Of the 1964 civil Civil Rights Act with former cbs correspondent roger mudd and former haroldtribune reporter andy glass. This is an hour. This session will be with two very distinguished guests today, two veteran reporters who covered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Just by way of introduction, were in one of the most historic rooms in the capitol complex, the Senate Caucus room, now known as the kennedy caucus room is the room where the mccarthy hearings were held, the watergate hearings were held, this is the room where john f. Kennedy announced his candidacy for president. Its room where a lot of nominees have been grilled by committees. Thereby have been a lot of inquisition, but today were not doing an inquisition, were doing a conversation and were very pleased to have andy glass and roger mudd as our guests today. Andy glass was born in warsaw, poland, and arrived in the United States during world war ii. He became a citizen in 1948. Hes a graduate of the bronx E High School of s
High school of science and yale university. In 1960 after he completed his military service he became a reporter for the New York Herald tribune and in 1962 he was assigned to its washington bureau. In 1963 he became the Herald Tribunes chief congressional corps spon dentd, having grown up in new york city and having read the New York Herald tribune, i always lamented when it folded as a newspaper, went out of business in 1966. But his career continued. He worked for newsweek, he reported for the Washington Post, he then came up here to capitol hill where he worked for senator hugh scott, the Senate Republican leader, he was a press secretary for senator jabets, then he went back to journalism. He went to the National Journal and also for cox newspapers where he was a column list. More recently were familiar with him because he was the managing editor of t hill newspaper and in 2006 he joined politico. So thats quite a resume over time. And our other guest today is roger mudd who was b
So, it is fitting and appropriate on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we honor this unbelievable couple, dr. Martin luther king, jr. And his beloved wife mrs. Coretta scott king. They were my friend. My brother. And my sister. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, the United States senator from michigan, the honorable carl levin. [ applause ] thank you and good afternoon, everybody. The congressional gold medal resolution that we are implementing today commemorates the ability of an inspired couple, armed only with the righteousness of their cause to help liberate millions from oppressive racism. We also commemorate today the ability of elected officials. Led by president johnson. Armed only with the desire for justice to overcome the divisions of party in order to help overcome the divisions of race. In october 1960, Martin Luther king, jr. Wrote to his beloved coretta from a georgia prison 230 miles from atlanta, a prison to which he had been hauled i
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Me. Appreciate it. Captioning performed by vitac we have some more thank yous. I want to thank our planner, Ivan Goldberg who made all this happen, also the great allison jafy of the great d. C. Improv. Those of you who heard the reception band, thats is madam organs band. You may have noticed on your tables mip cards. Those cards get you free into adams morgan. I want to thank cnn, my capitol hill colleagues who dealt with me dealing with this dinner and who could not be better friends and colleagues. Im so honored to work with you. Its such a privilege. Thank you to my friends, megan, megan and kristen and to my husband jason, you make everything better. Now to all of you, i have probably the deepest thanks, it has been an incredible honor. I would never have imagined reporting at the capital much less standing here with some of the greatest reporters in the world and we will continue fighting for access at the u. S. Capitol because we sure could use it. Finally, thank you of course