But it was a great labor of love to learn more about them. People often ask me, how did you pick these hundred people . One of the great one of the things the was the most fun about the book was reading about these hundred people. I recently analyst to a 250 people. I contacted friends and others that did not know out of the blue from historians, journalists, like our first, and ask them for their recommendations of people. And then made a point of trying to identify people, some of the more famous and many of whom were not well known. There are three kinds of people in the book and the three categories of people. One group of them are organizers and activists, people like eugene debs and the socialist party, the early 1900s. People like alice paul, the great suffrage leader it was probably more responsible than anyone else for women getting the right to vote and a leader of the Womens Suffrage Movement in the early 1900s. She was also an advocate of civil disobedience. She and others
Getting the skills that they need. It makes no sense. Ladies and gentlemen, were going to have to cut it there with the questions im sorry because, again, michelle has to go on piers morgan i think you guys are going to be a little nice we are the questions than pix ers is. Before we close it out, i just want to make a couple of notes. Firstly, id really like to thank a old and dear friend for making this incredible event possible, and thats leslie cohen who anthony briefly mentioned. Also anybody that has any stake in education and if they want to get involved, its completely up to them, studentsfirst. Org is doing, according to many critics and others, is doing all types of interesting work. Also most importantly, the book i see theres a lady right h a question before, she has two or three books. The book has received incredible reviews. If you have any stake in education or if education means anything to you personally, your kids, your family, future of the country, according to man
Prevent. And irwran that will stop at nothing to in secret develop a nuclear weapon. Many military analysts say a strike on iran, even a very good one delays that option. Leave one additional thought. Wharf whatever you thought of libyan intervention. It set off a whole bunch events it africa. That was predictable. Let me give you view of iran to operation in libya. This is what happens when you give up your wmd program. So my last question for you on this evening, after this remarkable career of 39 years in the military, listening in on all these bad actors and conversations for all your years in intelligence, the National Security agency, being at the cia and seeing everything from the trains blown up in madrid to the towers come down when you were at nsa in new york, are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to human nature . I am, in another venue, described reading the president s daily preefs and all the stuff that is not ready for prime time every morning, six or seven da
Cleveland. Oscar fulsome had been married and had a daughter. Cleveland was a bachelors of cleveland kind of accepted responsibility to pay for the child to go to an orphanage. But heres where the other part of the scandal comes in. Oscar fulsome dies a few years later in a carriage accident writing, driving his carriage, recklessly drunk, apparently breaks his neck. He leaves a widow and his young girl. Grover cleveland makes an enormous amount of money as his law partner, and cleveland kind of takes care of the widow and the young girl, pays for them, sets them up in a nice home. He becomes the godfather, if you will to the little girl. They are very close. She calls him on coca leaves, which should be part of a hint. He pays to send her to college. What happens is as francis is growing up, clevelands relationship with her changes. Changes from uncle cleve to a romantic interest. Cleveland start sending her letters and poems and roses. Its a fullcourt press on courting her. You can w
In the ukraine with the latest. Hi, steve. Reporter bret, today, the assertion from the u. S. State department that the Russian Military is not just aiding the rebels in Eastern Ukraine, but doing much more. According to the state department, the Russian Military is attacking Ukrainian Government forces from russian territory. We have new evidence that the russians intend to deliver heavier and multiple rocket launchers to ukraine and evidence that russia is firing artillery from within russia to attack Ukrainian Military positions. Reporter such direct action would be a considerable escalation from simply supporting rebel fighters with ammunition and training. It comes at a time when Ukrainian Forces are gaining ground, but with a shaky political situation in kiev. In the middle of an armed rebellion, a financial crisis and an aviation disaster, ukraines Prime Minister resigned. The sudden move by prowestern comes at a time of concern, about the governments ability to meet its financi