george h.w. bush. and he was the only republican. he was the only republican. who came that day. and i always thought it spoke so well of both of them. it did. it spoke well of both of them. folks, we have to stay on the clock. one thing i learned in television, i know how to get off on time. thank you very much. you have a great day coming up here. [ applause ]. on our next washington journal, gretchen morgenson joins us. looking at some of the shortcomings of the home loan modification program, which was set up to help homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments. then susan carlson of the minnesota organization on fetal alcohol syndrome about a new study examining drinking and drug use among pregnant teenagers. a after that, john jackson of conservation force talks about endangered species and big game hunting. plus, your phone calls, facebook, comments and tweets. washington journal is live each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. this sunday
he knew each and every member. he knew what they needed. he knew what they didn t want anybody to know. the part that i find just wonder russ is how in a day could he do what he did and how did he come to know so much about each and every member? you nailed it. he had this encyclopedic knowledge of not only the legislative process, but of the people around it. hue better humphrey described lbj as a psychiatrist. he could read you. he knew it moerveated you. he knew what might motivate bob was different from what motivate linda or larry. he got that. and he used it. he exploited it. there s an expression, that people are motivated by either love or fear. and you need to know the right combination in order to get them to act. lbj got that and he used to apply something that was legendarily known in washington as the johns ontreatment or just the treatment. there was no doubt who was applying it. johnson was the master of that and he used a combination of flattery or threateni
. . . . instructions we ll get licked on that too. the only judgment i can make at this point is that mills will certainly try every device he can to get an agreement on a conference that would include king, reluctant as they might be because he d hate like hell to be on the house side of a conference where he and two republicans vote against two democrats to come out with a conference report. and geez, he starts i ll speak some business right now. you talk to i ll talk to you as soon as i get out of these independent businessmen. my thought would be that if we could get mills to agree that we would take it in confidence that would be fine. if not i would try to instruct the conferees. no, at the moment i share that view. but i do think this, that with the stories around the country today, we ve got something going on this damn thing. and god almighty, i hate to see that leadership join with mills as some kind of a wrapup that screws us quick
about 20 years build to build it up into a nationally recognized press to deal a publisher fine press books. this is their very first class at colorado college, very first college class. it is a history class and they are talking about sort of the development of printed books and manuscript books in that kind of knowledge. so when they come in today we are going to be talking about the different things you know the historical background of the technology and the context in which it was invented, how it changed europe after that and then what it entails. technically what does it entail to print with this equipment? as you can see we are surrounded by all these jurors and each one of these drawers is filled with the metal pipes, individual letters letters attached to different pieces of mail and compartments in the jurors. we are going to be working on these two presses here. before presses are the same style of press for which you are printing from goes into the flatbed and
u.s. foreign policy, the growth of terrorism and especially isis, and all so the fate of minorities in syria. he is a historian who spent a number of years in the levant. he is a graduate of princeton university and studied at oxford as a road scholar. he has written for the wall street journal and the times literary supplement. for those of you who are frequent visitors to our meeting, knows the we try to reach out to experts, new faces, new ideas so we are in for a very exciting next 25 minutes and then we will open the floor to your questions and we have an overflow of questions from the overflow. thank you for coming. it is nice to be here. i have admired the wilson center added distance for a long time and it is a thrill to finally be speaking here as an author. i want to thank haleh esfandiari for the invitation. thank you for being here. i want to begin briefly by telling you about the book, what am i doing here? then i will talk about among the ruins: syria past an