Struggles she faced in challenging congressional traditions and running for president and she discusses the 1992 president ial election in which ross perot emerged as a thirdparty candidate. Shirley chisholm, how do you explain this incredible president ial year . I think i can explain in terms of the fact its gotten to a point in American History now where the American People feel a kind of alienation and cynicism from traditional politics as we have known it when we are addressing the selection of a person to guide the ship of senate for a fouryear period, i. E. The president. The people feel that not only democrats or republicans, that its all part of the same old traditional package that there needs to be change in america and that if the change does not imme nate from the programs and the agenda and plans of either one of the two parties americans have gotten to the point where they are willing to make that change outside of the regular twoparty structure. How do you think we got
Virginia centered seeking a third term in november. Last night he based republican challenger, daniel debate sponsored by the Northern Virginia chamber of commerce. Topics included the Supreme Court, covid19 and police form. Welcome to the Virginia Senate similar mark warner and republican candidate, and you might be possible for the Northern Virginia chamber of congress, and nbc board report. Streaming on nbc washington. Com a few things are a bit different because of the pandemic and myself are all in separate locations, as you can see the audience, and said they are joining us virtually via zoom thanks to the Northern Virginia numbers. Provide an opportunity and on issues important to virginia voters the most pervasive in the last one hour and begin with one and a half minutes opening. From each candidate in our panels and i will post listen to the candidates, these questions determined by nbc news and the palace if not reviewed by the candidates or any debate partners. Each candida
Only. If you are an africanamerican in america and you are under 50, your number is 202 7488000. For the black viewers 50 and. Ver, 202 7488001 keep in mind, you can always and we at 202 7488003 are always reading on social facebooktwitter and on at facebook. Com cspan. Once again we are talking about yesterdays march on washington which have been here in the nations capital. Conversations and revolved around some of the same issues that they talked about 57 years ago. In fact, here is reverend al sharpton who was on the National Mall yesterday talking about why the march needed to happen again. We did not come to start trouble, we came to stop trouble. You act like it is no trouble to shoot us in the back. You act like it is no trouble to put a chokehold on us while we scream i cant breathe 11 times. You act like it is no trouble to hold a man down on the ground until you squeeze the life out of him. It is time for a new conversation. , why did they have the march at lincolns memorial
Inauguration. And then john has returned to our stage many times and we are excited to celebrate him and his fantastic book, the hardest job in the world the american presidency. It is safe to say the office of the president looks different than it did in 2009. Not only has the party in power changed but the tone of the position shifted. In his new book, the american presidency has become an almost impossible job between trying to fulfill Campaign Promises and solve every urgent crisis that arises. As he prepares how we choose our president and what we should expect from them once they are in office. His impose reporting resume includes his chief political correspondent, coanchor of cbs this morning at his current role as a 16 minute correspondent. He corresponded with the journalism gene, his pioneer in journalist. Join will be joined in conversation on the subject of the presidency. Susan page of usa today. So excited to have her here, in addition to covering 6 administrations and 10
First lets start i cant stop looking at the photo. It shows in the summer of 1968. What they are looking at is the reports of his soninlaw who then went on to be the governor of virginia. The. Think about what else is going on by that time in his presidency. They have Martin Luther king assassinated, Robert Kennedy has been assassinated, so it was a time of low in america and they wrote a book and they have that picture also on the cover and we chose it because we want people to know this is a historical book although we have a president of the moment. This is a book about the office and that picture gets right to the burdens and also johnson had a quote about the presidency also. Host what is your favorite quote about the presidency lac guest you could keep writing books about johnson because he had so much character but anyway, sometimes its likee it, he punches is in the nos and says no i dont i dont have to take it, that represents a change in the presidency and we can talk about w