Minutes. News 4 midday starts now. A mess on metro, theyre still cleaning up the red line. Right now two track problems, one at medical tr and one at woodley park. Metro says one of the problems involved a power cable, the other one an arcing insulator. The problem started around 6 00 this morning. Crews are working to get it all fixed, but the delays have people running 45 minutes late even now. And as that problem is going on metro being called on the carpet again, this time on capitol hill. Well show you some live pictures from the House Committee hearing happening as we speak. Youre looking at one of mayor. Safety issues, some of the oversight issues that have been happening really over the last few years with the rail system. We are just now getting into the question and answer phase of this. Metros general man t well, hes yet to be asked a question but there to answer whatever these members of congress do ask him. I can tell you this started an hour ago, really the most indicted
I said im getting on my bike to ride the 17 miles down to capitol hill because i dont know when im going to get in. I think metro in so many ways is, unfortunately, an embarrassment of our nations capitol. Reporter this mornings issues messed up the morning commute. Metro gm Paul Wiedefeld said it was all related to water issues. As you know there was a lot of rain in the last two or three weeks and that not only brings moisture and sediment and then clings to the insulators and collects dust and the brakes and that keeps that cycle going. Reporter weve documented the water problems in this section of track even though maintenance crews are putting an extra focus the red line right now. Metro says maintenance teams havent had a chance to make meaningful repairs at the Medical Center and this morning that turned into one brutal commute. At the height of this mornings commute and the problems, some reported delays of well over an suspected rain case, well ask the general manager exactly
I will leave it to the viewer. All i can say is that president nixons comments on the tapes are about jews in a way that is different from how William Safire describes it. Richard nixon is talking about how jews have exaggerated the holocaust because they want sympathy, and they have used it to gain sympathy. There is an anger towards jews that i believe cannot be explained simply in terms of liberal versus conservative, but i leave it to others to make up their own minds. I will tell you there is now a very good collection of people speaking on this issue that is publicly available. That is my job. Here is chuck colson telling a story. Kissinger had the right, although he abused it, to have nobody announce him. Kissinger could walk in when he wanted. Nixon told him that because of the severity of Foreign Policy issues, feel free to come in and interrupt anything. Henry would do it for trivial things. One day, nixon was really kind of ticked off at henry for a variety of things. In the
Federal government was taking over a private museum and library. I was asked to be the First Federal director. This was a library that was in place for 17 years. Roughly 100,000 people visited a year. In addition, 10,000 schoolchildren. It had a certain message when you run a private institution, you have a right to any message you want. When it becomes a National Institution it has to meet a different standard. I knew that one of my jobs was to change the newseum come up with in particular i was to change the watergate gallery. How do you do that . After a local community was accustomed to one particular description a museum might be a National Museum but it is also a local neighbor. This is in california. Yorba linda, california. I thought the best way i was a trained historian. I was not a nixon specialist was for the players, keep People Living from that era to tell the story themselves. I thought the best way to do this was to start a video and Oral History Program that involves n
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