Find the best writers that we can and bring them to albany. Its like bringing the world to a particular place, and i dont think i cant think of any other organization, even some of the better known ones in major cities that that have such a rer flow of creative talent coming through and at no cost to the public. With our open door policy. So we bring the literary world to albany. So all these people whose names, faces and dates, events you see are people who have come from far and wide to read to the, to the general public here. And weve had somewhere, my most recent count now has gotten us up to at least 10 or maybe 11 Nobel Laureates across the years ranging from Toni Morrison who actually used to teach at albany to most recently a South African writer, and along the way people like the nigerian writer or the caribbean writer, derek walcott, or the irish poet, seamus haney. The names go on. But along the way, we archive all of the by video and audio all of the people who have come th
For more information on this and other cities on the local content vehicles tour, go to cspan. Org localcontent. Now, James Gustave speth argues that building a democratic and ec lookicallysustainable Economic System will bring about a new wave of prosperity. This program is about an hour, 40. [applause] thank you, john, and thank all of you for braving the weather and coming out, and thanks especially to the cosponsors who joined ips in this and the aflcio for making in the room available. Its wonderful to see so many people here and so many old friends here. So thank you all very much. I will try to not talk for too long. I have my watch. I didnt have it one time when i was speaking at yale, and im delighted to see some of my students from yale here, and i ran over real badly, and i apologized for not having my watch and letting things get out of hand, and students said, that east okay, dean speth, theres a calendar on the wall behind you. [laughter] its good to be here, also, on the
To create a title for the book to talk about alternatives to the one that you see. Then we capitalize on the notoriety of the volcker rule so why try that was rejected as too narrow someone else suggested a much more expansive than a volcker rule. [laughter] and the fellow on my left loved it. [laughter] but it was knocked out because they say the cute isnt cute so we took the title the triumph of patience because she did what he did. Researching the book i have the perverse personal and professional side he dove into the entire contents of the walkin closet including the Elementary School report card and also authorized by reviewing correspondence held in the Federal Reserve bank of new york. The fed did not like that one bit. And finally over 100 of interviews i assure you can guess. Let me turn to some substance. A story of the mansard under five president s serving under the five greatest crisis in history i will tell you about the crisis first broke crisis number one is cold. Some
Ted kennedy, hatch, crafted compromises. They were both strong partisans, but they had the spirit of compromises. Thats our main prescription for compromise. But if you look at senator hatch, he was a pretty well threatened by the tea party, the primary potentially ousted from office because of the compromises. True, and we dont say compromise is difficult, governing is difficult, however, as politicians, what do we remember hatch for . For passing great legislation to protect health care. Were not going to remember politicians for their cowardness, but for their courage. Were in the going to remember them positively for cowardness, but their courage. We are calling on politicians to exercise leadership. Theres a set of reforms that would make it easier to compromise, reforming the filibuster, open primaries, rather than close primaries. Limiting the amount of money that is politics. The problem is you cant get reforms without compromise so we all have our favorite reforms. Politicians
More political than police work. Good morning to you, welcome to Al Jazeera America, im Morgan Radford live in new york. Chaos and violence erupting in eastern and southern ukraine in what became the countrys blood yesterday in three months. The worst standoff occurring in odessa, where Officials Say violence clashes broke out between prorussian and ukranian supporters. It turned into a deadly fire where 31 were killed. Ukraine launched an offensive further north. Five rebels, two civilians and two ukranian soldiers were all killed. Kievs assault expanded 10 miles south to the town of kramatorsk. Troops regained control of several areas. Lawmakers vowed not to stop before Eastern Ukraine is under control. We go to donetsk for the latest. Reporter information comes out in an irregular way. The interior minister announced on his facebook page, not an official channel, that the ukranian military retook a Television Tower some 10 miles, 15km or so south of slovyansk. That was a tour which