Investigations and litigation around issues like the incarceration of juveniles with adults in adult prisons or efforts to give tax exempt status to private segregated academies so they didnt have to pay taxes. Issues like that. Expanding childcare, Getting Better conditions for migrant workers, that is the kind of work we were doing and thats what i started doing when i graduated and went right to cambridge to work for her. Tell us about the call. This is a funny series of actions. I was visiting bill in arkansas i think right after christmas, either right before or after. Bills phone rang and he got a all from john doerr. John said, i have been asked to put together a team of lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether there are grounds for impeachment of resident nixon, and i have a list of people and you are at the top of the list if you would like to come to work. Bill said, im going to run for congress. I cant. Bill said, who else is on your list . John said,
Social security was much closer to going bankrupt and then it is today. The reason we have it today is the work the commission did, the surplus that was piled up in the intervening years until finally the baby boomer generation began to retire and are drying it down pretty rapidly. An opportunity to do that again, if we could reform Something Like that, we prevented this for three consecutive congresses by this president could be the person who saves Social Security, put it on firm footing and it would be done in a bipartisan way. My friend on the other side of the aisle are always concerned this means cutting but look what Ronald Reagan did with that commission was to bowe neil and Ronald Reagan the next year won reelection with 49 states and to bowe neil remained speaker of the house, you can do this in a bipartisan way as long as you are protecting the program because it is a popular program. The way they did it is gradually raised the age, i was 34, told me youre going to retire at
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ronald elving. I am an editor, correspondent podcast at npr and also a fulltime, thank you, and also a fulltime faculty member at American University school of public affairs. It is my very great pleasure to. Be here this evening with John Aloysius farrell, jack farrellja to his friends, and he has written his third book. His first book was called clarence darrow, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. Second book was called tip oneill and the democratic century. And then he turned to Richard D Nixon the life. Because such a popular character. Because of that trajectory i have to ask, what major turn to dick nixon . I was drawn to his story. The original subtitle for the book was Richard Nixon, an american tragedy. And that was struck as it did the Research People like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson would writ
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 then the pa
Next from the nixon president ial ivory museum pat buchanan describes when nixon rebounded for president in 1916 california governor in 1962 to win the presidency in 1968. Monday september 8 marks the 40th anniversary of president gerald fords pardon of Richard Nixon. Tonight is a great night because we have a very special treat for you. We have someone who spends a number of years at Richard Nixons side and remember that when he lost the two elections, the president in 1962, the gubernatorial or pardon me and 60 in the gubernatorial in 1962, people wrote him off. They said Richard Nixon was gone. He said this is my last press conference. Not so. At about the same time a young man left columbia university, graduated from columbia, joined the st. Louis dispatch, became an editorial writer and along the way match Richard Nixon and that began a magnificent journ journey. He began a Magic Carpet Ride from Richard Nixons defeat through years of what Richard Nixon described as voluminous ear