Humanities medal and many other prizes. But i think he would agree that this extraordinary career really began in 1970, when he took a very lowpay job with Charlie Peters, the legendary founder and editor of the Washington Monthly, a very small political opinion and reporting magazine which still exists. I suspect taylor learned his trade as a journalist and book author while working for peters for three years. A few years later i went through a similar process myself, working for victor novaski at the nation magazine in new york. Both of us became authors after immersing ourselves in journalism. Taylor and i also worked on the 1972 campaign for george mcgovern. He didnt know this but i was just a lowly canvasser, knocking on doors in california, nebraska and minnesota. Taylor, however, had a more elevated Campaign Position in austin, texas, where he happened to share an apartment with one bill clinton. That friendship survived in the mcgovern electoral debacle and taylor later was rou
Culture. We look at exhibits and artifacts chronicling the africanamerican story from slavery through the inauguration of the first africanamerican president. And we talk to Museum Specialists. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. You are looking at the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture on the mall in washington, d. C. It is the newest Smithsonian Museum opening back in september. And this week it welcomed its 1 millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that for artifacts that chronicled the africanamerican experience and also telling a shared american story. Well be live for the next 2. 5 hours. In about 40 minutes well be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. 100 year mission to create the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Thanks
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Instability and now the news north and south korea are set to hold talks after two years of silence the meeting on tuesday will initially focus on the north a split dissipation in the Winter Olympics in the south next month but seoul says discussions are expected to move on to what it calls other areas of common interest florence three reports from seoul in a few days the truce village of panmunjom on the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south korea will be a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level talks here for the first time in more than two years earlier this week north Korean Leader kim jong il would initiate a dialogue in his new years day address four days later his government agreed to hold talks the announcement came just hours after the u. S. And south korea agreed to postpone annual military drills shed used for the end of february these have long been regarded as provocative by pyongyang. Leaders agreed not to conduct sauce cr