Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan 3, explore our nations past. Cspan 3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. We are four trillion dollars in debt, going into debt an additional one billion dollars every working day of the year. While we sit here tonight, we will go into debt an additional 50 Million Dollars an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault. Its not the democrats fault. What im looking for is who did it. They are the two folks involved, so maybe together they didnt. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there, there is an extra terrestrial doing this to us i guess. Everyone says they take responsibility. Someone, somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during the second of three president ial debates on october 15th, 1992. He was talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In the election, t
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Incredible woman politician she did that more because shes 80 now. When she came to office, of it a big deal she lee easied with the gay community. It was a controversial and making a value statement by doing that. She also has a lesbian daughter that happens to a friends of mine. The factors trying to understand how she can represent her constituents in a meaning of the way and be brave in the face of a culture that habit changed yet and her relationship with her daughter. And her understanding as most people understand the importance of gay marriage and gay people because they have gay friends, relatives, loved one. She shares that in the book. Tell me about signing a publisher. The publisher found me. Johnny is the incredibly rock tar. Hes a friend and were both, i think progressive activists in the publishing world. I had done a book about the project i was working on about abortion and they did something on the book. He just called and said, you know, i want to do a book that capt
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things he really did well was he understood the value of grassroots and funding grassroots. people like to call harry reid the boss of nevada. he wasn t so much a boss as he was a benefactor. he raised money for the state party in nevada, so they could do the outreach. they could do the groundwork. they could recruit the volunteers. they could identify the voters, and that s what he funded in my state in 2006, which made a big difference. i mean, the senate campaign committee really focused on that ground game. he got politics. now, as molly ivan said he was charismatically challenged. this was not a man of soaring oratory. this was not a man of flowery conversation. we all can recount the times we talked to harry reid on the phone. i talked to him not that long ago on the phone, and when he said what he had to say, he hung up. no, gosh, claire, aren t you