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as of correspondent in atlanta. he then white house correspondent and then became deputy washington correspondent bureau chief to became then london bureau chief, then became washington bureau chief. as you can see, he was moving up the ladder. then he was editor of the editorial for eight years and. finally, in 2000, one was named executive editor, which is the top job at the times. in his spare time. he won the pulitzer prize for his writing and he's managed to find way to write five books in the process of this. some of you may have attended the appearance of his son ben raines, who participated in open book open mind during the pandemic and it was a virtual appearance. we were doing it remotely at that time and he had done a book on his role in the discovery of the last slave ship. go, hilda. so this this is a second appearance for the raines family in conversation with howell as edward ball, who was another southerner born in savannah. he graduated from brown with a bachelor's degree in iowa, which i assume was
as of correspondent in atlanta. he then white house correspondent and then became deputy washington correspondent bureau chief to became then london bureau chief, then became washington bureau chief. as you can see, he was moving up the ladder. then he was editor of the editorial for eight years and. finally, in 2000, one was named executive editor, which is the top job at the times. in his spare time. he won the pulitzer prize for his writing and he's managed to find way to write five books in...
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and the federal government to intercede in the atlanta case of 17 missing black children? just a few minutes before i came in here, that message was handed to me that the atlanta mayor wanted to talk. and we are going to get someone in touch with him immediately. now, you recognize, of course, that possibly civil rights would be the only basis upon which we could have any jurisdiction. down there in this it for fbi, for example, on any other thing. there's been no evidence of crossing state lines or anything. and yet we want to be helpful because that is the most tragic case. and so we will be meeting on that very shortly. mr. president, when the jamaican prime minister was here yesterday, mr. seaga, he suggested publicly that now might be a good time for you as the new president, to have a foreign policy initiative for latin america and for the caribbean. do you intend to follow that suggestion? and if so, how would your policies differ from those of former president carter? well, i think we've seen a great reverse in the caribbean situation, and it came about through pri
and the federal government to intercede in the atlanta case of 17 missing black children? just a few minutes before i came in here, that message was handed to me that the atlanta mayor wanted to talk. and we are going to get someone in touch with him immediately. now, you recognize, of course, that possibly civil rights would be the only basis upon which we could have any jurisdiction. down there in this it for fbi, for example, on any other thing. there's been no evidence of crossing state...
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and now, as the book starts he's living an atlanta suburb suburb. the war is still in bedded in his dreams. and while he was not physically wounded. his dreams are full of screams. he has a wife, laura, and they clearly love each other and he has daughters. one of them is a student in college and doing quite well. her name is emily and she has a younger she has a younger sister. her name is meredith with down's syndrome. both of these men are in their fifties. both were born in the old south. they both love dogs and shooting guns. and both of them have in their souls. they live exactly next door to one another. david finkel writes, the houses were a few feet apart, and yet the span of those few feet was an american that felt wide as the american country. but they did talk. they did each other. it wasn't easy. they each tried to listen. neither could convert the other. and in their wisdom, they ultimately did not. and surely all these stories and in this fine are lessons for all of us. and so david is, going to start with an from the book. david okay
and now, as the book starts he's living an atlanta suburb suburb. the war is still in bedded in his dreams. and while he was not physically wounded. his dreams are full of screams. he has a wife, laura, and they clearly love each other and he has daughters. one of them is a student in college and doing quite well. her name is emily and she has a younger she has a younger sister. her name is meredith with down's syndrome. both of these men are in their fifties. both were born in the old south....
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atlanta. chicago. argo. dallas. kansas city. denver. san francisco. and seattle. the scientific work of epa is also decentralized and takes place in laboratories located across the country. air pollution work takes place in raleigh, durham, north carolina. toxicology and industry engineering in cincinnati. groundwater research in ada, oklahoma. pesticide biology and gulf breeze, florida. and ecosystems research in corvallis, oregon. this scientific effort is essential to meeting the environmental challenges that still lie ahead. we need to know a lot more about how toxic substances behave in the environment and what affects various exposure levels have on human health and the environment. this knowledge would help us control the risks from these substances without sacrificing the benefits of the technologies that produce them. we need more information on long range transport of pollutants through the air. acid rain is an example of this kind of transport. we also must do better at tracking the flow of pollutants through the environment. much of our pollution contr
atlanta. chicago. argo. dallas. kansas city. denver. san francisco. and seattle. the scientific work of epa is also decentralized and takes place in laboratories located across the country. air pollution work takes place in raleigh, durham, north carolina. toxicology and industry engineering in cincinnati. groundwater research in ada, oklahoma. pesticide biology and gulf breeze, florida. and ecosystems research in corvallis, oregon. this scientific effort is essential to meeting the...
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with offices in atlanta, chicago, houston, la, san francisco, you know, what role do these more regional offices play in these larger missions that you are trying to accomplish? >> there are six offices, six offices throughout the u.s. and each office works together with state government. the principle of the division of labor is the geographical, so for example my office in new york covers around 15 states at the northeastern corner, and we have one in atlanta, one in chicago, one in houston and the two offices along california. so, each office covers its own geographical areas which means it's office is responsible for communicating with the state government for the municipal government which is located in both regions. >> thanks for that. if you don't mind, i will ask you the next question. this is about worker training and this is my own personal topic, but from ship building to semi conductors many firms in the united states have a lack of sufficiently trained and skilled workers is a major bottleneck in the manufacturing and we talked to the previous panel on economic security. do
with offices in atlanta, chicago, houston, la, san francisco, you know, what role do these more regional offices play in these larger missions that you are trying to accomplish? >> there are six offices, six offices throughout the u.s. and each office works together with state government. the principle of the division of labor is the geographical, so for example my office in new york covers around 15 states at the northeastern corner, and we have one in atlanta, one in chicago, one in...
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so, you know, when you heard the mayor, the former mayor of atlanta, saying to black lives matter activist dr. king would not take over highway, you just kind of go, what in the hell is that? right. how is the movement being invoked in order to narrow the range of what constitutes legitimate forms of political dissent? and so there's a particular story being told of the black freedom struggle of the mid 20th century. it's a story that begins, as you know, with 1954 and brown v board, the montgomery march in 1955. you know, the students it ends in 1960. you know, the organization of snick in 62, the march on washington in 63, selma 65. king 68. that's the narrative. and then it's a story of of decline or declension. black power emerges in 66. and then, you know, that's where we lost our way. president obama actually used that formulation. and the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. right. and so part of what i've been trying to do is to disrupt the way in which the story of our struggle justify as a particular leadership class on the one hand. right. and denies right. the legitimac
so, you know, when you heard the mayor, the former mayor of atlanta, saying to black lives matter activist dr. king would not take over highway, you just kind of go, what in the hell is that? right. how is the movement being invoked in order to narrow the range of what constitutes legitimate forms of political dissent? and so there's a particular story being told of the black freedom struggle of the mid 20th century. it's a story that begins, as you know, with 1954 and brown v board, the...
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well, i went to sleep on the airplane between after we left atlanta and they landed in dallas. and the stewardess woke me up and says, we're in texas. and i went, i'm going to california. and i went back to sleep. well, we got california and i went down to pick up my duffel bag and i waited for the baggage come through. and i was not many duffel bags and i thought there was more than then. i never did find a duffel bag. so i went to the baggage claim. i said, hey, you know, where's my bag? and he says, and let me see your ticket. and he looked at ticket. he says, your bags probably in san francisco. you're in los angelus. that's supposed to change your plane to dallas. and i didn't make that. so i ended up going to oakland. when we got to oakland, one of the guys in my flight class with jim willingham and his father, he lived in right outside of california. and jim, mr. willingham worked for caterpillar and he'd given everybody a business card and told us in when we got there to call, calling. so after i checked in, i called him up and he told me to meet him at a bar. where? do
well, i went to sleep on the airplane between after we left atlanta and they landed in dallas. and the stewardess woke me up and says, we're in texas. and i went, i'm going to california. and i went back to sleep. well, we got california and i went down to pick up my duffel bag and i waited for the baggage come through. and i was not many duffel bags and i thought there was more than then. i never did find a duffel bag. so i went to the baggage claim. i said, hey, you know, where's my bag? and...
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now we've got a question from tiffany from atlanta. tiffany asks, could betty ford's dedication to women's rights also be considered civil rights activism? yes, it could. in fact, i you know, i think the hillary clinton speech i know somebody had written the question about why not hillary? know we really associate hillary with human rights in a broader sense. also, eleanor roosevelt, because of the work she did at the un with chairing the committee that created un declaration of human rights. and so, yes, it's definitely a civil right. and and so those women need to be included. i have 20 minutes. and that was one of the frustrating things about this presentation is i could at least talk for an hour because i knew we were going to leave some people out. but i'm glad you're bringing them up so that we can talk about them. i also want to mention a correction and somebody noted booker t washington did not visit the white house with the hoovers. i had made a note to myself when i was looking at my notes about booker t washington connection
now we've got a question from tiffany from atlanta. tiffany asks, could betty ford's dedication to women's rights also be considered civil rights activism? yes, it could. in fact, i you know, i think the hillary clinton speech i know somebody had written the question about why not hillary? know we really associate hillary with human rights in a broader sense. also, eleanor roosevelt, because of the work she did at the un with chairing the committee that created un declaration of human rights....
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children, went to bed at night without the comfort of their father and years later, a little was born in atlanta that would never know the comfort of sitting on her grandfather's lap, hearing bad times for his. and so here we are today and some ways it seems even farther from that dream. but what we as family and why we decided to be here today as difficult as it is for us to stand here is that there is something that man cannot ever destroy. and that love and that faith and that vision that lived inside of martin luther king junior. now lives inside each and every one of us because all those the dreamer who lost his life gave and sacrificed for each and every one of us standing here today, the dreamer was silenced. but the dream was not. we are here today to remind america. that the dream is alive. that love is alive that hope is alive. we're here to remind america that, no matter how difficult the days are, how dark it may seem, those still ring true that martin luther king junior reminded all of us on april 3rd,. 1968. he did not make it all the way to the mountaintop, but he ignited in each
children, went to bed at night without the comfort of their father and years later, a little was born in atlanta that would never know the comfort of sitting on her grandfather's lap, hearing bad times for his. and so here we are today and some ways it seems even farther from that dream. but what we as family and why we decided to be here today as difficult as it is for us to stand here is that there is something that man cannot ever destroy. and that love and that faith and that vision that...
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lincoln, not only because of sherman and atlanta, not only because of mobile bay in sheridan's ride. lincoln sheridan my favorite little irishman, i might add, but also of the changes brought forth on this continent, on immigration and ultimately the germans abandoned the fremont third party campaign and vote en masse for. lincoln in his final, final annual message, december 64, lincoln went further than he had ever gone on the subject. he says, i regard our emigrants as one of the principal replenished streams which are pointed by providence to repair the ravages of internal war and its waste of national strength and health. think of that. ordained by providence that's meaningful in the lincoln canon, he had said earlier, if god wills that the war continue, then it must. it's god's design. in a few weeks, he'll say, if god wills at every drop of the last, every drop of blood drawn with a lash, must be paid back with one drawing with the sword, the judgment, the lord, our true and righteous together at the second inaugural. but in between those more famous statements, he's saying tha
lincoln, not only because of sherman and atlanta, not only because of mobile bay in sheridan's ride. lincoln sheridan my favorite little irishman, i might add, but also of the changes brought forth on this continent, on immigration and ultimately the germans abandoned the fremont third party campaign and vote en masse for. lincoln in his final, final annual message, december 64, lincoln went further than he had ever gone on the subject. he says, i regard our emigrants as one of the principal...
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it is all very well known by a promoter in this in atlanta who saw movies and thought that is a great we should try to bear in mind that americans have always go back to tocqueville writing about how americans love to form organizations and so on, fraternities and organizations and this was a guy. simmons was his name who had had been a canvasser for various fraternities. and it was a profit enterprise. it was it made a number of people very wealthy and. it was it had more membership in the north than south in the 1920s and thirties. it's as far north as new england, wisconsin, minnesota, california, oregon it was more active in the north, and it was it had different focuses, although, yes, black americans were always on the list, but it was primarily primarily other focuses. it was totally. and it collapsed as a result of that corruption. it was exposed, although it had a dramatic a dramatic upward trajectory in the twenties and. as i said earlier, it was, again, more or less reinvent it after after world war, the klan today, i think, is a insofar as it exists, it's fractured, fragme
it is all very well known by a promoter in this in atlanta who saw movies and thought that is a great we should try to bear in mind that americans have always go back to tocqueville writing about how americans love to form organizations and so on, fraternities and organizations and this was a guy. simmons was his name who had had been a canvasser for various fraternities. and it was a profit enterprise. it was it made a number of people very wealthy and. it was it had more membership in the...