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and, of course, richard nixon was a republican president. and so mike mansfield, the majority leader of the senate, looked around very carefully in making his selection to the special watergate committee, and he settled on a chairman who he thought was had unimpeachable credentials as sam ervin, democratic conservative from north carolina, had been in the senate since the 1950s. he was at that point in his seventies, he had no desire to become president. later on, he was just content to be a united states senator. and importantly, he had a couple of interesting credentials that made him really perfect for this role in this political sensitive position. he was the senate's constitutional expert recognized by his colleagues as such, and he was incrediblinterested in some of the issues that the watergate scandal had exposed, issues of surveillance, issues of breaking and entering, issues of invasions, of privacy. he'd been investigating some of these issues, actually, for about ten years prior to the break in at watergate. and so senator sam er
and, of course, richard nixon was a republican president. and so mike mansfield, the majority leader of the senate, looked around very carefully in making his selection to the special watergate committee, and he settled on a chairman who he thought was had unimpeachable credentials as sam ervin, democratic conservative from north carolina, had been in the senate since the 1950s. he was at that point in his seventies, he had no desire to become president. later on, he was just content to be a...
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and richard nixon in the oval office. what did what were they thinking and how did you guys work with them and form an alliance? succeeded margaret well. tom was neither the the hot under the collar revolution ornery or or or very loud in any way he he was quite quiet. he was thoughtful he never confrontational. in fact seldom confrontational. and it was fascinating to watch his political his his policy career is filled with with potential horror, all conflicts and so much controversy among companies and large companies and potentially in the white. it was it was so interesting to me and i, i think the reason i emphasized so as two things in my remarks was there were two things at work here. one is this. we had this person who's from kansas, who's raised in kansas, who has who was a democrat, a little d from heart. so his brain worked on the cattle form. who who saw people in local the local community and had three sisters and friends and lovely parents. and then you kept off with this magnificent education on it and migh
and richard nixon in the oval office. what did what were they thinking and how did you guys work with them and form an alliance? succeeded margaret well. tom was neither the the hot under the collar revolution ornery or or or very loud in any way he he was quite quiet. he was thoughtful he never confrontational. in fact seldom confrontational. and it was fascinating to watch his political his his policy career is filled with with potential horror, all conflicts and so much controversy among...
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richard you wrote a piece for us at the free press. might not even remember it because you're producing much these days, but it was called the boys left behind, and i wanted to just read a little bit of it for you. in the span of just a few decades, write an astonishing revolution. human relations has occurred since the widespread adoption. agriculture, patriarchy has been the norm in human societies. no longer patriarchy been demolished in advanced economies, women are no longer dependent on for material resources, tearing down barriers to education, the labor market, feminism achieved a central goal of securing for women economic independence and power. i like all of those things, but you go on to say this the movement to liberate women has unleashed the power, talent of half the global population. but like all revolutions, it has real challenges. you upend a 12,000 year old social order without experiencing side effects. so the subject of the panel today really about what those side effects are. yeah, they're good sentences. yeah. y
richard you wrote a piece for us at the free press. might not even remember it because you're producing much these days, but it was called the boys left behind, and i wanted to just read a little bit of it for you. in the span of just a few decades, write an astonishing revolution. human relations has occurred since the widespread adoption. agriculture, patriarchy has been the norm in human societies. no longer patriarchy been demolished in advanced economies, women are no longer dependent on...
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andrea, take me richard. i am there to see richard. i refuse to go i richard, take the the i now bring out that andrea and richard are children of new age. know. that. that was not what we're. about. the university. that new york city department didn't connection with your activities. we have been informed that the police department will take all the necessary action in connection with complaint against you. this order to remove forthwith is separate and apart from any question of amnesty. you will subject to proper disciplinary by the university in any those who leave the building pursuant to this order will have less to answer for than those who do not. wear. i. will apply to my. assignments and they managed to kind of push them all together and they were all sitting on the floor and they pushed them all together and got them to. they could hardly move. they would look. they had something in their hand i was just say these things but i don't know when they rush i just think that's what i was like, okay, get back what we were going to
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richard. didn't mention perhaps the the most notorious case of one of the most notorious cases, which is that of anthony burns in boston. in 1854, burns was working in a clothing store in brattle street when he was arrested by slave catchers in may 1854. and it was highly traumatic, highly traumatic for burns, first and foremost, that highly traumatic for the people of boston, including for people who are self conceptualized conservatives who had supported many of them, the fugitive slave act as part of the compromise of 1850, but now saw the brutal reality of the federal government coming in and capturing someone and marching them down to the harbor in chains. handbills were posted around the city. the city of boston urging, quote, the yeomen of new england as the chief conservative element of the republic to come to burns aid in defiance of federal authority, sons of liberty groups were formed to preserve the freedom of fugitive slaves, to resist the encroachment of the federal government on
richard. didn't mention perhaps the the most notorious case of one of the most notorious cases, which is that of anthony burns in boston. in 1854, burns was working in a clothing store in brattle street when he was arrested by slave catchers in may 1854. and it was highly traumatic, highly traumatic for burns, first and foremost, that highly traumatic for the people of boston, including for people who are self conceptualized conservatives who had supported many of them, the fugitive slave act...
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did you ever think you would admire richard nixon's love letters? no. that was why i found it very interesting, because sometimes it's the opposite of what you what you think. i'm sorry, i someone like jfk. who had wonderful speeches ever wrote to jacqueline before they were married was a postcard, which said, just simply wish you were here, jack. so that was that was that okay? yeah. we often don't think about nixon in romance, but i think this is a really lovely picture up there. two of them in the east room of the white house. yes, that was that was at a wedding of of of. oh, i'm sorry. i always forget. i'm sorry. that was tricia's wedding, i believe. yeah. yeah. thank you for that. i also since this is valentine's day and since the president's, like all of us, experienced heartache, let's talk about him for a minute about one of the saddest stories in your book on this day in 1884, theodore roosevelt experienced the darkest day of his life. can you talk about this tragic anniversary and how it shaped the future president. actually, a lot of interest
did you ever think you would admire richard nixon's love letters? no. that was why i found it very interesting, because sometimes it's the opposite of what you what you think. i'm sorry, i someone like jfk. who had wonderful speeches ever wrote to jacqueline before they were married was a postcard, which said, just simply wish you were here, jack. so that was that was that okay? yeah. we often don't think about nixon in romance, but i think this is a really lovely picture up there. two of them...
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richard in san francisco, california, independent line. you're next up on speaker johnson's performance. go ahead. >> yeah, f-minus. i don't know what other gal is talking about. the do-nothing congress. there's really no cooperation. he can't get his own party behind him. now, they're going around, let's impeach biden, are you kidding? he's going to run off and hang out with the guy that's all indicted that's like probably going to be criminally charged before the election. it's worse. they've passed hardly anything and blocked everything. the immigration bill they wanted in there and we got it and they blocked that. it's crazy. they're the most dysfunctional, disorganized incompetent partner. they're not even a republican party now. they're the trumpster party and shackled to him, you know, so give me anybody, but this guy and mccarthy as well. you know, just look at it. you know, so they spent all of these times trying to get people in front of committees and, you know, like, i mean, how long have they-- they use their committees as pol
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richard blackett. thank you. okay. good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. uh, makes reminds me of my. 9:00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. huh. okay. i wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. the first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d.c. in april 1848. the second the successful freeing of daniel webster otherwise known as daniel danger. freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. they provide a useful symmetry. the on the eve of the discussion about the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law, the attempted escape from washington was just one of a series of dramatic escapes that, including henry, sprung from this city. william and ellen craft, macon, georgia. and a number of slaves from kentucky who settled in michigan. dangerfield came at the end of the decade racked by disputes over the return of this set of escaped slaves. late one evening in april, this the pole slipped i
richard blackett. thank you. okay. good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. uh, makes reminds me of my. 9:00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. huh. okay. i wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. the first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d.c. in april 1848. the second the successful freeing of daniel webster otherwise known as daniel danger. freed from...
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but as historians we probably back to the presidencies of either richard nixon or ronald reagan. nixon famously war on drugs on april seven. in april 1971, and he said, i quote him in order fight and defeat this enemy, excuse me in order to fight and defeat enemy, it is necessary to wage an all out offensive and his war on drugs did dramatically increase funding for interdiction for activities overseas where drugs were grown and for prison sentences. but the nixon administration also increased funding for prevention and treatment and most notably, they provided the first federal funding for methadone clinics. so a somewhat of a mixed bag. ronald reagan ramped up the military language and tactics such as his 1982 speech suggests and i quote, as i've said before, we've taken down the surrender and run up the battle flag and we're going to win the war on drugs. and, quote, the reagan dedicated a greater percentage of the funding towards interdiction and surveillance. and, of course, famously passed mandatory minimum sentencing. i would note those were not the first mandatory minimum
but as historians we probably back to the presidencies of either richard nixon or ronald reagan. nixon famously war on drugs on april seven. in april 1971, and he said, i quote him in order fight and defeat this enemy, excuse me in order to fight and defeat enemy, it is necessary to wage an all out offensive and his war on drugs did dramatically increase funding for interdiction for activities overseas where drugs were grown and for prison sentences. but the nixon administration also increased...
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as a result, on december 2nd, 1970, president richard nixon consolidated 15 environmental programs from across the federal government to form the united states environmental protection agency. not only did the new epa inherit responsibilities from its parent programs, but it soon had a raft of new ones. the passage of the clean air act in 1970 meant that epa's management had to simultaneously lee organize dozens of different staffs and laboratories to develop the national air quality standards required by the act, while at the same time showing the american people that something was being done to stop air pollution. epa went to court. factories were shut down. the message got through. gross pollution would no longer be a part of business as usual in the united states. the clean water act, passed in 1972, also required enormous and unprecedented efforts on the part of the new agency. 60 million people were on sewage systems, discharging 2 million tons a year of raw organic waste into surface waters. the new law mandated a system of universal sewage treatment and gave epa the job of bring
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that's richard rhodes. his book, the making the atomic bomb, that is very technical. that goes deep into yeah, if you want to know the science, it that's where you want to read. there are other ones that are more too, but they're boring. i mean, richard rhodes is is the one you want to get to read. wonderful. thank you. okay. so someone had asked really early on whether thought was the manhattan project more of an engineering rather a physics problem. well, that's an interesting question the challenge they encountered were more the engineering side. i mean, it's the easy answer. it's both. but the physics are in a way kind of easy once you unlock the o.s, they're replicable easily. it's then the engineering to get the bomb to actually work to create this chain reaction, to build the conventional explosions, to create an implosion or to fire a projectile so that the real is once they've unlocked the science in building the thing and figuring that out. so this is partly why oppenheimer thinks like six scientia can come up with the then we need engineers and technicians
that's richard rhodes. his book, the making the atomic bomb, that is very technical. that goes deep into yeah, if you want to know the science, it that's where you want to read. there are other ones that are more too, but they're boring. i mean, richard rhodes is is the one you want to get to read. wonderful. thank you. okay. so someone had asked really early on whether thought was the manhattan project more of an engineering rather a physics problem. well, that's an interesting question the...
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host: that's richard in michigan. guest: the international court of justice and it will take them another two years if that to rule on the question of whether the israelis are committing genocide in gaza. if genocide -- there is a definition of it and i'm not an international lawyer but i look at the situation. what the israelis done in an effort to destroy hamas as a military organization has involved the deaths of scores of thousands of innocents and yes, the 34,000 of the hamas-controlled ministry of health has calculated includes 12-14,000 hamas fighters and combatants. i think this is a just war but i think it's been waged with an expansion of israel's rules of engagement. i think there is no question about that. is it genocide? i don't think is genocide. i don't think the israelis willfully determine as the khmer rouge in cambodia where the nazis were in germany fundamentally extinguish socially, culturally politically an entire people? i don't think that's a what's going on. we wouldn't even be having this conv
host: that's richard in michigan. guest: the international court of justice and it will take them another two years if that to rule on the question of whether the israelis are committing genocide in gaza. if genocide -- there is a definition of it and i'm not an international lawyer but i look at the situation. what the israelis done in an effort to destroy hamas as a military organization has involved the deaths of scores of thousands of innocents and yes, the 34,000 of the hamas-controlled...
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i mean, richard nixon would never have resigned. it wasn't just the post. i wish i could just say it was just washington post. it was congress. did their job. and if hadn't done its job, then nixon probably would not have resigned. so we need it's not it would be great. i favor such legislation just to and say give the truth that would be fantastic would make our job much easier. but that's just not going to happen. all right. so much right over here, marty, you said that the public was not trusting the media before donald trump. why? well, i think well, i mean, i think that they're variety. this is a complicated subject. i mean, i think that variety of reasons. one is that we've become increasingly partizan. i think the internet has accelerated that where people can pretty much find any anything that reinforces their point of view. you have a conspiracy theory guaranteed you can find it online. i mean, as soon as antonin scalia died, i said i telling somebody, i bet i can find a conspiracy theory like right now that moment i saw conspiracy theory on the in
i mean, richard nixon would never have resigned. it wasn't just the post. i wish i could just say it was just washington post. it was congress. did their job. and if hadn't done its job, then nixon probably would not have resigned. so we need it's not it would be great. i favor such legislation just to and say give the truth that would be fantastic would make our job much easier. but that's just not going to happen. all right. so much right over here, marty, you said that the public was not...
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a member of reagan's national security council's and a major soviet scholar, richard pipes, cogently explained to the audience problem that reagan faced in europe as the english elite regarded reagan as a dangerous simpleton simpleton. the anti-gay fear of nuclear war was a major problem for reagan. the united states as well. michael barone mouthed it in the washington post and a great many americans and europeans believe that reagan is significantly more likely in his predecessors to get us into a nuclear war. a washington post poll found that by a 3 to 1 margin, american people supported a nuclear. what that what we have not nuclear weapons but what a frozen nowhere they. and it might sound like a good idea but reagan's whole approach was to build up to create leverage for arms reductions. so reagan faced a really big problem in the united states. a washington post abc poll, the same poll found that a significant portion of the american public has become in increasingly anxious over the prospect of a nuclear war. frightened over the buildup of the arsenal. and frustrated the lack o
a member of reagan's national security council's and a major soviet scholar, richard pipes, cogently explained to the audience problem that reagan faced in europe as the english elite regarded reagan as a dangerous simpleton simpleton. the anti-gay fear of nuclear war was a major problem for reagan. the united states as well. michael barone mouthed it in the washington post and a great many americans and europeans believe that reagan is significantly more likely in his predecessors to get us...
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richard nixon's failed president. so we had 70 horrible years where there was good news. it was all bad. and reagan reagan saw, this. and he said, look, i need to restore morale, because for the first time in history, in 1980, parents did not think they'd always thought every time, ever since been polled, parents always thought the future would be better for the children than had been for them until 1980, when that stopped. people not think that anymore. so the idea that joe biden is a great president is, just nonsense. it's poppycock. ridiculous. name one thing that he's been successful at other than spending money. and by way any more on can spend money. well, i also think that just you know reagan watched a few john travolta movies in the white house. i'm sorry. i think reagan. a few john travolta movies. yeah. he probably did. well, just to clear vulture, travolta was three. screen was no travolta. i really like him as an actor. i just said there's a joke. but travolta was a guest at, the reagan white house several times, and he actually danced with princess di there.
richard nixon's failed president. so we had 70 horrible years where there was good news. it was all bad. and reagan reagan saw, this. and he said, look, i need to restore morale, because for the first time in history, in 1980, parents did not think they'd always thought every time, ever since been polled, parents always thought the future would be better for the children than had been for them until 1980, when that stopped. people not think that anymore. so the idea that joe biden is a great...
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he had a copy, of course, of richard henry lee's june six declaration resolution independence. he had his copy of the draft constitution he had written before leaving williamsburg to come to philadelphia in of which you are very with that draft he hoped to get as quickly as possible to williamsburg. so his draft could become the dominant draft he had that with him and that contained a lengthy forensic indictment of george the third and an amplified list of grievances and clearly jefferson drew extensively his draft for the constitution he drew on his own as some of british america he also drew on his virginia colleague, george mason's declaration of rights, which the virginia legislature had passed in june and which jefferson had a car of and george george mason's declaration of rights had a phrase in it. that's all most familiar, but not in its total holiday, because mason's draft emphasized the life, liberty and the pursuit of property and that is an interesting change that that that is and it is of great interest of course that jefferson and his colleagues changed pursuit of
he had a copy, of course, of richard henry lee's june six declaration resolution independence. he had his copy of the draft constitution he had written before leaving williamsburg to come to philadelphia in of which you are very with that draft he hoped to get as quickly as possible to williamsburg. so his draft could become the dominant draft he had that with him and that contained a lengthy forensic indictment of george the third and an amplified list of grievances and clearly jefferson drew...
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goodwin and her husband, richard, the final years of his life. another bestselling author, korda, is out with a new book, world war one and the lives of the soldier poets who experienced the horrors of trench warfare. mr. quarters new book is titled use of fire and in knife meditations an attempted murder. author salman rushdie offers his account the august 12th, 2020 to knife attack that nearly took his life. the british american novelist was left blind in one eye from that attack that place during an appearance at a new york center. the incident came than 30 years after iranians supreme leader ayatollah khomeini called mr. rushdie to be killed, publishing his book the satanic verses and to upcoming to note. former house speaker nancy pelosi is releasing the art power on august the sixth. according to publisher simon schuster, the book will her personal account of the events of january 6th, 2021. ms. pelosi's previous book was know your a message to america's daughters, which came out in 2008. simon and schuster also announced recently that had
goodwin and her husband, richard, the final years of his life. another bestselling author, korda, is out with a new book, world war one and the lives of the soldier poets who experienced the horrors of trench warfare. mr. quarters new book is titled use of fire and in knife meditations an attempted murder. author salman rushdie offers his account the august 12th, 2020 to knife attack that nearly took his life. the british american novelist was left blind in one eye from that attack that place...