I am the Vice President of Public Programs here at the New York Public Library purposes of privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating mike wallace new book. The longawaited sequel to his previous book goff of. Picks of the story at the turn of the last century with his son paralleled growth and expansion and consolidation when infrastructure was developed and many institutions were founded including the New York Public Library. Incidentally the we are were all seated it is part of the reservoir there is a great before and after illustration in the book and it is a special honor to host but only because of the importance of the book and subject matter but because mike wallace to is a fellow and a scholar in Residence Research to a good deal of the book right here in the archives the Archival Holdings are vast and include collections from the New York Times and the waldorf astoria even your city miscellaneous. [laughter] but it is the of painstaking work of scholars t
Charlie taught him, you take a punch. You dont let it get you down, you get back up. Charlie is the one in fences. A garbage hauler who didnt get to play major league baseball. Charlie is fighter who could have been a National Champion but didnt get the fight, because joe lewis was enough. Charlie never got the break he should have. I grew up here every morning, bust my smooch, put up with them crackers every day because i liked you. You are the biggest fool i ever saw. It is my job. It is my responsibility. You understand that . A man got to take care of his family. You live in my house. Sleep your behind in my bed clothes. Fill your belly with my food. Because i like you . Because youre my flesh and blood. August always had this idea thats what a warrior does. That is what his mother did. So charlie was a very important part augusts development and just a neighbor across the street a few doors down from where he grew up. That is part of what we will call the warrior spirit. He didnt
Pushing him. Richard mur dock was the more shocking one. He was smart and you would think he would be a good one and he turns around talking about a pregnancy and the case of rape being a gift from god after the aikin thing. As just a political comenitator i argue with both points and that is why you should never run me for any office. That is why one thing i think tea partyers and i say that about people who were not involved in politics but are getting involved you have to learn these are different skills of being a politician and running for office. You can see it with democrats having a lot of good politicians and i dont mean about their ideas just in political skills and i would recommend to you and you may laugh but i am right. Joe biden, dick durbin, mcconnell is good politically and they know how to say things in a way that attracts voters. The job of a commenitator is we are trying to change peoples mind. A politician has to take the voters like they are and win their vote. Ai
Something we want to talk about and that we want you to return to read and learn from as we have about whether it is we face now. And we do in this country face an extraordinary structure that has done the things that were so upsetting. One example referred to by all of us, democracy in those days was a word that was akin to a chaotic, disorganized, messy, negative, negative, negative. We lived in a bizarre reversal. Now it is the holy of holies. We celebrated democracy the way we celebrate cowboys in the old days. A complete fantasy, a makeup so that we can indulge this desire as an economist i keep saying this and i know some of you have heard it from me before. We go to work. We spend five out of seven days a week and when we go to work we enter a place in a capitalist society that is the absolute opposite of democracy. A tiny group of people, major shareholders and boards of directors make all the decisions thousands of employees not to speak of the communities where they work have
I will take your questions now. Who is first . In the back row there. I am hillary and i am from mississippi. This isnt regarding what you were talking about. I saw your comments a couple days, and i would like to know what would you say to mississippians who are complaining and claim they will vote for childers because they are angry. I would ask you to get their addresses for them so i can fly in and hold their head under the water until the bubbles stop. I know, if they are such bad asses, why dont they cross the Mississippi River and help cotton beat pryor. I understand the Tea Party Patriots have pulled out on this. If you didnt see what i wrote this week was that this is killing chris mcdaniels. Even when an election is outright stolen from it you should not contest it. Installment two is coming next week but i will give you a preview. Elections are dirty in a lot of way. Whatever they complaining the cochran team did the mcdaniels pulled the ugly nursing home incident. I am not