Made 30,000 phone calls to raise money . Mark green yes. Once you decide you want to be the mayor of new york city it is a marathon. I have to make 80 phone calls a day reach 20 people a day get 8 commitments a day. They put up calls i have in front of me. He gave 5,000 to schumer, 10,000 to clinton. He likes waterskiing. So i call and say hey brian, hows the waterskiing . If you dont do that you cant run competitively. I didnt know that i would end up running against the richest man in World History to run for office, Michael Bloomberg. I wasnt pained making these phone calls because its the ticket eventually. Brian lamb in 2001 september 11 was the day of the primary. Give us a little bit of the flavor what that was like. Mark green i have never spoken about that because i lost an election in part because of that. 3000 people lost their lives. It sounds so whiny and selfcentered, but the statute of limitations has run. When you write a memoir you have to be candid. Two years before s
Our sense of the profound and. Nduring loss of mandela served for five years as the first black resident of south africa after the African National congress artie help end apartheid in 1994. Guy johnson has more on the mandela legacy. Firstree man takes his steps into a new south africa. From prisoner to president , his 1990 release from jail signaling the end of the racist policy of apartheid. He would go on to become the countrys first truly democratically elected leader. I do hereby promise to be faithful to the republic of south africa. Wasorn to a local chief, he one of 13 children and the first member of his family to attend school. He began opposing the white minority a policy of apartheid, laws that segregated society and made colored South Africans secondclass citizens. Byst, mandela was moved gandhi. More aggressive, so did he. As the head of the armed wing of led ational congress, he violent sabotage attacks and was arrested and tried in 1962. He would spend 27 years in jail