Good afternoon. Im here with gail collins and i dont think i have to introduce her. She is a columnist for the New York Times and among many illustrious points of her career i want to get to in this conversation i will leave time at the end for questions. I want to start by saying this panel i titled it comes from a quote i dont know if you remember bill ruckelshaus in the Nixon Administration and his wife was also a policymaker and a woman of some influence. She said it occurred to me when i was 13 wearing white gloves and mary janes going t to a Dancing School but no one should have to dance backward all their lives and of course i was thinking about hillary clinton. And we will get to hillary clinton. I want to start with a little journalism first. You started in the early 70s and said you didnt have to break down the walls of the newsrooms. When you started covering the connecticut statehouse in the early years that had to have been the years when he became governor and she was in
Foley from florida said it was the worst experiences in his life. In order to get the single vote they needed to get the fast track through the house to allow the trade agreement, someone is paying attention to politics, they would say look we do not have broad societal support for full speed pedal to the metal liberalization. Maybe we should slow down and listen. You can watch this and other programs on my booktv that org. Good afternoon. I am here with gail collins. I dont think i have to introduce gil collins. She is the columnist for the New York Times now while many other points of her career, which i want to get to during this conversation, im going to leave sometime at the end for questions. I wanted to say this panel, i titled it, its called dancing backwards and it comes from a quote, i dont know if you remember bill ruckelshaus, he was in the nixon administration, and his wife was also a policymaker and a woman of some influence patchy said it occurred to me when i was 13, we
Ive seen what can happen as the result of hate. My son matt was murdered in laramie, wyoming, in 1998. He was befriended by two men in a bar who pretended to be gay. They offered him a ride home, and when he was in their car, they robbed him and beat him. They drove matt out to the prairie and tied him to a splitrail fence, then beat him some more and left him for dead. In the aftermath of matts death, my family saw the best of america in the love and support we were shown. So when i see the hate that donald trump has brought to his campaign for president , it terrifies me. Id like to punch him in the face, ill tell ya. Ahh, i dont know what i said, uhh, i dont remember. Hes a mexican. I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody, and i wouldnt. Words have an influence. Violence causes pain. Hate can rip us apart. And donald trump should never be our president. Priorities usa action mary janes addictions one ofof the other nominees for the rock n roll hall of fame to
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