understand what went wrong. i wanted to move beyond the standard historical account that carter was just inevitably doomed to failure. many argue that carter was incompetent, that he was weak, that he was unable to lead. the conventional portrait depict carter as a tone deaf moron who never displa
jackson liked the story and published a humorous peace which he sent out on the wire. some of the networks picked up on the story and the washington post published it right on the front page. the title was rabbit attacks president. what started as an innocent story turned into another political headache for president carter. he was in such bad shape by that time that the story actually mattered. republican senator robert dole of kansas who was planning to run in 1980 joked that the president...
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. >> host: how about jesse jackson and president obama? >> guest: unfortunately, that's what i was getting to. the reverend jesse jackson sr. was, i think, very put off by president obama's candidacy. he felt very strongly i am for black politics, for black identity politics. i think the brilliance of what senator obama did in his primary race was he showed the country i am a young, very intelligent, very articulate man who happens to also be black. but it was interesting that jesse jackson in making reference to the senate said, oh, barack acts as if he's white. again, why is that? is it that he had an independent mind? that he went to columbia university? that he worked very hard on the south side of chicago and made his way up through the power structure as opposed to solely identifying with people based on the color of their skin. >> host: so you're saying black males historically have attacked one another with the slur of you're acting white because you desire to be successful or you are successful. is it success that we kuwait with b
. >> host: how about jesse jackson and president obama? >> guest: unfortunately, that's what i was getting to. the reverend jesse jackson sr. was, i think, very put off by president obama's candidacy. he felt very strongly i am for black politics, for black identity politics. i think the brilliance of what senator obama did in his primary race was he showed the country i am a young, very intelligent, very articulate man who happens to also be black. but it was interesting that jesse...
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. >> host: how about jesse jackson and president obama? >> guest: unfortunately that is what i was getting too. the reverend jesse jackson, senior, i think was put off by barack obama's candidacy. the black candidates who had run for office this far felt very strongly of ibm for black politics, black identity politics. i think the brilliance of what senator obama had done in the primary race was he showed the country that i am a young and very articulate and intelligent man who happens to also be black. but it was interesting that jesse jackson making reference to the senators said he acted as if he's white. again, why is that? is it that he had an independent mind he went to columbia university and harvard that he worked hard in the south side of chicago and made his way up through the power structure as opposed to easily identify and with people based on the cover of their skin? >> host: so you're saying black males historic we have attacked one another with a slur of your acting white because the desire to be successful or you are succe
. >> host: how about jesse jackson and president obama? >> guest: unfortunately that is what i was getting too. the reverend jesse jackson, senior, i think was put off by barack obama's candidacy. the black candidates who had run for office this far felt very strongly of ibm for black politics, black identity politics. i think the brilliance of what senator obama had done in the primary race was he showed the country that i am a young and very articulate and intelligent man who...
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. >> host: jesse jackson and president obama? the reverend jesse jackson sr. i think was very put off by barack obama's candidacy. the black candidates that had run felt very strongly i am for black identity politics. the brilliance of what senator obama had done was that he show the country that i am a young very articulate and intelligent man who happens too also be black. but it was interesting he said he acts as if he is why it. why is that he went to columbia, harvard come independent mind, work very hired and made his way up as opposed to so we identify with people based on the color of their skin? >> host: you say black males historic we have attacked one another with the slur you are acting white because of the desire to be successful or you are successful that we equate with being why it is sad day pejorative? >> guest: absolutely. leather be speaking well are addressing well it is not just black men. the most that is the most problematic you see in elementary schools and colleges and high school split in the urban areas the classmates will say you ar
. >> host: jesse jackson and president obama? the reverend jesse jackson sr. i think was very put off by barack obama's candidacy. the black candidates that had run felt very strongly i am for black identity politics. the brilliance of what senator obama had done was that he show the country that i am a young very articulate and intelligent man who happens too also be black. but it was interesting he said he acts as if he is why it. why is that he went to columbia, harvard come...
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william jackson did so carelessly and i come to think of them as rather scoundrel. max's nose, which are magnificent. and i correlated them with notes taken much more partial notes by other members of the opposition often for their own records. they didn't have the same mission as madison, of preserving these debates for posterity, but put them together, correlated them so for any one day you could compare the various accounts here going on. now, editing is not just copying manuscripts and printing them. take what fran had to do with madison's notes. madison apparently changed his manuscript notes circa 1921 after the official journal had been published. he assumed the general was authoritative. it was not. so in some ways he thought he was wrong, he'd fix it and often what he went was firm accuracy to error. what to do with this? while he had to look at the manuscript and figure out where madison made changes in 1921 roughly, fortunately as he tells us, it wasn't so hard to do because they think he is succeeded in a different way than the inky had used in the 1780'
william jackson did so carelessly and i come to think of them as rather scoundrel. max's nose, which are magnificent. and i correlated them with notes taken much more partial notes by other members of the opposition often for their own records. they didn't have the same mission as madison, of preserving these debates for posterity, but put them together, correlated them so for any one day you could compare the various accounts here going on. now, editing is not just copying manuscripts and...
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now using the name of frank jackson, a canadian businessmen. it was his new identity. sylvia knew about this as a front and decided to go along with it for her own reasons. she had no idea what he was up to and had no idea that he belonged to the nkvd. he maneuvered sylvia down to mexico city, and he used her to insulate himself into trotsky's household. he claimed to be a heavy financial supporter of the french trotskyists in paris. and of course by the summer of 1940, there's no way to verify this, right, there's no way to contact the french trotskyists because they are on the run from the invading germans. the outbreak of the world war, which really starts or is made possible by the nazi soviet pact of august, 1939, struck a big blow against trotsky and his followers in new york city. new york city being at this time the center of the international trotskyists movement. it certainly wasn't paris at this point. although i say the center of the movement, and this is something else that is quite shocking, the total number of trotskyists in the u.s. was probably never m
now using the name of frank jackson, a canadian businessmen. it was his new identity. sylvia knew about this as a front and decided to go along with it for her own reasons. she had no idea what he was up to and had no idea that he belonged to the nkvd. he maneuvered sylvia down to mexico city, and he used her to insulate himself into trotsky's household. he claimed to be a heavy financial supporter of the french trotskyists in paris. and of course by the summer of 1940, there's no way to verify...
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administrator, lisa jackson will say. she will say, now, senator inhofe, you know we're regulating in broad daylight. we're inviting public comment. we're providing guidance. it's all aboveboard. it's all out in the open. that may be true, and i trust administrator jackson, and she wants the e.p.a. to be transparent. unfortunately, this bureaucracy has gotten to the point where transparency is virtually impossible. the reality is backdoor cap-and-trade is hidden behind acronyms like p.s.d., bacd, sips, fips and the like. it's all a great muddle for bureaucrats and lawyers, but it's a profound disaster for jobs and for small businesses in america. make no mistake, the intent's here and ultimately the effect is no different than the waxman-markey is to eliminate fossil fuels and impose centralized bureaucratic control over america's manufacturing base. until we stop them, that is what they will achieve. of course, president obama will say that we could have avoided all of this if we just passed cap-and-trade. that's true, w
administrator, lisa jackson will say. she will say, now, senator inhofe, you know we're regulating in broad daylight. we're inviting public comment. we're providing guidance. it's all aboveboard. it's all out in the open. that may be true, and i trust administrator jackson, and she wants the e.p.a. to be transparent. unfortunately, this bureaucracy has gotten to the point where transparency is virtually impossible. the reality is backdoor cap-and-trade is hidden behind acronyms like p.s.d.,...
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thank you very much, lisa jackson. [applause] forty years on epa a web site. thanks brain here. >> thank you, paul. >> have a great week. happy birthday. happy anniversary. [applause] [inaudible conversations] respo. while today's speakers are course independent, and we must treat them with a degree of caution that one should treat any economic forecast. indeed they are explicit about this, illustrating the uncertainty surrounding any economic forecast with the use of charts, rather than claiming and valuable certainty my previous assessors asserted when they provided their forecasts. the only thing that was infallible was that the political forecasts were usually wrong. with that caution in mind, let me turn to the forecast. after the deepest recession since the war, the greatest budget deficit and the biggest banking crisis of our lifetime, a recovery was going to be more challenging than the previous recessions, but the message for office for budget responsibility is that britain's economic recovery is on track. the economy is growing and jobs are being gra
thank you very much, lisa jackson. [applause] forty years on epa a web site. thanks brain here. >> thank you, paul. >> have a great week. happy birthday. happy anniversary. [applause] [inaudible conversations] respo. while today's speakers are course independent, and we must treat them with a degree of caution that one should treat any economic forecast. indeed they are explicit about this, illustrating the uncertainty surrounding any economic forecast with the use of charts, rather...
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famous moment in 2005, the height of the bubble just before things went bad -- went bad, at a retreat in jackson hole that central bankers hold every year, when a smart compression -- economist presented a paper saying we might be in trouble, the banks are getting loaded with all of this risk and they don't seem to know how to handle it, and larry summers got up and sort of ridiculed him, basically called him a sandy-luddite and he could cobbling enough, this was the man that president obama chose, not only as chief economic adviser, but the man that would fix the same system that summers helped to create. host: richard from the villanova. democrat line. caller: i am not a trained economist, but i have always been of the opinion that the deregulation of savings and loans was the seminal event that led to the eventual meltdown of the system. what is your opinion? guest: i do not know if it is the central event, but it is a key event. it is what can happen when a subsection of the banking industry is left unregulated. it also led to the securitized of bad assets, which was initially organized by t
famous moment in 2005, the height of the bubble just before things went bad -- went bad, at a retreat in jackson hole that central bankers hold every year, when a smart compression -- economist presented a paper saying we might be in trouble, the banks are getting loaded with all of this risk and they don't seem to know how to handle it, and larry summers got up and sort of ridiculed him, basically called him a sandy-luddite and he could cobbling enough, this was the man that president obama...
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a lot of people voted for obama because he was not jesse jackson. obama in a sense has developed a public persona that is not defined in ninth specifically racial terms. i am attracted to obama on those grounds. a couple of years ago i wrote an article praising obama's that he is a nice man, a nice family, he will come to bring this country a little closer to martin luther king's idea of a colorblind society. but yet we still have to ask is his dream the dream? have you ever heard president obama passionately defend the idea of a colorblind society? if you haven't because he hasn't never once not even in the famous race speech emphasized or allied himself with the margin of 13 dream or said let's move in this direction. his favorite quote says martin luther king said, the fierce urgency of now but just means we should act right now to do what he says. the other words he just needs to mobilize people he is not defending keenness stream. what is obama's stream? the beauty is that we don't have to gas or speculate because obama tells us himself. here i
a lot of people voted for obama because he was not jesse jackson. obama in a sense has developed a public persona that is not defined in ninth specifically racial terms. i am attracted to obama on those grounds. a couple of years ago i wrote an article praising obama's that he is a nice man, a nice family, he will come to bring this country a little closer to martin luther king's idea of a colorblind society. but yet we still have to ask is his dream the dream? have you ever heard president...
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thank you very much, lisa jackson. [applause] forty years on epa a web site. thanks brain here. >> thank you, paul. >> have a great week. happy birthday. happy anniversary. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> ion pin gray educational specialist at c-span question. each year we conduct our documentary competition called studentcam. the competition as students in grades six through 122 think critically about issues affecting our nation. this year's theme is washington d.c. through my lens. we chose this topic because we like it to explain how the federal government has affected an issue or event in your life or your community. select a topic that interests you. once you have your topic you can begin your research. the goal is for you to fully develop and researcher topic, provide different points of view and include c-span footage that supports your theme and a five to eight minute documentary. former information visit our web site, studentcam.org or e-mail us any questions you have that educated at c-span.org. go get started. we ca
thank you very much, lisa jackson. [applause] forty years on epa a web site. thanks brain here. >> thank you, paul. >> have a great week. happy birthday. happy anniversary. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> ion pin gray educational specialist at c-span question. each year we conduct our documentary competition called studentcam. the competition as students in grades six through 122 think critically about issues affecting our nation. this year's...
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mess he inherits by what you hope to accomplish and how close he came to fulfilling his agenda ken jackson recalls nader koch -- consisted among the gold standard of mayors. he writes koch faced challenges greater than any new york mayor at plight century and many of them producing quite simply the greatest turnaround accomplished by any of them. sure he made people angry, too but he writes, quote, that anger should not be allowed to obscure his accomplishments that koch bravely faced one of the worst crises of new york history, restructured the city with minimal health from the federal government and kelp to growing for generations into the city we all have today. thank you. please welcome jonathan soffer and ed koch. [applause] >> thank you. that's a beautiful introduction. i wanted to start the discussion tonight by reading a few paragraphs from my introduction and hopefully this will tempt you to read more. by the end of his first term he was able to balance the city's budget, a feat that vastly exceeded expectations when he started in 1977. and by the end of his second term he could l
mess he inherits by what you hope to accomplish and how close he came to fulfilling his agenda ken jackson recalls nader koch -- consisted among the gold standard of mayors. he writes koch faced challenges greater than any new york mayor at plight century and many of them producing quite simply the greatest turnaround accomplished by any of them. sure he made people angry, too but he writes, quote, that anger should not be allowed to obscure his accomplishments that koch bravely faced one of...
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he was admired by presidents from john quincy adams to andrew jackson. and he raised his two sons, edwin and john wilkes to believe that same was a marvelous prize. mind or genius he told these boys, happily belonged to no age, climb, or condition. instant since the fed can be quoted when even from the most despised classes, genius develops itself and towers above all the circles of the human race. powerful words to tell adolescent boys. and despised classes were the key words. for junius have an important reason to leave england and come to america. the threat scandal. he had come here, not with his wife who he left in london, but with his pregnant mistress. and over the next two decades the couple had 10 children, all of them illegitimate including edwin and john wilkes. it was when the boys were in their early teenage years that junius' wife came to baltimore from london to hunt her husband's second family down. she pursued edwin, john wilkes on their mother through the streets of baltimore, shouting harlot, scarlet woman, at the boy's mother and sayi
he was admired by presidents from john quincy adams to andrew jackson. and he raised his two sons, edwin and john wilkes to believe that same was a marvelous prize. mind or genius he told these boys, happily belonged to no age, climb, or condition. instant since the fed can be quoted when even from the most despised classes, genius develops itself and towers above all the circles of the human race. powerful words to tell adolescent boys. and despised classes were the key words. for junius have...
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cultural projects employed and stimulated a generation of artists and writers including such luminaries as jackson poll pollock and richard wright. roosevelt saw social security enagented in 1935 as a centerpiece of the new deal. if our federal government was established to promote the general welfares that fdr, it is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends. for the first time, government assumed responsibility for unemployment compensation, old age and survivor benefits, as well as aid to dependent children and the handicap. at fdr's insistence, social security was self-funded supported by cricks paid jointly by employers and employees. americans really don't quite appreciate the fact that in most other industrial countries, government itself provides the major funding for pension plans. those payroll taxes are in there, said roosevelt, so that no politician can ever scrap my social security program. roosevelt restored the country's confidence. he revolutionized the art of political campaigning, revitalized the democratic party, and created a new national majority t
cultural projects employed and stimulated a generation of artists and writers including such luminaries as jackson poll pollock and richard wright. roosevelt saw social security enagented in 1935 as a centerpiece of the new deal. if our federal government was established to promote the general welfares that fdr, it is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends. for the first time, government assumed responsibility for unemployment compensation, old age and survivor...
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william jackson, who kept it, did so carelessly, and i've como to think of him as rather a scoundrel. [laughter] madison's notes, which are magnificent, and then colated them with notes taken, much more partial notes, by other members of the conference often, you know, for their own reference. they didn't, i think, have the same mission of madison of preserving these debates for posterity.f but he put them together, collated them so for any one day you can compare the varioused t accounts and figure out what went on. now, editing is not just copyini manuscripts and printing them. take what verand had to do with madison's notes. madison, apparently, changed hin manuscript notes circa 1921c after the official journal had been published. he assumed the journal was author tate i have. it was -- authoritative. it was not. so in some ways he thought hen was wrong, he'd fix it. and often what he went was from accuracy to error. what do you do with this? well, verand had to look at theo manuscript and figureok out whee madison made changes in 1921 roughly.g fortunately, as he tells us, it was
william jackson, who kept it, did so carelessly, and i've como to think of him as rather a scoundrel. [laughter] madison's notes, which are magnificent, and then colated them with notes taken, much more partial notes, by other members of the conference often, you know, for their own reference. they didn't, i think, have the same mission of madison of preserving these debates for posterity.f but he put them together, collated them so for any one day you can compare the varioused t accounts and...
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lee, stonewall jackson. davis was more popular at the end of his life than at the height. true for lincoln. for both men, after the fall, they became greater heros. here the end of his life, he went on the speaking tour. he was shocked. tens of thousands of people, woman, -- women passed out at his feet. veterans would become trembling. his wife on one occasion said you cannot meet more veterans. thousands of men touching you. and davis said i can think of no greater honor than to die in the presence of my men of the confederate army. this was not cowardly. in fact, i think i would say i don't think he ever really wanted to escape. i think he wanted to be on stage at the end. for the final curtain. he could have escaped. he could have fled the country. other members of the cabinet fled to foreign lands. davis could have been done the same. his view was as long as my soldiers are fighting, i can't abandon them. i can't abandon the country. so like abraham lincoln, he really didn't care in the end what happened to him. >> host: but he does not give up until he's captured. ev
lee, stonewall jackson. davis was more popular at the end of his life than at the height. true for lincoln. for both men, after the fall, they became greater heros. here the end of his life, he went on the speaking tour. he was shocked. tens of thousands of people, woman, -- women passed out at his feet. veterans would become trembling. his wife on one occasion said you cannot meet more veterans. thousands of men touching you. and davis said i can think of no greater honor than to die in the...
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a lot of people voted for obama because he wasn't, you might say, jesse jackson. obama, in a sense, has developed a public persona that is not defined and specifically racial terms. i'm attracted to obama on those grounds. in fact, a couple years ago i wrote an article called obama in the end of racism, praising obama, saying he is a nice man. he's got a nice family and i think he will help to bring this country a little closer to martin luther king's idea of the race blind, colorblind society. and yet we still have to ask, is martin luther king stream obama stream? and we have to ask this, have you ever heard president obama passionately defend the idea of a colorblind society? if you haven't, he hasn't. never once has he even as his famous free speech in philadelphia and the sizer allied himself with martin luther king stream. never has he said come on let's move in this direction and here is why. obama forgive me quotes by mr. kane. as martin luther king said, and uses the phrase, the fierce urgency of now. all that obama means by that as we should all act righ
a lot of people voted for obama because he wasn't, you might say, jesse jackson. obama, in a sense, has developed a public persona that is not defined and specifically racial terms. i'm attracted to obama on those grounds. in fact, a couple years ago i wrote an article called obama in the end of racism, praising obama, saying he is a nice man. he's got a nice family and i think he will help to bring this country a little closer to martin luther king's idea of the race blind, colorblind society....
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jackson lives in the bay area. some of you may know of are. and she is actually one of three people interviewed who teach in jails or prisons. and in a previous appearance, someone asked me, g., y. three people out of 51, teach in jails and prisons? and i did not a statistic, but i looked it up and at any given moment, 2.3 americans, 2.3 million americans are incarcerated. that's a large population. so on reflection, you know, three people who teach in is just about right. rhodessa jones mostly teaches and incarcerated women, and this was the story that she told. she said i was hired by the california arts council 15 years ago to go into the city jail and teach aerobics to incarcerated women. for me as an artist getting this call, i was ugly mystified, but i can't recall. so i just improvised every day for the first month. i strutted in there looking very fashionable, looking like danielle from solid gold, which was a television show from around that time. i had just turned 40, and women which is fascinated. i was black, and so most of the wom
jackson lives in the bay area. some of you may know of are. and she is actually one of three people interviewed who teach in jails or prisons. and in a previous appearance, someone asked me, g., y. three people out of 51, teach in jails and prisons? and i did not a statistic, but i looked it up and at any given moment, 2.3 americans, 2.3 million americans are incarcerated. that's a large population. so on reflection, you know, three people who teach in is just about right. rhodessa jones mostly...
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lisa jackson happens to be a long time and your friend, if i may say, who grew up in new orleans to get there. she is a graduate of tulane, an engineering, chemical engineering graduate of tulane, went off to -- >> go great way. >> yes, and a graduate school in new jersey and among other things, besides being the head of the epa, president obama has asked you to work with all of the people in the gulf south about how to restore the coast line after the bp problem so your political skill as well as your engineering skill. it is a great pleasure to have you. thanks for coming, lisa. >> thanks for all of you guys have done to begin the celebration. >> you have a full week. spec with the employees will be at the epa on their stand we are having an open house in fighting some local kids would that be used for the employees to reflect on what the agency is able to do and then friday we will be at harvard university. >> and you are leaving after this. a busy week. the epa started four years ago -- 40 years ago. maybe you can start with clean air and clean water many forget that 40 years ago it
lisa jackson happens to be a long time and your friend, if i may say, who grew up in new orleans to get there. she is a graduate of tulane, an engineering, chemical engineering graduate of tulane, went off to -- >> go great way. >> yes, and a graduate school in new jersey and among other things, besides being the head of the epa, president obama has asked you to work with all of the people in the gulf south about how to restore the coast line after the bp problem so your political...
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so i quoted jackson he got got upset with me. i just felt it was important to lay down a marker here. because they get a lot of pushback from readers when we do things like that and in the old the near times was not to attend those briefings. i think pushing constantly on this is just as bad at the white house and the justice said that the state department. anyway, those are my comments and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> i think it's across the board covering national security. the fbi and other agencies are like that, too. i want to serve as something basic and broad, which is the new guidelines. officials involved in preparing the had begun long before the effort that led to stanley were leaving, but said the incident to increase the secretary's result to have more discipline to the defense department interactions with the media. secretary gates in fact said quote, i've said many times it must hurt to be open, so slen transgressed possible. this is in a memo outlining new guidelines. he said the same time i concern the d
so i quoted jackson he got got upset with me. i just felt it was important to lay down a marker here. because they get a lot of pushback from readers when we do things like that and in the old the near times was not to attend those briefings. i think pushing constantly on this is just as bad at the white house and the justice said that the state department. anyway, those are my comments and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> i think it's across the board covering national security. the...
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ken jackson recalled that mayor koch inherited a city that was in worse state financially than the one was elected laguardia, who was considered, of course, the gold standard of mayors. jonathan soffer writes koch faced challenges better than any new york mayor, producing quite simply the greatest turn around accomplished by any of them. sure, he made people angry too. but soffer writes, that anger soul not be allowed to obscure his accomplishments that touch one the greatest crises in new york city, and kept it solvent and growing for a generation into the city that we all have today. thank you, and please welcome jonathan soffer and ed koch. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, sam. that was a beautiful introduction. i wanted to start the discussion tonight by just reading a few paragraphs from my introduction. hopefully this will tempt you to read more. by the end of his first term within koch was able to balance the city's budget. a feat that vastly exceeding expectations in 1977. by the end of his second term, he could launch a locally financed $5.1 billion, ten-year program to reb
ken jackson recalled that mayor koch inherited a city that was in worse state financially than the one was elected laguardia, who was considered, of course, the gold standard of mayors. jonathan soffer writes koch faced challenges better than any new york mayor, producing quite simply the greatest turn around accomplished by any of them. sure, he made people angry too. but soffer writes, that anger soul not be allowed to obscure his accomplishments that touch one the greatest crises in new york...
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. >> but don't share them and one of them was george jackson's book. that was not allowed at all, although a one of the things i learned when i was in jail there was how to secrete certain kinds of things. so we had these clandestine rating groups with books that were smuggled out of that box in the library. and it kind of reminded me of frederick douglass. frederick douglass' effort to get an education, to learn how to read and his ideas that education really was liberation. >> absolutely. i am sure people who read, the master and the mistress wanting to bet but being afraid to. he uses an interesting phrase in describing her. which was irresponsible -- and i thought that is not just having that power. it is the responsibility of how you manage it and his hunger was overwhelming because we all know the people who did not want blacks to read knew that. i mean that is why. you know, if it would have been simple stories it would have been quite different but not even that. there is power. if you can't read in a place like that they can teach you and beat
. >> but don't share them and one of them was george jackson's book. that was not allowed at all, although a one of the things i learned when i was in jail there was how to secrete certain kinds of things. so we had these clandestine rating groups with books that were smuggled out of that box in the library. and it kind of reminded me of frederick douglass. frederick douglass' effort to get an education, to learn how to read and his ideas that education really was liberation. >>...
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one was george jackson's book which was not allowed at all, although, you know, one of the things i learned when i was in jail there was, you know, how to secrete certain kinds of things. we were able to -- [laughter] we had these reading groups with books smuggled out of the box in the library, and it kind of reminded me of frederick douglass' effort to get an education, to learn how to read, and his idea that education really was liberation. >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> that scene that i'm sure people who read it of the master claim don't teach him and the mistress wanting to but being afraid to, he uses an interesting phrase in describing her which was irresponsible power. >> right, right. >> and i thought that's gist not having the power. it's the irresponsibility of how you manage it, and his hunger was overwhelming because he knew, as we all know, that that was freedom, and the people who did not want blacks to read knew that. i mean, that's why, you know, there had been, you know, simple far ri stories -- fairy stories, it would have been different or even that. there is power. if you
one was george jackson's book which was not allowed at all, although, you know, one of the things i learned when i was in jail there was, you know, how to secrete certain kinds of things. we were able to -- [laughter] we had these reading groups with books smuggled out of the box in the library, and it kind of reminded me of frederick douglass' effort to get an education, to learn how to read, and his idea that education really was liberation. >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> that...
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and one of them what say, towards the jackson's book, not allowed at all. although we did one of the things i learned when i was in jail was how to secrete certain kinds of things. [laughter] so we had these clandestine reading groups with books that were smuggled out of the library. and it kind of reminded me of frederick douglass's effort to get an education to learn how to read and his idea that education really was liberation. >> absolutely. the scene on sure people who read of damascus saying don't teach wanting to but being afraid to, he uses an interesting for use in describing her, which was irresponsible. and i thought that's not just happening in the power. it is the irresponsibility of how you manage it, and his hunger was overwhelming because he knew, and we all know that was reason, and the people who didn't want blacks to read you that. that's why. there has been simple fairy stories that would have been quite different or not even that. there is a power. if you can't read and you are in a place like that, they can teach you come and the other
and one of them what say, towards the jackson's book, not allowed at all. although we did one of the things i learned when i was in jail was how to secrete certain kinds of things. [laughter] so we had these clandestine reading groups with books that were smuggled out of the library. and it kind of reminded me of frederick douglass's effort to get an education to learn how to read and his idea that education really was liberation. >> absolutely. the scene on sure people who read of...
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henry jackson. [applause] >> i'm going to say good morning, but i'm going to deviate a little bit because coming here is like coming home to me. i've run into so many people from howard and again howard was a fantastic experience for me. but i want to tell a little story that's going to embarrass one of the guests. when i was at howard university of comptroller, there was a student there that was always very, very act is, a student does sometimes i liked what he said, sometimes i listen to what he said. [laughter] but as a testament to -- and thank you famu come as a testament to what howard university does, i want to say that i don't know if i have any measure of success for any measure of what i've done except that i believe that i did contribute to some students that can seem worried -- kasim breed was a comptroller and i said the university there. [applause] but i want to say good morning and welcome to the emerging leaders roundtable. the society for human resource society is a proud sponsor to
henry jackson. [applause] >> i'm going to say good morning, but i'm going to deviate a little bit because coming here is like coming home to me. i've run into so many people from howard and again howard was a fantastic experience for me. but i want to tell a little story that's going to embarrass one of the guests. when i was at howard university of comptroller, there was a student there that was always very, very act is, a student does sometimes i liked what he said, sometimes i listen...
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we have 700 business people, educators, legislators, in jackson. we spent all day, what the best things we could do for job creation in mississippi. the keynote speaker was fred smith. and i will never forget his saying what we really need in government is a department of doing things. i can't remember how you -- how you put it. but we need somebody to actually do the real work rather than just talking about it. and i would commend that to you. i'd also commend the idea of having job creation summit if you can. we came out with a consensus -- there were three things that we needed to do. not raise taxes, improve work force development and job training and have tort reform. and so that gave us is good kick off, but i'll always be grateful to fred for being part of that. i'm going to get off stage and john fund, you're in charge. >> thanks, haley. this last midterm election featured a lot of voters who were worried about the future of the american dream. they were afraid it was slipping away from them, their children and their grandchildren. when peo
we have 700 business people, educators, legislators, in jackson. we spent all day, what the best things we could do for job creation in mississippi. the keynote speaker was fred smith. and i will never forget his saying what we really need in government is a department of doing things. i can't remember how you -- how you put it. but we need somebody to actually do the real work rather than just talking about it. and i would commend that to you. i'd also commend the idea of having job creation...
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when he was a little boy at 7 years old, he road on a pony and met andrew jackson and then went to school. he was used to the hardships of life. he had many illnesses and almost died. he didn't view the civil war with ending when richmond fell in 1865. that's really one of the core stories of the book. dave didn't want to give up. he didn't view fleeing richmond as an escape to save his life or his family. he wasn't trying to escape to a foreign land. he believed he was carrying on the confederate cause, and his escape in his mind was an ordered retreat from place to place with a body of armed troops, with documents, papers, way wagons to keep the government going. he stayed in danville for a week to operate the federal government and awaiting news with general lee. lee had not surrendered yet. he wanted to go deeper south, then west, across the mississippi and form a new western confederacy. first, he wasn't trying to save himself but the country and continue the war. he believed he could do it and believed in lessons he could make the retreat, reestablish the heart of the confederacy el
when he was a little boy at 7 years old, he road on a pony and met andrew jackson and then went to school. he was used to the hardships of life. he had many illnesses and almost died. he didn't view the civil war with ending when richmond fell in 1865. that's really one of the core stories of the book. dave didn't want to give up. he didn't view fleeing richmond as an escape to save his life or his family. he wasn't trying to escape to a foreign land. he believed he was carrying on the...
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nasty periods of partisanship through the time of andrew jackson, leading into the civil war and reconstruction. those things are different than nowadays. the question is if james madison were to come back, i wish he would for all sorts of reasons, what would he find different from this period than any other period in american history. i'd suggest a few things. most of which have been touched on tonight. one is for the first time in history in the senate and house, you no longer really have the umbrella parties that have prevailed for most of american history. you have two parties that are amazingingly home homogeneous. another thing, we are living in a society in which people are encouraged to say things that are add homonomy, and not kind about people that disagree. one thing that's been mentioned is technological developments that madison could not have imagined. cable tv, the internet. john kennedy complained in 1957, comparative of the time of george washington, a senator had to have a great -- had to suffer very great retribution. he noted in the time of washington, washington supported a
nasty periods of partisanship through the time of andrew jackson, leading into the civil war and reconstruction. those things are different than nowadays. the question is if james madison were to come back, i wish he would for all sorts of reasons, what would he find different from this period than any other period in american history. i'd suggest a few things. most of which have been touched on tonight. one is for the first time in history in the senate and house, you no longer really have the...
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rush limbaugh once said why do all thief of what you of the most wanted posters look like jesse jackson. there are dozens and dozens of these things. people -- i don't know about you personally. you can answer the question. many people still go on these shows. i'll hear people like this in new york. rush limbaugh is praising them. they are praising rush limbaugh. why do you think there are more from the civilized republicans to distance themselves from these racist? >> host: we got the point. thanks. add just have to stipulate that these accusations are making in terms of the fax, one comment are true. i have not heard them. if they said those things they should not have said them, and i condemn those statements. this is a game that a lot of people -- both sides play. someone says something asinine. you know, pariahs. i think rush limbaugh -- i don't agree with everything he does. he does of fantastic job at being rush limbaugh. he is a valuable contribution to the symphony of conservatism. i don't think it is at all accurate to say that bill o'reilly and rush limbaugh are racist or let
rush limbaugh once said why do all thief of what you of the most wanted posters look like jesse jackson. there are dozens and dozens of these things. people -- i don't know about you personally. you can answer the question. many people still go on these shows. i'll hear people like this in new york. rush limbaugh is praising them. they are praising rush limbaugh. why do you think there are more from the civilized republicans to distance themselves from these racist? >> host: we got the...
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maynard jackson said i have provide police, water, and pick up the trash. if you don't include women and minorities, we won't grow. the same is true in the international space. my goal as mayor when i'm done is that atlanta will be a city that is attractive because you can reach 83% of the united states from atlanta in two hours, and with the 1.6 billion terminal we are building, you can get anywhere in the worldment we're going to be a global city. all these opportunities driven by the city of atlanta will have partnerships. the same way the leader at the white house who identifies talent and merit, we have a data base in the city of atlanta that is constantly being built. when we have have a new opportunity, we have a bench of partners, if you will, and that's one of the reasons that atlanta has more successful and thriving african-american businesses than any other city in the united states of america. that's what i think, and that's where we are going to the future. in terms of how you really do that, you need to have a direct relationship with any admi
maynard jackson said i have provide police, water, and pick up the trash. if you don't include women and minorities, we won't grow. the same is true in the international space. my goal as mayor when i'm done is that atlanta will be a city that is attractive because you can reach 83% of the united states from atlanta in two hours, and with the 1.6 billion terminal we are building, you can get anywhere in the worldment we're going to be a global city. all these opportunities driven by the city of...
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easing, we've seen this over the last couple of months since chairman bernanke started talking about in jackson hole, the lowering of interest rates, elevating prices, and the exchange rate a little bit, that can have positive effects on the u.s. economy, even if banks aren't using -- aren't trying to use those reserves to expand their balance sheets. it could be better -- the whole process would be faster, i think, as if banks felt more comfortable and more confident that risk adjusted there were some opportunities out there to make loans and they started funding small businesses in particular. but it's -- that's not a necessary condition for this quantitative easing type of stuff to work. as to the limits in some theoretical sense, i think the limits -- the limits -- there isn't many limits. but i think the limits are the -- are kind of the negatives that i was talking about. the cost that i was talking about. so the federal reserve needs to be absolutely certain that people still have confidence that it can and will exit when it needs to exit. it needs to be very, very careful about these di
easing, we've seen this over the last couple of months since chairman bernanke started talking about in jackson hole, the lowering of interest rates, elevating prices, and the exchange rate a little bit, that can have positive effects on the u.s. economy, even if banks aren't using -- aren't trying to use those reserves to expand their balance sheets. it could be better -- the whole process would be faster, i think, as if banks felt more comfortable and more confident that risk adjusted there...
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they are parents to 3 1/2 month old jackson our first grandchild. our john burris then was bort in germany, graduated from the university of georgia. he and his wife sarah live and work in northern virginia and they're expecting a baby girl this spring. i'm certainly proud of all of them and draw my strength from all of them and thank you, mr. chairman, for allowing me to mention them. mr. chairman, senator mccain, and members of the committee, when i enlisted in the army as a private in 1973, never in my wildest imagination did i envision appearing before the arm services committee, the united states senate to be considered as a combat and commander. the day secretary gates told me that he intended to recommend to the president that i been nominated to be the next commander of u.s. africa command i was struck by two contradictory feelings. first, i was exhilarated to have the possibility to serve in a command which i believe is of great importance and for which there is such great opportunity. but secondly, i felt the tremendous sense of humility.
they are parents to 3 1/2 month old jackson our first grandchild. our john burris then was bort in germany, graduated from the university of georgia. he and his wife sarah live and work in northern virginia and they're expecting a baby girl this spring. i'm certainly proud of all of them and draw my strength from all of them and thank you, mr. chairman, for allowing me to mention them. mr. chairman, senator mccain, and members of the committee, when i enlisted in the army as a private in 1973,...
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to mexicans as wetbacks, rush limbaugh said why do all black -- the wanted posters look like jesse jackson, dozens of these things. bob grant called martin luther king a scum bag. i don't know about you personally if you can answer the question that many people like you go on these shows, i hear people like this on the radio, or rush limbaugh praising him and stuff or praising rush limbaugh. why isn't there more from the, quote, civilize republicans to distance themselves from racists like bill o'reilly? >> guest: i have to stipulate these accusations you are making, so far as one comment from bob graham and bill riley are true. i haven't heard them. if they said those things they shouldn't have said them and i condemn those statements. this is sort of a game that a lot of people, both sides play. someone says something asinine and they must be pariahs from polite society. i don't agree with everything he says. i think he is a valuable contribution to the symphony of conservatism as it were. i don't think it is accurate to say that bill o'reilly and rush limbaugh are racists let alone say
to mexicans as wetbacks, rush limbaugh said why do all black -- the wanted posters look like jesse jackson, dozens of these things. bob grant called martin luther king a scum bag. i don't know about you personally if you can answer the question that many people like you go on these shows, i hear people like this on the radio, or rush limbaugh praising him and stuff or praising rush limbaugh. why isn't there more from the, quote, civilize republicans to distance themselves from racists like bill...
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when he was a little boy at 7 years old, he road on a pony and met andrew jackson and then went to school. he was used to the hardships of life. he had many illnesses and almost died. he didn't view the civil war with ending when richmond fell in 1865. that's really one of the core stories of the book. dave didn't want to give up. he didn't view fleeing richmond as an escape to save his life or his family. he wasn't trying to escape to a foreign land. he believed he was carrying on the confederate cause, and his escape in his mind was an ordered retreat from place to place with a body of armed troops, with documents, papers, way wagons to keep the government going. he stayed in danville for a week to operate the federal government and awaiting news with general lee. lee had not surrendered yet. he wanted to go deeper south, then west, across the mississippi and form a new western confederacy. first, he wasn't trying to save himself but the country and continue the war. he believed he could do it and believed in lessons he could make the retreat, reestablish the heart of the confederacy el
when he was a little boy at 7 years old, he road on a pony and met andrew jackson and then went to school. he was used to the hardships of life. he had many illnesses and almost died. he didn't view the civil war with ending when richmond fell in 1865. that's really one of the core stories of the book. dave didn't want to give up. he didn't view fleeing richmond as an escape to save his life or his family. he wasn't trying to escape to a foreign land. he believed he was carrying on the...
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we were heading down route jackson in baghdad. and his -- the vehicle commander who was a young staff sergeant said, hey, shh. we have media in the vehicle. and i said where? and i started looking around. and then i had to stop and explain to them that i was a public affairs officer. i'm one of you guys. i'm not the media. but it reminded me that as much work as we had put into training our soldiers about media awareness, we still had a long way to go. sometimes there's just a disconnect. a guy in uniform with a camera to them, even though my rank was clearly on my body armour and i had the unit patch and all of that, but to him, he was trying to do the right thing. he was trying to keep his men professional. he wasn't trying to censor what the guy was saying. he was using salty, calvary-men type language. he was worried i would be offended or misrepresent the unit. that's the lower tactical levels. we have to keep with it and maintain that training posture. >> right. >> sure. >> a small little known fact, i don't know if you you
we were heading down route jackson in baghdad. and his -- the vehicle commander who was a young staff sergeant said, hey, shh. we have media in the vehicle. and i said where? and i started looking around. and then i had to stop and explain to them that i was a public affairs officer. i'm one of you guys. i'm not the media. but it reminded me that as much work as we had put into training our soldiers about media awareness, we still had a long way to go. sometimes there's just a disconnect. a guy...