Watch live coverage of the house on cspan, see the senate on cspan 2. Good evening, everybody. Welcome. Im mike friedman, the 113th president of the National Press club, and what an honor it is to have this as the First Program on my watch this year. As the former general manager of cbs Radio Network news and former managing editor for the broadcast division of united press international, the boys on the bus was required reading. And i had the pleasure and the challenge of having on my upi team one of those boys, the legendary chamberlain of upi. It sounds like a lot of you knew him. Looking forward to a terrific discussion this evening. Now i have the pleasure of introducing the chair of the National Press club history and heritage team, the 87th president of the National Press club, the bureau chief of the guy gaylord News Washington bureau of the university of oklahoma and a dear friend, mr. Gill kline. [applause] thank you very much, mike. The role of the National Press clubs histo
Cbs Radio Network news and former managing editor for the broadcast division of united press international, the boys on the bus was required reading. And i had the pleasure and the challenge of having on my upi team one of the boys, the legendary chamberlain of upi. A prospect. Sounds like a lot of you knew him. Looking forward to a terrific discussion this evening and now i have the pleasure of introducing the chair of the National Press club history and heritage team, the 87th president of the National Press club the your chief of the gaylord News Washington bureau for university of oklahoma, and a different mr. Gil klein. [applause] thanks so much, mike. The legacy of the club 112 year history as well as to explore the history of journalism especially in washington. We are pleased on april 27 a new book, new history of the club called tales from the National Press club is scheduled to be published by the history press. It explores the events that happened at the club that it had an
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its political gaffes through the decades. The great edward r. Murrow said when politicians complain that tv turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there and that tv has merely demonstrated that not performers are well trained. Today on through the decades, we look at politicians who didnt give their best performances on the political stage as they attemped to run for office. And the Television Cameras were there to capture their gaffes and preserve them for all of history to remember. So we begin the doomed decision of a president ial hopeful. The 1972 race for the white house was never really close themselves an even deeper hole when their nominee George Mcgovern picked Thomas Eagleton to be his running mate. Senator george h. Mcgovern is hereby declared the 1972 democratic nominee for president of the United States. Heading into the 1972 democratic convention, George Mcgovern was har
Each of them made the case and christopher would get up and offer his rebuttal. The doctor of islamic thought happened also to be in a wheelchair, and so after christopher finished taking down each of his opponents he then looked at the crowd and he said, surely you must be thinking he cant go after the woman in wheelchair. But i assure you, you are wrong. Its been pointed out often by him, by christopher, that he shouldve had come easy would have lived longer, if you less good constitution, although about his untimely death i will say he exactly died at the age of about 75 because his love of life is so great he never went to sleep. So his day was a third longer than ours. Sorry. Yeah, that cheers me up a bit except if you think would be kept barely sleeping and lived to 90 . I know. He would metaphorically drink you under the table. Been while he staggered off, smashed your head open on the bathroom floor and got into bed, covered in blood of 12 hours later, thinking how many days th
Will lead us out of the mess we are in today probably is the president who would not be equipped to deal with the civil war or reconstruction. That might be an unsatisfactory answer but it is the. Thank you. Thank you for coming. I did a tv interviewnm earlie, and they put makeup on me. I debated whether or not to wash it off or not, but i decided to look fabulous for you. [laughter] i usually dont spend much time reading, but i wanted to read a short passage from the beginning of the book because i think it summarizes one of the themes of the story. Lieutenant general Michael Flynn who now heads of the u. S. Defense Intelligence Agency has said that information and intelligence are the fire and maneuver of the 21st century, and those of you who are familiar with war fighting methods in iraq and afghanistan know how important this has become, and ill talk more about that as i go along, but i want to read you about a passage about a raid in iraq called the sinjar raid where special op