Anyone. I resist on that, totally. We dont go out to dinner very much with people. That part of our life seems to have dwindled. Much more when we came here over the years, whatever the time pressure was, whatever the reason, there is less of that hat goes on. I have too much respect for too many. And oh i will regret it and kick myself and say how could i have mentioned him without mentioning her. Lets go to president s, then. It was the president that you have enjoyed working with and havent enjoyed working with . Ive worked to a degree with ll the president s. I havent had a bad relationship with any president , for starters. I think president obama is very, very thoughtful, very careful. Does how to weigh pros and cons and gets along very well. I thought president clinton was unusual in terms of his ability, not just a think through issues and he has got a heck of a great mind, but he also had the ability has the ability, still very vigorously to connect with people on a personal w
Looked at roberts rule. I figured it out finally. The guy got more votes than i did. I got beat. Thats all there is to me. It didnt bother me but it hurt me because it hurt some of my friends. How are you feeling about leaving . Well, when i wanted a doughnut this morning, i went down and get it. Ive been a member of congress for 34 years and to finally get beat, if i was a manager for a be able or Football Team and i had 341, id be in the hall of fame, so doesnt bother me. And really it didnt bother me to get beat, because i wasnt just set on going. I had 18 cochairman who were chairman of my 18 counties in my district that were supporting me and wanted me to run, and i did. Its better judgment was it its hard toe get elected if you are 90 or 91yearold and they dont tell people that you run two miles every morning, that you vote 99 plus percent of the time. Theres a difference between that and old people. That wasnt brought up by the Dallas Morning News because theyre not in my favor.
Various native american tribes. 10 a. M. Eastern followingw. Following washington journal. Justices atcourt 8 30 p. M. Eastern this thanksgiving week on cspan. For a complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. Michigan senator carl levin is retiring after serving six terms in the senate. He recently spoke about his political career in the current state of washington politics. This is a half hour. Senator carl levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee, why are you retiring . A number of reasons. I didnt want to spend these two critical years out campaigning, raising money. I just felt there was too much at stake now, and i have a responsibility for some of those things as chairman of the Armed Services committee. It is not the way i wanted to spend my time, basically. The wife and i have been married for 53 years, and now 42 of those years have been in public life. We felt it was time. I am also 80 years old now. I just felt it was time to go home, spend a little more time with th
Furniture, hosiery and tobacco textile and tobacco capital of the world. Not true anymore. But theres still hanging on, all of those different occupations or professions. My mama was a textile worker so textile legislation was close to home with me. So id say accessibility and looking out for the back home, that the country did not suffer as a result. How has your district changed since 1985 . Oh, tremendously. When we were elected, we had a very compact threecounty district guilford almassas and davidson. Northern North Carolina . Northern North Carolina, northcentral North Carolina. Now, ive only stood one election under the new redistricting plan but now we have eight new counties continue to embrace part of allah mas and guilford, picked up portions of granville, orange and durham and coupled with the five complete counties, all new. It was quite an adjustment. Most recently, we had that was altered somewhat. We kept portions of guilford, allahmas, davidson. Picked up a portion of
In lunch rooms, when reporters have watched, when they go in their lunch bags, they end up in the trash can because you cant force kids to eat them. Yes and no. Yes and no. Thats another thing. School nutrition standards i changed those, too, thats the school lunch program. But the fruit and Vegetable Program for kids is fantastic. Now over 100 million a year. Low income kids across america are getting free fresh fruits and vegetables with a lot of spillover effect. Kids in lunch room, they throw stuff away. They want hamburgers and french fries. Thats right. So people have accused me of trying to tell parents what their kids should eat and tell the kids what they should eat. I said, yeah, im guilty. I plead guilty. Should we let kids eat what they want to eat . If they want candy bars in the morning, would any parent want their kid to eat candy bars all day long . Or to stuff themselves with hamburgers or french fries every day . No parent wants that. Parents want their kids to have h