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to at least give them something? >> no, i think that you are is saturating heineman solomon's degree by about 10,000 degrees. i don't mean to -- i'm not being sarcastic. it's just that he was basically financed individual congressman and so forth. he was not a big finance year of low level of robert morris who had ships and contact and merchants working for him all over the world. he was a much more modest dhaka that he was a very enthusiastic patriarch. there was no place to go that anybody could find and that is the reason why the whole crisis erupted. >> listened this has been a wonderful discussion and i enjoy it so much. [applause] .. >> on september 4th, 1957, a stoic young black girl elizabeth eckford, a member of the little rock 9 was met by an angry mob during her first days to segregate a high school. behind her was a little girl with narrowed eyes and clenched teeth. this is one of the most recognizable photos of the civil rights era. it reflects the hate and fury of a young girl and a timid demeanor of an
to at least give them something? >> no, i think that you are is saturating heineman solomon's degree by about 10,000 degrees. i don't mean to -- i'm not being sarcastic. it's just that he was basically financed individual congressman and so forth. he was not a big finance year of low level of robert morris who had ships and contact and merchants working for him all over the world. he was a much more modest dhaka that he was a very enthusiastic patriarch. there was no place to go that...
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at the beginning. there's a lot of stuff out there that's real that we just don't have intuition for. >> hi, as the mother three daughters, one who expressed an interest in being a scientist, can you speak to women in the field of science and are they going into that field and -- >> i think they are in your family. [laughter] >> well, as president obama has said, what do you think is going to be the outcome if we fail to do more investment in education and science as well as research in science as a country? >> well, i think, i mean, i think that's an easy question to answer. i think we all know the failures, and we can figure it out scientifically because look around the globe and say what happens in the countries where they don't invest in science and invest in education? i think most of us would not like those results, so i don't think we have to deduce it. we can do the measurements and see what happens. i think it's incredibly important that we do that. as far as -- i think there are more. i think
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and i went to hook at his pay -- look at his papers at mit. he died several years ago. and his papers were absolutely voluminous, 40 boxes of them. and there was everything in there but his stuff on little rock which was heartbreaking. um, and so i, it turned out that i knew his -- his son-in-law was a former new york times reporter whom i knew, and, um, he said let's look around. and i spoke to his son, and his son said, you know, there's one more box of his stuff in the back of my closet, let me just look in there. and sure enough, the little rock file was in there. and he spent several dayses down here interviewing the leading citizens of little rock going to the arkansas club, the segregated club, the little rock club. the little rock club. no jews or blacks allowed, um, and he was -- this researcher was allowed in there because he was a guest of the people, but he could never have joined as a jew. and, you know, the world that these people describe i say in the book that it's something like, i mean, all of these people are now dead, and it's like spoon river anthol
and i went to hook at his pay -- look at his papers at mit. he died several years ago. and his papers were absolutely voluminous, 40 boxes of them. and there was everything in there but his stuff on little rock which was heartbreaking. um, and so i, it turned out that i knew his -- his son-in-law was a former new york times reporter whom i knew, and, um, he said let's look around. and i spoke to his son, and his son said, you know, there's one more box of his stuff in the back of my closet, let...
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months pregnant at the time. she follows william next to charleston where again, they have to pack up and go. she stays just long enough to give birth to a second child. they again move. she goes on her own with these two very small children heading off again into the unknown, this time to st. augustine in florida. now, they expect to stay in florida. florida at that time remained loyal, it was not part of the revolution, it was still a british territory, and something like 12,000 loyalists and slaves ended up actually going to florida at this time expecting that this was where they could you know, pick up, start up plantations again and move forward. but they arrived there only months before learning that this place, too is going to be evacuated. it's handed over to spain in the peace treaty that ends the war. and so, you know elizabeth johnston with her two tiny children, her husband's still off, actually, doing his military service trying to make a go of it in the third city she's lived in in as many years is
months pregnant at the time. she follows william next to charleston where again, they have to pack up and go. she stays just long enough to give birth to a second child. they again move. she goes on her own with these two very small children heading off again into the unknown, this time to st. augustine in florida. now, they expect to stay in florida. florida at that time remained loyal, it was not part of the revolution, it was still a british territory, and something like 12,000 loyalists and...
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>> no, not at all. i think what we say is obviously there there was going to be a natural reaction to take, to go after the perpetrators of aan tack that killed nearly 3,000 americans. there's no question about that. we argue that was done fairly smartly with a small footprint, i mean, the leaders at the time was conscious of the soviet experience, so they sent small numbers of special forces to work with the northern alliance, use american air powers to drive out al-qaeda and ultimately collapse the taliban government. i think from there, of course, you move into the decision of the bush administration made to go to war with iraq, which was not a center hub for terrorist at the time. it became one though as we talked about the examples in our talk, and so i think we've come full circle, of course, as time went on, and afghanistan was a neglected campaign. al-qaeda and allies across the border and in pakistan were able to reconstitute, retrain, and take more territory, leaving the government of the unit
>> no, not at all. i think what we say is obviously there there was going to be a natural reaction to take, to go after the perpetrators of aan tack that killed nearly 3,000 americans. there's no question about that. we argue that was done fairly smartly with a small footprint, i mean, the leaders at the time was conscious of the soviet experience, so they sent small numbers of special forces to work with the northern alliance, use american air powers to drive out al-qaeda and ultimately...
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she speaks at the james a. garfield national historic site in mentor, ohio. >> candice millard is an excellent writer from national geographic magazine and now we are very excited to have her talk about her second book, her first book was the river ofery e doubt about theodore roosevelt perilous journey down the amazos after his presidency. of we are pleased here she iswn thr chosen to tackle anotherease interesting presidentiald is subject, that being the assassination of president jamee garfield.interest iin believe this is her fourth trip here to the site. h it's really a great pleasure too welcome her here tonight. please make her feel welcome,re candice millard.onig [applause]ht her feel welcome, candice millard. [applause] >> thank you, thank you for that introduction. thank you all for coming. it is a real pleasure to be here and it is a great honor to be able to speak at the james a. garfield national historic site. i also wanted to say a particular thank you to the garfield family as well, which has be
she speaks at the james a. garfield national historic site in mentor, ohio. >> candice millard is an excellent writer from national geographic magazine and now we are very excited to have her talk about her second book, her first book was the river ofery e doubt about theodore roosevelt perilous journey down the amazos after his presidency. of we are pleased here she iswn thr chosen to tackle anotherease interesting presidentiald is subject, that being the assassination of president jamee...
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everybody should at least half of. that, that was a step too far for people like ayn rand. >> host: and put all the government to provide that? >> guest: this is something that is rarely mentioned by hayek. as much as the logic made perfect sense. if it is going to be private there are some things in the state should didn't he come and that is at least the ability to stay alive and remain healthy. >> host: now, why did he think the state would be capable of funding that kind of welfare as i guess it would be called today? >> guest: it's changed to read i think the national health service is interested in 1945 nobody would imagine the leaps and bounds at the health care itself would take, that medicine would take him at the cost of it and also we are talking about the pension invented. people were living if you are lucky for years beyond the pension. now because of the good health and actually do to many things in the welfare state that they helped introduce brought about we live much longer and we are much healthier fo
everybody should at least half of. that, that was a step too far for people like ayn rand. >> host: and put all the government to provide that? >> guest: this is something that is rarely mentioned by hayek. as much as the logic made perfect sense. if it is going to be private there are some things in the state should didn't he come and that is at least the ability to stay alive and remain healthy. >> host: now, why did he think the state would be capable of funding that kind...
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at least not at the moment. much more likely there will be a market basket of currency or the individual sovereign debt or sovereign will fund and people who have large foreign currency holdings diversify. instead of holding dollars they hold dollars and euros. more or less inevitable. there are three hundred million people in the united states and seven billion people in the world. under those circumstances things are going to even out a bit from where they were 60 years ago. >> one of the wonderful things about both these books besides the fact that both these gentlemen are teachers who can really write which is not something you always see in scholars, these are really great books to read. these books are also more than just an op-ed piece about that and the dollar but there histories and really interesting histories about things we don't know much about. i will put data on the spot. one of the most interesting things you wrote about was talking about that and virtual money in context of the slave trade in af
at least not at the moment. much more likely there will be a market basket of currency or the individual sovereign debt or sovereign will fund and people who have large foreign currency holdings diversify. instead of holding dollars they hold dollars and euros. more or less inevitable. there are three hundred million people in the united states and seven billion people in the world. under those circumstances things are going to even out a bit from where they were 60 years ago. >> one of...
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when at the end of january 1968 the enemy's tet offensive began westmoreland's long term at bat was nearing an end. newsweek magazine describes the devastating measure of how far he had fallen. in november they said when he was conjuring up the light at the end of the tunnel he was affectionately called westy but by last week he was general westmoreland in most official and unofficial briefings. the tech resurgence of enforces led many to conclude that in his optimistic forecasts of the previous year westmoreland had either not known what he was talking about or had not leveled with the american people. it is hard to know which is the more devastating criticism. what was clear was that with his approach to conduct of the war westmoreland had squandered four years of support for the war by much of the american people, the congress and even the media. for the next four years westmoreland served as army chief of staff. the army of that day was struggling with many problems. some the result of the ongoing war in viet nam and others more societal in origin. these included widespread drug abuse,
when at the end of january 1968 the enemy's tet offensive began westmoreland's long term at bat was nearing an end. newsweek magazine describes the devastating measure of how far he had fallen. in november they said when he was conjuring up the light at the end of the tunnel he was affectionately called westy but by last week he was general westmoreland in most official and unofficial briefings. the tech resurgence of enforces led many to conclude that in his optimistic forecasts of the...
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it's not at all transparent. the great thing as far as hayek was concerned that his plan was because the market is open, is open. that is, everybody knows what everybody is up to and it's a very straightforward thing to read. look at the price and you know what's going on. we don't know what the price of the health care compromise was reached by spending money of drug companies and health insurance companies to restrict it the way obama changed the health care provision. we don't know what price was paid and what we ended up with was a bargain that probably suited nobody. >> host: now come in the final chapter of the book, the title is, and the winner is, what is the current state of place? is keynes winning? is hayek winning? >> guest: the fact is it's too early to tell. we are trying to finish line on this. certainly we do seem to be embarked on what is a keynes-hayek election if anything. is jobs bill which may or may not come to fruition is a manifesto if you like and he has a letter to that level of anger. t
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he looked at communism, looked at the recent evidence of the last dictatorship. it's beyond belief to assume people would ever behave in that way, but that just happened in the world, and still going on with soviet communism. it was not too difficult a warning, but it all went wrong because churchill, who half read a lot of things, half red the road to serfdom, and he jumps the conclusion if the labour party was elected in britain in 1945, that there was a british form of the gustapo, and he was foolish enough to say it, and it was another reason people disliked hayek because all the social democrats, nothing to do with communism at all, i mean, come mewists were the chief rivals, suddenly found hayek saying they would be just as bad as the communists, and so with a single swipe, the very modest took hayek out of the game. >> host: that's interesting because in the book you talk about how sweden and some of those scandinavian democracies emerged now as i guess the definition of big government, and yet no one would look at those as sort of the awful places 20 live
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at that time i was a total math nerd. i could look at it for hours. i would read at lesses for pleasure the way more normal kid would be reading clifford the big red dog. i would be paging through the atlas. it was an amazing moment of connection to see this after so much time and i realized many years in the closet as "maphead". you realize as you get older that liking geography a lot -- you realize it is a liability rather than an asset to. people don't talk a lot about how they love looking at maps. but as our started writing the book people would ask what i was working on and i would apologetically say to friends that it was a book about maps. like that would not really justify -- like what? amazing how many people were like a lover's! are you kidding? many people, i love maps. like they were aware of the social consequences. of being part cargo file. i have a roommate coming in to our apartment at the beginning of the semester, named sheldon. he was actually named sheldon and he had on the walls national geographic maps. i spent my child looking
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the experience veterans look at each other and at the count of five, there just brings up, raised with machine gun fire and the others hung back. what they did tend to fight in the 20 century was competent. leaders who knew the business of warfare, knew the business of leadership, knew how to use our map, you how to spot dead areas of ground, knew how to outflank in any machine gun position. it's interesting to me to find examples of junior officers or ncos who in the mid-20th century, who would tremble or cry in combat. it's not completely unheard of to find a junior officer who might call himself when the shelling started. and who at the same time maintained a reputation for effectiveness in combat, because he was a soldier who clearly knew what he was doing and who had survived for months. that kind of reputation is just unthinkable in the 19th century. it would be impossible for a regimental captain to have found himself in front of his soldiers and still enjoy any sort of credibility as a leader. >> christopher hamner is an associate professor of history at george mason university
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and then dying at the age of they be at the age of 80 he was still writing and i would argue the most important work was published in 1900 for that is said title page of it there. so in relation to the unity or plurality. so what's in this book really is, a summary of the and a standing of what the evolutionary mechanism had created. he was not like dar when toots jillian -- to drill down in terms of understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of. what he wanted to know is what created in being the ballistic thinker his field of endeavor was the entire planet. so he has the theory that the others were ever they be are more dead. also millwork -- the work talking about the atmosphere and talking about regulating the earth's climate system, an extraordinary, lucid, press should work early that has many aspects of a holistic sides and so forth. and what we learned from wallace and his work is evolutions legacy is not a survival of the fittest but instead the mechanism has led to a world of extraordinary interconnectedness and op
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you have both things going on at once. those missionaries, especially the early ones were not quite idealistic and they accomplished a lot in terms of literacy. culturally the interesting thing about what they did besides teaching the entire population to read within a generation, hawaii was the most literate country on earth because of their efforts. as a consequence those missionaries taught the first generation of wine writers and historians to write. at the same time they are trying to dismantle the traditional hawaiian culture especially in terms of religion and dress the missionaries had a problem with the hawaiians's way of dress or lack thereof. there is that but because they taught the first generation of writers and historians to right, we have impressive records of the old culture. because of their invention of written language a lot of the old hawaiian language was preserved. that is an interesting paradox but because the whalers arrive and that coincides with the heyday of wailing in the nineteenth century the
you have both things going on at once. those missionaries, especially the early ones were not quite idealistic and they accomplished a lot in terms of literacy. culturally the interesting thing about what they did besides teaching the entire population to read within a generation, hawaii was the most literate country on earth because of their efforts. as a consequence those missionaries taught the first generation of wine writers and historians to write. at the same time they are trying to...
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there's not a huge crowd at the poetry both at the career of a fair. but i get $10 a line and i mean $100 a poem no matter what, so when i want that sort of those from working for the top dollar in the field i white 82 line poem. one of my early ones was about lloyd bentsen the former texas senator when he was named secretary of treasury dealing with special-interest groups the man known for pro quickness that is how folks do business. [laughter] its $50 a line. [laughter] that's not my shortest poem is the political societal and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial, that is the title. titles don't count and the whole poem is oj oa ave. it may be anybody's shortest poem. >> do you ever hear from politicians who say you're being too hard on him? >> i never have come and i've had this sort of nightmare which i have during the day. one of the reasons i don't hear from the one even admit they've read the stuff but also i don't run into them because i lived in new york and most of them in washington, but i start having about ten or 12 years
there's not a huge crowd at the poetry both at the career of a fair. but i get $10 a line and i mean $100 a poem no matter what, so when i want that sort of those from working for the top dollar in the field i white 82 line poem. one of my early ones was about lloyd bentsen the former texas senator when he was named secretary of treasury dealing with special-interest groups the man known for pro quickness that is how folks do business. [laughter] its $50 a line. [laughter] that's not my...
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to drill more at home to open anwr. >> search of a bush was saying that to. there are two characters. one is named supplier one is named demand. bush made the comment not in the "state of the union" address but there was a geopolitical context particularly during the time of the tight will market to reduce the influence of these characters among others not only on the oil market but on world affairs. >> host: can read get our way out of energy dependence? is that possible? i am asking that for the late people out there but those who are not daniel yergin premier energy expert or me who covers it day in and day out. is that a total pipe dream when you say the politicians say energy independence? then to say the gloves are off we could run of a sequence of president after president we're part of the global economy? so the real question is vulnerability and security not a question we have to be 100% independent and i asked the senator about that that really means energy security but that sounds abstract so we need to be in a position where the economy is less fo
to drill more at home to open anwr. >> search of a bush was saying that to. there are two characters. one is named supplier one is named demand. bush made the comment not in the "state of the union" address but there was a geopolitical context particularly during the time of the tight will market to reduce the influence of these characters among others not only on the oil market but on world affairs. >> host: can read get our way out of energy dependence? is that possible?...
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and this was not directly aimed at the younger generation. it is aimed at everybody. that is why it is a great success. the other one has certainly less but it is definitely aimed at the younger generation and you must commit yourself on what? that just raises the question like we said before. in my generation, in my youth it was easy to see where the enemies were. today, where are the forces against which one should commit oneself? that does come out a little bit in this book, "time for outrage" and in the other little book and it comes out very much also in books -- they at least indicate three very important challenges to our global society today. i tried to indicate them in the book as terribly important challenge of poverty and richness. there have always been poor people and rich people in the world but never until the last 20 years has there been such a spread. the rich are over rich. $100 million a year is not -- to not have $2 a day to survive is the fate of millions of people in the world. that spread is inseparable and i think anybody who watches it must no
and this was not directly aimed at the younger generation. it is aimed at everybody. that is why it is a great success. the other one has certainly less but it is definitely aimed at the younger generation and you must commit yourself on what? that just raises the question like we said before. in my generation, in my youth it was easy to see where the enemies were. today, where are the forces against which one should commit oneself? that does come out a little bit in this book, "time for...
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we dig up the remains of soldiers on average days at their forts, at their military encampments. it's the real lives of real people that archaeology gets at. whereas history has traditionally been biased towards the famous people, the important people. well, to an archaeologist everyone is important. when i dig up military camps, i'm digging up the activities, the things that people were doing 360 days out of the year, not what they did on that one or two days they were fighting during the year. so archaeologists love to say it is everybody's story that we try to tell. >> and you've done, you talk about how you've done multiple kind of archaeology. how did you decide to transition to the military archaeology forged on battlefields? >> i was originally trained in central mexico. it's fun, it's exciting the o dig in other countries. but gradually i started digging to have calcites in d -- historical sites in america. i dug a gun factory many years ago. i've dug glass factories, i've dug mills. but somewhere along the way the national park service asked if i would start working on t
we dig up the remains of soldiers on average days at their forts, at their military encampments. it's the real lives of real people that archaeology gets at. whereas history has traditionally been biased towards the famous people, the important people. well, to an archaeologist everyone is important. when i dig up military camps, i'm digging up the activities, the things that people were doing 360 days out of the year, not what they did on that one or two days they were fighting during the...
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he looks at me and says who are you? i said, you know, look at us. he gets this look of terrible disgust on his face. >> that explains it. >> he's then gone. he says, no, no, no, we want mexicans. i'm in mexico, but they don't see it that way. >> i'm running out of time. i have to ask you about china because there's china in this book. >> yeah, yeah. >> and there's manilla. >> yeah p. >> and i was reading in the "wall street journal" recently, a book review that concluding by saying america is scared of two things, china, and their children. [laughter] the china that you portray in the 17th and 18th century seems more like today's china than not. it is -- these are not people who are held by their own walls, but people trespassing into the world and who are engaged in the commerce of the world in the most astonishing way. do you see china as a continuous intervention within this columbian experiment? >> yeah. i mean, it's important to realize that the big event, an event that the other event i guess after the diseases that i think should be taught in
he looks at me and says who are you? i said, you know, look at us. he gets this look of terrible disgust on his face. >> that explains it. >> he's then gone. he says, no, no, no, we want mexicans. i'm in mexico, but they don't see it that way. >> i'm running out of time. i have to ask you about china because there's china in this book. >> yeah, yeah. >> and there's manilla. >> yeah p. >> and i was reading in the "wall street journal" recently,...
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at the time she has nine children. years pass and he was doing very well at school and the family decides that they have no money at all that to they the two brac $0.1 to get the education that is typical as is this period to support the rest of them and that is called the sheik muhammed critical to believe he applies to school in north carolina historical a baptist did either the family has saved many were more likely the muslim brotherhood has agreed to sponsor him. the joined after two older brothers had joined at age 16. he arrives in america roughly 18 years old. and is unprepared for what he sees. what he remembers years later, the memory is that he was surprised by what he saw. first of all, surprised by the geography and in of greenery in kuwait trees a usually behind walls but here they were everywhere. more surprising and more strange were the people and what they were doing. sifting and launch shares visible from the road in playing with their kids. taking a host of the bushes but what surprised him was that
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then when he can't write or talk or do anything at all anymore he hits it big. all of a sudden everyone is singing his songs. kids are singing "this land is your land" in school and people are talking about making it the national anthem. bob dylan and those others are copying him and he can't even react. the disease doesn't affect his mind. he is in a mental institution and he knows what is going on but he can't tell anyone how he feels or what he thinks. "this land is your land" began life with the title god blessed america and it contains a couple anti capitalist verses that i don't remember singing in school. a lot of americans never heard them until january of 2009 when bruce springsteen saying them from the steps of the lincoln memorial at barack obama's inaugural concert. the next it is they possess a that is the way woody wrote it? that is the way woody wrote it. i will leave you with a version that i think chart the progression of this song from the angry and bitter satire was to the unofficial national anthem became. i thank you for coming out and liste
then when he can't write or talk or do anything at all anymore he hits it big. all of a sudden everyone is singing his songs. kids are singing "this land is your land" in school and people are talking about making it the national anthem. bob dylan and those others are copying him and he can't even react. the disease doesn't affect his mind. he is in a mental institution and he knows what is going on but he can't tell anyone how he feels or what he thinks. "this land is your...
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>> guest: i was the first american to be there at the undisclosed location. the relationship, the interrogation was good from the beginning. the first question i asked was what is your name? gillick that me and gave me a false name. looked me in the eye and gave me a fake name. whatever i call you honey? he was shocked. he had that look on his face like my game is up. sunni was the name his mother nicknamed him as a child. he figured out of this guy knows what my mommy knows now everything about me. and started providing us -- we were shocked about actionable intelligence. the information he provided to us early on in the first hour of our interrogation how to save his life because when we send the information to washington people in washington realized this individual has a lot of valuable intelligence that can save lives. that is why they send the doctor from here to oversee the treatment. >> host: did you ever use enhanced interrogation techniques? >> guest: i discuss a lot of that in my statement to the senate and in the book. i discuss a lot of examples
>> guest: i was the first american to be there at the undisclosed location. the relationship, the interrogation was good from the beginning. the first question i asked was what is your name? gillick that me and gave me a false name. looked me in the eye and gave me a fake name. whatever i call you honey? he was shocked. he had that look on his face like my game is up. sunni was the name his mother nicknamed him as a child. he figured out of this guy knows what my mommy knows now...
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ople and at that place, at that platform are at that dock with few people whoha have beenr, important in raising thatnd individual. there wouldau have been a mothes a father, a grandparent, and and, whomever it might have been crossings with this young person. that person did not know when they would see this child again, and that child did not know when they would see the person who'd raise them ever again. remember there was no skype. there was no e-mail. there were no cell phones. there were no guarantees, and the next time that they might hear of that mother or that father, that person who had raised them, might be a telegram -- that's what they were using in those days -- a telegram saying that your far has passed away or your mother is ill, you are to come back quickly if you are to see her alive. that moment had to have happened just for all of us to be here, and i find great, a great sense of awe at the courage and the fortitude of what it took for them to make that sacrifice, and this book in some ways is a flee that we -- plea that we redefine what we call heros in this coun
ople and at that place, at that platform are at that dock with few people whoha have beenr, important in raising thatnd individual. there wouldau have been a mothes a father, a grandparent, and and, whomever it might have been crossings with this young person. that person did not know when they would see this child again, and that child did not know when they would see the person who'd raise them ever again. remember there was no skype. there was no e-mail. there were no cell phones. there were...
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i will leave that for the lawyers to fight over, but at least we have a g to ide to the debate which airlines me, i don't know how many of you -- you must be good. i will we g- i have notes. the numbers that text. this is a big contrhat ersial thing. a lot of leaders still like them. i can never understand why. .. other outside agitators were in other words did madison go to new york or pennsylvania or was it -- did everybody realize that we only have local people speaking? >> no outsiders spoke. no, no. there was one of controversy in massachusetts one. what elbridge garrey who had been a delegate refused to sign who attended a and some people of like mind pointed him to speak and to just to give some information there was a big fight over this and finally he went home. no, no, only locals, the people of the state with making this decision. but people in the galleries were watching what was going on. morris of pennsylvania went to the virginia convention is very clever man a jingle about what happened in the virginia convention of course i quoted 11. i loved it. [applause] >> my apo
i will leave that for the lawyers to fight over, but at least we have a g to ide to the debate which airlines me, i don't know how many of you -- you must be good. i will we g- i have notes. the numbers that text. this is a big contrhat ersial thing. a lot of leaders still like them. i can never understand why. .. other outside agitators were in other words did madison go to new york or pennsylvania or was it -- did everybody realize that we only have local people speaking? >> no...
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it is not islamic at all. is leva -- what they don't tell you because they don't know and sometimes they do but don't want to own up to it is it is longer. it states if you kill a human being, unless you are killing that human being as punishment for murder or other felony in the land, you think that is big? unless you're killing as punishment for murder or other felony in the land, only then would it be like killing all of man, and. this clause beginning with the word except for a less is an escape hatch. it is a loophole that extremists use and why wouldn't they? of course they can use that. if we say this has nothing to do with islam you are lying. we are lying to others and lying to ourselves. what i say is even as we acknowledge that this verse exists and is being used by violent extremists we should be putting forth competing reinterpretations of the verses being used in violent ways. if we take this verse if we kill a human being it is like killing human kind unless it is for punishment for murder. why
it is not islamic at all. is leva -- what they don't tell you because they don't know and sometimes they do but don't want to own up to it is it is longer. it states if you kill a human being, unless you are killing that human being as punishment for murder or other felony in the land, you think that is big? unless you're killing as punishment for murder or other felony in the land, only then would it be like killing all of man, and. this clause beginning with the word except for a less is an...
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at noriega's residence at four commodore for example u.s. troops found pictures of hitler and extensive pornography collections for which is dire he visits from two voodoo priestess is from brazil and 50 kilograms of white powder initially believed to be cocaine but later identified as flower from a king tamales. keen tamales. at noriega's home, and covered more stacks of hard corporate not become a billion dollars in u.s. currency and to religious altars, one of which was decorated with jars containing human internal organs. but there were still no sign of noriega. as i say, you would think you could make this up and then get when they have uncovered sort of moammar gadhafi's palaces etc., yet is not quite this way but he has his own large collection of dairy weird things and one of the things that drew me to the project was -- this is non-faction but you can't make this stuff up anyways. now also one of my disappointment as i have said is that whereas a lot of the targets of the u.s. intervention and the manhunts have become legends a lot
at noriega's residence at four commodore for example u.s. troops found pictures of hitler and extensive pornography collections for which is dire he visits from two voodoo priestess is from brazil and 50 kilograms of white powder initially believed to be cocaine but later identified as flower from a king tamales. keen tamales. at noriega's home, and covered more stacks of hard corporate not become a billion dollars in u.s. currency and to religious altars, one of which was decorated with jars...
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at hoover. so i could continue my research and writing without doing any teaching. >> robinson has book did the notes that people will see it another time, said he got an m.b.a. from stanford and never once, did anybody bring up adam smith or milton friedman. >> i can believe that. >> and why would that be? >> because you still have, although it's not the same as it was in 1963, there's more tolerance for the kind of ideas i'm in favor of. >> the general academic community is very much socialist in the sense in which hyack speaks of the socialists. the general academic community, now a days it's labeled political correctness. and the ideas of adam smith, the ideas of milton friedman are not very congenial to those who believe that the way in which you have things done is by having government come in and do them. >> you said earlier you're an old man. >> yeah. >> you feel like an old man? >> physically at the moment i do, but not intellectually. >> why physically? >> i recently had an operation o
at hoover. so i could continue my research and writing without doing any teaching. >> robinson has book did the notes that people will see it another time, said he got an m.b.a. from stanford and never once, did anybody bring up adam smith or milton friedman. >> i can believe that. >> and why would that be? >> because you still have, although it's not the same as it was in 1963, there's more tolerance for the kind of ideas i'm in favor of. >> the general academic...
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the schaumberg, at columbia, at the research center at howard, um, you know, so muhammad speaks newspaper, amsterdam newspaper, i mean, he -- so, you know, drawing on all of these materials begins to plug them into this chronology. and where you find or where we found and where he found clusters of these sources, those events, those items became sign posts. they, obviously, were significant if they generated three or four newspaper articles. i'll give you an example. in the autobiography of malcolm x and in malcolm's popular narrative as we know most people believe his first international travel took place after he left the nation of islam. that is not true. malcolm travel toss the middle east and africa in 1959. now n his biography it's one line, and then he moves on, right? manning gives it three to four pages of detail because malcolm wrote articles from khartoum, from saudi arabia, the bureau of special services and fbi documented this trip. while he was in egypt he met with anwar sadat who was not yet -- and this was before he became president. nasser invited him to a meeting. he sai
the schaumberg, at columbia, at the research center at howard, um, you know, so muhammad speaks newspaper, amsterdam newspaper, i mean, he -- so, you know, drawing on all of these materials begins to plug them into this chronology. and where you find or where we found and where he found clusters of these sources, those events, those items became sign posts. they, obviously, were significant if they generated three or four newspaper articles. i'll give you an example. in the autobiography of...
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>> not at all. the key was not the president nobody would read the book.gn [laughter] the reason it is significant is the piece of history that helps to understand a very significant event in american politics. love him or hate him he is the first black president which is significant.wh how did he get there?w. we care about this now historians will care in 20 years but if there is english to the president which is not an easy booktv dealt think it would be different now or five years from now but i don't think for a personal reason it would have mattered to him but i do think the book had to be published during his presidency because that is what it is germane to. >> do you have any research on how many presidents have had normal childhoods with normal families and have they not a normal family may>> give you more incentive to be president? >> what is marvell? i don't pretend to know what that is.ye that it is hard to define but there is a number of presidents who has only one parent who has dysfunc
>> not at all. the key was not the president nobody would read the book.gn [laughter] the reason it is significant is the piece of history that helps to understand a very significant event in american politics. love him or hate him he is the first black president which is significant.wh how did he get there?w. we care about this now historians will care in 20 years but if there is english to the president which is not an easy booktv dealt think it would be different now or five years from...
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at this respect. whereas on so many university campuses today, it's the very year of being challenged that has corrupted this notion of respect. so the wall goes up, the hand goes out. you're not even allowed to ask me a question and i will define that as respecting me. that's reducing me to something much less than in actually capable of. >> said in that spirit, let's bring that back to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, those conversations we don't have enough. we have a growing, thriving immigrant population, but we have some thing very different that it happened because the same time the population is growing then there's the religious component, normally in traditional waves of immigration and would be a question of generation that would be acculturation, integration. of course, this wave of immigration coincided with an attack on our country committed by people saying they were at team in the name. >> in the wiki. it's not just that they were muslim. it's that they did this in the name of islam so i'
at this respect. whereas on so many university campuses today, it's the very year of being challenged that has corrupted this notion of respect. so the wall goes up, the hand goes out. you're not even allowed to ask me a question and i will define that as respecting me. that's reducing me to something much less than in actually capable of. >> said in that spirit, let's bring that back to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, those conversations we don't have enough. we have a growing, thriving...
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the question was put at 4:00. the convention approved ratification of the constitution and nine recommended amendments. the names of the delegates were called out one by one. according to the counties and towns that represented, and they answered with a yea or nay. the rule must have gone at a fast clip here. six months -- six votes a minute. it was finished by five. we can only imagine christopher gore and other practices scorekeepers checking the votes against their lists of who they expected to vote for or against. meanwhile he noted the crowded hall fell into a deep quiet except for the litany of names and votes. he might have heard a copper fall on the gallery floor. there was such a profound silence. when the vote was complete hundred and 87 delegates had voted for ratification, and hundred 60 against. nine delegates were absent. massachusetts had ratified the constitution with a majority of only 19 out of 355 votes. san bells all over boston began to reign in this city's people poured into the streets shout
the question was put at 4:00. the convention approved ratification of the constitution and nine recommended amendments. the names of the delegates were called out one by one. according to the counties and towns that represented, and they answered with a yea or nay. the rule must have gone at a fast clip here. six months -- six votes a minute. it was finished by five. we can only imagine christopher gore and other practices scorekeepers checking the votes against their lists of who they expected...
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then the new principal at the school also let me spend a lot of time at the high-school. so i think there was a certain amount of just there that have happened with the palm article. so there were great. and then the books the red, red among schoolchildren which is i forget what grace she teaches them a third grader fifth grade, but a teacher who teaches in wholly of massachusetts. and then i read small victories. he also followed a teacher, high-school teacher in the lower east side he teaches a lot of immigrants, but not at a special luncheon national high-school. so i read both of those, of what they really focused on the teachers, and i wanted to focus on the kids. and then frank mentioned. i love ran and family. this is very different from ran the family. a lot of fiction. >> particularly among kids from different ethnic groups. was it ever a big problem the other families? >> the high-school. >> romance and high-school. the kids have to hide their relationships? at kendis thing. between tibetans and chinese children? india and pakistan the. >> i don't even know if t
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or comments at any time. speaker at&t heritage.org, hosting our discussion this afternoon, mr. meese is our ronald reagan distinguished physicalow in public policy and chairman of our center for legal and judicial studies and served ronald reagan as the 75th 75th attorney general in the united states. join me in welcoming ed mees. mr. meese? >> thank you, john, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. we have been over the last week celebrating or commemorating is a better term -- the events of the 11th of september 2001. it was the first attack on a city or cities, actually, in the mainland of the united states, since the war of 1812. it was a -- perhaps one of the most traumatic events in the lives of many of the people that are here to me it ranks with an event that i was witnessing as a younger person, pearl harbor. but it caused a tremendous burden to fall on our law enforcement agencies, on our first responders, the fire services and so on. it was obviously a tragic event for so many families in this countr
or comments at any time. speaker at&t heritage.org, hosting our discussion this afternoon, mr. meese is our ronald reagan distinguished physicalow in public policy and chairman of our center for legal and judicial studies and served ronald reagan as the 75th 75th attorney general in the united states. join me in welcoming ed mees. mr. meese? >> thank you, john, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. we have been over the last week celebrating or commemorating is a better term -- the...
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at&t spun off all of its western electric, bell labs, and a lot of at&t retirees in to listen back in and late 90's. lisa started out with a hundred and 30,000 retirees. it also started out with more than enough money to pay for every single one for both the health care and pensions because they got that, too. but over the years they started to continually cut retiree benefits. they cut it bit by bit here and there, union, salaried. everyone was getting hit. by doing that they were keeping a whole the money which was boosting their earnings. that was one company where in many quarters the only income was from retiree benefit cuts. now, this was it an equal pain situation. to give you an example, one of the more obvious cuts that listen did was to cut the death benefit. it's older retirees we promised you or your predecessor companies a promise you this benefit. maybe they promised to deal in 1950 are 60 or 70, whenever. it's going to be the equivalent of your final year's salary. a lot of people counted on this. there were expecting that there would have 30,000, 40,000, whenever this
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next month we had to the university of texas at austin. for more on our book tv college series visit booktv.org. here is a look gets an upcoming book fairs and festivals this month. half >> you're watching c-span2, politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. weeknights to molest the public policy events. every week and the latest nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and get our schedules and a website. you can join the conversation on social media sites. ..
next month we had to the university of texas at austin. for more on our book tv college series visit booktv.org. here is a look gets an upcoming book fairs and festivals this month. half >> you're watching c-span2, politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. weeknights to molest the public policy events. every week and the latest nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and get our schedules and a website. you can join the...
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at the same time she had young children. she did the job of first lady in a way that was very much her own choice, and she made other choices on her life, too. so i think by that definition, that we now suggest i think she was an early feminist, but her political instincts would've cost her in the states to say no, i'm absolutely not a feminist. >> is that track with you as will? >> yes. there's no question that she was a feminist. she just basically took over and did a job that, under others somebody might have assigned it to a man, because when she undertook the remodeling, the remaking, refurbishment of the correction of the mistakes that have been made in the white house, she did it with a strength and a verb and intelligence that captures everybody. so it is not coming you know, i would not dismiss her on any count, but certainly not for her lack of some wishy washy miss. but that's not, that wasn't her style. >> one of the observations that jumped out at me reading this book was the extraordinary degree of physical pai
at the same time she had young children. she did the job of first lady in a way that was very much her own choice, and she made other choices on her life, too. so i think by that definition, that we now suggest i think she was an early feminist, but her political instincts would've cost her in the states to say no, i'm absolutely not a feminist. >> is that track with you as will? >> yes. there's no question that she was a feminist. she just basically took over and did a job that,...
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olmstead was not at all at ease or calm at his old age. being in your late 60s or 70s then was an old age. you outlived your contemporaries, and olmstead did not settle into a restful latter years. he became fevered. the reason is because land scape architecture is so different from a painting or a work of music because it's never final. he had a real anxiety that after he was gone, all of his work would be undone. he spent his whole adult life fighting against people meddling against central park. everybody wanted to stick a race course or whatever in there. there's battling to fight those things. he had a sense because they pioneered land scape ark tegture and he felt once he was gone, things would be reversed. there's a couple commissions, and the world's fairground one of them and late in life, he was desperate to stake his reputation. by an old man of the standards of that day, he hurdled all over the united states taking on commissions in milwaukee, kansas city, denver, ashville, north carolina, going down to the biltmoore estate, wo
olmstead was not at all at ease or calm at his old age. being in your late 60s or 70s then was an old age. you outlived your contemporaries, and olmstead did not settle into a restful latter years. he became fevered. the reason is because land scape architecture is so different from a painting or a work of music because it's never final. he had a real anxiety that after he was gone, all of his work would be undone. he spent his whole adult life fighting against people meddling against central...
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that is part of the story, but what is fascinating to me is actually at the point of the civil war at the modern funeral industry is born, and it's also after the civil war that jim-crow segregation is born. its most vivid forms, and so this is an example in terms of history of black entrepreneurship or you can trace the rise of the capitalist industry along with this social segregation and how that played out in the funeral industry. >> host: today there are still white funeral homes and black funeral homes speech to the tradition continues. even after the civil rights movement in the 60's and the civil rights act : primarily barbershops, beauty shops, and funeral homes remain large reset it for the most part. a loyalty within black communities, which is one of the reasons i was interested in studying this. >> host: dr. smith, if you could expand of the entrepreneur as an aspect of black funeral homes. >> guest: in terms of. >> host: in terms of what you read about. >> guest: and what i talk about and what was perhaps most fascinating to me is that, as i'm saying, jim crow segregatio
that is part of the story, but what is fascinating to me is actually at the point of the civil war at the modern funeral industry is born, and it's also after the civil war that jim-crow segregation is born. its most vivid forms, and so this is an example in terms of history of black entrepreneurship or you can trace the rise of the capitalist industry along with this social segregation and how that played out in the funeral industry. >> host: today there are still white funeral homes and...
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the elks club speech, at least at the time. that night, it was... look, it was the fourth or fifth day of the war. >> march 23rd, 2003. >> that is correct and here we were, all dressed up, going to the academy awards. and there was just a huge disconnect it felt like to me and when we won i didn't really have a speech prepared and so i had asked my fellow documentary filmmakers nominated with me during the commercial break before the award, listen, if i win i'd like to welcome you up on the stage if you would come and probably have to say something about what is going on and if you want to join with me it would be great and they all came up with me. but it descended into chaos. as soon as i started to say what i thought was a fairly-on poetic, eloquent thing to say, i wasn't starting... even going to mention mr. bush's name. i wanted to say we like nonfiction and that is why we make nonfiction and yet we live in fictitious times and have been led to war for fictitious reasons and nobody wanted to hear that on the 5th day. 70% plus of the country sup
the elks club speech, at least at the time. that night, it was... look, it was the fourth or fifth day of the war. >> march 23rd, 2003. >> that is correct and here we were, all dressed up, going to the academy awards. and there was just a huge disconnect it felt like to me and when we won i didn't really have a speech prepared and so i had asked my fellow documentary filmmakers nominated with me during the commercial break before the award, listen, if i win i'd like to welcome you...
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the agents looked at this and -- >> host: the murphy's law investigations. it's probably one of the most horrendous mistakes you would imagine in terms of the investigation to beat you go back and see how can you possibly connect a white lawyer in oregon with a bombing in madrid and then you look at it and from the lens of the fbi agent who was making the connection. and, you know, he -- you can see how the mistakes happen but it helped bring the me field. >> guest: here's how it happened. two things, when the fbi identified the fingerprints one said that fingerprint is low. what you should be doing and what the fbi is doing now after hundreds of pages of inspector general report is have a second person who doesn't know the first person made the identification to that independently. so that didn't happen. leader people will assume the identification was right when they told the standards they said we don't think so and nobody paid any attention. they never asked the spaniards with the basis of their conclusion was saddam was one problem. >> host: to give an
the agents looked at this and -- >> host: the murphy's law investigations. it's probably one of the most horrendous mistakes you would imagine in terms of the investigation to beat you go back and see how can you possibly connect a white lawyer in oregon with a bombing in madrid and then you look at it and from the lens of the fbi agent who was making the connection. and, you know, he -- you can see how the mistakes happen but it helped bring the me field. >> guest: here's how it...
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i was always proselytizing and looking at the news today you have an ink at -- and encampment t anybodyw with the sober view of the gre world it is part of human nature as long as there hase been humanir beings, a good luck.s. but with the historic view has a problem with it in the marcus aurelius meditations, you have to ask yourself everything is the race to and nothing gives meaning than what is the point*? why not the only decision is to get out of the world as quickly as possible and marcus aurelius thought he was a coward so he tries again and again to answer the question to come up with a very unsatisfying answer and suggest changes the question to sayi if i look at the world, is beautiful then it must be a design. therefore there are a guide to take care of us. no guides to take care of us could read mead -- live a meaningless existence of i am in agnostic. i just don't know but i could live with that uncertainty. just my state of being. by what that teaches us people need a favor.ces but then everything that we do adds up.and that brings me to the second of their. some of the ar
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in this place at this time. somebody had to make this great leap of faith in order for us to be here, someone in all of our backgrounds. if you think about it, how many of us know or are related to or do descended from someone, say a great grandmother from ireland who crossed the atlantic and then met and married a great grandfather from ireland -- from italy, ireland, too, parts of ireland, from lithuania, latvia, russia, poland, asia, other parts of the world and created whole newlinages? that is what happened during the course of the great migration. people who never would have met otherwise, would never have met actually met and created whole new lineages in the north, the west. this is one of the greatest underreported stories of the 20th century, but it also was an unrecognized immigration within the borders of our own countriment it began during world war i, and it didn't end until the 1970s, and it is the result of this that the mass majority of people that you might meet, african-americans that you migh
in this place at this time. somebody had to make this great leap of faith in order for us to be here, someone in all of our backgrounds. if you think about it, how many of us know or are related to or do descended from someone, say a great grandmother from ireland who crossed the atlantic and then met and married a great grandfather from ireland -- from italy, ireland, too, parts of ireland, from lithuania, latvia, russia, poland, asia, other parts of the world and created whole newlinages?...
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editor at the home section. he's written for harper's atlantic commonwealth and the progressive in teaching that we are university. just quick housekeeping. these turn up your cell phones and as you've seen coming c-span tv is so made the event tonight. further q&a, will be passing around microphones if you could wait for the microphone to riccio m.ed. bring you a microphone so we can record it. please welcome brooke hauser, author of the book "the new kids." [applause] >> so, as suzanne said we are here to discuss brooke's new book and it is about just to get a capsule summary come to the international high school, which specializes in advocate teams and broke spent much time at the school chronic going to year the life of the seniors. brooke will do a reading at the portion later. i wanted to ask a few intricate three questions. the first of which, brooke, it you're an experienced journalist. you've written about hollywood in about 12. how did you come to this topic? >> guest: actually come in the person you l
editor at the home section. he's written for harper's atlantic commonwealth and the progressive in teaching that we are university. just quick housekeeping. these turn up your cell phones and as you've seen coming c-span tv is so made the event tonight. further q&a, will be passing around microphones if you could wait for the microphone to riccio m.ed. bring you a microphone so we can record it. please welcome brooke hauser, author of the book "the new kids." [applause] >>...
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he was enroute to speak at seattle at the university. he passed away before he ever got to speak of a sudden heart attack in seattle, washington wanted your intent of 1992. very emotional. it just really took a lot of them. but he -- what he took from him he gave back to all the people throughout the world. he said he just realized after he had written routes that he didn't just do it for himself, but he had done it for all of those who have no one to tell the story. >> next, from the 2011 texas book festival sally jacobs presents her book, the other barack. this is about 40 minutes. sallyj >> welcome. want to start up by congratulating sally jacobs onat the other barack. sally president obama. other and just asking what led you to this project. project? >> i am a reporter with the i'ma boston globe, and i do a political profile. that's kind of thing that i do.e at the time of the election campaign was beginning.as do licking at the cast of and characters. mh there was not much known about a obama senior.re this seems to be more known. s
he was enroute to speak at seattle at the university. he passed away before he ever got to speak of a sudden heart attack in seattle, washington wanted your intent of 1992. very emotional. it just really took a lot of them. but he -- what he took from him he gave back to all the people throughout the world. he said he just realized after he had written routes that he didn't just do it for himself, but he had done it for all of those who have no one to tell the story. >> next, from the...
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at that point the u.s. was forced to compete with foreign produced oil against its own trading partners in europe and japan. with less spare capacity in the system, the world oil supply became vulnerable to a single intervention or act of god like political unrest, sabatoge, highpoint sabotaged, and even severe weather conditions in the persian gulf which can lead to loading and shipping disruptions to oil tankers. the economic boom in asia and china over the past decade, especially in the run up to the 2008 beijing olympic games saw oil prices skyrocket. between 2004-2005, the world's oil consumption rose an estimated 5 million barrels a day. according to dr. roubini, asian economies accounted for 59% of the growth in demand for oil in 2004. now, when gerald ford was faced with a potentially catastrophic increase in oil prices in 1976, he turned to the saudis for help, as every other president has done since that time. on occasion, if their own national interests aligned with those of the united states, th
at that point the u.s. was forced to compete with foreign produced oil against its own trading partners in europe and japan. with less spare capacity in the system, the world oil supply became vulnerable to a single intervention or act of god like political unrest, sabatoge, highpoint sabotaged, and even severe weather conditions in the persian gulf which can lead to loading and shipping disruptions to oil tankers. the economic boom in asia and china over the past decade, especially in the run...
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at this point a lot of people over at the book so we can actually talk about the book, which is a thing of loveliness for me. you know, the history here, the recent history of courses that the white house got its copy on friday prior to publication. this is now widely known i got there. and "the new york times" had gotten it the day before, since some of the disclosure -- there's lots in there that wasn't of course noted in this first noisy offerings, but that he came kind of thick dust storm of potion that the publication of the book. at a time that book was ready to be in the bookstores the following tuesday, a few interesting things that have been. the president and the white house clearly it seems some of the signature quotes, quitting the one from a person i know who is near and dear to all of you, larry centers. not here tonight. larry? query clicks and where he says and i think now famously, after an economic briefing he said this quite often. the larry summers home alone rest of us called, where he was believed to set briefing on various subjects and he would turn to his left an
at this point a lot of people over at the book so we can actually talk about the book, which is a thing of loveliness for me. you know, the history here, the recent history of courses that the white house got its copy on friday prior to publication. this is now widely known i got there. and "the new york times" had gotten it the day before, since some of the disclosure -- there's lots in there that wasn't of course noted in this first noisy offerings, but that he came kind of thick...
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>> not really, but i must say i was marveled at her concern at, for instance, the remodeling of the white house. the detail that she went to in that she had the research that she did, and then her ability to administer it a really overwhelming. i just don't -- can't believe that a person could do it on short notice unless she had been planning it for much longer than we know. [laughter] >> i think it was a depth of her reaction when she came to the white house and had a lovely experience with mrs. eisenhower who did not treat her terribly well after reading the book if you have not read it read it yet. she was led but the rooms, and she said it looked like a bad hotel, and there was a reason for that whichfuls when the white house was reconstructed in the truman administration, they left the four walls on the inside, and they ran out of money, so harry truman characteristically made a deal with the department store in new york that just furnished the ground floor of the white house, and it looked that way, and she felt it did, but dick is absolutely right because sometimes the restoration
>> not really, but i must say i was marveled at her concern at, for instance, the remodeling of the white house. the detail that she went to in that she had the research that she did, and then her ability to administer it a really overwhelming. i just don't -- can't believe that a person could do it on short notice unless she had been planning it for much longer than we know. [laughter] >> i think it was a depth of her reaction when she came to the white house and had a lovely...