Was on valentines day was diagnosed with lung cancer. And she had been a lifetime smoker. And her disease progressed very quickly. And so by the end of april of 2004, i was at the u. S. Attorneys National Conference in san diego and i got a call from my younger brother saying to me, listen, moms back in the hospital. Really bad. If you want to see her you have to get home now. I flew back to new jersey and landed at Newark Airport and got in the car and drove to the hospital. And i got there and they started to give her more phone and trying to pain and i waited for her to wake up. She had not seen me for a week and said what day is it . I said its friday. She said what time is it . 9 30 in the morning. She said go to work. [laughter] governor christie i said, mom i decided to take the day off. Im going to spend the day with you. She said christopher, it is a work day go to work. I said are you afraid im taking advantage of taxpayers money. She said go to work its where you belong ther
Them a the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114 congress with color photos of every house and senate e member plus bios and twitter handles. Also, a look at congressional committees, the president ial cabinet. Order yours today. It is 13. 95 through the cspan store. Next, a discussion on the state of black men in the u. S. Among these speakers is the head of the president my brothers Keeper Initiative also, professors from john hopkins and harvard. This was hosted by the American Enterprise institute. It is an hour and a half. Robert good afternoon, and welcome to the American Enterprise institute. I am the morgan fellow here at e aei. I am happy to welcome you to our discussion, on the role of economics and policy. The cultural matrix understanding black youth, doing the best i can fatherhood in the , inner city. Helping black men thrive. My brother keeper, these are the works of our very distinguished panel. Each of our guests has produced important work about the
What gorbachev to do. Thank you, sir. What i would like to ask our panel is simply to take a minute each and give me your sense of the Lessons Learned on the entire imf experience and how they might apply today for some Lesson Learned, perhaps just professionally. Im going to start by asking myself this question. How good the anchors in 1985 have been so foolish as to believe that a president at the beginning of the president ial campaign, making a Foreign Policy speech that was almost totally different in total towards the soviet union than the tone he took in the first three years not to have in mind that politics might have sent in to do with it. But heavens, the media is so skeptical. Minute, minute, minute. A minute on the meaning of the impact of inf. The principal Lesson Learned in looking at some of the things we talked about here today as you must know the total range of your interest in you must be prepared to serve all of them equally well and not allow yourself to get tangl
Its a tricky question, and thats going to matter a lot for natural gas. No one mentioned nuclear yet in the institution. Yeah, id like to. If theres questions, i want to get to nuclear in a second, but, vivian, to what extent does the Development World ham strung by resource shortages, you mentioned renewables need to be Cross International boundaries. Is there an economic incentive to develop fuels, and do they have enough like africa or india . Well, it varies a lot depending on the country. I mean, one of the exciting developments in recent years has been the huge gas discoveries in africa, actually. Nigeria and angola are major producers, but mozambique came from nowhere to be a major producer changing the problem for africa in terms of changing to fossil fuels in the energy transition. Not only is natural gas attractive, but for the local pollution is minimal compared to coal which is also a domestic pollution issue in india and china. Theres a lot of scope for moving in that dire
Today on cspan, the impact of Student Loan Debt on students and parents, followed by a look at Space Exploration and innovation. Later, a discussion on nasas budget and mission. My first conservative was a friend of a friend i never met a conservative in my life. I was impressed by him, because he answered questions, he was very composed. He was not rancorous. He tried to gauge his responses to the level of my request. Over the course and not understand of anything this guy is saying, but he is so damn polite. Maybe theres something in his convictions. Playwright and reformed the mamet. Al david sunday night at 11 15 eastern. Booktv. According to a report, the u. S. Now has more Student Loan Debt and Credit Card Debt. Next, a discussion on how to ease the debt burden on students and their families. Hosted by propublica and the Lower East Side tenement of new york city. [applause] with a degree comes student debt. Im really happy to be here tonight. It is great to take some time, to hav