In high school, i went to high school with his middle child, david, who would later die from an overdose. Bobby kennedy was a big piece of who i was as a massachusetts kid. That was only half of it. The other half was that my mentors in journalism, people like bill codith and others were about the most rhinoceroshided journalists that i knew. All three of them fell in love with Robert Kennedy and i wanted to understand why. Brian you were last here in 1998 for your book on the man who started the Public Relations business. You have done a lot of books since then and they are all over the place. How many have you done since 1998 . Mr. Tye a total of six since the first one. Brian what is your favorite . Mr. Tye this one. This one was 25 better than the one before because it let me interview more than 400 people, most of whom were heroes of mine growing up. Theres nothing else that are than doing that. The good news was that i got the 400 people. The sad news was that easily a third of t
We look back at the natural and historic measures. We take you to National Park Service Across the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern, we are live at the National Parks services most visited home at arlington memorial cemetery. Join us with your phone calls as we talk to robert stanson. Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the National Park service, live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. This week on the presidency, a conversation with author Geoffrey Ward of the documentary of roosevelts. He spoke with our correspondence lesley stall and her relationship with her son and her many grandchildren. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Todays program, grandmother, the roosevelts is apart of the bernard and irish distinguished series and i would like to thank there shorts for his support and near historical, lets give mr. Shorts a hand. [ applause ] the program this morning will last an hour in collicluding q
Sure some of you have seen some of those man on the street interviews situations where they go up and ask really basic questions that people have no clue what youre talking about. You know, they think, you say who was the first president . They say, reagan . They just, they just, they have no idea. Its funny but its so sad because our founders, and particularly franklin and jefferson, emphasized education and they emphasized being informed. And they said our system of governance and our freedoms are dependent on a well informed and educated populace. Because they recognize that if the people were not well informed, that they would be easy to manipulate. And all it would take is dishonest politicians and the complicit news media and off you go into another direction very, very quickly. You can watch this and other programs online that booktv. Org. Welcome to western massachusetts on booktv. Located in the central part of the state gets a population of about 180,000 residents in the seco
His like. Reporter the sisters of them out st. Marys abbey answered a 74 yearold mans call. One of the sisters walking through the surrounding woods praying heard a voice crying help me i am hurt. Probably 10, 12inch diameter. Reporter firefighters say he was about a quartermile back in the woods behind his house cutting woods. He he was pinned under a tree or at least two hours. It would have been life threatening if he was not found when he was. We got them in time remake he was using a chainsaw to cut down a tree when somehow it fell on him. Very surprised very safety conscious guy. The pastor of the shop until Baptist Church his nextdoor neighbor. He says he hits his office would and is not surprised he was out in the nice weather. Despite his age is robust and active. I was talking to other folks all the time. Still removing the victim at out of the woods. Reporter those involved agreed to find intervention helped save goldmans life. I think god looks at the people in general i th
Passed for strengthening manufacturing in this country because the wto hobby was violative of the wto. So we try to replace the pen that was also found to be wto violative. So then we passed the present action. At the last minute, oil and gas was placed in the air. It had nothing to do with manufacturing. It was done in the wee hours. We were stuck with days you want a replacement which will have manufactured this country, including oil and gas are you going to vote against the whole dang thing . Accepted a compromise. It has to be extracted talking about oil and gas. Not the last question. Im sorry, francine. [inaudible] everything you run out of tax reform process has been out with a has to measure to make them maybe not impossible, but much less likely to tax reform goes forward this year. Is that basically what you believe . If you could say a word about why tax reform should go forward. What do you see as the upside of that . Im not saying that. What im saying is they think we too