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and they provide miami dade colleges to the community. host: you have a full day ahead of the. we appreciate you stopping by. guest: thank you for being here. abyss the day for you host: we have moved inside the bus where we re joined by john dean whose most recent book is called the nixon defense: what he knew and when he knew it. mr. dean, how and when kid you become richard did you become richard nixon s counsel? guest: peter, john please. [laughter] anyway, july of 1970 when i was 31 years of age, i became white house counsel. i wasn t a part of the nixon entourage, i hadn t been in the campaign. i had been in washington quite a while, i d worked as the chief minority counsel of the house judiciary committee, i d gone on from there, i d been an associate deputy attorney general. that s where i joined the nixon administration. while at justice i had a lot of dealings with the white house staff, and so when john ehrlichman became assistant to the president for
obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. he has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. he is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. he appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and c-span and he also made his film debut in the matrix and was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004, his latest book, black prophetic fire with a distinguished scholar chris the bushindorr prevents a perspective on six african-american leaders including frederick a. bliss, w. e. b. du bois, martin luther king jr. ellen baker, malcolm x and otto while barnett. examine the impact of these men and women in their ear ats and across the decades and rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and all so therefore wines by providing new insights that humanize these well-known figures cornel west takes an important step in rekindling the black prophetic fi
disagreements with the view ultimately to thinking for ourselves about what are the or the most reasonable ans to the fundamental questions and it seems to me that strauss does explicitly actually indicate that this is exactly what he is doing. that it s a new kind of philosophical dialogue he is constructing, and i just want to read you a passage from his liberalism and ancient and modern, what is liberal education. he says: the greatest minds utter monologues. we must transform their monologues into a dialogue. they re sid by side into it together. the greatest minds utter monologues even when they write dialogues. when we look at the platonic dialogues we observe that there is never a dialogue among minds of the highest order. all platonic dialogues are dialogues between a superior man and men inferior to him. plato apparently felt one could not write a dialogue between two men of the highest order. we must then do something which the greatest minds were unable to do. sinc
next cornel west discusses his book followed by an interview at the 31st annual miami book fair international. [applauding] association, thank you. i am a multimedia journalist at channel 5 news in west palm beach and vice president for the national association of black journalists, the miami for lauderdale chapter and the am very happy to introduce two special guests today. dr. cornel west is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, a professor of philosophy and christian practice at union theological seminary and professor emeritus at princeton university. the also taught at yale, harvard and the university of paris. graduated from harvard and obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. he has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. he is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. he appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and c-span and he also made his film d