Was not the time to do it or the message to send in the middle of a tinderbox. What do you say . When i i think about al sharpton and Jesse Jackson and i never argue about whether theyre doing it intentionally or on purpose or accidentally, but i want to remind them that theyre opening up a tinderbox when they stir up peoples emotions. People cant think logically. Neil i think they want to. They say, well, well come and fix everything. You call us in. Well fix it. Its really a tinderbox. Its not right to stir up these emotions so that people cannot think peacefully and logically. The best thing we can do is do what Michael Browns parents say. Lets be peaceful. Seek solutions, but be peaceful. It doesnt sound like what reverend sharpton is doing. Neil youre not one to disparage people, but, as you know, im perfectly happy to do so myself. When you mentioned Michael Browns parents they were saying and doing all the right things. They get together with al sharpton and they start to sound
I think now and today was not the time to do it or the message to send in the middle of a tinderbox. What do you say . When i i think about al sharpton and Jesse Jackson and i never argue about whether theyre doing it intentionally or on purpose or accidentally, but i want to remind them that theyre opening up a tinderbox when they stir up peoples emotions. People cant think logically. Neil i think they want to. They say, well, well come and fix everything. You call us in. Well fix it. Its really a tinderbox. Its not right to stir up these emotions so that people cannot think peacefully and logically. The best thing we can do is do what Michael Browns parents say. Lets be peaceful. Seek solutions, but be peaceful. It doesnt sound like what reverend sharpton is doing. Neil youre not one to disparage people, but, as you know, im perfectly happy to do so myself. When you mentioned Michael Browns parents they were saying and doing all the right things. They get together with al sharpton an
Booktvs web site, booktv. Org. Host tavis smiley, you list jesus christ and paul robison, two of your influences. Guest yeah. Thats quite a pair, isnt it . [laughter] i was raised in a church as i mentioned earlier pentacostal church, and ive said for all of my life that i call them the three fs, the things that mean the most to me, faith family and friends in that order. I wrote a book called keeping the faith, i close my show on pbs by saying thanks for watching im tavis smiley, keep the faith. Im always trying to remind people that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Thats what faith and hope really are, the evidence of things hoped for the hope of things, but even when you dont have the evidence to see how things are going to work out its always possible. I make a distinction all the time, and heres why i say keep the faith all the time i make a distinction between optimism and hope. Optimism suggests theres a particular set of facts circums
Nelson. We can hopefully, talk about that later. And secondly he wanted a stronger military defense plank. He wanted the party, in effect, to repudiate Dwight Eisenhower eisenhower it was believed that Nelson Rockefeller and the wing of the party he represented had the clout to require this or at least to be taken seriously. We now know that by 1960 service that was probably not, not the case. It was a matter of perception. It was fed by what today we would call the mainstream media. Cspan and what did Richard Nixon and rockefeller think of each other . Guest its a complex they respected each other as rivals. There certainly were any number of occasions when i think each man tried the patience of the other. Oddly enough, during the Eisenhower Administration theyd been allies. They were both in some ways well, theres a wonderful letter. Rockefeller writes the day after the 56 election nelson writes, oddly enough to Richard Nixon. And he says thanks to you and the president , the Republi
Feel very blessed to be able to have done all that we have done so far. And i hope that the best is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that im i am still here and there are so many people who bet against me in so many moments of my life. I remember the complaints that came in, my favorite was he last two boisterously my lap was too much my cadence was wrong, i spoke too fast everything was too big for public radio because npr says this is National Public radio. And my status is so different from that. So the betting wasnt that i was going to make it. So the betting wasnt as high charlie rose had done well for years. But nobody expected me to make it. Long story short it would be that i am still here. Host for 25 years or so you have been doing this 17 books are so that you have edited and there are different shows that you have done. What do you believe that you have accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do everyday to radio Public Television is the same thing that