Palestinians unleashed a fresh round of air a being at thats. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backing down. The past 24 hours israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. Nbcs Martin Fletcher is live for us in tel aviv. Martin, whats the latest . Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat. Last night 16,000 Israeli Reserve soldiers were called up. Theyve called up half of that number of 30,000. Theyre moving south of where the army is moving south of the border. Theyre moving down tanks, armored personnel carriers. Among those reserve soldiers called up also included officers and soldiers who are experienced specialty is dealing with enemy civilian population. Yet another hint that an Israeli Ground invasion is very much on the curb. Its not been ordered. There was a cease fire briefly in gaza this morning because the egyptian Prime Minister have been visiting gaza on the one hand as a show of suppo
Caller hi. My question has to do when ford lost to carter and once he established the buddy ford center. Host okay, gus, you sound like a younger viewer. How old are you . Caller im eight. Host eight years old. Why are you watching the program tonight . Caller because my family is really into president s and first ladies. Host and are you interested too . Caller yes. Host do you have a favorite president or favorite first lady . Caller favorite president is lincoln and first lady is mrs. Obama. Guest where do you live . Caller georgia. Host have you been to warm springs, georgia. Host yes. Guest im impressed. Host thank you so much for the call. It was about the campaign. Guest she felt badly. People remember it. You know, he lost his voice at the very end of the campaign, and it was left to the first lady, another first, i think, to read the concession statement and telegram of congratulations that had been sent to president elect carter. At the same time, you know, she wouldnt miss l
Operated before us. You write it is between letter writing and conversation was blurred by the custom of dictating outgoing letters to describes and having incoming letters read aloud to them. Indeed, you would have a describe and a messenger bringing them to friends and they were capable of reading and writing. They got more done back then. The reason week we can do social media is because it is fast and cheap to deliver image. And for the romans they had slavery and they were able to have a social eco system where they passed mej messages to each other. What were the wax tablets you talked about . They had devices that looked like like ipads. You might use a wax tablet and you would scratch the message or a describe scribe would do it and the recipient would bring it back to you. Cicero refers to this as roman texting. It was a note pad as well and people used them to learn to write. They are the same size as the ipad. And dollar there was a lot of examples of people depicted holding
[applause] betty ford spoke her mind profment choice and a supporter of the equal rights aamendment. She and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. Here to tell her story is richard nort on the smith. You know him, hes one of our academic advisors for the whole project. Hes helped launch a number of president ial libraries among them the jarled r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. Sure. I try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fournt to become a good friends of both of the fords. We want to start tonight where we left off which is in august of 1974 when the fords learned they were going to be in the white house. How mu
The dawn of dannys life, the country was emerging from a great war, a war that left the rest of the world in ruins, but least america squarely in the center of the revolution for the first time in our history. Yet, on the horizon was the greatest economic depression this nation had faced or has faced since. His mother, his mother, the first of her generation in hawaii, his father an emigre from japan. At a time when there was strong and prejudices still in existence in america, a man who came of age as the secondary burst upon the scene, and that very prejudiced against japaneseamericans reached a crescendo. December 7, 1942, as the majority leader alluded to, on the way to mass, or on the way to church with her grandfather listening to your radio about the bombing that was taking place in pearl harbor. First as danny told the story, over several times, he thought it was the most he and his father drove, he could see, could see pearl harbor, the bombs bursting. He was then labeled and