ted was way over in the other corner. he yells out, hey, werth, you want to run this foundation? he wanted to focus on two issues, women s reproductive health and population. in 2001, ted created the nuclear threat initiative. he thinks everything s his responsibility. he enlisted senator sam nunn to join him in the fight against weapons of mass destruction. chemical and biological, making sure we have everything in place to secure nuclear material. and over the years, his own turner foundation has awarded countless grants. ted has allowed us to give over $363 million in order to make this world a better place. clean air, clean water. congratulations, ted and laura. ted s five children are the trustees of the foundation.
he convinced castro to open a cnn bureau there. and even to the soviet union where ted created the goodwill games. maybe in a very short period of time this will be kind of a blueprint for how we can go about ending the arms race. that s certainly my dream. the games lasted for 16 years and helped thaw u.s. relations with the russians. i think that broke a lot of ice and was a factor in ending the cold war. coming up. we re going now back to baghdad. as the cold war ended, another war would put cnn on the map. you can hear the bombs now. they are hitting the center of the city. hey wayne, quick question. did you try restarting it? no, not that. i was thinking about getting a tablet as a gift. verizon has tablets. they got a lot of them? accessing brain information. yes, they have a lot to choose from. did you really just. and now you can get $100 off any tablet. thanks, wayne.
of this order anymore. she knew more about us than my dad knew about us. she had done her homework. their time together was a happy time for everybody. it was kind of like camelot. ted s family life was thriving, and business was booming when he hired a los angeles times publisher to run cnn. i ve worked with some really some unbelievably powerful people. ted rattles my cage. things were about to get even more intense. it was my second day on the job when saddam hussein ininvaded kuwait. war was imminent. the united states strongly con dems the military nation of kuwait. the urged all networks to pull personnel out of the war zone. i told the president we had
mario cuomo that show was going to make it. ted saw that. ted saw that. cnn was growing. and so was the rest of ted s empire. he bought mgm s entire library of films, including his favorite movie gone with the wind. frankly, my dear, i don t give a damn. that launched tnt, a network that would air them. after that, cartoon network, turner classic movies, and networks in that the inamerilat, europe and the middle east. ted s next conquest would be personal. he and i both were fishing for bass. and he told me he had just heard that jane fonda was going to get a divorce from her husband. he was thinking about asking her for a date. those ink was barely dry on her divorce papers, ted made his move. i picked up the phone. this boomg voice. is it true?
the porch and look out and see the reflection in the middle of the lake of the mountains. our golden pond, yes. at the flying d, ted s ranch near boseman, montana, he zeroed in on what he thought was missing from his land. why do you love the bison so much? because it s a native american animal. and there were no cattle here when the white man came. trying to restore the native ecosystem. ted has made it his mission to save endangered wildlife, like the bison. he started the turner endangered species fund to make it work. the whole idea is to put wild populations back in place. there s nobody out there doing this kind of stuff. we ve grown our bison herd to a fairly significant amount. 55,000 head of animals. but also it s been profitable. and ted had that in mind at the outset. what ted had in mind was a