Still thinks he is a bit of and not, but at the same time says that he is growing as mandela grew. As i said, at the end of the conversation i was shocked because she said that he is really causing a big stir in parliament, and her expectation is that he may eventually take over this predominately white party, which is the only serious Opposition Party to the African National congress to it if he might take to the democratic space fact, the democratic alliance. Ibook just at what i was trying to a moment ago. We are dealing with a story that is not just complex but filled with contradictions. There is no one thing that is necessarily true. In my own book i see mandela as having many faces, played many roles, including the role of Nelson Mandela, which he invented. This man was in place. He played creon in antigone, and he played Abraham Lincoln in a performance. He was an actor on some levels, and he was able to bring those talents and those skills into politics without losing a beat a
Intersected because my father returned from the march on washington and began raving about a speaker, young john lewis, who had electrified the crowd. So, imagine when i finally met him in atlanta in 1976, as a young law student. Hit was a transcendent moment, like meeting a figure like Thomas Jefferson or benjamin franklin, who wrote the declaration of independence, but yet, here is somebody who made america live up to those noble words. Along with dr. King and reverend abernathy, and a young, joseph lowery, ct vivian, another lion who we lost on the same day as john lewis. John had an incorruptible integrity, and ideological purity which was like a halo. Somehow this extended to everyone who was in his orbit, myself included. Thats the reason the nation has paused from pandemic and protest and politics to bid him farewell today. Virtually every News Organization has hailed john as a civil rights hero, but john was a womens rights hero. A gay rights hero. A Senior Rights hero. A worke
Council on global affairs. This is about one hour. [applause] thank you so much. It has been amazing. Mike and pat have been the most charming host. And i have a great friendship that has betrayed and turned been created. And so thank you so much. So its an honor to be a sellout. So i would like to share with you my story for the next 20 minutes and im hoping you will think him worthy of being a fellow. And so im just going to start. The story of this is not about an educated or social activists want change the world. Quite the contrary. Everything changed when i became a mother. And so let me introduce you to my son. Within a single stroke his cry was to write his essay and he went to school thinking i can grow up thinking i cant. So we like choices everyday. Choosing tea over coffee or putting a man onto the moon. Her choices define who we become and it is this where do word that we need to move from her childrens vocabulary and for 50 years we tell them they have no choice but to li
Game over, you lose. Look, i understand the political virtue of making that argument. Its always good to convince those who disagree with you to just give up their beliefs. Sometimes those of us on this side of the aisle oblige by doing so. But its not an argument that has any basis in the constitution. Is obamacare currently the loft land . Of course. Its passed into law, some statute books. No one on this side of the aisle is arguing that its not. Were arguing that it shouldnt be. Thats a very different thing than saying its not. And congress has the power of the purse. Congress has the power ill finish this point and then im happy to yield for a question. Congress has the power to appropriate and theres no obligation for congress to appropriate, to fund a law that isnt working. That evidence and experience that what the American People are experiencing has demonstrated it isnt working. And so the house of representatives in voting to deFund Obamacare while funding the rest of govern
Books on the most important president and today well talk largely about her new book, the bully pulpit, which is about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft in the muckrakers of that area. Before we do so, like to give you more background about her another book shes written you shes written books on lincoln and kennedy family, fitzgerald family, eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt pokemon and johnson with whom she worked as a white house fellow. She is from brooklyn. [applause] a big fan of the brooklyn dodgers ensured a book about them as well. The brooklyn dodgers dont exist any longer, so she has shifted her allegiance to the boston red sox. [cheers and applause] she was the first woman to going to the boston red dots locker room. She is a graduate of colby college, Phi Beta Kappa naturally, magna laude. Later won a white house fellowship and is a white house fellow was assigned to the white house and work with president johnson directly. After she left, she went to harvard, finisher T