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You here on the hill and in the hill surrounds are interested to come out to hear about what scholarship has to tell us about the dynamics of change in American Families, change in americas socioeconomic class structure, what it all has to do with child well being and whether or not policy can leverage change to our good. Id like to thank the annie e. Casey foundation, particularly the director of policy reform for being such great partners to us and making this segment happen. Our sincere grati...

Into law by lincoln five years earlier and the only one in that original group founded in lincolns home state. Indeed one of the reasons i was drawn to come to illinois last year to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can build upon the legacy of, and become linked with lincoln in the way the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson. Who to my mind was not as great a president and not as great a person. This brings me to a fourth question, w...

Meeting. And i had the luxury of time, two fulltime assistants. We looked at all the contemporary coverage of the pardon, got all the memoirs, got the legal memos from the ford library. I kept going back to interview ford. And to try to piece together what happened. I interviewed him in colorado a number of times, where he had a home, and many times at his main home at rancho mirage, california. I remember the last interview asking him, why did you pardon nixon . He said, you keep asking that qu...

And obama said im sympathetic to this. He said go read my nobel prize acceptance speech. I had seen the nobel prize acceptance speech. Ever seen something and read it and not understood it . Well, it happens to me too often. So i went home and got out the speech. And there, in plain english, obama says, yeah, wars sometimes necessary, but then he said it is always an expression and manifestation of human folly. And i realized at that point he just does not like war. And the problem is, when you ...

It was exactly in the tradition of my brothers book profiles in courage. And then gerald ford got up and talked about partial vindication. I remember watching this and thinking here i was convinced it was an act of maximum corruption, that the pardon was. And then it is examined many years later, dispassionately. And what looked like corruption actually is an act of courage. And that is sobering for somebody in my business. You can say, oh, yeah, this is the following this war made no sense. Thi...

We will check on the accident when we return. In travis, texas, more violence against Law Enforcement an officer has been shot and killed in his own home in round rock, north of austin. His body was found in the backyard. Neighbors are shocked. I want to cry. I just feel so bad for all of other brothers in arms as well as. His family. So. You feel helpless. Officials believe the deputy interrupted a bug her at his home and was shot. The deputy was just about to retire after 32 years of service. ...

As one of the last barriers of gender based service. And weijia jang on what happened when a planned drill on a military base led to a real lockdown. Reporter joint base andrews went into lockdown on reports of an active shooter on site. First responders rushed to the scene, thought to be unfolding at the bases medical facility. Thats when the situation got confusing. We havent heard reports of additional shots being fired or actually if any shots were fired. Reporter it turned out the base had ...

This city has adopted a series a policy a hardline stance against the homeless. Some say its mean. But the Business Leaders here were screaming that something had to be done. Here in waikiki a couple of years ago you would see a lot of homeless around. Out here today, you dont really see any. They are really not that visible. City leaders say this is a success. Well, there are some homeless advocates who are saying that this at what price are we taking this to be able to accomplish Something Lik...

Forecast. The forecast will not be great for fireworks, but not too hot. Taking a look outside of the golden gate bridge, drizzle and you may think it rained overnight, but it is a lot of low clouds, fog and drizzle along the coast and the bay. Temperatures in the 50s area wide. If you are heading to the beach, you will probably want the sweatshirt, but be aware we have a rip current hazard in effect, and the waves are deceptively small, but you can still see the rip currents. And also hypotherm...

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