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Off the bat. if you want to write, come to oxford. >> you think thats true? well, apparently, yes. >> like that line in barton fink, you cant throw a rock without hitting a writer? then he says, do me a favor, throw it hard. >> its easy to look at mississippi and go that just happens down there, so were good, our hands are clean. its a totally misperceived place. when i came, i fell in love with the place. i never thought that i would. theres something to it, but you cant put your finger on what...

President. that was thanks to richard nixon. gerald ford had never been elected president or even vice president. the republicans had to decide whether they wanted to nominate ford for a whole term in his own rite. he was facing a strong challenge from reagan. it was a dramatic situation heading in to that convention in 1976. news agencies were keeping a rolling rip count about whether ford had enough delegates to sew it up. if reagan dowd take it away from him. the reagan campaign was so freake...

Ford for a whole term in his own rite. he was facing a strong challenge from reagan. it was a dramatic situation heading in to that convention in 1976. news agencies were keeping a rolling rip count about whether ford had enough delegates to sew it up. if reagan dowd take it away from him. the reagan campaign was so freaked out by looking the whip count was going against them, three weeks ahead of the convention, they decided on the reagan campaign they would throw the biggest hail mary they cou...

>> nbcs david brinkley not lying when he said it was going to be genuinely interesting. that republican convention in 1976 was the last time we went in to a convention not knowing who the nominee was going to be from a major party. at the time gerald ford was president. that was thanks to richard nixon. gerald ford had never been elected president or even vice president. the republicans had to decide whether they wanted to nominate ford for a whole term in his own rite. he was facing a strong ch...

Birthday that i dont think she realized how generous she was being. >> reporter: namely the design on a favorite summer dress as she left by boat with archie on a world tour in 1922. not only could agatha christie write, but she had style. >> thanks for watching, im rosemary church. >> well be right back with the very latest from all around the world. youre watching "cnn newsroom." ? go see. go look through their windows so you can understand their views. go find out just how kind the hes and sh...

Anything, does the dow jones plunge signify. so far theories range from normal market correction to the wrath of god. well talk with a guy with a nobel prize. plus, as the right shift ace write a from the common core, jeb bushs continued support makes him a target. later, chatter continues about joe bidens third presidential bid. well look at why politicians can not stop running for office. those stories and more ahead. ng. when something works, people stick with it. more people stick with hum...

Subject? >> reporter: absolutely. in a way this amounts to a deeply affectionate tribute from a grandson to his grandmother. its a celebration of agatha before he came along. they both had birthdays in september. >> she gave me the rights to the mousetrap for my 9th birthday. i dont think she realized how generous she was being. >> reporter: the words chariots and horses, namely the design on a favorite summer dress as she left by boat with archie on a world tour in 1922. not only could agatha c...

My dad started trying to fix up the beach house. hed stay there sometimes. my mother was getting neglectful, letting my little sister saffron and my little brother sequoia stay with me more often or taking them to my dads. hed be doing his own thing, theyd pretty much take care of themselves a lot. >> my mom told people that we were being home schooled. but she didnt home school us at all. i taught myself how to read and write. and saffron, my sister, had trouble with it. when my sister scarlett...

>> my dad just seemed a lot more depressed. its not like he cared, he didnt fight my mom about it too much. my dad started trying to fix up the beach house. hed stay there sometimes. my mother was getting neglectful, letting my little sister saffron and my little brother sequoia stay with me more often or taking them to my dads. hed be doing his own thing, theyd pretty much take care of themselves a lot. >> my mom told people that we were being home schooled. but she didnt home school us at all....

The effects are still rippling through the community. what i found is that as people have found fewer opportunities of full time work in the labor force that exists, they found other ways to make do. they cobbled together jobs. people work as t-shirt designers and bartenders and do urban agriculture and they fix cars and write poetry. when most people go to a social gathering, the question is what do do you? whats the one thing you do? the question is not what do do you, its what can you do. the...