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people say they're not exist in girlfriend from canada. this was made in canada as a promotional item for the trivia game and no one wanted them but me but i have a garage full. for anyone who answered the question right i asked my wife what candy we should have and she said nerds. that is very sweet. thank you. so i think my plan in so far as i have one. i have done this before and it works pretty well. if you don't answer shout it out. if you are quick, i hope your quick because if nerds are heading at your head. this is not a part of the event this week. i was talking about visions from kentucky. this is a time you have to be alert. after we do a short number of these we will meet for our most gifted geographically -- people have been in the preliminaries and a few finalist to delay final round. for example i would read a question like this and you yell out the answer. might be something like in what state is lake okechobee? over here first. in the front row. don't try out my arm. don't answer in the form of a question. you are already
people say they're not exist in girlfriend from canada. this was made in canada as a promotional item for the trivia game and no one wanted them but me but i have a garage full. for anyone who answered the question right i asked my wife what candy we should have and she said nerds. that is very sweet. thank you. so i think my plan in so far as i have one. i have done this before and it works pretty well. if you don't answer shout it out. if you are quick, i hope your quick because if nerds are...
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and whatever, why not canada? >> the question is why not canada as had occurred during the underground railroad, and one of the reasons is because they were american, and they were american citizens, and it's my belief that they believed that within want borders of their country they should be recognized as citizens to which they had been. they had descended from people who had been in the country for centuries, even do this day, african-americans descended from slaves, as a group, have lived fewer years as free people than in slavely, and it will take another 100 years before that balance is made even. that's how long slavery existed in the country, and in some ways, i believe it was a staking of a claim of their citizenship in this country. yes? >> i'm going to ask you to thank isabel wilkerson, and in seven minutes, the conversation will continue with booktv. they will be taking live calls and answering more of your questions. i'm going to put you on hold for about seven minutes. please stay with us, and thank
and whatever, why not canada? >> the question is why not canada as had occurred during the underground railroad, and one of the reasons is because they were american, and they were american citizens, and it's my belief that they believed that within want borders of their country they should be recognized as citizens to which they had been. they had descended from people who had been in the country for centuries, even do this day, african-americans descended from slaves, as a group, have...
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we decided we were going to move to canada if we had to and so we knew nothing about canada and one day took a car and boat over to port huron, michigan to do a dry run and see how we'd escape to canada and we got over there and forgot the motor to the boat. so we couldn't take it and wee we decided to try and cake the car acro -- take the car across the bridge and, the other guys were smoking a joints so they could relax and i didn't do drugs and i was the designated driver and tell the story about getting across the blue water bridge and into canada and our great escape and of course the next year there was a draft lottery and i number came up like 273 and i wasn't drafted. >> richard, richmond, virginia. thanks for holding, our on with author michael moore. >> caller: mr. moore, an absolute pleasure to speak with you today. how are you doing, sir. >> thank you, sir. i'm doing well. >> caller: i have a question to ask. i contacted my local american cancer society concerning an event they'll be holding and i suffer from a brain injury and other illness and i'm -- your piece on "sicko"
we decided we were going to move to canada if we had to and so we knew nothing about canada and one day took a car and boat over to port huron, michigan to do a dry run and see how we'd escape to canada and we got over there and forgot the motor to the boat. so we couldn't take it and wee we decided to try and cake the car acro -- take the car across the bridge and, the other guys were smoking a joints so they could relax and i didn't do drugs and i was the designated driver and tell the story...
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didn't even know where canada was? >> [inaudible] [laughter] things like that happen all the time, i'm sure. he's asking about geography education, um, and, you know, if that's taken a hit in recent years. is it like a thousand three degrees in here? [laughter] the answer is, yes, for a couple reasons. the main reason especially the primary, primary and secondary education in the '70s the social studies movement happened where they thought, why don't kids get some of our stuff too? they could have anthropology and economics and civics, political science, whatever other social sciences there are. and so there's the final tradition of teaching geography from a map in the front of the classroom which we now associate old time '50s school marms. it got replaced by social studies. the u.s. is now, from what i've read, is if only country in the developed world where a kid can go from preschool to graduating with a master's and never crack a geography textbook. obviously, there have been good thing toss come out of the social
didn't even know where canada was? >> [inaudible] [laughter] things like that happen all the time, i'm sure. he's asking about geography education, um, and, you know, if that's taken a hit in recent years. is it like a thousand three degrees in here? [laughter] the answer is, yes, for a couple reasons. the main reason especially the primary, primary and secondary education in the '70s the social studies movement happened where they thought, why don't kids get some of our stuff too? they...
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canada is this country's biggest supplier of oil, but shell is extremely expensive. the load being freed had been picked in terms of oil. we are now moving into a different and perhaps last phase of the great oil age which is to drill under the arctic and drill in more difficult places. the shop predicted this in 1973. written off as a crackpot. he gave the famous interview in which he said in 100 years from now this will business will be over. you will have to drill under the north pole. he spoke about solar power and wind power. in fact, he was a visionary. >> thank you for your remarks. i am a bit confused about the lessons of history here. the fact is we have an influx of crisis. the use of oil. people have defined the paradigm of energy security. one way is simply get more oil. as you're pointing out, it's more expensive and thus of ecological costs that are severe . the history of dependency in oil of this country, powerful interests in the auto industry, the oil lobby and industrial complex. now was outlined in the 60's. part of the sustained history. wisely a
canada is this country's biggest supplier of oil, but shell is extremely expensive. the load being freed had been picked in terms of oil. we are now moving into a different and perhaps last phase of the great oil age which is to drill under the arctic and drill in more difficult places. the shop predicted this in 1973. written off as a crackpot. he gave the famous interview in which he said in 100 years from now this will business will be over. you will have to drill under the north pole. he...
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that is a problem in canada. there are many things they do right which we should take a look at in terms of how they do things. most important of which is health care. all these ads that ran during the health-care debate about how canadians have it so bad and are standing in lines. canadians have an incredible health care system that covers everyone. they live three years longer than we live. why do they live three years longer? i don't think that is right. but they do. because in part they have a better health care system. they have to wait in line sometimes. not for life threatening things that for blind and -- hip replacements. they wait longer. the reason they have to wait is they let everybody in line. we take fifty million people out of the line. anytime you take fifty million people out of the line the line get shorter and you have less weight time. that doesn't seem to be the right thing to do. if you believe in your country and your fellow americans why would you let fifty million suffer? with no health
that is a problem in canada. there are many things they do right which we should take a look at in terms of how they do things. most important of which is health care. all these ads that ran during the health-care debate about how canadians have it so bad and are standing in lines. canadians have an incredible health care system that covers everyone. they live three years longer than we live. why do they live three years longer? i don't think that is right. but they do. because in part they...
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>> canada. >> i mean originally were your parents were born. >> if i was born in canada i would still insist to you that is my background. i wasn't born in canada. you are lucky. i was born -- making the bigger point. i was born in east africa in uganda. my parents were born in east africa but their parents, my grandparents on one side come is from the northern india state and on my mother's side from southern -- their family with hundreds of thousands of others were brought to east africa by the british to make colonial railroads and that is where my sisters and i were born and we were booted out by at cell of islam in 1972, came to canada as political refugees and that is where i am from. >> this country and i'm in american dollars whatever the question is financially in the world, hugh that supported the change in egypt and libya, what perspective should week american voters take in terms of supporting any action if the libyans and elect somebody who get themselves together? it doesn't seem to happen that way. the people outside the st. that are not acted emissions or purists or wh
>> canada. >> i mean originally were your parents were born. >> if i was born in canada i would still insist to you that is my background. i wasn't born in canada. you are lucky. i was born -- making the bigger point. i was born in east africa in uganda. my parents were born in east africa but their parents, my grandparents on one side come is from the northern india state and on my mother's side from southern -- their family with hundreds of thousands of others were brought...
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people say like the nonexistent government is in canada? this was made in canada as a promotional item. again, no one wanted them but me. i have a garage full. it's a free prize. i think for anyone that answers the question right, i asked the wife what kind of candy we should have. cheeselike nerds. [laughter] very sweet. thank you. so i think my plan year so far as i have one, i've done this for treated books before i'm going to shut us in question. if you question picnicking unanswered, shout it out. if you are quick, i hope you're quick because they will be a bag of nerds heading at your head. this is the time you've got to be alert. after we do a short number of these we will see if the room and me together can get through our gifted geographically, people have been during the preliminaries and will get if you a few finalists appear to do a final round. how about that? for example, i would rate a question like this and do you have the intellect what message would be heard. it might be something like in what state is lake okeechobee. i h
people say like the nonexistent government is in canada? this was made in canada as a promotional item. again, no one wanted them but me. i have a garage full. it's a free prize. i think for anyone that answers the question right, i asked the wife what kind of candy we should have. cheeselike nerds. [laughter] very sweet. thank you. so i think my plan year so far as i have one, i've done this for treated books before i'm going to shut us in question. if you question picnicking unanswered, shout...
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you can find them digitalized in canada. you can find the originals in the british library. and after studying them, i found that even the slightest word change can make a terrific difference in interpretation we get of our historical figures. for example, 1,001,780, the loyalist colonel robinson from new york sent a messenger through to ethan allen and arlington vermont and the letter began, we are well aware of your khmer coal schemes, and because there was a careless transcript made sometime in the 1920s, that became we are well aware of your commercial schemes, so many historians have believed that ethan allen was only in it for the money and was only in it double dealing with the british and the haldeman negotiations. once i found that, it took a lot longer studying the records. that is why the book took six years. but what i came away with was the idea of a man who was taking his philosophy and putting it into action which is a dangerous thing which we have seen in the 20th century. we put our philosophies in the corners of our universities and very rarely let them mak
you can find them digitalized in canada. you can find the originals in the british library. and after studying them, i found that even the slightest word change can make a terrific difference in interpretation we get of our historical figures. for example, 1,001,780, the loyalist colonel robinson from new york sent a messenger through to ethan allen and arlington vermont and the letter began, we are well aware of your khmer coal schemes, and because there was a careless transcript made sometime...
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as far as canada and south america are concerned, i will believe it when i see. yes, canada is this country's biggest supplier of oil but shale is extremely expensive. the low-hanging fruit has been picked in terms of oil. we are now moving into a different and perhaps last phase of the great oil age which is to drill under, tell him more difficult places. the shah predicted this in 1953. he was right off as a crackpot. he gave a famous interview in which he said in 100 years from now the oil business will be over. you will have to drill under the north pole. unit, he spoke about solar power, wind power. in fact, he was a visionary on that. >> thank you for your remarks. i'm a bit confused of the lessons of history here, because the fact is we have an ecological crisis for the use of oil. people have defined the paradigm in different ways. one way is to simply get more oil there and as you pointed out, the new oil is more expensive and it does have ecological costs to the earth. the history of dependency on oil to this country is tied into great powerful interest
as far as canada and south america are concerned, i will believe it when i see. yes, canada is this country's biggest supplier of oil but shale is extremely expensive. the low-hanging fruit has been picked in terms of oil. we are now moving into a different and perhaps last phase of the great oil age which is to drill under, tell him more difficult places. the shah predicted this in 1953. he was right off as a crackpot. he gave a famous interview in which he said in 100 years from now the oil...
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.>> canada was clear. ring maybe whatever.e why not canada? >> the question was what didn't they go on to canada as thatey occurred during the underground railroad. and one of the reasons is because they were american. bors they were american citizens, ane it's my belief that theyns t whi believed that within the borders of the country there should bewa recognized as citizens to wasor the headband. they had descended from people h who have been in this country for centuries. group, even to this day africanwer americans who are descended froo slaves as a group have lived wil fewer years as free people than in slavery, and it will take another hundred years before the balance is made even. that is how long slavery existee in this country. in some ways i believe it was the sticking of a claim of their citizenship in this country.nute >> i am going to ask you to thil think is a will wilkerson.and in seven minutes the composition will continue with book tv. there will be taking live callss and answering more of your questions. i'm going to put you
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they gave them land grants in canada and the bahamas and elsewhere. they gave them the most basic things that these refugees needed. they give them food supplies for a couple of years. they give them blankets. they give them shoes. they give them farm implements, some of the most amazing documents i found in my research these catalogs of items that are crossing the atlantic to go meet the loyalists as they arrive in the unsettled areas of the british empire. you know, inventories of stockings and shoes and belts and hammers. things like gambles and things that i have no idea what they are. can only assume the refugees appreciated. and so british leaders consistently stood up for the refugees to be put into place even a program of financial compensation to help loyalists get money back for what they have lost america. they consistently upheld the promise of freedom to the black loyalists. over and above repeated american objections, the british stuck to their promise of freedom. where did the refugees go? now, you might think they went back to britain.
they gave them land grants in canada and the bahamas and elsewhere. they gave them the most basic things that these refugees needed. they give them food supplies for a couple of years. they give them blankets. they give them shoes. they give them farm implements, some of the most amazing documents i found in my research these catalogs of items that are crossing the atlantic to go meet the loyalists as they arrive in the unsettled areas of the british empire. you know, inventories of stockings...
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on foresail what happened, it is largely surplus grain from the united states and canada or elsewhere. and not going to say dump, but is being moved to 80 which is to increase the cycle of dependency because it undercut the value of local food production. we did this for years. a school lunch program. we probably still do, try to move away from that and i use those resources, but by produce locally, and we are not there yet. ideally that is our rear going because then you support local farmers. you make sure kids did a nutritious meal which, of course, everybody, every study shows for kids not to get a meal in school means to perform less well, investor in the united states as it is and 80. especially true when the best meal of the day is coming during school, so that is one thing. help take that burden off his shoulders and don't impose anything on him, but try to have that be a pilot project for the schools. that is one bit of advice. very specific. find a way to allow them to make a living. we have worked back to the world bank. new work back from washington. a lot of international
on foresail what happened, it is largely surplus grain from the united states and canada or elsewhere. and not going to say dump, but is being moved to 80 which is to increase the cycle of dependency because it undercut the value of local food production. we did this for years. a school lunch program. we probably still do, try to move away from that and i use those resources, but by produce locally, and we are not there yet. ideally that is our rear going because then you support local farmers....
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and it was day harvard growing up in canada and said to me he said one is up? and i want to go to haiti. so for someone to be a surge in coming back as a young adults the woodwork in the operating room and spend the weekend with his family the was getting to know weekend. and then they were killed in the earthquake. he brought all of his cousins, there were eight of them because he sent me a picture of them in montreal with his parents can you imagine we got the kids out with empty nest egg get eight more? [laughter] that's is the story of great diversity for that family we will take our cousins to make sure they grow up safely and this kid is doing a surgical residency. we don't have enough of their stories. not only enough haitian people in haiti to make a prognosis but the diaspora that we still have yet to draw on. >> patients helping haitians . >> we are out of time q&a. that was the conversation. so i guess we should have questions. >> i am here with some high school student leaders and we're part of the episcopal schools partnership in haiti and about tw
and it was day harvard growing up in canada and said to me he said one is up? and i want to go to haiti. so for someone to be a surge in coming back as a young adults the woodwork in the operating room and spend the weekend with his family the was getting to know weekend. and then they were killed in the earthquake. he brought all of his cousins, there were eight of them because he sent me a picture of them in montreal with his parents can you imagine we got the kids out with empty nest egg get...
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he began acquiring tracts of timberland in canada, constructed paper mills in quebec and ontario and assembled a fleet of vessels for the newsprint through the great lakes to the caribbean press. the tribune's future child rearing column lead to crime and divorce recording and color, outstrips expanded and flourished. demonstrated in affinity for the comics and the creation of a number of their most popular sunday offerings. nellie patterson jones, peevish refrain, don't be such gump a lead the named to the strip sidney smith created. joe paterson had overseen the dumps. no witness during his on going wandering through the working-class chicago prompted him to suggest gasoline alley to frank king. than the main character founded on his doorstep and would grow to adulthood and old age over the decades almost in real time before readers's eyes. the serialized escapade the mother brain children like later the under siblings the working girl and detective dick tracy and little orphan annie attracted and held a loyal and ever-growing following. jell-o patterson attempted to transform the
he began acquiring tracts of timberland in canada, constructed paper mills in quebec and ontario and assembled a fleet of vessels for the newsprint through the great lakes to the caribbean press. the tribune's future child rearing column lead to crime and divorce recording and color, outstrips expanded and flourished. demonstrated in affinity for the comics and the creation of a number of their most popular sunday offerings. nellie patterson jones, peevish refrain, don't be such gump a lead the...
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>> first of all, i see no female canada becoming presidential candidate in 2012. that are only two on the list, i don't see either of them being the ultimate candidate for the republican party. and on the democratic side, all things being equal, the current president barack obama will be the candidate so that will foreclose any opportunity for a woman in that part to come forward. so i see no presidential candidates in 2012. let me to say that some polling data, and the most recent i've seen has only been from 2008 coming in very early in 2008 presidential primaries, about 87% of americans are willing to say they would vote for a qualified woman regardless of sex, that they would be as one to vote for a woman as a man. americans are more likely, more willing to vote for someone who's african-american or someone who is jewish for president than they are for a woman. and i think that number is slightly lower than had been the previous result because in 2008 there was a clear potential female candidate and that was hillary clinton on the democratic side who ultimatel
>> first of all, i see no female canada becoming presidential candidate in 2012. that are only two on the list, i don't see either of them being the ultimate candidate for the republican party. and on the democratic side, all things being equal, the current president barack obama will be the candidate so that will foreclose any opportunity for a woman in that part to come forward. so i see no presidential candidates in 2012. let me to say that some polling data, and the most recent i've...
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to descend, burt began acquiring huge tracts of timberland in eastern canada constricted paper mills in quebec and ontario and assemble a fleet of vessels to transport the nearly dry newsprint through the great lakes to the tribune press in chicago. under joe's tenure the tribune's features advice, health, beauty and child rearing and columns, crime and divorce reporting and color comic strips expanded and flourished. he demonstrated particular affinity for the comments and contra aid to the creation of a member of the tribune's most popular sunday offerings. now lee patterson, joe and sissy's mother refrained don't be such a dump so familiar throughout their childhood would lend the name to the street that sent me smith created and whose advent joe paterson had overseen. the back alley automotive tanker they witnessed during the ongoing wandering throughout the working-class chicago prompted him to suggest gasoline alley strip to the cartoonist ranking leader the gasoline alley's main character found on the doorstep would grow to adulthood and old age over the decades almost in real
to descend, burt began acquiring huge tracts of timberland in eastern canada constricted paper mills in quebec and ontario and assemble a fleet of vessels to transport the nearly dry newsprint through the great lakes to the tribune press in chicago. under joe's tenure the tribune's features advice, health, beauty and child rearing and columns, crime and divorce reporting and color comic strips expanded and flourished. he demonstrated particular affinity for the comments and contra aid to the...
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going after more extreme methods of getting these different fuels whether it is oil or tar sands in canada or mountaintop removal down the line because the rate we are using them up getting scarce since we have to accelerate and intensify the extraction methods and seeing the law corporations have on the political system, the way it shaped loose the way i look at it is everything -- it is all possible solutions that we propose are equally utopian. i put it right now. whether it is revolution or reform. it is all basically the field is open. do we need to actually think at the theoretical level about de industrialization? >> there is an element on the environmental left that almost embraces climate change as a solution to the other problems associated like overconsumption and eat quality unwelcomed as a method and imagine that after the collapse there will be a more just society. i don't subscribe to that. >> i talked-about practical de industrialization. >> i don't think --de carbonization is hearty enough. if we do that we have not solved the environmental problems. there are so many othe
going after more extreme methods of getting these different fuels whether it is oil or tar sands in canada or mountaintop removal down the line because the rate we are using them up getting scarce since we have to accelerate and intensify the extraction methods and seeing the law corporations have on the political system, the way it shaped loose the way i look at it is everything -- it is all possible solutions that we propose are equally utopian. i put it right now. whether it is revolution or...
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they still had 26,000 trained regulars and loyalists underarms and north america from canada to florida. washington's meen army had dwindled to less than 6,000 ragged men who hadn't been paid in years. worse, america's french allies had ignored washington's pleas to strike another possibly decisive blow with the british in new york were charleston. instead the french fleet sailed back to the west indies where it soon suffered a catastrophic defeat. the french army hunkered down in virginia for the winter obviously waiting for orders from paris to the nearest port and aboard ships for the sugar islands or ferments. a month after georgetown 300 loyalist guerrillas led by an embittered former patriots named william cunningham erupted from charleston the general nathaniel greene's tiny army of less than 1,000 disgruntled continental's trying to keep three times that many british and loyalists regulars inside the city they could only watch helplessly while cunningham had a terrifying in swath of murder and destruction across the state. south carolina militia had no ammunition to stop them. c
they still had 26,000 trained regulars and loyalists underarms and north america from canada to florida. washington's meen army had dwindled to less than 6,000 ragged men who hadn't been paid in years. worse, america's french allies had ignored washington's pleas to strike another possibly decisive blow with the british in new york were charleston. instead the french fleet sailed back to the west indies where it soon suffered a catastrophic defeat. the french army hunkered down in virginia for...
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to defend he began acquiring tracts of land in eastern canada. constructed paper mills in quebec and ontario and assemble a fleet of vessels to transport the newsprint through the great lakes to the trivia and press in chicago. under joe's tenure the tribune's future could live in crime and the force reporting and color comic strips expanded and flourished. he demonstrated a particular affinity for the comics and contributed to the creation of a number of the most popular sunday offerings. nellie patterson jones was his mother. don't be such a dumb would lend the named to the strip that sidney smith created and his advent japan if had overseen. the back alley automotive during his on going wandering grew up working-class chicago prompted him to suggest gasoline alley strips to cartoonist frank king the. and gasoline alley's main character found on his doorstep would grow to adulthood in old age over the decades almost in real time before readers guys. the serialized escapades of patterson's other grandchildren, and later the and assembling the wo
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one image of that is in spring of 1961, their first foreign visit which was to canada and he planted a tree, and he'd been told to been disease, not to activate his back time and he just forgot to do it so he went over. and potential almost ripped his back, put himself an absolute unbearable pain, but if you see the video of it, he goes like this but he's so historic and accustomed to not making people uncomfortable, but even the people who are close to him didn't quite know what had happened. >> you think any of the president was ever such constant physical discomfort? including franklin roosevelt? >> hard to think of one, i think for instance, robert kennedy says in his preface to the memorial edition of profiles in courage, 1964, that at least half of his days on earth were spent in physical pain. if that's the truth i think more than franklin roosevelt, absolutely. >> you must've been think about arthur's question as you're researching this book and he was a friend of all of ours. were the questions he didn't ask that he wished that he had? >> i did can put everything is always 2
one image of that is in spring of 1961, their first foreign visit which was to canada and he planted a tree, and he'd been told to been disease, not to activate his back time and he just forgot to do it so he went over. and potential almost ripped his back, put himself an absolute unbearable pain, but if you see the video of it, he goes like this but he's so historic and accustomed to not making people uncomfortable, but even the people who are close to him didn't quite know what had happened....
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to this end or begin acquiring huge virgin tracks of timberland in eastern canada, constructing paper mills in quÉbec and ontario and assembled a fleet of vessels to transport the newsprint to the great lakes to the tribune, press is in chicago. under just ended the tribune features, advice, health, beauty and child-rearing columns, crime and divorce reporting, comic strips expanded influence. he demonstrated an affinity to the comics and contribute to the creation of a number of the tribune's most popular sunday offerings. nelly patterson, their mother, don't be such a gulf. so familiar to them throughout their childhood. would lend his name to the strip is at an joe patterson overseen. the gums. would grow to adulthood in old age over the decades almost in real-time before readers eyes. this relies escapades of patterson's other cartoon brainchildren, and later their younger siblings, the working girl, detective dick tracy, and little orphan annie, attracted and held a loyal affectionate and ever-growing following. joe patterson at 1050 transform the sunday tribune into a sort of c
to this end or begin acquiring huge virgin tracks of timberland in eastern canada, constructing paper mills in quÉbec and ontario and assembled a fleet of vessels to transport the newsprint to the great lakes to the tribune, press is in chicago. under just ended the tribune features, advice, health, beauty and child-rearing columns, crime and divorce reporting, comic strips expanded influence. he demonstrated an affinity to the comics and contribute to the creation of a number of the tribune's...
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. >> and we had a big canada says the women of liberia want peace now. >> those who think they can, in the streets to embarrass themselves, up. i am waiting for you. i said nobody, nobody will get men to embarrass the administration. >> we were not afraid. my mother was like, we said well if i should get killed, just remember i was working for peace. >> you look at the front line discussion of course. and this is what newspapers report on, the fighting type gates, the troops, the politics, the borders, dns, all of those things. the backline discussion of this story is how you actually exist and continue on living in water. that's a woman's story. that story has never been told. >> warfare is a very different competition out if the civilians were not collateral damage as he once called them, but really very much in the center of the war zone. >> the ordinary dilemmas want to feel and watch the women died. the women are the ones raped. and after the conflict or at the end of the war is being negotiated, date never consider. >> i think it's way past time that we redefine what we mean by w
. >> and we had a big canada says the women of liberia want peace now. >> those who think they can, in the streets to embarrass themselves, up. i am waiting for you. i said nobody, nobody will get men to embarrass the administration. >> we were not afraid. my mother was like, we said well if i should get killed, just remember i was working for peace. >> you look at the front line discussion of course. and this is what newspapers report on, the fighting type gates, the...
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one image of that is the spring of 1961, their first foreign visit which was to canada. he had been told room to been disney's, not aggravate his back and just forgot to do it. absolutely unbearable pain which suffered the next couple of months, but if you see the video of it, he was such accustomed to not making people uncomfortable that even the people who were close to him did not know what happened. >> any other president in such constant physical discomfort, including track and roosevelt? >> hard to think of a loan of one. for instance, robert kennedy failed. if that is the truth i think franklin roosevelt absolutely. researching this book. questions he didn't ask a u.s. city had? >> did, but everything is always 2020 in hindsight 47 years later. in those days most historians did not think to ask a lot about your own experience. the first lady in those days, a historian arthur schlesinger. there is less to be done for the purpose of your history can't talk about president kennedy. caroline as well. things that since we know what happened, sure wish she had asked the
one image of that is the spring of 1961, their first foreign visit which was to canada. he had been told room to been disney's, not aggravate his back and just forgot to do it. absolutely unbearable pain which suffered the next couple of months, but if you see the video of it, he was such accustomed to not making people uncomfortable that even the people who were close to him did not know what happened. >> any other president in such constant physical discomfort, including track and...
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so here was a man who fiercely defended canada's interests--trade matters, environmental matters -- pounding away and sometimes, you know, getting it just the way he wanted it, but always an ally, always--you never wondered whether he had some other agenda. c-span: you wrote a whole column this morning in the washington post about helmut kohl. >> guest: yes. c-span: what--how did that happen that you--did you--was that your idea? >> guest: no. i'll be frank, i was asked to do it. c-span: by the post? >> guest: yes. c-span: and what did you say? >> guest: i just said that he was the end of an era. he was the last of the leadership which brought the cold war to an end, that he had been a stalwart friend and ally, that he had three goals that he wanted to achieve, and he bent every effort to achieve them, and he was a great man, and he may be--he may be the last european chancellor of germany. c-span: where is this picture, mr. president, the one down here on the bottom with your wife sitting on a bed somewhere? >> guest: that's sitting in the--our bedroom at kennebunkport, maine, and i think i
so here was a man who fiercely defended canada's interests--trade matters, environmental matters -- pounding away and sometimes, you know, getting it just the way he wanted it, but always an ally, always--you never wondered whether he had some other agenda. c-span: you wrote a whole column this morning in the washington post about helmut kohl. >> guest: yes. c-span: what--how did that happen that you--did you--was that your idea? >> guest: no. i'll be frank, i was asked to do it....
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one was in spring of 1961 can the first foreign visit, which was to canada. and he planted a tree and he had been told not to aggravate his back and just forgot to do it, so he went over and essentially almost ripped his back and put himself in unbearable pain which he suffered for the next number of months. but if you see the video, he was such a stoic and he was so accustomed to not making people uncomfortable, that even the people who are close to him didn't quite know what it happened. >> do you think any other president was never in such constant physical discomfort, including franklin roosevelt to me for? >> hard to think of one. i think for instance robert kennedy says in his preface to the memorial editions of profile encouraging 1864 that at least half of his days honored were spent in physical pain. and if that's the truth, i think whether frank would was about, absolutely. >> he must've been thinking about arthur's questions as you were researching this book and he was a friend about a virus. were there questions he didn't ask which he wish he woul
one was in spring of 1961 can the first foreign visit, which was to canada. and he planted a tree and he had been told not to aggravate his back and just forgot to do it, so he went over and essentially almost ripped his back and put himself in unbearable pain which he suffered for the next number of months. but if you see the video, he was such a stoic and he was so accustomed to not making people uncomfortable, that even the people who are close to him didn't quite know what it happened....
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he wanted to take all of canada up to 5440. that was a very interesting part of the story, too. >> all of your characters are very inquisitive which i think is an american trait. and since jefferson place his hands upon it, i guess it's all right. but certainly other people claim all of his territory that your heroes are moving into, and there are consequences for the actions that are taken, consequences of course that we live with today. you're very familiar with here in texas. certainly we are in new mexico. but it's all set in motion during this period of so-called manifest destiny. >> i began this war with a jefferson wanted to george rogers clark in 1781, then continue it with his commission to andrea michaud, 1793, french botanist asking him to explore the mississippi valley, and maybe the missouri and even what is beyond that. nobody knew quite what was beyond that. they knew it was spanish territory. and then, of course, jefferson's quest for the west culminates with purchase of louisiana, 1803, and a strict letter of c
he wanted to take all of canada up to 5440. that was a very interesting part of the story, too. >> all of your characters are very inquisitive which i think is an american trait. and since jefferson place his hands upon it, i guess it's all right. but certainly other people claim all of his territory that your heroes are moving into, and there are consequences for the actions that are taken, consequences of course that we live with today. you're very familiar with here in texas. certainly...
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i talk about a few of them in the book to bring water from canada down here were bring water from the east to the west or even from the states down to mexico. and, these things are, they all sound great on paper but when you start looking at the details it is very complicated. >> i am wondering what organization do you think are the most effective charitable organizations or non-governmental organizations in regards to making a change or educating are educating the public in regards to conservation? >> i think the question is what organizations are most effective? >> yeah. if we are concerned about this, governmental changes or public changes. >> well, it is a cop a gated questions. there are many private groups that are doing very good work and i'm sure you know the names. but american rivers is one, the sierra club, nrdc, and so on and so forth but actually, i think we have to be supporting groups, the federal government groups such as the u.s. geological survey in the umar mental protection agency because these are the guys who have the mandate to provide water and monitor water an
i talk about a few of them in the book to bring water from canada down here were bring water from the east to the west or even from the states down to mexico. and, these things are, they all sound great on paper but when you start looking at the details it is very complicated. >> i am wondering what organization do you think are the most effective charitable organizations or non-governmental organizations in regards to making a change or educating are educating the public in regards to...
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but nevertheless, and i wanted canada too, i still do. they're very nice up there. [laughter] but tryst is sort of bemoaned in history. he's condemned in the history because he didn't get enough, and yet he's a great peacemaker, and he makes a peace and be gets that war over with brilliantly. >> he's one of our greatest diplomats, he's almost unknown to americans. he was the grandson inform -- grandson-in-law to thomas jefferson. he was sent by polk and buchanan down to new jersey to negotiate a peace sort of behind the back of winfield scott. this is a very strange story, how he was supposed to negotiate a peace without the great general cooperating. but unbelievably, miraculously he brought it off. he was fluent in spanish, the mexicans liked him a great deal, and eventually -- it is a complicated story -- he got them to sign the treaty at the virgin of guadalupe in 1848 ceding everything west of texas; new jersey, california, nevada, utah, half of colorado and a chunk of wyoming for $15 million. now, that is a real estate deal. it helps if you have wynnfield scot
but nevertheless, and i wanted canada too, i still do. they're very nice up there. [laughter] but tryst is sort of bemoaned in history. he's condemned in the history because he didn't get enough, and yet he's a great peacemaker, and he makes a peace and be gets that war over with brilliantly. >> he's one of our greatest diplomats, he's almost unknown to americans. he was the grandson inform -- grandson-in-law to thomas jefferson. he was sent by polk and buchanan down to new jersey to...
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they canned or i think we change the nature of the way people, i think canada would go on the list every desirable trait to have his people running for president tournament or the appearance of candor. it is television after all. ronald reagan as you point out got all mixed up on answers that he gave when he was over prepped. and had a couple of good fingers the next time, and managed to do very well because, by the way, he was also good at television. and that's another -- bob dole not so good at television. >> guest: a lot of people have said that, oh, well, reagan was just great at television, an actor or whatever. like it or not, any president of the united states has to be able to communicate on television. that is like being at least 35 years old. that is a qualification. you can have the greatest ideas in the world, and if you can't, you want to get the american people to rise up and go to war, or not go to work, or rise up and raise the debt ceiling, or whatever it is, you have to be able to make the case on television. you have to look at a television camera and people have to s
they canned or i think we change the nature of the way people, i think canada would go on the list every desirable trait to have his people running for president tournament or the appearance of candor. it is television after all. ronald reagan as you point out got all mixed up on answers that he gave when he was over prepped. and had a couple of good fingers the next time, and managed to do very well because, by the way, he was also good at television. and that's another -- bob dole not so good...