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From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Welcome to the program. Tonight, we close the year by remembering some of the people we lost in 2014. These men and women led lives of purpose and consequence. They enriched our culture through their inventions, their art and their enterprise. They have appeared on this program in the past 24 years and passed away this year. Every israeli, every jew wants peace. Generals are suspected to like wars. Myself, i was branded that generals are a...

Spinning off like particles, but having an unfortunately galvanizing force for economic and political and social instability in many more parts of the world. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much, professor shelley. We now from the carnegie endowment, they have a central subject of the book is the role of corruption, how corruption is an enabler, facilitator, and you cannot really understand transnational crime without paying attention to the broader issue of corruption. You have been studyi...

Cspan denny hastert, author of, speaker, what`s the granby roll . Guest the granby roll is a move in wrestling that you can score from the bottom. Not many people do it. And it`s good in wrestling, it`s probably good in politics, too. If you can score when you`re on the bottom and keep winning, that`s what it`s all about. Cspan where does the name granby come from . Guest Granby High School in norfolk, virginia. They were the instigator coach by the name of bill martin was instigated it and taug...

We always hope that you will be in the same position. [applause] that was not planned. In a few minutes, we will hear from Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich speaking in january, 1995 on the opening day of the 104th congress. What happened in 1994 Midterm Election . The 1994 election was a revolution in many ways because it brought republicans to power in the house for the first time in 40 years, 20 elections, 20 congresses with the democrats in control. Even though the republicans were work...

Colleagues. They put my name five times in nomination. To them, i owe a deep debt of thanks. From the bottom of a deeply grateful heart, i say thank you to my democratic colleagues for the honor they have given me. May i thank the members of the house for the respect they have always treated this role of the speakership of the house. In conclusion, may i say with gods aid and gods might, may we pray to him that he will give to us the reason, the judgment the knowledge, the talent that he has giv...

Our house in fond lack. What are you going to miss most about being in congress . One, the opportunity to meet a lot of people from different walks of life and to learn about and hopefully be of help with their problems. We do a lot of constituent service and working with different organizations and trying to help people in organizations in the district work their way through the washington maze and be competitive in their businesses and all the rest. And the other thing is learning the job like...

There are a few witnesses who were not brought in. They were witnesses who, one didnt make a statement. There were a couple who just disappeared. We spent a lot of time searching for them. And with the assistance of the f. B. I. But were unable to locate a couple of them. So none of the information though in one case i think we had a statement from the witness. It wasnt presented to the grand jury. Like i said i think there were couple of them. You cite officer wilsons description of browns Move...

I have enough notoriety through the issues i am involved in that certain elements of society know me and know me well, but broadly speaking, it is a nice feeling to have that. That anonymity. Once you get elected president , it is over with. As i think about it, i think my life has been more fulfilling. I think my personal life, my wife and my family, has been much more fulfilling. Much more happy with my being in the senate than it ever would had been in the white house. Remember, those trying ...

There is a couple of things i would like to do. One is to get my Defense Authorization deal passed. A major effort involving large amounts of staff. Looking at gimmicks to avoid taxes. If i was a manager for a baseball or Football Team, i would be in the hall of fame. I was not just such ongoing but i had cochairmen that were 18 county members that wanted me to run. And i did. We will take an american aid variousof native american tribes at 10 00 eastern. Attend the groundbreaking ceremony of th...

Furniture, hosiery and tobacco textile and tobacco capital of the world. Not true anymore. But theres still hanging on, all of those different occupations or professions. My mama was a textile worker so textile legislation was close to home with me. So id say accessibility and looking out for the back home, that the country did not suffer as a result. How has your district changed since 1985 . Oh, tremendously. When we were elected, we had a very compact threecounty district guilford almassas an...