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This is a few miles. That would be a cool ride. And your short excursion would take you around the moon and back. Ok, im going to talk about Lessons Learned in my career. Informal chats are more effective than formal meetings. I have always found that it be of a meeting with a lot people and youre sitting down, the meeting is not worthwhile. This is a chat at oshkosh. People want to understand about airplanes. They want to share stories about the airplane they are flying. I said, lets just have ...

The senate is also in today beginning at 2 00 eastern for general speeches until about 4 30 when they will then debate and take a pulmonary vote on the nomination of Richard Griffin junior for National Labor Relations Board general counsel. You can watch the house live right here on cspan and see the senate live on cspan 2. Highers will conduct profile hearings including one wednesday with health and Human Services sucker Terry Kathleen secretary Kathleen Sebelius. At 9 00erage begins a. M. East...

Ago, whatever plan he had then is over with. This is a new election. The deal that he had a year ago, that does not count. For republicans and people to say they dont understand whats going on, i have a problem with that. The republicans deny anything he puts forward. The president left his vacation and came here. Theyre not being fair. Republicans say they are christians. Theyre not. They did this during his last term and now are causing and all of us to suffer because they dont like the presid...

But somebody needs to carve it out. And he died short shortly there after and oxford turned to me and said, how would you like to be the guy to carve it out. Thats how i got involve in this project. How much did you have to write yourself . About 20 of the book. He had 250,000 words. My job, all they wanted was 150,000. I boiled it down to 120,000 of his words and added 30,000 of my own words as well as, what, 1400 footnotes and extensive bibliography and, you know, i knew what i was getting int...

President ial candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. She may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. But i will give her three weeks. Three weeks, well know if this is real. Three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. I thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who ha...

I heard the awfullest racket and this arguing back and forth and i went back there and there was robert byrd and my grandfather. Different parts of the bible and verses and what they meant. My grandfather said, i think you might want to meet this person. He is running for United States senator. That was many years ago. If you can imagine, the 1960 campaign changed our family because of john f. Kennedy. We were catholic. Knowing that was going to be a big part of this election, could he break the...

Secretary sebelius, we wanted her to come last week. She chose not to. Other scheduling conflicts, she said. We have her coming next week to and she will give us at least three hours. There will be a lot of questions. There was a line that was on the front page of your paper, i dont remember the byline. It was like a lot of fingers and no palm. A lot of fingers pointing as to who the blame is. We need to get to the bottom of this. This has not been a story just in the last week or so. We started...

Intelligence threats, cyber terrorism, and edward snowden. This is a little more than an hour. This is a list you do of accomplishments of a man and i have to recite them but i will go really fast. He was a white house fellow and he had the experience of working with the National Security council with such deadheads as Henry Kissinger whats the generals name . General brent snowcroft. He had three major positions in the senate including being the Administrative Assistant chief of staff, Internat...

Statement yesterday, that republicans are entitled to some amendments, im asking now, were able to get it down to 25 amendments, just to be considered, and will the majority consider these 25 amendments which can be done it could be done in half day. Would he car that consider that . Mr. Levin there are no democratic amendments on his list mr. Inhofe i said 25 for this is your list, you come up with your list. The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Mr. Levin we cannot agree to a list o...

Exponentially in ways we cant envision. Think of the notion there are 40 Million People that dont have full access to the american promise, what would our country look like if they did . It would be a phenomenal its a huge Untapped Potential we have that were not accessing. Which programs would fit neatly in this package, how the money would be transferred and how you would deliver these benefits and there has to be some level of accountability in the states to ensure these programs are deliveri...