Was animatedly whispering and pointing because there had been a celebrity sighting. Foner, of course. Doing,asked what you are i got a modest, checking things out about the underground railroad. Now of course, we have his magnificent book, gateway to freedom, about the underground railroad. You tell your readers of the story of the underground railroad, it is like a jigsaw puzzle with many pieces missing. Usually historians think of a question and go in search of documents to answer that question, but sometimes we find extraordinary documents and then left questions emerge from those documents. Why dont you tell us about the documents you found and the questions that it raised for you . Eric is this on . First of all, thank you to the museum for inviting me here. Thank you to martha for interrogating me. It is like being back in my oral exams from years ago. Yes, i have written a good number of books. Do you choosew what to write about . There is somet historical question that interest
There is a reason why many women across the country are feeling a volcanic frustration. If we keep winning elections, nothing changes. You want to change the Republican Leadership in congress . Thats what Republican Leadership just data. Funded and passed his agenda. Its why people are so frustrated. Its also why we are seeing so much in 20s and. People understand that Republican Leadership in Congress Wont turn the country around. They arent listening to us. Human way to turn this country around is with a strong, principled, proven conservative in the white house. Thats why so many people are fed up with washington and unifying behind our campaign. You convince your party that in a general election you can convince america you can become president . Senator cruz human way to win a general election is to bring back to the polls the millions of conservatives the state home in 2008 and 2012. Millions of evangelical christians state home. Millions of reagan democrats stayed home. We need
He had a child, the person he was with had several children, say he was a stepdad, and he seemed if not happy but in a better place than when i met him. So you know, time heals sometimes and people move on. If one could assume that if thithishappens in other places, speeto. One thing i found while reporting this book there was so much i didnt know. Writing a book is like getting a phd. One thing i found out is [inaudible] a hate crime against latinos lately historically. We have a pretty its in the book. There is a chapter on that. We have a history in terms of hate crimes and we just dont know about it. Theres some pretty horrific hate crimes that have taken place in other cities and states. Not necessarily the hunting beaners situation but equally gruesome and the groups tend to be young males. As a mother of three latino boys, i was horrified when i heard about the case. My oldest at that time was the age of geoffre Jeffrey Conroy as friends and i couldnt look at him across the tabl
Is hard to underestimate the Human Capacity for selfdelusion. For example there is a wonderful film made in japan in 1942 they came out in december 1942 commissioned by the Japanese Navy to celebrate pearl harbor. They recreated the attack so well, it was one of the first films where they use special effects so skillfully that they still sometimes use it in documentaries because theres very little actual documentary footage of it. It shows pilots and aircraft carriers on their way to pearl harbor and they listen to the american radio and they hear jazz music. Somebody conduct in you dance. They all giggle and say what this is the americans, the decadent weakkneed americans. All i can do is dance and listen to this absurd sort of music. Once they get a taste of the real japanese martial spirit they will cave in. Its a very common misperception of democracy held and not purchased by the japanese at the time but authoritarian regimes and there were more idiotic misperceptions too on both
Do you think harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance. Does that become part of the debt ceiling debate and should it . That ist should, but not what republicans have in mind as a ransom. Democrats are really adamant about it. Many feel they gave up the best opportunity. Remember, when unemployment has remained this high at seven percent when we have had this extent of longterm unemployment, we have always had extensionsion an of the federal program. See congressd to not act on this. Getink we conceivably could the support to override a filibuster in the senate. It ifn boehner could pass you brought it to the floor, but it will be very tough getting him to do so. Guest there is a larger element to this. The budget deal used all of the socalled low hanging fruit of raising revenues without calling them taxes. There is only one thing left, and it has been used all couple times. We always fall back on it, revenue fro