All our decisions are a work in progress and so i appreciate the i told the general i love the idea of the commission to look at us especially as a new director is a great opportunity for me to get a new set of eyes on the work that we do. I hope you will truly swing the door open wide for these gentlemen and make sure that top to bottom the fbi is making themselves available anything and everything these gentlemen leave so we dont ever get a report like that. I will do everything in my power. I told my folks behind their backs this means a lot to me. I want a fresh aggressive inspection. I want candid views because thats how we get a better especially at the beginning of a tenyear term thats the gift for me. So i will do everything to make that happen. With respect to fort hood, i am no expert. Ive read the report and ive already been scheduled for a meeting so he can take me through it. One of the Lessons Learned so i can better understand what did we mess because i asked him from th
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis bestselling writer Nikki Giovanni is one of this countrys most honored poets, commentators, and educators. Her eloquent voice comes through in more than 30 books and as a University Distinguished professor at virginia tech. Her latest collection of poetry and prose is called chasing utopia, but the utopia here is not the one envisioned by thomas more in 1516. Its Something Else entirely different. Well get to that later in this conversation, i suspect. [laughter] first of all, Nikki Giovanni, its always good to have you on this program. Oh, its good to be here, tavis, thank you. Tavis let me start where anyone with good sense would start with you [laughter] and that is by not asking a question but by asking you to read. I guess that is a question. Will you read something for me from the book . I would love it. Tavis all right. I would like to see you cooking. I would like for you to cook for me. I would li
Back this morning. We now have University Virginia Miller Center president ial Recordings Program chair Mark Silverstone thank you for joining us on the 60th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis to be here to you. So lets start today about, you know, october 16th, 1962 is when president John F Kennedy was shown the photographs taken by u2 plane over what exactly did these pictures show . They revealed the existence of soviet Ballistic Missiles that were capable of carrying Nuclear Warheads. And that was a really thing, especially since president kennedy twice the previous month said that if soviets had decided to place offensive Weapons Systems in cuba, the gravest issues would arise. So kennedy had essentially laid down his red line twice. Once on september 4th, because there was chatter in washington. The soviets were bringing missiles into, cuba, and there were pictures that they were those missiles happened to be surface to air missiles. But what was dangerous were the Ballistic
Back this morning. We now have University Virginia Miller Center president ial Recordings Program chair Mark Silverstone thank you for joining us on the 60th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis to be here to you. So lets start today about, you know, october 16th, 1962 is when president John F Kennedy was shown the photographs taken by u2 plane over what exactly did these pictures show . They revealed the existence of soviet Ballistic Missiles that were capable of carrying Nuclear Warheads. And that was a really thing, especially since president kennedy twice the previous month said that if soviets had decided to place offensive Weapons Systems in cuba, the gravest issues would arise. So kennedy had essentially laid down his red line twice. Once on september 4th, because there was chatter in washington. The soviets were bringing missiles into, cuba, and there were pictures that they were those missiles happened to be surface to air missiles. But what was dangerous were the Ballistic
Back this morning. We now have University Virginia Miller Center president ial Recordings Program chair Mark Silverstone thank you for joining us on the 60th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis to be here to you. So lets start today about, you know, october 16th, 1962 is when president John F Kennedy was shown the photographs taken by u2 plane over what exactly did these pictures show . They revealed the existence of soviet Ballistic Missiles that were capable of carrying Nuclear Warheads. And that was a really thing, especially since president kennedy twice the previous month said that if soviets had decided to place offensive Weapons Systems in cuba, the gravest issues would arise. So kennedy had essentially laid down his red line twice. Once on september 4th, because there was chatter in washington. The soviets were bringing missiles into, cuba, and there were pictures that they were those missiles happened to be surface to air missiles. But what was dangerous were the Ballistic