There are an array of options and that is certainly one that is there. We are going to turn to membership for questions. Im told to remind you it is on the record. We ask you wait for a microphone. It will bring it to you. Speak directly into the microphone, stand stand up, tell us your name, affiliation and limit yourself to one question. Lets start over here with this gentleman. Hello. My memory on this may be hazy, but i was on the defense policy board at the time of the earliest crises. Somehow or another at the time the cold war was ending they made it possible for some of their records to be made available to us. One of the things i was surprised, for those of us who saw the records, where it took about a year to persuade the russian and chinese to get into this. They were very much afraid of the american response and they didnt want to go to war with america again. That was certainly an opening. I should back up and say, it was my opinion then that we simply had to send a person
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Couple hours ago and they had a scary story to tell. Listen everybody was scared to death. Were all good. Reporter this is video taken inside and the American Airlines plane by a passenger after flight 574 touched down at Tampa International airport around midnight. As mentioned, wfla daytime host jerry was onboard the flight from phoenix to florida. The plane was close to touchdown when jerry the plane then cruised at a low altitude for a little while and circled around the bay area. And then the flight crew had an ominous warn, there was a problem with the landing gear and everyone onboard had to prepare for the worst. We were given the full brake crash brace mode instructions with flight attendants screaming at us at how to do the it. Okay, people, cross your arms and put your head down and when we say brace, you brace. So as we were getting closer, i mean, it was petrifying. Reporter jerry and other passengers told me the right tire blew upon landing. Passengers then erupted in che
This is the president of the Corvair Society of america. [applause] and on your other side, the executive secretary. [applause] you may sit down. You do not have to stand the whole night. We are pleased to have you. We have never had this kind of news media coverage. We are trying to figure how to get coverage and you solved our problem for us. [laughter] a little background. We had members in wisconsin go to a presentation that ralph nader gave and a couple of members talk to him and said that the convention was going to be in your backyard next year would you be interested in coming . We cant officially invite you but i am sure that you can come and we can get you in contact with them. Ralph nader graciously said, i would be pleased to, and we have been working on this for the past few months and we finally got our ask acts together and it was determined this would be the time. Ralph is here to give a talk on safety and he will talk for about a half hour in we will open up to questio
Removed from a slave, it brought tears to my eyes. Theres a lot of human stories that so many people can relate to in this book. Its about you and me. Its not just about black. Its about white, all of us coming together. If people go to booktv and type in april ryan they will see this big panel that was held, and author panel. What was that . The author panel was a Panel Discussion on race. We have professor paul butler who talks about criminal justice. We enjoy read, and author as well, who wrote the book fractured. We have michael eric dyson, and author himself, various books. I was the moderator and we had a serious discussion, serious civil discussion on issues of race. From authors who have written about it and research. Who are experts in the field. We had a Panel Discussion on the. We have people from all walks of life who actually were in the audience and asked about it, ask questions. It was a grea a great discussion becomes like the beginning of discussion that needs to happe