that was a very effective way we started securing this adoption in philadelphia. the other point was that it was woman that we were targeting, and just, you know, all over the world, i was just received a fellowship to go around the country, around the world to look at broadband digital models and there's so much out there, but there's definitely 5 very, very -- a very, very entrenched, i'd say, policy that they are all looking for going for women, that's in bangladesh to north philadelphia. it's the same because they are the purchasers, family oriented, connected, e-mailing, more responsible, not afraid to ask, and these are qualities making women more so the main adopting entities in the families that we're looking for. in temperature l university, quick, quick story. they did an interesting story to tell the students to go out there and create a program around personal finance. they went out into the community and they did that because haw can you work with the community if you don't know what's out there. they sent them out, came back, and what did you find? w

so they went to philadelphia, a group of soldiers went to philadelphia, and they're pointing guns in the windows of congress, and they're menacing members of congress. and congress is inside trying the to figure out what to do. all they can do is appeal to the governor of pennsylvania who tells them, hey, it's not my problem. [laughter] just one of the reasons philadelphia lost the capitol and would only get it back for a temporary period under the new government. so john dickenson, the governor, wasn't willing to help them out. so what congress decided to do was they would flee like a group of common debtors to princeton, new jersey, and they reconvened in james madison's old dorm at princeton. [laughter] one of the most important issues that both madison and monroe had to deal with during their time both in the virginia legislature and in congress was the question of the mississippi. the spanish were of a belief because they controlled new orleans and the port of new orleans that they were entitled to the mississippi river. james madison pointed out that under the international law

[laughter] >> philadelphia, may 15th, 1777. general warren writes me that my farm never looked better than when he last saw it and that mrs. adams was like to outshine all the others. i wish i could see it. he knows the weakness of his friends heart and that nothing what is it more than the praises bestowed upon a certain lady. in the midst of infinite millions i need a lonely melancholy life morning back the loss of all the charms of life which are my family and all the amusement i ever had in life, which is my farm. however, i will either find or quote the moment and affairs or in a prosperous way and a little more out of doubt. that moment i become a private gentleman, respectful husband mrs. es of green tree and the affectionate father of her children. >> braintree, july 9, 1777. i sit down to write you this post and for my present feeling i shall be able to write for some time if i shall do well. i've been very on well this past week with some complaints that have been new to me the we hope not dangerous. i was last might

this is how well from philadelphia. anyway, he writes to her, my dearest, i am now sit down to write you on a subject which fills me with inexpressible could turn. this concern is greatly aggravated and increased when i reflect upon the uneasiness i know that it will give you. it has been determined that congress that the whole primary race for the defense of the american cause shall be put under my care and that it is necessary for me to proceed immediately to boston to take upon me to come the end of it. you may believe me, my dear patsy when i assure you in the most solemn manner but so far from seeking this appointment, i have used every in denver in my power to avoid it. not only from my unwillingness to part with you in the family, that from a consciousness of it being a trust to create for my capacity and that i should enjoy them more real happiness and solicit and one that puts you at home than i ever had the most distant prospect of reaping abroad is my state were to be seven times seven years. i think church w

in philadelphia. , which i stopped being associated with about maybe 25 years ago, but it is still one of the important sources of news and information the growing latino community of philadelphia. so i have been involved in what is commonly called the ethnic press of the united states. and over the years in the commercial media, i have done something like 5,000 columns and newspaper articles and investigations, and maybe 2,000 to 3,000 shows on "democracy now!," and one of the things that is so frustrating is that we are in this country the people who have access to more news and information than any people in the history of the world. we have 1400 daily newspapers in the united states. we have 12,000 radio stations. 1200 television stations. we have hundreds of channels to choose from on our cable systems, and all of these cable -- national cable news networks, music 5, music -- news at 5:00, news at 10:00, any hour of the day news is on, and yet the american people are so remarkably misinformed abo

i said yes philadelphia? with your wife? yes kids? >> yes. he got indignant. how could you? they murder people there everyday. i have seen it in television. i tried to tell him about the day italian market were the chestnut hill or lincoln drive and he had none of it the image of philadelphia was formed but now if it in cairo goes to the hospital in the morning to delivers a couple of babies in goes to the clinic in the afternoon there is no story there but if he straps a bomb he becomes news and that is all we know. to visit it is safer to go to beirut with the crime and incidence, that is not what we think we see them as angry people they go to bed at night he teeing america wake of aiding israel and spend a day in a mosque learning to pay more were watching god to zero that makes them hates even more but the principal concerns in life of our employment. education. health care. sound familiar? because people like us. issues close to home when we pull in egypt before the revolution the top three priorities are those that are just pulled up the priorities were still the same

his writings have appeared in the philadelphia business journal, the metro, "philadelphia inquirer", pittsburgh post gazette and the morning call. and now i ask you to silence your cell phones in consideration of your fellow guests, but i encourage you to use them if you'd like to tweet questions for our panel tonight. please use the hash tag pound ncc privacy. and now, without further ado, please, join me in welcoming lori, kashmir, jennifer and christopher. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. apologize for starting a little late. it turns out lapel mics are tough to put on people who don't have lapels, but we're here. [laughter] 225 years ago the constitution was written here in philadelphia, and in subsequent years the foundation of our democracy, the communication patterns, communication patterns and issues of privacy were developed, and 225 years later new communication forms are developing new standards for that. so as stephane said, we have a great panel, and i want to jump right into it with lori, actually, by telling us why the social web is a constitutional issue. maybe gro

the bulletin newspaper in the philadelphia daily news. she serves as an adjunct professor club university's graduate school of journalism. moderating tonight's is christopher wink. a media services council and for the on line ecosystem. he leads open government reporting projects in a difference to coverage of the icy policy and is running in "the philadelphia inquirer," the "pittsburgh post gazette" and the morning call. and now i ask you to silencer cell phones in consideration of your fellow guests but i encourage you to use them if you would like to tweak questions for our panel tonight. please use the hashtag pound ncc privacy. and now without further ado please join me in welcoming lori andrews, kashmir hill, jennifer preston and christopher wink. [applause] >> thank you everybody. it turns out -- so it took a little bit what we are here. 225 years ago the constitution was written here in philadelphit years the foundation of our democracy, the communication patterns and issues of privacy were developed and 25 -- two and in 25 years

we created a minority owned laundry in west philadelphia that now has all of hospitals in philadelphia as their client. it supports 2000 jobs and really has started to move the economy forward. so, i think that moral commitment, the intellectual capacity, and the economic resources that universities have made him a critical partner as we talk about regional development. in my case, i wrote about this as the role of the urban universities, and you've been doing such magnificent things as well. in most of our large cities and small towns, education and medication is often the largest employer. we don't look at universities to be one of the partners economically in terms of the resources, not only their academic capacities, i think as we think about what states and regions and cities will need going into the 21st century, they will not be able to accomplish this without universities really putting some skin in the game unit and universities let us not forget our really attractors now. >> absolutely. >> we are also externally fortunate to have alan berube here. wrote a fascinating paper th

a couple of actions and philadelphia. last year by reestablished what had been created 20 years ago by my predecessor, mayor goode, the mayor's commission on african american males to comprehensively address the issues facing african-american man, not only with regard to crime and public safety, but also job training, health care services, education, and women of which entities. the commission has two major goals to my dressing comprehensively the issues surrounding this community if it to provide stooges program and up which entities for african-american men in philadelphia. as mayor villaraigosa also mentioned, last a torre i hosted an event in philadelphia called cities united of the national constitutional center. our good friend, marriage was there and a number of others. during that conference we understood that government, nonprofit, business, school committee leaders, and stakeholders if only to work together if -- if we are to help black men and boys succeed and thrive. this is not just a law enforcement issue, w

philadelphia was shocked by the disaster and lost their enthusiasm for the venture. eventually collins hired a new work force from the, quote, slums of several of our large eastern cities. people, quote, exhibiting countenance and gesture striking evidence of the soundness of darwin's theory. most were immigrants from southern italy. many pushed out of their homes for their energetic beliefs. ancestors--and, italian prejudice was widespread. newly arrived americans were desperate for work. the collins brothers took advantage to sign them up for lower wage on the first ship. apparently it did not occur to the brothers that the anarchists who discovered this arrangement or would find it unacceptable. craig steen of the amazon to the proposed railway terminus to survey the road. he learned that men and the second ship will when italians arrived. at the same time the italians thought they were being paid less than everyone else. within days the engineers constructed a cage from the steel rail ray to force the strikers in at gun.. he waited in vain for any recognition fro

with me is the vice president of this organization, the mayor of philadelphia, michael nutter among the most in creating jobs for our city. thank you so much. the president makes the case of why we can't wait and to continue what the president said, given the rating that the president has given the congress, they need a lot of extra credit projects to demonstrate to the american public why they should have the jobs that they have. they have jobs. millions of americans do not have jobs. i have not heard talk of the american jobs act in months. what happened? it really begs to question what is the congress doing each and everyday while they supposedly work for the american people while millions of americans are out of work. we need investments in infrastructure, in our school, in our bridges, and in our roads. we need more cops on the street, and we have to make sure that work force development and training programs, community development block grant program, these are programs that have demonstrated year after year after year that they work, they work on the ground, in city, the presiden

the reason why we did what we did in philadelphia because i think people just couldn't believe that in philadelphia there was an underreceived community, and we said, yes, there is an under served community. the model we created is something we. -- something we wanted 20 make as a template of what could be done. it's seeing where the dots are and connected them, but what i think could be an opportunity for operators or like smaller entities dealing with this issue on the ground in different ways than the national models is we can offer consultation on how do you take this model to scale it to different places that needs these services because the bundling issue is an issue just like you said about lifeline having the development and the broadband, that's an issue. hiring from those communities, hiring service providers, hiring helps. that's the way of trust. it breeds adoption, so there's different things that we've done that can be scalable, but we can have that conversation. that's an easy conversation to have, and we would love to help wherever we can. >> you raised another issue to

so-called miracle of philadelphia is less miraculous than the miracle that ensued across several states in that year. what is more, because it is a ratifying and not the writing which made our constitution the law of the land, in a certain sense it is far more important to understand what the ratifiers thought they were consenting to than what the drafters were intending in their writing. that crucial decision is almost universally overlooked by those seeking to discern the constitution's original consent. thanks to professor maier's work with our now in a much better position to understand our constitution, and so to understand ourselves. "ratification" is a tour de force bringing vividly to life numerous personalities otherwise lost to history. it casts new light on the oldest of american divides, this dispute between federalist and anti-federalist. the book is towering and it is a beautiful work of prose. already it has received numerous awards and tonight will counter it with a 2011 paolucci/bagehot book or. legs and gentlemen, pauline maier. [applause] >> thank you for that lovely

. >> david mccullough, john and philadelphia e-mails to you what are you reading at the moment? >> well i just finished a fascinating book called the hair which amber eyes by the writer named [inaudible] with and it is one of the most interesting books i have read in years. it is about a family in vienna and paris, a jewish family who were second only to the rothschilds not justin welch, but in their collecting of art treasures and what these works came to me to the family and the individuals and particularly what it means to one of their descendants, the author in the aftermath of the holocaust and it is beautifully written and it makes me a little upset because the man is a ceramic artist who's never written anything before. laughter to know, it's really wonderful. i have been reading rendell who is my favorite [crying] writers. i love good mysteries and particularly the mysteries of those who really know how to make that aspect work. these are great novelists, and i reading trollope, who i love, and i just bought a number of new books that i intend to in oregon. i always have

host: washington never governed in washington, d.c., new york first, and then philadelphia. judy or thom tweets us, the most noble thing george washington did was give up his power under his thumb. a less moral man, and we would have a king. we're talking about george washington's legacy. woodstock, illinois, lydia, good morning to you. caller: good morning, thank you. i would like to know if there's a powerful connection to the pledge that washington took as a freemason, and the fact that when it happened, disenfranchised from power and government. he's wearing the freemason apron as he lays the cornerstone, and for me, i'll take credit or blame for this possible theory, there's no small coincidence that the image on that apron is similar to the king's stone. you contrast that with the queen post, the king post versus the queen post. i don't think it's any small coincidence that we don't have an elizabeth or isabella or cleopatra women who have exercised power, and i wonder if there's a possible connection with the pledge that was given to the freemasons. host: thank you. g

johnson, these were people who were king's bodyguards who in philadelphia and mississippi one year after the killing of. >> westerner, goodman and cheney during the her at this -- meredh march, king went back, and they're standing in philadelphia, mississippi, and king goes up to the assistant sheriff who had had the three men in his custody before he delivered them to the mob that killed them, and king says you're the guys that had, you know, those boys. and price looks at him and says, that's right. and king is preaching and saying i believe the people who killed those three boys are in this crowd, and people are proudly saying, we're here, all right. and it was the most frightened king ever was except for marquette park, chicago. so these men who i wanted to talk to who have been scarred up, and they said were reluctant to talk to you because you're going to get our story. and i had to stay on their case. but i started -- they did start to open up, and i did see when willie bolden kind of preached when we were together in atlanta at the reading, and he came out. i said, willie, i was

when i am in montana -- i would say if you really want my opinion it is philadelphia. i am going to be in philadelphia shortly. >> very good question. something a little more clear. i wonder if you were going to ask -- >> my question is trivial. the british want to enter? they were in pressing british subject, not americans subject to. british -- when the leopard fired him and they were trying to impress british subjects were they pursuing the war? how interested was great britain in a war? >> they had trouble enough in europe. they were not interested in a war but at the same time they had so little regard for the united states they were doing as they pleased. to answer your question specifically, the royal navy, to man these ships they needed 145,000. these are admiralty figures. 145,000 men, and 25,000 of them had deserted. they were deserting in droves from their ships. why were they deserting in droves? because conditions on their ships were so awful. this can't be. you are exaggerating. if you read the accounts, some of their own good officers will tell you the s

of yeah, in philadelphia, with your wife, yeah. with the kids. he got indignant. how can you do that, they murder people every day. i see it on television. i know it. i tried to talk to him about, you know, the south philly and the italian market and the quakera meetings and chestnuthil and the lovely lincoln drive and its black bougoisi go back and if ahmed in cairo goes to the hospital and delivers a couple of babies and goes to his clinic in the afternoon, there's no story there. but if he straps a bomb on himself he becomes news and that's all we know. it is, in fact, safer to visit cairo today than it is miami beach. i swear in terms of just sheer numbers. it's safer to go to beirut this it is to go to atlanta. in reality. justr in terms of crime and violence and the incidents of the fact that bad things might happen to you. that is not what we think and know. we see, them as angry people. i mean, the sense we get, these are people who go to bed at night hating america, waking up the american hating israel and to the mosque and hate a little bit more and watc

some from montgomery county in maryland, some from philadelphia, some from pakistan, some from israel, some from lebanon to thank you very much for all coming. there are too many to give names, but we have a very eminent crowd here. we are here to discuss an issue that we deal with everyday, which is federal politics. and how we got into the middle east. and how we became addicted to oil, and, indeed, what we are facing. we are never going to be able to move forward in the future if we can't comprehend the history that we have come forward from. now, we actually never needed to be on oil, as in, as an energy source. most of you know that there's about 80 million barrels a day, maybe 88 barrels of oil a day used in this country, and about 67% of that issues for transportation in the united states, and about, oh, 90, 99% of that is used, is based on automotive liquids, on fuels. but oil is older than civilization. they were using oil 65,000 years ago in caves in south africa as a sealant for medicinal purposes. the first use of oil as a major illuminant came in the mid-1800s when kerose

how do i proceed and that's what he did after philadelphia with the constituti did he play hard? guest: you did not want to be in his path. the history of the early republic is littered with the bodies of the people that stood in his way. it is new yorkers. this first republican party is based on an alliance of virginia and new york. it is more complicated than that, because the great virginians have to find new york allies. then they have to make sure they always stay in the no. 2 slot. if they start getting too ambitious, they have to find ways to shuffle them off the stage. there is a list of people they do this to, robert livingston, aaron burr, george clinton, jefferson second vice-president cash and madison's first vice- president. -- and then who runs against madison for president in 1812. i mean, you know, you just go down the list. and they're very good at finding these guys and then getting rid of them. >> host: in your american history magazine piece, richard brookhiser, you write madison's most important contribution may have been figuring out how to make politics wor

we created a minority owned laundry in west philadelphia that now has all of the hospitals in philadelphia as their clients. it supports 2000 jobs and really has started to move the economy forward. so i think that the moral commitment, the intellectual capacity and the economic resources that universities have make them a critical partner as we talk about regional development. in my case, i wrote about this as the road urban universities and you've been doing such 90% things as well. in most of our large cities and small towns, our amount of largest private employers. we often don't want to universities to be one of the partners economically in terms of their resources. not only their academic capacity, i think as we think about what state and regions and cities will need going into the 21st century, they will not be able to accomplish this without universities really putting some skin in the game. >> and universities, let us not forget, i really attract it. >> absolutely. >> we are also extremely lucky to have alan brubaker year, which is part of the leading part of the fantastic pitcher

. >> philadelphia, december 17, 79 feet. my dearest friend, i began to doubt whether i was in the way of my duty and a free in gauging public life. my family of children not to have stayed at home minded their education and sought their advancement in life is too late for this chemistry now. it is cast and i am not far from the end of my life. i've done all for my children than i can and all for the best. what have i not suffered? what have i ever enjoyed? all of my enjoyment have been up on my farm. that might children and grandchildren were all parts. >> december 28, 1798. my dearest friend, the reflections and observations recall what so many painful ideas that i cannot be otherwise and happy when i reflect upon them. in silence i do reflect upon them daily. i wish it were otherwise for them. with respect to what had passed it is intended for the past and has the satisfaction of knowing that you have faithfully served your generation and at the extent of all private consultations and you do not know whether you would have

for instance philadelphia and baltimore, they have matching funds. they will match matching employers contribution up to a certain amount so that could help leverage an employee when an employee is getting frances a down payment for closing costs. the city of also more works with the johns hopkins university. johns hopkins university gives $17,000 to its employees to help and baltimore believe will give up to another $3000. the state of illinois not only has a matching program but also has a tax credit for employers so that will help the employer implement a benefit. d.c. now has a pilot program. program. this is not coming from the housing agency. is coming from the planning agency because they want to help reduce commuting in the district of columbia. detroit is working with select employees and they give up to $20,000 to help employees purchase a home and select communities in detroit. now what you all can do and i'm working with the u.s. conference of mayors and the council to see how cities can get more involved in this. two things that the nati

. >> host: philadelphia, patrick, you're on with historian amanda foreman. the topic is margaret thatcher. >> caller: i wonder if ms. foreman's article covers the brutal and illegal occupation of northern ireland while thatcher was in power? there's a cover, a number of catholics were sent to prison based on falsified information while she was in power. and what about the 13 peaceful marches that were shot to death on bloody sunday in northern ireland while she was in power? are you just nothing but flattery for her? i think she is an evil woman and does not deserve to be given any kind of good status on this thing. >> guest: could you confirm for me that date of bloody sunday? i thought that was in the early '70s. .. which was certainly, for me in my lifetime, one of the great moments of reconciliation and to see a british monarch accept responsibility and ask forgiveness for what has been several hundred years of misery and missed opportunities to do the right thing. so, although every government makes mistakes, i think that the good friday agreement was p

very quickly let me introduce them bear betzler, from philadelphia pennsylvania. timothy brewer of dayton, ohio. dr. hugh cort of birmingham, alabama. randy crow, from north carolina. mr. l. john davis jr. is from grand junction, colorado. jeff lawman is from new hampshire. benjamin linn from new hampshire. mr. michael meehan from saint louis, missouri and the end of the table, joe story. let's give them a nice round of applause. thank you gentleman. [applause] we will immediately go to our openings. we will begin with mr. bear betzler. we'll ask you to go for two minutes. when you're two minutes are done, i will give you longer to finish your thought. ok? all right. you are up first. >> thank you. i am bear betzler from philadelphia, pa., and it is great to be back here in new hampshire. i would like to acknowledge bill gardner and everyone at the election division that has been so helpful. as a lesser-knowns can it, people are quick to ask -- candidate, people are quick to ask why you are running, and i am grateful we have a state where the tradition allows all

we were in philadelphia. brian aaron was -- brother aaron was in seattle, we had people in north carolina, in ohio n detroit n new york, all across this country. you name the places. i can't even think of all of them, but we were young people. we were drawn to a message, a 10-point platform program. we was drawn to a mission, and we was drawn to responsibility. now, i could say a lot of things about bobby seale, but i'm going to let bobby do most of the talking. i've had a couple great honors in being with bobby. when i first was called to come to california, they told me pack enough clothes to stay for two weeks, and i ended up staying for five year. the only time we came back was to close the philadelphia chapter and bring everybody to california. and that's how it went. but we followed those orders. sometimes we questioned, sometimes we fought, sometimes we tried to figure, but we just got the job done. and that's what it was all about. and bobby seale was the person that after huey came up with our creati

he had to flee to philadelphia to avoid arrest. w you have this sitting vice president under indictment and on the lam from the law.dict this was a remarkable turn of the fence and a river understood that his political future was pretty much over as a conventional figure. was and he decided to turn his attention to the west. as an american tradition if your life goes south come ago glass. mchale left office as vice president he made a six month journey during the ohio and mississippi river. this map, but said dotted line is set out word trip tootte follow the river and the solid line is money had to go to the forest to get home to it was the zigzag he called on many important men during c the trip and drop din on to future presidents.ng t jackson and harris in. senators, a couple of militia general's. always interested in than those of generals and we have not paid our soldiers very well. and as compensation in the coming every offered the officers land out west. it was a roman tradition. and many of them moved out there. they reme

we try to expand the airport to serve more and more passengers and bring tourism and hospitality to philadelphia. makes a difference when we are revitalizing literally the city called the largest city in north america with a tiger grant. .. we need a real discussion, a real discussion about where we are going in the future. now we can use this metro economy in los angeles baltimore burnsville and may send some in many other cities and of course philadelphia all across the united states of america. lastly billions of dollars of capital sitting still on the sidelines. president obama and the congress save the banking industry yet they sit on stockpiles of money that could be invested in fixing our border systems, our highways. every possible piece of infrastructure in the united states of america needs investment and the federal government unlike any city here has no capital budget. how can you possibly run a government and not know where you are going to make investments five, 10, 15 years down the line? that is not good governance. that's just running around in circles and making the lives of me

just like dukakis, he went to philadelphia, mississippi, n ever mentioned the three civil-rights workers that were murdered nearby. but let me go back. of those things use said kennedy did well and rights to we're better off. that may be. toward the end of his presidency. let's start at the beginning. the joint chiefs took him to the bay of p.i.g.s.. talk about that. >> guest: this is where the president warrants at -- learns of the worst way by failure. here is what happened. the point* was supported by the joint chiefs to take a group of middle-class emigres living in at miami they were good people to take their country back. retrained 1500 under the cia. undercover. true cuban heroes. the plan was to get them on the beach then at that time perhaps part of the assassination plot to overthrow the country. that something would magically create incredible tumbled and the middle-class would overthrow castro. that was the idea. of the problem is they kept teen jeans a landing-- so remote that would not hear about it and kennedy appointed to keep the noise level down. that was a mistake. so

you see, of course, a big push now to build casinos in philadelphia. i live in princeton, so i'm following that debate. it's about an hour away. and this has worked for a few indian tribes. there's an indian tribe in connecticut that, of course, is working very well. but like there's one casino that nobody goes into on high and ridge pine ridge is a desolate, bleak area. so if you look at the totality of indian casinos, they have actually not been particularly lucrative. you have a few sort of sterling examples where people actually been able or tried to been able to make money. but heinrich is the port, second poorest county in the united states, at any one time 60% of people in pine ridge are living without electricity and running water. it is really, i mean, you almost have a hard time believing you're in america, frankly. >> host: chris hedges, mark peterson e-mails into you, i'm a great admirer of which are trying to do. as a historical liberal, i find myself perplexed the passion i feel for the ron paul candidacy. >> guest: ron paul for me is sor

they were in this very, very hot philadelphia summer trying to figure out kind of a first draft. and i think they would have been astonished at the fact there has been no national convention since 1787 even though article v provides for the possibility of one, and i think they would be astonished at how few amendments there have been. >> host: well, professor levinson, in your view does the constitution prohibit progress? or does it stand in the way? >> guest: it certainly stands in the way. i don't think it prohibits progress, but i think it stands in the way in that the, the framers in 1787 were basically suspicious of democracy. the original constitution, even if compared to other political systems at the time, was more democratic. if you compare it to 20th and 21st centuries, century notions of democracy, the 1787 constitution is significantly undemocratic. and one of the things that they were fearful of -- this is part of the anti-democratic tilt -- they were very fearful of what they called popular passion and, basically, i would say rule by the great unwashed. so they put

when his mother came to visit friends in philadelphia, he arranged for them to meet. my mother was instantly impressed by the light skinned beauty and her elegant manner in entertaining way of speaking. he rarely mentioned cs, the man he was named for, except the fact that they didn't get along and that his parents were divorced. he confessed that his father had beaten him as a child. eventually, they discovered what was for him, a humiliating coincidence. my mother had gone to graduate school with a girl who came from harrisburg and family's employed as a butler after he lost his business. she told him about her parents, about how they met as protestant missionaries in africa where she was born and spent much of her childhood before they moved to france. she described how she came to america on a boat with five of her little sisters when she was 14, and she went to live with a family of doctors, the biology professor, which is why she attended college there and later joined the french department. she explained the reason her parents had acceptability her away -- sent

every time a flash mob loot, it is robbing king of his dream all over america from philadelphia to chicago to here in washington, d.c., young people could be contributing to the common good, but instead are trading off their dignity for the adrenaline rush of stealing from others. we will not tolerate such reprehensible behavior, says district of columbia mayor vincent gray. he goes onto say, some news coverage of this incident has reported residents questioning whether the robbery could have been morally justified. actually, says the mayor, both morality and law are quite clear. it is wrong to steal from others, and if people do not obey the law they will be apprehended, arrested, and prosecuted. gray highlights a troubling regression of public virtue and civil rights. king's dream was one that harmonized morality and law. however, king's dream will never be realized in america as long as this country continues the mythology that freedom does not require personal integrity and character. proposed of sociological and psychological theories allege that these mobs loot stores because minorit

the free library of philadelphia as a host of this event. it is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. it's great to be back. i think that all writers eventually want to go back to the place where they came from. in this case, it was for me to go back to memphis, tennessee were a corrupt,, where i was born and try to understand this pivotal moments in american history and to try to understand inserted deconstruct the most controversial, the most tragic, it the most in many ways complicated event in my city's history. my father was a law professor and italy are at a loss for environmentalists and rep resented the garbage workers unrepresented king when he came on behalf of the garbage workers. in fact, i got a lot from him about this event. but you know, you always have your memory of things you want your, was the family correct? did you hear the story correctly? you as much a test your memory against the hard, cold documents. but you know, coming back to memphis is also the idea of coming back to the place where it came from in terms of literature. the first wr

he was also indicted for murder in new jersey and he had to flee into philadelphia to avoid arrest. so you have a sitting vice president of the united states under indictment for murder in two states and on the lam from the law. this was a remarkable turn of events, and aaron burr understood that his political future was pretty much over as a conventional political figure. and he decided to turn his attention to the west. as an american tradition when your life goes south, you go west. so when he left office as vice president in 1805, he made a six-month journey down the ohio and mississippi rivers. this map which i hope you can see, the dotted line is his outward bound, outward trip which follows the reverse and a solid line is when he had to go through the forest basically to get home. it was a zigzag as you can see. he called on a great many important men, middling men during this trip. he dropped in on to future presidents, andrew jackson and william henry harrison, several senators, couple of militia generals. he was always interested in militia general's. he most often went to

most moving speeches i've ever heard about his grandmother in the famous speech on race in april in philadelphia 2008. the problem is in politics most nations of basically paranoid. most nations are either or. many leaders are paranoid. ronald reagan and george bush would be with us or against us. evil empire were good. obama is a both and person, not an either or. it is very hard for a both and person to lead an either or nation. and it is a great difficulty, and i think that is one of his major difficulties, which is how the lead and either or nation. you have to recognize that it is either or. there is a lot more in the book, but those are some of the main ideas. the technique of applied psychoanalysis is very old. it started with great, almost as old as the clinical psychoanalyst because it is essentially an experienced analytically of treating people who you could never get into your consulting room because they are either public figures or dead or sometimes even fictitious figures like hamlet who have a lot of analysts over the years. [laughter] probably still does. and -- but it involves

moses annenberg is the editor of the "philadelphia enquirer" and it threatens to bring pennsylvania into the republican column and you go back to annenberg with an irs audit who is vulnerable. he doesn't just pay a fine. to go see prison. then johnson is guilty of all sorts of campaign contributions and especially some of his supporters so the irs is going after johnson, too, and so johnson comes to roosevelt. so roosevelt has to pull the irs off of johnson so that he can continue to be roosevelt's man in texas. and then put it on annenberg to make sure annenberg goes to application so you have a maneuvering here by fdr. and he did pull both of those off. so he was someone who you're dealing with at the executive branch could be very powerful. >> yes, in the back. >> were you both united in the way that you viewed economic relations or the lack of economic relations between the united states and japan leading up to world war ii? and how surprised do you both believe the united states was by the attack on pearl harbor? >> i think we were pretty united in our view on that. and that is some

this happened not only in baltimore, washington, philadelphia, new york, hartford, all up and down the east coast, in your major cities throughout the united states of america. but there was an interconnectedness between the people. you know, the change in baltimore, you know, after the riots there was a change, urban flight took place. many of these east and west baltimore families went out of the city. the closure of the steel mills, as i said, and the drug trade, influx of drugs and neighborhoo- violence with young boys. the rockefeller law which allowed, which now adults were no longer involved in the drug trade, so they handed it off to the young children who couldn't cope with it, and the drug trade we saw became very, very violent. this idea of making quick money in a society that preaches immediate gratification, you know? instant coffee, instant potatoes, pop, pop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is, all ofy those speak to the psyche of a young child as well as the adults here in this society. so this dream has played out with these young children. now we see a city, and i th