Fiction addition, sunday live from noon to 3 00 eastern on cspan2. This year hosts the bison tell neil of Illinois Statehood the bicentennial of Illinois Statehood. Next, the journalists tell story about political leaders they have covered over the years and they discuss the National Role the state key figures have played in their lifetimes. This is about one hour and 10 minutes. 11 greetings to everyone. And greetings to everyone. We are glad to have such a wonderful turnout for this special program we have sponsored by the Illinois State society. We begin in kick off the state societys bicentennial celebration of 200 years of Illinois Statehood. We want to give a special welcome to all those who are viewing this event. Program topecial highlight the political contributions and the contributions of illinois political leaders here in washington and their legacies. We have a distinguished panel of folks we have gotten to know over the years who we watch on television and listen to on th
One that i find the most absolutely fascinating and interesting is the one were going to discuss tonight. James garfield. For quite a number of reasons. First of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s we have ever had. I mean he is up there in the top half dozen, and when we go through his life by the end of it or the middle of it, youre going to start laughing because youre just going to say no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field. Its just not possible. And then well find something else, and youre going to say no. He is just incredibly bright, and the hope for his presidency was enormous. And so were going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before, and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that. I mean, its not as if you give president s iq tests. Its a lot easier with things that are easy to measure. Tall and short i mean, we all know that madison wa
Clearly, this is a lively debate. We are aware of that. I dont think it is a bad thing. We are particularly pleased to be here today, but i now call the leader of the social democratic group. Thank you, president schultz. Europe, without grace, is something unthinkable. As a social democrat. Greece is an essential part of europe and the euro zone. Without greece in the euro zone, europe would no longer be itself. And that is why we have opposed and will oppose extremist political speculations to our zone, europe would no longer be calling for greece to leave europe. I could quote what mr. Varoufakis would say. Or i could reply to statements that have been made by our colleague, mr. Weber. But i would prefer to undermine the sobriety, the seriousness, the constructiveness of the president. Who has for all of these months work to find a solution. A positive solution. Today is not the time for friends to apologize to each other. What is at stake is too serious for us to throw around with
He knew each and every member. He knew what they needed. He knew what they didnt want anybody to know. The part that i find just wonder russ is how in a day could he do what he did and how did he come to know so much about each and every member . You nailed it. He had this encyclopedic knowledge of not only the legislative process, but of the people around it. Hue better humphrey described lbj as a psychiatrist. He could read you. He knew it moerveated you. He knew what might motivate bob was different from what motivate linda or larry. He got that. And he used it. He exploited it. Theres an expression, that people are motivated by either love or fear. And you need to know the right combination in order to get them to act. Lbj got that and he used to apply something that was legendarily known in washington as the johns ontreatment or just the treatment. There was no doubt who was applying it. Johnson was the master of that and he used a combination of flattery or threatening or whateve
S p 500. It is in the ring with all three major averages having been flirting with unchanged to slightly lower and now unchanged to slightly higher in todays session. Awaiting the fed minutes this afternoon which could create more movement in the market. We are seeing movement and sports related, we were just talking about this, what happened with the world cup qualifier last night . I do not know if the cameramen will shake as the camera man is unhappy with the result of the u. S. Mens soccer team being eliminated from the world cup qualifying match. This is having a Ripple Effect among broadcasters with fox sports paying more than 400 million for the domestic englishlanguage rights to the next two world cups and telemundo spending 600 million for the englishlanguage rights. Fox said it world cup coverage next year will be the largest production in its history. It is down and contest is down and disney and cbs also taking a hit. A lot of Corporate Partners as well, cocacola, at t, anh