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Opinion: What Biden's cabinet picks really say about diversity CNN 12/12/2020 Opinion by Paul Begala © Susan Walsh/AP President-elect Joe Biden, right, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, left, listen as Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, the Biden administration's choice to be the housing and urban development secretary, speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden's challenge in assembling a cabinet is as complex as any in history. With deep divisions to heal, a pandemic to stop, an economic collapse and ...

0 three shots are heard, like toy explosions. wigman jumps from his car, running towards the president with his camera running. people scream and lie down, grabbing their children. >> that was robert mcneil, a young nbc news correspondent describing what he saw later that night. neil was in the press bus tailing the presidential motorcade where everyone only heard the shots, didn't see them hit the target. nbc news quickly caught up with the man who did. >> fortunately i was probably 50 to 20 feet away from the president when it happened. >> tell us exactly what you saw, sir. >> he was coming ...

>> guest: well, i spent a lot of years on this. and a lot of those years, a lot of months in those years, i spent in the lyndon johnson library. you call up these boxes. it's actually an estimated number, cause they have the exact number of boxes and i called for, whatever is in there, 787 or something. c-span: that's right. >> guest: and they said that in a full box, you have 800 pages, so you just sit there. you know, when i was a newspaper reporter, just starting out, i was 20, and i had this editor who told me, "turn every page, never assume anything." and, with his early life at...

that followed the civil war. in a 20th century frame, he is a very underestimated 19 century. grant who carried forward the reconstruction after the american civil war. this is what the eisenhower presidency is in many ways. in january of '61, he was going to be succeeded either by a republican or a democrat, both under 50. both restless in looking for a way to sort of branch out and this becomes a theme in going home to glory because what happens in going home to glory is the wisdom of the war generation. what they took for granted is constantly challenged and what eisenhower has to...

hours in our exhibition is one by a dutch artist, and it is open to illustrations of two of the saints to whom prayers would have been offered, in this case st. catherine of alexandria on the left and strt barbara on the right. and the unknown artest -- artist of this book of hours is referred to as one of the masters of the dark eyes because of the stylistic tendency to show, um, the faces with eyes heavily lined in dark colors to emphasize the eyes. and this is a style listic characteristic and shown in the individual portraits of the saints, each with her own attribute celebrating...