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would coil at the slightest touch. in fact, his vanity was so -- use famously ridiculed for it by another congressman on the floor of congress. but conkling was no joke. he was dangerously powerful. as a senior senator from new york he controlled the new york customs palace which was the largest federal office in the trendy, and controlled 70% of the countries customs revenue. conkling tightly control patronage within his state, and the expected template and unquestioning loyalty. in fact, his apartment in new york was known as the morgue. conkling was enraged when his candidate, for...
cesar chavez, of course, a leading voice of farmworkers, but really a leading voice of america. >> roberta shaffer, these books in the exhibit. where did best sellers? >> many were best sellers and actually, many of them continue to be. many of them have been translated and carried american ideals across the world. >> a lot to ask you about one other specific book. >> of course emily dickinson is a must have an american poet. the particular book that we have here in the show is an art book. it's done by a cooperative in cuba. they reproduced a book of poetry and made a facsimile of h...
>> peter piot who has been on the front lines against aids talks about his career. he's the executive director of the joint united nations program on hiv/aids and author of "no time to lose: a life in pursuit of deadly viruses." he was interviewed at an event in new york city. this is an hour. >> so, peter, you were a whopping 27 years old -- [laughter] you had finished medical school, but you were just getting started in your ph.d. efforts in microbiology at the institute of tropical medicine in antwerp. a mysterious test tube sample shows up in terrible condition, and you figure ou...
>> host: professor a longer nose in, author of "body and"ñ#& soul." i was the black panther party founded originally? >> guest: it was founded originally because of their dissatisfaction with what race relations and economic injustice issues were in the united states in 1966. so what's interesting about the black panther party and the founding period is that it happens, they were found but after some of the great successes of the civil rights movement. so the legislation that brings up an rights act and the civil rights act. so i think with 40 years of vision, we can see that part o...