create better conditions, help lift people, help resources to buy a refrigerator, to buy books for their kids, to put food on their table? well, it s a different mindset, congressman. it s a new one and a bad one. thank you so much for joining us. congressman john lewis who was at the heart of this storm 50 years ago. michael, you ve written very well about this and there was an emotional history with the people who benefitted from it. the short nature of the war on poverty and wall street journal had a big column today, 50 year war upon university. what are we talking about, reagan, nixon. you got it right. six years. from 1964 to 1970. in those six years the official poverty rate was cut nearly in half. 40%. something like that. it was working. it was working for a while. then vietnam ate up a lot of the money. then there was some corruption and some problems.
david ortiz and shane victor reno had their beards shaved off. gillette would donate $100,000 for the one fund for the boston marathon bombing victims. the sox won the series after finishing in the baitsment of their division last year. let s talk about football. and the philadelphia eagles. the backup quarterback had himself quite a game. he tied an nfl record. philly wanted to burry this guy a couple of weeks ago now they want to give him the key of the city. he is playing because michael vick is out with the hamstring victory. michael who? yeah. he made the most of his opportunity yesterday. and he he said, yeah, i ve passed for seven touchdowns in one game before, but it happened in a video game with my buddies. and he could have actually broken the record yesterday.
nevada, two hours north of las vegas. it s a pretty little town. it s like where they do clorox commercial, not a large population. they go to this like a 7-eleven and they in the early morning this is the son and the uncle and they have something to drink. they get some sodas and goodies. they lie in wait for the victim to come out. they follow him and shoot through the window and they shoot the guy and shoot him in the neck. they don t kill him and he lives. is this is this man the mother the wife or the guy who was shot is she the natural mother of the adopted son of the husband? yes. i talked to i talked to hiswa pending divorce action, greta, in november of this past year. and i asked him, it s unclear in the report. and he said that amy, the mother, is the biological mother of this son, michael who, they are alleging there is an affair with because there are horrible
by most accounts split of the electoral vote versus the popular vote. in which this has happened four times in history where a president is elected based on the electoral votes but not the popular vote. how does this play out in the past? well, usually it undermines a little bit the new president. perhaps the best example of that recently, obviously, was 2000 when al gore got the popular vote, george w. bush got the electoral vote. but even in an election that was resolved in as poisonous an atmosphere as that one was by the supreme court, it s amazing how quickly that began to fade. people understand that under the constitution presidents are chosen by the electoral college. until that changes, that s going to be the case in three days. i ve spoken to some folks, michael who say if president obama wins a second term he immediately joins the pantheon of great presidents. what is your take? no. there were a lot of very bad second term or two-term presidents. but one thing that wil
sports icon, shaq, kobe, michael who? and arnold palmer has always been a drink. you compile these lists every year. how do you do it? we do it mainly by immersing ourselves in the year or the year after a particular class was born, and we look at that year. we read microfilm, rerewe read books, we talk to people. i think it would be fair to say if you re on the streets of chicago or new york and somebody says 1993. if we heard them, we might just follow them. let me go through another list. pc does not stand for political correctness. andy warhol is a museum in pittsburgh. dial-up is so last century, and don t touch that dial! what dial? have our perceptions always been this far off or are we changing faster than ever?