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With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well cal...

Secondary sanctions on foreign entities doing businesses with entities remain listed with terrorism and human rights issues. The problem is the laudable positions have not been made public and they are only effective if they are aggressively publicized and equally enforced. The fact is as u. S. Officials will concede in private conversations that the administration suffers from a trust deficit. Whether one believes this is deserved or not. It is there. And the fact is that not only are none of t...

Improve wea message content, delivery, training and outreach. With respect to message content, we would increase the maximum message length from 90 to 360 characters for 4g, lte and future networks. Wed significantly improve the quality of information that alert originators are able to transmit by requiring participating wireless carriers to support embedded urls and phone numbers in all wea messages, including amber alerts within one year of the rules publication in the federal register. This w...

First, strengthen competition, and advance innovation. At the top of that list is the agencys vote last month that will make it easier for consumers to buy a settop box or an app from someone other than their cable company. Is Technology Neutral proposal means that any company will be able to manufacture a settop box or design an app and sell it to consumers. Should a consumer wish to continue renting their settop box from their paytv provider, they can. No one is going to take it away from them...

Nixon was seen as a Foreign Policy sage. When he died, all the president came out there to california to be at his too many or his bur l burial. September 7th, 1972, 10 32 a. M. Following the controversial shooting of candidate George Wallace whether they were candidates for the presidency or not were offered tem pouporary secret service protection. Youve got one u. S. Senator kennedy whose a secondary factor in the campaign. You give him secret Service Coverage throughout the campaign. He said,...

As i leave the presidency. To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every american. And leaving it, i do so with this prayer. May gods grace be with you in all the days ahead. More now on the 40th anniversary of president nixons resignation. With a recent discussion hosted by the Washington Post. It includes journalist bob woodward, carl bernstein, Elizabeth Drew and ruth marcus talking about the scandal that led to president nixon stepping dow...

In the age of really accessible video, we cant talk about nixon 40 years later without taking the opportunity to go back in time and actually see the events of that evening. So if we could do that, that would be great. It never works. Were going to give the sound ten seconds to work and then well he never resigned. If anybody can read lips and can tell us what happened. Its all a trick. So without that dramatic moment, some of us remember it. Some of us have seen it on tv when the wireless feed ...

I have been saying how excited i am to be here this morning with gentlemen yout are getting up on the stage better than i could. I am here this morning as both the moderator him a thank you. You can do that. I could say eight before beauty but that wouldnt be appropriate. I am here this morning as both the moderator and a child of around, which i cannot escape if i wanted to. I do not want to. When i front of Nelson Mandela for the first time, this is for five days after he got out of prison. Wa...

Up next former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee appeared on booknotes in 1975 to workaround his journalism career. Mr. Bradlee died this past week at the age of 93. This program is about an hour. Cspan ben bradlee, one of the last things you tell us in your book is that you gave an anonymous gift to harvard and nothings happened. Guest well, i didnt want to have any publicity about it while i was still editor of the post. I thought that would be inappropriate. And so i yeah, i tried ...

Watergate scandal and followed, fordsng president pardon of Richard Nixon. The detailed how the story of folded and reflected on the role of the anonymous source known as deep throat. This program is just under two hours. Mr. Woodwarde and were visiting with our other guests in the overthrow overflow area. My name is timothy naftali, director of the nixon president ial library and museum. I want to welcome all of you tonight. [applause] thank you. And now please join me and welcoming mr. Ben bra...