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Somehow it puts your brain even deeper to sleep. Mine at least. Maybe. Doesnt take much. All right, we mentioned flying. Our next guest has created a lot of buzz about a situation on long island. Lets go to the videotape, please. Oceanside, long island. Hal not too long ago started parking his cessna aircraft right there in the driveway. Yeah. He said he couldnt afford the airport fees anymore. He had been parking his cessna in an airport and just couldnt do it anymore because hes going through ...

An autopsy showed he was hit at least 6 times, twice in the head. His body lay on the street for over 4 hours. His death unleashed an anger that had been building for decades at a system the community here says is stacked against them from birth. And raised questions about policing and race in america. Everything thats happening in ferguson is everything thats wrong with policecommunity relationships, particularly when it comes to black men. One of the reasons that black young men are angry abou...

He was 18, and unarmed, when gunned down by a white Police Officer in ferguson missouri. An autopsy showed he was hit at least 6 times, twice in the head. His body lay on the street for over 4 hours. His death unleashed an anger that had been building for decades at a system the community here says is stacked against them from birth. And raised questions about policing and race in america. Everything thats happening in ferguson is everything thats wrong with policecommunity relationships, partic...

Ferguson missouri. An autopsy showed he was hit at least 6 times, twice in the head. His body lay on the street for over 4 hours. His death unleashed an anger that had been building for decades at a system the community here says is stacked against them from birth. And raised questions about policing and race in america. Everything thats happening in ferguson is everything thats wrong with policecommunity relationships, particularly when it comes to black men. One of the reasons that black young...

Book, perhaps the most personal story of his career. It tells the story of his father, a nationallyknown physician who specialized in brain disorders, be who showed an and who showed an astonishing ability at the onset of his own alzheimers disease to explain the causes of his sickness and hen to narrate step by step his slow descent into dementia. Less about the loss of memory than the effort to create a testament to to forgiveness and to love. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming ...

Rights amendment. She was the first incumbent first lady to disclose purposely her prochoice view. Court ev and she publicly called for the appointment of a woman on the. Even before she started lobbying her husband too do so. Break in conclusion, first ladies thr continue to break barriers. They continue to forth new notg roles. They do it in their own way. Get and there is nothing wrong with that. They can use their special voice to get messages out to draw attention to causes. Rose lynn carte...

And then we have pat nixon. Pat nixon is one of the first ladies that weve talked about,m probably the first lady born into the poorest circumstances. Born in eli, nevada, which is nowheres ville in nevada. Her father had numerous different occupations. He sailer, miner, farmhand, truck driver. He died when pat was 18. Sher mom died when she was 14. She had a high school education. Her parents had already died. But what she did was she worked her way through school. And she went to junior colleg...

For the media. By the time they sold it in the 80s, it was huge and provided the family with substantial earnings. Then mrs. Johnson took some of the funds, investments, and she invested it into large ranching operations. She alsoarly managed those. She was an early civil rights advocate. She was so strongly inigne supp of the civil right act, that she was there when lbj signed that bill. She was the only woman in the room in 1964 when he signed gly that. She also was very strongly interested in...

Respondent to being in service to the president. Is. But i think it would be a far reach to see anything like duri dowton abby. Mr. Walters, i have a very simple question to ask you. During your tenure, who was your favorite social secretary that you worked with . Somehow, i thought a former social secretary might come up with that question. And, of course, it had to be caprica marshall. Th we spent probably more time with each other than we did with our spouses for eight years. This is working,...

I hope to have some fun today. We talked about the actual wars and fighting and the times when the cold war got a little hot. Today we are talking about the cultural cold war perhaps or the war over culture and the fight for influence. So in that context jazz really comes to the forefront. We are thinking about why that guy is running around in the congo and why they are traveling to far flown places of the world like pakistan and south asia. What are they doing there . Well talk about big ideas...