it s 6:00 a.m. on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. mike barnicle and jonathan lemire are still here. where did dr. oz come from? oprah. oprah literally brought him, you know, all of his fame. she lifted him up, she really, she really she s the one who brought dr. oz are you saying oprah winfrey. she s to blame for that? she created him. she s been very quiet during this campaign. i haven t heard from her during the campaign. didn t she get dr. phil, too? yeah. dr. phil and dr. oz. all the doctors. dr. oz should, you know, he owes everything to her. yeah, wow. quite a way to we ve got a lot to get to this morning, including the latest and didn t he get called in front of congress for all of his phony yes, actually claire mccaskill actually grilled him during that time he was being remember the weight loss pill. the weight loss pill that didn t work, to say the least. and a lot of other and then you would gro
record. he alone sent me back this colored picture, dear e jorks joey, thank you so much. all my best, hank aaron. i m telling you, 55 years later it touches me i had no idea what he was going through. talk about what he was going through chasing babe ruth leading up to april 8th, 1974. i m going to tell you a couple things about that. i was closer to hank aaron than any reporter for 40 years. any time i talked to hank, which was considerable, he always told me something i didn t know before, something i never said before. the last interview he did in his life was with me in the fall of 2020 and he talked about that chase for the babe ruth series and nobody really understood how much that pained him through and it s all detailed in the book. he told me that the thing he always resented was watching a pete rose or kyle or mark
fans as much as the 86 world series was watching buckner try to climb the fence the day hank aaron hit that record breaking homerun. the day he hit it against al downing, bill buckner was in left field, went over that fence. that s the thing i remember as a dodgers fan, buckner trying to get that ball. april 8th, 1974. one of the few things we in atlanta had to cheer for in a decade following that atlanta braves. so mike, talk about your new book. you know how much my son jack loves your books. i have his copy. it has become such an integral part of our time together, him reading it, a chapter or two before he goes to sleep at night. it is magic for parents that
spring of 1974. but here s the thing. all of that that you just saw, all of those different elements of the watergate scandal that all made into it that newscast, that one night in april 1974, none of those are what led that same nightly news boroughs that name. what led the newscast that same night, april 8th, 1974 is that president nixon and the democratically controlled congress had just passed a big new piece of legislation. they just passed a new minimum wage increase that would put extra money into the pockets of tens of millions of americans. good evening. president nixon today signed into law a far-reaching increase in the federal minimum wage. the measure will now extend minimum wage protection to an additional seven or eight million workers, and ultimately about 54 million americans will be covered. this is pretty much the bill which mr. nixon vetoed seven months ago, but he was in high spirits today when he signed it
night, april 8th, 1974 is that president nixon and the democratically controlled congress had just passed a big new piece of legislation. they just passed a new minimum wage increase that would put extra money into the pockets of tens of millions of americans. good evening. president nixon today signed into law a far-reaching increase in the federal minimum wage. the measure will now extend minimum wage protection to an additional seven or eight million workers, and ultimately about 54 million americans will be covered. this is pretty much the bill which mr. nixon vetoed seven months ago, but he was in high spirits today when he signed it into law at the white house. the president put out a written statement saying he had some reservations about part of the minimum wage measure, but on the whole, the legislation contains more good than bad. nixon with a big grin. high spirits at the white house. and you know, on the one hand, on its own, that leading nightly news that night, that