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So i thought i would discuss in a book to raise awareness through a letter to an elected official. Its not to respect it and try to answer, its not that people are under some dark hole. Its a major issue i think. Most young people dont realize that there is far more impact. There are lots of letters, i think think a half a million a week. Heres how it breaks down. A lot of people dont know that relatives go to the white house every morning. Everyone expects the president to answer these letters ...

Is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official like a mayor, governor cant be censored or destroyed command not to try to answer it or technology so that people know that its not going to some dark hole is a major issue i think and most people dont realize realize in a written letter to a politician has far more impact than an email. You certainly dont expect him to answer every letter. And we speak about that in the book. Guest a lot of people dont know the...

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...

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 ...

School and university, i want to all of you to what i think is an extraordinary and special event, especially for me personally. Tonight we have the honor of here who h rosenfelt is an alumn of the journalism as well as the daily cow a long went on to enjoy career as an Investigative Reporter of the San Francisco chronicle. D all those times i stayed in touch with seth all those years, 30 known him for at least years, going on 40 years. Time, almost, at seth was involved in his own quest for the...

Thats how you grow an economy. Got to have an effective transportation and Health Care Delivery system. What one issue, though, what one issue do you want to be remembered for . [inaudible] you sill have a still more time, 20 more seconds. Creating jobs and diversifying the economy. Thats how you grow and diversify the economy. Dorothy, who was with me here tonight, we want our children to stay here. Two in college, one in the naval academy, but the two in college are getting out soon, we want t...

Having Seth Rosenfeld here whos an alum of the Journalism School as well as the daily cal and went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco chronicle. And all that time and i stayed in touch with seth all those years, ive known him for at least 30 year, going on 40 years and for all that time almost seth was involved in his own personal quest for the question of what was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s when all those events were taking place. ...

For that matter they couldnt even hand out a leaflet for goldwater for president. Who was the candidate that year and had been nominated in San Francisco. So the students tried to negotiate with the university. The university refused, and then in defiance, some of the students set up a card table right in front of the plaza and handed out leaflets. In short order, a Police Cruiser pulled into the middle of the plaza and arrested somebody named Jack Weinberg who was behind the table. But before t...

When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. What was supposed to be a press conference about donations to Veterans Charities devolved into an omnidirectional airing of grievances with Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump berating political enemies in his own party, going after a federal judge for his handling of a lawsuit brought by Trump University, unlear being insets against the media for seeking to hold trump to account for donations he prom...

Hes been a very bad judge, very unfair. Ralph nader is here to discuss the thirdparty impact. As a candidate emerges from this convention. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. What was supposed to be a press conference about donations to Veterans Charities devolved into an omnidirectional airing of grievances with Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump berating political enemies in his own party, going after a federal judge for his handling...