lost a lot of music today, and heaven must be excited because it has a new lead singer for the gospel choir. that is true. if anybody has a voice that can lift with the angels, we know it was aretha. tell us, how was she at the end? did you get a sense of peace for her? well, she was at peace, you know. she battled this cancer since about 2005, really almost 15 years, and she has struggled with it. i think in the poetic sense, while she did a last farewell to detroit last summer, a big detroit event at a church where they named a boulevard after her father in chicago, and then with elton john, her last event, her battling with cancer to help people with aids. she did an aids concert with elton john. that says an awful lot about aretha, fighting for someone other than herself. you guys spent a lifetime together fighting some of the toughest fights our society has seen.
at a church where they named a boulevard after her father in choig, a chicago, and then with elton john, her battling with cancer to help people fighting aids. she did an aids concert with elton john. that says a lot about aretha. you spent a lifetime fighting some of the toughest fights our society has seen. i ve heard stories from you and harry belafonte about how you were standing shoulder to shoulder not with dr. king but with aretha franklin and how she helped the cause with more than just her voice. what do you want people to know? her father was an iconic minister, the reverend c.l. franklin. for a long time, she was reverend franklin s daughter. he was a huge star in his own right.
communication? and a million to deepen our awareness of the environment by posting poetry at zoos. or 600 grand to archive grateful dead memorabilia like flyers and ticket stubs. our government s so big, and we allow people to make decisions that are just clueless as to the situation we find ourselves in. it s really a killing strip right here, there s just so much traffic. reptile lovers got 150,000 from the feds for a tunnel to stop the needless death of migrating salamanders. might be a reminder of how much i love you. reporter: while the national science foundation spent 250,000 to study how americans met their partners. isn t that kind of what the census is doing? is. reporter: we paid two million for the census ad and another 500,000 to send a group of doctors to an aids concert in austria that president clinton panned as a waste of money. too many people go to too