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So character and the presidency is quite a subject, isnt it . Here in grand rapids, we are lucky to enjoyed a fine example of moral courage in the presidency of gerald ford. We thought we would open tonights program with a brief clip of Gerald R Ford a test of character, a documentary that aired on National Geographic last year. After that the investor will come up and differ much about why he felt the need to initiate this series. Even as president ford was growing in assurance in popularity, h...

Me, every year it is on my list. Within glove, one sock. Socks. It is the dryer. They eat the socks and the gloves. So what are the temperatures today heading out the door. Twentys. It is cold. The shore points are warmest. But we have problems when warmest is 34 degrees in ocean city. Forty across cape may and you can see north and west pottstown, man 23 degrees, slow crawl out of the freezer, we will get sunshine, get to work later today. Acres of sunshine out to the west. You know when weathe...

We could see sprinkle for points north, especially up into the poconos. More coming up in your exclusive forecast, for now, back to you. Chelsey, thank you. It is 6 00. Time to check the roads. Lets go over to Amanda Mueller in the cbs3 traffic center. Hi, amanda. Hi, jan, taking live look at 95 at the vine, near the ben franklin bridge. Not many folks out there. This is what youll see on most of the roadways in the area. Maybe because of the holiday. Maybe everyone decided to sleep in today. As...

Character, a documentary that aired on National Geographic last year. After that the ambassador will come up and give remarks about why he felt the need to initiate this series. Thank you for being here and lets roll the clip. [applause] even as president ford was growing in assurance in popularity, he knew he could not truly heal the country until the situation with Richard Nixon was resolved. The former president had resigned, but would he be prosecuted for his actions . At fords first Major P...

That, ambassador seki a will give opening remarks about why he felt the need to initiate this series. [video] even as president ford was growing in assurance and popularity he knew he could not heal the country until the situation with Richard Nixon was resolved. The former president had resigned. But, would he be prosecuted for . At ford fords. Irst meeting, are you saying the option of a pardon is one you will consider . Every day was a different crisis, a different issue. It was a different t...

The Lincoln Group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republ...

5. 9 trillion. The tax package, the driver right now getting closer and closer to a done deal. In the Senate Committee will be procedural motions, then 20 hours of debate, then the tax cut vote should be by friday. Believe it or not, it is possible senator mccain will pass the deciding vote. He killed obamacare repeal, will he kill tax cuts . We simply dont know. Will Claire Mccaskill vote yes . That too is possible especially after President Trump speaks in her home state of missouri today. He ...

The answer is yes. We have a tax system right now in place and we have a tax system right now and when i hear my colleagues of course we dont like the taxes and we particularly dont like it if states we like mine where the Companies Shut down production in line in springfield and move to get a tax break for doing it. We ought to close that loophole, but this bill explodes that because as i said a few minutes ago if a plant shuts down in kenya or zanesville there would be a 20 on profits and if i...

And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressman from mississippi, john r. Lynch. Here is some of what our speaker said. It is now less than...

The library of congress cohosted this 50 minute event. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming and welcome to the library of congress. I am carla hayden, the 14th librarian of congress. [applause] thank you. We are looking forward to a very, very exciting afternoon celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing by president Lyndon Johnson of the public broadcasting act of 1967. Four starstudded panelists in store for you, featuring many great names of public broadcasting in on radio and in televis...