In your book about al gore and the gridiron dinner. What was it . In the last year of the clinton presidency, bill clinton, the president , decided he would bag the gridiron dinner, where the president usually goes to speak. And he didnt like it much. It was the second time he didnt. And taking his place was al gore. I got a phone call just a few days before the dinner, wondering if id help in Vice President gores speech. I got a call from my friend, bob shrum, who was a media guy for gore. And what they wanted me to do was have a phony interview with him, where i would ask all kinds of questions not with him, but with president bush and they would have president bush saying general. Now, that was a little piece of tape that they got from an interview that george w. Bush had done earlier with a smart aleck guy up in massachusetts, who had asked him, do you know the name of the president of pakistan, general musharraf. And poor bush said, general, and he couldnt think of his name. So, t
From ron in everett, washington. Host caller good morning, good afternoon. I was one in which her educational background is, where you went to school. Did you have any historical methodology type that says our writing classes, that everything . Thank you. Guest well, you might be very pleased to know that i finish school and graduated and started graduate school at the university of washington. Isnt he from everett, washington . Which is for a Scoop Jackson and i think. I majored in english education. I wanted to be a schoolteacher and i wanted to go on to graduate school and get graduate degree and eventually teach in college. But i never finished graduate cool. Host why . Guest because i guess work out of the way. I came to washington for the sixweek job and then i was going to go back to new york city. And i thought id work there. And i had hoped id work at the Ford Foundation and continue my graduate work. But i guess i just got so caught up. At the time i worked for senator maccar
The third person on the list was helen thomas. She wound up writing the forward. She passed away in july. In fact, shes one of ten people in my book who have passed away since ive interviewed them. I want to show you a brief slide show of some of the about 90 people who are in the book and some of their reflections on john kennedy. Afterward, ill come back for a few minutes, and then scott will come up and speak. And i suppose i am a [inaudible] in that 24 hours for the first couple of days. I would think that i, you know, became more realistic as a journalist and saw the larger screen probably and the consequences of during action and the evil that can come even to america. So i do think it was a seminal time for me. The Television Set was, if you will, the centrifuge for the country. Everybody yes. Drew from it in some fashion. I think his legacy was in the boldness of his rhetoric and declaration. I met him as a Young High School student. I was visiting my father at the United State
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose tonight we close the year by remembering some of the people we lost in 2013. These men and women lead lives of purpose and consequence. They enriched our culture through their inventions, their art and their enterprise. All of them left an impact on the world that we live. Many appeared on this program over the last 22 years and heres a look back at some of those conversations. It was clearly time to take care of the rest of life. Rose yeah, right. So i and my family were immediately moving to paris. Rose you owed family big time. Big time. Rose that year, that book as i remember six years in the making, was it. It was. Rose so you moved to paris and do what . Well, do exactly what you hadnt been doing. Pay attention to the rest of life and dont dont think about politics. And dont worry abo
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose tonight we close the year by remembering some of the people we lost in 2013. These men and women lead lives of purpose and consequence. They enriched our culture through their inventions, their art and their enterprise. All of them left an impact on the world that we live. Many appeared on this program over the last 22 years and heres a look back at some of those conversations. It was clearly time to take care of the rest of life. Rose yeah, right. So i and my family were immediately moving to paris. Rose you owed family big time. Big time. Rose that year, that book as i remember six years in the making, was it. It was. Rose so you moved to paris and do what . Well, do exactly what you hadnt been doing. Pay attention to the rest of life and dont dont think about politics. And dont worry abo