This is a human tragedy and honestly one of the fastest expensive and so we would urge you to work on that. Finally, i would like to make my last 24 seconds recognizing this through. Last sunday on 60 minutes, there was a feature on a clinic called the health wagon in west virginia. It all started back in the 1980s by a sister who in an old vw would travel around and provide medical services. There was a certain governor early in the decade actually included this program in the state budget and she has served six counties and my folks and assistive 11,000 folks in an area that is dramatically affected by poverty. The grants are very important and i would commend this remarkable story documented for every dollar of the federal money, we get a hundred dollars rack of health care services. Thank you, mr. Chairman and thank you, secretary sebelius. I would like to echo the senators comments. I also was absent when senators have now brought this up. But it bears repeating that we have made
, pleasure and satisfaction of the graduates families and friends, who take this occasion to observe and celebrate a significant accomplishment on the part of those whom they love. In that respect a commencement is sort of like weddin a baptism. The primary participants in those events would rather be elsewhere as well. Since its for the benefit of the families, one of the wonderful things about graduation addresses is that you can talk about whatever you want. It really does not matter. What i decided to talk to you about this afternoon, briefly, and i promise to be brief, is whether to be blunt about it you graduates have essentially wasted one of your three years here, and could have jumped on the job in two years. It is a current proposal for reform that law student should be permitted to sit for the bar exam and otherwise be eligible to practice law after only two years of study. To be sure, this is not a new ideas. In new york state, for example, between 18821911, College Graduat
Lyndon johnson developed a reputation as a dmen straightive public speaker with a pension for telling tall tales. His six consecutive terms in the house of representatives and two term as a senator from texas could not erase his down home image. Many democrats in 1960 frowned upon kennedys choice for a man they believed belched allowed, cussed, violated personal space, and never apologized. Once president , he claimed that he did not, want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur. But johnson liked to be in charge. In private his wife said he was a warm and mellow man. In general, however, his voicterous and complex personality can fused many. Including johnson himself. Sometimes i dont even know whats going on up there, he once said. Tapping his head. Johnson was raised some smam town, america. At birth, he weighed 10 pounds and for the first three months of his life was simply called baby. A childhood friend once remarked if johnson conned lead, then he didnt care muc
Justification for violence the. The radical left knows exactly what theyre doing. Theyre ruthless. And its time that somebody did something about it. Like all of you i was shocked and deeply saddened by the calamity at the capitol last week. And if you dont fight like hell, youre not going to have a country anymore. Two speeches from the president. One got him impeached. The other he hopes will get him acquitted. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, january 14th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire. He is like scrubbing bubbles . It is not him. Its somebody else. Nichols. Tom nichols will be on the show so we dont have to. And lemire does it in the white house. Bbc news world america kay joins us and politics nation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. And scrubbing bubbles, usa today and contributing writer for the atlantic tom nichols. He watches
And joining now on book tv is, steve moore. His most recent book is gov zilla how the relentless growth of government is devouring our economy and our freedom. Mr. Moore, has government ever not . Hi peter, good to be with you. Love cspan. Thanks for having. The book really through the whole history from the of our country and theres a lot graphs and charts in this that show we have had kind of a relentless growth of government but there have been periods. Its a good question, actually. Have there been periods government has retrenched . And the answer is. Yes. So, for example for the first 50 to 100 years of our country, there really wasnt much growth of government. If government, you know, the federal government basically provided the postal service, built the roads, it provided the national and had a court system. But we didnt have all the, you know, social programs. And there was no Education Department or Energy Department back then. And and then, of course, the big. I think there