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columbia. during his extensive career he has been a financial correspondent in new york city, miami bureau chief and financial staff writer and columnist. he had every job. he has written about business, technology. among his many writings awards of the pulitzer prize on corruption in the music industry and the gerald loeb award for financial journalism and silver gavel from the american bar association. michael hiltzik s acclaimed books on the flight against social security, and a death in kenya. praise for his book has been enormous including the following. a sweeping, lively survey of the roosevelt administration s efforts to restart the american economy 81 years ago. a timely well executed overview of the program that laid the foundation for the modern progressive state. please welcome michael hiltzik. [applause] thank you for that kind introduction. thanks to all of you for coming out tonight. i have been saved by tivo. we are all here tonight for what should be ....
and cool, that he was a sternhe schoolmaster, that he would save grandma presbyterian.. .. ellen askin wilson and i decided she couldn t possibly have been interesting or important. i ve never even heard about mary ellen hobart pack, which are wilson s intimate friend for eight years. i had heard about edith bolling galt even in everything i heard was bad, she was a power-hungry woman who seized power when woodrow wilson had a stroke, that she was a secret woman president. fortunately i live right here in washington d.c. and just up the hill behind us is the library of congress, the sponsor of this great event. and it is a temple of learning and a fabulous resource for researchers. so, i started reading woodrow wilson s letters to alan acts can in 1883, just after they became engaged. they had a two-year engagement and wrote each other hundreds of letters. and what i discovered when it is reading the letters is yes, he was very cerebral, but he was far from cool. he was ....
the dispute over a border region, lying along the north- south and border, also has the potential to spike into a civil war. hundreds of local residents were killed in 2008 between forces of the north and south. a separate referendum to be held separately with an independence vote will determine whether abyei joins the north or the south. most are expected to join. the arabs, who pasture there herd s there for most of the year, will be included in the voting. there are few signs the referendum will take place on time. khartoum has said it is necessary. there is new violence in the already war ravaged territory. officials now speak of annexing abyei, but only after making significant financial considerations to concessions to khartoum. there is an accusation of widespread atrocities against civilians during the civil war. complicating the whole issue of war and peace in the nile valley is a growing and deadly serious dispute over use of the nile waters. the white nile ....
have the democrats failed the middle class by being slow and failed small business, for that matter, for being slow to get money to community banks? the president has said that this is what he wants to do. it seems like this is power to the people, isn t it? exactly. we ve had a lot of good speeches and a lot of good rhetoric but it s an opportunity for people to take action. you know how angry and resigned millions of americans are? this is a small step and it s been going around. i have so many people coming up to me and saying, you know, this giveses me the courage to take that one step to say, you know, i can do something with my money other than helping big banks continue the risky behavior and charge all of the fees to the american consumer that they really have no right charging. no doubt about it. and the website, moveyourmoney daut info. already, over 300,000 searches of the local banks have actually been done through the tool and move your money. this ....
it is jarring. you know, they reach out to facebook and twitter. they re trying to reach the younger generation. and i think the impact of this could be really huge. you think that it s a tradeoff in trying to reach older african-americans. it may turn younger african-americans off so bad it won t return the form. this is not a word that my generation is used to seeing in an official document. this brings back the memories of whites and negro only water fountains. so, you know, i think a lot people, my generation will say what are they getting at here? where are they trying to go? the mission is to report and discuss news most pertinent among african-americans. when you ran the story, what did you see in terms of reaction from your readers? there was mixed. there were people that were shocked. you have to remember, there are people that are actually older who, you know, still has the term negro on their birth certificate. so there s a generational divide. i thin ....