And dance. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Maxine waters, the most powerful black woman in america from the 43rd congressional district, lets give a big round of applause to maxine for her time. Wow, lets give a hand for everybody. [applause]. Icht im so proud to see all of you here. We have been presenting young gifted and black for many years, but i wanted you to know this is the 50th anniversary of hiphop. I also want you to know im the oldest person in america who loves hiphop. [laughter] and so, this is happy 50 years this anniversary, to an art form that has inspired us so much and inspired so much of the world. Now, ive had to defend hiphop and rap since long before it became this global phenomenon, since infancy, and when i was elected to congress in 1991, many politicians, including black politicians were either distancing themselves, or trying to sensor rap music. The same year, during a senate hearing, there were members of congress wanting to sensor rap music and so i decid
The new Atlanta Press club. Today it is the secondlargest press club in the usa, second only to the national is club and it is the number one press club and america. This is a joint meeting of the leaders. , myself ands ago another thought it would be a good idea to have dinner with the Atlantic Community to bring them into this and have speakers that would tell the message we thought was important to this community as well as the nation. Weve had speakers like general generals like petraeus. Absolutely nobody on the stuff in 1965. No political connections. Not a part of the president ial family even though my last name it is johnson. [laughter] mr. Johnson the agent in charge of president johnsons protection at the time was a man named Rufus Youngblood from my hometown. We became good friends. It was rufus who hurled president johnson to the floor board of a limousine and dallas and placed his own body on top of lbj after the shots, including the fatal shots were kennedy onsident that
Service operations. This is just under one hour. Secretary good afternoon. Is tom johnson. I am proud to say that i am a cofounder of what we think is the new Atlanta Press club. Today it is the secondlargest press club in the usa, second only to the national is club and it is the number one press club and america. This is a joint meeting of the leaders. , myself ands ago another thought it would be a good idea to have dinner with the Atlantic Community to bring them into this and have speakers that would tell the message we thought was important to this community as well as the nation. Weve had speakers like general generals like petraeus. Absolutely nobody on the stuff in 1965. No political connections. Not a part of the president ial family even though my last name it is johnson. [laughter] mr. Johnson the agent in charge of president johnsons protection at the time was a man named Rufus Youngblood from my hometown. We became good friends. It was rufus who hurled president johnson t
History of the secret service. The Atlanta Press club posted this earlier this month. Good afternoon. Name is tom johnson. I am proud to say that i am a cofounder of what we think is the new Atlanta Press club. It is second only to the National Press club. In quality it is the number one press club in america. This is a joint meeting read several years ago pete and i peak was then, i guess at that time he was chairman of the board for the Woodruff Foundation and later the Commerce Club we thought it would be a real good thing to bring together the strengths of the atlanta media and the atlanta Business Community into this, and particularly at time to time to have speakers with a message that we felt was important to this community, as well as to the nation. We have had speakers like general betray us general petreaus. We can go down the list. I knew absolutely no one on Lyndon Johnsons staff in 65. I had no political connections. I was not part of the president ial family, even though
Poconos. Yep, that is snow. The real thing. They did not make it. Got quite a dusting north and west of the city. Very nice yesterday, it was sunny and warm, gorgeous. We even saw some people outside wearing shorts with the tops down on their cars, great weather but krystal told us it was going to take a nose dive today. The wind picked up in the evening, some neighborhoods saw rain, some sleet. Others a little bit of snow. And those temperatures plunged. Weve issued a first alert to make sure youre up to speed on the changes youre going to be feeling. Lets get more from krystal klei. Rosemary, im glad you said the next few days. This is not one of those things where yeah its a little cold for your morning and then things start to bounce back up. Instead this is going to be a day that is very cold and very windy throughout. Through all of our neighborhoods through your sunday. But even into your work week. You can watch our interactive radar, and get, again get updates throughout the d