Now, tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself, if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted anything goes, we can ask anything. After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So, president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Pres. Bush lets go. Ms. Simpson and i think the first question is over here. Yes, id like
Life affirming story. Reporter clay had cancer four times over 17 years. I was his care giver and we had a lot of wonderful times we move from new york to california. He started life over again doing that Magazine Program at the university of california berkeleys journalism school. We had students who were a new generation of journalists to come to our house all the time. It was a wonderful period. Twice when he came back to new york and had to retire, his body began to slow down, as this is toward the end. I was ruminating. This was the smallest kitchen of the many kitchens of my life. It was unusually hot for june. Standing on top of the refrigerator has to be small silicon steel the ceiling. I was telling a story with mushrooms because the chinese speak highly of boosting the immune system. I still cant give up. Could he have left already . Once the hospital bed was dated at our apartment everything changed. We no longer sleep beside each other. We occupied different rooms. He sleep
Dr. Sullen when did you decide you are going to become a medical doctor . By the age of five. My father who was a funeral director in southwest georgia and among other Things Services for people who needed to be transported to doctors. My father would often ask me to go with him to help because at age five i was curious. There was one black doctor in southwest georgia 40 miles south of brinkley where he lived so high, from age five was determined i want to be like dr. Griffin. An africanamerican physician. He was very successful and highly respected in the community. People really thought he was a great citizen but to me he was a magician. He could make people well. I decided that was what i wanted to do so thats what i decided at age five. I love science and i love working with people so being a doctor combines both of those very well. Host southwest georgia in the air you were growing up what were some of the race considerations that you had to face . Guest they were very difficult.
Have. I would just call it, its a formal problem that we describe is going to get worse but the consequences of that problem may not be as catastrophic as we fear. On that note thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host joining us now on booktv is former health and Human Services secretary louis sullivan. Dr. Louis sullivan. Dr. Sullivan when did you decide you are going to become a medical doctor back . Guest i was age five and my father who was a funeral director in the small town in southwest georgia and among other things he provided Ambulance Services for people and needed to be transported to the doctor. My father was often asked me to go with them to help and of course at age five i was curious curious. There was one black doctor in southwest georgia and bainbridge near lincoln where we lived. So i from age five wanted to be like dr. Griffin. Hes very successful highly respected in the community. People really thought that he was a g
The bridge and they share with the bridge endurance, and they love fact that the bridge was so beautiful and to work on something thats beautiful. Im sure in the time of the renaissance, probably some of those anonymous cathedral builders, those laborers who put the stones to some church or the coliseum. I mean, we knew who were the people who built the coliseum but they did something and a heavenly sense of living in that hereafter. These people work on something its finished and it goes on and on and they die or their have a lot of my age and they still look with wonderment at this bridge that gap no older. The bridge is as young as it was as and 64 and the rest of us age. What didnt age is the glory and the achievement. Thank you, joe spratt. A. Q. , gay talese. Thank you all for coming. And gay will be happy to sign copies of the bridge. [applause] would like to invite everybody to join us at the front of the museum where you can speak more with gay and joe and sam and will be sign