Military strength while the negotiations are going on, thats not good. Youre just going to antagonize your adversary. Reagan didnt think of it that way. He thought you could do both simultaneously. And i think there is a lesson there. You could negotiate with the of yet union, as has been said, he was ready to do that from the beginning. I told George Schultz when schultz came in in the late summer of 82, he had dont be too eager to negotiate with the soviet union and theres other evidence that suggests that he knew he wasnt going to get anywhere until he revived the american economy. And until he had, in fact, or the western alliance deployed those inf weapons. Then he thought, ill be in a position of strength at that point and then the soviets will be in a position to negotiate. Thats exactly what happened in 1984. He tried to get them to negotiate. But they were clever. They said no, were going to wait and see whether or not you can succeed in being reelected. Once that was clear, t
About the vote, and he felt the vote was the ability to get somebody to change their circumstances. Martin hraouter king comes to the white house and says to johnson, we need a Voting Rights act, and he said, martin, i agree with you, but i cant do it this year i have all this other Great Society legislation to push, and then many people are beaten and nearly die marching for Voting Rights and johnson is shrewd enough to understand that the country was outraged and he needed to start pushing this, so basically the Justice Department started to draw up a Voting Rights bill before selma, but johnson and his administration moved quickly, and he talked about the Voting Rights act, and six months after the atrocities in selma, we had a Voting Rights bill. It was quick and effective and i think it was an example of government at its best. And didnt johnson with congressman lewis encourage john lewis and dr. King and others to make the demonstrations public and force the countrys hand . He di
Mall area both where the pope will have public appearances. Now, there will be a secure vehicle perimeter. That is the area inside the black line. This means no vehicles, no moving, no parked vehicles will be allowed in these areas. Now the mayor explaining more about what the one to one and a half million visitors should expect. The secure perimeter will have a fence with entry points where people will walk through a magnetometer. Vehicles will need to be removed from inside this secure perimeter. Reporter here more details on those secure perimeter. Thursday, september 24th at 10 00 oclock at night the ben franklin parkway secure perimeter and the citywide vehicle perimeter will go into effect. Then friday, september 25th at 10 00 p. M. , the Independence Mall secure perimeter will go into effect and inside the secure perimeters once again youll have to go through magnetometers, metal detectors. Now, the mayor announcing today City Government will also shut down from thursday to mond
This afternoon. Showers will be building in from the west and keep an umbrella handy. Temperatures climbing in spite of the clouds that have moved into the area. Mostly cloudy skies right now. 77 at 7 00 and at 10 0082 and 85 this afternoon. We go into the afternoon showers and thunderstorms become more likely. Your neighborhoodbyneighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Right now a check of traffic with jessica boyington. Looking live at the schuylkill expressway where we are still doing great so far. These are our camera at girard avenue. On the westbound side in here a 12 minute drive time and vine street expressway heading up toward the blue route average speed 59 miles an hour. The eastbound lanes moving great as well. If youre heading out the door to 422 where we typically see that traffic in the Morning Hours on the eastbound side you can see all of those lanes are green from 29 up towards the schuylkill eight minute trip and no backup or delays there. Mass transit grea
Schuylkill expressway around the vine street expressway eastbound lanes moving along nicely but westbound 11minute drive time here. If youre heading westbound from the vine street expressway for the blue route into the Center City Area looking great. P. A. Turnpike cars still green and moving along nicely. Westbound eastbound towards valley forge 22minute drive time through the work zone. Heading out into philadelphia youre heading from new jersey, palmyra bridge and walt whitman, no problems there. More drive times coming up in ten minutes. New from overnight, a mystery in Montgomery County. A runner is found dead. Investigators are trying to figure out what killed the young man. Nbc10s Monique Braxton is live in white marsh with the details. Reporter hi, tracy. What happened here inside ft. Washington state park is a mystery still unknown. A lot of questions for investigators. Montgomery countys coroner will perform an autopsy today to determine what caused the runners death. Now our