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ahead, that we may look back on this day and this action as being the most significant action taken during this administration. president nixon had big expectations and we have come a long way since 1971. still, even today, cancer will strike down 1 in 4 americans. there are smart people who may tell you up front that we may be losing the war on cancer. but this morning i want to talk about our successes rather than failures. at the end of world war ii, doctors had very little to do with cancer, you could cut it out, blast it with radiation, but there wasn t good medicine. then in one day in 1947, a 2-year-old boy came through the door at children s hospital in boston. robert sadler had leukemia. it had broken through his bones. his twin brother watched the ambulance take him away. back then, the disease meant death in a matter of weeks or months. at children s hospital, dr. sidney farber was on to something, kind of a magic potion. it was the first chemotherapy ....
first, 40 years ago this past friday, december 23rd, president richard nixon declared the war on cancer. i hope that in the years ahead, that we may look back on this day and this action as being the most significant action taken during this administration. president nixon had big expectations and we have come a long way since 1971. still, even today, cancer will strike down 1 in 4 americans. there are smart people who may tell you up front that we may be losing the war on cancer. but this morning i want to talk about our successes rather than failures. at the end of world war ii, doctors had very little to do with cancer, you could cut it out, blast it with radiation, but there wasn t good medicine. then in one day in 1947, a 2-year-old boy came through the door at children s hospital in boston. robert sadler had leukemia. it had broken through his bones. his twin brother watched the ambulance take him away. back then, the disease meant death in a matter of w ....
facade, i devote a lot of time to george washington as slave holder. earlier generations seem to think it a trivial or inconsequential fact that he owned 300 human beings. washington was deeply conflicted over the whole issue. he opposed slavery in theory, but he was never able to make an issue of it in public. even in the founding, slavery was the most divisive issue, and washington knew that this was a subject that he broached at his peril. i wanted to write a book in which washington s slaves are not simply faceless names mentioned in passing, but to the extent that the documentary allows it really emerge as full-blooded has has human bein. i talk about billy lee who was a great hunter and rider and rack contour and who accompanied washington every single day during the revolutionary war and was actually very proud of it, liked to reminisce about the battles. i talk about martha s favorite slave, she was a young seam stress who finally escaped to freedom in the new h ....
spent two years interviewing stanley dunham s friends and family, including president obama. she discussed what she learned about the woman that raise the the 44th path with national journal s major garrett. the title is a singular woman. what is more important, the fact that president obama s mother is singular, or she s the mother of the president of the united states. what fascinated you most about the woman? guest: i got interested in her during the campaign. i was doing a series of pieces about then senator obama. i heard about her. i was interested in the singularity. yes, of course, i wouldn t have come upon her had she not been the mother of the candidate that i was writing pieces about. to some extent, the justification for the book is that. but the thing that we don t expect is that a person in our national political life had a mother with such an extraordinarily unusual life. so i think for me it s the singularity. did you approach this as a student o ....
and so then this is about page 60, i said, have no idea who this child is and i m on page 60 and i can t find the first patient or first few of the patients with leukemia the only thing i knew about this child was that he was the years old, and that he had lived in boston, and his initials were rs, because that was all that was in the paper. and so i began i was in boston. i sent out e-mail0s on list serves which said issue if you happen to know a child called rs with leukemia in the 1940s, please right to me. and months peace passed by, and no response whatsoever. and i kept saying, i m on page 60. this book is going to get written. then i got rejected, and i thought i went on a vacation to my parents house in india, and someone said to me, the chemist only one biographyer, and someone said to me, well, he lives three blocks away from my parents house in india. so he said to talk to him. so i said, final. so i went and talked to him, and we re having a conv ....