History with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt has touched so many of us in such a personal way. Because i lost my mother to breast cancer, betty ford is a heroin to me. Because my family has been victimized by alcoholism and i know what it is to watch good, fine people stare into their personal despair, i will be forever grateful for the betty ford clinic and for the millions of other people whose lives have literally been turned around and often say you may not have gone to that clinic but went somewhere because she showed them it was not wrong. For a good person and a strong person to be imperfect and ask for help. You gave us a gift and we thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tomorrow night, our first dys encore continues with rosalynn carter. She traveled to latin american as his official envoy. She supported the equal rights amendment and she supported a bill in congress th
Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. First of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i dont run into somebody somewhere that didnt say, i met you, or i first heard you at the American University Campaign Management institute and ive been doing this for really long time. I remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. A friend of mine. Leland bill sweeney was helping to run the prog
Caused the water to back up and Cascade National rotunda. Series of en on a projects since that time to that the drainage system compromised again by debr debris. And it led to though the development of the master plan nd study of the iron work and to the project we are now going to get completed in the next two years. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] we will have prime ministers questions live wednesday 7 00 a. M. Watch next sunday at the usual time 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Moments ckup a few charlie cook talks about the upcoming 2014 Midterm Elections. At 11 00 p. M. Q a with economist marty sullivan. And later another chance to see u. S. Capitol dome tour highlighting what will be repaired in a twoyear restoration project. 435 house seats and 35 senate eats will be decided in the upcoming 2014 Midterm Election. Next political analyst charlie Cook Political Report talks about what he expects to see from both P
Italian bonds and shares following after cabinet leaders, Silvia Berlusconi threatens a new election. Well talk with ross westgate. Hsbc purchasing Managers Index is showing growth. It has been below expectation. Thats three big stories for a monday morning, joe. All of them probably more important than any merger that could happen on a merger monday. 6 beltway ben. I think hell have an answer. Hell have an answer. Redskins won finally. Redskins won finally. Can we take a look. Do we have the stock of gray matters by the way . Are you pumping another one of your pieces . I dont want to talk breaking bad at all if we can avoid it. Do you think the stock may be up or down . I dont know. I dont know where it will be this morning. I dont have an article about it. Given what it must be something to do with gray matter and the final episode which i havent seen. I mean, i saw the daily news which says dont say it. Its on the front page. You should not spoil it. Its on the front page. For peop