Site at booktv. Org. Okay. I do double duty here. So i am welcoming Steve Villano who is next, and he is a native of brooklyn, new york, and is the former head of governor mario cuomos new York City Press office with decades of experience in Public Service, public education, Public Health and is the ceo of several national and nonprofit organizations. Im just going to skip to the inhere. He has written quite a bit, theres a long list of things that he has written. He has authored major pieces on ethnic stereotyping in ambassador magazine, he also has talked about actors like Stanley Tucci and john turturro, hes a labor journalist for the National Education association for a decade. He has won numerous awards, and he has a digital poetry book called we haiku. 9 the list goes on and on. He has won various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america in 2014, and if theres anything ive left out, steve, please [inaudible conversations] [laughter] thank you, joanne. Its you deserve to
We may have taken the long way home, but we finally got here to houston. The first thing i want to do tonight is congratulate president george bush and remove any doubt about where we stand. Ismaries are over, the heart strong again, and the buchanan brigades are enlisted all the way to a great republican comeback victory in november. Like many of you, last month i watched that giant masquerade all at Madison Square garden where 20,000 liberals and radicals came dressed up as moderates and centrist in the greatest single exhibition of crossdressing in american political history. One by one, the prophets of doom appeared at the podium. The reagan decade, they moaned, was a terrible time in america, and they said the only way to prevent worse times, they said, is to entrust our nations fate and future to the party that gave us mcgovern, mondale, carter, and michael dukakis. [crowd jeering] mr. Buchanan where did they find these leaders . No way, my friends. The American People are not go
President george bush and remove any doubt about where we stand. The primaries are over, the heart is strong again, and the buchanan brigades are enlisted, all the way to a great comeback victory in november. [applause] mr. Buchanan my friends, my friends my friends, my friends like many of you last month i , watched that giant masquerade ball up at Madison Square garden, where 20,000 liberals and radicals came dressed up as moderates and centrists in the greatest single exhibition of cross dressing in american political history. You know, one by one, the prophets of doom appeared at the podium. The reagan decade, they moaned, was a terrible time in america, and they said the only way to prevent worse times, they said, is to entrust our nations fate and future to the party that gave us mcgovern, mondale, carter, and Michael Dukakis Michael Dukakis. [crowd jeering] mr. Buchanan where did they find these leaders . No way, my friends. The American People are not going to go back to the di
Savagery of president ial politics. Yet hadnt started [end video clip] don i wasnt sure that he would change his mind. Say, it started with that article in the wall street journal. Question, a lot of of youwanted to think running for president. I told him what a great article it was and said, what do you think . I got the answer that we just heard. Past and i called him again, saying a lot of people have called me. Would you be willing to talk about it . Process whichhat lasted nearly two years, trying to convince them that this was something he ought to seriously consider. Brian how did you know him . Don we met in washington. Leaving during the time he came. Years. Known him for 35 throughout our careers, we have worked on different projects together. When he was on the Hudson Institute, i was on one of his boards. We have had a relationship or three decades. Brian when did you get into politics . Don i came to washington in 1972 from oklahoma. I was very first young at the time. Tha
By any means possible. Especially for those civilians living in east prussia at the time. They knew exactly what awaited them when the soviets were approaching. They knew that the same acts of barbarism, the same a massacres would happen to them as had happened to the russians as the german army had advanced in its invasion of the soviet union if 1942. In 1942. However, they were under orders. They were not permitted to leave until the very end of january 45. The nazi government forbade anyone to leave, for to do so would have shown signs of defeatism and an acknowledgment that they were going to lose the war. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. David dinkins is next on booktv. The former new york city mayor talk abouts about growing up in harlem and his eventual win to become the first africanamerican mayor of the city. This is about an hour. [applause] you know, frequently or at least not infrequently when i have a prepared text, i wander well off script. And