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I am the archivist of the United States. It is a pleasure to welcome you today to the william g. Mcgowan theater in washington. And a special welcome to our cspan audience joining us from around the country and around the world. Today, we have the latest in an ongoing series of Nixon Legacy Forums. Which we cosponsor with the Nixon Foundation and the Nixon Library. When asked about his library when it was first being played planned, president nixon said i have insisted that the Nixon Library and...

Or google or you want to hire real talent, you pay them more because you really need that talent, so that you pay them more to offset the employment tax. If youre working the lumberyard in oregon or somewhere, where theres a surplus of labor, the you dont pay them more to offset it, so the irony is that it ends up hitting the lower paid guy and the lower the struggling industry more than it hits the person whos in the consulting or technology industry. So reducing those employment taxes are have...

What was once a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a play pen for Corporate Giants. The fccs recent aws3 spectrum auction is a shocking case in point. Earlier this year the fcc disclosed that two companies, each of which claimed it was a, quote, very Small Business with less than 15 million in revenues together won over 13 billion in spectrum licenses. Those very Small Businesses are now claiming over 3 billion in taxpayer funded discounts. How could this be . D...

Extraordinary accountability. I want to compare and contrast what is happening with university of oklahoma and at the university of virginia with other context. This is march madness this weekend, next weekend kicks off determined kicks off the tournament. You have had to members that lost members of their team because of allegations of sexual assault. The universities did not close down the teams, they simply discipline the individuals. They do not discipline the womens track team because of wh...

Sorority membership is at an alltime high. There are folks that focus on this generation being lost in their ipads, phone, texting, the reality is there is a store nearly a store and or a demand for fraternities and sorties, because they provide an opportunity for students to grow and learn in a context that does not otherwise exist on campus. Host bart fraternities i am not ruling out a lawsuit said stephen jones, a lawyer hired by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter. We are wanting seeking someone...

When are we going to be able to read this report . What is next . Mignon thank you for allowing me to join you today. What is next is a series of exchanges taking place at the fcc. We are quasijudicial body. When we vote on an item, and when that happens we have the opportunity to weigh in even afterthefact meaning there are two defenses, and we will respond to that. Those defenses came in monday. And last monday, what we are doing, and in the coming days we will respond to that. And soon the pu...

Doing phenomenally well. The gap between the very, very rich and everyone else is growing wider and wider and wider. The top 1 now owns about 41 of the entire wealth of this country, while the bottom 60 owns less than 2 . Today, incredibly the top 1 10 of 1 , 1 10 of 1 now owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 . Today the walton family, the owner of walmart, is now worth 157 billion. That is more wealth than the bottom 42 of the American People. The fact of the matter is, over the last fou...

Their attention on the state of New Hampshire. This is 40 minutes. Joining us from boston is james kendall, thank you for being with us. I want to begin with Governor Scott walker, he was in New Hampshire for two days with nine in events, but only one public event and that gets to a piece you wrote a few years ago that to win the primary you need to go after the activist first. That is what is happening, can you explain. We are 11 months away from voting in New Hampshire and we are from this per...

Ms. Nowak we think the very foundation in troops on states rights are read to have any intrudes on states rights are read to have any state plans subjected to federal authority is a concern of ours. State Energy Policy should be left up to states. In connection with the department of energy, not the Environmental Protection agency. We have concerns about losing state authority over existing laws. Mr. Easterly . Mr. Easterly do not believe epa can protect us from lawsuits under the clean air act....

Them out of educating consumers they are unable to be objective and there are a lot of marketing messages in the education that they do with doctors through continuing medical education which is required for most physicians or through disease awareness initiatives aimed at other consumers or Health Care Providers either consumers or Health Care Providers. There is a lot of distortion that happens because of the pharmaceutical industry and we need to make sure that the information that Health Car...