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September 11, 2018
Day and to continue talking about it to future generations dont forget what it means to be an american. see when he mustve seen some of your classmates go off. what was that like. can you tell us a little bit about that? >> john: there something that happens when you leave and you know that everybody might not come back. when you graduate or when you go off into a mission. theres kind of a silence that whatever happens, im going to have your back and whatever happens regardless, we are going to ...
September 10, 2018
[ applause ] >> laura: personal responsibility. professor, the level of this crosses all economic spectrums, crosses all racial backgrounds. it especially is difficult in chicago and especially in the poorest neighborhoods. young men without role models, mothers doing their very best, working hard. they seek role models in all the wrong places. gangs are there to fulfill their roles. what about that, the family part of this equation? >> 70% of african-american house holds had both parents. 2017 ...
September 10, 2018
We have to start doing better for ourselves. [ applause ] >> laura: personal responsibility. professor, the level of this crosses all economic spectrums, crosses all racial backgrounds. it especially is difficult in chicago and especially in the poorest neighborhoods. young men without role models, mothers doing their very best, working hard. they seek role models in all the wrong places. gangs are there to fulfill their roles. what about that, the family part of this equation? >> 70% of african...
September 10, 2018
This time around, these are not existing politicians or state legislators or mayors. they range -- these women range from navy helicopter pilots to former national teacher of the year. they have diverse backgrounds, and theyre not loyal. they dont feel allegiance to the democratic partys hierarchy. >> thats actually one of my biggest questions whether the democratic party while they may take back the white house could end up with a tea party style. >> how can you ditch nancy pelosi as the leader...
September 10, 2018
But you had to be as close as you could get and you had to be closer the next day and then closer the day after that. >> they knew that haldeman was controlling the campaigns secret fund. the question was who was controlling haldeman? i was amazed by woodward and bernsteins resolve. theres nothing glamorous about what they were doing. but i thought it was important to portray the tedium, the hard work, and of course the feelings about the film from a studio standpoint was non-commercial. newspap...
September 10, 2018
Profiles similar to those of the west mesa women have also gone missing, to states as far away as pennsylvania and florida, where the backgrounds and travel patterns of certain types of men seem to warrant close attention. >> theres probably people that were in albuquerque during the time frame were looking at and now, through investigative leads or other sources, we find something that tells us a little bit more about their lifestyle as well, which would give us again that kind of immediate gut...
September 10, 2018
You know, its not what you see in vegas. its not the call girl. its not the pretty woman. >> by the end of 2005, ida had five women on her list that were roughly the same age with similar backgrounds, young hispanic women with arrest records for drugs or prostitution. >> i go out there and start talking to the girls. at first some of them were hesitant. i said, look, im not running you. i just want to know when was the last time you saw her? did you know her? what can you tell me? whats going on...
September 9, 2018
Backgrounds. half of our colleagues in congress are millionaires. they have no clue what it means to live in the conditions many of our families live in and many residents sending their kids to overcrowded classrooms. they continue to not get access to equity. half my colleagues are completely disconnect with that. so right now i want to uplift those women that have won. ayanna pressley winning in that district, she comes from a background that relates to many across the country, those are the t...
September 8, 2018
Book. i think the most part about the demographics that we reach, the type of events we do attract people with very different backgrounds and get them to talk to each other. w by combining book, poetry, music, shows and we provide drinks, coffee or cocktails, that will make people talk freely. i know theres been a lot of thought about not doing business with friends. paco and i. i think its beautiful the way that life is just a succession of accidental happy things. with friends, its more in the...
September 8, 2018
He spoke in glowing term of the courts experience during the nixon administration in u.s. versus nixon. he has been in that white house and outside the white house. now he has been a judge and he has been considering presidential power in a range of cases and come to a range of conclusions including ruling against the president who appointed him to the circuit court. im sure he will rule against president trump from time to time. that is not how he thinks b he is not going to the court to think ...