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Thats who got tv guide. most people dont even know what a tv guide is anymore, but, at that time, it was the largest publication in the country. everybody got a tv guide. - [man] and we placed that in the tv guide across the country. where you could tear it out, and, on the back, it listed every piece of the contract, and a place to check off, if they did what they said. and heres our ten things. and, as we do em, check em off. done, done, done. in the focus groups, when we tested the ad, one ke...

Its the fiercest violence in history and it comes near the 0th verse are you of the founding of china. >> one of the things about doing a contract, nobody really believed we had a chance at it. but there were a handful of warriors who said yes we can do this. we knew if we took the house, we could demonstrate clear differences not only between republican policy and democratic policy,e but the way republicas would manage their responsibility. >>at they had to be simple enouh to be understood by t...

Consulate turkey but never emerged. eleven people have been charged. im jackie and now back to inside the contract. for all your headlines log onto fox news. it was about taking over the house. nobody really believed we had a chance at it, but there was a handful of us, the merry warriors, who were like, "yes, we can do this." and we knew if we took the house, we could demonstrate clear differences. not only between republican policy and democratic policy, but the way republicans would manage th...

The bill is passed. - there were celebrations every time we passed a plank. - i am now going to have a hole punched in the card. - newt would go to the floor and pull out his insert of the tv guide. and we got the first one done, we got nine to go. we got three done, we have seven to go. we were trying to make sure people understood we were doing what we had promised. - (hits gavel) the bill is passed. (applause) - one of the smart things that dick armeys people did in scheduling the floor was w...

When there were other alternatives to try to deal with some of those problems. - this was around the time of the mcdonalds coffee cup incident, where a customer from a drive-through at mcdonalds got a piping hot cup of coffee in the morning, put the cup in their lap and drove off and it spilled onto their lap and burned them and they sued mcdonalds. these kinds of things were in the news, but it was a concern. litigation costs were a rising concern to small business owners. - this was actually t...

Help us buy the ad. tv guide was the widest read magazine in the country. those pages in tv guide were very clear, no pretty pictures. they just said, look, you hire us, this sour contract. if we dont keep our word, dont reelect yo us. and the result was we gained 53 seats. the first time in 40 years you had a republican majority. and we kept our word. and thats what is such a huge gap between the kind of, i think, historically despicable behavior that we are now seeing in the congress where the...

>> do you have protection? >> of course. its always been my problem. lots of protection but nothing to protect. >> i wanted to do a tv series that was going to be relevant to teenagers. and its not about the parents solving the kids problems. its about the kids basically solving their own problems. >> what are we supposed to do, sit him down and have a kid-to-parent talk? >> no, you cant talk to parents on that mature level. tragic but true. >> if the 60s had beatlemania, the 90s had "90210" man...

Teenagers. and its not about the parents solving the kids problems. its about the kids basically solving their own problems. >> what are we supposed to do, sit him down and have a kid-to-parent talk. >> no, you cant talk to parents on that mature level. tragic but true. >> if the 60s had beatle mania, the 90s had "90210" mania. when tv guide had its "youth-quake" cover, that was a sign that suddenly television was focused on these young people. ♪

Kid-to-parent talk? >> no, you cant talk to parents on that mature level. tragic but true. >> if the 60s had beatlemania, the 90s had "90210" mania. when tv guide had its "youth-quake" cover, that was a sign that suddenly television was focused on these young people. ♪ "my so-called life" was the punk rock version of "90210." it was earnest but not at all saccharine. it didnt have easy answers. it showed teen heartbreak in a way that was staggeringly real for the time. >> you like this. >> lik...

By 15 showed, oh, my gosh, donald trump did not win a single state. they started their coverage at 6:00, they were happy, gleeful, giddy, excited, they could not believe it, and then the night unfolded and reality caught up. kind of like today. take a look. >> there were times in the hearing when he was sharp as a tack.n but we cant avoid the fact that there were times in the hearing that he was not. >> today, he was a witness. and he frankly wasnt a really good witness. they needed to bring the...