everyone was buying it. it does not take a village to raise a child. it takes a family to raise a child. in november of 1996, bill clinton defeated republican senator robert dole and was re-elected president. the first time a democrat was elected to a second term since fdr. when the first couple returned to the white house, a young woman in a black beret hugged president clinton. the world would not know who she was for another year. 40 million americans still lack health insurance. 10 million children still lack health insurance. my balanced budget will extend health coverage to up to 5 million of those children. in 1997, president clinton proposed a new initiative to provide coverage up to 5 million children. hillary rodham clinton and her staff worked with congress and succeeded in passing the state children s health insurance program, the largest health care reform in the years of the clinton presidency. but even while moving policy forward as president, clinton was dogged
it does not take a village to raise a child. it takes a family to raise a child. in november of 1996, bill clinton defeated republican senator robert dole and was re-elected president. the first time a democrat was elected to a second term since fdr. when the first couple returned to the white house, a young woman in a black beret hugged president clinton. the world would not know who she was for another year. 40 million americans still lack health insurance. 10 million children still lack health insurance. my balanced budget will extend health coverage to up to 5 million of those children. in 1997, president clinton proposed a new initiative to provide coverage up to 5 million children. hillary rodham clinton and her staff worked with congress and succeeded in passing the state children s health insurance program, the largest health care reform in the years of the clinton presidency. but even while moving policy forward as president, clinton
the u.s. and libya had been reaching out to each other to improve relations. that s part of what involved an internship that moammar gadha gadhafi s son which now at the least looks a bit awkward. he s the man in the black beret, disproving rumors he was killed in an allied air strike. the youngest son of libyan leader moammar gadhafi commands the notorious 30-second brigade, known for brutality. this is one of gadhafi s most loyal units and one of the most active in terms of attacking innocent people. and here s another title he held, intern in the u.s. for a month he interned with an american engineering and construction firm called acon. the l.a.-based company had deep business dealings in libya until the uprising began. as an intern, he wasn t exactly getting people s coffee or running to the printer every ten minutes. he was jetting all over the u.s., meeting with high-tech companies, universities and with defense contractors.
in the spotlight tonight an epic story of the shaping of america we all need to know. a toddler named huey newton was spirited to oakland. his father barely escaped a lynching in louisiana for talking back to white overseers. he would become the most militant of the disillusioned offspring of the great migration. he founded the black panther party in 1976 and reveled in discomforting the white sabment with black beret and rhetoric. another boy took an entirely different path. he would become one of the greatest basketball players of
discomforting the white sabment with black beret and rhetoric. another boy took an entirely different path. he would become one of the greatest basketball players of all time. bill russell was born in monroe in 1934 and patched his parents suffer indignity one after another. a policeman once grabbed russell s mother on the street and ordered her to go and take off the suit she was wearing. he said she had no business dressing like a white woman and that he d arrest her if he ever saw her like that again. bill russell watched his mother sit at the kitchen table in treers over the straits they were in. soon afterwards his parents packed up the family and moved to oakland where a colony of people from monroe fled. russell was 9 years old. he would get to go to better schools. win a scholarship to the university of san francisco, lead his team to two ncaa