He glided into the base in thailand and as soon as the wheels touched down on the runway, the engine stopped because he was out of fuel. It is just one of these incredible stories of aviation skills in heroism and why is that valor . He was doing that because of the loss of his friend to try to help his friends on the ground. So it was a combination of worry free, commitment, love, all of those that make up the real definition of the word dowler. And then, i am sorry to tell you, a few weeks later, leo was shot down and i ended up in the same cell with him many years later when the vietnamese photos altogether. On a recent trip to new york city, but tv tour the headquarters of publisher Simon Schuster. While their convoy profiled several principal players responsible for a books publication from acquisition to editing, publicity and sales to be also discussed the history of Simon Schuster now in its 90th year and the Current Health and future of the Publishing Industry. Who were Simon
Happens in that moment that makes that history opposedded to the range of other things. King gives the i have a dream speech many times, and yet somehow we dont know about detroit or chicago, and so why do we understand the speech in that way . Thats opening things up in terms of expectations, to the expectations that i made my protest, and the world didnt change. I made the individual protest and the world didnt change opposed to i made a protest, and theres a range of things that happened, maybe it dont work the first time and we have to do it again. Well take one question, and then well wrap up and theres time for signing and more inform mall. Would king still be marching today . Absolutely. John louis is still out there being arrest, why wouldnt king . Yeah, i mean, there is regimely, when i do the events, theres always some desire to get you to talk for him. Like, what would he say about this . What would he say about this . Given everything we know about the trajectory, it would
Theres a huge number of people who want to participate, who are really looking for solutions, and thats the great tension that drives our politics. That means to some extents they might have some affect on these candidates but the system is rigged, but also means that the people who benefit by this political system know theyre in the minority, and thats something we should keep in mine. The strong purr to make it possible for the top onetenth of our population to spend unlimited amount on campaigns and effect the vote, the expression is, they cant win a fair fight. All the polling shows young people are alienated from that view of the world. They want real solutions. Theyre not in the traditional cold war think that my generation was raised in, and theres a real opening there, and that has people very scared. Thats why they want to spend money and suppress the vote. They cant win a fair fight. And i think that should keep us thats should keep we are the majority, we really are. I would
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Republicans voted with the democrats to Petition Congress to act. We now have a republican cosponsor for a constitutional amendment that walter jones from the carolinas. Saying, you know, look as a conservative republican, i think it has to happen. We have to have a fair fight. Our argument is that our job is to go out and say, look, we can have honest differences on all sort of fundamental issues. We ought to have a politic that work in this country. I think theres a ton amount of space. We have not begun to occupy that space. We have not begun to make the demands for the structure changes. Its time to do that. Its time to say that a conservative republican and a liberal democrat ought to be able to agree that everyone should be able to vote. Our elections should have meaning and that votes taught matter more than the dollar. Im delighted. If thats the frame work of the debate ill debate anybody on the issue. I think we might have some fun there. One final thing, constitutional amendm