To be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be an optimistic speech, notjust to be American People but to the american congress. There are at least two audiences, if not more for this address. For these big addresses. The president needs to win over the people in the room, and just as importantly, win over those watching on television. The numbers of those watching on television have declined by almost 50 in the last few decades. President pays attention to his ratings, so it will be interesting to see how many people to tune into this. The president. I think it is crucial in this address, he really has to start legislating. He has not introduced any legislation yet. A lot of Members Of Congress have expressed concern about him not pushing hard enough, championing things for. Has done a lot of Executive Orders but not a lot of policies. Here is the joint session of congress, the floor of congress. You have members of the senate and the House Of Representa
from the text that i had prepared, jackson got up and said tell them about the dream, martin, tell them about the dream. that s when he took the prepared text that i had written, pushed it to the left side of the lectern, looked up over the crowd and then did something unless you ve been around a lot of baptist preachers, you re not going to appreciate what i m about to describe. i was standing behind him. i saw him take his right foot, start taking his right foot and rubbing it up and down from the back of his left heel all the way up to his left knee, starting rubbing that back foot, back foot. that s when i looked and i said, these people out there, they don t know it. but they re about ready to go to church. it was like it was charlie
the march my parents did. ad and naomi king i attended a few months later a children s march so i was already a youth organizer in the 60s. marching i even went to jail for fair housing but this is what changed neil. that movement was founded in god in the christian church most of the meetings occurred in churches. prayer meetings, strategy meetings, it was led by baptist preachers and other denominations catholic presbyterian sometimes muslims certainly jews came together with a love for god, a fear of god. so what left the movement over the next few years was that love and fear of god coming together as brothers and sisters. i believe we re back. i attend so many prayer meetings and prayer calls nowadays that everything that s happening in america. without that prayer, and martin
i am here in lexington, kentucky. some 400 miles from washington. at a diner with some neighbors, democrats and republicans. where we just watched the president s address. i am a proud democrat but first and foremost, i am a proud republican and democratic and mostly american. and like many of you, i am worried about the future of this nation. look, i grew up in kentucky in a small town called dawson springs. my dad and granddad were baptist preachers. my family owned a funeral home.l and my wife, jane and i, have been married for almost 50 years. i became governor at the startnd of the global recession and after eight years, we left things a lot better than we found them.es by being fiscally responsible, i even cut my ownm pay. we balanced our budget and turned deficits into surpluses without raising taxes.
i am here in lexington, kentucky. some 400 miles from washington. at a diner with some neighbors, democrats and republicans. where we just watched the president s address. i am a proud democrat but first and foremost, i am a proud republican and democratic and mostly american. and like many of you, i am worried about the future of this nation. look, i grew up in kentucky in a small town called dawson springs. my dad and granddad were baptist preachers. my family owned a funeral home. and my wife, jane and i have been married for almost 50 years. i became governor at the start of the global recession and after eight years, we left things a lot better than we found them. by being fiscally responsible, i even cut my own pay. we balanced our budget and turned deficits into surpluses