was going to make. the reason why ultimately chief parks didn t get re-hired is because mayor jimmy haun in an act of political courage we haven t always seen in this city, decided that he didn t want to see bernie parks retired, and that s the rehired, not because the police commission made the decision but jimmy haun cost himself the next election. how hard was it to for you to get information? how difficult was it for you to tell some captain to do this thing and unless you wrote it down and you kept after it, you got it. it s very, very difficult, and when you re part-time, and the the name of the judge, federal judge on the ninth circuit right now yeah, line rhinehart, called them the masters of the half truth. has that been your experience? this is simple for me. commissioners need training. they nigh need training to know when they re being bull shitted, and training to know it s not a level situation. you re climbing a hill like this. human nature doesn t wa
i think that they raise issues that we have today. .. in the tension between idealism and pragmatism. the important thing is that traditionally weak cover these guys independently. we assume that because the it or was republican and franklin was a democrat that you can segment them and they contribute to different silos of american history when in fact they intertwined and integrated families, with the last name roosevelt is of much more interest. exponentially more interesting when you see how related they aren t that there is no franklin or eleanor without theodore. that there is no new deal, without the not only theatre roosevelts nearly two terms as president but his attempt to run as president as an independent progressive third party. so you have a great deal of americans 20 century commanded by one or more piece of roosevelt and interconnected command it is. and then you have got the rest of the 20th century and the 21st century that is still in the wake of their a
be fine. he goes to europe and it comes back on the titanic and he dies. for taft it was yet another blow. he said every time i look in the room i m missing every single moment. those letters are an absolute treasure and he felt especially betrayed with teddy running against him. to me the most poignant part of the book is taft and roosevelt were enemies. after the election wilson as president. taft and roosevelt don t talk about. taft tried to talk to roosevelt and roosevelt ignores him. finally they came by happenstance in a hotel. what happened? what happened was when i finish the book i didn t want to end it. it was such of the trail but i didn t know so i followed them in 1913 and 14 and 15. ut i didny know what the relationship had been like past that. i followed them in 1914, 15 and 16. people brought them together but taft says it was like an armed neutrality. in 1918 teddy was in the hospital with an operation that taft had once undergone any work undergone any w
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event. it s a culmination of emotions for so many people. people come here expecting that and it is going to deliver. i think it is. i thought it was really interesting. you have a governor walk in. you have president bush walk in. you have president obama walk in. john louis came last. a giant actually nobody does that. to follow two presidents on to a stage and the crowd responded getting bigger and bigger and when john was there, the you saw the huge reception. i think this speech he has an opportunity to move the ball on two key issues. voting rights. i think it s obvious that you talk about voting rights. also this question of the next generation. this movement around you know black lives matter. how does he bring in this young generation to let them know i understand you want better policing and education. if he connects to that moment in the past, but bring in the new movement there s a new civil rights movement post-ferguson and trayvon martin, but they have not f