Horrible summer in selma alabama and Movement Leaders would charge between cops and demonstrators saying its not going to work. You have to talk people down and it was a great, name howard who had influence on henry and he talked about revolutionary patience that it took to employ nonviolence. The other piece of muscle that people forget is the music. The two things that police could not overcome was nonviolence and freedom songs, it drove them crazy. Drove them to the state line and dumped them out because he said, i couldnt stand their singing. [laughter] you mentioned a fellow name Robert Williams. Its interesting. I would rof to hear whats not in a documentary, what got left out of this series and a lot of things that got left out from the eyes in the press. In the decade that we covered there were literally thousands of actions and thousands of small cities and in the north also. Henry had to choose 12 battles, 12 iconic battles. Those are the ones that were in there. The events o
N our panel. [applaus [applause]. A reminder if you missed any of this conference you can watch it online in the video library. Tonight on cspan2, we have been featuring booktv beginning at 8. Tonight, authors featured on after word will be with us. Tonight, beginning at 8 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Yesterday, marked 30 years of gavel to gavel senate floor coverage on cspan2. Our special program featured video from the senate floor going back to the first televised session. Here is a look the senate is trying to make the best use of the technology in the 21st century to remain true. It is difficult to forge compromise. Everybody has to give and that is not photogenic. This indeed is a humbling moment for me. I am honored to serve as majority leader. But i recognize the majority is slim. We have witnessed something that never happened before in senate history. The change of power during a session of congress. Watch that entire program looking back at Televised Senate saturday at 8 p.
Are my grandchildren. There comes a point in life whether your 20 or 70 and you have to leave it a better place than when you entered it. I wanted them to learn lessons from my public life. Second, as i had been running and Holding Office and losing for office and running uphill races, i was struck by two comments that framed my opinion. A famed conductor said a liberal is someone who believes in a bright infinite future. A conservative is someone who stands up for history yelling stop. Thats a famous quote. Thats it. A progressive leads in congress and as fdr said in his convention speech, look, government can air and help people but better to make mistakes in the interest of helping peoples lives than being frozen in the ice of and indifference. They tried things the republicans want to go back to the 1950 and 1850 and got only knows. It framed the theme of the book which is that the arc of my public life from the 60s to 16 tracked progressive majority in america. I was part of the m
[indiscernible] you can watch all of this online shortly at cspan. Org. Shortly here on cspan, live from Colorado Springs at the u. S. Air force academy, president obama getting set to adjust the 2016 graduates. He last spoke to the 2012 class. When his beach gets underway, we will have a live for you on cspan. Thewhile his nominee to Supreme Court Merrick Garland was the Commencement Speaker this year at Niles West High School new chicago. We will show you as much can and to the president starts. Garland many things have changed since that first graduation speech i gave here. Ernie banks had just hit his 500th home run. Typewriter was cutting at technology cuttingedge technology. And Paul Mccartney was about the same age as taylor swift is today. Things tostill some steal a phrase from taylor swift, that never go out of style. Paul mccartney is one of them. I hear you had tiedyed a this year. While the 1970, every day was tiedyed day. Not long after i graduated, future olympic Gold Me
Environmental degradation is lowered. Which is exactly what the Free Trade Agreement motives have done. In all of the countries. I believe there was a study done that showed that countries in which we did not have free trade think we hadth, i a better balance of trade with those countries then the ones we have Free Trade Agreements with. Agreement,ree trade negotiated by george w. Bush, campaignedbama against it but once in office, he supported it. And he renegotiated certain sections of it. Pork andtions included beef, bacon products and auto parts. And after the korea free trade , not only issed the trade deficit greater with korea than it was before, those to areas are renegotiating be better had the highest trade deficit. Wherehave a situation theuse of the trade and nafta template, even when you try to make things better and you renegotiate something, it can turn out worse. We have the korea Free Trade Agreement, it is a Free Trade Agreement based on the nafta template. , which is