guest: well, your caller from chicago bring up an interesting point. there is a significant debate of how to deal with this situation when you have 60 people and one person can stop it. in addition to nelson, earlier in this process we saw senator lieberman, an independent of the democratic caucus, and he had issues with the public planç and medicare buy-in and he was able to change those. there were people calling in for lieberman to be stripped of his membership. and if he's not going to vote with us, we need to take this away. he made the changes and will vote for them. the problem with punishing people or threatening people, you may need them later.ç and again i made this point earlier, but this is a political process now, not just about health care but also about i]the larger politics of the senate and congress. where çyou need to hang on to never vote with you again or ll- will become a thorn in the democratic party side. to the point that having them in the caucus is no longer valuable in any way, then throwing anyone out or punishing them

of chicago have unemployment rates of over 20%. it is obvious to me that the city of chicago, the state of illinois and indeed the nation needs this bill. i'm proud to support it and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. camp: at this time i'm prepared to close if the gentleman has no further speakers. i'll reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: mr. speaker, we're trying to just assess how much time is here if you could give me just a second. mr. speaker, i'd like to recognize the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for three minutes. mr. levin: i think it's important that we look at the facts here, the gentleman from texas and others who have raised issues on real estate. and these are the figures that's been compile

, and sat on the boards of two organizations that provided funding to acorn's chicago chapter. just last year, his campaign misrepresented that it had paid more than 800,000 to an offshoot of acorn. the obama campaign initially said that they used this for polling. there really use the money for the same types of voter registration project that have mired acorn in criminal investigations in at least 12 states. the president's ties to acorn take any conclusion that the justice department may reach with regard to whether or not to investigate and prosecute acorn employees. that is why i requested date the attorney journal -- i have requested that the attorney general appoint a special prosecutor. congress also has an obligation to investigate the apostle -- the possibly illegal conduct of acorn. acorn has received $53 million in federal funding. it is disappointing that that is a pat -- the democratic majority have taken no steps investigate the wrongdoing, even though the majority of the senator -- of congress people have voted to ban the acorn from federal funding. so far it ha

from sports net chicago, here is dan higgins with the story we called gridiron guardian. >> i think god has put people in the right time and place for things like this situation like this. we didn't pass the buck. >> two defensive line men and two teammates united in a goal to establish nfl supremacy. away from football there's another purpose that unites them. in a place a world away from soldier feel. >> during the off season the two bears were joined by teammate tommy harris on a special trip to nigeria for willie and who say born in to royalty, the africa journey was a home coming. >> this trip was two fold, we wanted for have a football camp where we were teaching nfl style football to youth and have a mel clinic where we were servicing world cities in -- outside of laos and the capital of nie jarya and it worked out well. >> they don't care about the football side. it is more like our sons are back. they are back from the united states and their long extended visit and they are back home and we get that kind of love and it is hard to explain, like a love that a mother has for thei

space center, as well as davy crockett park in tennessee, pompeii's pillar, and the lincoln park zoo in chicago. we also have one of our favorite traditions on display, the gingerbread masterpiece by our brilliant chef and his team. this year we included something different. in addition to the gingerbread white house we also have the white house kitchen garden on the south lawn, a shadow box that lets you look into the gingerbread white house and view the dining room. there is also a boat replica, so that is a new edition. we opened the doors last night to the first of more than 50,000 visitors who will come to the white house during this holiday season, and is safe to say everyone was really impressed. i heard you all party in last night. you had a great to time. for many people a visit to the white house is a once-in-a- lifetime experience. is it is made more magical because of your hard work. i want to take a moment to thank our volunteers who spent so much time making this white house a special treat. we hope you had as good a time as it sounded like last night. your work has transformed th

, and sat on the boards of two organizations that provided funding to acorn's chicago chapter. just last year, his campaign misrepresented that it had paid more than 800,000 to an offshoot of acorn. the obama campaign initially said that they used this for polling. there really use the money for the same types of voter registration project that have mired acorn in criminal investigations in at least 12 states. the president's ties to acorn take any conclusion that the justice department may reach with regard to whether or not to investigate and prosecute acorn employees. that is why i requested date the attorney journal -- i have requested that the attorney general appoint a special prosecutor. congress also has an obligation to investigate the apostle -- the possibly illegal conduct of acorn. acorn has received $53 million in federal funding. it is disappointing that that is a pat -- the democratic majority have taken no steps investigate the wrongdoing, even though the majority of the senator -- of congress people have voted to ban the acorn from federal funding. so far it ha

in 2004, glenn went in for surgery in chicago to remove a tumor from his abdomen. ten days after surgery while he was still in the hospital, he was having pain and problems. they did an x-ray of his abdomen, and they found a four-inch metal retract tor lodged against his intestine that had been left in his body after the surgery. a second surgery was performed to remove this metal instrument during which time glenn's lungs aspirated and he died. glenn's wife mary said not a day goes by when i don't miss glenn's companionship. because of gross negligence, he was not here to support me when our son went off to serve our country in iraq. a real-life story. this man did nothing wrong. an innocent victim who in our system of justice is entitled to compensation. but if his widow didn't have enough money to pay the entire attorney's fees and webt in for a -- went in for a contingency fee, she might be limited because of the amendment being offered by the senator from nevada. this next case in illinois involves children.

good afternoon everybody, you know that i am from chicago, so let me first say that when the place i left is covered with snow, i finally feel like home. i am sorry to drag you out in this weather, but i want to speak briefly about the significant progress we have made on two challenges facing the american people. the health care and our dependence on fossil fuels. with health care it now appears that the people will have the vote that secures for them to have health care insurance and affordable options for those who do not. i want to thank senator reid and every senator that has been working around the clock that made this happen. there is still work to be done, but today is a major step forward for the american people. after a nearly century long struggle, we are on the cusp of making health care reform a reality in america. as a legislation being a part of the process, but may i add that landmark amendments make it stronger. there will now be penalties for insurance w3companies that arbitrarily jack up rates on consumers. and while they will be prevented on conditions once the ex

. >> also in the chicago sun-times. you knows sidney. >> never met him. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> so good to see you. [inaudible conversations] >> i love that. >> i didn't. [inaudible conversations] >> i didn't intend to show. [inaudible conversations] >> for more information on harold evans and his work visit sirharoldevans.com. >> seventeen years old thoroughbred arab cross. wonderful, wonderful horse. my mother bred horses. i have always liked horses. this website.up around 6:30. i am in oregon city. he puts this set up, the material up at about 730. so about 630 and discussed, you know, what stories might go up on the side. we talk about what is going on and what people seem to be interested and, the big events in the world. then jeffrey gets the site of somewhere between 60 and eight. so it is a busy time. i do columns. i do counterpunch material. columns. won since 1964. add to that every second tuesday. a syndicated column. then we are usually working on a couple of books for counter punch press which really, the dog, the get command the birds a

it was published by the chicago public library. i went over it very carefully. >> i access it on google. did you read it all? >> yes. i read it all multiple times. i came very close to memorizing it. >> of sick was a? >> each one was 500 pages. -- how thick was it? >> he got very upset with the secretary of state. the interesting thing about him in his controversies with buchanan was his ability -- inability to fire the man. he was called cowardly face to face. i think that was not an unfair characterization. nevertheless, -- > >> talk about the diary itself. how much did he do everyday? did you get any senseÑi on the time of day she wrote in the? >> he started the diary because he was upset because of the confrontation with the cannon. he goes home and writes the whole thing out. he says now that i have done this i think i will continue to do it. sometimes it would be brief and other whatimes it would be fourr five pages. it was a tremendous undertaking because obviously she was a very busy man, but he was a workaholic. she would

through in amsterdam are almost identical of the screening procedures we go through in los angeles, chicago or here in atlanta. meaning that this kind of device, whatever it was, could easily get through security at any major airport. and that has got to be very, very troubling, specifically for tsa officials today. >> larry: do we know, drew, why he was in amsterdam? >> we know he was flying from nigeria to amsterdam on a connecting flight. he had about a three-hour layover there. one of the passengers said they did notice this man pacing. didn't say pacing oddly, but pacing during that layover in amsterdam but that wasn't enough to alert authorities to do any further screening. >> larry: we'll pick up with this panel in a few moments. what is president obama's reaction to this yesterday and today? ed henry will tell us right after the break. >> larry: right back with the panel. president obama is in vacation in hawaii. what briefing has he being getting? ed henry joins us. what is he saying and getting? >> reporter: larry, behind the scenes this president is getting a lot of information.

week 11 at chicago. mccoy's touchdown run in the fourth quarter helped win it and then week 12 against washington. akers with 1:38 left from 32 yards out. a 27-24 victory. phil: jim, i was thinking about it. would you let the philadelphia eagles score here on the first play? the only reason -- i think about it all the time when i'm watching games, but this football, it is on the 13-yard line. it's not just an automatic extra point. they're not inside 5 when i always think of that. jim: now it would be about a 27, 28-yard try and another time-out coming up by the broncos. of course akers is one of the best in the whole league. phil: one of the best, no question. what i always like when i watch him kick, it is -- if it's an extra point or a 50-yard field goal, it's full go, -- i always think when you see that there's less chance of the pressure getting to you. but to answer my own question, i wouldn't have let them score. jim: eagles are going to go one more play and they'll go as far as they can. two of p

the writer says he remembers in 1957 his catholic church and the chicago neighborhood had 1100 seats filled to capacity every hour on the hour pork-barrel 7:00, noon, at 8:00, 9:00, so one. 1958 catholics were asked or polled about but mass attendance and a 75% said that i go every week. one kaskel at -- catholic bishop what it two choices, go to mass or go to hell. [laughter] most of us chose the mass. [laughter] only 40 percent of catholics but turned -- attended church now and the young catholic church has dropped at one out of five. 10% of all americans today describe themselves as being former catholics. that is astounding given in the hispanic migration to the united states. that should be bolstering the number of people in the pews. this does not mean we're not a religious country come overwhelming numbers of americans say i believe then god. 82% say a person can be a good person in 56% say it is important to follow one's conscience even if that meant going against what the churches say and 53% say it is not necessary to strengthen religion or moral values part of that is an i

space center, as well as davy crockett park in tennessee, pompeii's pillar, and the lincoln park zoo in chicago. we also have one of our favorite traditions on display, the gingerbread masterpiece by our brilliant chef and his team. this year we included something different. in addition to the gingerbread white house we also have the white house kitchen garden on the south lawn, a shadow box that lets you look into the gingerbread white house and view the dining room. there is also a boat replica, so that is a new edition. we opened the doors last night to the first of more than 50,000 visitors who will come to the white house during this holiday season, and is safe to say everyone was really impressed. i heard you all party in last night. you had a great to time. for many people a visit to the white house is a once-in-a- lifetime experience. is it is made more magical because of your hard work. i want to take a moment to thank our volunteers who spent so much time making this white house a special treat. we hope you had as good a time as it sounded like last night. your work has transformed th

brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a billionaire who would inherit a newspaper. the book does a couple of things that really stand out, how did you motivate children. i asked how his father was able to motivate his kids to do so much in life. he told me a little bit about that, which is captured in the book. his father came to him at a crucial moment and said ted, you can do what you want with your adult life, that decision is open to you, but you should know that if you do not use your life to do something serious, i will not have a lot of time for you, because there are other siblings of yours who will. he writes about what enormous influence that had on him. that is the kind of lesson you can get from reading this book. many people probably think this book is all about politics. it is more abo

like this failed bolt in chicago, the chicago transit authority could spend another $6.5 billion just to bring their system up to a state of good repair. and they can spend that money very quickly with a huge multiplier effect. why can't the economic team at the white house understand that? their pointy-head theories about, oh, infrastructure takes so long and it doesn't have a good multiplier like giving people money and with holding or green grid, whatever that is, where a money hasn't been spent, they can't -- somehow this is too old school for them, fixingsing up our country, putting it people to work, manufacturing and construction jobs. we have 160,000 bridges, 160,000 bridges, on the federal system that should be posted. the american people should see a big sign saying, danger, the bridge over which you are about to drive is either weight limited, structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. 160,000 bridges. now, if we began a program to replace those, it doesn't take long. look how quickly replaced the bridge in minnesota. it doesn't require lengthy environmental impact st

this is a case arising out of chicago, which has a handgun ban and some other restrictions. and there are a number of interesting aspects to the case, but basically if the court torp say it only applies to the federal government, the second amendment would be far less effective than most people think it is. host: based on what the court has said so far, any indication of how they're going to rule in that one, the leaning of the court so far in this? guest: based on the fact that they talked in that case like it was a fundamental right, which is the type that the court usually says is incorporated and applies against the states, it would be surprising to a lot of people, to most observers, if they did not also say that it applies to the states as well. host: here's a call from warner robbins, georgia, and ivan on our independent line. hi there. caller: hi there. good morning, gentlemen. just had a quick question, and that is, concerning the text messages, i was in the military, my wife was in the military also. for them to say to him that to be able to use this phone for a te

brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a billionaire who would inherit a newspaper. the book does a couple of things that really stand out, how did you motivate children. i asked how his father was able to motivate his kids to do so much in life. he told me a little bit about that, which is captured in the book. his father came to him at a crucial moment and said ted, you can do what you want with your adult life, that decision is open to you, but you should know that if you do not use your life to do something serious, i will not have a lot of time for you, because there are other siblings of yours who will. he writes about what enormous influence that had on him. that is the kind of lesson you can get from reading this book. many people probably think this book is all about politics. it is more abo

brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a billionaire who would inherit a newspaper. the book does a couple of things that really stand out, how did you motivate children. i asked how his father was able to motivate his kids to do so much in life. he told me a little bit about that, which is captured in the book. his father came to him at a crucial moment and said ted, you can do what you want with your adult life, that decision is open to you, but you should know that if you do not use your life to do something serious, i will not have a lot of time for you, because there are other siblings of yours who will. he writes about what enormous influence that had on him. that is the kind of lesson you can get from reading this book. many people probably think this book is all about politics. it is more abo

i read the version published by the chicago public library. i went over it very carefully. >> google has got it. you can watch it on your computer. did you read it all? >> oh, yes, i read it all. multiple times. i took notes from it. i came very close to memorizing it. >> if you had the four volumes, how big was it? >> each was 500 pages. >> you that 2000 pages of typed diary. >> >> james buchanan was considered our worst president. very disloyal to polk. and he had an inability to fire the man. he cannot abide face-to-face confrontation. he was almost cowardly face-to- face, and i do not think that was an unfair characterization. i do not recall what we were -- >> let me go to the point -- diary itself. the four years of his presidency, how much did he do every day? did you get any sense of when he wrote this? >> he broke this late at night. he was upset with a confrontation he had in a cabinet meeting with buchanan. he goes back to his office that night and he writes the whole thing out. and then he says, well, now that i had done this, i wi

i went to law school at northwestern and did my undergraduate work at the university of chicago. >> any difference from growing to a midwestern school? >> i think that there is. every school has its virtues and its strengths, but the northwestern really had a fine law school and still does. and there are good schools all over the country. i learned that from then hiring law clerks. i've hired from many different schools and have done a magnificent job, even though they think we're not from the ivy league. >> i read that you were the top stated in the history of the northwestern law school. is that still the case? >> i have been told that it is true. i do not know about the record since then. but i was told that that was the case. >> with all your experience -- northwestern law school, your job as a clerk here, service and the seventh circuit, and your father was an attorney -- where along the way did you get your philosophy of the law? >> it is a combination of many things. the combined to give you your views of what a lot is. a lot of that is just the result of your reading and a lot o

he's from chicago. martin's mom arrived at the hospital to deliver him, but her labor wasn't progressing, her doctor broke her water and found out it was abnormal. rather than considering a c-section, donna's doctor administered a drug, six hours later she had not delivered, but the fetal monitor system indicated that he was in severe distress. the doctor performed an emergency c-section, but it was another hour before donna was taken to the operating room. during that time the doctor failed to give oxygen to help martin breathe much after martin was born, he was in intensive care for three weeks. later it was learned that martin had brain damage and cerebral palsy, a -- directly from not getting the oxygen. donna's doctor told her not to have anyone children because there was a serious problem with her d.n.a. that could result in similar disabilities for her kids. since then she has given birth to three perfectly healthy son. donna sued the doctor for martin's delivery and received a settlement. he is

. >> larry: jackie's going to say, hello, detroit and we'll be in chicago. >> no, no. >> larry: back with more of the jacksons, the show premieres sunday. welcome to the now network, population 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. 154 are tracking shipments on a train. 33 are iming on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email on a vacation. that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. right now get a free 3g/4g device for your laptop. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com every time you take advil liqui-gels you're taking the pain reliever that works faster on tough pain than tylenol rapid release gels. and not only faster. stronger, too. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. >> larry: according to sony pictures, the michael jackson rehearsal film "this is it" has raked in more than $250 million in worldwide ticket sales. here's a clip. ♪ ♪ >>

they need -- did a study in chicago, took two areas of high crime. one area they took empty lots and made them green, window boxes and greened it. the other one they left, and the rate of crime drop significantly in the area where they made green. so, this is why -- people say to me, why have you left the chimp pan seize and working with children? for two reasons. one is i have grandchildren, and they play like children outside, and my son was raised in tanzania, but i see so many of the people i know in the u.s. and europe who are just as you describe, kids do not play out in the wild. >> host: you mentioned this program. tell me more about that. it's a global program designed to, what, get kids to invest in nature? >> guest: it's a bit more than that. it's a symbolic name. if you imagine a small seed, an acorn, it's going to grow into a big oak tree, and while it starts to grow, there are many tiny roots and it looks so weak and yet the life force in that seed is such that the water, the roots can work through boulders and butch them -- push them a

can >> larry: jackie's going to say, hello, detroit and we'll be in chicago. >> no, no. that's what he used to do. >> larry: back with more of the jacksons, the show premieres sunday. don't go away. >> larry: according to sony pictures, the michael jackson rehearsal film "this is it" has raked in more than $250 million in worldwide ticket sales. here's a clip. ♪ ♪ >> larry: was that hard to look at, tito? >> actually, this is the first i've seen of anything of the film, and that wasn't too bad, because it's michael's musical. >> larry: was it hard for you marlon? >> it's hard for me. >> larry: he died soon after, right? >> yes. you look at it and -- >> larry: he looked so good. >> i'm sorry? >> larry: he looked so good. >> he looks great. you can't believe he's not here with you anymore. >> larry: was it hard for you, jackie? >> i enjoy every bit of it. just seeing him doing his thing in the film. >> larry: you, jermaine? >> i was excited about seeing him preparing for what was going to be the most incredible show and just to say he wasn't giving 30%, he was just goi

on the community reinvestment act and the shakedown of lenders and a lot of that that took place in chicago and that's been documented i think pretty well in the media, there's an expression used "get in their face." and we read articles about how acorn and their operatives bragged about going in and shoving a lender's desk off to the side and surrounding him and getting in his face. i remember during the campaign when president obama said about three weeks before the election to his supporters "get in their face." now, that echoed in my ear as something that maybe was lifted right out of the handbook of acorn. and there's another phrase that happens to come back and echo in my ear, and that is i left it out of the fox news report -- i lifted out done by megan kelly on acorn, a special that was done a month or so ago when she was interviewing wayne rafke and she asked him about the script of the mission statement of acorn. and in that mission statement it said "share the wealth." share the wealth. exactly the language that president obama used when he was confronted by joe the plumber. so i

. >> larry: chicago, hello. hello? >> caller: hi, hello. two-part question for the panel. why are americans so fascinated by celebrity sex scandals? christine brennan criticized tiger's statement, but isn't tiger correct that he's dealing with a personal, private matter? >> larry: technically, what is it our business? >> i think it is because, a, he wants $100 million a year in endorsements, so we got to buy into the fact that this is a good guy. he pitches them on, hey, i'm a good family guy. he runs a school. we're supposed to believe that he's a terrific guy and he messed up here. >> larry: david, if gillette has a commercial scheduled to run tomorrow, do they run it with tiger shaving? >> absolutely. and i disagree with the premise that because tiger or any other athlete has unique and extraordinary athletic prowess they give up their right to privacy. this is a private story that has been exploded into the public airwaves because we're fixated with scandal. and at some point here's hoping america gets sal

the blacks could not go anywhere. >> in 1893, chicago had this great world's fair. so they created this fair, they had a separate negro building for exhibitions from tuskegee and other black schools in the south. it would be segregated, but on display. the other question is, do you have a black man speak to a wide audience? -- white audience? booker t. washington was invited by the trustees of the fair. they wanted to give the opening ceremony at the negro building. it was high drama. a black man was going to speak to a largely white audience, and there was a separate jim crow section, blacks in the audience, segregated. he was well known throughout the south and in the north as a leader and educator of african- americans. he was basically a -- he believed that education was the key to success and that african- americans needed to basically get their jobs in the trades, something of an industrial education idea. >> where was w.e.b. dubois? >> at the time of the address, he thought was a good idea. his opposition came several years later. at the time with the atlanta

that experiment called the chicago pile one, marked the beginning of the nuclear age. madam president, today all americans know that the discovery of nuclear power was a mixed blessing. with it came the potential for a new form of energy to power our homes an businesses. for the first time our naval ships could remain at sea and on guard for extended periods without refueling. with the nuclear energy came nuclear weapons, this led to the mass destruction of hundreds of cities within weekends. they brought us the generation of duck and cover and back yard fallout shelters. thankfully, though our nation and others continue to possess these weapons in our time, the cold war is over. no longer are we minutes from destruction the way we once were. today peaceful nuclear energy provides one-fifth of our nuclear energy and there are 104 nuclear reactors across the country. developing and enforcing the regulation that's keep these reactors safe are the men and women of the united states nuclear regulatory commission. i want to recognize the contribution of dr. garrith perry. h

it also drew on the 1999 chicago speech on policy intervention. when i heard that speech, i thought, it represents a tightening of the u.k.-u.s. alliance, and the degree of convergence on the danger that saddam hussein presented. compare and contrast with that subject of discussion yesterday, which came up, what you had in that speech at college station was a rather sophisticated argument which said, which was preemption, which said that saddam is too dangerous, his record is too bad. the potential threat he presents cannot be ignored. i think doing nothing is not an option, was the phrase in the speech, and so we have to do something about it. it was a good speech. Ñibut it's sort of lost influene as the months went by. >> thank you very much. i>> i would like to come back to crawford, butÑi before i doÑi si would like to go to the point that you made now. talking about the summer of 2000, when you said that the anywhere, and the timing of the administration at the time was not going anywhere, that was a time in which britain and the that the

the tone was like something out of a chicago backroom gentleman's club, lend or else. it was strong arming. the tone should really be let's work together. let's strike a balance to assure your long-term health and that the long-term health of the economy. >> larry: professor reich, puzzling. key people in his administration are wall street insiders, aren't they? >> many of them aren't. tim geithner was the head of the federal reserve from new york city, put there by the major bankers. others that have ties to wall street. but the fact of the matter is, larry, that this administration has tried to damp down, camp down, regulate wall street. but it needs to do much more. it's not a matter of tone. it's not a matter of the right choice of words. it's a matter of deeds. wall street is not responsible. wall street has demonstrated irresponsibility again and again. and to be on the verge of awarding $20 to $30 billion of bonuses to its top executives in the face of all of the money from taxpayers that went to wall street which the inspector general of the t.a.r.p. fund says

i went to the chicago public library to order this book for myself and there were 12 people waiting to read that book. and there were two groups of books i would suggest people to read it any book via medal of honor recipient in any book by pow. many books have been written by vietnam veterans pows and i think i've read them all. i've been out of work since december and those two groups of books i found fascinating and particular one by bill jacobs, if not now when is the name of that book. >> host: john, let me keep you on the line. i want to see if you've read this one. max cleland's book heart of a patriot. how i found the curse to survive vietnam walter reid and karl rove. >> caller: i've read about six books about that this year. bad in history is an incredible time. one incredible effect i found about lessons in history is such few people make the decision for us to go to war. it's incredible. three people sat around a desk and decided for us to go to war in 1962. that book is an incredible book for all americans to read. >> host: thanks for the tip. here is john on our line. >>

he had thousands of cattle shipped in from chicago which would literally march behind the army. after all they had no refrigeration and this was the way you have fresh meat so they marched with the troops but marched behind them. that slowed down the event and and he was under constant threat from confederate calvary which could try to punch at him from different directions but there was actually very little lefferts the confederates could put into it because he had a wonderful guards that turned away most of the confederates including general wheeler who was a tough confederates calvary officer. they marched on. there's a song called marching through georgia many of you know something about at least the title marching through georgia which was written a year later in 1865 talks about how sherman marched through georgia even the sweet potatoes lifted themselves out of the ground to watch the horses go by, and of course they didn't lift themselves out of the ground. the became part of the rations for the troops. and the troops picked up whatever they could from the plantations of

>> i was in the chicago region just a few weeks ago. they have a wonderful feature of their mobilization for the sense is that i think is a model for other regions. a group of local on patients got together, offered small grants to communities throughout illinois to help them advertise the census. that has filled a gap in that region that needs to be killed and other regions. state and local governments are in hard times right now. many of the staff that we used in 2004 are reache0 for at react there now. the activities of private foundations are filling adapt. chicago is a wonderful example of that i think. >> we have a question on the phone. >> thank you. in talking to some of the local liaison, they have a number of frustrations with address canvassing and the master address file. 01 is obviously the short deadlines, which cannot be helped. the information they have gotten back from the census bureau is murky in terms of what new addresses had been added. they are particularly concerned with units that have been converted. multi-use

they went to chicago. >> that's when i finally felt like you can enjoy life now, we've made it. you can relax now. you know, it's yours, so, you know, i always, like, wanted to have a house i could have friends over and stuff, and every day, like, since we had the house, i always have people over, there's not like one day where my mom is not cooking for everyone. but in bosnia, it's just like that. you always have family over, friends over, you're grilling. >> reporter: and from there, life was good. boggio starred in soccer, and now he's getting plenty of playing time for the fire. >> i can't really describe like how you feel, like -- because you, like, you remember, when you go back, it all comes back to you like everything happened yesterday, and its just like, you know, it's -- you try to make it happy where you get to see your family again, but as soon as like that goes away, like, wow, like i left all of this behind. what if i didn't have this sort of future? >> reporter: and so you can understand when the practices get long and the guys get sweaty and the work seems diffi

kennedy foundation, the merchandising mart which the kennedys owned in chicago. he was supporting ted kennedy in the primaries over jimmy carter in 1980. and, of course, as we all know, is that senator kennedy lost and lost badly to jimmy carter. and the kennedy family was furious with carter in 1980 because he ran what they thought was a very vicious campaign against senator kennedy. and corbin took it upon himself to exact -- meet out revenge, exact revenge. and so he secreted the campaign briefing documents out of the carter white house and gave them to bill casey who by that time was running the reagan campaign. and as a matter of fact, casey put paul corbin on a retainer to the reagan campaign. here's a guy who just worked for ted kennedy. he had a background of working in communist party politics, labor politics. had been arrested numerous times for running scams in the midwest, you know, was -- all sorts of criminal activities. and, of course, governor reagan doesn't know anything about this, whatsoever. the irony is the briefing books and he believes the

home to new orleans, get my dad on the phone, and i said, dad, can you go to the basement by the work chicago behind the table saw, there's a white chest of drawers, all my papers. go in there and see if you can find a paper by bill clinton. and dad says, sure, and i will call you back. and i said, no, no i'm going to hold on. he comes back quite upset, because even before katrina, -- he said the basement has flooded a few times and your mother threw out those papers. i was actually secretly relieved because i didn't know what i would do if i had a paper in my handthat would derail the candidacy of bill clinton. my wife and i went years later to see dr. pelchinsky in retirement, and he pulls out a scrapbook, and there's the paper. does anybody know who betsy wright was and she was in control of damage control. and there's a telegram that said -- that he got from her saying do not release paper. letter to follow. and i told him he should send the paper, which he did to the clinton library, because i believe those who are historians should at least have the right to that paper, even if journali

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she lived in chicago and detroit for a while, raising money for c.o.r.e. and snicc. lived in the bahamas for a while and then returned to birmingham where she worked for mary kay for a while as a district manager and today she works as a full-time teacher in the public schools in birmingham. many of the riders went on to become teachers of the elementary, high school and college level. i just want to give you -- finish up with a sense of the range of people who came to mississippi. they came from all over geographically from the northeast, the midwest, the west coast in the south. there were people like steven green who was a young pretty student at bennington with no inclination toward politics until he kind of got slapped into reality and came down and joined the right and said he realized how shelter of a life he had been living. and like a lot of people deride changed his life. he went on to become, to work basically for the u.n. for much of his career in hot spots are on the world. it also included people pretty political from the get go like bologna who was in

in chicago, laura schwartz, former white house director of events during the clinton administration. good to see her again. joe pea throw, former secret service agent, author of the great book "standing next to history." all right, congressman thompson. what did you learn today? >> well, larry, we learned that procedures weren't followed. the director admitted that there were things that happened that should not have happened. we also learned that they have been fixed. we learned now that there's an expanded system of security. and theres's a layered security in place. more equipment will be available and better training for those individuals who will be working white house security. >> larry: you asked the couple to appear today. they did not. are you going to subpoena them. >> we will make that decision next wednesday in our neck committee meeting. we set the motions in place for that to occur. and i assume our committee will do it, larry. >> larry: will you vote to do it? >> by all means, i will. >> larry: the representative peter king accused the white house of stonewalling by bl

go back to 2002 when he gave his famous speech against the iraq war in chicago, said "i'm not opposed to all wars, just dumb wars." didn't mention afghanistan as a war he might be in favor of. the only two he mentioned were the civil war and world war ii. he's evolving all the time and i think in a way, he's becoming more more... at least not inclined to use force but at least open to that. one other thing, i think there's a political imperative. he knows at some level of his mind what happens to a president who in his first year sounds a little bit too peace loving and too trusting of perhaps the other side. jimmy carter in 1977 gave a famous speech at notre dame saying that america had been held back by our inordinate fear of communism. two years later, the soviet go into afghanistan and people said cater was naive. obama is determined that he's not going to be caught like that. >> lehrer: reverend forbes, picking up on that, your own views aside, do you think that what president obama said about war and peace is an accurate reflection of what basically the majority of the american

would like to point out the book review, after lysol lessons in disaster on your program, i went to chicago public library to order it for myself and there were 12 people waiting to read that book and to groups of books i would suggest people read is any book by a medal of honor recipient and any book by p.o.w.. 37 books have been written by the amount veterans, the imam p.o.w. and i think i've read them all. i've been out of work since december and those two groups of books -- in particular one by bill jacobs. it's not now, when is the name of the book. >> host: let me keep you on the line three i've got one in front of me. let's see if you for this one, max clevelan part of the patriot why found the courage to survive the imam walter reed and karl rove >> caller: i've read 60 books about begin on veterans' this year, bill. that period in history is an incredible time. one incredible fact i found about lessons in history is such a few people made the decision fo

they did a study in chicago where they took two areas of high crime and one area where they put -- the useful of the empty vacant lots and the did window box and and everything they could to green. the author they left and the rate of crime dropped significantly in the area which they need green so this is why people say to me why have you left the chimpanzees? why are you working with children so much in the program so for two reasons one is i have grandchildren that find in tanzania they play like children outside and my son was raised in tanzania and he did, too but i see so many of the people i know in the u.s. and europe who are just as you described durham not play out in the wild. >> host: you mentioned the roots and shoots program. tell more about that. that is a global program. designed to what? get kids to invest in nature? is the dewey to summarize it? >> guest: it is a bit more than that. it is a symbolic name. if you imagine a small seed a stake in a court. we all know and acorn is going to grow into a big oak tree and when it starts to grow there are these little tiny roo