Debates october 15, 1992. Talking about his favorite issue, the u. S. Debt. He won 19 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate since Theodore Roosevelt. He ran his second independent campaign in 1996 and tonight he is our focus on the contenders. Thanks for being with us. We are doing this series is a way to look at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who fail to rest for the white house but had an impact on American History. Final choice our of 14 people we are profiling in the series. Douglas brinkley joins us. A person was done a number of biographers on 20th century figures, what interest ross perot is to Mark Brinkley he had the pioneer spirit. He harks back to people like henry ford or Thomas Edison. He is not politics as usual. He really cares about the country. Patriotism has become kind of a cheap word to talk about. Ross perot was really a super patriot. He was less interested in money and politics that he was from doing wha
When they got off the bus they were the mercy of this crowd who then proceeded to attack them even further. The deal that had been worked out with local Law Enforcement and the segregationists was evident 15 minutes they would have 15 minutes before Law Enforcement intervened. After about a 15 minute point a local Law Enforcement officer pulled his weapon and fired a shot. That is what stopped the attack. In the meantime the trailways bus arrived an hour later. They dont know until they arrived that the Greyhound Bus was already attacked. The interesting thing about the trailways bus, unlike the Greyhound Bus, several segregationists had gotten on the bus in atlanta. They were riding from atlanta. They had not only harassed the atlanta, the bus from but they had also beaten several of the freedom riders while on the bus. The trailways bus was able to continue on into birmingham for yet another mob formed and was waiting for that bus to arrive. While this was going on there were a group
You say a sound economy at home is one of the preconditions for an active role abroad, but what we see in the Obama Administration is retraction, i am not calling its population, i am calling it retraction, pulling back from the tra veils of the world, tremendous veils and i dont see anything else who can with housekeeper of the world, Doris Kearns Goodwin and josef joffe, when we continue. Additional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The great fundamental issue now before our people, it is are the American People fit to govern themselves to rule themselves, to control themselves . I believe they are. My opponents do not. Rose Doris Kearns Goodwin is here, she is a historian, she is an author, . He is so much more, her books have brought to life some of the most fascinating figures in American History and awarded the pulitzer prize, eleanor the h
You say a sound economy at home is one of the preconditions for an active role abroad, but what we see in the Obama Administration is retraction, i am not calling its population, i am calling it retraction, pulling back from the tra veils of the world, tremendous veils and i dont see anything else who can with housekeeper of the world, Doris Kearns Goodwin and josef joffe, when we continue. Additional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The great fundamental issue now before our people, it is are the American People fit to govern themselves to rule themselves, to control themselves . I believe they are. My opponents do not. Rose Doris Kearns Goodwin is here, she is a historian, she is an author, . He is so much more, her books have brought to life some of the most fascinating figures in American History and awarded the pulitzer prize, eleanor the h
Come to life. Rose we conclude with josef joffe, he is the publisher and editor of die zeit his new book is called the myth of americas decline. In fact, you are right when you say a sound economy at home is one of the preconditions for an active role abroad, but what we see in the Obama Administration is retraction, i am not calling its population, i am calling it retraction, pulling back from the tra veils of the world, tremendous veils and i dont see anything else who can with housekeeper of the world, Doris Kearns Goodwin and josef joffe, when we continue. Additional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The great fundamental issue now before our people, it is are the American People fit to govern themselves to rule themselves, to control themselves . I believe they are. My opponents do not. Rose Doris Kearns Goodwin is here, she is a historian,