This evening, the Rachel Maddow show starts now. Early for a change. I have something to spend this time doing. Exactly. Thanks, my friend, appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Very happy to have you here tonight. Who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter . I took typing class and it was on a typewriter. Im that old. Typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. You pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm, a little bar would swing up from the guts of the keyboard and smack that letter into the inked typewriter ribbon, and thereby pressed the imprint of that letter on to the paper, right . So that was the mechanism. Each keystroke on the typewriter would cause a piece of metal to fling itself up toward the paper. A different little bar with a different letter on it for each keystroke. That was how they started out. But then in 1961, ibm changed all of that. Ibm invented a whole new kind of elect
scientist on. or maybe he is a secret chinese communist? i actually quite quite follow what they think fauci has done so wrong. but you know, knock yourself up. this is not his first time swimming laps in the kiddie pool. this is from against the odds. january 1989, fauci was in san francisco to speak at an aids meeting been held at the scene francis hotel. just before he stepped up to the podium, active members popped up from the audience and began blowing whistles. within minutes, they had covered the hotel conference room with red tape. they chanted, you re killing us with red tape. with characteristics the amusement, fauci complemented them on the careful organization of their demonstration. fauci had a special knack for taking barbs in stride. he said quote, i ve been burned in effigy so many times, it really doesn t matter. he publicly praised the activists knowledge of how the system works. their persistence and success in applying constructive pressure on regulators and researc
fox news prime time now, where they think he can somehow be blamed for causing covid or something, since he s the country s lead scientist on it. or maybe he s a secret chinese communist. i actually can t quite follow what it is they think fauci has done so wrong. but you know what, knock yourself out. this is not his first time swing laps in the kiddie pool. this is from against the odds again. in january 1989, fauci was in san francisco to speak at an aids meeting being held at the st. francis hotel. just before he stepped up to the podium, act up members popped up from the audience and began blowing whistles, chanting, you re killing us with red tape. with characterize bemusement, fauci complimented them on the careful orchestration of their demonstration. fauci had a special knack for taking barbs in stride. he said, i ve been burned in effigy so many times it doesn t
to the rye eunification of germ and ultimately the end of the soviet union. thousands of people risked death to escape east berlin during the years the wall was there. thomas was 21 when he and a friend attempted to escape using nothing more than a ladder. this is his story. translator: in january 1989, i tried to cross the wall. my attempt fail and i was arrested and put in prison for nine months. and the west paid a ransom for my release. i was released 16 days before the wall came down. i climbed back down the ladder. at that point, we know longer had any chance. you could hear them moving before a border guard stood there pointing a machine gun at us. if you lose your freedom, you notice it. if you have freedom, you quickly get used to it. that is what i learned.
office of president of the united states. after spending much of his life in the service of presidents, george bush became one himself. in january, 1989 at the age of 64, he began his inaugural address by paying tribute to the man he served for eight years. president reagan, on behalf of our nation, i thank you for the wonderful things that you have done for america. i ve spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the nation doing good. for a new breeze is blowing. and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. for in man s heart, if not in fact the day of the dictator is over.