That was more important. When in the middle of that situation, the thenpublisher didnt want to give us an option to buy it. He had it was for sale for 150,000. But we needed 1 million in order to go into business because it was losing a certain amount of money every year. I had told ham, its useless if you dont have an option because who knows what will happen. So edgar came to a meeting with ralph nader, a man named ping ferry, who is a marvelous guy, and his wife, and ham and me, to get the option. They spoke eloquently, with edgar leading the way on why he ought to give the option and how, et cetera. So they had a funeral this morning for the family, and what i said there is i blame edgar for the next 20 years of my life, because he was as responsible as anyone else for my getting there. So i came to the nation when, finally, the funding was in place and we got the opportunity to go there. I, of course, had not finished naming names. I spent too much time raising money along with ha
Record of the nation during the andod of Victor Navasky from the current period when katrina vanden heuvel is the editor and leader of the nation. It is a great privilege, to have the records of a journal of opinion. The strength of our democracy believe rests on the survival of opinion, and the opportunity for the expression of those opinions. To be in a position, to protect forever this material is a great privilege. We now have the opportunity to learn some of the back story, magazine, so writing its 150th anniversary. I promised victor that i would start by asking how the heck he ended up coming to the nation. Victor thank you. Edgarscame from funeral. He played a role that is not publicly known. Was thedgar when he editorinchief and then publisher of dial press where he i see in the audience marvin, he would go to he wouldd say put his manuscript on the desk. Edgar was working on what became the book of daniel, a great novel. I knew edgar from those days. We collaborated on a numb
Save the American Dream that has been there for me and darlene. There is nothing i will not do to get this country back on track. Including being yelled that i my own party. Thank you very much. Coming up on cspan, a discussion on American News coverage and freedom of beach. Then a look at the Major Economic issues of campaign 2016. Later, cspans route to the white house joins the candidates at the iowa state fair. First, wisconsin Governor Scott walker. Ceo ford then former hp carly fiorina. Our road to the white house coverage of the president ial candidates continues, live it from the iowa state fair on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. At the candidates of walk the fairgrounds and speak at the soapbox. Tuesday morning, republican senator marco rubio at 11 30 a. M. And Governor John Kasich at 5 00 p. M. On wednesday, rick perry will speak at 11 00 a. M. , on friday, senator ted cruz. Saturday, Chris Christie at noon and bobby jindal at 1 00 p. M. Join the twitter conversation at d
Will get the message. The United States of america will make it as difficult as possible for you to move money around. We can do that. Can say to every bank in the world, if you do business with iran, you will not do business with the United States. I am going to break the rules. I wanted to ask you, because i am the father of two daughters. If you were to become president , what would you do to be a role model for their futures . , very much, i hope that i am a role model every day full top i hope my parents taught me integrity and hard work as the foundation for a good life. People will realize that is not that women are better. Han men full to women are 53 of this mode, half of the nation. They have as much to contribute as men do. We need to be a country where everyone, regardless of their gender, can contribute. We do not have that nation today and that is what drives me crazy. I cant keep you long. Otherwise they are going to throw me out of here. To keepina i need doing what i h
The case was made long ago, and among the most eloquent proponents was john milton and his ideas that have set the course for our own principles today. In 1644, he wrote this, give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. Today in much of the world, that liberty is either nonexistent or in jeopardy. Let me start by telling you about two recent encounters of mine. In january of last year, i spoke with a leading figure in the governance of the internet. We talked about surveillance by the National Security agency and how the agency had cap to so voraciously into International Data networks. This was and tapped into so voraciously into International Data networks. I was interested in what this official was hearing as he traveled the world in the aftermath of the disclosures that originated with edward snowden. His massive leak of highly classified documents had revealed some of this nations most sensitive National Security secrets.