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Thing 22 different times. In high school when you have to be in class eight hours a day and you want to be in a sport and you get home at 8 00 and you terry the democrats would have been elected. Kent state would not have happened. Ellsberg would i have faced 105 years in jail. A whole lot of other history would be different if this war had been stopped, not to mention the thousands and millions of lives that were killed after 1967. It is a shame 14,000 u. S. Ondiers died in 1967, when 58,000. W...

Coming up next, contributors and editors from the book the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement, discuss their personal experiences and that movement. The Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office Hosted this event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. Of thee director Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start du...

This is a 90 minute event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. I am the director of the Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. The methodists actually hired me right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Me...

[laughter] Myra Macpherson i used to hate public speaking, and i would get anxiety, and i still do, but i was at a speech and a woman was in the front row and she was smiling, so i found myself playing to her. All of you remember jack, my wonderful jack gordon, and he would say it all matters about the 95 and who the hell cares about the other 5 . So i was focusing on this woman and finally i got so angry at the end of this q a and i was wondering what her problem was and so i asked the woman ne...

Lincolns view of the world in one word, the word is is. He believes the United States is a country not the United States are. In the prior, states were reviewed as part of an overall confederation of states. He believed we were one country. And he wanted to bring the Southern States back. Second, he wanted to improve the status and the lot of the lives of the americans the africanamericans living in the United States of the time it. Those who were free before, and certainly those who became free...

Janet was referring to, you know, the moral injury, people pay more and more attention to that, and lets note pretend this only exists on the military side of the equation. Theres trama and disability in the world as well. To me, you might disagree, but, to me, its the commonality here is once something happens in your life, whether its a single event or accumulation of things, but theres some its not just trauma, but something happens that just rattles you down to the bones. What do you do then...

Booktv on cspan2 continues. Myra macpherson recounts the lives of tennessee kennicott field whose professional and political pursuit good late 19th century. This is about 40 minutes. Phil pavlov, one of my dear friends over here. He is a joke and say czerny said cements, any sex ms . A lot sollecito. Sided sex and scandal. [laughter] i really hate used to be incredibly nervous. I still am. I got a lesson when i speak into the group, rather large group of this woman in the front and not faint. Sh...

In the context of war, this is what happens. You normalize the situation so you can live through it. If you dont, you die. One of a 41 unique voices from 25 years of our footnotes and conversations. Sundays at eight. Now available at your favorite bookseller. Off andthe women went became these incredible successes, not only would they be the first women stockholders in the world to own a brokerage firm, not to be repeated for 100 years they had a radical newspaper. They became lecturers. They sp...

Years were you there . I think it was 23 years. What is one of the highlights that comes to mind . One of the highlights has been that i was covering the mets in 1969 when they finally won. They wouldnt let me in the press box because i was a girl as they said in those days. I had already covered the indianapolis 500 where i had been the only woman in the country. I found this interesting because it was a magic place to work. Ben bradley hired me for style and it really transformed and revolutio...

That comes to mind . Hasne of the highlights the that i was covering mets in 1969 when they finally won. They wouldnt let me in the press box because i was a girl as they said in those days. I had already covered the indianapolis 500 where i had been the only woman in the country. I found this interesting because it was a magic place to work. Styleradley hired me for and it really transformed and revolutionized the paper business. It is not at all like it was then. You would do 2000word pieces a...