Career in media. This event took place at the National Press club in washington, d. C. Its not coming back. Are you picking up audio . Okay. Its working. We will get to you shortly. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I have the honor of introducing this mornings very special program in conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the corporation. Each night millions of viewers turn ttuned to msnbc at 7 00 tor chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball that the roots of the journalism career are actually with hearst. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12 but he corrected me like a journalist. Crisp is a washington, d. C. Bureau chief of the examiner and was a syndicated columnist for the San Francisco chronicle after frank thought the San Francisco chronicle and then he went on to not only launched hardball that successfully over eight bestselling books. As everyone knows, he returned this week after the hiatus to recover from Prostate Cance
Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I have the honor of introducing this mornings very special program in conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the corporation. Each night millions of viewers turn ttuned to msnbc at 7 00 tor chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball that the roots of the journalism career are actually with hearst. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12 but he corrected me like a journalist. Crisp is a washington, d. C. Bureau chief of the examiner and was a syndicated columnist for the San Francisco chronicle after frank thought the San Francisco chronicle and then he went on to not only launched hardball that successfully over eight bestselling books. As everyone knows, he returned this week after the hiatus to recover from Prostate Cancer surgery and we couldnt be more grateful to you being here today. Thank you. I had the pleasure of working with Frank Bennett the past 26 years. What is remarkable is that represent
Are you guys picking up audio and mark. I guess its working. We will get you gentlemen shortly. You for joining us. Im jordan worthing, and i have the honor of introducing this mornings very special programmer, a conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the Hearst Corporation frank douglas. Millions of viewers turned to msnbc at7 00 , to hear chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball. Butthe roots of his journalism career are actually with first. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12, he corrected me like a journalist, chris was Washington Bureau chief of the examiner and the syndicated columnist for the chronicle after frank bought the San Francisco chronicle and then chris went on to lunch hardball with eight bestselling books. And as everyone knows, chris returned to the air after a brief hiatus recover from Prostate Cancer surgery and we couldnt be more grateful for you to being here today. Ive had the pleasure of working with frank Fra
Opportunities and resources. The Kerner Commission made the case we need to equalize opportunities, equalize resources. That is what we should have done in 1968 and we should seek to do today. Had aa historian, if you chance to sit down with dr. King, what would you ask . Thatld ask him whether he still felt his dream had turned into a nightmare by the time he died. King gave a prominent interview with a reporter where he stated my dream from 1963 has turned into a nightmare. Of course, the evening before his assassination he gave the mountaintop speech. He said i may not get there with you, but i have seen the mountaintop. I believe we are going to get to the mountaintop. It was a message of hope, just as the message in 1963 was i have a dream that i think will be actualized. In 1967 he was questioning that. Particularly as he was organizing the campaign and receiving resistance from a president that stated he was waging a war on poverty. I would ask what he believed. Is racism a nigh
Divisive times in American History. A time that marks the emergence of a postcivil rights racial order that defines american psyd today. Formally known as the National Advisory committee on civil disorders, president johnson establish the committee in july following violent racial confrontations in newark and detroit which left 69 people africanamericans, and city blocks burned to the ground. That summer there were more than 150 riots around the United States. Ignited byriots were incidents of Police Brutality. Of growingtime racial and Political Polarization and the retreats from the progressive reform agenda ushered in by the Civil Rights Movement and Great Society legislation or the factors were the war in vietnam, the republican sweep in the 1960 Midterm Elections, a law and a liberalismm, and insulated from the realities of black life and dismissive of lack protests after 1965 from the evolution of Martin Luther kings leadership to black power. What senator harris described as ame