remarks from three former presidents, george w. bush, bill clinton, and barack obama. live coverage is here on c-span3. amen. this is john lewis favorite poem, invictus. out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole, i think whatever god may be to my inconquerable soul. in the fell clutches of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. under the bludgeons of chance, my head is bloody, but i m bound. beyond this place looms but the horror of the shade. and yet menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. it matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, i m the master of my fate. i m the captain of my soul. john lewis was my hero and my friend, let s honor him by getting in good trouble. [ applause ] only the inconquerable spirit and the magnanimous soul of john lewis could summon all of us together in this place at this time. only john lewis could compel three living american presidents to come to thi
gdp in this country of 32.9%. 3.29% would have been a big drop. it would have been almost as big a drop from the last recession. 32.9%. that is the measure of all of our work, lawrence. that is where the rubber hits the road. that s our lives. that s our prosperity. and it is our future as long as we are not running an effective national campaign to control the coronavirus, which we are not under the trump presidency. that s right. every economist you speak to and i speak to says the same thing. there are not economic answers to this economy. there are only public health answers and leadership answers to it. thank you, ali. have a good night, lawrence. thank you. well, we were greeted by something extraordinary today when we opened the new york times in print or online. there was an op-ed piece by john lewis. there he is. by john lewis on the day of his funeral. the new york times says that john lewis wrote this essay to us shortly before his death with the
this country of 32.9%. 3.29% would have been almost as big as the drop from the last recession. 32.9%. that is the measure of all of our work, lawrence. that is where the rubber hits the road. it s not an obscure economic number. and it s our future as long as we are not controlling the coronavirus, which we are not under the trump presidency. that s right. every economist you speak to and every economist i speakto to sa the same thing. there are not economic answers to this economy. there are only public health answers and leadership answers to it.e thank you, ali. have a good night, lawrence. thank you. av well, we were greeted by something extraordinary today when we opened the new york th times in print or online. there was an op-ed piece by john lewis. there he is. by john lewis on the day of his funeral. the new york times says that john lewis wrote this essay to us shortly before his death with the intention that it be published on the day of his fune
again, in 1963, our lives intersected because my father returned from the march on washington. he began raving about a speaker, young john lewis who had electrified the crowd. and so imagine when i finally met him in atlanta in 1976 as a young law student, it was a transcendent moment like meeting historical figure thomas jefferson or benjamin franklin who wrote the declaration of independence but yet, here was someone who had made america live up to those noble words. along with dr. king and reverend abernathy and andy young and joseph lowery and c.t. vivian, another lion who we lost on the same day as john lewis. john had an incorruptible integrity, an ideological purity which was like a halo. somehow this extended to everyone who was in his orbit. myself included. and that s the reason the nation has paused from pandemic and protests and politics to bid him farewell today. virtually every news organization has hailed john as a civil rights hero. but john was a women s righ
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