captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. on the newshour this monday: the lead story is the last day of campaigning before thursday s afghan elections and a battlefield report from northeast afghanistan; then come the other news of the day; the latest on health care reform with voices of americans from around the country; and a look at the public plan option versus a co-op compromise; plus, two takes on local budget crises chicago temporarily shuts down libraries, health clinics and garbage collection; and cities and counties in california cut back on medical and social services. plus a profile of a collector of words and junk. major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer is provided by: tiny little thing, it s just. not big. ah. okay, i found it. ( cheers and applause ) okay. we are intel, sponsors of tomorrow. what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle chall
office in chicago@@ú@ú,ñ about. he didn t want to go. he just didn t want that kind of confrontation with anyone that would challenge him which makes you wonder about this basic lack of self-esteem our basic lack of self-confidence. but they said when he did go he was fabulous cover he always turned around the room. so they were just as troubled and puzzled by it as everybody else and i thank you have to say he is a man who had his demons and we saw them play out in illinois. that is a pretty serious thing to talk about to discuss whether someone is mentally ill and the governor overstate. for, on the other hand, is the sort of a garden where i any real politician made bad moves along the way? adel think he is a venal politician, he is a very likable guy if you can get it out of this house. [laughter] i do have a master s degree in social work but i m not going to work for rod blagojevich but i do think this narcissistic personality disorder, it is not psychotic, not s
do that. there were very willing to use their own names. many of the people started one came from the midwest and rural america and when i went to los angeles part of their mission was to talk to those people that are still back in rural americans and the sioux have this amazing thing going on out here and you re not as low as you thank you are. allot of it was out region that is why one magazine was born to talk to those people and say you are not alone. many of these people though, these men and women as they became elderly started to rethink this. they knew how vulnerable they were in the began to get scared especially hearing stories about the matthew shepard beating, they re moving back to their homes in louisiana and colorado. it is one thing to be out an active as an activist and los angeles, but when you are a boy in louisiana is different. many of them said to heck with it, i am an activist and will not turn my back on my past and we re glad i was using their real na
microphones for your questions as to get in the last portion of the program but while you are lining up i want to ask elizabeth to tell me about what did you interview the number of people who were close to speak to his first administration and the first half and second-half, what did they tell you about him either on the record or off the record, what impression did i have of him and what did you learn in talking to those people? there were several, he had a loyal staff which again was sort of puzzling because he never paid any attention to them. [laughter] the man never had a staff meeting, he never held a cabinet meeting ever. so the way he ran illinois government was completely puzzling. it wound up he really was running particularly at the end of running it from a speaker phone in his living room. not only did he not go to springfield which the operative much know, he didn t go to the office in chicago either. the troubled his staff to put it lightly and they said it w