to do good in the world this morning. i was asked to begin by talking with you about why i got into politics and how i got into politics. i thought it might be better to start with the answer to the question, who was i when i showed up to do that and it is a question i hope you ask yourself today on this journey ahead, why am i showing up? who am i? what are the values i am bringing forward that are creating my desire to get involved? whether it is 214 offers to run for office or support a candidate for work in not candidate in a issue that you care about. you are showing up for a reason. because of something in your own personal background has motivated you to want to do more than just sweet tweet a few things or show up and listen to other people talk. you have decided that you need to engage and many of you have been engaged for a number of years already and you are here to fill up again and it is so important. to do that, to fill our tanks with the support that can o
she explains that lincoln was so unsure about his chances that he had his cabinet sign at what was known as the blind memorandum, which pledged cooperation in hi with his unknown challenger if he lost. they also expand how important the soldier vote was. this 50 minute talk was a part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war. adjust theng to not microphone because we spent time adjusting it for meg. so i will bend over, and i apologize if i look like i am hunched over. [laughter] i hate to stereotype, but i am sure that meg looks like a mild-mannered middle school math teacher. that is exactly what she has. [laughter] what she is. [laughter] educated by day, by night she has been working on her degree in military history. she is just about to wrap up her masters degree. in one of the most courageous acts i have seen from anybody, she is reinventing herself. it has been a great adventure for her to discover the american civil war from the perspective serious scholar
that is not going to happen as long as our trade laws don t allow us to prevent cheating. right now our trade laws encourage companies to cheat encourage other countries to cheat, because by the time we succeed, the damage has been done. host: larry is up next republican line. caller: good morning, pedro, mr. gerard. guest: good morning. caller: can you inform the public about the historic 1992 ross perot, the giant sucking sound of jobs involving nafta versus bill clinton? what brought that about? guest: well, look, let s back up a bit. the initial negotiation of nafta was done with george bush senior. bill clinton became president on the promise that he would fix nafta and in particular fix the labor chapter, which he did not do. good afternoon. i am marilynn serafini with the alliance for health reform. on behalf of our honorary cochairman, senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to today s briefing on the second of health care costs. i would also like to
are still too young to run for congress but over the next couple of elections we could see a surge in war vets battling for office. here now a look at some of your weather. storms in the northwest moving inland. cold front moving across the middle of the country bringing showers from missouri to the ohio valleys. a hint of summer in the neefts. cooling overnight, though. 70s and 80s in the south. 60s in the center of the country. 40s and 50s along the northern border. health headline this morning that can be music to the ears of parents of six kids. giving your child sugar water can be as good as medicines. they think it will probably have something to do with the placebo effect. while we re talking about sweet stuff, dunkin donuts croissant donut goes on sale next week. it s covered in the same glaze used by their glazed doughnuts but has no filling. it s gained fame here in new york more than a year ago. it s a what? a doughnut with nothing inside? the filling is
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