Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan 3, explore our nations past. Cspan 3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. We are four trillion dollars in debt, going into debt an additional one billion dollars every working day of the year. While we sit here tonight, we will go into debt an additional 50 Million Dollars an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault. Its not the democrats fault. What im looking for is who did it. They are the two folks involved, so maybe together they didnt. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there, there is an extra terrestrial doing this to us i guess. Everyone says they take responsibility. Someone, somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during the second of three president ial debates on october 15th, 1992. He was talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In the election, t
Im proceed its good to have your company the risk of dying from an unsafe abortion is highest in africa according to the World Health Organization it is International Safe abortion day today and the latest reports say 3 out of for abortions that occurred on the continent between 20152019 were unsafe in a moment ill be joined by a lawyer advocating for the procedure to be made legal but 1st heres the story of a young woman in nairobi who survived and safe abortion. We call her mercy but thats not her real name she was 16 when she fell pregnant her mother wanted her to finish school so she forced mussy to abort the baby for fear of repercussions she hides her face. I went to a local medicine man i stayed there for 3 days he gave me herbal medicine and i took it and. Then on the 2nd day i started seeing blood in the water i was very afraid. There are people who were bored and they seemed fine in that i thought i would die if the. Its estimated that in kenya 7 women die each day from unsaf
This. That was independent candidate ross perot during the second of three residential debates in 1992 talking about the u. S. Debt. The alexion biz the taxes businessmen won 19 of the vote. He ran a second independent president ial campaign in 1986. Tonight, he is our focus on the contenders. Thanks for being with us. We are doing this series as a way to look at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in their quest for the white house but had an impact on American History. Ross perot is our final 14 people we are profiling. Tonight, joining us for our discussion is historian and biographer Doug Brinkley. As a person who has done a number of powder fees on 20thcentury political figures, what interest you about ross perot . He has a pioneer spirit in him. He harkens back to the 19th century. He is not politics as usual. He cares about the country. Patriotism has become a cheap word. Ross perot is a super patriot. He is less interested in money and polit
Cant be bothered to look through the ends of their noses. At this week, the best moment in american, on behalf of literary realism, we need a battalion to head out into the wild and unpredictable country of ours and reclaim it as very property. The trouble is turning yourself in it is that you immediately expose yourself to be from the top, or using characters to exaggerate of modern society but the truth is the opposite pales into insignificance compared with all caps on he tried to capture. Tom wolf was born and raised in richmond and educated Washington University and started his journalistic career with the Springfield Massachusetts union newspaper. Correspondent for the washington post, foreign news prize for his coverage of the cuban revolution. 1962, he moved to the new york tribune where he had to. Writers assigned the sunday supplement which later became newspapers in 1962, 63 afforded him the opportunity to travel to socal to write an article he sent his notes to his editor w
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