And whether we should abolish citizensarned born as president. You can weighin by social media. At can post a comment facebook or leave an email. Here is the piece in the writes. On post. She we will read more from this piece. We will take your phone calls as soon as they start coming in. Citizenhe natural born test the abolished . A couple of comments here. Lots more comments are coming in. We will go to calls. Good morning. Are you there . We can hear you. Caller i learned you had to be a citizen of the United States, born in the United States to run for president. It said you had to be born in the United States. You had to be a citizen of the United States. Thats what i was taught. I mustve been taught wrong. Ahmed writes from twitter this morning. Write rcus goes on to we have marked on the line from ohio. You should be a natural born. His only in issue because ted cruz made such an argument about president obama. At least he was born in the United States. Sorry, rules of gatsby ch
That is the inauguration. I propose we begin a massive attack on crippling and killing diseases. [applause] i shall propose to this congress a 10 billion nationwide Clean Waters Program to put modern municipal waste Treatment Plants to make our waters clean again and do it now. The president sets the tone for the legislative agenda. Whether or not congress chooses to follow them or rewrite them, the president has given them an outline. Sometimes president has never had a chance, harrison and garfield died before their first opportunity. They came into office in march. So in the 19th century, state of the Union Messages were given in december. When the constitution was changed, they moved the congress up to january and now they are usually in january and february. There have been some miscues. President cleveland sent a controversial proposal dealing with a tariff and the days before we had a income tax. And one of those things that divided parties and created great passions and unfortu
This robust growth has come despite budget cuts in real terms. It is also come despite basic problems with the governments structure over voa and its sister entities. The idea behind it was laudable. To create a fire wall protecting the independence of the journalism from interference by policymakers. But ask yourself this question. How can nine busy people run a large, complex collection of companies as a part time activity . The bbg has had difficulty sometimes playing an effective executive Decision Making role. It has not helped that the white house and the senate have opted bbg chairman jeff shell and the current board understand the structural problem and what to do with it. They rightly want to get out of the business of running u. S. International broadcasting month to month. The bbgs recent appointment of a full time executive officer for u. S. International media is an Excellent First step in my view because whats needed is a full time professional boss. But john lancing, the
Professor of history at rice university. We found this piece in politico. They ask a bunch of history professors which president had the best last year in office. Who do you think had the best final years in office . Bill clinton did not have a bad at last year in the sense that the economy started getting so strong that we were able to, by the time he left office, we were able to balance the budget and have a surplus. He was able to survive the lewinsky scandal, people almost wishing he was running for a third term. Unfortunately, the Vice President did not realize he still had the magic in him and distanced himself from him because of the moral impropriety. It hurt al think gore. He could have won the election if he wrapped his arms around bill clinton. I would give him the last year nod. Usually these last years are tough on president s. Harry trumans last year, he run for reelection because he had a 27 Approval Rating and nobody wanted much to do with him. Consumed by be a non, alm
Riot after gang members confess to the murder of 43 students kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller are expected to arrive back in the u. S. Tonight. Kenneth bae was sentenced to seven years and forced to serve if a labour camp. Mill rer was sentenced to miller was sentenced to 7 months. Allen schauffler is standing by. What is the latest . We expect the men to arrive in the United States within the hour. Theyll touch down at joint base louis mccard, an army and air force base outside of tacoma. Theyll be accompanied by james clapper. He is the one who went to north korea and brought these two men back. Again, kenneth bae has been in captivity for two years, accused of spreading christian material in north korea, and accused of trying to hatch a plot to bring down the north korean government. Matt miller was held for seven months. He went to north korea, tore up his visa and demanded asylum. He was accused of trying to be put in a prison camp in north korea so he can come back to the outs