somehow vaguely, hearing that we can t question generals. he thinks the last thing our society needs is another impediment between the two classes, those people who are signing up to fight our wars and those of us who enjoy our freedom here. yeah, there s already a gulf, and i think we need to bridge it. it s going to be difficult to do when you don t have to serve. when our battles are being fought in disparate places, many of which people don t even know we have troops. speaking of niger. for example. we have troops in uganda. thousands of troops in djibouti, for example. we have people in the philippines and so on. i think in circumstances in which there is this gap i think it tends to get wider over time. and in a fragmented and polarized society gets wider yet, and i think that s extremely dangerous. john, i mention this because it s germane.
much later in the war. by and large, therefore, the large majority of people who were drafted who couldn t escape the draft by one subterfuge or one reason or another, the way it was structured happened to be people who couldn t otherwise escape. we re not very happy about getting drafted, although now when they re 70 years old, they look back on their service with a great deal of pride. john, we hasten to point out that in the civil war you could indeed hire someone to take your place and go fight. roosevelt s father. i also want to know how our wars have changed over the years. well, it s amazing, isn t it? 25 years after the 1992 campaign when this cultural divide became a central part of our politics, it continues. and one of the reasons i think that we re in the 17th year now, this month, of the war in afghanistan, one of the reasons is not as prominent, it is not as top of mind as it should be, one of the reasons that given our wars in afghanistan and in iraq, imagine thi
message today about trade once again. he obviously has this well, the catastrophe there in virginia on his mind, his plunging poll numbers, all this is happening and he s trying to put a strong face on it, but he won t do a news conference. he walks out of the room when reporters ask him questions. he doesn t present a portrait of strength right now and that s sad. we have to go beyond partisanship here and talk about the good of the country and this is a time for people to be pulling together and i m happy most americans right now seem to be forging ahead on this and but still wondering what s going on in washington. well, here, here, and to our viewers i give you two living reasons why the pulitzer jury is rarely wrong. john meecham, clarence page, recipients both. gentlemen, thank you for your time on this monday night as we
mr. president can you explain why you did not condemn the by name on the weekend. they ve been condemned. why are we not having a press conference today? you said on friday we d have a press conference. we had a press conference. we just had a press conference. can we ask you more questions then, sir. i like real news not fake news. you re fake news. haven t you spread a lot of fake news yourself, sir? okay, john meecham, that s where we are. you ve seen the weekend we ve just endured. part of david gergen s comments tonight, he mentioned his childhood in north carolina growing up with the kkk as a presence as a young kid in that state, and he worried that this is going to start tearing people apart. well, it s been tearing us apart since the civil war. you know, i come from tennessee, i grew up on a civil war battlefield, missionary ridge
trump does not show a serious attitude toward government and seems to think that because he made it in real estate he can manage the government. we re talking about people. you re talking about folks like you and me and all the other folks out there watching. over this weekend we did not see the kind of leadership folks want. from what i hear even david duke is upset tonight because trump caved into the liberal media as he puts it. that s not the kind of spirit we want running this country. john, clarence just put his fing right on it. the sense of stewardship that to watch over and care for all of us and all these things greater than us that comes traditionally with the job of the presidency. franklin roosevelt said that the presidency is preeminently a place of moral leadership. it is, in fact it s a strange office. it s developed in ways that the founders on this very day in 1787, 230 years ago, were drafting the articles, debating the articles about what a president would be