[inaudible] [inaudible] welcome. Thank you for coming out today. Im james taylor. Good afternoon and thank you for coming to the Commonwealth Club of california. The place where you are in the know. You can find us online at Commonwealth Club. Org or on facebook and twitter and on the youtube channel. Im james taylor, professor politics and director of africanamerican studies at. I also teach at uc berkeley. Your moderator for todays program. Today we have the pleasure of hosting david brock, the founder of media matters, politically Progressive Research and Information Center and a lot of other things according to. He is also the author many books but he is here today to talk about the latest coming killing the messenger, the right wing. Killing the messenger has talked about how far he sees the new rightwing elite will go in their efforts to control the media battle over the 2016 election. He has the unique political perspective because over a decade ago he underwent a political tran
Between there was a very intriguing thing that happened. My colleague ran for president of the United States of america. [applause] between this group and the listeners of cspan you may have the majority of americans already on board. Anything you say or do will be broadcast. But it is amazing that you ran for president. So the way to think what you thinking but how did you come to the place that says it being i will run for president . You are responsible for that decision. [laughter] what i laid out to jonathan was were at a point in the ark of the history of our democracy where we have to recognize a fundamental flaw has emerged. I talked about it called congress. It is a failed institution. That has crippled and corrupted no way in which we did night representation through gerrymandering and the reality is we need both congress and the president to get it done. Said to have the typical president ial race. We thought it would be like every president ial race to promise the moon but
They explore lincolns expansion of president ial war powers in his relationship with both democratic and republican newspapers, and the impact of the soldiers vote. 6 00 p. M. Andt at 10 00 p. M. Eastern time on cspan3. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country exploring American History. Next, look at our recent visit to lafayette and West Lafayette indiana. Youre watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. May we continue coming down the ladder now . I am at the foot of the ladder. The foot beds are only depressed in the surface one or two inches. Im going to step off now. That is one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. Dear mr. Armstrong, it is with great pleasure to inform you you have been selected for assignment to the manned Space Program to participate in astronaut training to be coordinated with the Personnel Office of the Flight Research center. It is dated 1962. Skipping along we are in the special collections at purdue library.
By Edward R Murrow to join cbs news, becoming part of the generation known as the murrow boys. For the mass 20 years, he has been they moderator of the kalb report and conducts interviews with wellknown public figures who often do not consent to public hourlong interviews, but they do with marvin kalb. Earlier this year, he interviewed at the National Press club, justices scalia and justice ginsburg. He followed that coup by interfering bob woodward and carl bernstein, drawing them out about the recollections of Washington Post editor ben bradley in what turned out to be the eve of ben bradleys death. Tonight, the press club turns the tables on marvin tell. On marvin kalb. As to distinguish members of the Club Interview him, they are bill klein, who was president of the club when the kalb reports begin in 1994 and was chair of the history and heritage committee, and kendall leckie, the commander of the clubs post and former Deputy Managing Editor at the washington Kiplinger Editors whe
Tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Coming up next on American History tv, former journalist and Kennedy School professor examines president ial decisionmaking in the postvietnam era. He discusses military complex as well is declared wars, including the wars in iraq and afghanistan. The National Press club hosted this event. It is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good evening. Welcome to the National Plus club. I am the clubs 107th president. It is my honor to welcome all of you here this evening and those watching via cspan as part of this American History series. For a discussion about the impact of vietnam war has had on president ial decisionmaking over the past five decades. We could not have a more appropriate guest of honor tonight than marvin kalb, the Award Winning journalist for cbs and nbc news. He was last news man recruited by Edward R Murrow to join cbs news, becoming part of the generation known as the murrow boys. For the mass 20 years, he has the kalb moderator of re