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Nader talks about letters he is sent to george w. Bush and barack obama regarding our domestic and foreign policy. Its great to have you here ralph on cspan thank you. Im honored to interview you on this new book. Yeah the Reference Point those days. Its a message that 103 letters i sent to president bush and president obama in 2001 and 2015 that were not acknowledged or not answered. So i thought i would embarrass myself by putting them all in a book to raise a bigger issue which is the most De...

Scenes and below the spotlight, our governments are working together very well on a number of things. Things. How do we improve our borders . How do we integrate our Economic Resources . Those kinds of things are going to adhere to the benefits of the citizens in both countries, i i dont think we have a handsoff relationship. I think it would be well if our congress or senate would couldnt firm Roberto Jacobs as our basset or as well as the Mexican Government appointed an ambassador to the Unite...

They are beginning to listen but they are now where they should be, i think the the more you construct Civil Society to get involved the Better Future mexico is going to have. In terms of dr. Dressler talked about the competitiveness of telecom and broadcasting, that is just beginning and i have great hopes that she expressed that is going to be successful as it rolls out. Democracy and changing of lifestyle of years, and years in the country overnight just does not happen. You have to stay afte...

It seems like it wasnt too long ago when this was a lot of talk, at least in this city, about mexicos promise, mexicos moment. A new administration. A political pact among its main parties. And latin americas most ambitious and wideranging reform agenda that seemed to enjoy broad support. In fact, many important measures were enacted in a short period of time. Lately, however, the news from mexico has been of greater concern. Security and human rights issues, rule of law challenges generally hav...

President bushs experience after katrina. Was that racial . I dont think president bush was being racist with his handling of katrina. This was the hurricane that of course affected so many of minorities and lower income people who were hurt by the storm in louisiana mississippi. Particularly in the ninth ward of new orleans. We saw people people on rooftops waiting for help. I think, and even president bill clinton in this book, he says i dont think it was an issue of racism, his policies just ...

Going to go to ferguson. Why not to race issues have come to every president in the book. Lbj, john f. Kennedy, eisenhower all of these president s have dealt with issues and acted on it. So people need to understand and so it comes to the president and he is the one who can effectuate change. Bill clinton, did he come close to African Americans considered an apology for slavery . There was a speech that he gave when in africa. He did not apologize for slavery. It was a backandforth fight betwee...

Thank you again. On the next washington journal, margot sangerkatz joins us, looking at Health Care Insurance and costs. Then Sharon Epperson on the 80th anniversary of Social Security and what the future holds for the program. Later, a conversation on the u. S. Foster care system, with the director of policy reform and advocacy. Well also take your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal, live each morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. With the senate in its august break, well...

It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i ...

Almost every single one of them saluted back. It was an incredibly moving experience, and you always have to wonder when youre talking about faces and people that you remember how it impacted the lives of those young men. I guess, among many other things, ive always wondered were they able to rebuild their lives and to have good families and decent jobs and to really have a decent life. I want to interrupt then and tell an anecdote. Im going to take one second here. I was inside the pentagon wor...

That was more important. When in the middle of that situation, the thenpublisher didnt want to give us an option to buy it. He had it was for sale for 150,000. But we needed 1 million in order to go into business because it was losing a certain amount of money every year. I had told ham, its useless if you dont have an option because who knows what will happen. So edgar came to a meeting with ralph nader, a man named ping ferry, who is a marvelous guy, and his wife, and ham and me, to get the op...