Century. And especially lay consumer culture. We talked about the motor behind the story, and i think we settled on one word. Desire. Desire was the kind of engine with the story. Wanting what you cant have. Always being able to see what is ahead of you that is elusive that youre trying to grasp. And thats what makes things happen in the novel. Remember that carrie is never satisfied. And recall the department store, right . Where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. We talked a little bit too about the moral of the story. A moral for the 20th ench ri maybe that there is no moral, right . Things happen to people. Good things happen to bad people, right . People arent punished for bad deeds. In fact sometimes like carrie, theyre rewarded. So what he8f kind of Success Story at vik torn period. That victorian ladder of virtue. The changing of fortunes was not the result of strong character or even of planning and preparedness. Think back to th
I er the last four years, have done enough back and forth, ttweeted both parties equal further, that people will now come to grudgingly say, okay, you are someone we can do business with. The Senate Majority pac, which affiliated with harry reid, they stopped answering my questions midway through the Campaign Season because they felt they were not getting a fair shake for me. Pm sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. On the cspan , networks. Here are some of our future programs. 10 00 am eastern, the washington ideas form. Energy conservation. K club owner, warren brown. An inventor, dean kamen. 4 oclock eastern, the Brooklyn Historical Society Holds a conversation on race. And apollo 7 astronaut, walt cunningham, on the first manned spaceflight. New years day on cspan2, author hector tobar on the 33 men who were buried in a chilean mine. And Richard Norton smith on the life of rockefeller. And Cheryl Atkinson, on her on the nces reporting obama administration. New yea
Talked about threats at the white house at the Washington Post was reporting on watergate. December 20 third, 1972, about 9 00 p. M. , i reached John Mitchell by phone, about a story we were running. He said he had controlled a secret fund for undercover operations such as watergate. Mitchell was quite upset responding several times as i read him the story. He then proceeded to threaten an important private part of Katharine Grahams anatomy which he said would get caught in a big fat ringer if the post printed the story. He said we are going to do a story on all of you. He hung up the phone. I called ben at home. Woodward and i did much did not much observe the chain of command. Ben interrogated me. Had mitchell been drinking . I could not tell. Did i properly identify myself . Yes. Did i have good notes . Yes. Ok, ben said, put all of mitchells comments in the paper but leave out ms. Grahams tell the desk its ok, he said. A top official of the knicks on Nixon Campaign called me a few
Her. A light anything but ordinary. She endured harassment and physical threats. Despite all that, she registered to vote. And for that, she lost her job. Then she helped others register to vote. And for that, she was arrested, and severely beaten to death on the jailhouse cell floor. By cheap but she pressed on. She became one of the founders, one of the leaders of the mississippi freedom democratic party. [cheering] they came to the Democratic Convention in 1964 to protest the disenfranchisement of African Americans and the absence of any blacks in the mississippi delegation. There before millions watching on television, she spoke of her ordeal. She gave a voice to all of us who wanted more, who dreamed up the possibility of better days. She reminded us of our basic values and our purpose. She helps this nation find its way again. 40 years later we stand before the most diverse convention in the history of the democratic party. [cheering] more africanamerican, asianamerican, native a
The obama administration. On American History tv on cspan3, Juanita Abernathy on her experiences and the role of women in the civil rights movement. To professor on the link between alcohol and politics in prerevolutionary new york city. At 8 00 p. M. Cartoonist. Discusses the president s of some of their most memorable qualities. New years day on the cspan networks. For our complete schedule go to www. Cspan. Org. D. C. Central kitchen founder ber robert edgar speaks about running a nonprofit for 24 says that charitable organizations will be important as aging populations put stress on government programs. This is 50 minutes. I will pause and introduce our keynote speaker, robert gger. Years ago, it has been a while. If you read his book begging for change you are familiar with his work. Cool guy. We are to have him here. Think a little differently. You may not agree with everything. I encourage you to keep your questions at hand. We will pause for q a. For those questions ready when