Yes, on speech and on oral speech and written speech come both. I told you, libel laws were one thing. What about the press at the time . What were they thinking about at that time . I do not know that there were any special rules applicable to the press. The press did not have to get permission of a censor to do publish, but neither did anybody else. And the press inordinate and the press anointed some very important figures, like thomas jefferson. Yes, indeed, and it was interesting that jefferson spoke very highly of the press before he became president. But while he was president he spoke about it as a polluted area, and you cannot believe about anything in any newspaper. How it survived one thing that epitomizes to me the importance of freedom of speech is in the ballot for america, the right to speak my mind out. That is america to me. I think if you had to pick and you probably should not have to but if you had to pick one freedom that is the most essential to the functioning of
Senate with one year in the house of representatives and your background as a high school teacher. Absolutely, im sure by now, most folks have read in their local paper about my background growing up in poverty, right here in billings and the adversity that i experienced, most people know that i have dedicated my life to education because its the pathway to major coming the adversity that i have experienced, the experience that i have had in a working class family in the state of montana absolutely make us the best person to be our voice in the United States senate. I do agree that we need to have more of a stenotype legislature serving us back in washington, men and women who have real world experience who can give back. Growing up in boseman, my grandma still lives in the same 1,100 square feet home on avenue c until she passed away a few months ago. I started watching a man and woman start a Construction Business from nothing. We moved about every year and a half to stay a step ahea
Now washington journals interview with Michigan State University President lou anna simon, she talks about priorities for the university and Higher Education moving forward. Its part of our special series on universities in the big ten conference. This is 35 minutes. The cou cspan bus has been on a tour of the big ten colleges across the country for the past few weeks and along the way here on the washington journal, we haver been talking withni university t president s aboutat Higher Education issues, the point is e cspan bus is on the campus of on Michigan State university, in east lansing, michigan, joining us aboard the bus, is lou anna si simon. Let me get started rightti away with the challenges that you see in Higher Education. Value good morning, and its a y. Beautiful day in east lansing ge so the promise of Higher Education creating not 1i6rle a job, but a terrific life. And one of our challenges is always to be sure that we work in a way to be as Cost Effective and relevant
Hampshire and did a good enough job in New Hampshire to frighten Lyndon Johnson out of running for reelection. Eugene mccarthy in todays world could not have done that because he would have had to raise that 500,000 from 500 people instead of five people on the phone call every thursday afternoon. You are over there at the committee making phone calls. You couldnt do it the way you used to do it. Politics. Ged the burden of fundraising is a direct result of the campaignfinance activity. Pardon me. I didnt hear you. Snowe, do you want to respond to that, to his point . Donors . G fewer illuminating limits. It is the amount of limits. The debt was growing up financially before mccainfeingold. People found a loophole in the existing Campaign Laws at the time. I think what bob is referring to is not allowing Political Parties to accept soft money. There was a ban on soft money. It leveraged these other groups. I think the sphere of influence went to these outside organizations as opposed t
And it calls you back. Find book tv every weekend on cspan two. Authors and journalists met recently in new york to discuss the future of the Republican Party at the manhattan institute. They talked for about an hour and a half. What is the future of conservatism . There are a great number of people qualified to discuss these questions. We have assembled a number of younger leadingedge journalists, scholars and authors who come from a variety of backgrounds to discuss what the way forward could be. They will not always agree, but perhaps through a thoughtful discussion we will illuminate the finer points of the debate. In a way, it reminds me of the early days of city journal, when people like Kevin Mcdonald and george kelling, hardly people who would be characterized as classic conservatives, manage to get together and form a conservative policy that was both coherent and successful. I feel like in many ways we are at the same kind of point in history. In any event, we are glad to bri